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Towle says conservatives should come together “I will fully admit the first two weeks after I lost I was totally in the fetal position, cried my eyes out. It was awful. I couldn’t even drive to town. I honestly believed I had a chance, a good chance to win.”

Kerry Towle, the former MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, acknowledges losing her seat nearly five months ago in May 5 provincial election that it was a hard lesson in politics.

Today she doesn’t not shying away from talking about intense personal insight into what happened, and what she believes needs to happen MARY-ANN to close the divide between BARR Alberta’s two main right-ofcentre parties — the WildrosBARRSIDE ers and Progressive Conservatives.

Towle was elected in 2012 as a rookie Wildrose MLA. She quickly gained respect and credibility as a passionate outspoken advocate for vulnerable persons. In fact, her special interest in helping these people — persons in care, seniors and others — came from first-hand experience and was the sole reason she entered politics.

Towle’s brother, Ron Hunt, was diagnosed in his 30s with Huntington’s disease. She fought a long battle to get him into long-term care and also over who would pay for it. He died in 2010 at age 35.

Last November Towle and another MLA touched off an incredible series of events when they crossed the floor to the governing newly led Jim Prentice Progressive Conservatives. It was a major surprise and just the beginning of a political fracking that wasn’t only felt by Wildrosers, but by Albertans of other political persuasions.

In that historic moment in Alberta politics that’s drawn endless ink, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and eight other MLAs followed Towle in December, crossing over to the PCs. In May, the PCs were all but wiped out after 44 years of rule, Rachel Notley’s New Democrats won a majority government, and Daniel Smith and Jim Prentice are long gone.

“I left the Wildrose for the PCs fully understanding I could lose. I don’t think there was anybody who thought I was going to lose as a Wildroser in my riding. The problem that I had was in sticking up for our seniors, our vulnerable, and our people in care.

“I was repeatedly told by a faction of the Wildrose I wasn’t right enough, that I was too leftist, I was too liberal,” Towle says.

Before Wildrose she said she had no party affiliations. “I didn’t really label myself at all. But when I joined the Wildrose I was told I must be right wing.

I must be in favour of privatizing all medicine. …

The reality of it was I only got involved in politics because my brother died in health care.

“But whether they want to admit it or not, unfortunately the Wildrose faces a stereotype that they are not socially progressive, and that stereotype remains with them today.”

“They’re just strong social conservatives who have their beliefs, and they found a home in the Wildrose. … They needed a party that shared those beliefs but the reality of it is if you want to govern there are certain things that we have to all understand, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is one of them,” she says.

“And the PCs have their own stigmas. They have a stigma of being corrupt, and entitled, and been there too long … So between the two, the brand is equally damaged.”

Voters were incredibly angry at the PCs and wanted to teach them a lesson, Towle says. “Is that going to be the same case in 2019? I don’t know.”

The fundamental problem for the Wildrose is that they don’t understand why they lost 136,000 votes in the provincial election, even though they gained five seats, says Towle. The idea of a new right-wing party is seeing some uptake, says Towle.

“We’re now seeing other people talking about how there’s no question that we need to bring conservative-minded folks together, and there’s no question that there was a need for a break-off party, which was the Wildrose, to get the PCs in check. Even I agree with that.”

She says it’s not for her to decide if Wildrose or PCs are dead, it’s for voters to decide, adding it’s like the “Hatfields and McCoys” right now between the two.

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Josh Mahura of the Red Deer Rebels slips past Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman Aaron Irving during the Rebels home opener at the Enmax Centrium Saturday. The Rebels defeated the Oil Kings 4-1.

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A farmer gathers in a grain crop east of Innisfail late last week.

Crop report shows mixed bag

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF The good news is despite a very hot and dry growing season for a lot of farmers in Central Alberta, there will be a crop.

The bad news is that the wet cool weather lately is not exactly helping with getting it in the bin.

As of Alberta Agriculture’s most recent crop report on Friday, only 25 per cent of crops in the Central Region have been harvested, compared with about 40 per cent this time last year.

The main crops include spring and winter wheat, durum, barley, oats, canola, dry peas and potatoes.

While 90 per cent of the winter wheat has been harvested, only about six per cent of oats have been.

About 34 per cent of canola is standing, with 47 per cent swathed but only 19 per cent harvested.

The Central Region includes the Red Deer area, and runs from Rimbey to Airdrie and east beyond Stettler, including the Coronaton and Oyen areas.

Crop specialist Mark Cutts, with Alberta Agriculture’s Ag-info Centre based in Stettler, said both yield and quality of crops in the region are variable.

A good stretch of seven to 10 days of warmer dry weather is probably needed to finish the harvest.

Pasture lands in the Central Region are better than they have been all year, with 29 per cent rated at good to excellent.

Provincially, about 27 per cent of the crops remain standing, 27 per cent are swathed, and 46 per cent are harvested (up nine per cent from the previous week).

Rainfall over the past two weeks has slowed down harvesting operations across the province. Compared to this time last year, harvest progress is behind in the Central, North East, North West and Peace Regions — down six per cent provincially.

Harvesting in the South Region is 17 per cent ahead compared to last year.

The recent rain and cooler weather in Central Alberta really slowed down any type of harvest progress and just in last few days he has started to see combines out in the field again, Cutts said Friday.

“When you start to lose up to a week because of unfavourable weather, you certainly start to fall behind where you would expect to be.

The forecast indicates warmer weather ranging from 15C to 18C for the better part of this week.

“If we get a stretch of good weather we can get a lot of combining done fairly quickly. Combining in October is certainly not uncommon in Central Alberta. It’s not a big panic at this point in time,” Cutts said.

A week from now with good weather, harvest completion could be up to 50 per cent and maybe 60 per cent.

Cutts said he suspects there will be quite a bit of variability with yields and quality, simply reflecting those who received moisture and those who didn’t earlier in the season. Red Deer South was catching some rain, where north of Lacombe and Ponoka areas weren’t. Quality will likely be lower than normal because of the stresses on the crops from heat earlier in the growing season.

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Weekend shopping mall killing brings Vancouver’s murder count to 13 for 2015 Vancouver police are investigating the city’s thirteenth murder of the year. Police say they responded shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday to multiple calls of shots fired in a mall parking lot (on King Edward Avenue near Oak Street). Officers arrived on scene to find a man they say was “clearly dead” in the passenger seat of a white sedan. The area was busy with shoppers at the time. No arrests have been made but police say the attack appears to have been targeted.

They have not confirmed the victim’s identity.

RCMP investigating after man arrives at Surrey hospital with gunshot wounds SURREY, B.C. — RCMP are investigating after a man showed up at a Surrey hospital with gunshot wounds. Sgt. Joe Johal says the 36-year-old arrived at around 3 a.m. Saturday with injuries to his lower extremities. He says the wounds are not life-threate ning. Mounties who were at the hospital for an unrelated reason spoke with the man.

The investigation is in its early stages but police believe the shooting was targeted and those involved know each other. Johal says the man is well-known to police and is not co-operating with the investigation.

Two men from northern Alberta charged

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Professional speaker and best-selling author Steve Siebold speaks to hundreds of Red Deerians about how to improve their businesses and increase sales by working on their psychological outlook during Mental Toughness University at Westerner Park Saturday. The “A New You” 360 Fitness Health Summit was also held at Westerner Park this past weekend, with proceeds from tickets sold going towards Red Deer Public School Health Action Teams.

ST. PAUL, Alta— Two men have been charged after a pair of horses were fatally shot near the community of Lafond, Alta. St. Paul RCMP say they were called to an area in the county earlier this week and found the dead horses. Terrance McGonigle and Michael Leroux, both of the county of St. Paul, are facing charges of possession of a dangerous weapon, careless use of a firearm and two counts of wilfully killing cattle.

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Kerry Towle, Former MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan lake lost her bid to represent the riding in the last Alberta provincial election after crossing the floor from the Wildrose party to the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party.

Towle says she is happy now. She lives near Innisfail on an acreage with her husband Brad and daughter Madison and she has a public relations business. She also takes care of her elderly parents.

“I am doing things with my family I haven’t done in three years.”

“I’m thankful. You couldn’t have learned more in such a short period of time.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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“The June rains are now in September, and the June rains never really happened.”

The potential is there that farmers won’t be bringing in as much income as they normally do, Cutts said. barr@reddeeradvocate

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She said there needs to be agreement for a discussion at the grassroots level, “to create the movement that allows the Wildrose and PCs to come together organically under a new banner, under a new brand with new bylaws and a new constitution that actually looks at the voter first rather than party solidarity, rather than party preservation.”

Voters are exhausted from “the meanness and the hatred and the vitriol that’s happening,” she says.

The provincial election results signal a change in the Alberta voter, Towle says, “but more importantly it signals a lack of understanding by the parties of who the Alberta voter is.

“Having the two parties with brands that are damaged is creating a problem for everyday voters.”

“I’m a person without a home at the moment because, Wildrose obviously I left … the PCs I’m not so sure they’ve been humbled enough.”

“I honestly thought that people would see through the politics and would more want a really good MLA who was standing up for the right things and who wasn’t scared to leave a party that she no longer felt at home with.

“And what I learned was that all that matters is the politics. That the person who is running doesn’t matter at all actually. And we’ve seen it. I mean how many candidates did people not even know their names.”

“Maybe I’m not cut out for party politics.”

“I understand that I deserved to lose because I broke the voters’ trust. I don’t regret leaving (Wildrose) though.”

“I may never run again and I’m okay with that. Or I may. “

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High River volunteers train for disaster recovery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HIGH RIVER — Hasn’t High River suffered enough?

After surviving one to the worst flood in Canadian history a couple of years ago, the Alberta town of 12,000, 70 kilometres south of Calgary is preparing for a meteorite to hit this week.

The scenario — hypothetical, of course — is part of a emergency training exercise that focuses on the days following and disaster and aims to prepare volunteers to help rather than first responders.

“We’re beyond the first responder, pulling-people-out-of-the-rubble stage when this exercise takes place but it’s the same principle — we know people want to help and rather than push them away we want to figure out how to work with them and make our community safe,” says Carly Benson, interim director of emergency management for High River.

“We took a look at the exercises we’ve done in the past couple of years. We’ve done two flood exercises and an ice storm-animal rescue and we thought we wanted to do something a little more fun to try and engage our community in emergency management.”

The workshop will involve about 30 volunteers who will be assigned different roles during the simulation to better understand the complexities of the issue and develop creative ways to incorporate volunteers into an effective response.

The town is working with the Field Innovation Team, a disaster response group experienced in creating interactive workshops aimed at improving crisis response.

“We are looking forward to working with residents and first responders in High River to help them achieve a positive, beneficial working relationship between volunteers and official agencies in responding to a crisis,” says Desiree Matel-Anderson, a spokesman for the group.

Flooding in parts of southern Alberta in June 2013 resulted in billions of dollars in damage. Hardest hit was High River where entire neighbourhoods were

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Members of the RCMP return from a boat patrol of a still flooded neighborhood in High Rive. After surviving the worst flood in Canadian history a couple of years ago the town of High River, south of Calgary, is holding a mock emergency training exercise this week that shies as far away from water as you can get. under water for weeks.

“We had over 10,000 volunteers come to High River and a lot of them weren’t associated with a formal organization. A lot of them just came because they wanted to help — they saw the devastation on the news,” Benson says.

“We did find that we really struggled to connect them with the people who needed help. There isn’t a

really great process out there and that’s what we’re hoping to address with this workshop.”

There likely won’t be any more “mock” flood disasters, says Benson.

“We feel if we continually focus on things like floods there’s going to be a barrier for people getting involved because they don’t want to relive memories of past disasters.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Jacking up Alberta’s carbon tax is the best way to reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions from power generation, says a government-funded analysis obtained by The Canadian Press.

Charging large emitters up to $50 a tonne for carbon emissions — an almost 70 per cent increase — would produce the best result, says the report by an international economic consultancy.

But that price would also raise electricity costs more than any other option considered, the Brattle Group concludes.

The study, which has not been released publicly, was delivered to the province’s Energy Ministry and electrical regulator in July 2014, before the last provincial election.

It is now before a panel charged with designing an overall climate-change policy for Alberta in advance of talks in Paris this December.

Coal-fired power generation is Alberta’s secondlargest source of greenhouse gases and the 64-page main report weighs nine different ways to reduce them.

The options include various carbon prices, early shutdown of coal-powered plants, mandated emissions caps and regulated targets for renewable energy.

The best answer is to beef up Alberta’s current system, the report suggests.

“Doing so builds on the existing regulatory framework, can be designed to be effective in reducing emissions, supports the development of renewables through offsets, and is already compatible with the existing wholesale electricity market.”

By 2017, Alberta plans to require large emitters to reduce their emissions by 20 per cent per unit of production. Emissions over that level are to cost $30 a tonne.

The Brattle report says reduction targets should increase to 50 per cent. It says exceedances should cost at least $40 per tonne and $50 would be better.

The so-called 50-50 option, it says, would create a 15 per cent cumulative reduction in emissions by 2034 — more than any other option other than early retirement of coal-fired plants.

The report suggests it would also be the most effective at increasing renewable generation by about a third. The 50-50 option would also cost consumers the most. Including the price of new transmission lines, power costs would go up by 14 per cent. Forcing coal plants to retire early would cut more carbon and cost consumers less, the report says. But that option brings other costs.

“Our results do not include any added costs such as decommissioning costs. Nor do they include any costs associated with the loss of future revenue streams for coal unit owners.”

Power companies provided with a copy of the report declined to comment on its conclusions.

So did the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, whose members would also be affected by an increase in carbon pricing. Spokesman Markus Ermisch said that the recent announcement to double carbon costs to $30, together with tax changes brought in by the province’s New Democrat government, could add nearly $800 million to industry costs over the next two years.

OTTAWA — All three main federal parties concentrated on homegrown, hot-button issues and largely kept their foreign policy powder dry ahead of the next leader’s debate.

New Democrats put themselves squarely in the spotlight with Tom Mulcair outlining, in broad strokes, the party’s plan to address climate change.

But in a half-hour long question and answer session with party members and the media, he forcefully reiterated his case to repeal two signature pieces of the Harper government’s security and anti-terror agenda.

Not to be outdone, the Conservatives rolled out two cabinet ministers to take shots at the Liberals over Justin Trudeau’s suggestion his party would scrap some aspects of the mandatory minimum sentencing law, another marquee piece of legislation for a government that paints itself as tough on crime.

Tony Clement and Julian Fantino, speaking in Vaughan, Ont., also went after Trudeau for interview comments earlier in the weekend where he was quoted as saying deficits are a way of measuring economic growth and success of a government.

Both ministers, additionally, piled on the $146 billion costing of the Liberal platform, released Saturday in Ottawa, saying it would “destabilize” the economy.

Trudeau and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper were both off the campaign trail in anticipation of Monday’s foreign policy debate.

Mulcair, in Toronto to talk climate change, gave a taste of how acrimonious the exchange could get by accusing the Conservatives of holding back until the middle of the election campaign on the plan to strip the citizenship of the convicted Toronto 18 terror ringleader.

Zakaria Amara, a Jordanian-Canadian, had his Canadian citizenship formally revoked under Bill C-24, controversial legislation passed in the spring.

“This is Mr. Harper strutting his stuff for his rightwing base,” Mulcair said. “This is a game being played on the backs of all Canadians who have different origins than ‘old stock Canadians’ and I’m going to stand up against it.

“I find it lamentable that in a free and democratic society, someone takes joy in saying that we’re going to have two levels of citizenship. A Canadian is a Ca-

“THIS IS A GAME BEING PLAYED ON THE BACKS OF ALL CANADIANS WHO HAVE DIFFERENT ORIGINS THAN ‘OLD STOCK CANADIANS’ AND I’M GOING TO STAND UP AGAINST IT.” TOM MUCLAIR nadian is a Canadian.”

He repeated earlier pledges to repeal and rewrite parts of C-24 — known as the Strengthening Citizenship Act — in particular the revocation and intent-to-reside clauses that have become the subject a constitutional challenge. Mulcair also said an NDP government would repeal Bill C-51, the government’s lightning rod surveillance bill, during the first session of a new Parliament.

“We know the safest societies are those that protect and defend the rights and freedoms of their citizens,” he said.

All of that is potentially grist for Monday’s debate.

Earlier in the day Sunday, Fantino took questions on the Amara case and kept his sights firmly locked on Trudeau, who is also in favour of scrapping portions of C-24.

“Let’s get real,” Fantino said while suggesting the Liberal leader was making excuses for both terrorists and hardened criminals. At times, his tough comments on mandatory minimum sentences turned into a tirade, where he said criminals don’t take advantage of the “great services” in prison for rehabilitation and career offenders who are kept “isolated and insulated” don’t reoffend when they are released.

Almost lost in the shuffle was the NDP’s plan to address climate change, one that would allow provinces to opt out if their efforts to minimize carbon emissions are as good or better than those of the federal government.

“We’re not going to replace something that’s working,” Mulcair said. “The important thing is to set the (national) objective.

The money raised by the federal government through putting a price on carbon would go to the provinces for reinvestment in additional measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he said.

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FOX CREEK, Alta. — A blowout at a well in northern Alberta that has been venting natural gas and small amounts of a toxic chemical has been capped.

Encana (TSX:ECA) says in an update on its website that the damaged wellhead 18 kilometres from Fox Creek has been brought under control and that the flow of natural gas and condensate has been stopped.

The blowout happened Sept. 21 at the well, which is licensed to produce hydrogen sulphide, a poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs.

Company spokesman Jay Averill said last week that monitoring data showed low levels of hydrogen sulphide have been released, but they were well beneath those that would pose a health risk.

Encana says on its website that it is committed to fixing any environmental damage.

It says it’s also still working to determine the cause of the incident.

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Harper letting left take themselves out If Stephen Harper wins his long- of employment insurance surplus to shot bid for a fourth consecutive man- bring down the federal deficit into an date next month, it will be attack on the New Demoin no small part because his crat fiscal framework. main opposition rivals were In a rare demonstratoo busy tearing a strip off tion of unity, Duceppe and each other to remind votTrudeau lambasted Mulcair ers of why regime change for wanting to reopen the would be a good idea.

Constitution to abolish the Those dynamics were Senate. already in evidence at last Predictably, Mulcair and week’s debate on the econoTrudeau went at each othmy. Some of the most pointer over whether a simple ed exchanges of the evemajority in favour of sovning pitted Liberal Leader ereignty should be enough Justin Trudeau against the to trigger negotiations to CHANTAL NDP’s Thomas Mulcair, allow Quebec to leave the HÉBERT with Harper watching them federation. And Duceppe OPINION go at each other from the tangled with the NDP leadsidelines. er over the Energy East With two more players on pipeline. the ice of the French-language debate By comparison, Harper, who has Thursday, neither of which is headed been running a government more unfor the government side of the House popular in Quebec than any of its preof Commons no matter the outcome decessors, had one of the easiest rides of the vote, the opposition battle took an incumbent has ever lucked into on centre stage. a debate podium.

Watching it, one might even have That was probably more than been forgiven for sometimes thinking enough for the Conservative leader to Mulcair was the incumbent with a gov- have had a good night. Over his near ernment record to defend. decade in power, Harper has made it Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Du- his habit to not get in the face of Queceppe set the tone early on when he becers unless he absolutely has to. managed to turn an answer on the use Using the same technique on the

debate set, he delivered his talking points and then essentially stepped back from the fray. It was clear that if Quebecers were going to remember one thing about his debate appearance, Harper wanted it to be his determination to force Muslim women who take the oath of citizenship to unveil.

In an ideal world for the NDP, the debate would have been Mulcair’s opportunity to close his deal with Quebec voters.

He has held the lead in voting intentions since the election was called and his status as a contender for government nationally depends on the NDP remaining at the front of the Quebec pack.

Time will tell, but he likely did enough to hold Duceppe at bay. The debate was the Bloc leader’s first and best opportunity to bring back to the fold the voters who succumbed to the 2011 Orange Wave.

But to shelter his Quebec support from the Bloc, Mulcair had to bring out cards like his support for the single majority rule in a Quebec secession vote that are all but winning ones in the rest of Canada.

Quebecers made up the bulk of the audience of the French-language debate but francophone voters also stand to determine the outcome of the next

month’s vote in at least a dozen other ridings outside the province.

In a tight election, those are seats that could make the difference between government and opposition, between official Opposition and third place.

The voters who live in the francophone areas of Manitoba, eastern and northern Ontario and New Brunswick are, for the most part, viscerally opposed to the sovereigntist agenda. And they did not spend the past few years immersed in a debate over the accommodation of religious minorities.

For them, as for Quebec’s English-speaking voters, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a big deal. It guarantees that they have access to education in their language.

Trudeau’s defence of the charter-based rights of Muslim women on the niqab may have rubbed some of his fellow Quebecers the wrong way, as did his insistence that a 50 per cent plus 1 vote for sovereignty would not be enough to trigger Quebec’s separation.

But both stances almost certainly resonated in a positive way with minority-language audiences in and outside Quebec.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

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It is time to talk about a new vision for the economy The federal leaders’ debate on the economy fo- makes all of us healthier. cused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infraIn Canada, we don’t question our emphasis on structure spending, pipelines, climate change — but constant growth. Our economic system favours shortno one talked about a different vision for Canada’s term profits at the expense of our long-term health economy. and survival. Despite more than five decades of tryWhat if we challenged our leaders to answer the ing to fix our environmental challenges, forests are dilemma posed by American journalist still threatened, deserts are spreading Charles Bowden: “Imagine the problem and climate change is creating more freis that we cannot imagine a future where quent and intense storms, floods, forest we possess less but are more”? Not being fires and droughts. able to even imagine an economy without We’re also left with income inequality continual growth is a profound failure. that threatens our democracy. Since the A better economic vision would sup1980s, the top one per cent of Canadiport the right of all Canadians to live in a ans has increasingly enjoyed the biggest healthy environment, with access to clean share of income growth and the least pain air and water and healthy food. It would during economic downturns. Since 2009, respect planetary boundaries and provide the top 10 per cent have seen half of all the moral imperative to decrease growing income growth. The bottom 50 per cent of income disparities. Businesses would be Canadians have not only seen declines in required to pay for environmental damincome growth, accounting for just three DAVID age they inflict, capital would be more per cent of income gains, they’ve also SUZUKI widely distributed and ideas, such as embeen hardest hit during recessions. ployee shareholder programs with ethi- SCIENCE MATTERS In a statement that applies equally to cally invested stocks, would be the norm.

Canada, the late U.S. Supreme Court JusThis alternative economy would contice Louis Brandeis once noted, “We can nect people to family, friends and communities, have democracy in this country or we can have great focus on social capital investments over gross do- wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we mestic product gains, and distribute wealth through cannot have both.” taxes, social programs and minimum guaranteed A cornerstone of our current economy, consuming incomes. In The Spirit Level: Why More Equal So- goods, may give us fleeting pleasure, but it isn’t makcieties Almost Always Do Better, authors Richard ing us happier. Studies show the pleasure derived Wilkinson and Kate Pickett write that developed from food, sex, exercise and time with loved ones or countries with the greatest inequalities have higher doing meaningful work takes much longer to fade. rates of disease, mental illness, drug use and a host Worse, consuming stuff is not only addictive, it also of other social problems. Reducing income gaps feeds rivalry and societal overconsumption.

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Fallen officers honoured

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — As memorial services across Canada recognized peace officers who have died in the line of duty, two cases in northern Alberta this past year showed just how dangerous their jobs can be.

RCMP Const. David Wynn was shot while attempting to apprehend a suspect in a stolen vehicle investigation north of Edmonton in January, while Const. Daniel Woodall was shot and killed in June when he executed an arrest warrant related to hate crimes.

Woodall’s name was the last of 100 that were read during a service at the Alberta legislature on Sunday honouring police, sheriffs and conservation officers in the province.

His widow laid the first wreath.

“It’s meant a lot seeing all these police families and all the police officers marching. It’s a big family, and you can tell it’s all a close-knit family and it’s always going to be that way,” Claire Woodall told reporters after the ceremony.

