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Ready to roll BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF There’s nothing like strapping on a pair of roller-skates and barrelling through a line of opponents to get that old adrenaline pumping. The women of Red Deer’s Roller Derby league — players like Black Widow, Malady, Dame Tamer and Mexi-Crash — do it every game. The sport known for female players body-checking each other to the ground while dressed in fishnet hosiery and tutus is more about skill and strategy than flashy costumes these days. Besides the desire to be considered a sport rather than “an exhibitionist activity,” there are more practical reasons to skip the costumery: “It hurts like heck when you slide in fishnets, is all I can say …” said Bootstrap Betty, president of Central Alberta’s Nuclear-Free Roller Derby. The up to 30 players who gather for weekly practices at the Springbrook Multiplex take the physical demands of their sport serious — although a few still maintain some kooky derby traditions, like painting their faces for game day. Of course, their colourful derby monikers remain — as a sign of camaraderie rather than any true rivalry. “It’s a culture all of its own,” said Bootstrap (also known as Arlene). She uses words like “empowering” and “nurturing” to describe a sport that embraces all comers and doesn’t play favourites. Nobody is a bench warmer. Everybody gets equal playing time.
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ABOVE: From the left, Kristin ‘Dame Tamer’ Guttridge, Miranda ‘Marauder’ Geelen and Jordana ‘Gypsy Jo’ Thesen work to block Cassidy ‘Black Widow’ Tippe from getting past them. LEFT: From the left, members of the Nuclear Free roller derby team, Kristin ‘Dame Tamer’ Guttridge, Miranda ‘Marauder’ Geelen, Rocio ‘Argentina’ D’Alessandro, Jeff ‘the Jester’ Mitchell, Cassidy Black ‘Widow Tippe’ and Jordana ‘Gypsy Jo’ Thesen practice some wall blocking in the gymnasium at Springbrook recently.
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Appeal board questions drainage decision BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A provincial appeal board has questioned the province’s stance that landowners can be held liable for decades-old wetland drainage projects. The issue was highlighted in an appeal launched by poultry farmers Henk and Gerrie Krijger of an Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource enforcement order issued in February 2014. The province alleged the Krijgers improperly drained a 51-acre lake about 10 km east of Ponoka and a smaller wetland, excavating near a lake outlet and putting fill into the lake. Under the order, the Krijgers must restore the lake to the condition it was in before any unauthorized drainage work was done. The Krijgers successfully appealed, arguing a drainage channel identified as a problem by provincial inspectors, was decades old and they had not done anything to drain the lake. It was estimated work on the drainage channel and restoring a historic wetland could cost the Krijgers $175,000. An Environmental Appeal Board panel recommended the wetland and drainage channel restoration were to be removed from conditions. Instead, a much cheaper flow control structure on the drainage channel should be put in place instead. In making its recommendations, the board pointed out the Krijgers were put in the difficult position of being held liable for damage that occurred from a 50-year-old drainage project done long before they bought the land in 2011. If that principle was applied across the province “this could have serious implications for many landowners and future purchasers of land,” says the board in its decision. “It is not normal practice for purchasers of land to investigate if there are any water-related works on a property, and, if there are any, to determine if they are all approved works.” No convenient database exists to even check whether that is the case, the panel adds. Edmonton lawyer Keith Wilson, who represented
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“IT JUST TURNS THE WHOLE NATURE OF RURAL LAND OWNERSHIP AND SELLING AND BUYING LAND IN RURAL ALBERTA ON ITS HEAD.” KEITH WILSON LAWYER the Krijgers, said the implications are “highly problematic and serious” of holding landowners liable for historic drainage projects they knew nothing about. It would force landowners involved in a land deal to hire professional hydrologists to determine if there was a slough, swamp or wetland drained at any point in the past. Who must pay for the restoration work would then have to be agreed on. “It just turns the whole nature of rural land ownership and selling and buying land in rural Alberta on its head,” said Wilson, who is a well-known defender of landowner rights. “It will drive up the transaction costs and create tremendous uncertainty. “In short, what the government is proposing to do is ridiculous.” The preservation of wetlands is a laudable goal, but expecting landowners to pay to reverse projects done many years ago makes no sense, he said. Adding to the absurdity is that many of the drainage projects were encouraged and funded by the provincial and federal governments at the time. Wilson said he knows of other landowners who have been told by the province to restore wetlands and have been waiting on the Krijger decision. The potential that many others could face similar issues was not lost on the appeal board, which noted that given the previous government support for drainage projects now holding landowners liable could affect an “indeterminate number of properties in the province.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
A message of thanks WOMAN TRAVELLING FROM GHANA TO CENTRAL ALBERTA TO SHOW GRATITUDE BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Sophia Dauda is on a journey of gratitude. The 26-year-old Ghana native had never been on a plane before coming to Canada this month to thank the Central Albertans who paid for her university education through Tools for Schools Africa Foundation. Dauda had never travelled outside her West African country before stepping onto the sponsored flight to Canada. She never owned a passport or had a birth certificate. But she applied for all documents needed to make the intimidating trip because she wanted to personally tell her beneficiaries how they changed her life. “The eyes of my family are upon me,” said Dauda, a soft-spoken economics and business administration degree holder from the Catholic University College of Ghana in Sunyani. She explained she’s now responsible, as the only university-educated person in her family, for supporting other relatives. “My message is to thank (sponsors) for supporting people like me… My coming here is evidence of what can be done (in Ghana). I would like to encourage (people) to continue to support and contribute for us and (give them) a sign of appreciation,” said Dauda. “I am so happy, and my family as whole is happy. Being the first to get a degree is really wonderful.” Dauda is the featured speaker at the Tools for Schools Africa Foundation Shine fundraiser, held Thursday night at the Westerner’s Harvest Centre. The fourth-annual 7 p.m. benefit features a chance to buy donated new and gently used jewelry, art, purses, belts and scarves. Vice-chair Cindy Jefferies hopes to raise at least $35,000 from the event towards putting some girls in Ghana through middle school to university. “If families can’t afford to educate all of their children… girls are the last to be educated” — yet women tend to pass their knowledge on to their children, contributing towards the economic gain of their family and community, said Jefferies.
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“Art can fight for good things and fight against bad things” CANCER CENTRE DEMONSTRATES THE HEALING POWER OF ART BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF
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DERBY: Jams “We don’t care what you do in life, what your career is, or your income, the colour of your skin, or your sexual preference. We care about derby and having fun on the track and looking after our teammates. This is one of the best team sports there is,” added Bootstrap. Where else do you have two teams that play both offence and defence simultaneously while skating counterclockwise together around a circuit track? A game of roller derby consists of a series of short match-ups or jams. Both teams appoint a jammer, who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team. Four other members are blockers, who use body contact (but never elbows) to assist their own jammer to score while blocking the opposing team’s jammer. If it all sounds a little baffling and Quidditch-like, roller derby actually has a far longer history than the broomstick sport popularized by the Harry Potter books. The contact sport started in the 1930s but was popularized in the 1950s when it was broadcast by TV networks. Theatrical variations with over-the-top, pro-wrestling-like plot lines arose again in the late 1980s, before a more straight-forward modern revival of the amateur sport emerged in the 200os. There are now more than 1,200 roller derby leagues worldwide, stretching from Europe to South America and New Zealand. The sport is said to highlight the changing roles of women in many societies — which brings us back to Bootstrap Betty’s assessment. “I think it’s confidence building,” she said. The female players develop the kind of supportive buddy relationships that have long been part of male sports culture — to the extent that opposing team members will celebrate together after games. Certainly the brash, roller derby attitude remains strong among the Nuclear-Free players. In the words of Malady, 40, (a.k.a. Red Deer pattern-maker and doll artist Charity Beasley): “I like the fitness, the community and I like the hitting. It’s
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Artist and teacher Galia Kwetny with some of the many works hanging at the Central Alberta Cancer Centre done by her students at the Artribute Art School in Red Deer. tral Alberta Cancer Centre. Among the works are a few large abstracts she painted and student interpretations of Group of Seven landscapes. Besides giving her talented students exposure, the display will help lessen patient anxiety by providing a welcome visual distraction, said Kwetny. “Art can fight for good things and fight against bad things. It can bring joy,” added the artist, who’s
holding her annual open-house exhibit at Artribute school in the Old Courthouse next weekend. Poissant hopes to eventually get display cases installed at the cancer centre through donations or sponsorships, as are available in the Red Deer hospital. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
awesome to hit people and see them smile at you afterwards! It’s like saying, ‘Yes, they’re my buddies!’” added Malady, the group’s vice-president. Her 11-year-old daughter trains in the junior roller derby league, which doesn’t play full-contact games. But even senior roller derby players have to go through “fresh meat” training sessions until they are deemed agile enough to not get hurt. Mexi-Crash, 32, moved to Central Alberta from her native Mexico five years ago. The veterinarian, also known as Elizabeth Bolanos, also does kick boxing since stronger muscles mean fewer injuries. While other other players have broken a tailbone and a wrist, she’s just suffered a pulled hamstring. Black Widow (Cassidy Tippe of Olds) showed off a fist-sized bruise on her thigh from “skidding across the floor on my hip.” But Bootstrap contends that fewer accidents happen these days because of a focus of on proper training — including how to take falls and prevent concussions. Equipment, such as regulation helmets and knee, wrist and elbow pads, are mandatory. And all games are regulated by no fewer than seven referees. “With 10 people on the track, there’s a lot of movement and a lot of contact,” so many eyes are needed to follow the play, she added.“There are probably more roles than any other sport there is,” admitted referee Jeff Mitchell, known as The Jester. He’s one of a relatively few Albertan males who play the sport in a separate men’s league. The Jester said he started participating in roller derby because it’s a good way to meet women through co-ed games and he continues to play because it’s fun. Black Widow, a 27-year-old college student, said, “I play because of the awesomeness of the girls, and the team environment. … We’re like a derby family.” Since the sport crosses cultural lines, one of the first things Mexi-Crash did after moving to Bentley with her boyfriend was locate a local roller derby league. “I like that it’s just girls and that it’s rowdy.” The next game day is set for Oct. 17, when the Nuclear-Free team is pitted against the Tarsand Bettys from Fort McMurray. For more information about the game or joining the league, visit nuclearfreerollerderby.ca or email nuclearfreederby@gmail. com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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Tools for Schools Africa Foundation was started in 2003 by Red Deer resident Marilyn Pottage, who was in northern Ghana in the late 1960s with her parents, economic development workers. She returned to the same area many years later and was saddened to see few improvements. Dauda grew up with her mother, father and seven siblings in a remote village without a school. She and a brother were taken in by an uncle living in the city of Damongo so he could help educate them. But her uncle had 10 children of his own, “so it was difficult,” she recalled. When there was no money for her education beyond high school, a head-mistress who was very impressed by Dauda’s intelligence, dedication and leadership abilities, asked if Tools for Schools Africa would consider sponsoring their first university student. Dauda remembers it as near miraculous that she even received the phone call asking her to come for a meeting at the school. Her brother happened to hang his cell phone on a branch in the only area with reception in their parents’ village. At first she worried she was in some kind of trouble, before hearing the unbelievable news that Tools for Schools Africa would help her get a degree. Besides the Central Alberta charity’s scholarship program that’s helped about 70 Damongo girls, the group has also delivered shipping containers of books, computers and other school resources to Ghana, provided teacher training, built classrooms, a library, and a boarding school addition with help from University of Manitoba architecture students. Despite this assistance, “there are so many girls in need,” said Pottage. Tickets to the Shine fundraiser are $35 each (or five for $150) from www.tfs-africa.org, or at the door. A glass of wine, dessert and entertainment from an African band are included. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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The healing power of art is at work at the Central Alberta Cancer Centre. The Creative Connections program that’s brought original paintings and ceramics by local artists into the hallways of Red Deer hospital has now extended into the cancer centre next door. Thirteen bright landscape paintings by Galia Kwetny and students from her Artribute art school are hanging in the centre’s corridors. They are the first of what’s expected to become a rotating exhibit of works by local artists. “The patients and the staff all love the art,” said Erin Poissant, co-ordinator of volunteer resources and the Creative Connections program. “It’s absolutely been a huge success.” The concept that started at Red Deer hospital in 2006 has gone over so well that local art is now also featured at hospitals or long-term care facilities in Ponoka, Rocky Mountain House, Rimbey, Bentley, Stettler, Lacombe and Drumheller. Scientific studies have suggested that positive emotions, such as those experienced when observing art or hearing music, can lower physical markers of inflammation that are linked to various disorders. How much art can elevate wellness is still unknown, but it certainly helps lift mood. Poissant said the Creative Connections project was started because “seeing great, positive artworks will brighten the day for people.” Long-term patients and staff are especially appreciative, since every six weeks or so, “we rotate (the pictures) out and put up different art, so there’s always something new to see,” said Poissant, who believes having a positive, welcoming and stimulating environment helps with patient care and boosts well being. The art now showing in Red Deer hospital is by Notre Dame High School students. But Kwetny was previously involved with the hospital’s Creative Connections program, submitting 64 student works that were displayed in the facility in June. Kwetny is happy to be bringing art into the Cen-
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Feds should invest $3.3B into health care for seniors: report BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A new report has put a price tag on aging in Canada. The Conference Board of Canada study, commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), says that it would cost the federal government $3.3 billion in the next year to implement three strategies to cope with the wave of aging baby boomers. In the next five years, the price would jump to $17.5 billion as boomers put an ever-increasing strain on the Canadian health-care system. “The reality (is) that it costs more to look after people who are aging,” said Dr. Cindy Forbes, president of the CMA. “There are at least three items that are doable and will make a difference to Canadians in the next budget cycle.” The first strategy recommends giving provinces and territories additional money for health care based on the age of their populations. That would require the federal government to boost funding to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), the country’s largest handover of cash from the federal government to provinces and territories. Money sent through the CHT must be used for publicly provided health care. The money is currently provided solely based on population, which the report calls uncommon and impractical, because an elderly population has higher health-care costs. According to a recent study in the journal PLOS One, the average cost for care in a patient’s last year of life is $54,000. The Conference Board report says countries like Belgium, Germany and Switzerland all top up their healthcare transfers based on age. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he’s renegotiate the terms of the CHT when it expires in 2017 so that increases would be tied to population and economic growth.
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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said if elected, he’d negotiate the terms of an adjusted CHT with the provinces come 2017. Tom Mulcair, leader of the federal New Democrats, has said an NDP government would reverse Conservative cuts to provincial health transfers. The second potential reform laid out in the report is coverage of the entire cost of medications for all households who are currently spending at least $1,500 per year or three per cent of their annual income on drugs. A July study by Angus Reid showed that 14 per cent of Canadians have neglected to fill a prescription due to cost. Mulcair recently suggested a similar strategy that would see the creation of a universal pharmacare program. He said that if elected, he’d contribute $2.6 billion to the project over the next four years. Forbes said she’s heartened to see pharmacare being discussed on the campaign trail. However, the Conference Board report says funding a national pharmacare plan would cost $8.4 billion over the next five years. In 2016 alone, it would cost $1.5 billion, more than half of Mulcair’s proposed four-year budget. The report also lays out the costs of making two key caregiver tax credits refundable. According to Statistics Canada, there are currently eight million “informal caregivers” in Canada — people who look after aging or ill loved ones without financial compensation. Those caregivers may be eligible for the non-refundable Canada Caregiver Tax Credit (CCTC) or Family Caregiver Tax Credit (FCTC), which offer a tax return on expenses incurred during the course of caring for a dependant. A refundable tax credit could reduce a tax bill to below zero, essentially refunding some of the money spent on caregiving. It would cost $90.8 million in 2016 to make the credits refundable. shelters. An animal control co-ordinator is expected to inspect Koch’s property on Monday or Tuesday.
Motorcycles deliver money for park that will honour Hailey and her dad BLAIRMORE — Hundreds of motorcycles rumbled along a southern Alberta highway to honour two-yearold Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father. Saturday’s event on Highway 3 delivered donations that will be used to improve a playground in Blairmore where Terry Blanchette and Hailey spent time together. Nearly 300 motorcyclists took part. At the end, the riders gathered at the Pure Country Saloon in Frank, Alberta, where Blanchette worked. Police continue to investigate the double murder of the father and daughter in Blairmore on Monday. Ride organizer Troy Carlson says the participants all have kids, grandkids, nieces or nephews and that the tragedy really hits home.
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TORONTO — A B.C. Supreme Court ruling that found an eight-year-old is too young to be left home alone is being supported by some safety experts who say kids aren’t fully ready to stay solo at such an early age. The child in the case, known as A.K., was staying home unsupervised on weekdays after school between 3 and 5 p.m. while his mother, B.R., was at work. A social worker was made aware of the situation and told B.R. that kids under age 10 couldn’t be left alone. B.R. went to court to challenge a supervision order for A.K., arguing that kids mature differently and that there was no law indicating how old youngsters should be to stay home alone. She lost and the B.C. Supreme Court subsequently upheld the trial judge’s ruling that kids under 10 couldn’t be safely left unsupervised at home. The Abbotsford, B.C.-based organization Kidproof Safety offers an At Home Alone program which is recommended for youngsters 10 and up. President Samantha Wilson says many parents have wanted to enrol their eight- and nine-year-olds in the program — a move that is “strongly discouraged.” “A lot of parents think (children are) mature and they’re responsible — which could be very true,” Wilson says. “But what we have to remind them is that child still only has eight years of life experience to draw from in case of an emergency or if something hap-
pens, which often parents don’t think about. “I’m not even convinced all kids at 10 should be left at home alone. But at 10, they’re really at the age that they’re starting to be able to think about making safe choices, thinking about thinking critically about situations.” Parents have to assess whether their kids have the mental ability to react to an emergency, such as a fire, says Lewis Smith, communications and media program co-ordinator with the Canada Safety Council. “Is the kid mature enough or smart enough to react appropriately? That’s the kind of thing that oftentimes is lacking when parents leave younger kids at home,” says Smith. Janice Quirt has asked her nineyear-old son, Josh, about his willingness to be home alone — even for a short period — and he’s simply not ready. Still, the Orangeville, Ont., resident has made an effort to go over emergency plans with Josh and her five-year-old daughter Daisy. She ensured they’re capable of using the phone for calls and texts. “Everyone’s so different,” says Quirt, a contributing editor to SavvyMom.ca. “I have a hard time thinking that you could possibly say that all eightyear-olds are not mature enough to be home alone. I think that some of them definitely are, and that the people that know best are their parents.”
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All three leaders smell victory If Stephen Harper’s goal was to polls. spook Canadians about handing our This exercise lasted less than 90 economy to one of the “other guys,” minutes but featured too many numhe missed an opportunity Thursday bers, acronyms and inside spin that evening. must have frustrated anyThat doesn’t mean that one seeking an answer to an often noisy 90-minthe questions causing anxute debate, with too much iety in this country — is my time spent with opponents job secure and will my kids talking over each other, was be able to find work? a breakout night for NDP For Canadians just tunLeader Tom Mulcair or Libing in, it could only be more eral Leader Justin Trudeau. confusing hearing the evBut no one need be er more centrist Mulcair frightened, at least based sound like a Conservative on this encounter in Calon fiscal matters, claiming gary, that someone other balanced budgets are in the than Harper might get the NDP DNA, while Trudeau TIM keys to the treasury Oct. 19. outflanked him on the left, HARPER And why would anyone talking about taxing the INSIGHT be spooked? rich and spending slightly The economic differbeyond our means to create ences between the trio — infrastructure and jobs. “modest deficits” run up by Trudeau; Harper tried to paint Mulcair with four years of surplus fuelled by raising the old socialist brush even as the man corporate tax rates and killing an in- standing suitably in the middle soundcome-splitting program by Mulcair; or ed closer to Bay St. than Main St. steady-as-she goes balanced budgets The Conservative leader referred and targeted tax breaks by Harper — to the “old NDP playbook” of spendcan really be measured in rounding ing on the back of big corporations errors. and a few rich people that only results A historic three-way battle may in job losses. It happened in British make for epic horse race stories, but it Columbia, he said, it is happening in also invites caution, because all three Manitoba and Alberta and, of course, men can smell victory. Harper had to add it happened in To get a touch visionary or to offer Ontario, even if Bob Rae was elected anything sweeping and untested, or there more than 25 years ago. There even peek outside the conventional is no statute of limitations on the Rae box, is seen as a risk when everyone bogeyman. is within a point of each other in the Harper said Trudeau didn’t fall in
love with deficit financing based on principle, but did so because he went around the country promising things that cost more money than he had. “High taxes and permanent deficits do not create jobs,’’ Harper said. Virtually every day he has come to work as prime minister, Harper said, he has had to deal with a banking crisis, a sovereign debt crisis, a housing crisis, market chaos in China or falling oil prices and has dealt with them with long-term planning. These may be effective debating points, but Canadians do not fear deficits, as long as they are not massive, and Trudeau accused Harper of only balancing the budget in election years. Mulcair’s corporate tax hikes are modest and overdue, and still lower than the average rate over the length of the Harper reign. Canadians instinctively understand our economic future is often out of the hands of our leaders. Trudeau, however, was still forced by Mulcair to join him and Harper in worshipping the balanced budget with the Liberal leader telling Canadians, “We said we are committed to balanced budgets and we are. We will balance that budget in 2019.’’ If there is more nuance than substantive gulfs between the three men, and this is a change election, than it was up to Mulcair and Trudeau to connect with the audience. If anyone still thinks Trudeau cannot debate on the same stage as the other two men, they are dealing with historical perceptions.
The Liberal leader was effective in stepping back and asking the bigger questions about whether Canadians were better off than they were 10 years ago — Harper countered by asking, “where would you rather have spent the past 10 years?” — and accused his two opponents of lacking ambition. “If you think things are great, Mr. Harper is your guy,’’ Trudeau said. If he has a fault, it is that he still runs through his points too quickly and aggressively. Mulcair, on the other hand, tried hard — maybe too hard — to be calm, as if he were the only adult on the stage, certainly not the pretender from the third party or the discredited adversary who needs to be tossed from office. Trudeau has two planks that polling data shows has support — his deficit plan and his vow to tax the top one per cent of income earners to help the middle class. Ironically, both would normally be NDP planks. There are still doubts about Trudeau’s readiness to govern, while Mulcair is not burdened by the same level of doubt. One can only wonder if Mulcair had hewn closer to traditional NDP policy and not allowed Trudeau to stake out what should be his turf, whether the NDP leader would be putting distance between himself and his opponents by now. Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.
