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BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man pleaded guilty on Monday to a 2014 kidnapping of a Gasoline Alley hotel worker, robbery and sexual assault at knifepoint. A three-day trial was scheduled to start in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday. Instead Justin Chase Mueller, 30, pleaded guilty to three of the five charges against him. According JUSTIN MUELLER to an agreed statement of facts read out in court, the hotel worker, who was 20 at the time, had left work after her shift and warming up her vehicle shortly after midnight on Dec. 3, 2014 when Mueller threatened her with a knife. He forced her into the vehicle and she begged him to let her go. He got behind the wheel and drove her to a bank where he forced her to withdraw cash from the bank’s automated teller and also stole money from her purse. She begged him to let her go again. Mueller drove her to a farmer’s field near Penhold where he sexually assaulted her twice.
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An RCMP member photographs damaged windows above the north foyer on the north side of the downtown RCMP detachment building Monday afternoon.
FOUR ARRESTED AFTER DRIVE-BY SHOOTING BY ADVOCATE STAFF Four people have been arrested after the downtown police detachment was targeted in a drive-by shooting.
Two large second-storey windows above the front entrance were damaged in the incident that happened shortly before 4 p.m. The windows were damaged but did not break because of a protective coating. Police have not identified the weapon, or whether it was a real gun or replica, such as an Airsoft-type weapon. The suspects were located in the Bower neighbourhood shortly after
and taken into custody. Their age and gender were not released. RCMP closed the detachment to the public as a safety precaution after the incident. The public entrance is usually open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visitors to the station were redirected to the north satellite station on 67th Street. More information was expected to be released later, said a police spokesman.
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Rimbey seniors lodge expected to open by the fall of 2017 BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Work is about to begin on a long-awaited seniors lodge in Rimbey. “It’s a go,” said a clearly pleased Mayor Rick Pankiw. “We’re very excited. I’ve been working on this for about 30 months,” said Pankiw, who sits on the lodge building committee. Shunda Construction, which was awarded the contract for the $14.7-million lodge, is just waiting for the frost to come out of the ground to begin site work. When the province and federal government announced $13.3 million in funding in May 2014, it was hoped the first seniors would move into their new home by spring 2017. Given a projected 16-month build, the new move-in day will be late summer 2017. Rimoka Housing Foundation board chairman Paul McLauchlin said a variety of factors, including a provincial election and change in government, changing building requirements and design and construction tweaks
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A long-awaited seniors lodge in Rimbey is expected to open in 2017. stretched out the start date. McLauchlin said the foundation was pleased with how quickly the last piece of unfinished preliminary business — official ministerial approval — was obtained. Penciled in as a process likely to take months, the necessary paperwork was signed within a couple RED DEER WEATHER
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of weeks, he said. The new facility will have 82 rooms, including six double-occupancy suites. Some of the new rooms will be created by remodeling the existing outdated facility. Exactly how the building will be reconfigured is still being worked out.
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McLauchlin said a new construction management approach is being taken with this project. A project charter has been formed that will include representatives from Rimoka, Berry Architecture, and the province. “Instead of having a project manager as an individual, we actually have a project management team,” he said. Charter management has been used successfully on big projects elsewhere. One of the advantages is it taps into local knowledge, resources and contacts, an approach that McLauchlin believes has saved money. “It’s a new approach that the provincial government is taking I think on a lot of these major projects,” he said, adding the seniors lodge is believed to be the biggest infrastructure project — besides the hospital — undertaken in Rimbey. Since it was first announced, there has been no change in how badly needed the facility is say local representatives. “The need, if anything, is up,” said Pankiw. McLauchlin agrees room demand is high. “We’re pretty sure they will be full in no time.”
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Sam Boettcher gets plenty of vertical height as he jumps rope at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School Monday. He and his classmates in Carrie Tobler’s kindergarten class were in the gym participating in the Jump Rope For Heart. All this week, all grade levels at the school will get their jumps in as they raise some money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and get in some great exercise at the same time.