Woodall and Wynn were also recognized at a national ceremony held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, which also honoured Rhonda Commodore, a Manitoba corrections officer and Toni Kristinsson, a BC Department of Transport enforcement officer, who lost their lives in the past year.

Commodore, 44, was a passenger in a van taking six prisoners from The Pas to Dauphin last November when the driver lost control and she was ejected from the vehicle. Kristinsson,

whose job involved checking for such things as loads, licences and insurance, was driving home near the end of his shift in February when his vehicle collided with a commercial transport truck.

Saskatoon police chief Clive Weighill, who is the president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, told the Ottawa ceremony that prayers are said every year at the annual event that no new names will be added to the memorial.

“Sadly this year our wish has not been fulfilled … we struggle to understand why and we wonder how things might have been,” Weighill said. “”There is little comfort in these thoughts. All we can do to ease our collective loss is to come together as we have today.”

This year’s memorial service also marked 10 years since the Mayerthorpe tragedy. On March 3, 2005, James Roszko used a military assault rifle to kill four Mounties near the town of Mayerthorpe, Alta.

During the sombre service in Edmonton, an RCMP service dog, Aztec, brought smiles to many faces by barking enthusiastically every time a commander called the hundreds of police and peace officers on the legislature grounds to attention.

“Each and every day, police and peace officers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe,” said Kathleen Ganley, Alberta’s justice minister and solicitor general.

“All police and peace officers have my heartfelt and unending respect and gratitude for the work they do.”

TORONTO 18 Canadian official for UN watched Syrian refugee crisis ‘slow burn’ in Lebanon Terror plotter’s

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — When the daily queue of weary Syrians outside the United Nations refugee agency in Lebanon swelled to the thousands, Canadian Ninette Kelley realized the crisis could stretch endlessly.

The official from Toronto began her post as representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in May 2010, catering to 10,000 Iraqis.

By the time her mission concluded last June, she was the overseer of the largest such UN operation in the world with an intake of 1.2 million Syrians.

Lebanon, which is smaller than Vancouver Island, had a population of about four million people before the civil war next door displaced millions of Syrians.

Kelley compared Lebanon’s acceptance of enormous waves of people with Canada absorbing nine million refugees.

“We were registering, in Lebanon over a two year period, more refugees every single week than Canada receives in a year,” she said, tallying about 10,000 new arrivals weekly.

“I would describe it as a very slow and steady burn.”

The expat had been working to mitigate the crisis since April 2011, years before a drowned Syrian toddler washed ashore a Turkish beach. The photograph of little Alan Kurdi, whose family had aspired to come to British Columbia, ignited global empathy for the suffering masses.

Migrant relief has been announced by some countries, like Canada and the U.S., but some European countries have instead closed their borders.

Kelley was on the ground before the civil war began, unexpectedly gaining responsibility for international assistance to a country that has become “completely overwhelmed.”

The global public’s sense of urgency feels greater now than ever, Kelley said, but she emphasized the brutal conflict is already in its fourth year.

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Ninette Kelley, regional representative for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, a Canadian originally from Toronto, appears with Syrian refugee children. the television sets in Canada does not mean there was not great need and great destitution prior to this time,” she said from New York, where she now directs the UNHCR Liaison Office.

Her comments come just days after the federal government announced it is speeding up processing of Syrian refugees on home soil. Resettlement of 10,000 people is slated to occur in a tightened time frame, fast-tracked about 15 months from three years.

“The news on Canada is definitely very, very good news,” Kelley said.

“But it’s part of a broader package of measures that UNHCR is advocating for in the developed world.”

The agency is urging all national governments to share the burden that’s been mainly covered by countries with far fewer resources, she said.

That includes exerting more political pressure on the regime, pledging

more humanitarian funding and easing refugee entry procedures.

Kelley heard many stories from refugees waiting in the lineups, but she was particularly struck by the despair of a mother of seven children. The woman’s family had been prosperous selling fruits and vegetables until they were driven from their home in Damascus.

“I asked her how she continued,” Kelley said. “She quoted me an Arabic expression, the meaning of which is, ‘We live for lack of death.’ I shall never forget that.”

Though she’s not following Canada’s federal election campaign, Kelley said voter opinion matters at the ballot box.

“It was precisely the public that spurred on greater engagement by the country into resettling, (tens of thousands of) Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ to Canada,” she said.

becois Leader Pierre Karl Peladeau’s team has temporarily given up on a plan to sell hand-signed hockey jerseys, at $150 apiece, in order to pay the cost of his leadership campaign.

The offer, found on Peladeau’s campaign website, was removed so as not to undermine the Bloc Quebecois’ fundraising campaign, according to Annick Belanger, Peladeau’s communications director.

Until last week, visitors to Peladeau’s website were encouraged to order their own “PKP 2015” hockey jersey, “with Pierre Karl’s Peladeau’s autograph, for only $150.”

Belanger confirmed that the decision to sell the blue jerseys, which are identical to the ones worn by Peladeau supporters during his leadership campaign, was taken in mid-August.

The initiative was designed to replenish the coffers of Peladeau’s campaign organization, which was left with a $132,000 debt when the race wrapped up in May. As of yet, no sales have been completed, Belanger said. She said the offer will return after the Oct. 19 federal election. Peladeau is the only one of the six Parti Quebecois leadership candidates who still must gather donations to balance his budget, which far exceeded that of his rivals.

TORONTO — There is one winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was sold in the Toronto area.

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TORONTO — The federal government has revoked the citizenship of an Islamic extremist who masterminded a plot to bomb downtown Toronto in an effort to terrorize Canadians and cripple the economy.

A member of the so-called Toronto 18, Zakaria Amara was sentenced in 2010 to life in prison with no chance of parole until 2016 after admitting his role in the plan aimed in part at forcing Canadian soldiers to leave Afghanistan.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney sent a tweet describing him as a man who hated Canada so much that he “forfeited his own citizenship” by plotting to murder hundreds of Canadians.

Kenney said this is the first case that he knows of where the federal government has revoked the citizenship of someone found guilty of terrorist offences since the Conservatives pushed through changes to the Citizenship Act earlier this year allowing such a sanction against dual citizens.

“If somebody is found guilty of violent disloyalty to Canada, in this instance planning to murder hundreds or potentially thousands of Canadians for ideological reasons, that they are in so doing forfeiting their Canadian citizenship,” Kenney said. “They are renouncing through their actions, through their own violent volition, they are renouncing their Canadian citizenship.”

Police thwarted the plot when they arrested Amara and 17 other people in the summer of 2006.

In an agreed statement of facts, Crown lawyer Ione Jaffe told court that Amara planned to rent U-Haul trucks, pack them with explosives and detonate them via remote control in the Toronto area. The Mississauga, Ont., man said the attack, which he planned over three consecutive days to maximize the panic, also involved bombing RCMP headquarters, nuclear-power plants and attacking Parliament. The group also considered attacking the Sears Tower in Chicago or UN headquarters in New York three months after the proposed “Battle of Toronto,” court heard. “This man hated Canada so much, he planned on murdering hundreds of Canadians,” Kenney tweeted today. “He forfeited his own citizenship.”

Amara, who was married with one child at the time, planned to flee to Pakistan around the time of the blast and then move onto Afghanistan.

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Brother of murdered woman shocked after memorials removed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A brother of one of the women murdered by Robert Pickton says he’s shocked and upset after the City of Vancouver removed plaques honouring three of the killer’s victims.

Bronze plaques bearing the names of Georgina Papin, Brenda Wolfe and Marnie Frey were installed in a sidewalk in the city’s Downtown Eastside in 2012.

George Papin travels to Vancouver once or twice a month to lay tobacco and say a prayer at his sister’s plaque. But about two weeks ago, he discovered it was gone.

“I treasured the memorial as it was a part of me, just like my sister,” he said. “And now they take this away.”

The memorials were part of an unfinished project called “The Living Stones,” which was originally set to lay 62 plaques at the last known locations of missing and murdered women.

The city took over the project in 2013 after the non-profit group that launched it dissolved. Just four plaques had been laid.

A city spokesman said Saturday that staff had been working to “resolve issues” around the project.

He said its founders originally indicated it had been endorsed by all the families and the Downtown Eastside community.

“Unfortunately, we later discovered that there was not consensus from the community or from the women’s families regarding this project,” Jason Watson said in a statement.

“Given the lack of consensus, it was determined in spring 2015 that the few plaques that were installed would be removed and no additional ones would be installed.”

He said the city is working to obtain contact details for the families to see if they want the plaques sent to them, adding the non-profit previously refused to provide that information.

Papin, who lives in Pemberton, said city officials had not contacted him. The other women’s families could not immediately be reached, but a woman who identified herself as Wolfe’s daughter Angel said on Facebook that the city had been in touch and was

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The last remaining plaque honouring a missing woman is pictured on a Vancouver sidewalk. The city recently removed three of four plaques that had been installed in 2012. planning to send families the plaques.

Frey’s father Rick was quoted in the Vancouver Sun in 2013 as saying that he didn’t want the plaque in the ground with “people walking over it and spitting on” it.

Pickton is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murders of six women. Twenty other charges against him were not proceeded with — including in the death of Cara Ellis.

A Living Stone plaque laid in another location in Vancouver’s downtown core that honoured Ellis has not yet been removed.

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Sean Faludi, the project’s founder, strongly denied the city’s allegations. He said he provided permission letters from all but one of the families and had never refused to hand over contact details.

Faludi said he only learned on Saturday that the stones had been removed.

“What astounds me is the callousness of the way these stones have been treated,” he said. “It’s rather heartbreaking to know that a project that was associated with my name is kind of brushed under the trash can.”

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The supermoon is shown low on the horizon behind the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill on Sunday evening.

Broadbent Institute raises questions about CRA auditing of charities

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Last year, the institute released a similar survey looking at tax data from same 10 right-leaning charities between 2011 to 2013 and cross-referenced that with publicly information on their activities during those years.

“Back in 2012, we know the Harper government allocated money to ramp up political activity audits of environmental charities,” Smith said in a statement.

“The auditing scope was then extended to include anti-poverty, foreign aid and human rights groups.

So what exactly is the CRA doing about right-leaning charities consistently reporting zero political work?

Has it triggered audits just like the blanket audits of charities the government is less fond of?”

Under the law, a charity is permitted to spend no more than 10 per cent of its resources on “political” activities and direct partisan activity is prohibited.

OTTAWA — A federal advisory panel lambasted an early, sombre design for a national memorial to the victims of communism as potentially “detrimental to the dignity” of nearby Parliament Hill, newly released documents show.

The National Capital Commission’s advisory committee on planning, design and realty also had concerns last year about the project’s price tag, “negative symbolism” and structural safety, particularly in the slippery Ottawa winters, the internal records reveal.

Other documents disclosed under the Access to Information Act say the projected cost of the memorial — to be covered by federal and private funds — had almost doubled to about $6 million by January of this year. The records help explain why the commission unveiled plans in June for a redesigned and significantly smaller version of the memorial. The commission is expected to consider a final design in November, after the federal election.

The Conservative government has strongly backed the planned memorial as a means of recognizing the more than 100 million people around the globe who died or suffered under communist regimes. The government is managing the project on behalf of Tribute to Liberty, a charity established in 2008.

The initiative has drawn fierce criticism from critics who object to the memorial’s stark design and location on a patch of green in the parliamentary precinct long reserved for a new Federal Court building. A lawsuit aimed at blocking the project has been placed on hold until after the final design has been approved. It was well-known that the federal advisory committee, composed of leading architects and planners from across Canada, had concerns about the memorial. But the newly released minutes of the committee’s Aug. 21 and 22, 2014, meetings reveal disdain for the entry that would later be selected as the winner by a jury. The design by Toronto-based Abstrakt Studio Architecture features a series of angular peaks, or “memory folds,” with more than 100 million pixel-like “memory squares” — each representing a person — covering the exterior face of the folds. The initial idea was to have the folds depict a mural of dead bodies when viewed from a distance. The design also includes a Bridge of Hope and elevated viewing platform.

The members praised the plan to depict individuals as “a strong gesture” and said the overall concept “makes a statement.” But they also considered the design: ● Well over budget ● Replete with negative symbolism that could be misinterpreted as offering no hope, and be detrimental to the dignity of Parliament Hill ● A statement of negativity, since the images of corpses would be seen from many vantage points in the capital ● Problematic to build in that subtleties would be lost in the execution ● To pose safety and accessibility issues, including slippery surfaces in winter ● Too similar to a planned national Holocaust monument.

OTTAWA — The Broadbent Institute, a left-leaning think-tank, has levelled another broadside at the Harper government over the Canada Revenue Agency’s auditing of charities.

The organization says the country’s most active right-leaning charities continue to report zero “political” activity in their latest filings and that raises fresh questions about how conservative-oriented charities are interpreting the revenue agency’s rules.

“This report makes clear that the CRA rules around political activity are interpreted, to put it charitably, quite differently by many right-leaning charities,” the report said.

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Rebels sweep Oil Kings to start season

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Red Deer Rebels winger Ivan Nikolishin looks to put the puck on net while battling with Chance Patterson of the Edmonton Oil Kings as goaltender Alec Dillon watches during the Rebels home opener at the Enmax Centrium Saturday.

The Rebels defeated the Oil Kings 4-1.

Rebels 3 Oil Kings 2 (OT) Rebels 4 Oil Kings 1 EDMONTON — The imports have already made an impact.

Red Deer Rebels forwards Ivan Nikolishin and Michael Spacek made big-time contributions during the weekend as the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament hosts opened their WHL season with a home-and-home sweep of the Edmonton Oil Kings.

After dominating their guests during the final two periods of a 4-1 win Saturday at the Centrium, the Rebels needed a late third-period power-play goal from Nikolishin Sunday at Rexall Place to force a three-on-three overtime period, which was settled when Spacek connected a mere 38 seconds in for a 3-2 triumph.

“They’re skilled players and they’re gamers,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “They want to produce, they want to create offence.”

The Rebels pulled out Sunday’s victory despite a marvelous outing from Oil Kings netminder Patrick Dea, who stopped all 19 shots he faced in the first period and 39 overall.

“We had tons of scoring chances, we just didn’t capitalize on our opportunities,” said Sutter. “Their goalie made some big saves for them, he played well. But we certainly deserved to win

the game.”

Following a scoreless opening period, Rebels defenceman Colton Bobyk notched his first of the season — a power-play tally — at 3:59 of the second stanza. But Lane Bauer replied for the hosts just under three minutes later and Tyler Robertson gave the Oil Kings a 2-1 lead midway through the third period.

“We shouldn’t have been down 2-1 at that point,” said Sutter. “We just couldn’t bury our chances. It was one of those games that scares you. You’re dominating and yet you’re behind on the scoreboard.”

The Oil Kings seemed to build off their rope-a-dope first period, outshooting the Rebels 13-8 in the second stanza.

“They got a little momentum in the second and then they got a tough goal on Tother (Rebels netminder Rylan Toth) that gave them more life,” said Sutter. “Then in the third we got back at it and played a strong period. We got a break and were able to capitalize on the power play to tie the game.”

With Oil Kings forward Andrew Koep off for hooking, Nikolishin buried a feed from Spacek with 21 seconds remaining in regulation time. Spacek then completed the comeback, beating Dea high to the blocker side after taking a two-on-one pass from Josh Mahura.

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Emphatic end to last home game of season DONALDSON WALKOFF HOME RUN SEALS JAYS WIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 5 Rays 4 TORONTO — The Blue Jays’ celebrations continued on the field Sunday as Josh Donaldson’s walkoff solo homer served up a wild ending to Toronto’s regular-season home finale before another Rogers Centre sellout.

The ninth-inning blast to left field gave Toronto a 5-4 comeback win over the Tampa Bay Rays, the latest exclamation point in a year to remember for both Donaldson and the Jays.

“He’s got that flair for the dramatic,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons, whose team leads the majors with 221 homers. “He really does. He’s done that so many times this year.

“Really it was a perfect ending for our home season this year, it really was.”

Of Donaldson’s 41 home runs this season, 27 have either tied the game or given Toronto the lead. He has three walk-off homers for the year — a franchise record — and has seven over the last three seasons. No other player has more than three.

“Ever since I was young, I’ve always look forwards to the big moments in the game,” said Donaldson. “And I want to be able to come through.

“If it wasn’t for my teammates today, I’m not even put in that position,” he added graciously. “I think they did a great job of battling the entire time.”

Toronto outhit Tampa 10-6 in winning its fourth straight. The Jays close out the season on the road, with four games in Baltimore and three in Tampa.

With a wild-card already assured, the goal is to win the American League East and secure home-field advantage.

Toronto’s magic number is four.

The Yankees defeated the White Sox 6-1 Sunday to remain four games behind the Jays in the AL East.

The Jays are tied with Kansas City for the best record in the AL at 90-85.

Amazingly the Jays were 51-51 on July 29 while the Royals were 61-39.

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Toronto Blue Jays Josh Donaldson swings through on his walk-off home run as Tampa Bay Rays catcher Rene Rivera watches during ninth inning American league action in Toronto on Sunday.

Sunday’s dramatic win followed the Jays’ short but intense post-game celebrations Saturday to mark ending the club’s 22-year playoff drought.

“It got a little out of hand for the situation, after we had a talk before the game (Saturday) about just a toast and that was it,” acknowledged Toronto starter Mark Buehrle, who stepped away from the festivities.

The champagne and cigars were put away Sunday, but Donaldson still needed a towel before the day was done.

After sending an 0-1 delivery from Steve Geltz (2-6) towards the left-field seats, Donaldson stopped, dropped the bat and then worked his way around the bases in front of a delirious crowd of 47,287.

Mayhem awaited him.

Donaldson was doused by Gatorade as he disappeared into a scrum of teammates upon crossing the plate, to chants of M-V-P. The third baseman was then doused with popcorn and assorted other liquids during his postgame TV interview.

Justin Smoak, who had driven in three runs already, started the Jays’ rally with a one-out single in the eighth. Pinch-runner Dalton Pompey stole second and Kevin Pillar doubled him home to tie the game at 4-4.

Ben Revere kept it even in the ninth with a diving catch that saw four Jays converge on a Steven Sousa Jr. fly ball.

Donaldson kept the Jays close in the eighth with a heady play, removing a man at third with no outs.

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Spieth wins Tour Championship and FedEx Cup

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Jordan Spieth treated the Tour Championship as if it were a major. He played like it was, too.

Looking for a fitting finish to a sensational season, Spieth poured in putts from all over East Lake and never gave Henrik Stenson or anyone else much of a chance Sunday. His final stroke was an 8-foot par putt that was right in the heart for a 1-under 69, and he leaned back with a smile of pure satisfaction.

The 22-year-old Texan became golf’s first $22 million man — a PGA Tour record with just over $12 million in prize money, and the $10 million bonus for the FedEx Cup. “This is incredible,” Spieth said.

“This is an event where we approach it like a major championship because we know this is possible at the end of it.”

Even when he missed back-to-back cuts to start the FedEx Cup playoffs, Spieth spent the month trying to peak for the most important event in the lucrative series. He was the first to show up at East Lake on Monday to

start grinding on his game. And with a one-shot lead going into the final round Sunday, he was on the putting green three hours before his tee time for what caddie Michael Greller called the “early grind.”

“We only do this at the majors,” Greller said.

It all paid off so handsomely, especially that putter.

Spieth made three birdies in a fourhole stretch around the turn, and they were demoralizing for Stenson. Spieth made a 20-foot birdie on No. 8 for a two-shot swing that he never gave back.

He made an 18-foot birdie on the par-5 ninth with Stenson already at tap-in range for birdie. And with Stenson just over 3 feet away for birdie on No. 11, Spieth curled in a 45-foot birdie putt.

“Eleven was a dagger,” Spieth said.

At that point, Stenson could only smile and bump fists with Spieth.

“You can’t expect him to make it,” Stenson said after a 72. “You’re feeling like you got a good chance to make up some ground. But he just poured that one in the middle. It’s fun to watch and

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just say, ‘Well done.’ The best player this week won the tournament, won the FedEx Cup.” Spieth closed with seven pars for a four-shot victory over Stenson, Danny Lee (65) and Justin Rose (66). His fifth victory of the year, which includes the Masters and the U.S. Open, was worth $1,485,000 million and gave Spieth $12,030,465 for the year.

The previous record was $10.9 million by Vijay Singh in 2004.

And if that wasn’t enough, Spieth went back to No. 1 in the world.

The first person to greet him was his little sister, Ellie, who keeps Spieth and the entire family so grounded in light of so much success. His parents, girlfriend, grandfather and a tight group of high school friends from Dallas were there to watch another amazing performance in a year filled with him.

Spieth became the youngest player since Horton Smith in 1929 to win five times in a season, and the youngest to claim the FedEx Cup title.

“It’s been a phenomenal year for him,” Stenson said. “I watched it firsthand at the first two rounds at Augus-

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ta, and he played phenomenal and putted phenomenal. And it was the same putting display, really, today — just an exhibition on the greens, to be honest.

“His putting and mental focus is the best in the world. It’s hard to argue that.”

And there’s no longer an argument for PGA Tour player of the year.

Jason Day had five victories, including his first major at the PGA Championship, and there was talk a sixth win and the FedEx Cup might put the Australian in the discussion. Not anymore. Spieth made a spirited bid for the Grand Slam and joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players to finish no worse than fourth in all the professional majors. Along with the money title, he won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average.

The only question he couldn’t answer was what he will do for an encore.

“This is one I cannot wait to celebrate,” he said.

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Reilly engineered comeback lifts Esks TAKES IN CLINCHING TWO-POINT CONVERT TO SEAL WIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 29 Lions 23 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos’ last couple of wins haven’t been pretty, but linebacker JC Sherritt said it’s only the end result that matters.

Mike Reilly engineered a thrilling late comeback and tossed a pair of touchdown passes as the Eskimos won their third game in a row, defeating the visiting B.C. Lions 29-23 on Saturday.

The Eskimos completed their comeback with two minutes remaining as Derel Walker made a huge 22-yard catch in the end zone on a pass from Reilly, who then took in the two-point convert himself.

“With the type of team we have, we always believe we’re going to win the football game,” Reilly said.

“We’re not the kind of team to hang our heads and give up and stuff like that.”

Edmonton (9-4) remains two points behind Calgary for first place in the West Division.

It was another scrappy win for the Eskimos after last week’s ugly 27-18 victory over Hamilton in which Reilly completed just seven of 22 passes for 49 yards.

On Saturday, the Eskimos overcame a sloppy first half that saw them get called for a some drive-killing offensive penalties before Reilly took over.

“Obviously, that first half we weren’t too proud of with the penalties and things like that,” Sherritt said. “That’s something we’ve got to clean up but at

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the end of the day, two points is two points.

“I’m just honestly really proud of the way we found a way to win because teams that can win ugly, that’s a great sign.”

It was the third loss in a row for the Lions, who dropped to 4-8.

“Any time you don’t get the win, it is frustrating,” said Jonathon Jennings, who made his first pro start at quarterback for the Lions. “We had a solid lead and just couldn’t pull it off.”

Lions running back Andrew Harris suffered a rib injury in the final second of the first quarter and did not return, but hopes to be back in the fray for a final push to the season.

“It’s still a bit tough to breathe, but I am going to give it some rest and hopefully I will be good to go next week,” he said. “We collectively fell apart at the end of the game and let it slip away, but that has kind of been our MO for this season. We need to buckle down and own October.”

The Lions took a 7-0 lead with four minutes left in the first as Jennings completed a 25-yard touchdown pass to Lavelle Hawkins.

After forcing the Esks to concede a safety, the Lions came back for more as Shaq Murray-Lawrence plunged in from the one-yard line.

Edmonton was able to finally generate some offence with two minutes left as Reilly found Kenny Stafford for a 10-yard passing major to make it 15-7 at the half.

B.C. had a solid drive to start the third quarter, but ended up settling for a single on a 15-yard Richie Leone field goal attempt.