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Will Generation Z give us superheroes for the planet? Snapchat and selfies, iPhones and iPads… A growing body of research confirms the health There’s no denying technology plays a major role in benefits of getting outside. Kids who spend time the lives of many 21st century children. With so many in nature every day are healthier, happier, more parents sharing photos of their children from birth creative, less stressed and more alert than those and beyond, and kids creating Facebook accounts who don’t. As parents, grandparents, caregivers and at age 13 and under, many young people are growing educators, it’s our responsibility to raise kids with up with their entire lives documented on healthy nature habits. social media. I remember growing up in London, Although technological advances can Ont., in the early 1950s. Back doors would facilitate education and learning, the open between 5:30 and 6 p.m., and parents long-term effects of digital living on chilwould call their kids home for dinner. dren’s health have yet to be determined. We’d be out playing in the park, empty Many devices like smartphones are relalot or nearby ditch or creek. There wasn’t tively new, especially in developing couna London television station, and the few tries, but in North America, where some folks with TV sets had to capture signals children get cellphones in Grade 3, Genfrom Cleveland or Detroit and watch eration Z will spend more waking hours shadowy black-and-white images made interacting in the digital world than any worse by electronic snow. There were no generation before. computers, cellphones, iPods or digital It seems obvious: If your daily routine anything. Our fun was outdoors. DAVID consists of constantly checking text mesSome of my earliest, fondest memories SUZUKI sages and Facebook “likes”, your ability are of going fishing and camping with to focus for long periods will probably SCIENCE MATTERS my dad. He was a great role model. He decrease. With children spending half as encouraged me to explore the outdoors, much time in nature as in 1992, and teenplay in the dirt and discover all that naagers sitting for close to eight hours a day in front of ture had to offer. He instilled a deep love and apprescreens, our kids don’t have much time for fresh air. ciation of nature in me, one that I cherish and credit That’s why the David Suzuki Foundation creat- for my career. ed this fall’s Back to School Superhero Challenge. I’ve tried to instill this love of nature in my chilParticipants receive a weekly outdoor activity and dren and grandchildren. From fishing trips to hikes “superhero” mission that encourages environmental to dinner table discussions about why there are responsibility by getting kids outside to connect with fewer fish in the oceans, we’ve tried to guide them to nature. care about issues that matter.
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I’m proud to say it’s paid off. As a marine biologist, my daughter Sarika is working to protect the oceans and the life they support. I’ve stood on protest lines against pipeline expansion with my daughter Tamiko and her kids, Midori and Tamo Campos. And I still recall with pride the speech my daughter Severn gave at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she was just 12. She spoke with such conviction that delegates were moved to tears. More than 23 years later, Severn has two young children, and the video of her speech is still making the rounds, inspiring people around the world. Its popularity speaks to the power young people have to affect the world’s most pressing issues. I often worry what the future will hold for my grandchildren. I sometimes feel a sense of failure when I consider the planet they’ll be inheriting. Will they run in a green forest and breathe clean air? Will they swim in clear waters and discover underwater creatures? I also have faith that the next generation will include a lot of smart, savvy and socially conscious people who will help protect the planet that we’ve treated so badly. By helping young people get outdoors, care about others and make a difference, we won’t just be raising healthier and happier children, we’ll be raising a generation of superheroes for our planet. Let’s all get outside and save the world. You can sign up for the Back to School Superhero Challenge atgetbackoutside.ca/. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Public Engagement Specialist Harpreet Johal.
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CANADA BRIEF Mother and son found safe after Canada-wide warrant issued in alleged abduction WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg mother who was the subject of a Canada-wide warrant for the alleged abduction of her 12-year-old son has been located along with the boy. Police say both Charlotte and Tristan McMahon have been safely located in Manitoba. Police haven’t said specifically where the two were found, and say they’re still investigating the case. A warrant for the arrest of McMahon was issued Saturday after police alleged the mother abducted the boy. Const. Eric Hofley told a news conference that the family was together Friday evening, and on Saturday the mother and son were gone. While police did not issue and Amber Alert in the case, they said they were still concerned for the pair’s well-being.
Female participant has died during 25th edition of Montreal marathon MONTREAL — A female runner has died during the 25th edition of the Montreal marathon Sunday. The event’s spokesperson confirmed the death but did not reveal the participant’s identity nor how she died. About 35,000 runners from 53 countries were scheduled to take part in the event, which began Sunday morning. Another death occurred at the same event in 2011, a 32-year-old man who died of cardiac arrest.
Dudley George’s brother injured during Ipperwash settlement protest IPPERWASH, Ont. — The brother of an aboriginal protester shot dead by police 20 years ago has been injured while protesting a settlement deal for lands in southwestern Ontario that were appropriated by the federal government during the Second World War. Witnesses say Pierre George was injured when he accidentally set himself ablaze while pouring gasoline on a fire that had been set by the protesters to get the attention of people marching to celebrate the return of Camp Ipperwash. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. George’s brother, Dudley George, was shot and killed by police when a splinter group of about 30 members of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation occupied nearby Ipperwash Provincial Park in September 1995, claiming it contained a sacred burial ground. The First Nation announced Saturday that it had ratified an agreement that includes a financial settlement in excess of $90 million, the return of land appropriated by the federal government in 1942 under the War Measures Act and cleanup of Stony Point lands. The Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation is located along the shores of Lake Huron, 35 kilometres northeast of Sarnia, Ont. Chief Thomas Bressette said Saturday that now that the negotiation process is complete, the First Nation can focus on healing, and strengthening community relations. About $20 million will be used to compensate original members of Stony Point, their ancestors and eligible band members, while $70 million will be put into a fund overseen by trustees for future development of the original Stony Point reserve.
Election sidelines Harper government’s back room bid for French helicopter ships OTTAWA — A series of defence, diplomatic and industry sources say Canada was actively pursuing — at the political level — the possible acquisition of the controversial French-built Mistral-class helicopter carriers. The effort has ground to halt, however, largely because of the federal election campaign — and it may slip away entirely because the French are now in a position to entertain other bids for the 22,000-tonne ships, originally built for Russia. That deal was cancelled because of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, but the French government of President Francois Hollande only last month concluded a US $1.01 billion refund agreement with Russia — a plan which received approval on Thursday in the lower house of the French National Assembly. The sources say Defence Minister Jason Kenney was, until the election call, “actively engaged” in sounding out the French, including a face-to-face exchange at the most recent NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels last June. A series of international media reports — including the French daily Le Monde, the International Business Times, Les Echos and La Tribune — have long put Canada on the short list of potential buyers, along with Egypt, India and Singapore. A spokesman for Kenney declined to comment when asked specifically about the government’s interest in the ships and lobbying last spring Daniel Proussalidis would only say that the Canadian Armed Forces are not pursuing the vessels “at this time.”
MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 2015
Harper critical of Liberal plan to scrap F-35s FEDERAL ELECTION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau fired a political broadside directly at one of his Conservative rival’s most vulnerable flanks Sunday as he promised to scrap the controversial big-ticket purchase of the F-35 fighter jet, sinking the proceeds instead into the Royal Canadian Navy — and shipyards in Halifax and Vancouver. At an event in Halifax, where shipbuilding is an economic cornerstone, Trudeau vowed to cancel the Tory plan to buy 65 of the stealth fighters to replace Canada’s aging CF-18 fleet — a deal that experts say would cost taxpayers about $44 billion over the four-decade lifespan of the Lockheed Martin jets. “What the Halifax shipyards need, and what the shipyards on the West Coast need, are guarantees that the money is going to flow,” Trudeau told an appreciative crowd of partisan supporters. “We are going to build the ships and prevent the kind of delays on hiring and training and investment in infrastructure in order to deliver those ships in a timely way and on budget. That’s what the Liberal party is focused on and that’s what we’re going to deliver.” Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, speaking at an event in Windsor, Ont., seized on Trudeau’s plan as evidence the Liberals aren’t serious about keeping Canadians safe. Harper said the Royal Canadian Air Force needs the jet and what it’s capable of doing in order to replace the CF-18s that are currently taking part in Canada’s air operations over Iraq and Syria as part of an international coalition helping to fight the militant members of the so-called Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. “We, along with our allies, have been using this exact capacity with our current CF-18s in various parts of the world, including right now in the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria,” Harper said. “Let me be clear: we are not going to abandon our fight against ISIS, not going to abandon our allies, not going to abandon people in the region, not going to abandon that kind of capacity in our Air Force and we are not going to abandon our domestic aerospace industry.” The high-tech stealth jets were a frequent talking point during the 2011 campaign. Since then, however, the federal auditor general has pilloried the government for being less than forthright in telling Canadians the true cost of procurement, and for not doing enough homework before opting for the F-35. The purchase of the jet was then put on hold while officials conducted additional studies and analyses, while the life of the CF-18s was extended
STEPHEN HARPER to 2025. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair called the purchase a “completely failed process” that showed a need for a new bidding process. He didn’t rule out purchasing the F-35. “An NDP government would start the process over, make sure we define what we need for our military, and then we go to the lowest conforming bidder that has the product that meets our needs,” Mulcair said. Talk on the campaign trail Sunday also turned to a more urgent issue: what to do about the relentless waves of Syrian refugees currently flooding Europe’s besieged borders — a file both Trudeau and Mulcair say has been badly bungled by the Tories. Mulcair said the country needed a prime minister “who understands the urgency to act as crises unfold, not one who keeps offering up excuses for his inaction.” On Saturday, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said Syrians fleeing the conflict in the region would be presumed to be convention refugees under the United Nations Refugee Agency in order to streamline their applications — a two-year, $25-million commitment aimed at slashing wait times from three years to 15 months. “Our policy here has been more refugees, a faster process, and more financial support for the region all done with careful selection of the refugees and screening,” Harper said Sunday before being drowned out by partisan applause. “The other guys in response, chasing headlines over the past month, would have made the kinds of decisions that other countries are now regretting. They would have acted in ways that were reckless and irresponsible. “We have been generous and we have been responsible.” Sunday’s renewed focus on defence, security and foreign affairs came just over a week before the three leaders gather for a federal leaders’ debate on that very topic — a debate to which Green party Leader Elizabeth May has not been invited, much to her chagrin.
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Palestinian officers are disciplined after beating of boy RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — The Palestinian security forces disciplined eight officers on Sunday after the clubbing of a teenage boy by security forces was caught on video. The security forces were preventing dozens of protesters from reaching an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. The video showed protesters throwing stones and bottles and then several officers beating the boy. The National Security Forces said that four senior commanders were suspended from their duties and will face “disciplinary measures.� Another four officers were sentenced to three months in prison. The beating video circulated widely on social media and sparked criticism of the Palestinian leadership and demands to punish the officers. On Sunday, dozens of protesters gathered outside the security forces’ station in Bethlehem and threw stones, injuring nine officers, according to the security force.
Two wounded in bomb explosion in busy area of Egypt’s capital CAIRO — A bomb exploded in a middle-class neighbourhood in Cairo on Sunday, wounding two people, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said. The explosion happened near a building with administrative offices for Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and caused minor damage to the structure. Associated Press video showed the busy street littered with broken glass and rubble immediately after the blast. MENA quoted the Ministry of Health as saying the two victims were taken to a hospital but did not give their conditions. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Egypt faces a burgeoning insurgency, including a branch of the Islamic State group. Attacks have primarily targeted security forces in the restive northern Sinai, but are now happening regularly in the capital.
Fatal floods expose delicate balance polygamous towns SALT LAKE CITY — The secluded polygamous towns tucked between stunning red-rock cliffs have survived for more than 100 years, despite Utah and Arizona’s efforts to dismantle them and expose abuses. After at least 12 women and children were killed by flash floods, two of the fathers of the victims made a rare public plea for the state to leave them alone, laying bare authorities’ delicate dance between investigating abuses and alienating the people they’re trying to help in the isolated communities of Hildale and Colorado City on the Utah-Arizona line. One father spoke of “religious genocide� against people who consider jailed leader Warren Jeffs a prophet of God. Sheldon Black Jr. and Joseph N. Jessop said their families have been evicted from their homes because of their religious beliefs. Officials say religion has nothing to do with the evictions.
MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 2015
ATHENS, Greece — A jubilant Alexis Tsipras vowed to continue fighting for his country’s pride and to quickly form a coalition government after his left-wing Syriza party comfortably won Greece’s third national vote this year on Sunday. The result was a resounding success for Tsipras’ highrisk gamble when he resigned as prime minister last month and triggered an early election, barely seven months into his four-year term, in order to face down an internal Syriza rebellion over his policy U-turn to accept painful austerity measures in return for Greece’s third international bailout. With more than 80 per cent of the vote counted, Syriza stood at 35.5 per cent of the vote and 145 seats in the 300-member parliament, followed by the conservative New Democracy with 28.3 per cent and 75 seats and the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn in third place with 7 per cent and 18 seats. Abstention was particularly high, at nearly 45 per cent in an election-weary country with a traditionally high voter turnout. It was the third time this year Greeks have voted, after the January election that brought Tsipras to power on an anti-bailout platform, and a July referendum he called urging Greeks to reject creditor reform proposals, which they resoundingly did — shortly before Tsipras then accepted similar proposals as part of the new bailout. Six seats shy of an absolute majority, Tsipras said he would form a government with his previous coalition partner, the right-wing Independent Greeks of Panos Kammenos, who joined him on stage to rapturous applause from dancing, cheering Syriza supporters in central Athens. The Independent Greeks were in seventh place with 3.6 per cent of the vote and 10 parliamentary seats.
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this great victory, a clear victory, a victory of the people,� Tsipras said. “I feel vindicated because the Greek people gave us a clear mandate to continue our struggle, inside and outside the country to lift our country’s pride.� The 41-year-old vowed to govern for a full four-year term — something few Greek governments have managed, particularly since the country became dependent on international bailouts five years ago. The country has seen six governments and four parliamentary elections since 2009. “We will place our people’s just cause at the forefront faced with asymmetrical powers and enemies more powerful than us,� Tsipras said. “But we have achieved it: The flags of Greece are flying in the squares of Greece and the European capitals. Greece and the Greek people represent struggle and dignity. And together we will continue that struggle for an entire four years.� A total of eight parties were set to win parliamentary seats. The new anti-bailout Popular Unity party, formed by rebel Syriza members who objected to Tsipras’ agreement to a third bailout for Greece and the stringent austerity attached to it, was falling short of the 3 per cent parliamentary threshold. “We lost the battle, but not the war,� said Popular Unity head Panagiotis Lafazanis, Tsipras’ former energy minister. New Democracy head Vangelis Meimarakis conceded defeat shortly after exit polls showed a clear Syriza victory, and called for a government to be formed quickly. “The election result appears to be forming comprehensively with Syriza and Mr. Tsipras coming first,� Meimarakis said. “I congratulate him and call on him to form the government that is necessary.� The new government will have little time to waste. Cred-
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Left-wing Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras, left, and leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks party Panos Kammenos raise their hands as they greet from supporters at Syriza’s party’s main electoral center in Athens, Sunday. itors are expected to review progress of reforms as part of the bailout next month, while the government will also have to draft the 2016 state budget, overhaul the pension system, raise a series of taxes, including on farmers, carry out privatizations and merge social security funds. It must also oversee a critical bank recapitalization program, without which depositors with over 100,000 euros ($113,000) in their accounts will be forced to contribute. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the eurozone’s finance ministers’ meetings known as the eurogroup, congratulated Tsipras on his election victory. “Looking forward to swift formation of new government with strong mandate to continue reform process,� he said in a tweet. Sunday’s result, with Syriza able to form a government with the Independent Greeks and without need to reach out to more euro-friendly centrist parties is one “that Tsipras will likely feel somewhat emboldened by,� said Malcolm Barr of J.P. Morgan. “The choice appears to have been made that
when push comes to shove, Syriza will opt to keep Greece in the euro. “But we note this result provides a platform upon which Syriza will continue to challenge significant parts of the (bailout) program.� Tsipras has clearly stated he disagreed with the spending cuts and tax hikes demanded by Greece’s European creditors in return for the new bailout, a three-year package worth 86 billion euros ($97 billion). But he argued that without it, Greece faced bankruptcy and a potentially disastrous exit from Europe’s joint currency. His party supporters were more forgiving than the hardliners who split from his party. “He is young. We had been voting for the others for 40 years,� supporter Eva Vasilopoulou. “We are giving (him) a second chance. He is pure, and smart, and I hope that he will govern for many years.� Others said they appreciated that Tsipras had tried to get a better bailout deal for Greece, and his honesty in saying he didn’t achieve what he wanted in the troubled negotiations with European creditors.
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Rebels end preseason with win BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 6 Tigers 3 STETTLER — It was akin to a baseball team getting to the opposing starting pitcher and then taking advantage of the bullpen. In this case, however, the Rebels didn’t ‘get’ to Medicine Hat Tigers starting goaltender Evan Johnson Saturday night, but when Tigers coach Shaun Clouston decided to switch stoppers for the second period, the Rebels lit up 16-year-old reliever Rylan Rommelaere with five middle-frame markers. The second-period explosion paved the way for a 6-3 Red Deer win in the final Western Hockey League preseason game for both teams played before a big crowd at the Stettler Recreation Complex. “It was good to battle back. I thought we worked really hard tonight,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, whose club trailed 2-0 after one period and led 5-3 after 40 minutes. “There were mistakes, I guess, by our goalie and their goalie.” Rommelaere allowed five goals on 10 shots, although tallies by Grayson Pawlenchuk and acting captain Presten Kopeck were big-time legitimate, with both players ringing rapid shots off the crossbar and in. Pawlenchuk potted two goals in the second period, including the eventual winner, while Jack McClelland and Josh Mahura also beat Rommelaere, who was replaced by Johnson at the start of the third period. Rebels netminder Trevor Martin was caught out of his net late in the second period while attempting to play the puck and the gaffe led to the Tigers’ third goal by Matt Staples, who faced nothing but open net
with the puck on his stick. Sutter credited Martin for leaving his crease in an attempt to aid his defencemen. “It’s something (goaltending coach) Taylor Dakers has been working on with our goalies. We want them to play pucks,” said Sutter. “The way our system is, there’s going to be a lot of pucks dumped in and the goalies have to help out our defence by stopping pucks behind the net. “We’ve been working on that the last couple of weeks and they have to get better at it.” Kopeck potted the Rebels’ third goal — a power-play marker at 5:10 of the third period — taking a nifty feed from Ivan Nikolishin and beating Johnson
with a quick shot from the right faceoff circle. “That’s what we wanted — to end our preseason on the right note going into the regular season,” said Kopeck. “The boys battled hard tonight. We were down two after the first period, but we were on a mission and came on strong and got it done.” Added Sutter: “We were good the last half of the game, not just because we scored some goals, but because our structure was better and we played better. But our work ethic was there all night.” While the Rebels shot the lights out in the middle stanza, Sutter was particularly impressed with his club’s third-period play. “That third period was the best third period and probably the best period overall we’ve played all exhibition,” he said. “We talked about that after the second period, that it wasn’t necessary to go out and score more goals, but just make sure that we play the game the right way.” The Rebels not only closed out their exhibition schedule on a successful note, but were able to finish the preseason slate with a winning record. “We went 3-2 in exhibition while playing short-handed through all of it,” said Sutter, who has eight players attending NHL camps. “But as you go along, especially in some games, it’s good to play short because things get weeded out quicker … you can see which guys can handle it which guys can’t. “Tonight a lot of guys had their best game.” Martin finished with 31 saves, including a third-period reflex beauty on Steve Owre, who was robbed at the side of the net. Johnson stopped 19 shots over 40 minutes. David Quenneville and Max Gerlach accounted for the Tigers’ first-period goals. The Rebels open their regular-season schedule Saturday against the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
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Toronto Blue Jays centre fielder Kevin Pillar, left, slides safe past Boston Red Sox catcher Sandy Leon, right, at home plate to score a run during second inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Sunday.
Defensive miscues lead to Blue Jays’ second-straight loss to Red Sox BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Red Sox 4 Blue Jays 3 TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays’ usually smooth defence was due for a misfire. Toronto had three errors and other defensive miscues as the Boston Red Sox rallied past the Blue Jays 4-3 on Sunday afternoon, their second straight loss. “We’ve been playing outstanding defence so we’re due for a clunker like this,” said starting pitcher Mark Buehrle, who was charged with an error in the fourth inning. “We’ve just got to come back tomorrow and be ready for the Yankees.” The Blue Jays open a crucial threegame set with the New York Yankees on Monday in Toronto. Sunday’s loss narrowed the Blue Jays’ lead over New York in the American League East standings to three games. Buehrle, who has won four Gold Gloves (2009-12), pitched six solid innings, giving up eight hits and three runs. Relievers Liam Hendriks, Brett Cecil, Mark Lowe and LaTroy Hawkins all came out of Toronto’s bullpen. Lowe allowed Pablo Sandoval’s decisive run for the Red Sox (71-77), although he had reached base on an error by Cecil. Cecil (3-5) earned the loss as a result. “Unfortunately, a lot of things didn’t go our way,” said catcher Dioner Navarro. “But we’ve got to go through that adversity. We’ll be alright. We’re right where we want to be.” Navarro had a home run for Toronto (85-64), while Ben Revere had an
‘IF WE DON’T SCORE A LOT WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE WINNING. THAT GOT US AGAIN TODAY.’ TORONTO BLUE JAYS MANAGER JOHN GIBBONS RBI single. Jackie Bradley Jr. drove in Sandoval with a sacrifice fly to deep centre field for the winning run in the eighth inning. Outfielder Kevin Pillar made an impressive throw to try to get Sandoval out at home, but the ball skidded on the hop to Navarro and bounced away. “I knew if I was going to move to go get (the ball before it bounced) I wasn’t going to have time to go back and tag him, so I stood my ground,” said Navarro. “Unfortunately the ball hit the lip of the grass and kinda shot up on me. “I think if the ball would’ve hit the grass only I would’ve had a better chance.” Russell Martin, pinch hitting for shortstop Ryan Goins in the ninth, brought the 46,743 in attendance to their feet with a two-out double, but that was as close as Toronto got to tying the game and forcing extra innings. Rich Hill (1-0), making his second MLB start since 2009, struck out 10, giving up seven hits and three runs over seven innings for Boston. Noe Ramirez pitched an inning of scoreless relief before Robbie Ross Jr. came in for the save. Navarro put the Blue Jays ahead 2-0 with a two-run shot just to the right of the left-field foul pole. He drove in Edwin Encarnacion who had led off the second inning with a single to left field.