Three Central Albertans were among the 27 influenza-related deaths so far this flu season across the province. Before last week, Central ‘NONE Alberta did not report any HAD BEEN flu-related deaths. The deaths were included IMMUNIZED in last week’s influenza statisAND ALL tics from Alberta Health Services, but AHS Central Zone HAD could not confirm when the INFLUENZA three people died as there can A H1N1.’ be delays in reporting deaths. Provincial statistics showed — DR. DIGBY HORNE, a spike in flu-related deaths AHS CENTRAL ZONE last week, jumping to 27 from MEDICAL OFFICER 15 the previous week. Dr. Digby Horne, AHS Central Zone medical officer, said Central Albertans who died were between the ages of 18 and 64. “None had been immunized and all had Influenza A H1N1,” Horne said on Monday. He said cases this year have primarily been H1N1. A total 405 Central Albertans have tested positive for Influenza A out of 2,763 confirmed cases across Alberta. Another 87 Central Albertans were confirmed to have Influenza B out of 630 Albertans. “Last year it was H3N2. The demographic is a little bit younger with the H1N1 than the H3N2. Certainly we’re not seeing the outbreaks in supportive living and continuing care or long-term care that we had last year.” Last season, 103 people Albertans died, including 11 Central Albertans. So far this season, 84 Central Albertans have been admitted to hospital with lab-confirmed flu. Last season, 179 were admitted. Horne said the Influenza A outbreak appears to have peaked, but Influenza B was still on the rise as of last week. Influenza B cases generally start to climb when Influenza A cases are dropping off. He said AHS is providing immunization through public health offices until the end of March for the general population. It will available until April 30 to children who still require their second dose. If people want to be vaccinated at their pharmacy or doctor’s office, they should call ahead to see if the vaccine is still available. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
City demands province pick up tab for warming centre The City of Red Deer will use provincial funds to recover up to $250,000 in capital costs for the winter warming centre. Council passed a motion Monday to use Affordable Housing Program Municipal Block Funding. This program has funded affordable housing initiatives such as the Buffalo Hotel, townhouses in Riverside Meadows and Habitat for Humanity in previous years. The Community Housing Advisory Board issued a request for proposals in late 2014 to determine interest in the remaining capital funds. There were no submissions when the deadline for proposals closed in January 2015. Meanwhile the city will continue to pursue increased shelter funding from Alberta Human Services to recover operating expenses associated with
the current warming centre. Council allocated $100,000 in its 2016 operating budget on a shelter study to determine long-term solutions in the city. Coun. Ken Johnston said the bigger picture here is to find a long-term permanent solution around homelessness. “I think we’re getting there,” said Johnston. “I am optimistic we are getting there. When I look at the warming centre, I think it’s a symbol of a gap that we have in our community that we are striving to conclude. I think this is a good place to start. I think the study that we put together will help as well and we will eventually wrestle the homeless issue.” Mayor Tara Veer said shelters are predominately a provincial responsibility. She said it is important to use these provincial funds, otherwise the funds would be sterilized. Please see SHELTER on Page A3
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Local BRIEFS Man charged with murder back in court later this month A Red Deer man charged in the murder of a 22-year-old Camrose woman will make a court appearance at the end of March. Earlier this month, RCMP’s Edmonton Major Crimes Unit arrested four people after a sevenmonth investigation into the murder of Mackenzie Leah Harris who was reported missing by a friend Aug. 1, 2015. Her remains were discovered Aug. 3 in a wooded area within Calmar. Charged with second degree murder are Dylan Bakke, 21, of Red Deer; Kyle Scott, 29 of Leduc; and Christopher Stein, 39, of Millet. Bakke is also charged with committing an indignity to a dead body. Bakke is scheduled to appear in Leduc provincial court on March 31. A youth, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also charged with second degree murder and committing an indignity to a dead body. Scott was also charged with attempted murder stemming from an unrelated matter in 2014.
Lacombe man charged with murder appears in court A Lacombe man charged in connection with a 2006 murder made his first appearance in Red Deer
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provincial court on Monday. Shayne Earl Gulka, 44, is charged with the first-degree murder of Bradley Webber whose body was found in his fifth-wheel trailer in Eckville in October 2006. Gulka is also accused of using a handgun to kidnap another individual in October 2006. Police are still looking for Kevin Edward Brown, 33, of Calgary, in connection to those crimes. A Canadawide warrant was issued for his arrest.
Photo radar monitoring school zones Red Deer RCMP will set up photo radar in several locations around the city starting Wednesday and running until March 31. Police will be monitoring school zones on Timothy Drive, 60th Street, 48th Avenue, 49th Avenue, Lawford Avenue and Nolan Street. Police will be watching playground zones on Addington Drive, Lalor Drive, Inglewood Drive, Boyce Street, 45th Avenue, 58th Street and Oak Drive. Radar will be set up along traffic corridors on 50th Avenue, 49th Street, Burnt Park Drive, 49th Avenue, Taylor Drive, 30th Avenue and 40th Avenue. Police reserve the right to change locations without notice.
Shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday a man entered the Express 24 Foodmart on Erickson Drive and demanded cash and cartons of cigarettes, say police. The suspect is described as approximately 1.78 metres (fivefoot-1o) tall with a heavy build, approximately 109 kgs (240 pounds). He had a red goatee and wore a black coat, faded blue jeans, white running shoes, black sunglasses and a ‘Coors’ toque. At this point, police believe the two robberies were committed by the same suspect. If you have any information about either of these robberies, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-3435575.