The Lions made up for that with five-and-a-half minutes remaining as a Reilly pass was tipped and picked off and landed in the arms of Adam Bighill, setting up a 15-yard TD pass to Marco Iannuzzi on the next play.

The Eskimos responded to close out the third quarter trailing 23-15, after a long drive was capped off by a one-yard TD plunge by Jordan Lynch and two-point convert pass to Walker.

Edmonton inched even closer with 10 minutes left in the fourth with a 48-yard Sean Whyte field goal before Reilly and Walker completed the comeback.

Edmonton added another Whyte field goal with 15 seconds left for insurance.

Both teams return to action next Saturday as the Lions return home to face Saskatchewan and the Eskimos travel to Winnipeg.

Notes: The last time these two teams met, the Lions shut out the Eskimos in the second half on their way to a 26-23 victory. There was a completely different look at the QB position for that game, however, as the Lions had Travis Lulay and the Eskimos started Matt Nichols, who is now in Winnipeg… Jennings got the start with Lulay out with a knee injury and John Beck absent with a pectoral-muscle ailment.

The Jays got a standing ovation coming off the field after batting practice as well as in the third inning when they came out to salute the crowd as part of Fan Appreciation Weekend.

Mahtook homered for Tampa.

JAYS: Finish season with 53 home PGA: Stenson wins sinks 60-foot birdie He tagged out Mikie Mahtook at third as the Rays outfielder struggled to get back on a sharply hit grounder.

“That was huge too,” said Gibbons.

Opening the inning, Mahtook had singled, moved to second on an error and stolen third. A double play ended the Rays’ charge.

Smoak doubled home a run in the first inning and then hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Brandon Gomes to cut the Tampa lead to 4-3. Smoak’s 17th home run of the season upped his RBI total to a career-high 56.

Brett Cecil, the Jays’ fourth pitcher, pitched a scoreless ninth to improve to 4-5 with the win. The left-hander has not allowed an earned run in his last 29.1 innings.

Toronto ended up 53-28 at the Rogers Centre. Tampa (75-81) wrapped up the away portion of its season at 38-40, ending its five-season streak of going .500 or better on the road.

The 53 home wins match Toronto’s 1992 total and is second only to 1985 (54).

Toronto has been a juggernaut the last two months, going 41-15 since July 26 when it was 50-50.

Starter Mark Buehrle, who was 5-1 with a 2.94 ERA over his last 10 home starts, pitched six solid innings for the Jays. He gave up four runs on five hits with five strikeouts and one walk in a 90-pitch outing that featured 60 strikes.

The 36-year-old left-hander, a pending free agent, stands 8 2/3 innings shy of 200 innings for the 15th straight season. The only others to do it are Hall of Famers Don Sutton and Gaylord Perry.

The sellout crowd of 47,287 — the 12th straight and 27th sellout of 2015 — upped the season home total to 2,794,891, the club’s highest since 1995 (2,826,483).

Stenson made a $1 million putt of his own, though it was the least he could do. He was three shots behind when he shanked his shot from the 17th fairway and made double bogey.

That dropped him into a four-way tie for fourth and cost him a spot in the FedEx Cup ranking. But he bounced back with a 60-foot birdie putt on the 18th to go back to No. 2 in the FedEx Cup to earn a $3 million bonus (instead of $2 million for third).

Stenson had three runner-up finishes in the post-season, and he has five for the year without winning. He still has events left on the European Tour.

But this week — and year — was all about Spieth.

“It’s the greatest season I’ve ever had, obviously,” Spieth said. “But it’s one where I believe we took our game on course and off course to a level that I didn’t think would be possible at different times in my life.”

REBELS: Toth stands tall in net Toth finished with 18 saves, while Rebels back-up Trevor Martin stopped all three shots he faced during a three minute and 42 second stint in the second period.

“I wasn’t happy with the first goal on Tother,” said Sutter. “If we’re going to be a team that wants to limit scoring chances and not give up a lot of shots, our goalie has to be mentally into the game.

“I thought he needed to come out at that point and regroup on the bench.

Bollig scores twice in preseason tilt ROOKIE HUTTON CONTRIBUTES THREE ASSISTS IN FLAMES WIN

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Flames 4 Canucks 3 VANCOUVER — Brendan Gaunce is giving Canucks coach Willie Desjardins plenty to think about heading into the regular season.

Gaunce opened the scoring for the Canucks in a 4-3 pre-season loss to the Calgary Flames on Saturday.

He played on the wing alongside centre Bo Horvat and veteran Radim Vrbata on the second line, a sign of Desjardins’ growing confidence in the 21-year-old.

“He’s played well. He’s taken big strides from last year,” said Desjardins. “He skates well. He thinks the game well, which is good and that’s what we want to see.

“I think they did a great job developing him. We’ll keep watching him.”

Gaunce skated hard on a 3-on-2 rush to be at the right place when a hard Vrbata shot bounced off Karri Ramo’s pads and right to his stick in the slot for the tap in.

“It felt great. They make the game easy when you play with guys like them,” Gaunce said of his linemates.

“The offensive chances they create are pretty much every shift.”

Gaunce, a centre who had 11 goals and 29 points for the Utica Comets of the AHL last season, is hoping to see more ice time in the remaining four pre-season games. He played wing on Saturday and wants to further his case to the Canucks coaching staff for a spot on the regular-season roster.

“I left it all out there everyday since I’ve been here,” he said.

Josh Jooris scored in a 3-on-3 over-

time for the Flames, who won their second straight pre-season game over the Canucks. Calgary won Friday’s game 4-1 at home.

Brandon Bollig scored twice and Markus Granlund had a goal for the Flames (3-2-0) in regulation time.

Bollig’s performance was especially impressive considering he only had a single goal in 62 games for the Flames last season.

“I can tell you that Bolls’ role will not change,” said Calgary head coach Bob Hartley. “But I think his responsibilities will increase. He is in unbelievable shape. He is playing great and he has one of the best wrist shots in the league. It’s no accident right now.

And he deserves it.”

Horvat and Alex Friesen scored the other goals for Vancouver (1-2-1), while rookie defenceman Ben Hutton contributed three assists.

“I felt good out there tonight,” said Hutton. “A lot more comfortable than the first two games. Credit to my teammates, I was just giving them the puck and they were finishing it.”

Similar to Friday, Vancouver opened the scoring first when Gaunce tapped in a rebound at 9:55. It was the Canucks’ first even-strength goal of the pre-season.

Bollig tied it when he took a pass from Matt Stajan and lasered the puck through a gap between Ryan Miller and the post.

That Flames duo clicked again in the second. Stajan intercepted a clearing attempt by Miller, then found Bollig, who scored his second.

The Canucks tied it on the power play when Jared McCann, from the face-off circle, dished a nice pass to Horvat.

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Jordan Spieth and his caddie Michael Greller react as he sinks his a putt on the 18th green to win the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club, Sunday.

After we put him back in he played well, like he did last night.”

• Toth was beaten by Oil Kings veteran forward Brett Pollock just 40 seconds into Saturday’s season opener, but closed the door the rest of the way and finished with 23 saves.

Outshot 10-5 in the first period, the Rebels shook off their nervous start and owned the visitors over the final 40 minutes.

Spacek evened the count at 1-1 with a first-period goal and tallied again in the second period, as did Grayson Pawlenchuk. Jeff de Wit closed out the scoring with a goal at 6:18 of the final frame, beating Oil Kings goaltender Alec Dillon with a rebound of a shot by Evan Polei that clanked off the post.

“I think we were just too ready,” said Nikolishin of the Rebels’ slow start. “We were thinking about the game for the last five days. I think we just over-thought, but in the first in-

termission we talked among ourselves and figured it out.

“In the second and third periods we were dominating.”

The Rebels outshot their guests 2814 over the final 40 minutes and finished one-for-five on the power play. ” I thought we settled down as the game went on, especially in the second and third periods,” said Sutter.

“I don’t know if we really expected much more in the first. We only had one practice together with this group and the players only had one day together with their linemates.

“There was going to be some jitters early, just with it being our home opener. But our work ethic was good and as the game went on we did a lot of things better and our details were better. It’s the first game of a long marathon.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Oilers blank Wild MCDAVID PICKS UP THIRD PRESEASON POINT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 3 Wild 0 SASKATOON — He only had one assist, but Connor McDavid gave a glimpse of his potential to be an NHL star for the long haul.

The 18-year-old centre, from Newmarket, Ont., appeared in his second exhibition game of the 2015 NHL pre-season on Saturday at the SaskTel Centre and collected his third point as his Edmonton Oilers down the Minnesota Wild 3-0.

The first overall selection in June’s NHL Entry Draft picked up a secondary assist on the Oilers’ first goal before 7,541 spectators. He had two helpers in his pre-season debut on Monday in Edmonton, when the Oilers dumped the Calgary Flames 4-2.

On Saturday, McDavid made a number of impressive passing plays for scoring chances, and he created two breakaway opportunities, with one coming in the contest’s second period and the other in the third.

“I think I felt better today,” said McDavid, who had 44 goals and 76 assists in 47 regular season games with the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters last season. “I was a little bit nervous in the first game. I didn’t quite have it.

“I felt better today. I was able to generate some good stuff.”

McDavid showed off his playmaking ability in the opening 20 minutes.

First, while working in tight on the Wild goal, he slipped a nice drop pass to linemate Anton Slepyshev, who stalled for a second before getting a shot on goal.

The pair had a two-on-one a few minutes later, but Slepyshev fanned on a perfectly placed set-up from McDavid.

The Oilers broke through on the scoreboard late in the first thanks to

the line of McDavid, Slepyshev and Leon Draisaitl. Holding the puck in the left corner of the Wild zone, Draisaitl, after getting the puck from McDavid, centred a pass to Slepyshev, who put a shot past Wild netminder Darcy Kuemper.

“He (McDavid) looked very dangerous,” said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan. “We rolled four lines for the most of the night. When we did go to three, I thought he got better… You can tell that he is that type of player.

He has been used a lot. He probably plays better, when he is used more.

“Their line in my opinion was our best line. They were the most dangerous line in the rink. He is a pretty exciting player, when he gets the puck.”

Early in the second, McDavid had his first breakaway, but he was turned away by Kuemper, who was playing in front of a large number of hometown family and friends.

In the third, McDavid stole the puck from a Wild defender at the Minnesota blue line to create his second breakaway, but he fired a shot just wide of the goal.

“I had a couple of different chances,” said McDavid. “One has to hit the net. The other one I just have to bear down on it. It is my bad.”

The Oilers went up 2-0 shortly before the midway point of the third, when defenceman Oscar Klefbom floated an off-speed shot from the point to the top left corner of the Minnesota goal. Rob Klinkhammer rounded out the game’s scoring with an empty-net goal with 2:16 to play in the third.

Wild centre Erik Haula scored in a practice three-on-three overtime session that followed the contest.

Kuemper stopped 27 of 29 shots in goal for the Wild. Anders Nilsson made 25 stops in the Oilers net. Nilsson was pleased to get the shutout.

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Chiefs ready for regular season The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs closed out their Alberta Midget Hockey League preseason schedule on a positive note Sunday at the Arena, downing the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers 5-3.

Josh Tarzwell tallied twice for the winners, who broke a 1-1 tie with three second-period goals. Josh McNeil, Landon Siegle and Kobe Scott notched the other Red Deer goals, while Tyrees Goodrunning and Dayton Playford were each credited with a pair of assists.

Justin Travis made 26 saves in the Chiefs net as the hosts held a 36-29 advantage in shots. Fort Saskatchewan was assessed five of nine minor penalties.

The Optimist Chiefs’ regular-season opener is Friday versus the visiting Calgary Buffaloes. Game time is 8 p.m.

Ringette competition stung Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

The Central Alberta U19 AA Sting got a hat-trick outing from Kristen Demale in a 6-1 preseason ringette win over the host Calgary U19 AA squad during the weekend.

Jill Dreger added two goals and Shaelyn Baxter scored once for the Sting.

Meanwhile, the Central Alberta U14 AA team posted a 3-1 record during a weekend tournament at Calgary, opening with a 6-0 win over Sherwood Park. Scoring for the Sting were Kate Roscoe with two goals, Ashlin Caine, Carly Cherniak, Megan Grubb and Shaelynn Law. From there, Hannah Murray netted the Sting’s lone goal in a 10-1 loss to Calgary Zizakovic, and Roscoe, Cherniak and Grubb each scored three goals in a 13-6 victory over Big Country.

Julia Dawes tallied twice and Murray and Tory Towers also connected.

The Sting closed out with a 4-2 triumph over Calgary Wasylyniuk, getting two goals from Cherniak and singles courtesy of Dawes and Grubb.

Boyes stays, Marner, Glencross and Setoguchi cut TORONTO — First-round draft pick Mitch Marner was reassigned to the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday.

The 18-year-old Marner was drafted fourth overall on June 26.

Toronto’s current training camp roster includes a total of 23 forwards, 15 defencemen and four goaltenders.

One of those forwards is 33-yearold Brad Boyes, who the Maple Leafs signed to a one-year contract on Sunday. He was originally invited to training camp with Toronto on a professional try-out.

Boyes appeared in 78 regular season games last season with the Florida Panthers, with 14 goals and 24 assists.

He has 203 goals and 278 assists in 762 career NHL games with the San Jose Sharks, Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders and Florida.

Boyes was originally selected by Toronto in the first round (24th overall) of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft.

Also cut from Toronto were veteran forwards Curtis Glencross and Devin

Nolan Larson of the Red Deer Parkland Transmission Chiefs, chased by Tanner Goldof the Medicine Hat Hounds, looks to make a shot on net during Pee Wee AA action at the Kinsmen Arenas Saturday. The Hounds defeated the Chiefs 10-4. Parkland led 2-1 after one period and the teams were tied 3-3 after 40 minutes. Larson scored one of the Red Deer goals, with the others coming from Ty Daneault, Pierce Deditch and Nate Danielson.

Parkland netminder Ryder Graham made 35 saves as the hosts were outshot 45-25.

Setoguchi, who were released from their professional try-out contracts.

Goaltender Rob Madore was reassigned to the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League.

Three goals in 10 minutes secures Calgary Canucks win OLDS — Calgary Canucks forwards Kyler Magnus and Zach McNeill scored in the final 10 minutes to secure a 4-1 Alberta Hockey Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys Saturday.

Michael Clarke and Dalton Ossman notched second-period goals for the Canucks in front of 513 fans at the Sportsplex. The first period was scoreless.

Chase Olsen got the Grizzlys on the board at 5:02 of the final frame, but the two late goals clinched the win for the visitors, who were one-for-seven on the power play. The Grizzlys were zero-forseven with a man advantage.

Winning netminder Logan Drackett turned aside 28 shots. Kurtis Chapman made 34 saves for Olds.

The Grizzlys host the Canmore Eagles Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Roanic wins first title in over a year ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Canada’s Milos Raonic won the St. Petersburg Open on Sunday with a gruelling three-set victory over Joao Sousa in the final.

The big-serving Raonic, seeded second, hit 22 aces as he held off stern pressure from Sousa to wrap up a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win.

The Thornhill, Ont., native dominated the first set, but lost a thrilling second in which Sousa saved seven break points in his first two service games before becoming the first player to break Raonic’s serve at the St. Petersburg tournament.

Raonic went a break up on seventh-

seeded Sousa’s first service game in the decider and saved six break points on his own serve as he held on for the win.

Raonic’s first title since the Washington Open in August 2014 strengthens his slim hopes of reaching the ATP Finals. He is now No. 9-ranked but is well behind the top eight in the year-to-date ranking used to determine tour finals qualification.

Raonic is now 7-8 in tour finals, while Sousa drops to 1-5, without a win since his first final at the 2013 Malaysian Open.

Earlier Sunday, Treat Huey of the Philippines and Henri Kontinen of Finland won the St. Petersburg doubles title, beating the Austrian duo of Julian Knowle and Alexander Peya 7-5, 6-3.

The St. Petersburg Open is a $1 million hard-court event that returned to the ATP calendar this season following a one-year absence. The tournament was moved to Israel last year but that event did not take place due to violence in the Gaza Strip.

Breazeale remains unbeaten with unanimous decision BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Heavyweight Dominic Breazeale withstood a strong effort from undersized Fred Kassi to post a 10-round unanimous decision Saturday night and remain undefeated.

Breazeale (16-0), a member of the 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team, won easily on all three scorecards, even though Kassi was the aggressor for much of the first half of the fight.

Despite giving up six inches and 35 pounds to Breazeale, Kassi (18-41) was willing to go toe-to-toe with the Californian. This quickly earned him the support of the crowd, which repeatedly chanted, “Let’s go Fred!

Let’s go Fred!”

Kassi landed a number of solid shots to the head in the second and fourth rounds. But the Cameroon

native appeared to tire after that, and Breazeale dominated the final four rounds.

This was only the second time in his professional career that Breazeale has won by a decision.

The fight was on the undercard of the Deontay Wilder-Johann Duhaupas WBC heavyweight title match.

Toronto-native Bennett signs with hometown Raptors TORONTO — Anthony Bennett is coming home to play.

The 22-year-old from Toronto announced on Twitter that he has signed with the Raptors, confirming a move that has been the subject of speculation for the past couple of days.

“Glad to officially be a part of the Raptors organization, Excited to get this year started !!! .LetsGo,” Bennett tweeted.

Bennett reportedly signed a oneyear, league-minimum deal.

The Canadian has had a rough two seasons in the NBA since he was the surprise No. 1 overall pick drafted by Cleveland in 2013.

He battled injuries in both his rookie season with the Cavaliers, and second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he landed in the Kevin Love deal.

Bennett averaged 5.2 points and 3.8 rebounds in 57 games for the Timberwolves last season.

The UNLV product got a fresh start with Canada’s national team over the summer, playing well at both the Pan American Games in Toronto and the FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico City.

He joins fellow Toronto native Cory Joseph with the Raptors, who hold their season-opening media day Monday.

Pac-12 after dark turns horrific for Oregon and Arizona BIG 12 GOES BATTY IN WILD SATURDAY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pac-12 after dark was a horror show for No. 13 Oregon and No. 16 Arizona as No.18 Utah and No. 9 UCLA turned the only games matching ranked teams on Saturday into routs.

The Utes (4-0) put a record-breaking beat down on the Ducks at Autzen Stadium, pounding Oregon 62-20.

After a week spent discussing whether Alabama was on the decline after the Crimson Tide lost at home, maybe it’s time to start having that conversation about Oregon in the postChip Kelly and post-Marcus Mariota era.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Ducks look done before October even starts. The last time the Ducks (2-2) lost two games in September was 2004. They finished 5-6 that season, the only losing record for the program since 1993.

If quarterback Vernon Adams can get healthy and the defence can figure out a way to plug massive holes, Oregon could still win the Pac-12 North.

But the Ducks have a long way to bounce back from allowing the most points ever by an opponent ever in Autzen.

In Tucson, Arizona, the Bruins (4-0) hammered the Wildcats 56-30 and ran coach Jim Mora’s record against Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez to 4-0.

Despite losing three key players on defence to injury, including star linebacker Myles Jack, the Bruins have rolled behind freshman quarterback Josh Rosen.

Add in No. 19 Southern California’s 42-14 blowout at Arizona State and it was an all-around bad day for the Grand Canyon State’s big two.

Overall road teams went 5-0 in Pac12 games. There are plenty of huge games left to in the Pac-12. Hopefully, they will be more competitive than Saturday night’s. And Oregon fans can only hope their team will be involved

in a few of them.

BONKERS BIG 12 For anyone who thought the Big 12 was TCU, Baylor and everybody else, think again.

The third-ranked Horned Frogs needed one of the most improbable bounces and one of the most amazing catches you will ever see to get out of Lubbock, Texas, with a 55-52 victory against Texas Tech on Saturday.

TCU staying undefeated in what could turn out to be the game of the season was the big initial story. The long-term significance is the Red Raiders (3-1) look as if we’ll hear from them again.

Against the team that dropped 82 on them last year, the Red Raiders went blow for blow with Trevone Boykin and the Horned Frogs only to watch Aaron Green make a diving catch off a deflection in the end zone for the goahead TD with 23 seconds left.

“He saved us, so we’re 4-0,” TCU star receiver Josh Doctson said about Green.

Then Tech nearly completed a Bahamas Bowl-style last-play miracle as if things weren’t crazy enough in Lubbock.

Next week Texas Tech gets No. 5 Baylor at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Watch out Bears.

The other Big 12 team rising looks to be West Virginia. The Mountaineers moved to 3-0 with a 45-6 victory against Maryland. Coach Dana Holgorsen’s drew the short straw of the Big 12 schedule, getting TCU and Baylor on the road later this season.

Throw in No. 15 Oklahoma, which hosts West Virginia next week, and No. 24 Oklahoma State (4-0) and the Big 12 could become a battle of attrition. And that could be a problem in the playoff race for the conference that missed out last season despite two dominant teams.

BIG GAME IN … BLOOMINGTON? Cardale Jones had the Ohio State quarterback job mostly to himself and

the Buckeyes looked a lot more like the team they were expected to be Saturday in a 38-12 victory against Western Michigan.

The Buckeyes (4-0) now move on to a big game against — wait for it — undefeated Indiana (4-0). The Hooisers won 31-24 at Wake Forest to set up the most interesting game in Bloomington in as long as anyone can remember.

Indiana’s start is its best since 1990, though quarterback Nate Sudfeld and the Hoosiers are taking it all in stride.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but it’s good to be 4-0,” Sudfeld.

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ESPN’s College GameDay to Bloomington sprung up last week, though the network might have a difficult time staying away from No. 6 Notre Dame’s visit to No. 11 Clemson.

Regardless of whether they get the spotlight, the Hoosiers’ fast start is helping Ohio State. The Buckeyes schedule has taken plenty of shots from fans and a few Southeastern Conference coaches. But with Indiana unbeaten, Michigan quickly improving and Penn State bouncing back after being upset by Temple, suddenly the Buckeyes’ schedule doesn’t look quite so cushy.

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Romo-less Cowboys can’t withstand Falcons attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARLINGTON, Texas — Matt Ryan and Julio Jones connected for two touchdowns, Devonta Freeman ran for 141 yards and three scores, and the Atlanta Falcons beat Dallas 39-28 Sunday in the Cowboys’ first game without Tony Romo and Dez Bryant.

Freeman’s third score early in the fourth quarter capped a rally from a trio of 14-point deficits for the Falcons (3-0), who didn’t win their third game until Week 10 last year, and Week 13 in 2013.

Jones had his third straight 100-yard game to start the season, finishing with 164 and a clinching 2-yard score in the fourth quarter.

The Cowboys (2-1) had a six-game winning streak in the regular season snapped in backup quarterback Brandon Weeden’s ninth straight loss as a starter.

Weeden completed his first 16 passes to start the season, but the run ended with a second-quarter interception that turned the game in the Falcons’ favour.

STEELERS 12, RAMS 6 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger was carted off the field with a knee injury in the second half and Pittsburgh’s defence came through.

Le’Veon Bell scored from a yard out in the first half in his first game back after a suspension, but the Steelers’ focus will be on the status of their star quarterback. Roethlisberger’s leg got caught underneath him on a diving, sliding sack by Mark Barron.

There was no immediate word on the extent of Roethlisberger’s injury.

PATRIOTS 51, JAGUARS 17 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady became the fourth quarterback in NFL history to throw 400 touchdown passes, connecting for a pair of scores.

Brady completed a 1-yard TD pass to Danny Amendola in the second quarter and added a 13-yard touchdown to Keshawn Martin in the third.

In all, Brady completed 33 of 42 passes for 358 yards.

Rob Gronkowski caught four passes for 101 yards for the Patriots (3-0). LeGarrette Blount ran for three 1-yard touchdowns.

BRONCOS 24, LIONS 12 DETROIT (AP) — Peyton Manning converted a fourth down with a 45-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas with 5 seconds left in the first half, and threw an 11-yard TD pass to Owen Daniels with 2:28 remaining.