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Toronto continued to rally after Navarro’s homer, as Kevin Pillar reached base on a dribbler to first, sliding into the base. Goins then hit a single and Revere made it 3-0 with a single that plated Pillar. Xander Bogaerts’ smart base running chipped away at Toronto’s lead, scoring on an error charged to Buehrle. David Ortiz had grounded out to first baseman Chris Colabello, with Buehrle covering the bag. Bogaerts ran to third base when he realized none of the Blue Jays were covering it and Buehrle’s throw bounced past Josh Donaldson into foul territory, allowing the Red Sox shortstop to score. Boston’s Travis Shaw tied it at 3-3 with an RBI single in the fifth inning, driving in Mookie Betts and Bogaerts with a hit to shallow left field. Betts had reached first on what could have been a double play by second baseman Cliff Pennington, but his throw to Colabello was off the mark. “It was costly we didn’t turn that double play. That led to a run,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “But it’s tough to complain about the defence for the last couple of months. “If we don’t score a lot we’re going to have trouble winning. That got us again today.” Goins’s error in the sixth inning allowed Bradley to reach first, but a pop fly by Betts ended Boston’s inning without any runs scored.
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Eskimos 25 Tiger-Cats 18 HAMILTON — Aaron Grymes hadn’t scored since high school, so his touchdown was big in many ways. Grymes and Otha Foster each returned interceptions for touchdowns as the Edmonton Eskimos defence took advantage of backup rookie quarterback Jeff Mathews in a 25-18 comefrom-behind win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Tim Hortons Field on Saturday afternoon. Grymes’ 68-yard pick-six tied the game at 18-18 midway through the fourth. The ball just seemed to hang in the air and Grymes was the only one near it. “I was honestly hoping the receiver didn’t come and break it up,” said Grymes. “I felt like it was in the air for so long, it was almost in the air for too long … I knew nobody was in front of me. I knew we were struggling on getting points on the board. It’s an ultimate team game. Whoever can put point on the board, go ahead and do it.” Tied 18-18 with less than two minutes left, Jacory Harris, Hamilton’s third-string quarterback, fumbled on the Ticat 47 and it was recovered by Edmonton’s Don Oramasionwu. Seven plays later, Kendial Lawrence ran in a four-yard TD — Edmonton’s first offensive touchdown — and the Eskimos (84) took their first lead of the game with 43 seconds left. “It was a tough game, for sure,” said Edmonton quarterback Mike Reilly, playing his second full game after being out most of the summer with a knee injury. “I definitely did not play as well as I had hoped to. Reilly completed just seven of 22 pass attempts for 49 yards and one interception. “We got a great performance from our defence,” he said. “And in the end, our offence stepped up when we had to.” Hamilton’s Zach Collaros, the league’s leading passer, was knocked out of the game early in the second quarter with a suspected knee injury after Edmonton lineman Mathieu Boulay caught him from behind as he tried to scramble up field. Collaros was replaced by Mathews, who is usually used on third downs. Collaros missed half of last season with a concussion after a hit by Edmonton’s Odell Willis in Week 2. Collaros returned that Labour Day, eventually leading the Ticats to a Grey Cup appearance. “I was just trying to tackle him and I think he had his knee planted, or something,” said Boulay. “You know, that’s unfortunate because he’s a great quarterback. But we’re out there and we’re just trying to play clean football and sometimes injuries will happen and that’s unfortunate but we’ve just got to keep on going and best of luck to him.” Hamilton coach Kent Austin would not confirm the extent of the injury. The only good news for the Ticats is that they have a bye next week, and won’t play again until Calgary comes to town Oct. 2. Mathews completed 12 of 20 pass attempts for 157 yards, three interceptions and zero TDs and was replaced by Harris after his second pick-six.
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Queens can’t finish off Rustlers RDC SOCCER BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Queens 0 Rustlers 0 RDC Queens soccer head coach Dave Colley isn’t one to sling excuses. Despite the fact his club carried the play throughout their ACAC women’s match versus the visiting Lakeland Rustlers Saturday, the Queens sideline boss wasn’t blaming bad luck for the fact the game ended in a scoreless draw. “We dominated, but it doesn’t matter. That’s two points we should have had,” said Colley. “At the end of the day, it’s our own fault. We had the chances, we couldn’t convert. “Everybody couldn’t convert. I think everybody at one stage had a shot on net. Their goalkeeper was good, but we made it easy for her.” Austin Rae McDaniel-Perrin recorded the shutout for the visitors, with Lauren Good shutting the door in the RDC net. On a positive note, the Queens have yet to allow a goal in three games while opening with a 2-0-1 record. “At one stage of the first half I thought we were going to give up a goal when we went to sleep,” said Colley. But the Queens didn’t give the visitors much, and yet failed to cash in on their own opportunities. “We had all the attack play up to the 18-yard box and just couldn’t get it done,” said Colley. “It’s the most frustrating of games. We saw a little of it in previous games, but this team (Lake-
land) came in and weren’t interested in scoring. They were interested in not losing. “They came determined not to lose and they didn’t. With the quality that we have, we should have beaten them easily. It’s our fault that we didn’t, it’s not their fault. They did their job.” Kings 3 Rustlers 2 The RDC Kings built a 3-0 lead and then hung for the men’s victory after the visiting Rustlers scored a pair of late markers. “It was a big win, a must win as they have a very good side,” said Kings head coach Steve Fullarton, whose club improved to 2-1 and moved into a share of second place with the 2-0 Lethbridge Kodiaks and two points back of the front-running SAIT Trojans (3-0). Chase Grenier gave the Kings a 1-0 first-half lead, a margin that was upheld due to the strong play of keeper Luke Owen. “We rode our luck a lot in that first half and we have Luke to thank for keeping us in the game,” said Fullarton. “He was sharp and they missed a few chances.” The Kings came on strong in the second half and got goals from Jeremy Gopal and Mark Ibbotson before surrendering a pair of late tallies. The RDC squad suffered a string of injuries in the contest, losing Andrew Jevne, Haydn McLean and Hayden Slaymaker with leg injuries and TJ Johnson, who hurt his spine when he fall on his tailbone with six minutes remaining. The game was delayed for close to 30 minutes after an ambulance was called to transport Johnson to the Red Deer Regional Hospital.
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Alex Ingraham of the RDC Kings and Justus Yahyahkeekoot of the Lakeland Rustlers fight for possession of the ball during Saturday afternoon ACAC soccer action at the RDC soccer field. The Kings defeated the Rustlers 3-2. “All that affected our team a bit, but we still like to do things the hard way,” said Fullarton. “However, our performance was much better than last week. We tightened up a lot and we were more com-
pact when we didn’t have the ball. That made a big difference.” The Kings and Queens are on the road this weekend for games in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
Thurston claims another title as rookie continues strong season
OLDS GRIZZLYS Grizzlys 5 Mustangs 2 OLDS — Rookie forward Chase Olsen scored once and added three assists to lead the Olds Grizzlys to a 5-2 AJHL win over the Calgary Mustangs Sunday afternoon. Also scoring for the winners, who led 2-1 after one period and 5-2 after 40 minutes, were Jeremy Klessens, Wyatt
Noskey, Sean Richards and Cole Plotnikoff. Vincent Paquette notched both Calgary goals in front of 392 fans at the Sportsplex. Ben Giesbrecht turned aside 13 shots in the Olds net, while Ryan Ternes and Matthew McDonald combined to make 34 saves for the Mustangs. The Grizzlys return to action Friday versus the Oilers at Okotoks and host the Calgary Canucks Saturday.
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Montreal Alouettes’ quarterback Jonathan Crompton throws a pass to Samuel Giguere during second half CFL action against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Montreal, Sunday.
Compton returns to lead Alouettes over Bombers BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Alouettes 35 Blue Bombers 14 MONTREAL — There’s no talk yet of a quarterback controversy on the Montreal Alouettes but Jonathan Crompton has staked a claim on his old job as the starter. After missing nine games with a shoulder injury, Crompton threw touchdown passes to Samuel Giguere and S.J. Green as the Alouettes defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35-14 on Sunday afternoon. Crompton went down in the opening game of the regular season and rookie Rakeem Cato stepped up in his place. But Cato missed one game while attending to a family matter and didn’t return in time to prepare to start against Winnipeg. He got in a few plays at the end of the game, however. Coach and general manager Jim Popp did not want to think about who
will start next Sunday at Saskatchewan. “Naw, I’ll celebrate the win,” he said. It was quarterback legend Anthony Calvillo’s first game as the play caller since he and Ryan Dinwiddie became co-offensive co-ordinators after Turk Schonert was fired two weeks ago. Crompton played very much as he did last season, when he took over as starter in August and went 8-2 down the stretch to give Montreal a 9-9 record and a spot in the playoffs. It wasn’t spectacular, but the job got done. He completed 14 of 27 passes for 181 yards, with two TDs and two interceptions. It would make sense for him to start the next game, but Crompton was making no assumptions. “It was one game,” he said. “We played well. The O-line did a great job. The running backs ran the ball tremendously hard and the receivers made plays.”
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There’s no time for reflecting on his first Canadian Finals Rodeo. Hardpast success when there’s still work to en, the first cowboy to qualify for this do – at least in Zeke Thurston’s world. year’s All-Around race, has a chance The talented young cowboy from at making Edmonton in both his Big Valley added to his overflowing events. At Olds, he managed a $1025 piggy bank by winning first, and $1627, steer wrestling payoff and $310 in the in the saddle bronc riding bronc riding. at the new Oldstoberfest His approach to the whole rodeo on the weekend. deal is to not even worry That’s not nearly as big about what the numbers say. a bonus as the $50,000 he “I haven’t looked (at the won this spring at Housstandings). I’m just treating ton, or the $100,000 he these last three rodeos as cashed in at the Calgary ‘just another rodeo’, one at a Stampede. But they are time,” said Harden. “It’s just dollars that count towards the way I’ve always been. Evthe season end finales at erything will kind of sort itboth Edmonton and Las self out at the end.” Vegas, and that’s where “I’ve been getting little the focus is right now for cheques here and there, but DIANNE the 21-year-old. nothing lately. So it was nice FINSTAD “My last two weeks have to hit here. It will help.” been really slow,” comTaking home the cusRODEO mented Thurston. “I drew tom-made championship nice horses but just not beer stein for first in the enough at those big rodeos. It was nice steer wrestling at Olds was Cody Cassito come here today and get on one that dy of Donalda. His 4.7 second run netbucked.” ted him $1886. B.C. cowgirl Julie LegThe horse that bucked was owned gett was the fastest barrel racer with by Bar C5, and goes by the name of her time of 17.336 seconds, for $1737. Black Hills. He was juicy and high fly- Maple Creek’s Jared Parsonage contining across the arena, to the delight of ued his late season run, taking the bull the enthusiastic crowd; and Thurston riding at Olds with an 84 point ride was equally excited to make every on Sugar Bear, for $1374. There was a spur lick count, for an 83.5 point result. three-way tie for first in the bareback “He kind of tested me right out of riding; between Cole Goodine of Carthere. I didn’t know if I was going to bon, young Tate Hartell of Strathmore get him twisted or not, but luckily I got and Montana’s Jessy Davis. They all back down in there and made a good had 81 point rides and picked up $1178 ride, so it was worth it.” apiece. The team roping went to Stacy Thurston actually kept on spurring Cornet and Denver Johnson, for their long after the whistle went, as the pick- 5.2 second run, which gave them $1411 up men came to collect him. each. “I was just proving to myself I could The tie-down roping honors went still do it. It’s been so long since I’ve to Utah cowboy Rhen Richard, who won any money, it seems like. It felt wrapped it up with a run of 8.0 seconds good, so I just wanted to keep a-going,” Saturday afternoon at the Olds Regionhe chuckled. al Exhibition Grounds. The $2211 payThe tour for the week had taken day was a relief, in many ways, as he’s Thurston from Puyallup, WA to Pend- anxious to solidify his first CFR spot in leton, OR; then there was an all-night the tie-down roping. drive to Albuquerque, NM, followed by “It’s been a long three weeks,” he a stop in St. George, UT before a late admitted. “I haven’t won much up flight to Calgary; all to get on the horse here.” at Olds. Part of the problem has been The countdown is on for the end breathing challenges in the horse he of the season both sides of the rodeo usually uses, Stick, owned by Curtis border. Thurston is sitting 12th in the Cassidy. world standings with over $66,000 in “I’ve only got to ride him twice, and earnings; and ninth in Canada with both times it was really good. I’m just nearly $16,000 won. glad it worked out right here. He’s “We’ve got one week left, four (U.S.) been awesome. You can’t warm him up rodeos for the entire season, and I’m a ton, because he loses air pretty fast. hanging in there, so hopefully we blast But shoot, he felt just like he always ‘em this week, and it will be really did today.” cool.” The Bavarian-themed Oldstoberfest With the last big push now before event marked the return of pro rodeo rodeo’s ‘second season’ begins, there’s to Olds, after a six year absence. There only one direction for the world’s lead- was a lot of enthusiasm for the event, ing bronc riding rookie to focus. with a full house for the Friday night “I’ve got my eye on the target and performance. I’m just zeroed in right now. I’m sure There are only two regular season after next week, there’ll be plenty of rodeos left in Canada, at Hanna and time for reminiscing and looking back Brooks this weekend. Then the top ten on the year. But for now, it’s just pedal finishers from the Pro Rodeo Canada to the metal. We’re just going to go at Series have one last chance at the tour ‘em and hope for the best.” Finals in Calgary October 2-3 at the Thurston’s Big Valley neighbor, Agrium Western Event Centre. Josh Harden, has his nose to the grindDianne Finstad is a local freelance stone as well, as he hopes to qualify for rodeo reporter.
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Oilers sign Klefbom to an extension BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LEDUC, Alta. — The Edmonton Oilers moved to solidify their defence over the long term Sunday, signing blueliner Oscar Klefbom to a seven-year contract extension. The deal, which begins after 201516, is worth a reported $4 million a season for the 22-year-old from Karlstad, Sweden. “This is what you dream for. You want to write this kind of a deal when you’re a small kid,” Klefbom told reporters after practice at the Leduc Recreation Centre. “It’s a lot of numbers, and a lot of money and a lot of years. I’m only positive to this. “This is where I want to be right now. I think we have a really good team going on.” Klefbom, a first-round draft pick of the Oilers in 2011, has played just 77
games over the last two seasons in the NHL. He said in his first season he focused more on a defensive game. “When you first step into the league you want to play an easy game, a safe game. Maybe that first year I took a step back,” said Klefbom. “I would like to see myself as a strong two-way defender who can follow up some rushes and be an offensive threat as well.” Klefbom started last season in the minors but eventually moved up to the Oilers and finished strong. He scored two goals to go with 18 assists in 60 games. He was second among Oiler defencemen in ice time (21:59 per game). He stands 6-foot-three, 215 pounds and is described as a strong, mobile, puck-mover, slick on his skates but with work to do on reading and making plays in his own end. Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli agreed 77 games is a small-sam-
ple size for a deal that will keep Klefbom an Oiler until he’s almost 30. But Chiarelli, who came to the Oilers this spring, said from what he has seen and from what his advisers have told him, Klefbom is low risk, high reward. “He’s a big strong kid. He skates well. He moves the puck well. He defends well,” said Chiarelli. “There’s a lot to like about him on both sides of the puck. He’s a top-four (defenceman) and he’s going to be a top-two D at some point.” Klefbom played well when paired with Justin Schultz for a quarter of last season. The two played together in scrimmages this weekend at the Oilers training camp. He is part of a revamped Oilers blue line corps, which is considered the key ongoing weakness of a team that has missed the playoffs for nine consecutive seasons. Free agent signee Andrej Sekera
and Mark Fayne are expected to be the first-pairing. They have skated together in camp. Newcomers Eric Gryba and Griffin Reinhart have also seen action in camp together. Chiarelli was looking to add size to the defence with acquisitions like Gryba, but he said the six-foot-four 225 lb. former Ottawa Senator can deliver more than muscle. “His mentality is defending first. I think we needed that in our D-corps. He’s big. He closes well. He’s strong,” said Chiarelli. “I felt we needed some size, but he could also make a play once in a while. He can push the puck up fairly well and he clears out the front of the net.” NOTES: Centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was back on the ice Sunday, a day after taking a puck to the cheek in an errant pass from goaltender Cam Talbot. Nugent-Hopkins was sporting a welt but said there is no tooth or jaw damage.
BANTAM FOOTBALL
RDC ATHLETICS The RDC hockey Kings closed out their preseason schedule Saturday with a 2-1 shootout loss to the senior AAA Innisfail Eagles in the SAIT tournament. Riley Simpson potted the lone RDC regulation-time goal on a feed from Logan Sceviour. Simpson also scored in the shootout. Devin Fordyce made 27 saves for the Kings. Each team had 29 shots on goal through 60 minutes. The Kings open their ACAC regular season Friday at the Penhold Regional Multiplex against the Concordia Thunder. ● The RDC Queens recorded a win and tie Saturday at the NAIT women’s hockey tournament. The Queens opened with a 2-0 victory over Olds College, getting flawless goaltending from Alex Frisk. Later, Jen West was in the Queens net in a 3-3 tie with the Calgary Edge Academy. The Queens played Grant MacEwan Sunday night. ● RDC golf team member Grant Numrich turned in rounds of 76-69 to finish third in the men’s individual event of an ACAC weekend tournament. Meanwhile, teammate Jeremy Rietze carded a pair of 74s and finished sixth. The RDC men’s squad placed third with a 610 score. Grant McEwan was first with a 579 stroke total, host Augustana was third with a 585 sum and Medicine Hat was fourth with a 618 total. Katie Griffiths of the RDC women’s team finished first in the individual event with a two-day total of 170 that included back-to-back rounds of 85. The RDC team finished third with a 401 total. Grant McEwan (342) and Medicine Hat (397) were second and third.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL The Hunting Hills Lightning, ranked fifth among Football Alberta Tier 2 high school teams, knocked off the host and second-ranked Medicine Hat Mohawks 27-8 in exhibition action Friday. Kaden Hall scored a pair of touchdowns for the winners, who got another major from Brandt Burzuk and three converts and two field goals from Eder Arias. ● In Central Alberta League play Friday, the host Stettler Wildcats and the Wetaskiwin Sabres battled to a 22-22 tie.
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Justin Penney of the Lacombe Raiders is taken down by Notre Dame Cougars Logan Cockerill (#8) and Joseph Cossins (#48) during bantam football action at Great Chief Park on Saturday morning.
Milo lifts Redblacks over his former club BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders gave Chris Milo the boot earlier this season in favour of veteran Paul McCallum. On Saturday, Milo was happy to return the favour. Milo, who signed with Ottawa on Aug. 1, hit three of four field goal attempts — including the go-ahead 14-yarder with six seconds remaining — to guide the Redblacks to a 30-27 comeback victory over the host Roughriders. Ottawa won its third game in a row and improved to 7-4, while Saskatchewan dropped to 1-11 in front of 30,480 fans at Mosaic Stadium. “It felt good. You always want to do well against teams that let you go,” said Milo, who spent four seasons with Saskatchewan. “This team is progressing and playing good football and at the end of the day our ultimate goal is to compete for first place in the division.” Milo’s kick helped him atone for his missed convert with 2:34 left in the fourth quarter that would have put Ottawa up 28-24. The Riders’ Tristan Jackson returned the ensuing kickoff 70 yards and three plays later McCallum booted a 37-yard field goal to tie the game at 27. Ottawa decided not to receive the
kickoff and pivot Henry Burris guided the Redblacks on a seven-play, 68-yard drive capped off with Milo’s winning field goal. “It was all about taking what they gave us,” Burris said about the drive. “I had to use my feet at times to move the chains and just chip away. There was plenty of time and no need to rush things.” Burris threw for 477 yards and two touchdowns in the game, relying heavily on receiver Chris Williams (eight catches, 137 yards, one TD). Ottawa’s Ernest Jackson caught six balls for 101 yards while Greg Ellingson had 45 yards receiving to go along with a TD. The Redblacks trailed 20-14 at halftime, but outscored Saskatchewan 16-6 in the final two quarters. It was a similar story last week against the B.C. Lions, when Ottawa outscored the Leos 17-0 in the second half en route to a 31-18 victory. In its last three games, Ottawa has outscored teams 54-9 in the second half. “We make great adjustments at half time. As the game goes on, our team figures out a lot of the things the other team is doing and we put ourselves in position to be successful,” Burris said. “Saskatchewan is a great team and their defence played a heck of a game tonight, but we found ways that could help us
Leafs getting used to practices under Babcock BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — New Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock’s practices are fast-paced and force players to think quickly as they would in a game. “There’s not much standing around. It seems like everything’s pretty snappy,” says Peter Holland, who is entering his third season with the Leafs. “There’s not much time at the board. Usually he’s verbalizing what he wants us to do.” Babcock is also quick with his whistle if players aren’t doing a drill correctly. “When he’s stopping the drills short, it’s to make sure we’re in the right position and it’s to help us get better quicker,” Holland said. “That’s good. I mean, at this point of the season especially, he wants to make sure we’re doing things right and hopefully it becomes second nature.” The impromptu lessons happen to veterans and prospects alike as the new coach runs them through breakout drills designed to reduce the bungling that leads to turnovers and having to play too much defence. “I think we’re past last year. This is a new year and I think you saw what was expected,” captain Dion Phaneuf said. “There was some real good work put in by everyone here at camp and I thought it was a great start for our whole team.” Fans in Halifax gave the players a warm welcome and the players say they got a morale boost from that. They also went golfing and visited a navy frigate to do some team bonding. Phaneuf said the first three days of camp were a crash course in the type of hockey Babcock is known for. “There was lots of information, but we expect-
‘WE’RE GOING TO PLAY BETTER AND FASTER AND WE’VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO’ MAPLE LEAFS HEAD COACH MIKE BABCOCK ed that. He’s a very detailed coach,” Phaneuf said. “You’ve got to be a sponge.” Mitch Marner, the Leafs’ first-round pick this past summer, described Babcock’s practices as “crazy.” “They’re explosive,” Marner said. “it’s a lot of fun to be out there when he’s coaching.” On top of trying to hammer home the finer points on the ice, Babcock has given players homework by asking them to watch game tape of the Detroit Red Wings, the team he coached for 10 seasons, including four seasons of 50-plus wins and a Stanley Cup title in 2008. “We’re going to play better and faster and we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Babcock said. The team will split into two squads Monday for home-and-home exhibition games against Ottawa and play another game Tuesday in Montreal, but Babcock planned to make cuts Sunday night. Defenceman Andrew Nielsen, a third-round pick by the Leafs this summer, said it was great to have the coach on the ice. “Those little things that can be taught now and taught early are going to come in handy come January when they’re pushing for the playoffs,” Nielsen said. The lanky defenceman, who is likely to return to the Lethbridge Hurricanes of the Western Hockey League, says he will hear Babcock’s booming voice playing in his head all year long. “I was already kind of hearing him in my head this weekend,” he said. “I’m going to take everything I learned here and take it back to junior.”
be successful and at the end of the day it helped us win a big game.” Kevin Glenn, who was activated off the six-game injured list this week to replace Brett Smith, went 16 of 29 for 227 yards with two touchdowns and one interception for the Riders (1-11). Naaman Roosevelt hauled in three catches for 95 yards and a touchdown for Saskatchewan while Jerome Messam rattled off 53 yards on 10 carries. McCallum hit 4 of 5 field-goal attempts. It was another case of close, but no cigar for Saskatchewan. “I certainly can’t question the guys’ effort, but some of the little challenges we’ve had in the past came back in this game at inopportune times and we weren’t able to finish with the victory,” Rider head coach Bob Dyce said. “Whether it’s a procedure call or sack that takes you out of field goal range, those are things that have to be corrected.” Glenn moved into seventh all-time in CFL career passing yards, passing Matt Dunigan. Burris made his 215th career start, ranking him fifth all-time in the CFL. John Chick, who recorded one sack for the Riders, now has seven sacks in his last seven games. Roosevelt’s 71-yard touchdown catch was the longest scoring play for Saskatchewan this season.