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Trump trumpeting once-forbidden truths ROBERT MCGARVEY OPINION
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onald Trump’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has entered a new and more dangerous stage. On Friday night, fierce clashes broke out between his supporters and angry protesters in Chicago. Protesters had been expected, of course – they have been present at almost all of Trump’s major addresses. But this time it was not a few hecklers, it was a violent clash between opposing visions of the republic. Critics often portray Trump as a clown. Popular comedians parody his blundering mannerisms and demolish his extreme political positions on the anvil of common decency. Regrettably, even as they do so, Trump’s popularity grows ever stronger. The baffling question is: what’s the attraction of a man made famous for his hostile “you’re fired” antics on reality television? A quick analysis of Trump’s following seems to indicate they’re middle aged, predominantly white and largely
male. Why is this demographic so attracted to Trump? Jared Taylor, a Yale scholar and editor of the online magazine American Renaissance, put forward a simple but compelling reason: the present system is perceived as unfair to whites — blue-collar males in particular. For many working Americans, Trump’s angry rhetoric hits home. “If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don’t have a country,” he has said. He reflects the fear of many Americans (and some outside observers) that their dominant culture and founding values are being swamped by a tidal wave of non-white immigrants. Anger at political correctness is common among Trump’s supporters. Ignoring the fact that there are many loyal American Muslims, Trumps states bluntly, “The United States has a problem with Muslims … I didn’t see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center.” Many of Trump’s pronouncements are designed to inflame the latent racism and narrow stereotypes shared by his supporters. But Trump is becoming more popular because he dares to speak the truth about forbidden subjects. And one of those subjects is the betrayal of working Americans by decades of so-called free trade.
Freer trade has been a top priority for Western governments since the Second World War. In its earlier days, it was seen as a way of raising living standards in the Third World and eliminating a major cause of war. But free trade, while a boon to large corporations, has not worked out very well for blue-collar workers in America — and they’re angry. Jobs in America are more difficult to find and far less secure than they once were. Three decades of globalization tipped the balance of power in the workplace in favour of management. Wages for working people have essentially flat lined. Many of Trump’s supporters resent this and have abandoned any hope that the Establishment will do anything about it. Enter Trump with his breathtaking simplicity: “My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.” Trump supporters rise as one, fists pumping, when Trump tells them the fix is in and they’re the losers. However, in rallying this base Trump risks driving wedges between Americans at a time when the nation is already divided and vulnerable. The foundation of any nation is the integrity of its civil society. Civility is vital to hold nations together, yet it is unravel-
ling fast in America. The U.S. was once notable for its unity of purpose and the strength of its civil society. It welcomed immigrants and supported its citizens with progressive policies and economic opportunities that were the envy of the world. However, it’s been a long time since anyone — echoing Abraham Lincoln — described America as the “last best hope” for mankind. Trump’s gleeful incitement to violence in recent rallies may be the beginning of the end for him. But it would be a mistake to underestimate the raw nerve he has touched. Calmer heads and more compassionate politicians need to break out of their self-imposed silence and acknowledge the truth: the system is unfair and needs to be fixed. Doing so effectively would not only heal America’s wounds, it would help restore its greatest asset: the unity and strength of its civil society. Troy Media columnist Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and nations build communities of wellbeing.
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Opposition has something to learn from PM’s trip CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION
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s they ponder the leadership of their own parties, what lessons, if any, should the Conservatives and the New Democrats draw from Justin Trudeau’s picture-perfect official visit to Washington? Over the coming weeks and months, the NDP and the Conservative Party of Canada will make decisions that will shape their respective courses to the 2019 election. Part of the thinking on the way forward will by definition be introspective. A debate about leadership is almost always a debate by proxy about what the party stands for. And in each of those two cases, the potential for divisiveness is high. But on leadership, the choices the opposition parties will also inevitably be informed by how their Liberal rival performs in action. And on that score, Trudeau’s first few months in government offer his main rivals much food for sober thought. Take this week’s trip to Washington. It would be easier to dismiss it as just a lost week for the opposition were it not part of what has been a winning streak for the rookie Liberals. Polls suggest that Trudeau is exceeding the ex-
pectations not only of those who supported his party last fall but also of many non-Liberal voters. While it would be comforting for the opposition parties to conclude that the prime minister’s high approval rating is a product of the triumph of style over substance, that’s the reasoning that had led the NDP and the Conservatives to their current predicament. Here are some tentative lessons they might want to keep in mind going forward: If voters did not buy the argument that Trudeau is an empty vessel when he was just the leader of a third party, they are even less likely to do so now that he is backed by the expertise of the civil service and basking in the glow of the mostly positive first impressions of the international community. If anything, Trudeau’s political pedigree has tended to blind his opponents to the fact that he is not a media magnet just by virtue of his birth but also in his own right. No Canadian politician has so consistently been under the spotlight as he has since he was first elected as MP. The opposition parties need to come to terms with the notion that he will not be melting down any time soon. For a click-hungry media, Trudeau’s celebrity appeal is a gift that keeps on giving. Lamenting that reality will not change it. And waiting for his aura to fade has been a losing game. A leader comfortable in his skin is usually one who is also comfortable with voters and the media. But the more instructive paradox is that while Trudeau’s star shines more brightly than that of his