The last time the Broncos (3-0) won their first three games was in 2013, when they reached the Super Bowl.

The Lions (0-3) are off to their worst start since 2010, when they finished 6-10.

Aqib Talib blocked an extra-point kick early in the second quarter to keep Denver’s one-point lead.

The Broncos later stopped a 2-point conversion run, keeping them ahead

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St. Louis Rams running back Tre Mason tries to leap over a tackle attempt by Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Antwon Blake in the third quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

14-12 early in the third quarter.

SEAHAWKS 26, BEARS 0 SEATTLE (AP) — Tyler Lockett returned the second-half kickoff 105 yards for a touchdown, Russell Wilson connected with Jimmy Graham on a 30-yard TD, and the Seahawks routed the undermanned Bears.

Seattle led just 6-0 at halftime after an offensive performance that led to a cascade of boos. Lockett started a huge second half as he went untouched on a perfectly executed return, the longest in franchise history. Later in the quarter, Wilson found Graham across the middle for his second touchdown catch this season.

Steven Hauschka added four field goals and the Seahawks started the process of erasing an 0-2 start.

Chicago (0-3) was shut out for the first time since 2002 and the fourth time since 1990. Jimmy Clausen started at quarterback in place of Jay Cutler and was 9 of 17 for 63 yards.

CARDINALS 47, 49ERS 7 GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Carson Palmer threw for 311 yards and Arizona returned two of Colin Kaepernick’s first four passes for touchdowns.

Larry Fitzgerald caught nine passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns and Chris Johnson rushed for 110 yards and two scores for the Cardinals (3-0), who won at Chicago 48-23 last week.

It’s the first time the franchise has had two 40-point victories in a row since 1969 and its largest margin of victory since a 44-0 win over Houston in 1970.

Kaepernick threw a career-worst four interceptions, two by Tyrann Mathieu, and finished 9 for 19 for 67 yards.

Justin Bethel returned the first one 21 yards for a touchdown and Mathieu

ran untouched 33 yards for another score.

BILLS 41, DOLPHINS 14 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyrod Taylor threw for 277 yards and three scores in his first NFL road start.

The Bills totalled 429 yards, intercepted Ryan Tannehill three times in the first half, and led 27-0 before Miami scored late in the third quarter.

Buffalo (2-1) bounced back from a dismal loss at home to New England.

The Dolphins (1-2), who began the season with high hopes of ending a seven-year playoff drought, fell into last place in the AFC East with their second consecutive loss.

The Bills improved to 5-2 against Miami over the past four years.

They’re 18-26 against everyone else during that span.

TEXANS 19, BUCCANEERS 9 HOUSTON (AP) — Ryan Mallett threw for threw for 228 yards and a touchdown and Alfred Blue had 139 yards rushing for Houston’s first win of the season.

Mallett gave Houston (1-2) the lead on a 5-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins on the opening drive. The Buccaneers (1-2) went up 9-7 on a TD catch by Charles Sims in the second quarter.

Bucs kicker Kyle Brindza, who made a 58-yard field goal early in the second quarter, missed an extra point and three field goals in the second half.

Jameis Winston threw for 261 yards with a touchdown and an interception for Tampa Bay. EAGLES 24, JETS 17 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Darren Sproles returned a punt 89 yards for a score and added a 1-yard touchdown run for Philadelphia’s first

win.

Sam Bradford threw a TD pass to Ryan Mathews, who also rushed for 108 yards while starting in place of the injured DeMarco Murray.

The Eagles (1-2) improved to 10-0 all-time against the Jets (2-1), who were coming off a victory at Indianapolis last Monday night.

RAIDERS 27, BROWNS 20 CLEVELAND (AP) — Derek Carr threw two touchdown passes, Latavius Murray rushed for 139 yards and Oakland snapped an 11-game road losing streak.

Carr connected with Andre Holmes and Seth Roberts in the first half and the Raiders (2-1) held off a late Cleveland comeback to win their first road game since Nov. 17, 2013.

The Browns (1-2) were driving for a tying TD in the final minute, but Charles Woodson intercepted Josh McCown with 38 seconds left BENGALS 28, RAVENS 24 BALTIMORE (AP) — Andy Dalton threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Green with 2:10 left, and Cincinnati remained unbeaten. Baltimore dropped to 0-3 for the first time in franchise history.

The Bengals (3-0) blew a 14-0 lead and twice trailed in the fourth quarter before Dalton brought them back by repeatedly picking apart the porous Baltimore pass defence.

Dalton went 20 for 32 for 383 yards and three touchdowns. His favourite target was Green, who finished with 10 catches for a career-high 227 yards and two scores.

COLTS 35, TITANS 33 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes 56 seconds apart in the fourth quarter as he rallied Indianapolis.

Luck improved to 7-0 against Tennessee with another stunning comeback. The Colts (1-2) trailed 27-14 before Luck got going.

PANTHERS 27, SAINTS 22 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton threw for 315 yards and a pair of touchdowns to tight end Greg Olsen and also ran for a score.

Luke McCown, starting in place of the injured Drew Brees, completed 31 of 38 passes for 310 yards but it wasn’t enough to save the Saints (0-3). It was the first game Brees has missed because of injury since joining the Saints in 2006.

Newton ran for a 13-yard TD on a bootleg as the Panthers started 3-0 for the first time since reaching the Super Bowl in the 2003 season.

VIKINGS 31, CHARGERS 14 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson plowed through San Diego’s defence for 126 yards and two touchdowns on 20 rushes in three quarters.

Chad Greenway scored on a 91-yard interception return for the Vikings (21). The Chargers are 1-2.

Rivers was pulled for Kellen Clemens midway through the fourth quarter when the deficit reached 24 points.

Argos score 11 in fourth quarter HANG ON FOR WIN OVER REDBLACKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Saskatchewan Roughriders, left to right, Jermarcus Hardrick, wide receiver Weston Dressler and wide receiver Rob Bagg celebrate Bagg’s touchdown against the Montreal Alouettes during first half CFL action in Regina on Sunday

Harris’ three picks pave way for Riders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 33 Alouettes 21 REGINA — It had been a long time since Macho Harris had a game like he did on Sunday.

The Saskatchewan linebacker tied a Roughriders record with three interceptions in a game — bringing one back for a touchdown — as Saskatchewan beat the visiting Montreal Alouettes 33-21 at Mosaic Stadium.

“I’ve never had three interceptions in a game and the last time I had a touchdown was back in my senior year at Virgina Tech,” said Harris, who only had one career interception in the CFL prior to Sunday.

Harris picked off Alouettes quarterback Jonathan Crompton on the first drive of the game at the Riders 46-yard line and brought it back 26 yards. On the next play, Kevin Glenn hit Rob Bagg for a 38-yard TD strike. Paul McCallum missed the convert wide right.

Jerome Messam rattled off 111 rushing yards and scored one TD for Saskatchewan (2-11), which kept its slim playoff hopes alive. The Alouettes (5-7) failed to keep pace in the tight East Division.

Following a Montreal single on the next drive, Glenn went deep again, hooking up with Naaman Roosevelt for 49 yards — leading to a 24-yard McCallum field goal at 7:17 of the first quarter to increase the lead to 9-1. Roosevelt (three catches for 68 yards) and Bagg (three catches for 63 yards) led all Riders receivers.

Harris’s second interception of the game with 1:16 left in the first half led to a 14-yard McCallum field

goal, giving Saskatchewan a 15-1 lead at half.

After going 8-for-18 with 97 yards and two interceptions, Crompton was pulled to start the second half in favour of Rakeem Cato.

The change didn’t benefit Montreal, as Cato tossed up an interception at 4:37 in the third quarter to Harris, who returned his third pick of the game 50 yards for a TD — putting the game out of reach.

“Macho brings it every single week,” Riders interim head coach Bob Dyce said. “He’s a smart guy and can play any position in the secondary. It may not be seen outside of the room as much, but Macho is also one of the biggest leaders on this team.”

While no CFL team has ever made the playoffs following a 1-11 start, Harris hopes his performance can inspire the team.

“We know it’s still possible,” Harris said.

“We knew if we came out and won this game it would mean a lot. At 2-11, people are probably counting us out, but at the end of the day we still believe.”

S.J. Green (four catches for 78 yards) and Brandon Rutley (16 carries for 73 yards) were the top offensive performers for the Alouettes, which are now two wins behind the nearest team in the East. The team still leads in the crossover standings, however.

“It’s very disappointing. As quarterbacks we’ve got to be making the right reads and right throws,” said Cato, who finished 14 for 21 with 170 yards, one touchdown and a pair of picks. “We’ve just got to remain mentally sharp, mentally sound and focus on tomorrow. We have to come in and watch film and get better as a unit.”

Argonauts 35 Redblacks 26 OTTAWA — Saturday’s 35-26 loss to the Toronto Argonauts certainly wasn’t the way the Ottawa Redblacks wanted to start a stretch of three games in 11 days.

Justin Palardy gave Toronto some breathing room with a 50-yard field goal, and the Argonauts hung on for the win over the Redblacks.

The Redblacks host the Montreal Alouettes on Thursday and then have a rematch against the Argonauts on Aug. 6 in a game that was switched from Toronto to Ottawa because of a potential conflict with the Toronto Blue Jays.

“We’re going to be smart about how we do it physically,” Redblacks coach Rick Campbell said.

“But there’s a whole bunch of important football games coming up, we can’t sit around and sulk for too long. It’s going to be time to get back at it on Monday.”

The win ended Toronto’s three-game losing skid and halted Ottawa’s winning streak at three as the Argos pulled into a second-place tie with the Redblacks in the East Division. Both clubs have 7-5 records.

“They were the better football team,” Cambell said of the Argonauts.

“They came out and they were faster than us in the first half. We came out and the second half and challenged them in but we were never able to find enough plays to win the game.”

A 74-yard single from Mike Palardy, a one-yard touchdown run from Adrian MacPherson and Justin Palardy’s field goal, all in the fourth quarter, gave the Argos enough points to keep the Redblacks at bay.

The only points the Redblacks were able to put up in the fourth came in the form of a five-yard touchdown pass from Henry Burris to Greg Ellingson, but the failed extra point left the home side trailing 3226.

After Justin Palardy’s field goal with less than four minutes to play, the Redblacks saw their last two drives end on an interception and the end of regulation. The first half went pretty much the Argos’ way as they took a 24-10 lead into the break.

The Argos scored on the opening drive of the game when Trevor Harris hooked up with Kevin Elliott on an eight-yard touchdown pass.

The Redblacks got the ball and promptly went two-and-out, and the ensuing punt from Brett Maher was returned 87 yards for a touchdown by Chad Owens for a 14-0 lead.

“We’re prone to dig ourselves into a hole early and it was big for us to jump out to a lead real quick,” Harris said.

“We got a win and that’s all that really matters.

It’s not easy to win in this league, on the road especially against a team like that.”

The Redblacks offence was able to do enough on their next drive to set up a 39-yard field goal from Chris Milo, and on the next Toronto drive Harris had a pass tipped and then intercepted by Domasa Munoz and returned 40 yards for a touchdown.

SCOREBOARD

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MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 2015

Local Sports Hockey Tuesday ● AJHL: Canmore at Olds, 7 p.m.

Thursday ● High school football: Sylvan Lake at Stettler, 4 p.m.; Ponoka at Wetaskiwin, 6 p.m. ● Senior high volleyball: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.

Friday ● Women’s preseason college volleyball: The King’s University of Edmonton at RDC, 4:30 p.m.

WHL: Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● High school football: Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Lindsay Thurber at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Midget AA hockey: Central Alberta at Olds, 7:30 p.m.; Bow Valley at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 8:30 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● Midget AAA hockey: Calgary Buffaloes at Red Deer, 8 p.m., Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Ponoka at Three Hills, 8 p.m,

Saturday ● Minor midget AAA hockey: Calgary Stampeders at Red Deer North Star, 11:30 a.m., Arena; Calgary Rangers at Red Deer Strata Energy, 2 p.m., Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Red Deer TBS, 12:30 p.m., Kinsmen A; Okotoks at Olds, 1 p.m. ● College men’s hockey: Briercrest at RDC, 1:30 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex. ● Midget AA hockey: Airdrie at Red Deer Indy Graphics, 2:45 p.m., Arena; Red Deer Elks at West Central, 8 p.m, Sylvan Lake. ● Bantam AA hockey: Okotoks at Olds, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Ramada at West Central, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles tournament — Fort Saskatchewan vs. Innisfail, 5 p.m.; Bentley vs. Stony Plain, 8 p.m. ● WHL: Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Heritage junior B hockey: High River at Stettler, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday ● Major bantam hockey: Calgary Northstars at Red Deer, noon, Arena. ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Olds, 12:15 p.m.; Airdrie at Red Deer TBS, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Chinook senior hockey: Innisfail Eagles tournament — Fort Saskatchewan vs. Stony Plain, 1 p.m.; Bentley vs. Innisfail, 4 p.m. ● Bantam AA hockey: Red Deer Ramada at Red Deer Steel Kings, 1:45 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills at Central Alberta, 2 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Strathmore at Blackfalds, 3:30 p.m.; Banff Academy at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Arena. ● Midget AA hockey: Olds at Central Alberta, 4 p.m., Lacombe.

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Purse: $2 million Esteban Toledo Tom Watson Vijay Singh Woody Austin Colin Montgomerie Olin Browne Fred Couples David Frost Jeff Sluman Scott McCarron Mark O’Meara Rod Spittle Tom Byrum Tom Lehman Jesper Parnevik Wes Short, Jr. John Cook Fred Funk Jay Haas Kevin Sutherland Duffy Waldorf Marco Dawson Michael Allen Stephen Ames Tommy Armour III Mark Brooks Roger Chapman Scott Dunlap Mike Goodes Jeff Hart Sandy Lyle Jeff Maggert Mark McNulty Steve Pate Craig Stadler Bobby Wadkins Willie Wood

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WHL All Times Mountain EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Saskatoon 2 1 0 1 0 12 8 3 Brandon 2 1 0 0 1 5 3 3 Moose Jaw 2 1 0 1 0 5 4 3 Regina 2 1 1 0 0 4 5 2 Prince Albert 2 1 1 0 0 8 12 2 Swift Current 2 1 1 0 0 3 5 2 GP Red Deer 2 Calgary 2 Lethbridge 2 Medicine Hat 2 Edmonton 2 Kootenay 2

CENTRAL DIVISION W L OTL SOL GF 2 0 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 8 1 1 0 0 6 0 1 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 2

GA Pt 3 4 2 4 6 2 8 2 7 1 5 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OT SOL GF GA Pt Vancouver 2 2 0 0 0 8 4 4 Victoria 2 2 0 0 0 10 6 4 Kelowna 3 2 1 0 0 13 11 4 P. George 2 1 1 0 0 5 3 2 Kamloops 2 0 2 0 0 6 11 0

Spokane Everett Seattle Tri-City Portland

GP 1 2 1 1 2

W 1 1 0 0 0

U.S. DIVISION L OTL SOL GF 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 6

GA Pt 4 2 5 2 3 0 6 0 10 0

z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Sunday’s results Red Deer 3 Edmonton 2 (OT) Prince George 5 Everett 1 Vancouver 5 Kelowna 2

Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

Everett at Portland, 8 p.m.

Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Goal — Red Deer: Toth (W, 0-0-0) Edmonton: Dea (LS, 0-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Red Deer: 2-8 Edmonton: 0-3.

Referees — Kyle Kowalski, Derek Zalaski.

Linesmen — Scott Fulmer, Darren Spurgeon.

Attendance — 7,216 at Edmonton.

Sunday, October 4 Vancouver at Saskatoon, 2 p.m.

Swift Current at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Regina, 4 p.m.

Kelowna at Lethbridge, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.

Cougars 5, Silvertips 1 First Period 1. Prince George, McAuley 1 (Ruopp, Almeida) 17:32.

Penalties — Bethune PG (hooking) 11:48.

Second Period 2. Prince George, Ross 1 (Hopkins) 8:37.

3. Prince George, Gabrielle 1 (Olson, Carvalho) 13:44 (pp).

4. Prince George, Witala 1 (Bison, Anderson) 16:24.

Penalties — McAuley PG (interference) 4:09, Mallonee Eve (boarding) 12:07, Fonteyne Eve (roughing) 19:59, Gabrielle PG (roughing) 19:59.

Third Period 5. Everett, Fonteyne 1 (Macdonald, Bajkov) 4:05.

6. Prince George, Gabrielle 2 (Harkins, Olson) 8:46 (pp).

Penalties — Sutter Eve (slashing) 7:54, Dewar Eve (interference) 11:21, Ross PG (roughing) 19:33.

Rebels 4, Oil Kings 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Pollock 1 (unassisted) :40.

2. Red Deer, Spacek 1 (Kopeck) 6:57.

Penalties — Musil RD (boarding) 10:21, Gable Edm (boarding) 13:01, Mayo Edm (tripping) 15:06, Strand RD (elbowing) 17:57, Bobyk RD (slashing) 20:00.

Second Period 3. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 1 (unassisted) :44.

4. Red Deer, Spacek 2 (Musil, Nikolishin) 3:21 (pp).

Penalties — Robertson Edm (cross-checking) 2:06, Strand RD (roughing) 13:33, Pollock Edm (roughing) 13:33, Patterson Edm (hooking) 19:08.

Third Period 5. Red Deer, De Wit 1 (Polei, Bobyk) 6:18.

Penalties — Baddock Edm (holding) 16:57, Irving Edm (cross-checking) 20:00.

Shots on goal by Edmonton 10 7 7 — 24 Red Deer 5 13 15 — 33 Goal — Edmonton: Dillon (L, 0-0-0) Red Deer: Toth (W, 0-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Edmonton: 0-3 Red Deer: 1-5.

Referees — Matt Cassidy, Chris Crich.

Linesmen — Chad Huseby, Cody Huseby.

Attendance — 6,399 at Red Deer.

Rebels 3, Oil Kings 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Carroll Edm (holding) 3:51, Irving Edm (cross-checking) 15:09, Musil RD (slashing) 16:10.

Second Period 1. Red Deer, Bobyk 1 (Spacek, Nikolishin) 3:59 (pp).

2. Edmonton, Bauer 1 (Pollock, Irving) 6:41.

Penalties — Baddock Edm (hooking) 1:28, Mayo Edm (delay of game) 2:04, Polei RD (tripping) 12:32.

Saturday’s results Calgary 1 Kootenay 0 Red Deer 4 Edmonton 1 Prince Albert 6 Saskatoon 5 (OT) Regina 3 Moose Jaw 2 (OT) Brandon 4 Swift Current 1 Medicine Hat 5 Lethbridge 3 Kelowna 7 Kamloops 3 Victoria 6 Portland 5 Spokane 6 Tri-City 4 Friday, October 2 Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, October 3 Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Shots on goal by Everett 8 11 7 — 26 Prince George 11 9 9 — 29 Goal — Everett: Hart (L, 0-0-0) Prince George: Shields (W, 0-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Everett: 0-3 Prince George: 2-3.

Referees — Fraser Lawrence, Jonathan Spurgeon.

Linesmen — Greg Chornohus, Tom Henetiuk.

Attendance — 2,290 at Prince George.

Giants 5, Rockets 2 First Period 1. Vancouver, Crunk 1 (Kirichenko, Popoff) 14:43.

2. Vancouver, Odgers 1 (Holt, Thrower) 18:12.

Penalties — Odgers Van (hooking) 0:38, Roach Van (checking from behind) 10:21, Ballhorn Kel (tripping) 15:50.

Second Period 3. Vancouver, Bondra 2 (Stukel, Menell) :37.

4. Vancouver, McKinstry 1 (Popoff) 4:42 (pp).

5. Vancouver, Houck 1 (Bondra, Barberis) 5:35 (pp).

6. Kelowna, Johansen 1 (Baillie, Quinney) 13:03 (pp).

Penalties — Dube Kel (game misconduct) 0:37, Dube Kel (Major-Kneeing) 0:37, Baer Van (interference) 11:59, Soustal Kel (tripping) 14:47.

Third Period 3. Edmonton, Robertson 1 (unassisted) 9:40.

4. Red Deer, Nikolishin 1 (Spacek, Bobyk) 19:39 (pp).

Penalties — De Wit RD (tripping) 2:21, Bauer Edm (interference) 3:14, Carroll Edm (tripping) 6:24, Irving Edm (delay of game) 14:39, Koep Edm (hooking) 19:23.

Overtime 5. Red Deer, Spacek 3 (Mahura) :38.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Red Deer 19 8 14 1 — 42 Edmonton 4 13 6 0 — 23

Third Period 7. Kelowna, Soustal 4 (Kirkland, Lind) 3:04.

Penalties — Stukel Van (hooking) 0:41, Ronning Van (kneeing) 4:48, Crunk Van (tripping) 8:16, Odgers Van (roughing) 20:00.

Shots on goal by Kelowna 5 11 9 — 25 Vancouver 7 19 5 — 31 Goal — Kelowna: Herringer (L, 0-1-0) Vancouver: Lee (W, 0-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Kelowna: 1-6 Vancouver: 2-3.

NHL Preseason Conference Glance

Minnesota 6, Detroit 2 Cleveland 9, Kansas City 5 L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 2

Detroit at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts 4 4 0 0 8 4 3 1 0 6 4 3 1 0 6 3 2 0 1 5 4 2 0 2 6 4 2 1 1 5 5 3 2 0 6 5 3 2 0 6 5 2 2 1 5 4 2 2 0 4 4 2 2 0 4 4 1 1 2 4 6 2 4 0 4 4 1 2 1 3 5 1 3 1 3 5 1 4 0 2

Boston Philadelphia Buffalo Washington Detroit N.Y. Rangers Toronto Florida Columbus Carolina Pittsburgh Montreal N.Y. Islanders Tampa Bay Ottawa New Jersey

GF 12 17 17 7 17 16 14 13 11 10 11 6 15 11 14 11

GA 7 11 15 5 11 15 12 15 14 13 13 11 22 15 18 16

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 5 5 0 0 10 17 8 Nashville 4 3 0 1 7 15 9 Chicago 4 3 1 0 6 14 10 Los Angeles 4 3 1 0 6 11 6 Minnesota 5 3 2 0 6 16 9 Calgary 5 3 2 0 6 12 11 Anaheim 3 2 0 1 5 8 7 San Jose 4 2 1 1 5 9 4 St. Louis 4 2 2 0 4 13 8 Colorado 3 1 1 1 3 6 7 Vancouver 4 1 2 1 3 5 12 Arizona 3 0 1 2 2 4 12 Dallas 4 1 3 0 2 10 16 Winnipeg 4 0 2 2 2 6 16 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Columbus 4, Pittsburgh 2 Carolina 5, N.Y. Islanders 3 Edmonton 3, Minnesota 0 Boston 4, Detroit 3, OT N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 3 Buffalo 6, Ottawa 4 Montreal 1, Toronto 0 Dallas 6, Tampa Bay 3 Chicago 3, St. Louis 1 Anaheim 2, San Jose 1 Calgary 4, Vancouver 3, OT Sunday’s Games Los Angeles 2, Colorado 1, SO Carolina 2, Ottawa 1 Minnesota 8, Winnipeg 1 Florida 4, Dallas 2 Monday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 5 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Montreal at Quebec City, Qc Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Baseball z-Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa

MLB American League East Division W L Pct GB 90 65 .581 — 86 69 .555 4 76 79 .490 14 75 80 .484 15 Bay 75 81 .481

x-Kansas Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

Central Division W L Pct GB City 90 65 .581 80 75 .516 10 77 77 .500 12 73 83 .468 17 72 83 .465 18

Texas Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct GB 84 71 .542 — 82 74 .526 2 81 74 .523 3 74 82 .474 10 65 91 .417 19

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Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 7, Detroit 1 Boston 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 3, Cleveland 0 Houston 4, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 2 San Francisco 5, Oakland 4 Monday’s Games Boston (E.Rodriguez 9-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 6-9), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Estrada 13-8) at Baltimore (Tillman 10-11), 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 11-9) at Cleveland (Kluber 8-15), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 4-8) at Texas (Lewis 17-8), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 12-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-7), 6:05 p.m.