NHL PRESEASON
Predators, Panthers split doubleheader Filip Forsberg scored twice and assisted on Colton Sissons’ goal, all on power play, to help the Nashville Predators beat the visiting Florida Panthers 5-2 on Sunday in the first game of a split-squad doubleheader Sunday. In the night game, Michael Matheson scored at 2:05 of overtime to give Florida a 3-2 victory. In the opener on the first day of the NHL exhibition season, Roman Josi added an assist, Vladislav Kamenev also scored, and Ryan Ellis had three assists. Connor Brickley and Jussi Jokinen had power-play goals for Florida. Carter Hutton started for Nashville and stopped all eight shots he faced in 30:48. Marek Mazanec allowed two goals on 14 shots the rest of the way. Mike McKenna gave up three goals on 19 shots in two periods for Florida, and Colin Stevens stopped eight of 10 shots in the third. In the second game, Shane Harper tied it for Florida with 2:17 left in regulation. He beat Juuse Saros with a slap shot. Taylor Aronson and Mike Fisher scored 1:37 apart early in the first period for Nashville, and Aleksander Barkov got one back for Florida midway through the period. Florida starter Al Montoya made 18 saves in the first two periods, and Sam Brittain stopped all nine shots he faced in the third and overtime. Nashville’s Pekka Rinne made 11 saves in 34:47, and Saros finished with 12 saves. BRUINS BLANK DEVILS In Providence, Rhode Island, Matt Irwin scored two power-play goals, and Jonas Gustavsson and Jeremy Smith combined for 31 saves in the Boston Bruins’ 2-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils. John Hynes made his coaching debut for the Devils.
B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Sept. 21, 2015
Second half surge leads Pack past Seahawks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Packers 27 Seahawks 17 GREEN BAY, Wis. — Given time in the fourth quarter, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers found the weakness in the Seattle Seahawks’ defence. Middle of the field. No Kam Chancellor at safety. Short passes turned into big gains. No second half collapse against Seattle on Sunday night Lambeau Field. Rodgers and the defence came up big in the fourth quarter of a 27-17 win in a bruising, physical rematch of last season’s NFC title game. “We’re 2-0. It was a great night here at Lambeau Field,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “You sleep better when you win.” The crowd erupted at the end, releasing nine months’ worth of frustration. The Packers blew a 16-0 lead against the Seahawks in the NFC title game last year. They held on after giving up 13-3 lead at halftime on Sunday. The Seahawks, who fell to the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl last year, dropped to 0-2 for the first time since 2011. “But you have to move forward and realize there’s a lot of season left,” said quarterback Russell Wilson, who threw an interception in the fourth quarter. Rodgers stayed characteristically calm under pressure. He was a master at moving around to buy time. He took advantage of Seattle penalties with long throws for big gains. And in the fourth quarter, with the Packers down 17-16, he orchestrated a 10-play, 80-yard scoring drive, capped by a 5-yard scoring pass to Richard Rodgers. A 2-point conversion pass, also to Richard Rodgers, made it 24-17 with 9:28 left. Working without a huddle, Rodgers set up the score with short passes to Randall Cobb for gains of 18 and 19 yards, respectively. Ty Montgomery turned another short pass into a 17-yard gain. Rodgers and the coaching staff looked at film of Seattle’s defence before the drive and found a hole. “In the middle of their defence is where you can find some soft spots, that’s kind of what we targeted there,”
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Seattle Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch is stopped by Green Bay Packers’ Clay Matthews (52), Mike Daniels (76) and Andy Mulumba (55) during the first half of an NFL game Sunday, in Green Bay, Wis. the quarterback said. On Seattle’s next drive, Jayrone Elliott made a lunging, one-handed interception of a short pass from Wilson with 6:50 left, one of the rare mistakes in the second half for Seattle’s dual-threat quarterback. The Packers (2-0) cashed in with one of Mason Crosby’s four field goals on the night for a 10-point lead with 2 minutes remaining. “I’ve got a bum finger, so I had to catch it with one hand,” Elliott said. The defence held on when it mattered in the fourth quarter after giving up chunks of yardage earlier in the second half to dual-threat quarterback Wilson.
The Seahawks’ last two series ended in turnovers. Besides Elliott’s pick, Micah Hyde recovered a fumble by Fred Jackson with 22 seconds left. Wilson was 19 of 30 for 206 yards, while running for 78 yards on 10 carries. But he lamented the disappointing fourth quarter. “Yeah, it was a heartbreaker,” Wilson said. “Disappointing game because we felt like we were going to have a chance to go down the field and win there.” Rodgers seized his opportunity. He finished 25 of 33 for 249 yards and connected with favourite target James
Jones for a 29-yard touchdown pass on the game’s opening series. But the offence got bogged down or had to settle for field goals until the fourth quarter. Rodgers was clutch against a defence missing Chancellor, who is holding out for a new contract. NOTES: The Packers held Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch to 41 yards on 15 carries. … Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy left the game in the first quarter with a right ankle injury. Backup James Starks kept Packers running game going with 95 yards on 20 carries. With four field goals and an extra point, Crosby set the franchise record with 1,057 career points.
Cowboys take another big hit in win over Eagles passes, and Cincinnati quickly ended Philip Rivers’ streak of perfect passing. Dalton’s 9-yard throw to Tyler Eifert put the Bengals (2-0) in control midway through the fourth quarter. San Diego (1-1) set up Cincinnati’s first touchdown with a fumble. Giovani Bernard took over as the running back after Jeremy Hill lost two fumbles. He finished with 123 yards. Rivers’ streak of consecutive completions ended at 22, a Chargers record. The streak was two shy of Donovan McNabb’s NFL record of 24.
NFL ROUNDUP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COWBOYS 20 EAGLES 10 PHILADELPHIA — Tony Romo joined Dez Bryant on the injured list with a broken left collarbone, but the Dallas Cowboys shut down DeMarco Murray and beat the Philadelphia Eagles 20-10 on Sunday. Kyle Wilber returned a blocked punt 26 yards for touchdown, Brandon Weeden threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to Terrance Williams and the Cowboys (2-0) overcame a franchise-record 18 penalties in their 10th consecutive road win. Romo suffered a similar injury in Week 7 in 2010 and missed the rest of the season. The team said he’ll be evaluated on Monday. Dallas already lost Bryant last week. The All-Pro receiver will miss at least six weeks after having foot surgery. Murray had 2 yards rushing on 13 carries in his first game against his former team. Sam Bradford had three turnovers, including an interception in the end zone, for the Eagles (0-2). BROWNS 28, TITANS 14 CLEVELAND (AP) — Johnny Manziel threw a 60-yard touchdown pass to Travis Benjamin on Cleveland’s second play and connected with his wide receiver again for a clutch 50-yarder with 2:52. Benjamin also returned a punt 78 yards for a TD in the first half as the Browns (1-1) got just their third home-opening win since 1999. Starting in place of injured Josh McCown, Manziel finished 8 of 15 for 172 yards. His last completion was vintage Johnny Football as Manziel spun to his left to avoid pressure and threw deep to Benjamin. Manziel won his Heisman Trophy matchup with Marcus Mariota, who threw two TD passes in the second half for the Titans (1-1), but took a pounding in his second game. The No. 2 overall pick was sacked seven times. BUCCANEERS 29, SAINTS 19 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jameis Winston passed for a touchdown and ran for another and Tampa Bay held on against mistake-prone New Orleans. Winston, who was intercepted twice and sacked four times in a losing NFL debut at home a week earlier, remained largely composed in the hostile Superdome. He completed 14 of 21 pass-
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Buffalo Bills running back Anthony Dixon, right, tackles New England Patriots’ Danny Amendola (80) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, in Orchard Park, N.Y. es for 207 yards and was not intercepted. He lost one fumble, but the Saints couldn’t cash in. RAIDERS 37, RAVENS 33 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Derek Carr threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Seth Roberts with 26 seconds left to cap the most productive day of his young career and lead Oakland. Carr threw for a career-high 351 yards and three touchdowns and overcame a late interception that put the Raiders (1-1) in a hole in the closing minutes. But Carr went 7 for 9 for 65 yards on the winning drive, aided by a personal foul on Timmy Jernigan and a hold on Will Hill III that negated an interception. Joe Flacco threw for 384 yards and two scores for the Ravens (0-2). VIKINGS 26, LIONS 16 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson had 192 total yards and Minnesota rebounded from a rough season opener. Peterson, playing in front of a pro-Vikings crowd for the first time in 658 days, rushed 29 times for 134 yards after receiving a pregame standing ovation out of the tunnel and a couple of “AP! AP! AP!” chants from the fans on a sunsoaked afternoon. Teddy Bridgewater played a smart, sharp game for Minnesota (1-1). He threw for one touchdown and ran for another. Matthew Stafford was er-
ratic for the Lions (0-2), who fell behind 14-0 early in the second quarter. JAGUARS 23, DOLPHINS 20 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Jason Myers kicked a 28-yard field goal with 40 seconds remaining for Jacksonville. The Jaguars (1-1) took over with 1:48 left, and Blake Bortles put them in field-goal range with pass plays of 18, 19 and 9 yards. The Dolphins (1-1) provided some help, too, with a 15-yard personal foul penalty called on Olivier Vernon. The defensive end was flagged for hitting tight end Clay Harbor after the whistle, making it a chip shot for Myers. CARDINALS 48, BEARS 23 CHICAGO (AP) — Carson Palmer threw for four touchdowns to lead Arizona in a game that saw Chicago lose Jay Cutler to a hamstring injury. Palmer connected with Larry Fitzgerald for three TDs, David Johnson returned the opening kickoff a club-record 108 yards and added a rushing TD. And coach Bruce Arians gained a measure of revenge after the Bears hired Marc Trestman over him in January 2013. Arizona is 2-0 Chicago 0-2 under new coach John Fox. STEELERS 43, 49ERS 18 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger passed for 369 yards and three touchdowns, DeAngelo Williams tied a
team record with three rushing scores for Pittsburgh. The Steelers (1-1) converted a pair of 2-point attempts in the first half to seize momentum and had little trouble with San Francisco (1-1). Antonio Brown caught nine passes for 195 yards and a touchdown, and added a 2-point conversion catch for Pittsburgh, which rolled up 453 total yards despite having the ball for only 23 minutes. Colin Kaepernick threw for 335 yards and two scores. PATRIOTS 40, BILLS 32 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Brady threw for 466 yards — the second-most of his career — and three touchdowns in leading New England. Julian Edelman scored two touchdowns, and the Patriots (2-0) needed to stave off a fourth-quarter rally after building a 37-13 lead through three quarters against Buffalo (1-1). New England’s Stephen Gostkowski hit a 25-yard field goal with 1:15 left. The Bills’ final drive ended on the next play from scrimmage when Tyrod Taylor’s pass tipped off the hands of Sammy Watkins and was intercepted by Logan Ryan. Brady improved to 24-3 against Buffalo, and his passing yards were the most ever by a Bills opponent. BENGALS 24, CHARGERS 19 CINCINNATI (AP) — Andy Dalton threw three touchdown
FALCONS, 24, GIANTS 20 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Julio Jones caught a perfect 37-yard pass from Matt Ryan, setting up Devonta Freeman’s 2-yard touchdown run with 1:14 remaining, lifting Atlanta over New York. Jones was unstoppable in the Falcons’ second straight victory, tying the club record with 13 receptions, good for 135 yards. His biggest catch was down the left sideline behind Prince Amukamara in the final moments. The Giants (0-2) blew a 20-10 fourth-quarter lead. Leonard Hankerson caught a 10-yard TD pass to bring Atlanta within three. Then Ryan guided the Falcons 70 yards to the winning score. REDSKINS 24, RAMS 10 LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Rookie Matt Jones ran for 123 yards and two touchdowns, an efficient Kirk Cousins avoided turnovers, and Washington held on for the win.Jones, a third-round draft pick out of Florida, scored from 39 yards in the first quarter, and from 3 with about 2 ½ minutes left in the fourth. The Redskins (1-1) led 17-0 at halftime, the first time they shut out an opponent in the first half since Oct. 2, 2011, also against the Rams (1-1). PANTHERS 24, TEXANS 17 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton threw two touchdown passes and somersaulted into the end zone for another score for Carolina (2-0). Newton was 18 of 37 for 195 yards and ran for 77 yards on nine carries. Newton provided the highlight of the day when he raced up the middle on a draw play and tumbled over defensive back Rahim Moore — nearly sticking the landing — for a 3-yard TD that put Carolina ahead 17-10 late in the third quarter. Ryan Mallett started in place of Brian Hoyer and threw for 244 yards and a TD and ran for a 6-yard score for the Texans (0-2).
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Hamlin goes from last to win in Chicago NASCAR CHASE FOR THE SPRINT CUP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOLIET, Ill. — Denny Hamlin vowed to make it to the championship round of NASCAR’s playoffs, and nothing so far is getting in his way. Not a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered playing basketball just days before the regular-season finale. Not a horrible day of practice that resulted in an awful starting position for the opening round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Not a spin Sunday two laps into the race that dropped him to last in the field at Chicagoland Speedway and one lap down from the leaders. Hamlin stepped up and once again showed his resilience by rallying for a surprise victory in the first race of the 10-race Chase. The win for Joe Gibbs Racing — a heavy favourite to win the championship — earned Hamlin an automatic berth into the second round of the playoffs. “Go have some fun the next two weeks, that’s for sure. Takes some pressure off of us,” Hamlin said about his strategy for the next two weeks. It was a decidedly different mood for reigning champion Kevin Harvick, who vowed four days ago not to be intimidated by JGR’s recent muscle and said “we’re going to pound them into the ground” during the Chase. Instead, contact with Jimmie Johnson on a restart caused a tire rub on Harvick’s car. He thought the issue had fixed itself, but his left rear tire blew two laps later and he was in the wall. Harvick drove the car to the garage for repairs, and his anger toward Johnson was evident as headed back on the track — his finger pointed out his window at Johnson’s crew — 57 laps off the pace and second-to-last in the
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Denny Hamlin (11) drives past JJ Yeley (26) and Justin Allgaier (51) during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Chicagoland Speedway, Sunday, in Joliet, Ill. field. Johnson went to Harvick’s motorhome after the race to speak to Harvick, but Harvick walked out of the bus and shoved Johnson in the chest with a closed fist. Harvick was separated from the sixtime champion, and Johnson pointed at Harvick as he was restrained from getting at Johnson a second time. Harvick’s wife, DeLana, exited a waiting car to walk over to the bickering drivers and Harvick eventually retreated to the backseat of the car as Johnson walked away. Harvick is last in the 16-driver field, and four drivers will be cut from the Chase in two weeks. Asked what he needs to do to stay in contention, he was blunt: “we’ve just got to go win one of these next two races.” He felt that Johnson had no regard for his position on the race track during the restart when Harvick was third and Johnson was fourth. “I just held my ground and he just slammed into my door like I wasn’t even there,” Harvick said.
Johnson’s version was that he got a push from behind from Joey Logano that sent him down to the apron. As he tried to get back on the track, he made contact with Harvick. “I assumed he would try to find it as my fault. I just simply needed a lane to get back on the racetrack,” said Johnson. “He was trying to pin me down and I’ve got to get back up or else there would be a hell of a mess in Turn 1.” Harvick crew chief Rodney Childers initially said on the team radio he felt Johnson deliberately hit Harvick. After the race, though, the disappointment seemed to be focused on the relationship Stewart-Haas Racing has with Hendrick Motorsports. The two Chevrolet teams are pseudo teammates, and Johnson and Harvick have a lengthy relationship dating to their early racing days in California. “As much as we work together and share information, and I feel like we’ve helped them a lot this year trying to get their cars better, it’s just disappointing,” Childers said.
The trouble for Harvick was as surprising as the victory for Hamlin. His rough day Friday in practice meant he had to start 29th in the race when qualifying was rained out. Hamlin said his toughest task was going to be showing patience in the early laps of the race as he tried to move a fast Toyota through traffic, but he spun trying to pick his way toward the front on the second lap. Now last and a lap down, it seemed he had no shot at the win. But his JGR team didn’t panic, and crew chief Dave Rogers used a gutsy call not to pit during the final caution to give Hamlin a shot at the victory. Hamlin slid to the bottom of the track to make it three-wide as he jumped from third to first on the restart with five laps remaining. Once past Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch, he easily cruised to JGR’s ninth win in the last 12 races. JGR has won three consecutive Sprint Cup races, and celebrated an Xfinity Series victory on Saturday with Kyle Busch.
Day locks up top spot in finale with BMW win PGA TOUR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Jason Day has plenty of rivals at the moment, but very few peers. Day’s runaway victory Sunday in the BMW Championship vaulted him to No. 1 in the world ranking, backing up a boast the then little-known Australian made during a conference call with reporters in 2007 — and for which he was roasted on more than one occasion since. “I remember sitting on my mom’s bed and thinking that (predicting he’d be No. 1 someday) might not go over too well,” laughed Day, who turns 28 next month. It didn’t. “I expected to get a little bit (of criticism), but not the response that I got from practically everyone,” Day recalled, another championship trophy poised within arm’s reach. “But it’s good to sit in this chair right now.” His 2-under, final-round 69 and 22-under total at Conway Farms was good for a six-shot victory over rookie Daniel Berger. Scott Piercy finished third, seven strokes back. The win was Day’s fifth on tour this season and his second in the FedEx Cup playoffs. In addition to leap-frog-
ging Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy to claim the top spot in the world ranking, it made him the front-runner in the 30-man field heading to East Lake in Atlanta next weekend for the series finale. “Whatever Jason Day is doing, or which course he’s playing, it’s ridiculous,” said Danny Lee, who’s at No. 19. That was hardly an exaggeration here. Day zoomed out to a big lead by shooting 61 and 63 in the first two rounds and was never seriously challenged. If he manages a win in Atlanta, it could make the race for Player of the Year — an award Spieth appeared to lock up by winning the Masters and U.S. Open earlier in the summer — closer than anyone would have anticipated just six weeks ago. But Day has been on an incredible run since narrowly missing at the British Open. In his six starts since, he has won four times — the Canadian Open, the PGA Championship for his first major and the two FedEx Cup events — and played at a sizzling 101-under par clip. “I think it might change some people’s minds about (player of the year) if I go ahead and win next week,” he said. “But we can’t deny what Jordan has done in the in the major championship this year. For a 22-year-old kid to accomplish what he’s done …
that has been an amazing ride. “I still think,” Day added a moment later, “it’s him.” His fellow players aren’t so sure. When Rickie Fowler was asked to pick between the two, he replied, “I’m glad it’s not my decision” — forgetting that he’ll have to cast a ballot at season’s end. But the battle for No. 1 wasn’t the only drama hanging over the tournament. The quest to make the 30-man field heading to East Lake produced its own share of winners and losers. Berger will be the only rookie and Harris English, who missed earning a spot by a single shot each of the last two seasons, shoe-horned himself into the 30th spot with a birdie at the 18th. On the downside, Daniel Summerhays finished 31st after dunking a tee shot at the par-3 11th, and Justin Thomas lost his chance to join Berger as the only other rookie in Atlanta when Dustin Johnson birdied the final two holes. Day, on the other hand, will head to the finale more in control of his fate than he has been in a long time. He and Colin Swatton, who’s been his mentor and coach since age 12 and doubles as his caddie now, set out a plan years ago to have Day reach No. 1 in the world by age 22. “Six years late,” Day said, stifling a grin. “But, I mean, better late than never, right?”
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Jason Day poses with the Western Golf Association J.K. Wadley Trophy, left, and the BMW Championship Trophy after winning the BMW Championship golf tournament at Conway Farms Golf Club, Sunday, in Lake Forest, Ill.
United States stages comeback to win Solheim Cup after disputed call ST. LEON-ROT, Germany — After being infuriated by a call they found unsportsmanlike, the Americans staged the biggest comeback in Solheim Cup history Saturday to wrest the trophy back from Europe. Paula Creamer defeated Germany’s Sandra Gal to complete the turnaround and secure a 14 ½-13 ½ victory for the United States, which had trailed by four points going into the singles. The match turned after American rookie Alison Lee was penalized for picking up the ball when she thought her putt was conceded in the morning fourballs, which had been suspended on Saturday. The 20-year-old missed a birdie putt on the 17th hole and then picked up the ball as Europe’s Charley Hull was already walking toward the last hole - only for Suzann Pettersen to claim Europe hadn’t conceded the short putt. The umpire intervened and Europe was awarded the hole - and eventually won the match.
LACROSSE Mark Matthews scored five goals as Canada rallied to beat the Iroquois Nationals 11-9 in its world indoor lacrosse championship opener on Sunday. Shawn Evans, Zack Greer, Curtis Dickson, Chris Corbeil, Dan Dawson and Jordan MacIntosh supplied the
“There’s no way they could ever justify that. I don’t care what you say, you just don’t do that to your peers,” U.S. captain Juli Inkster said. “I don’t know if my team needed to be fired up anymore, but they were real fired up.” And they dominated the singles to claim their first title since 2009, denying the Europeans their first threepeat. The U.S. extended its series lead to 9-5. No team had ever come from more than two down going into the singles. “I am so proud of our team. We were in there this morning and we were just so fired up and ready to get out there and just play good golf,” Creamer said. “And this was so awesome. I played great. Seeing the girls and seeing the red on the board, I’m so proud of them.” Europe led 10-6 going into the 12 singles but could only win three and draw another. Home golfer Caroline Masson missed the last big chance to retain the cup for Europe, before Gerina Piller made her more difficult 9-foot putt to win her match by one hole and keep American hopes alive. rest of the Canadian offence. Hiana Thompson led the Nationals with a pair of goals. Miles Thompson, Lyle Thompson, Wenster Green, Craig Point, Johnny Powless, Randy Staats and Jeff Shattler rounded out the attack. Aaron Bold turned aside 34 shots for the win in net. Angus Goodleaf made 36 saves for the Iroquois. Canada next plays the Czech Republic on Monday.