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political contemporaries, he has also redirected more of that glow unto his team than most popular leaders. That might entice the Conservatives and the New Democrats to reconsider the proposition that in politics, collegiality is a remedy for weak leadership at the top rather than the mark of strong leader. When the Liberals selected Trudeau, they picked someone who could win only by changing the terms of engagement of the leadership battle. In a contest for the title of alpha dog, Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair would have had him beaten hands down. The question the opposition parties have to ask themselves is whether they should engage on those changed terms and make their leadership decisions accordingly or - even more fundamentally - whether they have the luxury to not do so. On this, the Washington visit offered a partial answer in the shape not of the much-celebrated Trudeau but rather of his outgoing American vis-à-vis. Barack Obama and Trudeau are both cut from the same atypical leadership cloth. Their path to power was not the beaten one. A show of political killer instinct did not get them where they are. But hundred of thousands of new voters made the difference in their favour. As it turned out, the American president did not walk on water. But after eight difficult years in the White House, a critical mass of Canadians still liked Obama’s inclusive optimistic approach to politics enough to install a like-minded leader as their prime minister. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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Ottawa under pressure to approve poppy farms BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — Premier Rachel Notley is backing a push for the federal government to unravel the red tape that prevents farmers from cultivating poppies in southern Alberta. Thebaine poppies are prohibited under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Canada imports about $600 million worth of thebaine each year from Australia and Europe, because it is not available in North America. Pharmaceutical companies process it into pain relievers such as morphine, codeine and oxycodone. API Labs of Lethbridge says it has been test-growing the poppies and they appear to thrive in southern Alberta, which is best known for grain, potatoes and corn. The company wants to build a $120-million processing plant and take advantage of a potentially huge market. “What we’re proposing is Canada should be self-sufficient. If we’re one of the largest users in the world in some of these medications, then why are we not developing this industry here?” asked API CEO Glen Metzler. “Why are we relying on farmers in Australia and France to grow products that our farmers could grow? We can develop the industry here and our kids can have jobs in these processing facilities as opposed to buying these materials in other countries.” API, the City of Lethbridge and Notley have reached out to the federal government to ask for permission to move ahead with the project. “This type of poppy can be transformed into a medically consumable narcotic which can compete in the international market,” the Alberta premier wrote in a Jan. 12 letter to Health Minister Jane Philpott. “As medical demand worldwide continues, this would provide an opportunity for Canada to emerge as a global competitor in both responsible growth and processing of this crop. I would appreciate your department’s timely approval of the necessary exemptions.” A Health Canada spokesman confirmed that growing the poppies is subject to narcotic control regulations. “Health Canada has issued a small number of licences for scientific research involving opium poppies over the past several years, but no licences for commercial cultivation have been
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Ottawa is being asked to approve the cultivation of thebaine poppies, shown in this undated handout from API Labs, near Lethbridge. The thebaine poppies do not have the addictive qualities of opium poppies but can be used in pharmaceutical products. API wants to build a $120-million production facility. issued,” said Sean Upton in an email. “To date, Health Canada has not received an application for commercial cultivation of thebaine poppies.” The RCMP has voiced concerns to Health Canada that API’s medicinal plans could attract drug-peddling criminals and organized crime. Internal briefing notes show Mounties expressed reservations during a conference call with several other federal agencies in April 2014. Metzler said the plants that would be grown don’t produce enough of the enzyme required to convert thebaine itself into morphine. He said thebaine is considered a pre-cursor chemical. “Even though thebaine is a controlled substance, it does not have narcotic properties and cannot be used illicitly. Comparing the thebaine poppies to codeine is like comparing barley to beer, or comparing potatoes to vodka,” he said. “It wouldn’t actually give you a buzz, it would make you sick ed to a three-vehicle crash that killed two people. The collision happened early Sunday morning at a major intersection in northeast Edmonton. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says an officer had tried to follow a Chevrolet but it sped off. The agency says the officer attempted to catch up to the vehicle but called off the chase over concerns for public safety. Five minutes after police first spotted the Chevrolet, the vehicle crashed into two other cars. A 29-year-old man and 23-year-old woman in the back of the Chevrolet died at the scene.
if you were to ingest it.” Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman calls the poppy-processing proposal a big opportunity and sent a letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion asking for a speedy decision. “It’s not a big risk and this is a great economic opportunity that has been ignored for too long,” Spearman said. “Why bring the medicine into the United States from Europe and Australia when it can be produced here?” Metzler estimates the size of the poppy market could be equivalent to Canada’s potato industry. Agriculture Canada says on its website that potato receipts in 2013 were just over $1 billion. Metzler said the business model could grow if emerging markets such as India and China are factored in. But even if a plant were approved, it would be four years before it could be operating, he said.