Oakland (Doubront 3-3) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 9-9), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (McCullers 5-7) at Seattle (Elias 5-8), 8:10 p.m.

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z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division Saturday’s Games Houston 9, Texas 7 Toronto 10, Tampa Bay 8 Boston 8, Baltimore 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 1 San Francisco 14, Oakland 10

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

Toronto at Baltimore,5:05 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

x-New York Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct GB 89 67 .571 — 79 76 .510 9 69 87 .442 20 62 94 .397 27 59 97 .378 30

z-St. Louis z-Pittsburgh z-Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct GB 98 58 .628 — 95 61 .609 3 90 65 .581 7 66 90 .423 32 63 92 .406 34

West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 87 68 .561 — San Francisco 81 74 .523 6 Arizona 75 81 .481 12 San Diego 73 83 .468 14 Colorado 66 90 .423 21 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division

San Francisco 14, Oakland 10 N.Y. Mets 10, Cincinnati 2 Miami 6, Atlanta 2 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Colorado 8, L.A. Dodgers 6 San Diego 3, Arizona 0 Sunday’s Games Miami 9, Atlanta 5 N.Y. Mets 8, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 12, Washington 5 Milwaukee 8, St. Louis 4 San Francisco 5, Oakland 4 Arizona 4, San Diego 2 Colorado 12, L.A. Dodgers 5 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 0

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Monday’s Games Cincinnati (Finnegan 1-1) at Washington (Scherzer 12-12), 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 12-10) at Pittsburgh (Happ 6-2), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 12-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 7-7), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 18-3) at San Francisco (Peavy 7-6), 8:15 p.m.

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Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

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

Washington at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 0 Washington 2, Philadelphia 1, 12 innings

Football National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 3 0 0 1.000 119 Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 100 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 68 Miami 1 2 0 .333 51

Indianapolis Jacksonville Houston Tennessee North Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore

W 1 1 1 1

South L T 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0

W 3 2 1 0

L 0 1 2 3

PA 70 68 41 74

Pct .333 .333 .333 .333

PF 56 49 56 89

PA 80 91 60 77

T Pct 01.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .000

PF 85 76 58 70

PA 56 52 72 84

West Denver Oakland Kansas City San Diego

Dallas

W 3 2 1 1

L 0 1 1 2

T Pct 01.000 0 .667 0 .500 0 .333

PF 74 77 51 66

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF 2 1 0 .667 75

PA 49 86 51 83

PA 75

N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia

1 1 1

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

2 2 2

0 .333 0 .333 0 .333

78 55 58

72 59 63

W 3 3 1 0

South L T Pct 0 01.000 0 01.000 2 0 .333 3 0 .000

PF 71 89 49 60

PA 48 72 80 84

Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago

W 2 2 0 0

North L T Pct 0 01.000 1 0 .667 3 0 .000 3 0 .000

PF 58 60 56 46

PA 40 50 83 105

Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle

W 3 1 1 1

West L T Pct 0 01.000 2 0 .333 2 0 .333 2 0 .333

PF 126 50 45 74

PA 49 67 93 61

Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants 32, Washington 21 Sunday’s Games Atlanta 39, Dallas 28 Indianapolis 35, Tennessee 33 Houston 19, Tampa Bay 9 Minnesota 31, San Diego 14 Pittsburgh 12, St. Louis 6 Oakland 27, Cleveland 20 Cincinnati 28, Baltimore 24

Toronto Ottawa Montreal

New England 51, Jacksonville 17 Carolina 27, New Orleans 22 Philadelphia 24, N.Y. Jets 17 Arizona 47, San Francisco 7 Seattle 26, Chicago 0 Buffalo 41, Miami 14 Denver 24, Detroit 12

Calgary Edmonton B.C. Winnipeg Saskatchewan

Monday’s Game Kansas City at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 1 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 4 N.Y. Jets vs. Miami at London, 7:30 a.m.

Oakland at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 11 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 11 a.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Cleveland at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

Green Bay at San Francisco, 2:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 2:25 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 6:30 p.m.

Open: New England, Tennessee

Hamilton

GP 12

12 12 12 GP 13 13 12 13 13

7 7 5

5 5 7

0 0 0

West Division W L T 10 3 0 9 4 0 4 8 0 4 9 0 2 11 0

312 280 263 PF 347 326 268 246 322

348 14 321 12 243 10 PA 270 238 345 377 386

Pt 20 18 8 8 4

WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Sunday’s result Saskatchewan 33 Montreal 21 Saturday’s results Edmonton 29 B.C. 23 Toronto 35 Ottawa 26 Friday’s result Calgary 25 Winnipeg 23 WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto Thursday, Oct. 1 Montreal at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2 Calgary at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 7 p.m.

CFL East Division W L T PF PA Pt 8 4 0 410 246 16

Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Named Larry Lucchino president/CEO emeritus and Sam Kennedy president, both effective Oct. 16.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reinstated LHP Jake McGee from the 15-day DL. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Claimed OF Tyler Holt off waivers from Cleveland. Transferred INF-OF Kristopher Negron to the 60-day DL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed Gs J.P. Tokoto, T.J. McConnell, Jordan McRae and F Christian Wood.

Waived F Gerald Wallace.

FOOTBALL National Football League

HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed G Jeff Adams on injured reserve.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Terminated the contract of G Jacques McClendon. Signed C Sam Brenner from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Dakota Mermis, LWs Craig Cunningham and Lucas Lessio, Cs Tyler Gaudet and Brendan Shinnimin and Gs Marek Langhamer and Niklas Treutle to Springfield (AHL).

Assigned C Christian Dvorak to London (OHL) and LW Brendan Perlini to Niagara (OHL). Released D Keith Aulie and RW Patrick Dwyer from professional tryout agreements.

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned Cs Colin Smith and Ben Street and G Roman Will to San Antonio (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Loaned LW Cole Ully Gs Philippe Desrosiers and Maxime Lagace RWs Brendan Ranford, Matej Stransky and Branden Troock and Cs

Justin Dowling, Emil Molin, Taylor Peters and Gemel Smith to Texas (AHL). Released G John Muse, LW Derek Hulak, C Cory Kane and D Jesse Blacker, Brennan Evans and Matt Mangene from professional tryout agreements and RW Brandon Magee from an amateur tryout agreement.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned Gs Ken Appleby and Scott Wedgewood D Brandon Burlon, Raman Hrabarenka, Vojtech Mozik and Reece Scarlett and Fs Joseph Blandisi, Blake Coleman, Ryan Kujawinski, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, Matt Lorito, Jim O’Brien, Blake Pietila, Mike Sislo and Paul Thompson to Albany (AHL). Assigned F John Quenneville to Brandon (WHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Loaned Fs Taylor Beck, Justin Florek, Mike Halmo, Ben Holmstrom, Bracken Kearns, Justi Vaive, Joe Whitney and James Wright and D Scott Mayfield and Adam Pelech to Bridgeport (AHL). Loaned to Sound Tigers NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned Cs Luke Adam and Brian Gibbons, Fs Mat Bodie and Ryan Bourque, G Magnus Hellberg and D Ryan Graves, Brady Skjei

and Chris Summers to Hartford (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Assigned Fs David Broll, Cam Darcy, Adam Erne, Yanni Gourde, Brian Hart, Henri Ikonen, Ryan Martindale, Tye McGinn, Philippe Paradis, Matthew Peca, Tanner Richard, Jeff Tambellini and Joel Vermin D Dyan Blujus, Anthony DeAngelo, Charlie Dodero, Jake Dotchin, Joey Mormina, Matt Taormina and Daniel Walcott and Gs Adam Wilcox and Allen York to Syracuse (AHL). Claimed G Kevin Poulin off waivers from the N.Y. Islanders. Released G Ray Emery from a professional tryout agreements.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reassigned G Rob Madore to Toronto (AHL) and C Mitch Marner to London (OHL). Released Fs Curtis Glencross and Devin Setoguchi from their professional tryout contracts.

COLLEGE DUKE — Dismissed CB T.J. Douglas from the football team for a violation of undisclosed team policy.

3-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart to retire after 2016: source

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tony Stewart will announce he’s retiring following the 2016 season at a news conference Wednesday, The Associated Press has learned. Stewart-Haas Racing said Sunday night that Stewart and team co-owner Gene Haas will hold a news conference at the team shop this week.

The topic was not disclosed, but a person familiar with Stewart’s plans told AP the three-time NASCAR champion will announce his planned retirement.

The person spoke to AP on condi-

tion of anonymity because Stewart hasn’t publicly disclosed his plans.

Stewart, who finished 11th on Sunday at New Hampshire, did not return a request for comment from AP. His planned departure, first reported Sunday by Motorsport.com, is not a surprise. Stewart will be 45 next season, hasn’t won a race in over two years and has been privately working on finding a successor for the No. 14 Chevrolet all year.

Clint Bowyer, released from his contract with Michael Waltrip Racing because the team is folding at the end of the season, will likely replace Stewart

in 2017. Bowyer has been looking for a one-year deal for next season as a stopgap while Stewart runs his 18th and final Cup season. SHR also field cars for reigning series champion Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch and Danica Patrick.

The last three years have been trying for Stewart. He struck and killed a sprint car driver during a 2014 event in upstate New York, and the family has filed a civil suit against Stewart.

He also missed the final third of the 2013 season with a broken leg suffered in a sprint car crash. His passion for NASCAR racing has also waned in the last several seasons, in part because

of an evolving rules package that he has struggled with. Stewart told AP in June that his confidence was shot and he was struggling to find any enjoyment in being in the race car. Not much has worked for him this season, as Stewart is 25th in the points standings and failed to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for the third consecutive year. Stewart, who moved from IndyCar to NASCAR and got his break in 1999 with Joe Gibbs Racing, is the second star in two years to call it quits. Four-time champion Jeff Gordon will retire at the end of this season.

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RDC ROUNDUP

Nesbitt runs away with women’s division

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College cross-country running coach Jodi Nesbitt took top honours in the women’s division of an ACAC Grand Prix event Saturday at Lethbridge.

Nesbitt finished the five kilometre run in 19 minutes, seven seconds. Runner-up Emily Lucas of Lethbridge College crossed the line in 19:51.

Andrew Jacobs was the top RDC men’s competitor, posting a 15th-place (11th among ACAC runners) time of 32:36.

“For six of our runners, this was their first Grand Prix race,” said RDC head coach Brian Stackhouse. “We were missing two of our top runners today due to illness and other commitments.

“We expect to be a little stronger in future meets and we expect our competitors will also be stronger. We’re looking forward to a great season.”

The RDC women’s team placed second to Lethbridge, while the men’s team finished third.

Other RDC individual results: Women — Jordanna Cota, seventh in 21:09; Haley Kitt, 12th in 22:45; Samantha Debree, 13th in 23:19; Melissa Ray, 16th in 24:14; Laura Szymanek, 17th in 24:32; Amber Koster, 19th in 24:43; Tara McDonald, 20th in 25:12; Lauren Mearns, 21st in 25:19; Mataya Dixon, 22nd in 27:14; Alexandria Pederson, 28th in 33:03; Ani Dingamtar, 29th in 33:03.

Men — Nolan Dyck, 16th in 32:49; Jonathan Lam, 19th in 35:21; Jonathan Allan, 24th in 37:29; Keelan Ellerby, 28th in 41:30.

• The RDC men’s hockey Kings evened their record at 1-1 with an 8-1 spanking of the Concordia Thunder Saturday in Edmonton.

Mike Marianchuk paced the Kings

— 5-4 losers to the Thunder Friday at Penhold — with two goals, while Logan Sceviour, Dylan Baer, Ben Williams, Riley Simpson, Pat Martens and Tyler Berkholtz also tallied for the visitors.

Devin Fordyce made 29 saves for the Kings, who directed 46 shots at the Concordia net.

In women’s hockey preseason play, the RDC Queens gave up a pair of late goals in a 3-0 loss to the SAIT Trojans Saturday at the Collicutt Centre.

• The RDC soccer Queens recorded a win and a tie during their southern Alberta weekend road trip, thumping Medicine Hat 6-2 Saturday and battling Lethbridge to a 1-1 draw Sunday.

Kaitlin D’Arcy and Sydney Daines each netted two goals at Medicine Hat, with singles contributed by Olivia Orman and Kelsie Caine. Krystan Strand was named RDC player of the game.

Details from Sunday’s match were unavailable.

In men’s play, the Kings were blanked 2-0 at Medicine Hat and fell 4-0 at Lethbridge.

The Kings dominated the second half of the match at Medicine Hat, but Julius Abegar hit the post with a header and missed a penalty kick with 10 minutes remaining.

On Sunday at Lethbridge, RDC keeper Luke Owen was dismissed for a foul, and yet the RDC squad played better in the second half but couldn’t penetrate a strong Kodiaks defence.

Haydn McLean, in relief of Owen, stopped a penalty shot.

• In basketball preseason action, the RDC Kings fell 98-89 to the host University of Lethbridge and the Queens posted a 2-1 record in a tournament at Kelowna.

The Queens opened with a 72-60 loss to Capilano, then recorded 82-37 and 73-56 wins over the Kings University of Edmonton and Ambrose College of Calgary.

RUGBY WORLD CUP

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada’s captain Tyler Ardron, top left, wins the ball in a line out during the Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Italy and Canada at Elland Road, Leeds, England, Saturday. Italy won 23-18.

Vipers fall short in shootout LIGHTNING STRIKE IN SEASON OPENER

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Thrashers 6 Vipers 5 Tyler Newsham’s shootout goal was the winner as the Three Hills Thrashers edged the Red Deer Vipers 6-5 in Heritage Junior Hockey League action Saturday at the Arena.

Declan Johnston, at 2:11 of the third period, and Brett Marsollier, with a power-play marker at 15 minutes later, pulled the Vipers even and forced a scoreless overtime frame and the ensuing shootout.

Also scoring for the Vipers in their season home-opener were Matt Krusky, Anthony Neurauter and Tye Munro. Patrick Fougere, with a pair, Cody Phillips, Jesse Morrison, and Tom Vanderline notched the other Three Hills goals.

Greg Pols came up big in the Thrashers net, turning aside 44 shots.

Mack Patchett made 30 saves for Red Deer.

The Vipers’ fell 5-2 to the host Okotoks Bisons in their regular season opener Friday. Brett Hoppus and Dustin Spearing potted the Red Deer goals.

Rylan Bardick stopped 40 shots for the Vipers, who were zero-for-eight on the power play. Bisons netminder Draven Rees made 31 saves.

Elsewhere, the Blackfalds Wranglers opened their season Sunday with an 8-2 trouncing of the visiting Airdrie Thunder, getting a 33-save per-

formance from Klay Munro and three goals from Wally Samson.

Bryce Boguski scored twice for the Wranglers, with Andrew McLennan, Garrett Glasman and Toran Corbier also connecting. Tyrell McCubbing assisted on four goals and Bryce Marshall contributed a trio of helpers.

Airdrie outshot Blackfalds 35-29.

In other Heritage League weekend games: • The Stettler Lightning opened their season with a bang Saturday, zapping the host Medicine Hat Cubs 10-5.

Dylan Houston and Derek Muhlbach both rang up six points for the visitors, with two goals and four assists apiece. Kieran Rost was close behind with two goals and three helpers.

The other Stettler goals came off the sticks of DJ Kistner, Steven Fletcher, Logan Davidson and Linden Heidecker.

Taylor McLaughin made 22 saves for the Lightning, who fired 49 shots at Cubs goaltender Dan Maier.

• The Ponoka Stampeders dropped both ends of a home-and-home set, falling 8-2 to the visiting Mountainview Colts Saturday, 24 hours after losing 9-2 to the Colts at Didsbury.

Nate Higgans and Kacey Straub accounted for the Stamps goals at Didsbury, where the Colts led 5-0 after one period and 6-0 heading into the final frame.

Carter Gendreau and Brody MacDonald combined to make 39 saves for the Stamps, who were outshot 48-33.

Canada wins fourth straight lacrosse title

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 12 Iroquois Nation 8 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Canada’s dominance in box lacrosse continues.

A 12-8 victory over the Iroquois Nationals on Sunday earned Canada its fourth consecutive world indoor championship and stretched its all-time record to 23-0.

Curtis Dickson scored four goals, Shawn Evans and Dan Dawson had two each while Zack Greer, Dhane Smith Steve Priolo and Stephan Leblanc added one apiece for Canada.

“We knew we had to come to play,” Dickson said. “We had so much talent that guys were getting me the ball in open spots and the ball was dropping for me.”

Matt Vinc got the win in net and Evans was named tournament MVP. “It’s something special but you could have given the MVP to any of our 23 players,” Evans said. “Everyone battled hard. I’m thankful to get it and thankful that we won gold. We’re all extremely proud of what we accomplished.

“I had a lot of people watching me (Sunday), family that travelled five hours to get here to watch. I’m truly blessed and happy that they got to witness that game.”

Iroquois scorers were Jeff Shattler and Randy Staats with two each, Johnny Powless, Miles Thompson, Lyle Thompson and Jerome Thompson.

Dickson opened the scoring 56 seconds in from the top of the attack’s right side.

After the Nationals went ahead 2-1, Evans intercepted a pass near the crease, faked two shots and put the ball behind goalie Angus Goodleaf to tie it. The Nationals went ahead again, but Dickson tied it 3-3 with Vinc out and an extra attacker on the floor on a delayed penalty.

Canada jumped ahead 5-3 with goals early in the second quarter.

Dawson planted a bounce shot in a lower corner of the net from the middle of the zone and Greer pulled a rebound out of the crease to score Canada’s second power-play goal.

Shattler replied before Smith muscled his way through two checkers to score from the right side of the crease between Goodleaf’s legs for a 6-4 lead.

Staats made it 6-5 before half.

In the third quarter, Dawson and Dickson scored Canada’s third and fourth power-play goals — Dawson on a breakaway and Dickson off a crosscrease pass from Mark Matthews — to make it 8-5. Shattler replied with a power-play goal and Lyle Thompson’s goal in the opening minute of the fourth made it 8-7.

Priolo raced towards Goodleaf on a breakaway and beat him with a bouncer at 4:21, and Leblanc fired in an overhand bullet from the left side at 5:03 for a 10-7 lead. A third Iroquois power-play goal, this one by Staats, made it 10-8 with just over five minutes left.

Harvick’s fuel gamble backfires, leads to Kenseth’s win LOUDON, N.H. — Matt Kenseth pushed Kevin Harvick down the stretch and took the lead for good when the defending series champion ran out of gas Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the second race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.

Kenseth advanced to the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs and gave Joe Gibbs Racing its fourth straight win.

Harvick had the dominant car and led the most laps but a gamble to stretch his fuel to the end backfired and he faded to 21st. He finished 42nd last week in the Chase opener and will surely have to win next week at Dover to advance to the second round.

JGR continued to prove it will be the organization to beat in the Chase.

Denny Hamlin, the winner last week at Chicagoland, was second for JGR. Chase drivers took eight of the top 10 spots.

The 16-driver Chase field will be cut to 12 after Dover.

“We had to be there to win it,” Kenseth said. “I was giving Kevin everything I had. I thought he had us beat. He had the better car.”

Kyle Busch, Paul Menard, Harvick and Clint Bowyer are the final four drivers on the brink of elimination.

They would advance with a victory, but Jimmie Johnson stands in their way at Dover, where he has a track- record 10 victories.

“Dover is a good track for us, a victory would be a good shot in the arm for us,” Johnson said.

Kenseth won for the fifth time this season and stalked Harvick over the final tense laps that ended when the No. 4 Chevrolet had nothing left in the tank.

Harvick was knocked out of the race last week when he connected with Johnson and blew a tire. He later got into an altercation with Johnson in the

motorhome lot and shoved the Hendrick Motorsports driver.

Harvick led 216 of 300 laps and heads to Dover with one of the biggest must-win races of his career.

He wasn’t the only Chase driver whose championship hopes are on the rocks.

Busch was the first Chase driver to suffer serious damage when his right front tire blew and he hit the wall. Busch, who the July race in New Hampshire, took the No. 18 straight to the garage.

“It’s killed,” he said over the radio.

Fourth in the standings entering the race, Busch dropped to 13th in points after he finished 37th.

With every point so valuable, his JGR crew hurried to repair the Toyota and he returned to the race more than 30 laps behind the leader.

Brad Keselowski took a big points hit as well, black flagged late in the race after a review showed he jumped the restart while racing for the lead.

He stayed on the lead lap but sunk to 25th after the penalty. He rebounded to finish 12th.

“It’s an entertainment sport, not a fair sport,” Keselowski said.

Carl Edwards, the polesitter, was black flagged for running over equipment on pit road. Johnson cut a left front tire with 100 laps left and plummeted from third to 30th.

Joey Logano finished third and Greg Biffle, a non-Chase driver, was fourth.

Edwards was fifth, followed by Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Martin Truex Jr. Gordon set the Sprint Cup record with his 789th consecutive start.

Even buried in the standings, Gordon refused to rule out Harvick and Kyle Busch as Chase threats.

“You know Harvick is going to be on a tear. Maybe Kyle Busch, too,” he said.

Other Chase results saw Ryan Newman in 10th, Jamie McMurray 14th, Menard 15th, Kurt Busch ran out of fuel and was 19th, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was 25th, and Bowyer 26th.

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Debris goes flying after Danica Patrick was hit by David Ragan during the the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday, in Loudon, N.H.

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Culture days takes over downtown

BY ASHLI BARRETT ADVOCATE STAFF Culture, history and art spilled onto the downtown streets of Red Deer this past weekend, adding a little more vibrance to the already colourful arts hub of the city.

The eighth annual Alberta Culture Days, a three-day province-wide festival, kicked off Friday with the Red Deer Reads Community Launch Party and a family dance at Festival Hall.

Saturday, however, was when festivities really got underway. Dozens of Red Deerians were drawn to the Ross Street Patio for concerts and a Dance Extravaganza which saw highland

dancers and the Country Pride Dance Club perform.

Chalk artists left their mark on the sidewalks, creating pieces inspired by the diverse culture and regional landscape of the city. Children were invited to create their own chalk masterpieces on the Ross Street Patio, and a pop-up art gallery in the Scott Block featured many local artists and their works.

While the daytime activities ended around 5 p.m., Nuit Blanche continued the arts celebration into the night, lighting up Rotary Recreation Park for the third year. Six different local artists were featured, as well as interactive installations, a silent DJ, prop culture fire dancers and more.

Photos by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Top Right: Sam Leszczynski, drummer of local band 89, performs on the Ross Street Patio Saturday afternoon.

Middle Right: Rob Ironside and Marianne Lee of the Country Pride Dance Club perform on the Ross Street Patio during Alberta Culture Days Dance Extravaganza Saturday afternoon.

Bottom: Stephen Birch works on a chalk masterpiece near Veterans Park on Saturday afternoon.

Middle left: Red Deerians look on as returning chalk artist Laura Lind works on a piece on the corner of Gaetz Ave. and Ross St. Saturday afternoon.

Top left: Highland dancers perform for a large crowd on the Ross Street Patio Saturday afternoon as part of Alberta Culture Days’ Dance Extravaganza.

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B.C. to lead country in growth BUT JOB CREATION STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark’s promises to transform British Columbia into Canada’s top job-creating engine appears to be stuck in second gear, even as the provincial economy is predicted to surge.

Clark’s unfulfilled economic goals, with a focus on the liquefied natural gas industry, are expected to fuel debate as B.C. politicians return to the legislature Monday.

The premier’s four-year-old plans set lofty and ambitious goals and aimed to place B.C. among the top two Canadian provinces for economic and job growth for 2015.

Recent Statistics Canada economic data indicates B.C. is poised to lead Canada or be near the top when it comes to economic growth, ranging between two per cent and 2.9 per cent. But job growth, measured at 0.7 per cent last August, puts B.C. in fifth place among the provinces for job creation.