Cristie Kerr then had nine birdies in 11 holes as she beat Hull 3 and 2, and Angela Stanford ended her ninematch losing streak to beat Pettersen 2 and 1, before Creamer completed the turnaround. Morgan Pressel, Alison Lee, Michelle Wie and Cristie Kerr also won for the U.S., while Lexi Thompson won half a point in her all-square match against Carlota Ciganda of Spain. “This is probably the closest knit group we’ve ever been a part of. We never stopped believing,” Stanford said. Pressel defeated Catriona Matthew of Scotland by 2 holes, Lee defeated Gwladys Nocera of France 3 and 1, Wie had eight birdies in a huge 6 and 4 win over Caroline Hedwall of Sweden, while Lizette Salas defeated Azahara Munoz of Spain 3 and 1. Karine Icher of France defeated
Brittany Lincicome 3 and 2, Melissa Reid of England beat Brittany Lang 2 and 1, and Anna Nordqvist of Sweden finished with a birdie to best Stacy Lewis 2 and 1. But after an emotional day, it seemed it was the Americans who had actually benefited from the controversial call against Lee. Both Lee and Hull were in tears after that match, and Inkster used the incident as motivational fuel in her team talk before the singles. “Charley was walking off the green and Suzann was already off the green so there was no doubt in my mind that that putt was good,” Lee said. “I didn’t even think twice about it. So I just picked it up.” Europe captain Carin Koch said the ball went too far to concede. “The rules are the rules. You have to follow the rules,” Koch said.
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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Blackfalds Wranglers, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday ● High school football: Sylvan Lake Lakers at Rocky Mountain House Rebels, 4:30 p.m.; Lacombe Rams at Hunting Hills Lightning, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Senior high volleyball: Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Hunting Hills Lightning, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.
Friday ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer TBS Chiefs at West Central Tigers, 6 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● College women’s preseason hockey: St. Francis Xavier Academy of Edmonton at Olds College, 7 p.m., Sportsplex. ● High school football: Notre Dame Cougars at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Camrose Trojans at Stettler Wildcats, 7:30 p.m.; Drayton Valley Warriors at Wetaskiwin Sabres, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday ● Peewee football: Drumheller Terrapins at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. High school cross-country running: Hunting Hills meet, 11 a.m. start at River Bend Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat
Hounds at Red Deer Parkland Chiefs, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A. ● Bantam football: Ponoka Broncs at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Steel Kings at West Central Tigers, 5:15 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills Thrashers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview Colts at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m. ● College women’s preseason hockey: SAIT Trojans at RDC Queens, 9:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.
Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta Selects, 10:15 a.m., Lacombe; Western Central Tigers at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m. ● Midget AAA preseason hockey: Fort Saskatchewan Rangers at Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3:15 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie Thunder at Blackfalds Wranglers, 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 4 p.m., Rexall Place.
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2015 Western Hockey League Preseason Schedule Saturday’s results Tri-City 4 Spokane 3 Calgary 4 Kootenay 2 Moose Jaw 2 Brandon 1 (OT) Red Deer 6 Medicine Hat 3 Saskatoon 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Prince George 6 Kamloops 5 Everett 3 Victoria 1 Kelowna 3 Vancouver 0
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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Friday’s results Brandon 4 Moose Jaw 2 Calgary 4 Lethbridge 0 Prince Albert 4 Regina 1 Red Deer 5 Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 7 Swift Current 1 Vancouver 5 Kelowna 4 Tri-City 3 Spokane 2 Portland 7 Everett 4 Victoria 4 Seattle 1 End of 2015 WHL Pre-season
Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 Washington 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 1 0 1 0 0
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National Hockey League Preseason Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 1 1 0 0 2 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 1 0 1 0 0
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GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
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Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m. Philadelphia (ss) at N.Y. Islanders (ss), 5 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m. N.Y. Islanders (ss) vs. Philadelphia (ss) at Allentown, PA, 7 p.m. Toronto (ss) at Ottawa (ss), 5:30 p.m. Ottawa (ss) at Toronto (ss), 5:30 p.m. Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Edmonton (ss) at Calgary (ss), 7 p.m. Calgary (ss) at Edmonton (ss), 7 p.m. Los Angeles vs. Arizona at Bakersfield, CA, 8 p.m. San Jose vs. Vancouver at Victoria, British Columbia, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Washington at Boston, 5 p.m. St. Louis (ss) at Columbus (ss), 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Dallas at Florida, 5:30 p.m. Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Nashville at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Columbus (ss) at St. Louis (ss), 6 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Anaheim at Colorado, 7 p.m. San Jose at Vancouver, 18 p.m. Arizona at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.
Toronto New York Baltimore Tampa Bay Boston
American League East Division W L Pct 85 64 .570 82 66 .554 73 76 .490 72 77 .483 71 77 .480
GB — 2 1/2 12 13 13 1/2
Kansas Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit
Central Division W L Pct City 87 62 76 73 .510 74 74 .500 70 78 .473 69 79 .466
GB .584 — 11 12 1/2 16 1/2 17 1/2
West Division W L Pct 80 69 .537 79 71 .527 76 73 .510 73 77 .487 64 86 .427
GB — 1 1/2 4 7 1/2 16 1/2
Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland
Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 0 L.A. Angels 4, Minnesota 3, 12 innings, 1st game Boston 7, Toronto 6 Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 6, Kansas City 5, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3 L.A. Angels 5, Minnesota 2, 2nd game Houston 10, Oakland 6 Texas 10, Seattle 1 Sunday’s Games Boston 4, Toronto 3 Kansas City 10, Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 6 Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 8, L.A. Angels 1 Houston 5, Oakland 1 Seattle 9, Texas 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2 Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 9-13) at Detroit (K.Ryan 2-3), 11:08 a.m., 1st game Baltimore (U.Jimenez 11-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-7), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Warren 6-6) at Toronto (Price 16-5), 5:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox (E.Johnson 2-0) at Detroit (Wolf 0-3), 5:08 p.m., 2nd game Tampa Bay (Archer 12-12) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 9-6), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-11) at Houston (Keuchel 17-8), 6:10 p.m.
PGA-BMW Championship Scores Sunday At Conway Farms Golf Club Lake Forest, Ill. Purse: $8.25 million Yardage: 7,198 Par: 71 Final Jason Day, $1,485,000 61-63-69-69—262 Daniel Berger, $891,000 65-64-70-69—268 Scott Piercy, $561,000 67-65-67-70—269 Rickie Fowler,$341,000 69-66-66-69—270 J.B. Holmes, $341,000 70-65-67-68—270 Rory McIlroy, $341,000 68-65-67-70—270 Dustin Johnson,$257,125 71-62-68-70—271 Hideki Matsuyama,$257,125 72-63-70-66—271 Cameron Tringale,$257,125 72-64-69-66—271 Kevin Na, $206,250 65-66-70-71—272 Henrik Stenson,$206,250 71-63-71-67—272 Bubba Watson,$206,250 65-70-72-65—272 Zach Johnson,$145,750 68-69-72-64—273 George McNeill,$145,750 67-65-72-69—273 Justin Rose, $145,750 70-64-70-69—273 Jordan Spieth,$145,750 65-66-72-70—273 Brendan Steele,$145,750 68-67-68-70—273 Justin Thomas,$145,750 65-67-70-71—273 Harris English,$103,538 65-68-69-72—274 Bill Haas, $103,538 68-67-73-66—274 Louis Oosthuizen,$103,538 71-66-68-69—274 Nick Watney, $103,538 68-66-71-69—274 Paul Casey, $73,425 67-69-71-68—275 Kevin Chappell,$73,425 66-69-68-72—275 Ryan Palmer, $73,425 67-67-73-68—275 Robert Streb, $73,425 71-67-70-67—275 Brendon Todd,$73,425 66-63-76-70—275 Keegan Bradley,$57,338 68-66-72-70—276 David Hearn, $57,338 74-69-69-64—276 Ryan Moore, $57,338 68-67-73-68—276 Patrick Reed, $57,338 68-69-69-70—276 James Hahn, $44,668 74-65-70-68—277 Billy Horschel, $44,668 71-69-70-67—277 Matt Jones, $44,668 72-66-72-67—277 Phil Mickelson,$44,668 68-70-72-67—277 Jimmy Walker,$44,668 69-69-71-68—277 Brendon de Jonge,$44,668 67-67-69-74—277 Hunter Mahan,$44,668 68-68-69-72—277 Sergio Garcia, $36,300 70-65-72-71—278 Fabian Gomez,$36,300 70-68-71-69—278 Steven Bowditch,$31,350 70-66-75-68—279 Kevin Kisner, $31,350 72-70-71-66—279 Matt Kuchar, $31,350 67-67-70-75—279 Daniel Summerhays,$31,350 70-72-66-71—279 Russell Knox, $26,400 74-68-68-70—280 Pat Perez, $26,400 72-71-71-66—280 Tony Finau, $23,265 72-64-77-68—281 Danny Lee, $23,265 67-70-73-71—281 Russell Henley,$20,584 74-67-72-69—282 Brooks Koepka,$20,584 75-65-70-72—282 David Lingmerth,$20,584 73-65-70-74—282 William McGirt,$20,584 71-72-69-70—282 Sangmoon Bae,$18,920 74-70-67-72—283 Zac Blair, $18,920 70-70-74-69—283 Brian Harman, $18,920 66-69-72-76—283 Charley Hoffman,$18,920 72-71-70-70—283 Sean O’Hair, $18,920 68-72-71-72—283 Ian Poulter, $18,920 70-68-74-71—283 Shawn Stefani,$18,315 72-71-71-70—284 Chris Kirk, $18,068 72-72-71-70—285 Gary Woodland,$18,068 69-71-70-75—285 Jerry Kelly, $17,738 71-73-71-71—286 Troy Merritt, $17,738 73-70-71-72—286 Jason Bohn, $17,408 71-71-71-74—287 Webb Simpson,$17,408 71-76-71-69—287 Brandt Snedeker,$17,160 71-77-69-72—289 Rory Sabbatini,$16,995 72-73-73-72—290 Bryce Molder, $16,748 77-71-69-78—295 Solheim Cup St. Leon-Rot, Germany Yardage: 6,535, Par: 72 UNITED STATES 14 1/2, EUROPE 13 1/2 Saturday Foursomes Europe 3, United States 1 Carlota Ciganda and Melissa Reid, Europe, def. Alison Lee and Michelle Wie, United States, 4 and 3. Charley Hull and Suzann Pettersen, Europe, def. Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel, United States, 1 up. Sandra Gal and Catriona Matthew, Europe, def. Brittany Lincicome and Angela Stanford, 1 up. Stacy Lewis and Gerina Piller, United States, def. Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall, Europe, 5 and 4. Fourball United States 2, Europe 2 Cristie Kerr and Lexi Thompson, United States,
def. Carlota Ciganda and Azahara Munoz, Europe, 3 and 2. Completed Sunday Karine Icher and Catriona Matthew, Europe, def. Brittany Lang and Lizette Salas, United States, 3 and 2. Charley Hull and Suzann Pettersen, Europe, def. Alison Lee and Brittany Lincicome, United States, 2 up. Stacy Lewis and Gerina Piller, United States, def. Caroline Hedwall and Caroline Masson, Europe, 1 up. Sunday Singles United States 8 1/2, Europe 3 1/2 Lexi Thompson, United States, vs. Carlota Ciganda, Europe, halved. Morgan Pressel, United States, def. Catriona Matthew, Europe, 2 up. Karine Icher, Europe, def. Brittany Lincicome, United States, 3 and 2. Melissa Reid, Europe, derf. Brittany Lang, United States, 2 and 1. Alison Lee, United States, def. Gwladys Nocera, Europe, 3 and 1. Gerina Piller, United States, def. Caroline Masson, Europe, 1 up. Anna Nordqvist, Europe, def. Stacy Lewis, United States, 2 and 1. Lizette Salas, United States, def. Azahara Munoz, Spain, 3 and 1. Angela Stanford, United States, def. Suzann Pettersen, Europe, 2 and 1. Cristie Kerr, United States, def. Charley Hull, Europe, 3 and 2. Michelle Wie, United States, def. Caroline Hedwall, Europe, 6 and 4. Paula Creamer, United States, def. Sandra Gal, Europe, 4 and 3. Solheim Cup Champions UNITED STATES 9, EUROPE 5 2015 — United States 14 1/2, Europe 13 1/2 St. Leon-Rot Golf Club, St. Leon-Rot, Germany 2013 — Europe 18, United States 10 Colorado Golf Club, Parker, Colo. 2011 — Europe 15, United States 13 Killeen Castle, County Meath, Ireland 2009 — United States 16, Europe 12 Rich Harvest Farms, Sugar Grove, Ill. 2007 — United States 16, Europe 12 Halmstad Golf Club, Halmstad Sweden 2005 — United States 15 1/2, Europe 12 1/2 Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Ind. 2003 — Europe 17 1/2, United States 10 1/2 Barseback Golf and Country Club, Malmo, Sweden 2002 — United States 15 1/2, Europe 12 1/2 Interlachen Country Club, Edina, Minn. 2000 — Europe 14 1/2, United States 11 1/2 Loch Lomond Golf Club, Luss, Scotland 1998 — United States 16, Europe 12 Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio 1996 — United States 17, Europe 11 St. Pierre Country Club, Chepstow, Wales 1994 — United States 13, Europe 7 The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. 1992 — Europe 11 1/2, United States 6 1/2 Dalmahoy Country Club, Edinburgh, Scotland 1990 — United States 11 1/2, Europe 4 1/2 Lake Nona Golf Club, Orlando, Fla. Web.com Small Business Connection Sunday At River Run Country Club Davidson, N.C. Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,317 Par: 72 Final Chez Reavie,$180,000 69-69-69-66—273 Jamie Lovemark,$74,667 67-68-72-67—274 Steve Marino, $74,667 67-69-70-68—274 Emiliano Grillo,$74,667 66-68-68-72—274 Brett Stegmaier,$40,000 63-68-73-71—275 Ricky Barnes, $36,000 73-68-67-68—276 Kyle Stanley, $32,250 71-68-65-73—277 Dawie van der Walt,$32,250 69-68-70-70—277 Eric Axley, $27,000 67-65-70-76—278 Roberto Castro,$27,000 72-70-70-66—278 Andrew Yun, $27,000 67-67-73-71—278 Ryan Armour, $20,250 67-70-69-73—279 Tom Gillis, $20,250 71-71-65-72—279 Justin Hicks, $20,250 70-72-67-70—279 Jhonattan Vegas,$20,250 70-70-70-69—279 Tyler Aldridge, $15,000 75-67-68-70—280 Steve Allan, $15,000 72-71-67-70—280 Anirban Lahiri, $15,000 72-70-67-71—280
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. MiCabrera Det 111 402 61 136 .338 Bogaerts Bos 142 559 74 180 .322 Brantley Cle 134 521 68 164 .315 Altuve Hou 142 585 74 182 .311 NCruz Sea 141 545 85 169 .310 Fielder Tex 145 560 72 172 .307 Kinsler Det 144 585 91 178 .304 LCain KC 131 513 95 156 .304 Kipnis Cle 130 522 80 158 .303 Hosmer KC 146 553 91 167 .302 Home Runs CDavis, Baltimore, 43 NCruz, Seattle, 42 Donaldson, Toronto, 39 Trout, Los Angeles, 39 JMartinez, Detroit, 37 Bautista, Toronto, 36 Ortiz, Boston, 35 Pujols, Los Angeles, 35. Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 120 CDavis, Baltimore, 109 KMorales, Kansas City, 105 Bautista, Toronto, 104 Encarnacion, Toronto, 103 Ortiz, Boston, 98 JMartinez, Detroit, 96. Pitching FHernandez, Seattle, 18-9 McHugh, Houston, 17-7 Keuchel, Houston, 17-8 Price, Toronto, 16-5 Lewis, Texas, 16-8 Eovaldi, New York, 14-3 Buehrle, Toronto, 14-7.
New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia
National League East Division W L Pct 84 65 .564 78 71 .523 64 86 .427 60 90 .400 56 94 .373
GB — 6 20 1/2 24 1/2 28 1/2
z-St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee
Central Division W L Pct 93 56 .624 89 60 .597 87 62 .584 63 85 .426 63 86 .423
GB — 4 6 29 1/2 30
West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 85 63 .574 San Francisco 78 71 .523 Arizona 71 78 .477 San Diego 70 80 .467 Colorado 63 86 .423 z-clinched playoff berth
GB — 7 1/2 14 1/2 16 22 1/2
Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 0 Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 4 Arizona 6, San Francisco 0 Washington 5, Miami 2 Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 7
Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:10 p.m.
Sunday’s Games Washington 13, Miami 3 Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco 5, Arizona 1 Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 10, Colorado 4 N.Y. Yankees 11, N.Y. Mets 2 Monday’s Games Baltimore (U.Jimenez 11-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 11-7), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (S.Miller 5-15) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-10), 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 5-9) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 8-6), 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 1-3) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 9-5), 6:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Burnett 8-5) at Colorado (J.Gray 0-1), 6:40 p.m. Arizona (Chacin 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 9-8), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Harper Was 142 484 116 166 .343 DGordon Mia 133 564 78 187 .332 Posey SF 140 514 71 168 .327 YEscobar Was 130 503 73 163 .324 Pollock Ari 144 558 101 178 .319 Goldschmidt Ari 146 524 91 165 .315 Votto Cin 145 498 92 156 .313 DPeralta Ari 139 438 58 136 .311 LeMahieu Col 140 524 79 161 .307 MDuffy SF 136 518 71 156 .301 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 41 Arenado, Colorado, 39 CaGonzalez, Colorado, 37 Frazier, Cincinnati, 35 Rizzo, Chicago, 30 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 28 Votto, Cincinnati, 28. Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 114 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 100 Kemp, San Diego, 98 Bryant, Chicago, 95 Harper, Washington, 95 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 95 Rizzo, Chicago, 95. Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 19-6 Greinke, Los Angeles, 18-3 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 18-8 GCole, Pittsburgh, 17-8 Wacha, St. Louis, 16-6 CMartinez, St. Louis, 14-7 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 14-7.
Football Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal
GP 12 11 11 11
CFL East Division W L T 8 4 0 7 4 0 6 5 0 5 6 0
West Division GP W L T Calgary 12 9 3 0 Edmonton 12 8 4 0 B.C. 11 4 7 0 Winnipeg 12 4 8 0 Saskatchewan 12 1 11 0
PF 410 254 277 242 PF 322 297 245 223 289
PA 246 286 322 210 PA 247 215 316 352 365
Pt 16 14 12 10 Pt 18 16 8 8 2
WEEK 13 Bye: Toronto Sunday’s result Montreal 35 Winnipeg 14 Saturday’s results Edmonton 25 Hamilton 18 Ottawa 30 Saskatchewan 27 Friday’s result Calgary 35 B.C. 23 WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Friday, Sept. 25 Calgary at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 B.C. at Edmonton, 4 p.m. Toronto at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27 Montreal at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m. National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 2 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 Miami 1 1 0 .500 Buffalo 1 1 0 .500
Jacksonville Tennessee Indianapolis Houston
W 1 1 0 0
L 1 1 1 2
T 0 0 0 0
Pct .500 .500 .000 .000
PF 32 56 14 37
PA 40 42 27 51
Cincinnati Cleveland Pittsburgh Baltimore
W 2 1 1 0
North L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0
Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .000
PF 57 38 64 46
PA 32 45 46 56
Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City
W 2 1 1 1
West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .500
PF 50 50 52 51
PA 37 66 52 51
PF 47 34 46 34
PA 36 27 51 46
NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Dallas 2 0 0 1.000 Washington 1 1 0 .500 N.Y. Giants 0 2 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000
PF 68 31 37 59
PA 53 10 33 54
South
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Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1 Colorado 10, San Diego 2 Pittsburgh 3, L.A. Dodgers 2
Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Houston, 6:10 p.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.
Atlanta Carolina Tampa Bay New Orleans
W 2 2 1 0
South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
Pct 1.000 1.000 .500 .000
PF 50 44 40 38
PA 44 26 61 57
Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago
W 2 1 0 0
North L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0
Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000
PF 58 29 44 46
PA 40 36 59 79
Arizona St. Louis
W 2 1
West L T 0 0 1 0
Pct 1.000 .500
PF 79 44
PA 42 55
San Francisco Seattle
1 0
1 2
0 0
.500 .000
38 48
46 61
Thursday’s Game Denver 31, Kansas City 24 Sunday’s Games Tampa Bay 26, New Orleans 19 Minnesota 26, Detroit 16 Arizona 48, Chicago 23 Carolina 24, Houston 17 Pittsburgh 43, San Francisco 18 New England 40, Buffalo 32 Cincinnati 24, San Diego 19 Cleveland 28, Tennessee 14 Atlanta 24, N.Y. Giants 20 Washington 24, St. Louis 10 Oakland 37, Baltimore 33 Jacksonville 23, Miami 20 Dallas 20, Philadelphia 10 Green Bay 27, Seattle 17 Monday’s Game N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sep. 24 Washington at N.Y. Giants, 6:25 p.m. Sunday, Sep. 27 Atlanta at Dallas, 11 a.m. Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m. Tampa Bay at Houston, 11 a.m. San Diego at Minnesota, 11 a.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 11 a.m. Oakland at Cleveland, 11 a.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m. Jacksonville at New England, 11 a.m. New Orleans at Carolina, 11 a.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 2:05 p.m. Chicago at Seattle, 2:25 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 2:25 p.m. Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sep. 28 Kansas City at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.
Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts x-New York 14 8 6 48 Columbus 13 9 8 47 New England 13 10 7 46 D.C. United 13 11 6 45 Toronto FC 12 13 4 40 Montreal 10 11 6 36 Orlando City 9 13 8 35 New York City FC 9 14 7 34 Philadelphia 9 15 6 33 Chicago 7 16 6 27
GF 49 49 43 37 49 38 37 44 38 36
GA 32 49 41 37 50 38 51 50 47 46
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 15 11 3 48 40 31 FC Dallas 14 9 5 47 41 34 Los Angeles 13 9 8 47 49 36 Seattle 14 13 3 45 38 32 Sporting KC 12 8 8 44 44 39 Portland 11 10 8 41 29 34 San Jose 11 12 7 40 37 36 Real Salt Lake 10 11 8 38 35 41 Houston 9 12 8 35 36 39 Colorado 8 11 10 34 27 33 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth Saturday’s Games Toronto FC 3, Colorado 1 New York City FC 3, San Jose 2 Seattle 3, Vancouver 0 Columbus 2, D.C. United 1 Montreal 3, New England 0 Orlando City 1, Chicago 0 Real Salt Lake 3, Los Angeles 0
Sunday’s Games New York 2, Portland 0 Philadelphia 2, Houston 0 Wednesday, Sept. 23 Chicago at Montreal, 6 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Houston, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25 Orlando City at New York, 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 Chicago at Toronto FC, noon D.C. United at Montreal, 3 p.m. Philadelphia at New England, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Houston, 6:30 p.m. New York City FC at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27 Seattle at Sporting Kansas City, 3 p.m. Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 5 p.m. FC Dallas at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Manchester City 6 5 0 1 12 2 15 Man. United 6 4 1 1 9 5 13 West Ham 6 4 0 2 13 7 12 Leicester City 6 3 3 0 13 9 12 Arsenal 6 3 1 2 5 5 10 Everton 6 2 3 1 8 5 9 Swansea 6 2 3 1 7 5 9 Crystal Palace 6 3 0 3 8 7 9 Tottenham 6 2 3 1 5 4 9 Watford 6 2 3 1 5 5 9 Norwich 6 2 2 2 9 10 8 West Brom 6 2 2 2 4 6 8
Liverpool Bournemouth Chelsea Southampton Aston Villa Stoke Newcastle Sunderland
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0
2 1 1 3 1 3 2 2
2 3 3 2 4 3 4 4
4 8 9 7 6 5 3 6
7 9 12 8 9 9 9 13
8 7 7 6 4 3 2 2
Saturday, Sept. 19 Chelsea 2, Arsenal 0 Aston Villa 0, West Brom 1 Bournemouth 2, Sunderland 0 Newcastle 1, Watford 2 Stoke 2, Leicester City 2 Swansea 0, Everton 0 Manchester City 1, West Ham 2 Sunday, Sept. 20 Tottenham 1, Crystal Palace 0 Liverpool 1, Norwich 1 Southampton 2, Manchester United 3 Saturday, Sept. 26 Tottenham vs. Manchester City, 1145 GMT Leicester City vs. Arsenal, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Norwich, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. Chelsea, 1630 GMT Sunday, Sept. 27 Watford vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Monday, Sept. 28 West Brom vs. Everton, 1900 GMT
Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Michael Mariot from Omaha (PCL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Selected the contract of C Bryan Anderson from Nashville (PCL). Transferred RHP Kendall Graveman to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled OF Leonys Martin from Round Rock (PCL). FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS -- Released TE Joseph Fauria. Signed RB Kerwynn Williams from the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS -- Waived DB Demontre Hurst. Signed DL Brandon Dunn from the practice squad. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS -- Released WR Bryan
Walters. Signed CB Peyton Thompson from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released WR Damiere Byrd from the practice squad. Signed OT Pierce Burton to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Waived WR Jonathan Krause. Terminated DB Dax Swanson and DT Jimmy Staten from the practice squad. Signed G Chris Barber and DT Khyri Thornton to the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Terminated DE Brian Mihalik from the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS — Terminated WR Deon Long from the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Kyle Capobianco to Sudbury (OHL), RW Conor Carland to Moncton (QMJHL), G Adin Hill to Portland (WHL)
JUNIOR B HOCKEY The Ponoka Stampeders opened their Heritage Junior B Hockey League regular season Saturday with a 7-2 home-ice loss to the Banff Academy Bears. Braeden Grant and Brendan Scott scored for the Stamps, who outshot their guests 44-37 but were short-handed on 16 occasions and gave up three power-play goals. The hosts were two-foreight with a man advantage. Goaltender Adas Pietraskik was the man of the hour for the Bears, turning aside 42 shots. Ponoka goalies Austin Steele and Zeke Leuck combined to make 30 saves. In exhibition play, the Red Deer Vipers
and RW Nick Merkley to Kelowna (WHL). Released RW Joey Crabb, LW Maxwell James and C Austyn Playfair. EDMONTON OILERS — Signed D Oscar Klefbom to a seven-year contract extension. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Released G Brandon Hope. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Assigned D Jack Dougherty to Portland (WHL) and G Evan Smith to Victoria (WHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Named Eric Weinrich development coach. SOCCER Major League Soccer CHICAGO FIRE — Fired director of soccer and coach Frank Yallop. Promoted technical director Brian Bliss to interim head coach. Named Nelson Rodriguez general manager and Logan Pause interim assistant coach.
downed the Blackfalds Wranglers 4-1 Saturday at the Arena. Elsewhere, the Three Hills Thrashers dropped a 5-2 decision to the host Cochrane Generals. On Sunday, the visiting Vegreville Rangers beat the Stettler Lightning 7-6 in overtime. The Vipers are in Blackfalds for another preseason game Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. then open their regular season Friday versus the host Okotoks Bisons. The Vipers are at home Saturday against the Three Hills Thrashers. Game time is 8 p.m. at the Arena. Meanwhile, the Wranglers kick off their regular season Sunday at 3:30 p.m. against the Airdrie Thunder.
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Exploring sport Three time Olympian Zina Kocher helps Natalie Julien, 7, learn to shoot a biathalon rifle. The biathalon shooting was one of the more popular activities for kids to try as part of XPlore Sport Day.
Story and photos by ASHLI BARRETT/ Advocate satff Red Deerians had their chance to explore almost every sport played in the community Saturday as the Collicutt Centre played host to XPlore Sport Day. The free event, which is held annually during the third weekend of September, saw 23 different sports clubs and organizations set up booths and interactive demonstrations on the centre’s Main Street, as well as in the field houses and the ball diamonds outside. Local athletes, including three-time Olympian and bi-
athalete Zina Kocher, were on hand to talk to about the various sports, and run the demonstrations. Kids were invited to lace up their skates and weave through pylons as part of Skate Canada’s CanSkate demonstration, bust moves with Dance Magic, or hop on a broom and try their hand at Quidditch. Pickleball, ringette, soccer, cricket, dance, and gymnastics were also represented with interactive demonstrations. Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart program was also on site, barbecuing burgers and hot dogs in support of the program which has helped 1, 007, 727 kids across Canada get involved in sports.
Darcy DeForest, 12, tests how high he can jump with the Vertec during the Alberta Sport Development Centre’s demonstration at the Collicutt Centre’s east field.
TOP RIGHT; Children try their hand at skating drills during the Skate Canada’s CanSkate interactive demonstration Saturday afternoon. MIDDLE RIGHT; Tannis Kaun of Dance Magic teaches a dance routine to Morgan, Gavin and Sarah Coward, as well as Rudy Soffo (left to right). RIGHT; Pat Moore tries her hand at shooting a biathalon rifle during XPlore Sport Day. Kids and adults of all ages were invited to try a number of sports throughout the day. BELOW RIGHT; Tim and Joanne Sikma of Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart program serve up burgers and hot dogs outside the Collicutt Centre as part of the XPlore Sport Day activities. All proceeds from the barbecue went towards the Jumpstart program, which helps kids get involved with sports by providing equipment and other sport-related costs. About 1, 008,727 children across Canada have been helped by the program. BELOW LEFT; Brooklynn Paish looks to score a goal at the Red Deer City Soccer Association booth.
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Boon or bust? EUROPE’S AGING ECONOMIES STAND TO GAIN LONG-TERM FROM WAVE OF ARRIVALS BUT MANY STILL RESIST BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — The greatest influx of people into Europe in decades is not just a humanitarian emergency, but also a potential stroke of luck for many countries facing the economic threat of an aging population. A plunge in birth rates means there will be a dearth of European workers in coming years to support the growing number of retirees. So the arrival of thousands of young — and often well-educated — potential workers stands to boost the long-term economic prospects of the region. The key is how well they are integrated and how many jobs European countries can offer. Germany, among the most vocal in welcoming refugees, is also conveniently the country that stands to gain most quickly, as it has a strong labour market with lots of vacancies. By contrast, weaker economies like Greece and Italy will take years, even decades, to see positive effects as they struggle to create jobs — though they too face the threat of a demographic time bomb. “Let us not forget, we are an aging continent in demographic decline,” the president of the European Union Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said last month in a speech. “We will be needing talent.” Before the influx of people began this year, the German statistics office said it expected the country’s population, now 80.8 million, to shrink by a tenth or more by 2060. Germany forecasts its workforce will drop by 6 million in the next 15 years. Welcoming an estimated 800,000 people from Syria, Iraq and other countries this year will cost Germany about 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year in welfare support and language training. But such upfront costs may be recouped through higher economic growth. Andreas Rees, economist at UniCredit bank, estimates that the flood of new arrivals over the next few years could grow Germany’s economy by an extra 1.7 per cent by 2020. Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, whose German company makes Mercedes-Benz cars and trucks, made the case this week: “To take into Germany more than 800,000 people who need our help is without a doubt a Hercu-
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Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sunday. lean task, but in the best case, it can also be the basis for the next German economic miracle.” Sweden, which last year received 80,000 asylum seekers, second highest in the EU behind Germany, also views the newcomers as a net gain, though up-front costs may be stiff. “Because we have an aging population,” Kristina Persson, minister for Nordic co-operation, said, “we have to replace those who leave the labour market.” That may not be so easy in other countries. Greece, which is the first EU country of arrival for many people travelling from the Middle East, has an unemployment rate near 25 per cent, with about half of young people out of work. It is expected to take a generation to turn the economy around. And the new arrivals know it, preferring to move on to try to reach Germany and the richer countries of Northern Europe. Ironically, some of the countries in Europe that are most threatened by
a drop in birth rates are working the hardest to keep newcomers out. Hungary is one such case. It is sealing its borders with barbed wire and firing tear gas and water cannons to keep migrants away. In Poland, a shift to smaller-size families years ago means fewer workers now support each retiree, a trend expected to worsen dramatically over the next two decades. So far, Poland has agreed to accept 2,000 refugees. It is considering increasing the number slightly, but has rejected an EU request that it take 12,000. And the Czech government has barely cracked its door open, allowing in just 1,500 migrants, despite a demographic drag on its own economy. In 25 years, the country is expected to go from having four people of working age supporting each person 65 or older, down to two. Overall, the politics of welcoming refugees and other migrants is influenced more by cultural and political factors than economic ones — even in
Germany. Germany’s economy could benefit from an even greater increase in immigration, experts say, but the government is hesitant. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that foreigners fleeing war or persecution are welcome, but those who have come solely for economic reasons, “must leave our country.” Some states, including Poland, are worried not only about the immediate costs of welcoming refugees, but are also mindful of popular fears that foreign-born Muslims might not easily blend into society or that terrorists could lurk among them. A migration expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Jean-Christophe Dumont, said that it’s costlier up front to integrate refugees than other categories of immigrants, because they often need language and vocational training as well as treatment for physical injuries or psychological trauma. However, refugees, if well integrated, ultimately have a positive impact on the economy, Dumont said. One Australian study found that within 15 years, humanitarian migrants contribute more to their new country of residence than they cost it in benefits. Ulrich Grillo, head of the Federation of German Industries, has said the German government needs to ensure the refugees now arriving are quickly permitted to work. Already, some companies have indicated their willingness to take on some of the newcomers, with Siemens and Deutsche Telekom offering a small number of paid internships. McDonald’s Germany has said it would help the government provide 20,000 online language courses for asylum-seekers. Zetsche, Daimler’s CEO, has been among the most bullish about the migrants’ positive impact, saying at the Frankfurt auto show this week that anyone who has managed to surmount the obstacles to make it to Germany from the Middle East or Africa has obviously got what it takes to work for him. “I believe anybody who leaves their life completely behind will be highly motivated to learn and work here, and to build a new life,” said Zetsche. “We are looking for exactly this type of person at Mercedes, and everywhere in our country.”
Use of medical marijuana Study touts free, informed consent as key at work poses challenges for employers: experts to resource development BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
FIRST NATIONS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Resource companies, financial institutions, First Nations and conservation groups have issued a new report that stresses the critical importance of getting the green light from indigenous communities before development can go ahead. The study by the Boreal Leadership Council lays out principles for establishing free, prior and informed consent to resource projects, which it says is not only a legal imperative in Canada but also benefits both the affected communities and the companies involved. Robert Walker of NEI Investments, who is a member of the Boreal Leadership Council, says full engagement with First Nations before a project begins can give resource companies certainty and helps assure long-term benefits for First Nations. The 23-page report notes that free, prior and informed consent cannot be obtained by force, coercion, intimidation, manipulation or pressure from the government or company seeking project approval. It also says consent cannot exist when a community does not have an option to meaningfully say no. “Free, prior, and informed consent — the right of indigenous peoples to offer or withhold consent to development that may have an impact on their territories or resources — is the key to development, not a barrier,” Walker said in a release accompanying the report’s release. The report arrives in the middle of a federal election campaign in which opposition parties have accused Stephen Harper’s pro-development Conservatives of actually hampering oil and gas infrastructure projects in their over-eagerness to boost the resource sector. “That sector needs a government that is on its side. We want to see this sector grow and develop,” said Harper last week during a leaders’ debate on the economy in Calgary. “The public is not onside,” shot back NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. “He thought he was helping the energy companies by destroying that (environ-
mental) legislation. He’s actually made their lives tougher.” The Boreal Leadership Council study doesn’t wade into such partisan territory, but nonetheless suggests more could be done by government to smooth the relationship between resource developers and indigenous communities. It notes that most Canadian environmental assessment and regulatory bodies “are not empowered to determine whether consent has been granted or whether consultation has been adequate.” And it cites at length from last year’s “Report of the Special (UN) Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” which criticized the Canadian government for claiming the duty to consult First Nations could be met through existing processes and regulatory bodies. The message, coming from a group that includes financiers and resource industry representatives, may have fresh impact, but it’s not new. Doug Eyford, appointed by Harper as his special envoy on West Coast energy issues, reported in 2013 that engagement with aboriginal groups was critical. “It’s never too late to engage and do so in a process of good faith negotiations,” Eyford said in December 2013. Whether the message got through is another matter. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the Harper government used a two-year, $4.5 million “Outreach Fund” to pay for projects in 2014 that included addressing “knowledge gaps among British Columbia First Nations communities related to energy and energy infrastructure for the purpose of increasing energy literacy.” The Natural Resources Canada documents make only passing mention of community engagement. “Projects (under the Outreach Fund) are measured against the objectives of: protecting access to markets for Canadian energy and mining sectors targeting key stakeholders promoting Canada as an environmentally responsible developer of natural resources and addressing persistent misinformation …. A number of projects relate to First Nations West Coast market access and meet the criteria for the program,” said the memorandum to the minister, dated June 4, 2014.
TORONTO — As medical marijuana gains traction as a treatment option for a host of conditions including chronic pain and other conditions, Canadian employers could find themselves grappling with a sticky issue. “Individuals have the right to equal treatment … without discrimination on the grounds of disability,” says Jan Robinson, managing principal at human resources firm Morneau Shepell. “Medical cannabis now needs to be viewed like every other doctor-prescribed drug.” But although employers have a duty to accommodate workers’ medical conditions, experts say that duty must be balanced with the need to keep the workplace safe. That can be challenging, especially if employees perform duties such as operating machinery. “There’s no hard or fast rule to this,” says Natalie MacDonald, an employment lawyer and the co-founder of Rudner MacDonald LLP. “It’s got to be determined on a caseby-case basis — as most things in employment law do.” Experts says the duty to accommodate comes with an important caveat — it must not result in undue hardship for the employer. While there is no strict definition of what constitutes undue hardship, MacDonald says the courts will consider a number of factors including how much financial difficulty the company would endure and whether accommodating the employee would compromise workplace safety. “A small organization that has to incur serious financial hardship as a result of trying to accommodate an employee may cross the test of undue hardship,” MacDonald said. A recent decision issued by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal illustrates some of the limits that apply to the employer’s responsibility to accommodate workers’ needs. The Tribunal ruled in July that B.C.based Selkin Logging did not violate John French’s human rights by refusing to allow the logging contractor to use marijuana while on the job. The company, which has a “zero tolerance” policy on marijuana use, had argued that it did not discriminate against French based on his use of cannabis to handle the symptoms
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Medical marijuana clone plants are shown at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif.,. As medical marijuana gains traction as a treatment option employers could find themselves grappling with a sticky issue. of cancer, but rather was concerned about safety. In addition, French was not authorized by Health Canada to possess medical marijuana, although he claimed he was using the drug to ease cancer-related pain as per his doctors’ recommendations, according to court documents. MacDonald says that if French had proper medical documentation, the outcome of the case may have been different. However, safety concerns still need to be taken into account, she adds. One alternative way to accommodate a worker’s needs would be to provide the worker with a leave of absence until the medical issue is resolved, MacDonald said. “In some cases, it may be that the employee needs to be provided with alternative forms of work that don’t attract any particular safety concerns,” MacDonald said. As cannabis becomes a more popular treatment choice — Health Canada has estimated there could be nearly half a million users by 2024 — the issue is likely to start cropping up at workplaces across the country. “We are starting to recognize that this trend will commence very shortly across Canada,” said Robinson, noting that Morneau Shepell has been advising its clients to review their existing drug and alcohol policies to ensure they are adequate.
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Growing popularity of laneway homes raises questions about insurance BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Soaring real estate costs are pushing some Canadian cities to embrace laneway housing, touted as the future of affordable living in urban centres. But as the properties become more popular and balloon in value, questions are beginning to arise about whether current insurance practices are sufficient. Home insurer Square One Insurance says it has been fielding so many recent calls about laneway homes — most of them in Vancouver — that it’s started offering a separate product created specifically for the structures. Daniel Mirkovic, the company’s president and chief executive, says in the past, laneway homes or coach houses were often $50,000 conversions of detached parking garages created by homeowners to house their adult children. “Now, because of the high price of real estate, the whole concept of laneway housing has changed,” Mirkovic said. “When you’re looking at a laneway home that the owners have invested $200,000 or $300,000 dollars to build, that’s a very significant investment.” Converting a back alley parking garage into a residential structure is one way for homeowners to offset the cost of pricey real estate by generating rental income. However, not all Canadian cities allow for laneway homes to be built. Vancouver is a notable exception. The city has issued over 1,000 permits for laneway homes since 2009. In Calgary, city officials are launching a pilot project that will allow laneway homes to be developed along one of the city’s streets. As square footage in Canada’s hottest real estate markets becomes pricier and developers look for new ways to squeeze housing into tight spaces, laneway homes are likely to grow in popularity. That could force insurers to rethink their policies. Currently, most insurance companies — including Aviva Canada, Intact Financial and TD Insurance — cover laneway homes under the same policy as the main property and don’t offer
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a separate insurance policy for the structures. Mirkovic says that could be problematic in certain circumstances — for example, if a natural disaster occurs that affects both the main structure and the laneway home. In the aftermath of such incidents, building replacement costs may soar due to a phenomenon referred to as “post-event inflation.” In that situation, Mirkovic says, “the demand to build new homes or rebuild homes has gone up dramatically because there are thousands of people who need to rebuild their homes, and the supply is low. There’s only a certain amount of building supplies readily available only a certain amount of contractors who can build homes.” A home that cost $300,000 to build could cost $500,000 to rebuild. Typically, the insurance policy would cover the difference — but in the case of a laneway home, it might not, Mirkovic says. “If you’re insuring something as a detached structure you only get coverage up to the limit specified, which might be up to $300,000, but if it actually costs $400,000, you’re out of pocket for the extra,” Mirkovic said. There could be drawbacks, however, such as two deductibles instead of one. In some instances, premiums may be higher as well, Mirkovic said. Mike Shepel recently opted for Square One’s laneway housing package to insure a rental property he purchased in Vancouver. Knowing that replacement costs are guaranteed to be covered in the event of a disaster such as an earthquake provides him with security, Shepel said. The physician said he plans to use the same product to insure his second rental property — another laneway home — as well. “They’re really cute little places,” Shepel said. “It’s a unique way to get more homes into the community … It really does feel like a small, little comfy cottage, where you feel more independent.”
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Statcan-o-rama: The federal agency has a slew of releases this week, including wholesale trade figures for July on Monday, retail trade figures for the same month on Wednesday followed by payroll employment, earnings and hours figures on Thursday. All of the data serves to paint a picture of the state of Canada’s economy, which is showing recent signs of sputtering back to life. Poloz pronounces: The Bank of Canada governor is in Calgary on Monday at an economic development event. He’ll deliver a speech on energy and the economy in Canada’s hard-hit oil-
patch. French faceoff: A French-language debate among the federal party leaders is being held Thursday in Montreal, where, once again, the economy will be a key area of verbal combat. Innovation assessment: The Conference Board of Canada releases a report on Friday entitled “An Innovation Report Card for the Provinces.” The study compares the innovation performances of individual provinces with that of 16 advanced peer countries. Blackberry battles: The struggling Canadian smartphone-maker reports it second-quarter results on Friday. John Chen, the company’s CEO, said recently that attracting and retaining good talent is difficult when a company is trying to turn itself around and restore some of its former glory.
South Korea-backed child monitoring app was wide open to hackers BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Security researchers say they found critical weaknesses in a South Korean government-mandated child surveillance app — vulnerabilities that left the private lives of the country’s youngest citizens open to hackers. In separate reports released Sunday, Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab and German software auditing company Cure53 said they found a catalogue of worrying problems with “Smart Sheriff,” the most popular of more than a dozen child monitoring programs South Korea requires for new smartphones sold to minors. “There was literally no security at all,” Cure53 director Mario Heiderich said. “We’ve never seen anything that fundamentally broken.” Smart Sheriff and its fellow surveillance apps are meant to serve as electronic baby sitters, letting parents know how much time their children are spending with their phones, keeping kids off objectionable websites and even alerting parents if their children send or receive messages with words like “bully” or “pregnancy.” In April, Seoul required new smartphones sold to those 18 and under to be equipped with such software — a first-of-its-kind move, according to Korea University law professor Park Kyung-sin. The Korean Communications Commission has promoted Smart Sheriff and schools have sent out letters to parents encouraging them to download the app. Sometime afterward, Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Cure53, acting on a request from the Washington-based Open Technology Fund, began sifting through Smart Sheriff’s code. What they found was “really, really bad,” Heiderich said. Children’s phone numbers, birth dates, web browsing history and other
personal data were being sent across the Internet unencrypted, making them easy to intercept. Authentication weaknesses meant Smart Sheriff could easily be hijacked, turned off or tricked into sending bogus alerts to parents. Even worse, they found that many weaknesses could be exploited at scale, meaning that thousands — or even all — of the app’s 380,000 users could be compromised at once. “Smart Sheriff is the kind of baby sitter that leaves the doors unlocked and throws a party where everyone is invited,” said Collin Anderson, an independent researcher who collaborated with Citizen Lab on its report. Citizen Lab said it alerted MOIBA, the association of South Korean mobile operators that developed and operated the app, to the problems on Aug. 3. When contacted Friday, MOIBA said the vulnerabilities had been fixed. “As soon as we received the email in August, we immediately took action,” said Noh Yong-lae, a manager in charge of the Smart Sheriff app. The researchers were skeptical. “We suspect that very little of these measures taken actually remedy issues that we’ve flagged in the report,” Anderson said, adding that he believed at least one of MOIBA’s fixes had opened a new weakness in the program. Independent experts also weren’t impressed with Smart Sheriff. Ryu Jong-myeong, chief executive of security firm SoTIS, said the app did now appear to be encrypting its transmissions. But he was scathing about some of the other failures uncovered by Citizen Lab, giving the Smart Sheriff’s server infrastructure a security rating of zero out of 10. “People who made Smart Sheriff cared nothing about protecting private data,” he said. Kwon Seok-chul, chief executive of computer security firm Cuvepia Inc., said the lingering weaknesses meant children’s data was still at risk.