PIERRE, S.D. — Officials in three Canadian provinces and six northern U.S. states are launching an effort to brand the region as the potential provider of protein to the world. The “Protein Highway” project aims to encourage scientists to work together and share information on protein-rich crops, said Kevin Kephart, South Dakota State University’s vice-president for research and economic development. That could lead to research that would aid farmers and also help entrepreneurs take new food products to market, he said. “There’s no place on the globe that can produce as much protein as we can,” Kephart said. Canadian researchers David Gauthier and Larry Sernyk estimate the demand for animal protein will double by 2040 as the world’s population increases. That should result in more demand for high-protein plant products to feed the animals being raised for meat. More people also likely will need to get their protein from plants and fish. “There’s a lot of opportunity,” said Jamshed Merchant, the Canadian consul general based in Minneapolis. High-protein crops such as lentils, dry beans and dry peas have great potential throughout the “Protein Highway” region, which encompasses Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta north of the border and the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana and Iowa south of the border, the Canadian researchers said. Another project that could benefit is Prairie Aquatech, a company headed by a pair of SDSU scientists that’s looking for ways to use plant-based food to raise fish. The Protein Highway concept could also increase demand for farm products in the region and lead to a more diverse array of crops to choose from during planting season, according to Merchant. “Your choices become quite large,” he said. “It’s just like diversifying your portfolio.”
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Painting a picture of homelessness ‘CENSUS’ SHOWS COMMON CAUSES, OFFERS HOPE FOR HELP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Stephane Boyer’s nostrils flare and his breathing quickens, his lips failing to separate, when he thinks about Doreen — his partner of 22 years who died in August. Doreen, who lived first in sub-standard housing and then on the street, was among 17 people who died on the streets of Thunder Bay, according to a new federally organized homeless census that illustrates the depth of disparity across the country. The numbers, of course, only tell part of the story. One woman was found dead in a laneway behind City Hall that’s visible from the mayor’s office. A local aboriginal artist who struggled with addiction was pulled from the river. In Vancouver’s downtown eastside, arguably Canada’s most notorious poverty-stricken neighbourhood, six deaths in a year was out of the ordinary, said Brad King, who now oversees operations at Thunder Bay’s largest shelter. These days, anecdotes and statistics alike say Thunder Bay is among the worst cities in Canada for homelessness. The circumstances that render and keep people homeless are aligned in this northern Ontario city in a way that local officials are only just now learning about in greater detail. Like Thunder Bay, 29 other small
and medium-sized cities are taking part in either the federally organized count of homeless people or a similar effort organized by the anti-poverty group 20,000 Homes. The hope is that the data will paint the most detailed picture yet of the homeless population in Canada, after years of estimates of the number of people who go homeless each night and each year — about 35,000 and 230,000, respectively. Differing methodologies from one city to the next have also made it difficult to compare results on a national scale. To help, the federal government has quietly collected a growing amount of information over the last three years on people visiting shelters, a relatively reliable measure because it captures many of the people who are homeless in a community. That data has illustrated a remarkably consistent picture of shelter users and homelessness across the country that suggests homeless populations have similar makeups from city to city. “The stability is what stands out to me,” said Aaron Segaert, a researcher with Employment and Social Development Canada who wrote the first baseline study on shelter usage in Canada. “Even when you look within the
homeless population at different sub-groups — say youth, males, females, families, whatever — it tends to be remarkably similar from city to city and from year to year.” That’s not to say there aren’t differences between communities. Federal data shows that in Peel Region, next to Toronto, 12.3 per cent of shelter users are immigrants and 3.9 per cent are refugees. In Prince George, B.C., women experience more ‘episodic homelessness’ — three or more homeless episodes a year — than men, the reverse of most communities outside the North. Nanaimo’s mild weather makes it easier for people to sleep outside, and the local jail adds to the homeless population because inmates have “nowhere to go when they finish their sentence.” The largest proportion of shelter users in Thompson, Man., are senior males. The figures show that the homeless population is most often male, between the ages of about 25 and 64, and often aboriginal, a demographic typically over-represented in homeless populations. Boyer’s story, in other words, is not out of the ordinary — it is the ordinary. “I never seen no change at all,” he says of the homeless situation in Thunder Bay. “Nothing much change since I been here for 20 some years.” The hope is that the national data can help communities craft better plans to combat homelessness and organize services, and also inform plans for a national poverty reduction strategy the federal Liberals have promised to deliver. “It’s a really tough to get people to do anything when … you can’t give them the data,” said Bonnie Krysowaty with the Lakehead Social Planning Council. “That’s why this point-in-time count was so important for Thunder Bay, because we haven’t had this kind of data … our city councillors really like to see the data, they like to see the numbers.”