“The information we have at this time is looking like we are going to be in the top three,” said Greg Kyllo, a parliamentary secretary with the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training. “We’ve created a little over 92,000 jobs since the jobs plan was created.”

Opposition New Democrat jobs critic Shane Simp-

son said Clark’s jobs plan hasn’t delivered and B.C. is falling behind the other provinces.

“The jobs plan has been anaemic at best,” he said.

“We’re probably sixth or seventh in the country in terms of job creation.”

A B.C. government labour-market outlook released last year projects almost one-million job openings by 2022, with about 700,000 of the openings a result of retirements.

The survey forecasts the creation of more than 315,000 jobs through economic development. It also includes the prospect of creating 100,000 jobs connected to the liquefied natural gas industry.

But Simpson said the jobs plan is also sputtering on LNG, missing its target of one LNG plant in operation by 2015 and three more running by 2020.

There are currently 20 proposals for LNG plants in B.C., with the $36-billion Petronas-backed Pacific NorthWest LNG project near Prince Rupert in the planning stages, but none is operational.

“The real problem with the jobs plan is the government was so myopic in their thinking, so focused on LNG, that they ignored a whole range of other critical sectors,” said Simpson.

B.C. Business Council vice-president Jock Finlayson said his organization supports the government’s attempts to develop an LNG industry.

“But LNG is for tomorrow,” he said. “It’s not there today.”

Finlayson said the government has a limited capacity to influence job creation and should relax that focus and instead look at working with business sectors, including technology, forestry and resources.

“If I were developing an economic-development strategy for B.C. it wouldn’t be centred around jobs to be candid. It would be looking at what I describe as which sectors do we want to encourage growth.”

He said worldwide economic factors in the past four years have hurt job growth in B.C., including a drop in commodity prices. The economy in China has lost steam and the value of the Canadian dollar has dropped from parity with the U.S. dollar to about 75 cents, he noted.

“These are all some pretty big adjustments,” Finlayson said. “Globally, the mining industry has gone into the tank. It’s difficult to imagine a lot of growth taking place in a sector like mining. Natural gas prices are plumbing the depths and our traditional export market in the U.S. is drying up.”

But B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong, who admitted recently that B.C.’s job growth is under-performing, said the province is heading towards another surplus budget and is poised to lead the country in economic growth through 2016.

“We are, by any measure, proving to be remarkably resilient,” he said.

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An activist of the environmental protection organization ‘Greenpeace’ holds a protest poster in front of a factory gate of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany, Friday.

Volkswagen warned about emissions tricks years ago

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — German media reported Sunday that Volkswagen was warned years ago about the use of illegal tricks to defeat emissions tests.

The German automaker admitted last week that it used special software to fool U.S. emissions tests for its diesel vehicles. About 11 million VW diesel cars built since 2008 are affected by the scandal.

German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that VW’s internal investigation has found a 2007 letter from parts supplier Bosch warning Volkswagen not to use the software during regular operation.

Separately, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported that a Volkswagen technician raised concerns about illegal practices in connection with emissions levels in 2011. The weekly also cited VW’s internal investigators.

A spokesman for Volkswagen declined to comment on the reports, saying that as a matter of principle the company wouldn’t comment on what he

called “rumours and speculation.”

“Volkswagen is working with all its strength to conduct a thorough and merciless investigation of this matter,” Andreas Lampersbach said in an email.

VW would hold those responsible for rigging the emissions test to account and discuss technical solutions for the problem with authorities, he said, citing a statement by the company’s supervisory board.

“Afterward we will provide a timetable to modify the vehicles of affected customers. This will take several weeks.”

Italian media reported on Sunday that Volkswagen’s Italian unit has sent a letter to all of its dealers to stop selling cars that have the affected diesel engine. According to the news agency ANSA, the letter said it was “a precautionary measure.”

The daily Corriere della Sera said the move would affect 40,000 vehicles and deal a blow to car dealers, a sector that has been losing money for 10 years and finally seemed to be emerging from the crisis.

ATLANTA, United States — Negotiations on the TransPacific Partnership, a massive free-trade proposal involving Canada and 11 other nations, will resume in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chief negotiators from the 12 countries, which have a combined population of 800 million people, will hold sessions through to Tuesday.

And those meetings will set the stage for further talks involving TPP trade ministers on Wednesday, Sept., 29 and Thursday, Oct., 30.

Canada’s supply management system has been a significant sore point throughout the ongoing negotiations.

The United States and New Zealand, in particular, have been pressuring Canada to reduce its tariffs on foreign dairy products, which are among the highest of all TPP members.

Canada recently committed to increased imports of European cheese in a trade deal with the European Union, however, Prime Minister Harper has vowed that Canada will stand by its dairy producers in the TPP talks.

Japan, Australia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia are the other TPP members.

German lawmaker says starting from scratch may be option for Berlin’s troubled new airport BERLIN -- A member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has proposed a radical solution for Berlin’s troubled new airport: tearing it down and starting from scratch.

Plagued by a series of construction problems, the Berlin Brandenburg Airport is years behind schedule and billions of euros over budget.

Lawmaker Jens Koeppen said in an interview published Sunday that all options should be considered, including building an entirely brand new airport.

He told weekly B.Z. am Sonntag that “if there are problems that can’t be solved, and that’s clearly the case, then one needs to admit defeat and get off the dead horse.”

Current plans to open the airport in the fall of 2017 are in doubt after authorities last week closed part of the site due to fears that a roof could collapse.

Young Canadians need more financial training Children and youth in Canada need more and better financial education and training to help them meet the economic challenges they almost certainly will face at some point in their lives.

A national survey conducted by the BC Securities Commission has found that 40 per cent of students admit to having no idea how much they earned or spent in the last month and 71 per cent say they feel more time should have been spent in high TALBOT school teaching them personBOGGS al finance.

Fifty-eight per cent do MONEYWISE not know the interest rate on their bank account and only 26 per cent of high school students in Ontario indicated they were knowledgeable about money and made good spending decisions.

“There’s a very real concern about what kind of financial education students are getting in high school and their ability to manage their financial affairs,” says Blair Davidson, a bankruptcy trustee with BDO Canada. “ If a financial catastrophe such as the loss of a job, a death or major health problem occurs, do they know how to create a budget, understand the cost of debt, know the difference between good and bad

debt, and generally know how to manage the situation?”

Canadians currently are carrying a high amount of debt.

The personal debt to income ratio in Canada today is 163 per cent and the majority of young people in their twenties are living pay cheque to pay cheque, Davidson says.

The Canadian government has made youth financial literacy a key part of its National Financial Literacy Strategy.

This initiative is designed to give Canadians the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to make day-to-day choices about how to spend their money and stay on top of their financial obligations, navigate the financial marketplace and buy the products and services that make the most sense for their own needs, plan ahead about how to use their money for life goals such as buying a home or preparing for retirement, deal with local, provincial and national government programs which are often complicated and confusing, evaluate financial information and advice and make the best use of resources at their disposal including workplace benefits, private and public pensions, tax credits, public benefits, investments, home equity, access to credit and consumer spending power.

While federal initiatives may be good by raising public awareness of the problem, education is a provincial responsibility. BDO advocates the re-introduction of home economics into the school system to teach students about taxes, basic house and vehicle

maintenance, budget and saving techniques, how to shop for and prepare meals and how to sew and repair garments.

Basic skills learned in home economics classes can result in yearly savings of $3,406 — $2,386 by cooking your own meals instead of going out, $720 by making your own coffee instead of going to the coffee shop, $160 by doing your own oil changes on the car, and $140 by hemming or fixing your own clothes.

The responsibility for financial education and stewardship is a joint responsibility between students, parents and the education system.

“Parents can show leadership by calling family meetings to discuss the issue and school boards have an obligation to add more courses and create curricula,” Davidson says.

“Data shows that most young people could only survive for a couple of weeks if a tragedy hit. As a society we need to teach our younger generations how to prepare for those situations so they can cope with them when they happen.

Everyone has a vested interest in improving financial literacy and knowledge because people live with it all their lives. Handling finances well and responsibly can remove a lot of stress in life.”

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

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Armstrong settles with promotions company “I AM PLEASED TO HAVE THIS MATTER BEHIND ME AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING ON. I DO WISH TO APOLOGIZE TO SCA AND ITS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE), BOB HAMMAN, FOR ANY MISCONDUCT ON MY PART IN CONNECTION WITH OUR DISPUTE AND THE RESULTING ARBITRATION.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — With a payment and an apology, Lance Armstrong has settled a decade-long dispute with a promotions company that sought repayment of more than $10 million in bonuses it paid the former cyclist during a career that was later exposed to be fueled by performance-enhancing drugs.

Dallas-based SCA Promotions first pursued evidence of doping against Armstrong in 2005. Although the company paid Armstrong in 2006, the testimony in its lawsuit and arbitration case helped lay the foundation for later doping charges that ultimately got Armstrong banned from the sport and stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories.

SCA demanded repayment in 2013 after Armstrong publicly admitted using steroids and other doping methods.

Although Armstrong’s lawyers had insisted there was no legal ground for a “redo” on the previous voluntary settlement, an arbitration panel ordered Armstrong to pay a $10 million penalty for lying under oath in the original case.

“I am pleased to have this matter behind me and I look forward to moving on. I do wish to apologize to SCA and its (chief executive), Bob Hamman, for any misconduct on my part in connection with our dispute and the resulting arbitration,” Armstrong said in

LANCE ARMSTRONG

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Lance Armstrong speaks to delegates at the World Cancer Congress in Montreal. With a payment and an apology, Armstrong has settled a decadelong dispute with a promotions company that sought repayment of more than $10 million in bonuses it paid the former cyclist during a career that was later exposed to be fueled by performance-enhancing drugs. a statement Sunday to The Associated Press.

Armstrong did not reveal how much

he paid SCA. Company officials confirmed the settlement in a statement, but declined to reveal details or com-

ment further.

The SCA dispute was just one of several to hit Armstrong since his admission to doping. He previously settled a similar bonus payments dispute with Acceptance Insurance, which had sought $3 million.

Armstrong still faces a federal whistleblower lawsuit in which the federal government is seeking repayment of more than $30 million the U.S. Postal Service paid to sponsor his teams from 1998-2004. Penalties in that case could reach the $100 million range.

The federal case was initially filed by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis in 2010. The government joined the case in 2013.

Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory because of doping, is scheduled to be deposed on Monday. The case is not set for trial until 2016.

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People walk on the Champs Elysees during the “day without cars”, in Paris, France, Sunday. Pretty but noisy Paris, its gracious Old World buildings blackened by exhaust fumes, is going car-less for a day. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo presided over Sunday’s “day without cars,” two months before the city hosts the global summit on climate change.

French debate whether to dump diesel

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Guidebooks rarely mention it, but Paris is one of the most polluted cities in the rich world. The Eiffel Tower is periodically shrouded in smog, and there’s one key culprit: France’s disproportionately heavy reliance on diesel fuel. Critics are increasingly questioning the need for diesel vehicles, especially after last week’s discovery that Volkswagen tricked drivers worldwide into thinking their diesel engines were much cleaner than they really are. Paris’ diesel-driven pollution problem is especially embarrassing for a city that’s trying to be environmentally exemplary as it prepares to host crucial U.N. talks in two months on reducing emissions.

City authorities banned all traffic from central Paris on Sunday and are trying to gradually forbid diesel altogether, as they try to clean up the capital’s image. But a nationwide crackdown on diesel remains taboo. And elsewhere in Europe — where the majority of cars run on diesel engines versus just one-seventh worldwide — few are raising the alarm.

“We must stop lying to the French by inciting them to buy so-called environmentally friendly cars,” Emmanuelle Cosse, head of France’s green party Europe Ecologie-les Verts, said last week. “Clean diesel doesn’t exist.”

Diesel engines emit about the same levels of carbon dioxide, the gas that causes global warming, as gasoline-fueled engines. The problem with diesel comes down to public health: its engines emit several times more nitrogen oxides than do gasoline engines.

That pollution is linked to asthma, bronchitis and increased risk of heart problems, and the World Health Organization’s France-based cancer agency says diesel fumes can cause lung cancer. But European consumers prefer diesel cars because they’re cheaper to fuel and maintain. In France, that’s because of decades-old tax breaks and regulations that stretch from the factory floor to the gas pump, and that the government is reluctant to lift despite growing evidence of health risks. Most trucks, public buses and municipal

vehicles run on diesel, too. Dismantling France’s deep and complex dependence on diesel could cost jobs and money in an economy with little manoeuvring room. Governments left and right have legislated in favour of diesel since the 1960s, and industry officials fear ending the tax breaks and subsidies would drive consumers away from French cars at a time when the country is struggling to stay globally competitive.

“It makes no sense to abandon diesel,” said Julie Hamez of French consumer group 40 Million Drivers. “We need to concentrate on what can be done with better technology” to reduce its damage to health and the environment. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association is pushing such technology, arguing that modern diesel cars are as clean, or cleaner, than gasoline counterparts. But the Volkswagen scandal has raised new questions about carmakers’ efforts to make less-pollutant engines. Other carmakers have faced similar accusations — including France’s own Renault, among seven companies fined

by U.S. environmental authorities in 1998 for cheating on emissions tests.

The former head of France’s national air pollution agency Airparif, Jean-Felix Bernard, said he hopes the Volkswagen revelations prompt tougher European pollution rules — and especially tougher enforcement.

“We knew that air pollution has a very large cost for global public health, several hundred billion (dollars), we know that this provokes several hundred thousand deaths,” he said.

“There can be a very large economic cost when big companies are having fun by rigging the figures.”

French Environment Minister Segolene Royal, trying to be “exemplary” ahead of the U.N. climate change talks in Paris, ordered random checks on 100 French cars to ensure they’re not deceiving emissions monitors.

France woke up to its diesel problem after Paris was choked with rough pollution spells over the past two years, prompting the city government to briefly restrict car use. At one point, Paris registered higher levels of nitrogen oxides than smoggy Beijing.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in Canadian business this week: Songbirds scorched: Three companies — Canaport LNG Limited Partnership, Irving Canaport GP Company and Repsol Canada — return to court on Monday in Saint John, N.B., to face charges following the deaths of 7,500 songbirds after they flew into gas flare at a liquefied natural gas plant.

Canaport says it’s since made changes to equipment to reduce the amount of flaring after the deaths of the migrating birds, some of them endangered species, in September 2013.

Notley on the go: Rachel Notley, Alberta’s first NDP premier, is out and about this week. She meets with the counsul general of Canada in New York on Tuesday, as well as Royal Bank Capital Markets officials. On

Thursday, she meets with her Ontario counterpart, Kathleen Wynne, and on Friday she makes a speech to the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto.

Chipping away at glass ceiling: The Ontario Securities Commission holds a roundtable discussion on Tuesday on efforts to get more female directors on corporate boards.

GDP: Economists will be watching closely on Wednesday as Statistics Canada releases the GDP by industry for July, hoping for continuing evidence that the Canadian economy is beginning to sputter back to life after falling into a technical recession earlier this year.

Shopify suspense: The Canadian e-commerce success story is set to make an announcement in Waterloo, Ont., on Thursday, with scheduled fireside chats at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo with CEO Tobias Lutke.

U.S.-China agreement on commercial cybertheft a breakthrough

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — China’s pledge to help crack down on hackers who steal commercial secrets from the United States, even coming as it did amid a bit of arm-twisting by President Barack Obama, is a big breakthrough that could reduce U.S.-China tensions and end huge losses for American companies.

Analysts say the agreement between the world’s two biggest economies is just a start but could lead to real progress on the cybertheft issue — depending on how well it’s implemented. Obama announced the agreement at a joint news conference Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“I think it’s a big deal,” said Dmitri Alperovich, who published a seminal paper in 2011 identifying Chinese cyber economic espionage and now runs the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “For the first time ever, the Chinese have made a distinction between national security espionage and economic espionage.”

Also significant, Alperovich said, is the fact that the Chinese have agreed to provide responses to U.S. government requests for investigations. “They can’t just shrug and say, ‘We don’t do hacking hacking

is illegal,”’ he said.

Mark MacCarthy, vice-president for public policy at the Software and Information Industry Association, said the tech industry trade group agrees with Obama that the cybertheft of intellectual property must stop.

“We are hopeful the understanding reached by the president and Chinese President Xi Jinping results in real progress on the ground,” he said.

The U.S. has accused Beijing of backing Chinese hackers who steal trade secrets from American companies. Before the Xi summit, Obama called cybertheft by China “an act of aggression.”

James Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Strategic Technologies Program, said the thefts probably cost American companies tens of billions of dollars annually.

Last year the U.S. charged five officers in China’s People Liberation Army for computer hacking and economic espionage against six U.S. companies, including Westinghouse, U.S. Steel and Alcoa.

Malcolm Lee, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former White House economic official, said that the Friday agreement will “begin to address one of the most destabilizing and corrosive issues in the relationship.”

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Method of feeding babies still up for debate CRITICISM OF MODEL’S CHOICES RENEWS CONFLICT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Deciding whether to nurse or bottle-feed babies may be a personal matter, but the backlash faced by Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha for her choice reveals how divisive opinions can be about how infants are fed.

Rocha spoke out on social media against the “unwanted advice” she’s heard about her decision to feed formula to her infant daughter.

“Not that this is anyone’s business — I loved breastfeeding Ioni for the first five months of her life and then one day my milk went dry. It happens to every mom at different times,” the Toronto-born, Richmond, B.C.-raised Rocha wrote in an Instagram post alongside a photo of Ioni bottle-feeding.

“This is not a democracy, everyone doesn’t get a say,” she added.

Breastfeeding is recommended exclusively for an infant’s first six months, and can be continued for up to two years or longer with supplementary feeding, according to a joint position statement by Health Canada and other national organizations.

The Nutrition for Healthy Term Infant recommendations also recognized that infants many not be able to nurse

exclusively. Parents “who have made a fully informed choice not to breastfeed” should be counselled on using breast milk substitutes.

Parenting blogger Jennifer Pinarski said she’s spoken with other women who, like Rocha, found their milk supply “wasn’t sustainable.”

“The assumption is that if you are formula-feeding that there is something wrong with your body. That’s already a personal attack on a woman,” said the mother of two, who lives outside of Kingston, Ont. “But in terms of formula being a choice as well … there shouldn’t be anything wrong with that.”

Registered nurse and lactation consultant Cindy Leclerc said one of the most common reasons women discontinue breastfeeding is the belief they don’t have sufficient milk for their little one.

“A lot of the time, women actually do have enough, but their breasts may not feel as full or the baby might be fussy for other reasons. And women are quick to doubt themselves,” Leclerc said from Saskatoon.

Early skin-to-skin contact between mother and infant helps both with milk production and when babies are struggling to latch to the breast, Leclerc said. Using a hospital-grade pump to stimulate milk supply as well

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Patients and politicians have been voicing outrage since it became public this week that a small drug company bought rights to an old drug and quickly raised its price more than 5,000 percent. But such “price gouging,” as some politicians and other critics call it, has happened increasingly over the last few years.

Regulation free-for-all boosting US drug prices

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Sticker-shocked patients increasingly wonder why prices for prescription drugs continue to rise in the U.S. The issue heated up this week on news that Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of Daraprim, the only approved treatment for a rare, life-threatening parasitic infection, by more than 5,000 per cent to $750 a pill.

Medical groups blasted the increase, and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called it “price gouging.” Turing’s CEO, former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, later said he’d make “a serious price adjustment.”

But the issue goes beyond a single company or drug.

From 2008 through 2014, average prices for the most widely used brandname drugs jumped 128 per cent, according to prescription benefit manager Express Scripts Holding Co. In 2014, it estimated that total U.S. prescription drug spending increased 13 per cent. Reasons include increasing research costs, insufficient competition and drug shortages.

Pharmaceutical and biotech industry groups say prescription medicines save money by preventing costly complications and hospitalizations and have long accounted for just 10 per cent of annual U.S. health care spending. That could change, because many new drugs for cancer, hepatitis C and rare disorders carry list prices of $100,000 or more for a year or course of treatment.

For patients with insurance requiring them to pay a significant percentage of medication costs, the priciest drugs can be unaffordable. Higher prices can trickle down even to those who now have flat copayments, such as $30 per prescription, because as insurance plans incur higher costs, they usually increase the share beneficiaries pay in subsequent years.

While it’s clear drug prices are rising, many patients don’t understand why. Here are six of the top reasons:

drug goes on sale. Typically, new drugs end up with a monopoly for roughly a dozen years.

Their makers generally increase their prices every year, by about 5 per cent or more. Those increases add up, and become bigger as the expiration of the patent approaches.

LIMITED COMPETITION

For many drugs, there isn’t enough competition to hold down prices. Many older generic drugs were priced too low to be very profitable, so some drugmakers stopped making them.

Once only one or two companies make a drug, the price usually shoots up.

For older, brand-name drugs that treat conditions too rare to attract multiple manufacturers, the sole maker has a de facto monopoly.

Funtleyder noted the large backlog of generic drugs awaiting U.S. regulatory approval means that for some off-patent drugs, only one or two generic versions have been approved. That limits reductions from the brand-name drug’s price.

Scores of drugs, mostly older, oncecheap generics, have been in short supply over the last decade. Reasons include raw material shortages and manufacturing deficiencies involving dirty factories, pills containing the wrong amount of active ingredient and other serious problems, particularly at factories in India. Those trigger production shutdowns or temporary bans on their sale in the U.S. Also, several drugmakers recently have been buying rights to older drugs, then hiking the price, as Turing did with Daraprim.

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Coco Rocha’s daughter, Ioni, is seen in this image from Rocha’s Instagram page.

The Canadian supermodel recently spoke out against critics of her decision to give her five-month-old daughter baby formula. whose son is now nine.

“I also had a stash of formula cans in my pantry and she said: ‘You don’t have formula in the house, do you?’

And I didn’t tell her. I was too embarrassed to admit that I also had formula in the house in addition to pumping for my son. She made me feel bad enough.”

Public health nutritionist Becky Blair said while formula is a viable alternative, introducing it regularly

support growth and development,” said Blair, who works for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit in Barrie, Ont. Leclerc said she continues to help mothers work towards the recommended goal of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, but noted support for women is critical regardless of their choice.

“No one knows what another mother has been through.”

Texting may reduce heart patient risks SMALLER STUDIES HAVE REACHED SIMILAR CONCLUSIONS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Txt msgs may b gud 4U. That’s the message in a study that suggests just four monthly text messages might spur health improvements for heart patients.

The simple, heart-related advice led to substantial changes in blood pressure, cholesterol and physical activity levels, according to the results published in Tuesdays’ Journal of the American Medical Association.

About 700 Australian adults took part. The strategy cost just $10 a person, and if lasting benefits can be shown in a broader group of patients, it could be a cheap and simple way to help tackle heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

Smaller studies have linked health-oriented text messages with improvement in a single measure, but this is the largest to find multiple benefits, the researchers said, led by Dr. Clara Chow of the University of Sydney’s George Institute for Global Health.

THE BASICS

The researchers randomly assigned heart patients to receive usual care alone, or usual care plus automated healthy text messages for six months.

Almost one-third of the text message group reached target levels for four or more heart disease risk factors, versus only 10 per cent of the usual care group. These included blood pressure below 140 over 90, exercising at least five times weekly for 30 minutes, and not smoking.

THE TEXTS

A sampling of the messages: ● Try avoiding adding salt to your foods by using other spices or herbs. ● Walking is cheap. It can be done almost anywhere. All you need is comfortable shoes & clothing. ● Try identifying the triggers that make you want a cigarette & plan to avoid them. ● Studies show that stress, worry & loneliness can increase the risk of heart disease. Please talk to a health professional if you need help.

THE LIMITATIONS

The study didn’t last long enough to see if improvement in heart disease risk factors led to fewer heart attacks.

A journal editorial notes other weaknesses included relying on patients self-reporting physical activity levels, and no attempt to measure whether adding more text messages would lead to bigger improvements.