The CEO of Volkswagen apologized Sunday and VW customers said they felt duped after the Environmental Protection Agency revealed that the German automaker skirted clean air rules by rigging emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars. “I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public,” Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn said in a statement. He said VW has ordered an investigation and promised that the company would co-operate with regulators. The EPA said Friday that VW used software that allowed its diesel cars to release fewer smog-causing pollutants during tests than in real-world driving conditions.
A northern British Columbia First Nation says it is seeking aboriginal title to the land where a Malaysia-led consortium hopes to build a $36-billion liquefied natural gas terminal. The Lax Kw’alaams First Nation says it will launch an action claiming title to Lelu Island and Flora Bank, where the Pacific NorthWest LNG project would be built. The nation says if it successfully establishes title, the province would have to seek its consent for massive projects like the one spearheaded by Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas. Mayor Garry Reece says the Lax Kw’alaams are open to development including the Pacific NorthWest project, but only if an alternate site is found to avoid Flora Bank. The nation says the area is a critical fisheries habitat located in the estuary of the Skeena River and it is concerned that construction would irreparably harm salmon stocks. Earlier this spring, Lax Kw’alaams members overwhelmingly rejected a $1.15-billion package GREAT from the company and province
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How I learned to live with cancer BY WHITNEY ARCHER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The last time someone reminded me I have cancer was at a funeral. A woman I barely knew walked up to me, arms open wide. “Whitney, you look so good!” she said, fawning over me and assuring me that I was on her church’s prayer chain. I stood there, blinking and drawing a blank. What was she talking about? Then I remembered: Oh yeah, I have brain cancer. I carry a malignant tumor around everywhere I go. I’m 31 years old and have had brain cancer for five years. The doctors say I might live two years or 18. They have no idea. It’s entirely possible I will die of something else before my tumor kills me. Maybe. As medical advances and oncological therapies continue to progress, more cancer patients are living longer, even somewhat normal lives. More people are discovering that their diagnoses may not lead to an eventual cure or a death sentence, but an unknown future for their lives and their diseases. We’re on a third path: We have cancer, but we’re mostly okay. For us, cancer begins with a traumatizing diagnosis but eventually becomes a regular part of life, with the occasional MRI squeezed in between kids’ birthday parties and dental appointments. And soon we realize that, not unlike asthma or diabetes, cancer can be a chronic condition. As time passes, a slow-learned truth begins to reveal itself: It is possible to live and die at the same time. I sit in the MRI waiting room next to a woman in a wheelchair. Her torso and arms are covered in a black, fuzzy blanket. She stirs when her husband gives her over-the-counter pain medication, and I catch a glimpse of her limbs: bird-like, with sagging skin. Her slim knit turban overstates the obvious. She’s a cancer patient. We’re both here for the same reason: to see if we are losing the so-called fight. I know from the wornout hospital bag, the refusal to take off her metallic earrings until the last second, the bleariness, that her story has more treatments, more suffering. I forget that I’m a member of this club. Despite the cancerous tumor, called an astrocytoma, in my brain, I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been. I have no visible scars, no baldness. I weigh 15 pounds too much. I go to work, save money, chase my red-headed son. I eat too much junk food and do penance with organic salad. But every four months, my butt is in that MRI waiting room, surrounded by people who are dying. It was a fluke, a mistake that they found the tumor at all. An over-the-counter medication for vertigo would have stopped my headaches, but an overly cautious doctor saved my life. The tumor was partially removed, but 60 percent of it remains. It just sits there, divided, on my brain stem, causing no headaches or seizures but forcing a new life on my family. Today I’m a cancer patient again, heading back to Exam Room No. 2. A cute technician (normally, I would appreciate this detail, but when he’s staring at my brain tumor for an hour, it’s slightly awkward) hands me earplugs and industrial woodshop-style headphones. He lowers a metal cage over my head and inserts foam wedges in any leftover spaces. “Don’t move,” the technician chirps as he hands me a panic button. Then the barrage of sounds begins. It goes like this: A crazy person forces me into a plastic barrel, which is then shoved into a metal one. Then, an army of lightsaber-bearing toddlers attacks. Zing! Next, a horde of crazed bees stings in perfect synchronization. Zap! Zap! The whole thing is sent down a waterfall, then surprised by a rib-jarring bear attack. The world’s biggest spring is bounced off the top, over and over. Boing! This goes on for an hour. Just as I’m about to scream, there is silence. Despite the actual test, I enjoy MRI weeks. They mean a day off work for me and my husband. We drop Nate off at school and brave rush-hour traffic to drive north to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Breakfast in hand, we happily chat in the car, not
about work and not about doctors. How many times have we done this? Fifteen? Twenty? “It’ll be fine, right?” I ask. He assures me that yes, this scan too will be good. It always is. The second a doctor walks into the exam room, she shakes my hand and says, “Your scans are fine.” They always are. Cancer is as much a part of my life as the carpool line and grocery shopping; close friends are used to my casual references. They’ll even tease me about playing the tumor card for the last slice of pizza. But sometimes I forget that most people think of cancer as the last stop before imminent death. I’ll look up and notice everyone else standing there, shocked that I mentioned the C word over beers and chips. I’m a total hit at parties. While admiring some low-priced Swedish object at IKEA a couple of years ago, I turned to my friend. “Oh, I need that like I need a hole in my head,” I quipped. It took three seconds for us to realize how that line no longer applied. There we were, two grown women in the kids’ section, bent over in gusts of laughter and tears next to the LILLABOs and the DUKTIGs. After my surgery, I spent two years holding my breath, waiting for the next MRI to show growth, for me to sit on the crinkly-papered patient bed and listen to bad news. But it didn’t happen. And slowly, minutely, I began to live more and to realize that I felt, well, healthy. I have received no treatment other than surgery, and there were no complications. I have no side effects. There is only a scar underneath my hair. The doctors ask me if I have tremors or have lost any speech. No, I say, and go back to my reading. You’re not taking any medication, they marvel. I’m checking Instagram. Finally, the doctors sigh, “Go live your life.” Years of visits have taught me that they don’t say much. They can’t tell me how long I have, what treatments will work in the future, whether I will develop seizures. I have begged the nation’s best oncologists for information, details. But they all shake their heads. They don’t know. “Nobody knows the future,” one told me. Funny, that’s what my mother said. And that’s just it. Last year, one of my son’s firstgrade friends lost her father to terminal cancer. “Why do people get cancer?” he asked from the back seat of our Corolla. I waited, terrified, for him to connect that outcome and mine. But he never did. “Cancer makes people die,” he concluded, and I tried to explain that no, not always. Some of us live. It’s difficult for some people to understand that I’m not cured and I’m not dying. Like my son, many seem to have a binary understanding of this universally feared disease - either you’re cancer-free, or you’re Stage 4 and at death’s door. If cancer has taught me anything, it’s that how we talk about something informs how we see it. Susan Sontag famously wrote in 1978 about how military terminology is used, wrongly, to discuss illness. With increased survival rates since her own diagnosis, and more people simply living with cancer rather than “battling” it, the metaphor is even less helpful. But the vocabulary persists: Cancer is an invasion; patients wage war against an army of rapidly multiplying cells. The words don’t square with my experience. How am I a conqueror if I’m both sick and healthy? How can I stop an invasion when my disease isn’t on the attack but lying in wait? And if cancer devours my mind, is it because I was a poor general? After my diagnosis, the only metaphor that made any sense was dual citizenship: belonging to both the world of the hale and hearty and the land of death and despair. I may not be fighting for each new day, each new breath, but I’m something of an expatriate from my former life. You could say that I was shanghaied
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Whitney Archer, left, has a brain tumor that she has been living with for five years. She is shown on September 16 with her son, Nate, in Gainesville, Virginia. from health five years ago in a cold hospital room in Manassas, Va. Those of us who have been transported step back and forth, with different degrees of agility, between this world and that of illness, while we strive for a regular life. I nearly lost the chance to watch my son learn to read, to go to work five days a week, to paint my bedroom Dew Drop. I revel in normalcy. I haven’t conquered a damn thing. But being a cancer patient means inevitable loss. I’m more impatient than ever. My son mentioned me being a grandma, and I realized that I don’t picture myself growing old anymore. My timeline has inexorably shrunk to the next MRI and, if I’m being optimistic, next year. Despite my present health, the future holds both hope and terror. The night before an MRI, I usually find myself in my holey pajamas, crying over work, over something stupid. What’s going on, I wail to my husband. Why do I just want to eat junk food? What kind of mother am I? He reminds me that I am allowed to grieve again and again, that if I feel down for three 48-hour periods every year and that’s as bad as it gets, I’m one of the luckiest ones. He buys me chocolate and pizza. My son begs for a sibling, but for now, I can’t offer an alternative other than stuffed animals and best friends. Medical research suggests, ever so slightly, that for someone with my medical history, a pregnancy could be fatal. I feel no guilt, no wavering in my decision. Still, there are nights when I watch my son sleep, snoring while classical music plays quietly. Those are the nights I wish I could watch other children sleeping beside him, watch my grandchildren decades from now, and be amazed at the stillness and silence. And standing there, in between the light of the hallway and the shadows of the bedroom, the sorrow comes back, sitting on my chest, and I can’t breathe. Archer is a writer and school librarian living in Gainesville, Virginia.
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Endometriosis conference in Saskatoon sheds light on mysterious disease BY THE CANADIAN PRESS When she was 13 years old, Laura Cone was put on birth control to help ease the intense pain she experienced during menstruation. It took eight years for her to find out why it wouldn’t go away. Cone, 30, was finally diagnosed with endometriosis when she was 21 years old. But the nightmare didn’t end there, she said. In the following years she struggled to get the help she needed to treat a pelvic-pain condition that had festered in her body for so long. “It’s more common than heart disease and diabetes, yet most people don’t know about it,� Cone said. The Saskatoon woman is co-organizing the province’s first endometriosis conference on Saturday at Royal University Hospital. Guests include a psychologist, yoga therapist and disability lawyer as well as a specialist from a pelvic-pain centre in B.C. as the keynote speaker. Statistics show that around one in 10 women have the condition, which occurs when the lining of the uterus escapes the uterus and latches onto tissue and organs in the pelvic area and beyond. It often causes severe menstrual pain and pelvic inflammation in patients sometimes the bloating is so extreme it can resemble a pregnancy, Cone said. However, many women suffering with endometriosis struggle to become pregnant. But it can go overlooked because of the vagueness of its symptoms, taking an average of 10 years to diagnose. As a result, endometriosis often gets misdiagnosed as other pelvic-related conditions, such as irritable bowl syndrome or pelvic inflammatory disease. That misdiagnosis — combined with a lack of information about the disease — can keep sufferers in a helpless and debilitating state, Cone said. She describes visiting doctor after doctor, explaining that something wasn’t right, and being made to feel like she was going crazy. “It gets to your head when somebody who society reveres says, ‘there is nothing wrong with you, it’s all in your head.’ “
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“BECAUSE OFTENTIMES MEDICAL STUDENTS, THEY’RE ONLY AS KNOWLEDGEABLE AS THEIR TEACHERS, AND TRADITIONALLY IN MEDICINE, WE’VE DONE A POOR JOB OF TEACHING NOT ONLY HOW TO MANAGE ACUTE PAIN, BUT HOW TO MANAGE CHRONIC PAIN.� DR. JOHN THIEL, SPECIALIST Cone said the condition is “extremely complex� because it can act so differently in every patient. She describes stories of people who live their entire lives not knowing their body was riddled with endometriosis, while others are bedridden due to one, small piece. But the cause of endometriosis remains a mystery, and there is no cure. Cone said one reason why it is so hard to diagnose is because a diagnosis requires surgery, which many doctors are reluctant to do. While some doctors will conduct a test screening, Cone said the tests alone won’t always catch the disease. “It can be microscopic. Just because it’s not found doesn’t mean that there isn’t a piece hiding behind your liver causing you grief,� she said. Cone hopes the conference will also provide doctors with more information about the disease. She said there are three endometriosis specialists in Saskatchewan: two in Regina and one in Saskatoon. But in order to reduce wait lists, she believes the province needs to train more specialists. Dr. John Thiel, one of Saskatchewan’s specialists, agrees doctors can always learn more when it comes to the disease. He said the conference also aims to help women find alternative ways to treating chronic pelvic-pain other than surgeries and medication. “Because oftentimes medical students, they’re only as knowledgeable as their teachers, and traditionally in medicine, we’ve done a poor job of teaching not only how to manage acute pain, but how to manage chronic pain.�
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Amy Schumer accepts the award for outstanding variety sketch series for Inside Amy Schumer at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Stars honoured at the Primetime Emmys vis and Taraji P. Henson, who could become the first non-white winner in the best drama series actress category. “So congratulations, Hollywood, you did it. Racism is over! Don’t fact-check that,” Samberg said. Game of Thrones, this year’s top nominee overall, could make a notable showing with a best drama victory: It would become the second fantasy or sci-fi show to get the award, following Lost in 2005. Its competition includes the final season of Mad Men, poised to set a record as the most honoured drama series ever with a fifth award. The cast hasn’t fared as well, never winning despite repeated nods. Making a last stand are star Hamm, whose portrayal of troubled ad man Don Draper has been nominated for
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LOS ANGELES — Jon Stewart is gone from The Daily Show but not forgotten by Emmy voters, who gave the late-night show the best variety talk series award Sunday over another host who’s moved on, Stephen Colbert. Stewart, who left the Daily Show earlier this year, warned the theatre audience that the perils of leaving TV include no applause or free food. “To everybody on television, I just want to tell you, cling to it as long as you can,” joked Stewart, who’s turning over Daily Show to Trevor Noah. Besides Colbert, who left his Comedy Central show to become host of CBS’ late-night show, the tough competition included another channel alum, John Oliver. Transparent emerged as an early winner at Sunday’s Emmy Awards, capturing a best comedy actor trophy for Jeffrey Tambor and a directing award for its creator, and giving both winners a chance to pay tribute to the show’s trangender themes. “I’d like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community. … Thanks for letting us be part of the change,” said Tambor, who plays a man journeying toward womanhood. Jill Soloway, who based the series on the life of her own “moppa,” as she calls her parent, used her directing trophy acceptance speech to ask for equal rights for transgender individuals. “It is legal in the majority of U.S. states to refuse to rent to trans people,” she said, saying the country has a civil rights problem that must be addressed. Emmys voters didn’t give up their fondness for choosing the familiar over the groundbreaking. Past winners won again, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, honoured as best lead comedy actress for “Veep” for the fourth time. Allison Janney of “Mom” and Tony Hale of “Veep” were repeat winners for supporting comedy acting honours.
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BRILZ Garry Wayne May 23, 1945 ~ Sept. 15, 2015 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our father, grandfather and friend, Garry Brilz, on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at the age of 70 years. Garry will be lovingly remembered by his children, Charlene (Barry) and son Zachary; Sheila (Norm) and their children Jenaya and Michael; Scott (Bernice) and their son Kyle, and numerous relatives and friends. Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church (5113-49 Ave, Wetaskiwin, AB) In lieu of flowers, donations in Garry’s memory may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 10985 124 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H9. SERENITY FUNERAL SERVICE, Wetaskiwin (780) 352-5300
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BLADES Linda Marlene It is with deep sadness that Linda’s family announce her passing on Monday, September 14, 2015 at the age of 67 years. She leaves to mourn her beloved son, Christopher (Tanya) Robert of Golden, BC, cherished granddaughter, Kassandra of Red Deer, brother, Harlan (Maureen) House of Lonsdale, ON, sister, Glenda (Ron) Deziel of Gadsby, AB, as well as a nephew and many aunts and cousins. Linda loved her work as a teacher at Red Deer College where she was a Legal Assistant Instructor for over 25 years. She was very proud of her students and their accomplishments. Linda’s family would like to convey a special thank you to Dr. Hopfner and all the doctors, nurses and staff at the Red Deer Hospital throughout her lengthy illness. Your love, kindness and care for Linda made this long journey easier for all of us. We truly appreciate all you have done. A Celebration of Linda’s Life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, AB on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Interment at Archmount Cemetery in Lethbridge, AB will follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Linda’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913 50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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BERLIN — Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would significantly increase the number of worldwide migrants it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged. The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and that total would rise to 100,000 in 2017, Kerry said at news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after they discussed the mass migration of Syrians fleeing their civil war. Many, though not all, of the additional refugees would be Syrian, American officials have said. Others would come from strife-torn areas of Africa. The White House had previously announced it intended to take in 10,000 additional Syrian refugees over the next year. Asked why the U.S. couldn’t take more, Kerry cited post-Sept. 11 screening requirements and a lack of money made available by Congress. “We’re doing what we know we can manage immediately,” he said, adding that the U.S. cannot take shortcuts on security checks. U.S. lawmakers immediately expressed concerns about the potential influx. The Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations “have made it abundantly clear that they will use the refugee crisis to try to enter the United States. Now the Obama administration wants to bring in an additional 10,000 Syrians without a concrete and foolproof plan to ensure that terrorists won’t be able to enter the country,” said U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. “The administration has essentially given the American people a ‘trust me.’ That isn’t good enough,” according to a statement from the lawmakers, who head the congressional judiciary committees. Conditions in Syria have been growing increasingly dire as the civil war grinds on. As many as 9 million people have been displaced, including more than 4 million who have fled the country, according to the United Nations. A letter made public last week and signed by several former Obama administration officials urged the U.S. government to accept 100,000 Syrian migrants, and to put in place special rules to speed the resettlement process. Germany says it will accept as many as a million Syrians this year. “Current (American) efforts are not ade-
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. — A new wildfire in Northern California destroyed or damaged 10 homes in Monterey County and a body was found among the ashes, a week after two other blazes killed five people and destroyed at least 1,400 homes, fire officials said Sunday. The blaze quickly grew to 1,200 acres (485 hectares) after starting Saturday afternoon, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The person who died has not been identified, and authorities are still trying to determine how the person died. Evacuation advisories were issued for resi-
quate,” according to the letter, signed by Michelle Flournoy, a former senior U.S. defence official who once was Obama’s choice for Pentagon chief, and Harold Koh, the former State Department legal adviser. “Humanitarian aid has fallen short in the face of unspeakable suffering.” Syrian migrants to the U.S. would be referred by the U.N. refugee agency, screened by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and resettled around the country. “This step is in keeping with America’s best tradition as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said. Earlier, he and Steinmeier met with a group of refugees around a conference table on the wooded, lakeside resort-style campus of the foreign ministry’s education centre outside Berlin. The Syrians, who Kerry asked reporters not to name for security concerns, said the uptick in migration five years into the civil war was being driven by a collapse of hope that the situation ever will improve. “I personally came here in search of a future,” said a mother of three daughters who made it to Germany with her five-year-old but left two others behind in Syria with her parents. She hopes they all can come, too. Congressional approval is not required for the Obama administration to expand resettlement slots, though Congress would have to appropriate money to pay for the additional effort, Kerry pointed out. Intelligence officials and Republican lawmakers have expressed concerns that Islamic State militants could seek to slip into Europe or the U.S. posing as migrants. In 2011, two Kentucky residents who had been resettled as Iraqi refugees were accused of being al-Qaida members. They were convicted of terrorism charges after their fingerprints were linked to roadside bombs in Iraq. That led to new steps to screen refugees, a process that has been criticized as slow and bureaucratic. “Some of the 65,000 that came from Iraq actually were trying to buy stinger missiles in my hometown in Kentucky,” said U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a Republican presidential candidate, in a broadcast interview. “So we do have to be weary of some of the threat that comes from mass migration.” Even if the U.S. took in 30,000 Syrians over the next two years — an unlikely outcome, given that only 1,500 have been admitted since the start of the war — that number would pale in comparison to the hundreds of thousands that Germany is expected to accept, or the 800,000 Vietnamese that the U.S. resettled in the years after the Vietnam war. dents of Jamesburg and the nearby community of Cachagua, Cal Fire said. Farther north, the two earlier wildfires have destroyed 1,400 homes and continue to threaten thousands more, fire officials said. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said teams are getting access to affected areas but the count is far from over. One of those fires, which killed at least three people, was 53 per cent contained. Another 6,400 homes remain under threat. The other fire destroyed 535 homes and killed at least two people. That blaze was 70 per cent contained Sunday but continued to threaten thousands of structures. All evacuation orders there were lifted, however. A weekend of heat descended on the wildfires after several favourable days, raising fears that major gains could be undone. That makes it essential that the smouldering remains of the two giant blazes be dealt with as quickly and thoroughly as possible, Scott Mclean, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said.