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E h off th i b d h h Each their bedrooms has enough space for a double bed, a dresser, maybe even a television. Boyer’s room has a fridge and enough space for a bed for his puppy. At the end of the narrow hall between rooms is another door, propped open with a crutch. Maratt ascends the staircase past the front door to the church and to the landing at the entrance to the sanctuary, not even noticing the buildup of dirt or the crumpled bag of dog treats next to a grimy pillow. The pews are gone. At the front is a pea-soup yellow cross flanked by seafoam green walls.—— Maratt looks down from the balcony at the bird droppings and the piles of pigeon feathers.
Contractors overbilled Ottawa by millions for ‘decades’ BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is routinely overcharged by its contractors — to the tune of tens of millions of dollars — in a practice that has been going on for decades, according to a newly-released internal report at Public Services and Procurement Canada. A team of 30 government auditors has been working for the last few years to get a handle on the contracts process, as well as examining a number of agreements and payment terms. As of the last budget year, the internal auditors had looked at $7.3 billion of contracts and cumulatively found $72 million in potential “over claims and excess profits.” The team has been slowly ramping up its work over the last four years. In 2013-14, they had only reviewed $960 million in multi-year agreements and discovered $65 million in
over-billing, according to a series of documents released to The Canadian Press under access-to-information legislation. When they started in 2012, they examined only $390 million worth of industry deals and found $19 million in excess charges. Only a fraction of the cash — $2.8 million — was recovered in 2013-14 and public services spokesman PierreAlain Bujold says the outstanding amount “is presently subject to negotiations.” Documents, dated Oct. 3, 2014, reveal that at least $1.9 million in claims are at risk of not being reimbursed because of “inaction.” National Defence was singled out in the reports, even though officials pointed out that 75 per cent of the overall contracts audited were not military.
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IIn thi it where h h l this city homelessness is on the rise, substandard or illegal rentals or rooming houses remain the only option for those with little money to their name, or stretching whatever welfare payments they receive. “There is some pretty — to use the term loosely — sketchy housing situations, which are completely housed with mental health and addictions clients with poor functioning or no functioning plumbing, electrical,” said Ken Mackenzie, a nurse practitioner with one of Thunder Bay’s outreach services. “There are several agencies who won’t access a lot of that housing as well — you know, ‘It’s unsafe, we’re not going in there.”’
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. — The sign at the back of this old church in Thunder Bay reminds passers-by to make sure the door stays closed at night. Pass under the lone light bulb in the entranceway, past an untamed cable and utility box and down a few steps, and you come to the living room where Vince Maratt and Stephane Boyer spend time in their basement rooming house. The fabric on the couches is fraying, the colour fading in the lounge chair. Cardboard covers a hole in the vinyl floor before Boyer moves the couch along the far wall to cover the cardboard. A cat — one of the pets who live here — walks in and paws at the back of the couch, apparently looking for mice.
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Embassy security a top priority: Dion BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — When worry wakes Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion in the middle of the night, one topic is the main culprit: concern over the safety of Canada’s diplomats abroad. His concern seems well-founded. Sunday’s car bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara, following a suicide bombing three weeks ago, left more than two dozen dead. Canada’s embassy in its NATO ally is about six kilometres from the location of Sunday’s attack. Government documents also reveal that the cost of keeping Canada’s diplomats safe is rising faster than the govern- STEPHANE DION ment predicted. Terrorism, civil unrest, criminal gangs and natural disasters pose threats to Canadian diplomats, says a memo on security at foreign missions prepared for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that was obtained under Access to Information. This past week, Dion’s renamed department, Global Affairs Canada, said the government is continually assessing the threats faced at its embassies as it released its new Plans and Priorities report. “It’s my top priority,” Dion said. “There’s nothing more important for me than that.” Asked what he plans to do to fix the situation, the minister replied: “I have made that very clear, that I don’t want to compromise the security of my people, and their families, by the way.” The prime minister’s briefing note says Canadian missions face “evolving risks at a time when security resources are diminishing.” The foreign affairs department has used “onetime funding” to complete security upgrades “at high-threat missions.” It has trained a group of new Security Program Managers that have been deployed at 30 high threat missions, the memo says. But it also notes constant resource challenges. “The financial cost of sustaining deployed security operations is rising rapidly, well beyond initial forecasts made a few years ago,” the memo says, It says the department is “currently assessing future threats, mission security requirements” and “cost sharing opportunities” to find a sustainable way to protect its assets abroad. “Terrorism and armed conflict have fundamentally altered the risks to (government of Canada) staff abroad however they represent only a portion of the contemporary threat profile.” It cites a rise in “civil unrest” in the last five years, “violent criminality in large swaths of Latin America and Africa,” natural disasters in Haiti, the Philippines and Japan as well as “a range of hostile espionage activities.”