THE QUOTE

The benefits could potentially “reduce risk of recurrent heart attacks by at least a quarter if they were maintained long-term,” said Chow. “We think it is really important to see if they can be repeated elsewhere in Australia and internationally, and maintained long-term.”

FUTURE RESEARCH

Chow said she’s involved in a broader study at about 20 centres in Australia in urban, rural and indigenous settings, and will be following patients to see it the text message program results in lasting benefits.

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The U.S. government doesn’t regulate prices, unlike many countries where government agencies negotiate prices for every drug. In the U.S., drugmakers set wholesale prices based mostly on what competing brand-name drugs cost and whether their new drug is better, said Les Funtleyder, healthcare portfolio manager at E Squared Asset Management.

LENGTHY PATENTS

FEWER NEW GENERICS

Patents last longer than in other countries, usually giving a drug’s maker exclusivity that prevents competition for 20 years from when the patent is issued. Because patents are filed while drugs are still in testing, that clock starts ticking long before the

into an infant’s feeding routine could likely lead to a decrease in the volume of breast milk moms produce.

Parents will also need to consider whether they’ll be able to afford and have regular access to formula if the make the transition, noted Blair, who represented the Dietitians of Canada in creating the Nutrition for Healthy Term Infant recommendations.

“When women decide … that they want to stop breastfeeding — which is absolutely their decision — it’s our role to help them prepare and store infant formula to give their babies, because infant formula absolutely does

Many new drugs are for rare conditions or cancer subtypes involving a particular genetic mutation, so they might help just thousands or hundreds of patients. To recoup research and development costs, drugmakers set very high prices, though they offer many patients financial assistance.

Research is becoming increasingly expensive. Industry groups say it can take about a decade and well over $1 billion to get a new drug approved, though that includes development costs for the many drugs that don’t work out.

The most-exorbitant new drugs are biologics, produced by living cells under very precise conditions, which costs far more than mixing chemicals to make pills.

PRICE CONTROLS

as hand expression can also be key, she noted.

Pinarski said she had considerable trouble breastfeeding her first child, Isaac, who fell asleep every time she tried to nurse him. She pumped her breast milk, but said she was made to feel bad for doing so by a public health nurse sent to help her when she resided in Manitoba.

“She was really quite horrified that I would do anything (other) than give him milk directly from my breast.

And I didn’t see what all of the fuss was about because he was still getting breast milk,” recalled Pinarski, 38,

After a huge wave of patent expirations from 2011 through 2013 that brought generic versions of drugs taken daily by millions of patients, the number of popular drugs going off patent has declined. That’s contributed to total U.S. spending on medicine rising.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Music to accompany art at First Friday

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Some great local music will accompany art displays during Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings for October.

Local musician Jesse Roads will perform two acoustic sets on Friday in the Snell Auditorium, next to the Kiwanis Gallery in the Red Deer Public Library.

The Red Deer roots-rocker has two singles that were played by local radio — No Love, which made the Top 50 of 2014 in the Central Alberta radio market, and the recently released One More Time.

Roads will perform at 6:15 p.m. and again at 7 p.m.

The Kiwanis Gallery next door, which is operated by the Red Deer Arts Council, will continue showing Prairie Circus Series: Figurative Works by artist and former Red Deer College student Dawn Saunders Dahl.

It runs to Oct. 18.

Leather hand-crafted masks will be featured in the Mask-a-Myth of the MatheMystical exhibit, by artist SteV ChaShar, in The Hub on Ross. The show opens Thursday and is on until the end of October. An opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday.

The exhibit Distorted Contradictions, wood engravings by Red Deer

printmaker Jim Westergard, is on at the white gallery beside Sunworks.

A reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, with curator Brenda Hucal speaking about Westergard’s work.

The show continues to the end of October.

A group exhibit by artists who trained at the Alberta College of Art and Design is showing at the Harris-Warke Gallery, upstairs at Sunworks.

The three-dimensional works are

by Amber Barker, Brenda Danbrook, Katriona Drijber, Adam Lefebvre, Kaitlyn McGill, Jocelyn Reid, and Leah Spagrud. (Spagrud and Danbrook are also Red Deer College alumni). An opening reception will be held from

6-8 p.m. on Friday.

Other art exhibits can also be viewed, including new works by Dawn Candy, Dawn Detarando and Brian McArthur at The Viewpoint Gallery in the City of Red Deer’s Culture Services building, 3827-39th St. The display is on until Oct. 30.

Photography of Alberta’s wild horses by Cara Brown are showing in the Corridor Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre from Sunday until Nov. 27.

And Flower Talk — Full Bloom, abstract paintings by Jeri Lynn Ing, are exhibited in the Coconut Room, upstairs at Sunworks. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Martian features a pivotal dust storm shot in-camera using a mix of vermiculite and black paper to double for Mars detritus.

BY JEN CHANEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The year 2015 may be remembered as when movies officially rekindled their love affair with practical effects.

While the digitally rendered dinosaurs of Jurassic World ruled the box office this summer, there was ample evidence that Hollywood has renewed its reverence for doing things oldschool, i.e. the way they were done before the first Jurassic Park came out in 1993 and thrust computer generated imagery-infused storytelling onto every filmmaker’s frontburner. The art of the practical - physically creating special effects that are captured in-camera, as opposed to crafted in computers in post-production - has returned on the big screen in a major, blockbustery way. Earlier this year, Furious 7 continued its long-standing tradition of Vin Diesel daredevilry by hyping up a centerpiece scene in which five cars were legit lobbed out of an airplane. Mad Max: Fury Road was praised as one of the more viscerally exciting franchise reboots in recent memory, in part because so much of its desert-dust, crash-bang, flame-shooting guitar insanity was captured as it happened by director George Miller and crew. And then there’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, another tent-pole release that beat its authenticity drum by, among other things, hanging actual movie star Tom Cruise by his actual finger tips from an actual Airbus A400M as it took off from an actual runway. All of this realness prompted the Verge to declare 2015 the year of Hollywood’s practical effects comeback, a comeback that may be cemented further by such upcoming releases as Ridley Scott’s The Martian, which features a pivotal dust storm shot

in-camera using a mix of vermiculite and black paper to double for Mars detritus, and a modestly publicized little film called Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. Sneak peaks of the J.J. Abrams-helmed Jedi adventure have emphasized the movie’s return to the DIY (that stands for Droid It Yourself) approach that characterized the original Star Wars trilogy and that many felt was missing from the computer generated-heavy prequels. Dennis Muren - the legendary visual effects wizard who has been with Industrial Light & Magic, the godfather of special effects studios, since it was born 40 years ago during the making of the first “Star Wars” - says Hollywood’s obsession with computer-generated imagery intensified because of Episodes I, II and III, which demonstrated how CG could create much broader filmmaking canvases.

“I think this whole thing started with George (Lucas) and ‘The Phantom Menace,’ where his ideas were so big that you never could have made that movie (practically) without spending a billion dollars on it,” says Muren, who has won nine Academy Awards for his work on the milestone effects in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park, among others. “He pushed that and showed all the possibilities. Everything got big because you could - you could tell these huge stories. I think now, if anything, people are saying, you know, maybe we don’t need to see five miles away. Maybe we don’t need 20,000 creatures coming at us. We can get by with 20. They’re thinking more in terms of human nature and something that you can relate to more than the vast set. And that is saying, then, that maybe we don’t need CG for this.

Maybe we can shoot it another way.”

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Quantico star relies on family firearm training for sharp-shooting role

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Growing up around guns has served Johanna Braddy well.

The bubbly blond says her ease with firearms made it easy to relate to her sharp-shooting character Shelby Wyatt on CTV/ABC’s new conspiracy thriller Quantico.

In it, she plays a southern debutante from Georgia who displays an impressive prowess on the firing range.

Braddy, too, grew up in Georgia and spent her fair share of time handling weapons.

“We had guns and went to the gun range growing up so I’ve been around guns my whole life,” Braddy said during a stop in Toronto back in June to promote the series.

“I myself am from Georgia so it’s kind of fun and I have a similar upbringing to her. (I’m) not so much a debutante, but (I relate to) Georgia, guns, the whole thing.”

Quantico stars Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra as FBI agent Alex

Parrish, the prime suspect in a devastating terrorist attack in New York.

Investigators are convinced the mastermind works within the FBI — and likely infiltrated the academy as a recruit.

From there, the story jumps back in time to profile the various idealistic wannabes who dive into a rigorous program that exposes their weaknesses, along with their strengths.

They include golden boy Caleb Haas, played by Graham Rogers, and devout Muslim recruit Nimah Amin, played by Yasmine Al Massri.

“It will make you question every character, who they really are,” said Massri, who joined Braddy and Rogers for a round of joint interviews.

Each recruit is hiding a secret, and no one is as they appear, added Rogers.

“It really focuses on the two stories — the person that we show, that we present, and the person that we are and our secrets and what we’re hiding and the lengths we’re willing to go to keep that hidden,” said Rogers.

Hotel Transylvania 2 bites off box office record

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — September has a new box office star in Hotel Transylvania 2. The PG-rated animated pic earned a robust $47.5 million in its debut weekend, making it the top September opener of all time, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.

The previous record holder was Hotel Transylvania which opened to $42.5 million in 2012.

“It really is something the whole family can agree to see. There are laughs for adults, kids, and teenagers as well,” said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony.

According to the studio, an estimated 59 per cent of audiences were female and 60 per cent were under the age of 25.

Paul Dergarabedian, a Senior Media Analyst for box office tracker Rentrak, noted that the film capitalized on early excitement for Halloween. It’s also serving an audience eager for more family friendly animated content.

“This year hasn’t been oversaturated with family animated films, it seems like virtually all have done well,” he said.

The film, which cost around $80 million to make, features the voices of Adam Sandler, Mel Brooks, Selena Gomez and Kevin James and is the only animated feature on the market until Peanuts opens in November.

The Intern, a PG-13 rated workplace comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, took second with a solid $18.2 million.

Audiences for the Nancy Meyers written and directed film were 62 per cent women and 88 per cent over the age of 25.

Significantly, 55 per cent were over 50-years-old — an audience that doesn’t typically rush out to see films on opening weekend.

“Nancy Meyers is her own brand and I think that automatically accesses an audience who looks at it and thinks ‘this is a movie I want to see,”’ said Jeff Goldstein, an executive vice-president at Warner Bros., of the veteran filmmaker known for films like “It’s Complicated.”

“Here we have a real hit,” he said.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials took third place in its second weekend in

theatres with $14 million — a 54 per cent drop from its opening. The film has brought in $51.7 million to date.

Everest, meanwhile, landed in fourth place with only $13.1 million after expanding nationwide. The factbased adventure film opened only on IMAX and premium large format 3D screens last weekend.

“It’s very difficult to know where a film is going to land when there’s no good comp for it. Based on the releasing pattern we had for the movie, we’re kind of blazing a new trail. You can call it an experiment if you will,” said Nick Carpou, who heads Universal’s domestic distribution.

“When you add the two weekends together and the mid-weeks in between, sitting here at $23 million feels really good.”

Dergarabedian said that perhaps the competition over the same audience is the reason for Everest’s soft weekend.

“It’s really crowded out there,” Dergarabedian said.

Both Black Mass in fifth place with $11.5 million, and Everest have been pulling in predominantly male audiences.

The well-reviewed border drama Sicario is also dividing audience attentions.

It cracked the top 10 with $1.8 million from only 59 theatres.

Hope isn’t lost for Everest, though.

With a solid A CinemaScore, word of mouth should be strong in the coming weeks, despite the direct competition of next week’s The Walk, another vertiginous, event film that will take over IMAX screens.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak.

Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. Hotel Transylvania 2, $47.5 million.

2. The Intern, $18.2 million.

3. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, $14 million.

4. Everest, $13.1 million.

5. Black Mass, $11.5 million.

6. The Visit, $6.7 million.

7. The Perfect Guy, $4.8 million.

8. War Room, $4.3 million.

9. The Green Inferno, $3.5 million.

10. Sicario, $1.8 million.

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Canada picks Felix et Meira for the foreign language category

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Maxime Giroux’s Felix et Meira has been selected as Canada’s Oscar hopeful in the best foreign-language film category.

It stars Martin Dubreuil and Hadas Yaron and deals with the unusual romance between a married Orthodox Jewish woman and a young man mourning his father’s death in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood.

Telefilm Canada made it official at a Montreal news conference on Friday in the presence of its elated director.

“It’s difficult for me to say in English, but I guess ‘wow’ in English is OK?,” Giroux said laughing.

“It’s a Montreal film — it’s in French, in English, in Yiddish,” he added. “I’m really happy that I’m here to represent Canada and also Montreal.”

Giroux paid tribute to the entire team — from scriptwriters to technical staff to actors.

Co-producer Sylvain Corbeil noted the film was made on a budget of about $800,000 and was shot in Venice and New York City among other locations.

“We had to be really inventive to make it realistic and good,” said Corbeil.

Writing the script was very difficult because it was not easy to research the closed community.

Corbeil also hailed the actors — many of them came from Hasidic backgrounds and had left the community.

“Through our research for this film, we discovered it was a very, very huge step to make because once you leave the community, you’re an outcast in your family, in your community,” Corbeil said. “For them to have this courage was a great source of inspiration for us.”

The selection was made Friday morning by a committee of 23 voting members representing major government agencies and national film industry associations.

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Director Maxime Giroux, right, speaks to reporters as co-writer Alexandre Laferriere looks on, during a news conference in Montreal on Friday, after it was announced that his film ‘Felix et Meira’ has been selected to represent Canada for consideration as a possible nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. have earned three nominations in the category in the past six years.

They are Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies, Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar and Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle.

“In Darkness,” a Canada/Poland/Germany/ production directed by Agnieszka Holland, was also nominated after being submitted for consideration

by Poland.

Last year, Canada submitted Xavier Dolan’s acclaimed feature “Mommy,” but it failed to earn a nomination.

Canada’s last win in the best foreign-language film category was in 2004 for Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions.”

For his part, Giroux was humbled to be associated with that star-studded crop.

“Those directors are inspirations,” Giroux said.

“Being just beside them, it’s an honour.”

Felix et Meira premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014, where it won Best Canadian Feature Film and was voted as part of TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival. It has been screened at more than 50 festivals.

Corbeil said the film may have a bit of an advantage as it was shown in the United States earlier this year, unlike may of its Canadian predecessors.

Since April, the film has been shown in New York City and Los Angeles and has been the subject of several dozen reviews — with Corbeil saying 90 per cent of them rated the film at very good or excellent.

“It’s going to be an honour and I think a lot of fun and I hope we’re going to go all the way through,” Giroux said. “It’s always tough, but you never know.”

A short list of nine films will be announced at the end of December and the Academy will announce the nominated films on Jan. 14.

The 88th Academy Awards will be held Feb. 28.

Pope Francis, UK band The Vamps releasing albums of same name “IT’S RIDICULOUS REALLY, LIKE IT’S RIDICULOUSLY COOL. I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THE POPE WAS RELEASING ANYTHING, BUT FOR IT TO BE RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME AND WITH THE SAME SORT OF NAME, IT’S AMAZING.” VAMPS GUITARIST JAMES MCVEY

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EFFECTS: Digital world “The tools in the digital world got a little more robust and it was kind of like having a shiny new toy, so people wanted to play with that and really explore it and push off in terms of what was possible,” says Stephanie Allen, executive vice president of visual effects at Paramount, the studio behind Rogue Nation.

“Now I think the shift is really coming back to the best of all worlds, where all those points converge and we’re using the right tool at the right time for the right reason and not just because it’s in the box.”

CGI may have reached a tipping point, but it’s hardly about to become obsolete. Nearly every major studio release that lands in a multiplex involves some post-production tinkering; even Fury Road, with its spectacular vehicular smash-ups and swirls of genuine Namibian desert sand, contains about 1,600 visual effects shots.

But if the pendulum is swinging back toward the practical, even a little, it’s because such directors as Miller, Abrams and Christopher Nolan, the man behind The Dark Knight and Inception, are demanding it. Also, perhaps, because moviegoers want it, too.

“The audience is getting smarter and has a better eye and has more interest in how movies are made, in a way that they didn’t before,” says Mike Chambers, a visual effects producer whose credits include Nolan’s Inception and The Dark Knight Rises.

Adds Simon Rosenthal, head of Iloura, the Australian studio that handled Fury Road’s visual effects: “It does give a bit of excitement to the theatergoer to look at it and say, ‘This is actually real. This happened. These guys did this.’ I mean, over the last 10, 15 years, visual effects have probably removed people from that authenticity and reality.”

Well, what’s really removed people from that authenticity are badly executed effects. Freddie Wong,

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Pope Francis leaves the altar after celebrating Mass Sunday, in Philadelphia. Pope Francis announced that he will release Wake Up! on Nov. 27. for the group.

“I think the whole ‘Wake Up’ title can be applied to everything we’re doing. It’s kind of the notion of regeneration and waking up the whole band again,” he said. “It’s kind of about waking up everyone to the world of the Vamps’ second album.”

The Vamps collaborated with Demi Lovato and Shawn Mendes on their debut album. The new record has more synth in the sound, McVey said.

“We’ve been listening to a lot of ’80s-influenced music … things like Taylor Swift’s new album,” he said of Swift’s blockbuster 1989.

co-founder of RocketJump, an online digital studio and virtual film school, recently narrated a video tutorial called Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn’t) that argues that the explosion of digitally driven cinema led to a misplaced backlash against CG. When it’s executed well by meticulous and skilled artists, Wong argues, CG can conjure really stunning and convincing movie magic. Those sentiments clearly struck a nerve; since it was published in early August, the clip has racked up more than 4 million views on YouTube.

“We’re huge fans of practical effects and CG effects,” says Lauren Haroutunian, dean of RocketJump’s film school. “I think one of the main things we try to get across … is that you can’t really pit those two things against each other as competing tools.”

That’s a point on which everyone agrees.

“I’m all for one, that there’s a place for CG and there’s a place for special effects, and it’s really coming up with the best combination,” says Neil Corbould, the special effects supervisor who won an Oscar for bringing his practical expertise to the visual effects majesty of Gravity, and also oversaw effects on The Martian. “I have to say, a lot of the visual effects supervisors these days are becoming more aware of what we can do and are actually embracing what we do because they know it’s a good basis for them to then carry on and build visual effects around it.”

“Filmmakers are finding they really can do some great stuff in-camera and some of them in particular are exploiting that to great benefit,” Chambers says.

“Does that eliminate some CG work? Sure it does.

But you don’t see that part of it going away, because I tell you, a lot of it will still be enhanced or worked on regardless.”

Even pioneers like Muren, who has always embraced tools both tangible and digital, understands how valuable contemporary CG can be when it’s handled judiciously. When asked whether the creatures in Jurassic World, many of which were created digitally based on motion-captured behavior of dino-im-

itating actors, are more convincing than the ones he designed to freak out Laura Dern, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes: “The (new) work, when I see it, looks more realistic than anything you’d seen before.”

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NEW YORK — Holy musical matrimony? Pope Francis and UK pop group The Vamps are releasing albums of the same name on the same day.

Pope Francis announced that he will release Wake Up! on Nov. 27, the same day the Vamps will drop their sophomore album called Wake Up. “It’s ridiculous really, like it’s ridiculously cool.

I didn’t even know the pope was releasing anything, but for it to be released at the same time and with the same sort of name, it’s amazing,” Vamps guitarist James McVey said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday.

“We’re very excited and kind of honoured to be releasing an album at the same time as the pope with a similar title. That’s awesome.”

McVey, 21, added that “it would be amazing to do a gig together” with Pope Francis at the Vatican.

“Could you imagine?” he said.

The Vatican-approved album will include the religious leader’s speeches in various languages, including English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

The sound ranges from pop to rock to Latin. The album will include 11 tracks.

Pope Francis, who is currently on a visit to the United States, debuted a song called Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward! on Rolling Stone’s website Friday.

The Vamps have opened on tour for Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

They will release the first single from their new album, also called Wake Up, on Oct. 2.

The band includes lead singer Brad Simpson, 20 bassist Connor Ball, 19 and drummer Tristan Evans, 21. The band’s debut album, Meet the Vamps, was released last year. It launched five Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom.

McVey said that although their song Wake Up was initially about a girl, the title has multiple meanings

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The multiple airstrikes were the first in Syria

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“The camp was totally destroyed,” Hollande said Sunday after arriving at the United Nations, before the start of a major development summit and the U.N. General Assembly bringing together world leaders.

“We’re sure there were no casualties” among civilians, he added.

The French president’s office announced the strikes, without details, in a statement hours earlier.

“Our nation will strike each time our national security is at stake,” the statement said.

Hollande told reporters the strikes on the training camp, and others to come, were aimed at “protecting our territory, cutting short terrorist actions, acting in legitimate defence.”

However, the limited strikes will likely have but a limited effect.

The U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out regular airstrikes that punish but have failed to decimate IS, which controls large swaths of Syria.

Hollande’s decision to carry out targeted strikes on strategic IS sites is coupled with France’s bid to press for a political solution to the Syrian crisis.

Beyond military objectives, the strikes serve to bolster France’s position in helping to find a solution to a crisis that also includes Russia and Iran.

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Hollande said more strikes “could take place in the coming weeks if necessary.” The targets were identified in earlier French reconnaissance flights and with information provided by the coalition.

The president announced earlier this month a change in French strategy — expanding its airstrikes over Iraq into Syria.

France has carried out 215 airstrikes against IS extremists in Iraq as part of the coalition since last year, the Defence Ministry said earlier this month. But it previously held back on engaging in Syria, citing concern over playing into Assad’s hand and the need for such action to be covered by international law.

Officials now evoke “legitimate defence” as spelled out in the U.N. Charter to support strikes in Syria.

France has already been attacked by extremists claiming ties to IS. Hollande — who has ruled out sending ground troops into Syria — has cited “proof” of plans for attacks on France and the growing danger to Syrian civilians, with a large chunk of the population fleeing in a massive exodus.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said France was going after IS “sanctuaries where those who want to hit France are trained.”

The goal of the strikes is to “slow, break, stop if possible the penetration of Daesh,” Gen. Vincent Desportes said on the iTele TV station, using the Arabic acronym for IS. Hollande stressed the importance of seeking a political solution for Syria.

“More than ever the urgency is putting in place a political transition,” including elements of the moderate opposition and Assad’s regime, the statement said.

The French government has insisted that while it is part of the U.S.-led coalition, France is deciding independently who and what to hit in Syria.

Hollande announced on Sept. 7 France’s intention to start airstrikes, days after the photo of a dead 3-year-old Syrian boy galvanized public concern about Syrian refugees fleeing to save their lives.

In his statement Sunday, Hollande said: “Civilian populations must be protected from all forms of violence, that of IS and other terrorist groups but also the murderous bombardments of Bashar Assad.”

BAGHDAD — Iraq will begin sharing “security and intelligence” information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat the Islamic State group, the Iraqi military said Sunday.

A statement issued by the Joint Operations Command said the countries will “help and co-operate in collecting information about the terrorist Daesh group,” using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

Iraq has long had close ties with neighbouring Iran and has co-ordinated with Tehran in fighting IS — which controls about a third of Iraq and Syria in a self-declared caliphate. Iran has sent military advisers to Iraq and worked closely with Shiite militias battling the IS group.

A U.S.-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against IS in Iraq and Syria as well as training and advising Iraqi forces, but U.S. officials insist they are not co-ordinating their efforts with Iran.

The U.S. also refuses to co-operate with Syrian President Bashar Assad, who Washington has insisted should step down.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday, said in response to the Iraqi statement that “all of the efforts need to be co-ordinated.

This is not yet co-ordinated.”

“I think we have concerns about how we are going to go forward. That is precisely what we are meeting on to talk about now. Our presidents will be meeting tomorrow,” he told reporters, referring to talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Lavrov, when asked about the purpose of the co-operation with Iraq, said it was to “co-ordinate the efforts against ISIL,” using an acronym for the Islamic State group.