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Pope meets Castro in Cuba URGES CUBANS TO SERVE EACH OTHER WITHOUT IDEOLOGY IN MASS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro on Sunday after urging thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an ideology, delivering a subtle jab at the communist system during a Mass celebrated under the gaze of an image of Che Guevara in Havana’s iconic Revolution Plaza. The Vatican described the 40-minute meeting at Castro’s residence as informal and familial, with an exchange of books and discussion about big issues facing humanity, including Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment and the global economic system. Unlike the 2012 visit of Benedict XVI, when Castro peppered the German theologian with questions, the meeting with Francis was more of a conversation, papal spokesman the Rev. Frederico Lombardi said. A photo provided by Alex Castro, Fidel’s son and official photographer, showed the 89-year-old former president and Francis looking into each other’s eye as they shook hands, the pope in his white vestments and Castro in a white button-down shirt and Adidas sweat top. Castro appeared to be gripping another, unidentified man for support. The meeting brought together the leader who shaped Cuba for the last half of the 20th century and Latin America’s first pope, who many Cubans credit with opening a path to the future by mediating the warming diplomatic relations between their country and the United States. After his Cuba visit, the pope flies to Washington for his first ever trip to the United States. Since the pope’s historic mediation, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro have reopened embassies in each other’s countries, held a personal meeting, had at least two phone calls and launched a process aimed at normalizing ties in fields ranging from trade to tourism to telecommunications. Francis called on Castro after celebrating Mass in Havana’s main plaza on his first full day in Cuba. Believers and non-believers alike streamed into the square before dawn, and they erupted in cheers when the pope spun through the crowd in his open-sided popemobile. Francis didn’t disappoint, winding his way slowly through the masses and stopping to kiss children held up to him. At one point, Francis was approached by a man who grabbed onto the popemobile and appeared to be speaking emotionally to the pontiff, who touched him on his hand and head before he was pulled away by se-
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Extremists detonate 3 explosions in Nigeria ABUJA, Nigeria — Extremists detonated three explosive devices in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, in Nigeria’s northeast, a military official said Sunday. Details on casualties were not readily available, said military spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the initial suspicion has fallen on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which has resorted to hit-and-run tactics after the Nigerian military recaptured territory once held by the militants. Usman said the attacks signify the increasing desperation of Boko Haram. At least 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram’s six-year-old uprising which has displaced 2.1 million people across three countries. More than 1,000 people have been killed by Boko Haram violence since President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in March with a pledge to wipe out the extremists.
Three people are injured after gunman opens fire at church in Alabama EAST SELMA, Ala. — A man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after shooting his girlfriend, their baby and a clergyman at a church in Alabama, authorities said Sunday. James Junior Minter, 26, of Selma, Alabama, was arrested after opening fire during services at the Oasis Tabernacle Church in East Selma, Alabama, according to Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson. Jackson said the woman was Minter’s girlfriend and that the shooting stemmed from a domestic situation. Witnesses told police that Minter entered the church and sat in the front row between his girlfriend and the baby, according to a statement released by the Selma Police Department. Minter then pulled out a handgun and started shooting, the statement said. The girlfriend fell to the ground, and Minter fired at her, striking her in the jaw and shoulder. The baby, a 1-month-old boy, was shot in the hand. The church’s pastor then grabbed Minter and was shot in the leg. Members of the congregation helped subdue Minter and managed to wrest away his gun, according to police.
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Cuban President Raul Castro shows Pope Francis what appear to be official gifts for the pontiff on display inside the Palace of the Revolution: a huge crucifix made of oars and a painting of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba’s patron saint, in the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Sunday. Francis and Castro met in Cuba’s seat of government for a state meeting. curity agents. Later video showed what appeared to be the same man throwing leaflets in the air, and backers of a Cuban dissident group said on Twitter he was a member of the political opposition. While most Cubans are nominally Catholic, fewer than 10 per cent practice their faith and Cuba is the least Catholic country in Latin America. The crowd was not as big as when St. John Paul II became the first pope to visit the island in 1998, but it drew people who seemed to genuinely want to be there and listen to Francis’ message. “This is very important for us,” said Mauren Gomez, 40, who travelled some 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Villa Clara to Havana by bus, spending her time reciting the Rosary. In his homily delivered under the gaze of a metal portrait of revolutionary fighter Che Guevara, Francis urged
Cubans to care for one another out of a sense of service, not ideology. He encouraged them to refrain from judging each other by “looking to one side or the other to see what our neighbour is doing or not doing.” “Whoever wishes to be great must serve others, not be served by others,” he said. “Service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas, we serve people.” Many Cubans complain about the rigidity of Cuba’s system in which nearly every aspect of life is controlled by the government, from cultural institutions to block-level neighbourhood watch committees. While the system has softened in recent years, Cubans can be excluded or lose benefits if they are perceived as being disloyal or unfaithful to the principles of the revolution. Cubans are also increasingly concerned about growing inequality on the communist island, in which those
with access to foreign capital live lives of relative luxury while others can barely feed themselves, generating jealousy and division within families and society at large. “Being a Christian entails promoting the dignity of our brothers and sisters, fighting for it, living for it,” Francis told the crowd. “That is why Christians are constantly called to set aside their own wishes and desires, their pursuit of power, and to look instead to those who are most vulnerable.” Maria Regla Gonzalez, a 57-year-old teacher, said she appreciated Francis’ message of reconciliation and unity for all Cubans, and said Francis was particularly able to convey it given he is Latin American and speaks their language. “This is a crucial moment, and the pope’s support for us is very important,” she said. “He made a call for unity, and that’s what we want.”
Migrants pack trains trying to get to Europe BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOVARNIK, Croatia — Migrants desperate to find sanctuary in Europe climbed through windows and fought for space on trains headed north Sunday as border closures and plunging temperatures increased tensions among thousands in a desperate rush to keep moving. Scuffles broke out in this Croatian border town when hundreds of people surged toward a train they hoped would take them to Austria. Police tried to hold back the crowd, but were overwhelmed as migrants tried to climb through the windows of the already packed carriages. Hungary, which closed its border with Serbia on Sept. 15, erected another steel barrier at the Beremend border crossing from Croatia to try to slow the flow of migrants. But they kept coming. The sense of desperation increased for migrants as days of intense heat gave way to rain. “Unfortunately, we sleep here on the ground without anything. It was very cold,” said Muhammad Dakiri, a Syrian asylum seeker in Tovarnik. “Suddenly the weather has turned to cold and raining. We couldn’t sleep well because in an hour or half an hour we wake up because we’re feeling cold.” Volunteers handed out tents and warm clothes to make people more comfortable. But migrants abandoned the supplies when word of the train spread through their makeshift encampment, leaving tents, rain slickers and food strewn across the town square. Hungary’s decision to shut its border with Serbia set off a chain reaction in Croatia and Slovenia that has forced people fleeing violence in the Middle East, Asia and Africa to rush from one European border to the next as they desperately try to find a way north. Thousands more continue to brave the Mediterranean in rickety boats as they try to reach more welcoming countries like Germany and Sweden. The surge of migrants continues to exact casualties. Two migrant vessels sank in the eastern Mediterranean on Sunday, killing 13 people. Authorities from Greece to Austria and are struggling to respond. About 15,000 migrants crossed into Austria from Hungary and Croatia over the weekend. In the Austrian border village of Nickelsdorf, people arrived by foot Sunday after a half-hour walk from the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. Then they lined up for buses to take them to shelters in Vienna and other parts of the country. Austrian soldiers stood alongside.
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A Hungarian policeman tries to organize a group of migrants as they cross the border from Croatia near the village of Zakany, Hungary, Sunday. Croatia said it was overwhelmed by the influx of thousands of people in just a few days and would be sending them to Slovenia and Hungary. Austrian officials are scrambling to find places for the migrants to stay because many camps are already overcrowded. One of those who made it to Nickelsdorf was Mahat, a 47-year-old lab technician from Syria who only wanted to give his first name because of political ramifications in Syria. He said he trekked through Croatia with about 5,000 others and he doesn’t care where he ends up as long as he can live in peace and find a job. Mahat, who lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates for many years, returned to Syria when his father died three years ago and found himself in the middle of a civil war. “I came to Syria to put my father in the ground. Then the government took my passport and they cut it. So three years, I was suffering inside,” he said. “When I got the chance I just ran away and came here.” Croatia said some 27,000 migrants have entered the country since the surge started five days ago. The small country of 4.2 million is struggling to cope, and is demanding that the European Union offer a unified response when it meets later this week. Meanwhile, leaders across the region are sniping at one another, underscoring the sense of disarray in the days before European leaders meet to discuss the crisis.
Hungary’s erection of razor-wire fences is straining relations with neighbouring countries that feel the flow of migrants is being unfairly pushed onto them. After completing a fence along its border with Serbia, Hungary is now building fences on the Croatian and Romanian frontiers. After lashing out at Croatian officials last week, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is now trading barbs with his Romanian counterpart. Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Saturday called Hungary’s decision to close the border an “autistic and unacceptable act” that violated the spirit of the European Union. Szijjarto responded angrily on Sunday, saying “We would expect more modesty from a foreign minister whose prime minister is currently facing trial.” That was a reference to corruption charges filed recently against Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta. “We are a state that is more than 1,000 years old that throughout its history has had to defend not only itself, but Europe as well many times,” Szijjarto added. “That’s the way it’s going to be now, whether the Romanian foreign minister likes it or not.” The Hungarian Foreign Ministry has called in the Romanian ambassador for a consultation on Monday.
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Author Jackie Collins succumbs to cancer BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Jackie Collins, the bestselling author of dozens of novels including “Hollywood Wives” that dramatized the lifestyles of the rich and the treacherous, died Saturday. Collins died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, publicist Melody Korenbrot told The Associated Press. Collins was 77. “She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades,” Collins’ family said in a statement. “She was a true inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words.” Unlike her older sister Joan Collins, the “Dynasty” actress who was a direct part of the 1980s Hollywood glitterati, Jackie Collins chose to document LA lives in her pulpy, page-turning fiction. Collins wrote what she knew, and that meant stories of sex, glamour, power and more sex, a lot more sex. She began her literary career saying more than some wanted to hear, and eventually became the kind of author from whom readers could never get enough, providing a precursor to the culture of “Desperate Housewives” and “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Collins told The Associated Press in a 2011 interview that she “never felt bashful writing about sex.” “As a writer, you can never think about who is going to read your books. Is it going to be my mom? My children? A lot of people say to me, ‘Oh, I read your books under a cover with a flashlight when I was really young and I learned everything I know about sex from you.’ … I think I’ve helped people’s sex lives. Sex is a driving force in the world so I don’t think it’s unusual
that I write about sex. I try to make it erotic, too.” Born Jacqueline Jill Collins in London in 1937, her first novel, “The World is Full of Married Men,” was a story of sex and show business set in “Swinging London” in the mid-1960s. It came out in 1968 and became a scandalous bestseller, banned in Australia and condemned by romance writer Barbara Cartland. “Barbara Cartland said to me, ‘Oh, Miss Collins, your books are filthy and disgusting and you are responsible for all the perverts in England,’ ” Collins told Porter Magazine in 2014. “I pause for a few moments and said, ‘Thank you.”’ Collins followed in the 1970s with books like “The World is Full of Divorced Women” and “Lovers & Gamblers.” By the 1980s, she had moved to Los Angeles and turned out the 1983 novel she is still best known for, “Hollywood Wives,” which has sold more than 15 million copies. It came at the same time that her sister hit the height of her own fame on “Dynasty.” “Dynasty” producer Aaron Spelling would also produce the 1985 hit TV miniseries of “Hollywood Wives,” which featured Candice Bergen, Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Somers, among others. It led to follow-ups like “Hollywood Husbands” (1986), “Hollywood Kids” (1984) and “Hollywood Wives: The New Generation” (2001). The books made Jackie Collins a celebrity in her own right, and she loved the part, looking, living and behaving more like an actress than an author. In many ways, her own persona was her greatest character. Collins embraced Twitter in her later years, and loved the engagement with her over 150,000 followers. “I love tweeting. I have so much fun with my fans,” she told the AP in 2011. “I’ve asked them for reviews. I answer
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Author Jackie Collins arrives at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing and After Party in West Hollywood, Calif. Collins, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, of breast cancer. She was 77. people’s questions. Sometimes I’ll do a little survey and say, ‘Who is hot this week?’ “ Many were using Twitter to mourn her Saturday night, including Oprah Winfrey, who Tweeted “RIP Jackie Collins. I always loved our interviews.” Larry King Tweeted that Collins was a “true talent, a beautiful being and a dear friend.” Collins’ books didn’t stick strictly to Hollywood. She penned a series of mafia novels documenting the lives of the Santangelo family, focusing on its patriarch Gino and his daughter Lucky. She wrote nine novels based on the family including her last, “The Santangelos,” published this year.
Collins told People magazine, which first reported her death Saturday, in her final interview Sept. 14 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer over six years ago, but had chosen to keep the news among family, confiding mainly in her three daughters, 54-year-old Tracy, 48-year-old Tiffany and 46-year-old Rory. Collins was married twice, the second time to art gallery and nightclub owner Oscar Lerman in 1965. Lerman died in 1992. She was then engaged to Los Angeles businessman Frank Calcagnini, who died in 1998. Asked by the AP in 2011 if she was dating anyone, Collins said “I have a man for every occasion.”
Scorch Trials Room wins top prize at Toronto outpaces Depp’s International Film Festival Black Mass at box office BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
NEW YORK — The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials edged out Johnny Depp’s Black Mass at box office, as the two films split young and old moviegoers in half on the first weekend of the fall movie season. 20th Century Fox’s sequel to The Maze Runner earned an estimated $30.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. While that came in slightly below the debut of the 2014 young-adult dystopian sci-fi original, it counted as a win for a movie that cost $61 million to make. Warner Bros.’ Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, premiered with $23.4 million. That’s a strong sum for an R-rated adult drama, and it stabilizes a bad box-office run for Depp following Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger. The audience for The Scorch Trials was 63 per cent below the age of 25, according to Fox, while 89 per cent of the audience for Black Mass was over 25, according to Warner Bros. The draw for Black Mass was Depp’s icy performance as Bulger, which has garnered better reviews for the actor and some Oscar buzz. Jeff Goldstein, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros., said that 55 per cent of the audience said in exit polls that Depp was their reason for seeing the movie, which features an ensemble including Joel Edgerton and Benedict Cumberbatch. A diverse cast leading to a diverse audience was the key for Scorch Trials, said Chris Aronson, head of domestic distribution for Fox. Wes Ball’s adaptation of James Dashner’s young-adult novel stars Dylan O’Brien, Ki Hong Lee and Kaya Scodelario. More than half of its audience was made up of minorities. It also performed well abroad, earning $43.3 million internationally. But North American theatres had the distinct feel of fall, with a crowded slate of well-reviewed films — some of them awards hopefuls — opening in more limited release and hoping to build strong word of mouth for longer runs at the multiplex. Universal’s 3-D mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Josh Brolin and Jason Clarke, opened with $7.6 million, playing only on 545 IMAX and large-format screens. It expands wide next weekend. Sicario, the Lionsgate drug-war thriller starring Emily Blunt, Brolin and Benicio del Toro, opened in New York and Los Angeles ahead of its expansion over the next two weeks. In just six theatres, it took in $390,000 with an excellent per-screen average of $65,000. Paramount Picture’s Captive, starring David Oyelowo and Kate Mara, however, struggled to find moviegoers. The faithbased thriller couldn’t follow in the steps of the lucrative Christian drama War Room, grossing just $1.4 million in 806 theatres. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday: 1. The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, $30.3 million ($43.3 million international). 2. Black Mass, $23.4 million. 3. The Visit, $11.3 million. 4. The Perfect Guy, $9.7 million. and talk to a district manager today! 5. Everest, $7.6 million carriers@reddeeradvocate.com ($28.2 million international).
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TORONTO — A seemingly cloudy Oscar race became a little clearer on Sunday as the Toronto International Film Festival awarded the harrowing drama Room the People’s Choice prize, an honour that is often a predictor of Academy Award success. The Canadian-Irish film stars Brie Larson and eight-year-old Jacob Tremblay of Vancouver as a mother and son who live in a shed that he thinks is the entire world. Ireland’s Lenny Abrahamson directed the suspenseful yet touching tale that’s based on Canadian author Emma Donoghue’s celebrated novel. It won the $15,000 Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the end of an 11-day festival in which there appeared to be no clear front-runner. “We shot this film in Toronto and it’s incredible that this happened,” said Room producer David Gross. “I know it’s rare … that a Canadian film actually wins this award.” Festival director Piers Handling said the balloting on the prize was “very, very close.” “Room kind of ignited audiences,” he said. “I think it’s a very serious film but it’s a very emotional film.” The film even had Scottish star Gerard Butler “bawling” when he saw it at the fest, said the distributor, noting they urged the actor-producer to view it after hearing he was looking to cast a 10-year-old boy in his next film. “When you get the toughest guy in Hollywood bawling in one of the screenings, you think you’ve got something special,” said Noah Segal, co-president of Toronto-based Elevation Pictures. Last year’s People’s Choice winner was The Imitation Game, which went on to get eight Oscar nominations, nabbing one golden statuette for best adapted screenplay. Several previous People’s Choice winners have also gone one to nab best picture at the Oscars, including 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire. Another Canadian film won a major prize at Sunday’s event — the inaugural Platform award. Veteran Canadian documentary maker Alan Zweig’s Hurt, a portrait of disgraced runner Steve Fonyo, beat out 11 other titles to win the $25,000 award that was chosen by an international jury. Room beat out first runner-up Angry Indian Goddesses and second runner-up Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s star-studded journalism thriller that was one
of several festival films that received strong reviews. Other top titles with critics at the fest included Ridley Scott’s outerspace tale The Martian starring Matt Damon, Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and Scott Cooper’s gangster thriller Black Mass starring Johnny Depp. “Overall I would say it wasn’t necessarily the best TIFF as in recent years,” said Jake Coyle, film writer for the Associated Press. “A number of the stronger films at the festival had played at other festivals, like Venice or Telluride or Cannes.” Handling conceded there wasn’t “one breakout film” at the fest this year, but he still felt it “was a really, really strong year.” “Sometimes when you have a breakout film, it’s nice, you know, a buzz film like 12 Years a Slave or The King’s Speech or Slumdog Millionaire, and everyone coalesces around that,” he said. “But I think that puts some of the other really good films into the shadows. This year I think it was just a strong year for that type of … artistically driven commercial cinema.” Other award winners on Sunday included Andrew Cividino’s Sleeping Giant, which took the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster won the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Film critic Anne Thompson praised this year’s fest for the amount of awards contenders it had, noting it’s also a “buyers’ festival” where many films get the most amount of notice. Room, for instance, premiered at the Tellurude Film Festival before going to Toronto — but TIFF is where it really took off. “It needed to do this, it needed to go to Toronto and really hit with everyone there and it did,” said Thompson, founder and editor-in-chief of daily entertainment industry blog Thompson on Hollywood at Indiewire. “And now Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay are very strong actor contenders in the Oscar derby.”
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Hoarding daughter a cause for concern Dear Annie: Our daughter and her husband are major hoarders. They have two teenage children who have to climb over things to get into their beds. Every room has piles of junk. They will not get rid of anything because “one day, it may be valuable.” They never inKATHY MITCHELL vite anyone inAND MARCY SUGAR to their home, ANNIE’S MAILBOX which is a disaster and in major disrepair. We are concerned for their health, but we’re afraid that if we challenge them, we will be cut off. We are also concerned that their home is a fire risk. There is so much flammable stuff, and so few clear path-
ways, that were ever a fire, they would all likely die. How can we approach this without disastrous results? — Worried Mother Dear Mother: These types of problems are heartbreaking, because sometimes, there is little you can do. A great deal of hoarding consists of simply collecting too much (of anything), having difficulty getting rid of things and problems with organization. Many hoarders won’t admit that anything is amiss. First, check to see if your area has a Hoarding Task Force. Then contact the International OCD Foundation (ocfoundation.org) for information. The organization also provides referrals and suggestions for talking to someone with a hoarding problem, stressing positive talk about safety, without using judgmental terms such as “junk” or telling them they live in a “trash heap.” Please look into it and find out how you can best approach your daughter so she receives the help she needs.
Dear Annie: I’ve been fighting a terminal illness for close to three years. I never cease to be amazed by what some “friends” say to me. Sometimes their comments seem so heartless. One friend said, “Well, least your mother isn’t living with you.” (Hers is.) Another told me, “At least you’re not going through a divorce.” (She is.) And the best one: “At least you didn’t have to watch your screaming grandkids all weekend.” (She did.) Annie, I have been through a divorce, my mother did live with me for a while, and I can only pray I get to meet my grandchildren before my numbered days are up. Please share this advice with your readers: If you aren’t sure what to say to someone in my circumstances, simply say, “I’m so sorry you have to go through all of this.” I don’t need people trying to convince me that their lives are worse than mine. I would trade places with any of them in a heartbeat. — Dying Too Young
Dear Too Young: Your friends, like the rest of us, see our own problems as huge hurdles, but yours puts theirs into perspective. Your friends also are trying to minimize the seriousness of your situation because that provides comfort for them, and they assume it does for you, as well. They are mistaken, but they won’t know unless you are brave enough to tell them. You shouldn’t have to spend your social encounters resenting your friends for these thoughtless comments. Explain that you’d rather talk about other things and tell them why. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
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HOROSCOPE Monday, Sept. 21 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Leonard Cohen, 80; Bill Murray, 64; Faith Hill, 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: If you think before you speak, it will be a day full of positive partnerships and fabulous friendships. H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: The more unsettled you are, the more unpredictable the JOANNE MADELIN coming year will MOORE be. Choose a SUN SIGNS steady course and stick to it. Plus treat loved ones with extra kindness and respect. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you been feeling stuck in a bit of a Ram rut? The Moon and restless Mars encourage you to stretch beyond your usual boundaries, and reach for the stars. Adventure awaits! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Business,
finances and friendships are favoured, as the Moon and Mars boost your confidence. But don’t spoil success by being unusually impulsive. Take the time to think things through. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind is firing on all cylinders today, so keep it entertained in interesting and inspiring ways. But don’t allow someone to talk you into buying something that you really don’t need. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to communication, be careful you don’t confuse others or blurt out statements that you later regret. Mental activity is high so make the most of it and be a creative Crab. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hey Lions — you’re at your feisty, fabulous best as you let your hair down and have lots of fun. Are you feeling restless? Plan an adventurous getaway for some time soon. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are plenty of unfinished jobs to tackle around the home so get to it. But be careful when you’re communicating with a family member, as it will be easy to get your wires crossed. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Group activities will be powerful and positive today as Mars boosts your spirits, and your energy levels.
ment with novel new ideas. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Venus and Mars in your relationship zone, it will be easier to sort out problems now than at other times. Articulate your expectations — and be very clear about what others expect from you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You”ll feel restless at work so try to do things outside your usual routine. The more innovative and adventurous you are, the more satisfying the day will be. Finances remain unpredictable. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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Smartphone users now have more than 165,000 apps available to help them stay healthy or monitor a medical condition, but just three dozen account for nearly half of all downloads, according to a new report. Most apps focus on fitness or wellness by helping the user do things like count calories or track steps walked. Doctors and other care providers also are taking a growing interest in using apps to help patients, but concerns about a lack of research and data protection are limiting wider use of the technology, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics said. Even so, health app use is shifting from being a novelty to more of a core part of care for many people, said Murray Aitken, the institute’s executive director. “We’re clearly moving in that direction,” he said. The institute, which sells software that ranks apps, analyzed more than 26,000 available in the United States through either Apple or Android app stores. Its analysis, released Thursday, doesn’t count apps available through other venues like health care systems. It found that the number of health-related apps for the iOS operating system used by iPhones has more than doubled in just two years to about 90,000.
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