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Security forces are deployed in front of the Canadian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, which closed to the public on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 over security concerns, a day after the British Embassy suspended its services over safety worries.
FIVE THINGS OTTAWA IS DOING TO PROTECT FOREIGN MISSIONS OTTAWA — Here are five things the Canadian government is doing to protect the safety of diplomats, foreign missions and intelligence: 1. Global Affairs Canada, the renamed foreign affairs department, completed a corporate risk profile of the country’s 177 embassies, high commissions and other mission offices in 109 countries in 2014-15. It assessed the risks from terrorism, cyber-attacks and natural disasters. In the coming year, the department is focusing on the three risk areas: personal and physical security, cyber threats and theft of information and emergency response reaction. 2. The department continually does risk management assessments. It has found that 80 per cent of its missions in the Middle East and Africa are “actively managing security as one of their top three risks.” The department’s risk management activities have been the subject of two major internal programs since 2011. 3. The department is in the midst of several internal initiatives to defend against cyberattacks and on-line theft of intelligence and data. The measures include developing
Ottawa spent millions in legal fees for maternity, sickness benefits lawsuit BY THE NUMBERS OTTAWA — A by-the-numbers look at federal maternity and sickness benefits under the employment insurance program: 336,800: Claims for sickness benefits in the 2013-14 fiscal year 360,760: Claims for maternity, parental and adoption benefits in the 2013-14 fiscal year, outside Quebec $1.3 billion: Amount in sickness benefits paid out during 2013-14 fiscal year $3.43 billion: Amount in maternity, parental and adoption benefits paid out during the 2013-14 fiscal year, outside Quebec $388: Average weekly sickness benefit claim during the 2013-14 fiscal year. $438: Average weekly benefits for maternity, parental and adoption benefits during the 2013-13 fiscal year 15: Maximum number of weeks eligible claimants can take sickness benefits. 9.7: Average number of weeks sickness claimants take. 75: Percentage of claimants who use the maximum and who don’t return to work in six months, or never return. Source: Employment and Social Development Canada “We’ve come out of a decade where the government time and time again turned to litigation to get out of either meeting its obligations or trying to find a solution for Canadians in a collaborative way,” Ashton said. “I certainly hope that with a new government we’ll see a new approach on this front.”
cian-assisted death, the coroner cannot determine in advance whether an autopsy will be necessary,” Huyer writes. Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down laws that bar doctors from helping someone die, but put the ruling on hold for one year. The court later said the terminally ill could ask the courts for an exemption during that period.
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Toronto police are looking into whether a double stabbing at a military recruitment centre could be linked to terrorist activity. Police Chief Mark Saunders says a man walked into the centre around 3:30 p.m. Monday, pulled out a knife and attacked a uniformed Canadian Forces member. Saunders says others were able to take down the suspect but a second Canadian Forces member was stabbed in the process. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. He says the suspect made unspecified comments that led police to look into a possible terror connection. RCMP and CSIS have also been contacted. Saunders says charges against the 27-year-old suspect are pending. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said at this point, it appears to be an isolated incident and “there is no imminent threat to public safety.” “Canadians can be assured that their police and security agencies are fully engaged and are discharging their responsibilities,” Goodale said in a statement. “My thoughts are with the victims and their families.”