Moscow has been ramping up its involvement in Syria in defence of its ally, President Bashar Assad. Russia has recently ferried weapons, troops and supplies to an airport near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia in what the U.S. sees as preparations for setting up an air base there.

The Iraqi military statement said Moscow is increasingly concerned about “the presence of thousands of terrorists from Russia who are carrying out criminal acts with Daesh.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis urged hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered Sunday for the biggest event of his U.S. visit to be open to “miracles of love,” closing out his joyful six-day trip with a message of hope for families, consolation for victims of child sexual abuse and a warning to America’s bishops.

The wide Benjamin Franklin Parkway overflowed with the jubilant, who stood in line for hours and endured airport-style security checks to see history’s first pope from the Americas celebrate an open-air Mass in the birthplace of the United States.

The Mass — the last major event on Francis’ itinerary before the 78-yearold pontiff boarded a plane for the flight home to Rome — was a brilliant tableau of gold, green, white and purple in the evening sunlight of a mild early-autumn day.

Riding through the streets in his open-sided popemobile, the pontiff waved to cheering, screaming, singing, flag-waving crowds and kissed babies as he made his way to the altar at the steps of the columned Philadelphia Museum of Art. With a towering golden crucifix behind him, Francis told his listeners that their presence itself was “a kind of miracle in today’s world,” an affirmation of the family and the power of love.

“Would that all of us could be open to miracles of love for the sake of all the families of the world,” he said to the hushed crowd spread out along the tree-lined boulevard before him.

Crowds a mile away fell silent during the Communion part of the Mass. Some people knelt on the paving stones at City Hall, a few blocks from the altar.

June Bounds, 56, of Rochester, New York, watched the Mass with fellow parishioners on a large screen at City Hall, closing her eyes and blinking back tears.

“It’s very overwhelming,” she said.

“You feel like you’re one body with everyone here, whether you’re here, whether you’re back home, whether you’re anywhere in the world.”

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Pope Francis arrives for a Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, in Philadelphia.

Of the pope, she said: “He’s brought so much joy and holy spirit into the United States. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Catholic he’s just trying to unite everybody for a better world.”

Organizers had predicted 1 million people would attend the Mass. There was no immediate estimate of the crowd. But some people got tired of waiting in line and gave up, while others may have been scared away altogether by the heavy security and weeks of dire warnings from the city about the potential disruptions.

Train ridership was lower than expected, downtown hotel rooms went unfilled over the weekend, normally

bustling city streets were deserted, some businesses closed early, and many Philadelphians complained that the precautions were oppressive.

Earlier in the day, Francis had a more solemn message for families scarred by the sins of the church itself.

The pope met with five victims of child sexual abuse and told them he was “deeply sorry” for the times they came forward to tell their stories and weren’t believed. He assured them that he believes them and that bishops who covered up for abusers will be made to answer for what they did.

“I pledge to you that we will follow the path of truth wherever it may

lead,” Francis said in Spanish. “Clergy and bishops will be held accountable when they abuse or fail to protect children.”

Minutes later, he went into a meeting of bishops from the U.S. and around the world who were in town for a Catholic festival on the family and told them the same thing.

“God weeps” over what was done to the youngsters, he lamented.

The pope has agreed to create a new Vatican tribunal to prosecute bishops who failed to protect their flock, and he has accepted the resignations of three U.S. bishops accused of mishandling abuse cases.

Syrian war pushed to centre stage at UN summit OBAMA MAKES FORCEFUL DEFENCE OF NEW UN DEVELOPMENT GOALS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is “not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future.”

It was the first of two addresses Obama is making at the United Nations. His second on Monday morning, to the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders, will be a broader examination of world issues, especially the ever-more complicated conflict in Syria and the related refugee crisis.

As Secretary of State John Kerry put it after a meeting on the sidelines Sunday, “It would be a complete understatement to say that we meet at a challenging time.”

Obama offered a powerful defence of a 15-year development agenda and will require trillions of dollars of effort from countries, companies and civil society.

He told delegates that 800 million men, women and children scrape by on less than $1.25 a day and that billions of people are at risk of dying from preventable diseases. He called it a “moral outrage” that many children are just one mosquito bite away from death.

And, with a possible nod toward his address on Monday, he noted that “military interventions might have been avoided over the years” if countries had spent more time, money and effort on caring for their own people.

“Development is threatened by war,” Obama said, and war often arises from bad governance. Addressing the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II as millions flee conflict in Syria and elsewhere, he said countries “that can, must do more to accommodate refugees” but added those efforts must be matched by diplomacy.

The leaders of Britain, France, Japan and Turkey also were addressing the final day of the development summit. On Monday, the annual General Assembly high-level debate gives countries a chance to lay out their

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Police detained about 10 of the protesters in Moscow and two in St. Petersburg, where participants walked through the city holding blue and yellow balloons, the colours of the Ukrainian flag.

Those detained in St. Petersburg were a woman who tried to unfold an anti-war poster and a man who draped a Ukrainian flag around his shoulders.

Police said only balloons and ribbons were allowed.

The man detained, history teacher Oleg Ilyin, said he joined Sunday’s march because he was “for peace in Ukraine and wanted the war there to stop.”

UK’s Labour party drops plans to debate nuclear disarmament LONDON — Britain’s Labour Party has decided to leave the country’s nuclear weapons alone.

The opposition party’s new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, opposes atomic weapons, and had said the issue would be debated at the party’s annual conference.

broader vision before the world.

World leaders have already begun a whirlwind series of closed-door meetings on Syria on the U.N. sidelines.

Obama meets Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hasn’t shown up to the U.N. meeting for a decade.

Earlier Sunday, French President Francois Hollande announced his country’s first airstrikes in Syria, raising the stakes in a region where a U.S.led coalition nervously watches a new Russian military buildup near Syria’s Mediterranean coast.

Putin is expected to make a strong defence of those moves and urge countries to join a Russian-led effort against extremist groups like the Islamic State group. On Sunday, Iraq’s military said it will begin sharing “security and intelligence” information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat IS. “We co-ordinate the efforts against ISIL,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters just before meeting Kerry on Sunday.

Kerry disagreed, telling reporters:

But after Labour-supporting trade unions said they would vote to keep nuclear weapons and protect thousands of defence jobs, delegates dropped the issue from the conference agenda Sunday.

It’s a setback for left-winger Corbyn, who wants the party to consider policies long considered off the agenda, from nationalizing industry to diverging on foreign policy from the U.S. He said earlier Sunday that Britain should get rid of its “weapon of mass destruction.”

Britain has been a nuclear power since the 1950s, and both Labour and Conservative governments have long supported atomic weapons.

Third earthquake hits Nevada in 10 months The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit the northwest corner of Nevada on Saturday night — the third earthquake of this size to hit the region in the past 10 months.

The USGS says the earthquake, which had its epicenter about 38 miles (61 kilometres) southeast of Lakeview, Oregon, hit at 7:44 p.m.

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“This is not yet co-ordinated. I think we have concerns about how we’re going to go forward, but that’s precisely what we’re meeting on to talk about now.”

Iran is also a major question, with the United States and the United Nations both reaching out in the diplomatic glow of the new nuclear deal for the Islamic Republic’s help in finding political solutions in Syria and the newer conflict in Yemen as well.

Iran President Hassan Rouhani is already at the U.N. summit and is set to address the U.N. gathering Monday morning along with Obama, Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping — who is making his first appearance here.

Amid the bustle of the back-to-back summit speeches Sunday, Brazil’s president announced her country’s climate commitment ahead of a global summit in December in Paris aimed at a climate treaty. President Dilma Rousseff said Brazil will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 per cent by 2025 from 2005 levels as part of its contribution to a pact to fight global warming.

Freedom Party has doubled its share of the vote in a regional election amid concern about the influx of refugees in recent months.

Preliminary results put the Freedom Party in second place, with 30.9 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s Upper Austria election — compared with the 15.4 per cent it received in 2009.

The party’s gain contrasts with a 6-per cent loss for the centre-left Social Democrats and an 11-per cent loss for the centre-right People’s Party, which remained in first place with 37.4 per cent of the vote.

Exit polls published by broadcaster ORF showed almost two-thirds of voters placed a heavy emphasis on the issue of refugees.

Austria has become a transit country for tens of thousands of people hoping to start a new life in Europe.

Dalai Lama remains at Mayo Clinic for evaluation ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Dalai Lama remains at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic after cancelling his U.S. appearances for the month of October.

A Mayo spokeswoman confirmed Sunday that the 80-year-old Tibetan Buddhist leader remains at the Rochester clinic for a medical evaluation. No other details were released.

The Dalai Lama’s office said Friday in a statement on its website that he has cancelled his planned October U.S. appearances after doctors advised him to rest. The statement gave no more details about the Dalai Lama’s condition, and there was no update on the website as of Sunday. The Dalai Lama lives in exile in India.

Among the Dalia Lama’s cancelled appearances next month was a planned visit to the University of Colorado in Boulder as well as appearances in Salt Lake City and Philadelphia.

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Neighbour blowing unwanted smoke Dear Annie: Recently, new neighbors moved in next door. They seem nice.

The problem is, the husband smokes on their porch, which is on the side of their house and only a few yards from ours. It is close enough that we can smell cigarette smoke in our bedrooms, which are all on that side of the house.

My husband is highly allergic to cigarette smoke.

While we respect the neighbor’s right to smoke on his property, we don’t appreciate the secondhand smoke in our home.

We do not use air conditioning and often leave our windows open. Since the husband comes home late and smokes after we are asleep, we have been closing our windows as soon as we go to bed, which makes for unpleasant nights.

We also have to close the windows on weekends when he lights up.

We don’t want to create tension with the new neighbors, but we would like to be able to sleep with our windows open. Do we have a right to bring this

up? And how can we handle it tactfully? — Stuffy in the Suburbs Dear Stuffy: You can bring it up, but you can’t demand a specific result.

Your neighbor is entitled to smoke on his own property.

All you can do is close your windows or inKATHY MITCHELL stall a fan that AND MARCY SUGAR will blow the smoke away.

ANNIE’S MAILBOX But it is OK to approach your neighbor and ask politely whether he’d be willing to smoke in front of his house, so you can sleep with your windows open.

Dear Annie: This is in response to the letter from “Caught Between Two MILs,” whose husband’s mother resented that the stepmom, who lived closer, was allowed to babysit their

child.

Yes, it is wrong of the son’s mother to be so jealous that she demanded her son and daughter-in-law stop letting the stepmother babysit. She is likely worried the stepmom will have a better relationship with her grandchild than she does.

Her demands are unreasonable, but she may be less anxious if the parents found a way to help her connect with her grandchild.

I have a friend whose grandchild lives several states away. Each night, she connects on Skype and reads her grandchild a bedtime story. It costs nothing and gives the grandchild and grandmother a way to bond at a distance.

Something like this might be helpful for “Caught’s” mother-in-law, who is feeling so left out. — Sympathetic in Idaho Dear Idaho: That is a wonderful suggestion.

Thanks to technology, there are myriad ways to connect with grandchildren, allowing them to see your face, watch your expressions and enjoy

some special one-on-one time. Grandma can connect on Skype, FaceTime or any of the other options, or upload a short video of Grandma singing a funny song and text it to the grandchild’s parents. (Kids love videos.)

These are not difficult things to do, no matter how technologically inept you think you are, and you can always ask the neighborhood teenager to help.

Dear Readers: Today is Family Day (casafamilyday.org). Studies show that children who eat dinner with their parents have a reduced risk of substance abuse. Please try to make meals a family event.

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.

Ontario removes words mother, father from government forms

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In this photo provided by the Oregon Zoo, three 10-day-old rescued cougar cubs are show at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore. The cubs, discovered in Washington State by Fish and Wildlife officials recently, arrived in Portland Sept. 18, weighing just a pound and a half each. They have yet to cut their teeth, and their eyes are barely open, still cloudy blue and unable to focus, but they have been eating well and are very vocal.

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BRIEF Escaped tarantula grounds plane near Baltimore LINTHICUM, Md. — A tarantula that escaped in the cargo hold of a passenger flight from Maryland’s BWI airport to Atlanta grounded the plane and sent passengers onto another flight.

Brian Kruse, spokesman for Delta Air Lines, tells The Baltimore Sun that baggage handlers noticed a baboon tarantula had gotten out of its container on Flight 1525 Wednesday night.

Kruse says the captain grounded the plane so it could be searched for any additional arachnids. Passengers were put on another flight.

Kruse says the spider was confined to the cargo hold and never entered the cabin. No other tarantulas were found.

Father’s punch to face saves toddler in cougar attack TAHSIS, B.C. — A Vancouver Island man punched a cougar in the face last Monday to rescue his twoyear-old girl from its jaws.

Travis Nielsen’s daughter, Bree, suffered some puncture wounds in the sudden attack, but is otherwise doing fine.

“She was crying but she’s OK,” said his wife, Andrea Nielsen. “She’s got some small puncture wounds just above her right ear, one on her back and then a couple on her chest.”

The cougar pounced while the three of them were sitting in their backyard in Tahsis on the west side of Vancouver Island. “(Bree) was sitting with a six-week-old puppy and we were just kind of looking at the ocean and enjoying the day and then all of a sudden from behind the shed, my daughter was attacked.”

Nielsen told The Canadian Press it wasn’t immediately clear what kind of animal had the toddler.

“At first, we thought it was a large dog. But then we realized — after my husband pulled my daughter out of the way and punched it in the face — that it was actually a cougar.”

The cat dropped the girl and Travis Nielsen yelled at the cougar to “get out of here.”

“He was still out there scaring the cougar into the forest even after the fact, once we were all safe in the house,” said his wife.

Conservation officers eventually put the animal down and scoured the area for any additional big cats.

“They sent in a team and they had bloodhounds with transmitters on their necks,” said Andrea Nielsen. “They were going through the forest and they set up traps.”

She said it had been “an intense day.” Asked how long it might take for her family to stop shaking, Nielsen replied: “Never.”

HOROSCOPES Monday, Sept. 28

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Brigitte Bardot, 80; Naomi Watts, 46; Hilary Duff, 27 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today there’s a fine line between being spontaneous and being rash.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If you want to move ahead, strive to be less complacent and more motivated. Romance and love are in the air in March and April.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you being insensitive? When it comes to a friend or colleague, take the time to walk a mile in their shoes. Then you’ll have some small insight into what they’re going through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The more you include family or work colleagues in your daily routine, the faster things will get done. Double-check all appointments though, as misunderstandings are likely today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re

frustrated by some people’s lack of speed and motivation, but today’s not the time to push buttons. Make connections with friends who focus on solutions — and stay positive.

CANCER (June 21-July JOANNE MADELINE 22): The presMOORE sure’s building SUN SIGNS and it may feel as if everything’s getting on top of you. The big lesson to learn is how to delegate. No one — not even a conscientious Crab — is indispensable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A close rela-

TORONTO — Ontario lawmakers have approved a motion to remove the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from all government forms to “reflect the diverse nature” of families in the province.

Glenn Thibeault, the Liberal member of the Ontario legislature for Sudbury, asked that ‘gendered’ terminology be replaced with gender-neutral and inclusive language on 10,000 different provincial government forms.

Birth certificates already allow two same-sex adults to be listed as parents, and all government forms should use inclusive language, said Thibeault.

His motion, which was approved Thursday in a voice vote, said gender specific words “including — but not limited to — mother and father” could be replaced with “parent or guardian” to better recognize the rights of LGBTQ parents.

“This motion isn’t about saying that using terms that indicate a gender such as mother or father are bad or offensive, just that they aren’t always a reflection of today’s Ontario families and more appropriate terminology ought to be used,” Thibeault told the legislature. “This is about being inclusive.”

Two Liberal cabinet ministers and the New Democrats spoke in favour of Thibeault’s motion, which is not binding, but widespread support for such a move by a government backbencher often leads to action.

The Progressive Conservatives said Thibeault’s motion shouldn’t exclude the gender-specific terms already in use on government forms.

“If the member was really serious about being inclusive, he would be asking that words such as parent and guardian be added to government forms, not that the words mother and father be excluded,” said PC MPP Bob Bailey.

New Democrat Jennifer French pointed out that Ontario’s $245-million Social Assistance Management System (SAMS) for people on welfare and disability supports not only uses the terms male and female to create client profiles, it also assigns a pink or blue avatar for their files.

“Our new and improved, super expensive, top of the line expensive, advanced and awesome SAMS system forces someone to be a pink lady or a blue man,” French told the legislature. And if someone is transitioning their worker has to make notes about it until that avatar switches colour and makes it official.”

Thibeault, who is a former New Democrat MP, said the government forms would only be changed with the more inclusive language as they are updated or replaced. He said his motion would apply to everything from school registration forms and adoption papers to student loan applications.

“I realize that changing the language on government forms may seem like a small step, but it’s a small step in the right direction,” said Thibeault.

“It means this government is doing more than just saying it’s legal to be LGBTQ or legal to be a single parent, or that people ought not treat someone differently because their identity is different.”

tionship will be complicated today Lions, as retrograde Mercury muddles communication, while Pluto contributes to moody moments and plenty of emotional drama.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s not a good day to deal with complicated money matters, as retrograde Mercury makes it hard to focus on the important details. Wait until Mercury goes direct on October 9.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Close relationships are in a state of creative flux and the more adaptable you are, the better the end result will be. Visualize ideas in your mind before you launch them in the outside world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Prepare for a day and night of extremes Scorpio.

You’re keen to initiate changes, but donít underestimate the resistance of some people to your plans. Try to proceed diplomatically.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With the Moon moving through your creativity zone, make sure you capitalize on your numerous talents. The more energy and enthusiasm you put into projects, the

more you’ll receive in return.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your emotions and actions are in harmony today Capricorn — for a change!

So go after what you want, especially at work. Plus verbalize your true feelings in direct and honest ways.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to take action and change the status quo. But don’t jump in and be too impulsive. Tune into your inner voice Aquarius — it will lead you in the direction that’s right for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Moon and Uranus shine a light on a financial problem and help you see things from a totally fresh perspective. Try to boost your cash flow by doing something that you really enjoy.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Painting conservator Barry Bauman works in his studio cleaning a George Catlin painting owned by the State Historical Society of Iowa while looking through a binocular microscope. He’s cleaned and fixed 1,500 paintings for hundreds of museums nationwide over the 11 years and he’s done it all for free.

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MAN FOLLOWS PASSION DOING ART CONSERVATION RIVER FOREST, Ill. — An Illinois man has spent up to 10 hours every day for 11 years cleaning and fixing 1,500 paintings for museums nationwide. He’s done an estimated $5 million worth of work.

He didn’t get paid once. “Either you got to be crazy or love what you are doing, maybe I’m a little bit of both,� said 67-year-old Barry Bauman, who works out of his home in River Forest, a suburb of Chicago.

He worked in the conservation department of The Art Institute of Chicago for 11 years before starting his own business, the Chicago Conservation Center, in 1983. By 2003, he had 23 employees and the company was starting to run him. So, he sold it and thought about doing conservation work for museums at a reduced price.

His wife suggested he do it for nothing. “The minute she said it I said, ‘That’s right. I’m going to do this for nothing,�’ he said, though customers pay for materials and shipping.

The work entails cleaning dirt and discolored varnish and fixing torn canvases and flaking paint. He sometimes retouches parts of paintings and adds newer varnish that can be reversed.

One painting is typically a three- to four-month job, sometimes using a cotton swab and a microscope. He turns away paintings more than 10 feet tall, copies of paintings and ones that are too damaged.

Since announcing his effort in a 2004 letter to museums — “This will enable institutions with limited budgets to preserve paintings that are needlessly deteriorating simply due to lack of funds� — Bauman has worked with 300 museums. His 65 paintings for the Wisconsin Historical Society

earned him a “Certificate of Recognition� from Gov. Scott Walker last year for donating $250,000 in conservation services.

Society curator Joseph Kapler says Bauman’s gift to art, museums and the public is incalculable. The society is now using the restored work for illustrations and publications and to improve their website. “I don’t even know, is this a hundred-year gift? I don’t know because I don’t think there has been anything like this,� he said.

Bauman has even helped discover fake paintings, like the one supposedly of Mary Todd Lincoln that for years hung in the Illinois governor’s mansion. The woman’s face didn’t look like Lincoln, he explained, and the painter’s signature of Francis Bicknell Carpenter was on top of the varnish, rather than the paint, meaning it was added later.

His love of conservation comes from a great appreciation of artists — he has a masters in art history with a specialization in Dutch Baroque paintings from the University of Chicago. “Artists just have something really unique that cannot be taught. It’s inside of them,� he said. And he’s worked on paintings by some of the masters — Picasso, Rembrandt, Monet, Renoir — feeling a deep responsibility to them and the work. “They are sort of all my children,� he said.

He looks after his “childrenâ€? when he visits the museums, being “very critical to make sure it still looks its best ‌ conservators come and go, but paintings with proper preservation can live hundreds of years.â€?

He plans to continue to do restoration until he physically can’t: “Everybody comes to that moment, but I see that as a distant future moment.�

Paying rent while living with mom and dad

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Parents whose grown children are living at home — and experts say their numbers are growing — can face a complicated question: whether to charge rent, and how much.

Circumstances vary from household to household.

For Terri Gifford, a self-employed mom in New Rochelle, New York, who renovates old homes, it wasn’t an easy decision.

Gifford and her husband, Peter, agreed with their 23-year-old son, Brian, that he’ll pay them $300 a month in rent. He has lived in their house for two years, since he graduated from Harvard. At first he didn’t have a job, and now he works as a paralegal in a law firm, gearing up for his marriage in November and taking the Law School Admission Test in October. “He’s not making a ridiculous amount of money,� Gifford said. “I didn’t really want to charge him rent, but Brian wanted me to. He felt better about it. I didn’t think $300 was a crazy amount of money. My son wanted to contribute, and we came up with an amount where he felt like he was contributing, but that he wouldn’t be broke and could save for his future.�

According to a Pew Research Center study in July analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data, millennials — defined as those ages 18 to 34 in 2015 — are now less likely to be living independently of their families and establishing their own households than they were during the depths of the Great Recession, which began in 2007. In the first four months of this year, the share of young adults living in their parents’ homes has increased from 24 per cent to 26 per cent, despite the uptick in employment and full-time jobs since 2010, according to Pew. The study doesn’t take into account rent, or an increasing number of Generation Xers — ages 35 to 51 — who have also moved home with baby boomer parents.

With another, younger son who’s

away at college and her husband working long hours in construction, Gifford, 56, said the rent Brian pays goes mainly toward expenses, including food.

She loves to cook, and Brian, in turn, does a range of errands, from filling up her gas tank to going shopping and helping with the dog. He’ll be moving out after his wedding, she said. “It’s definitely an adjustment, having an older child living at home. I can’t ask as many questions,â€? she said. “But he’s a great kid. He’s very independent, and very family-oriented. ‌ I think Brian is pretty appreciative of the fact that he saves money, and I help him out quite a bit.â€?

On the border between millennial and Gen X, Raven Brown, 35, has lived with her mom in her mom’s three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan since 2009. Brown is a PhD student in public and urban policy at the New School, and also works as a researcher. She wanted to help her mom, who has chronic health problems, and she also has huge school loans. She’s been paying more than half of the apartment’s $2,200 a month rent since February. “We talked about it, and it seemed like a good amount. She likes to have me around!â€? Brown said, laughing. “Paying rent feels the same as not paying rent. It’s helpful to my mom‌ .

We’re a close family.�

Rossana Alvarado, 41, a stay-athome single mom with an 11-year-old son, Noah, and a 17-month-old son, Oliver, first moved back in 2008, after losing her job, to the four-bedroom house that her 75-year-old mom, Consuelo Martinez, and 71-year-old stepdad, Al Martinez, own in La Puente, California. She moved out in 2014, and then came back last July. “The negative part is that it’s embarrassing,� Alvarado said. “Everyone will tell you not to be so embarrassed, that it happens to a lot of people. The good feeling is my mom felt like a mom again. I was given this chance to bond with her, and I’m happy Noah and my mom have bonded beyond what I could ever hope.�

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