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TORONTO — The first person in Ontario who wants doctors to help him die under a new exemption is asking the courts to rule against any coroner involvement if he is allowed an assisted suicide. In his application to Superior Court to be heard this week, the unidentified terminally ill grandfather calls it absurd and distressing that his death might lead to a full-blown coroner’s investigation, which could include drug testing and an autopsy. “To issue a warrant for a body, conduct an investigation, hold an inquest, or even undertake an autopsy and toxicology report, would be completely uncalled for given that the applicant’s death will be the culmination of one of the most carefully scrutinized and supervised deaths one could ever imagine,” his lawyers argue in court filings. Current Ontario legislation requires the coroner to be notified of non-natural deaths, such as when someone dies from drug toxicity. When that happens, the coroner is obliged to take possession of the body and investigate. In an email to the man’s lawyers, Ontario’s chief coroner, Dirk Huyer, says an investigation typically involves police, as well as the dissection of the body and toxicology testing. At the same time, he says he cannot predict what might occur in this case. “If the coroner becomes involved with a physi-
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Terminally-ill man wants coroner barred BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Newly released figures show the federal government has spent more than $2.2 million in legal fees fighting a class-action lawsuit over maternity and sickness benefits. Most of that — $2.06 million — has been through the federal Justice Department with a further $176,377 estimated to have been spent at Employment and Social Development Canada. The figures are contained in documents tabled in Parliament last week in response to a request from New Democrat MP Niki Ashton and show the government added about $1 million to the overall legal bill for the case in the last year. The federal government had to waive solicitor-client privilege that would have otherwise prohibited the release of the figures. Not included in the documents are details on the number of people who applied for sickness benefits while on parental leave, as well as how many were denied and how many subsequently won on appeal. The documents say that information can’t be released because it is at the heart of the $450-million class-action lawsuit. The government is being sued for refusing to pay sickness benefits to women who became ill while on maternity leave. Parliament decided in 2002 to allow those who were diagnosed with cancer, for instance, to access 15 extra weeks of EI payments on top of their year of maternity leave. The lawsuit alleges that didn’t happen and some 60,000 women were denied such claims over a decade. Ashton, the NDP’s employment critic, said the dollar figures should be a warning for the Liberal government to make immediate changes to the EI system so that those who are eligible get benefits.
secure forms of mobile communication, enhanced training, physical upgrades of hardware and greater use of tools to prevent cyber theft. 4. The department used new funding to create a new group of specially trained security program managers in 2010. These officers are currently posted to 30 of the highest-threat foreign missions, but the government won’t identify these locations. The department is expanding the ability of these officers by working with local security services in host countries. 5. The department has created a standing rapid deployment team to deal with emergencies and natural disasters. It has proved itself in responding to typhoons in the Philippines and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. The program has an annual budget of $885,000 to cover overtime, equipment and specialized training for its 90 members.
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2016 race barrels toward primary day U.S. ELECTION BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOVERTON, Ohio — The tumultuous presidential primary season barrelled toward a potentially decisive day for both Republicans and Democrats that could transform Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton from front-runners to likely nominees. The biggest prizes are Florida and Ohio, states with a long history of making or breaking White House aspirations. Missouri, Illinois, and North Carolina also offer a crucial cache of delegates to the parties’ national nominating conventions that could help Trump and Clinton pull further away from their rivals. Trump holds a comfortable lead in the Republican delegate count and could put himself well on his way to securing the nomination if he sweeps Tuesday’s contests. He would cross an important threshold by collecting more than 50 per cent of the delegates awarded so far. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio hoped their homestate primaries —winner-take-all contests with 165 delegates at stake — would give them a boost, while a loss could end their candidacies. Polls show that Kasich seems to have a better chance at defeating Trump in Ohio than Rubio does in Florida. That makes Ohio likely the key state in determining whether Trump puts himself on a path to winning the nomination by the end of the primary season on July 7 or the race continues on an uncertain path, possibly resulting in a contested convention. Among Democrats, Clinton has been itching to look ahead to the general election but continues to face persistent competition from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. While Clinton maintains a commanding lead in the delegate count, Sanders breathed new life
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Stephanie Romero holds up a peace sign while hold a sign along with fellow protesters during a Donald Trump rally in Hickory, N. C., held at Lenior-Ryhne University, Monday. into his campaign with a surprising victory last week in Michigan. If Clinton comes out of Tuesday’s contests with decisive wins in several states and further pads her delegate lead, it would be difficult for Sanders to catch her because all the Democratic nominating contests allot delegates proportionally. Tuesday’s contests come at a remarkable moment in the presidential race for Republicans. Animosity toward Trump has risen to the point where he can rarely get through an event without being interrupted by protesters. The front-runner is also under scrutiny for appearing to encourage his supporters to physically
Man charged in Michigan shootings: Uber app took him over SAYS DEVIL HEAD APPEARED ON SCREEN BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — A man charged with fatally shooting six people in Michigan interspersed with his stints as an Uber driver told investigators he was being controlled by the ride-hailing app through his cellphone, police said Monday. According to a police report, Jason Dalton told authorities after the Feb. 20 shootings in and around Kalamazoo that “it feels like it is coming from the phone itself” and told of something “like an artificial presence,” the report said. Dalton told officers that when you “plug into” the Uber app, “you can actually feel the presence on you.” He said the difference between the night of the shootings and others was that an icon on the Uber app that is normally red “had changed to black.” He told investigators he “doesn’t want to come across as a crazy person,” and added he was sad for the people who were killed as well as for his family members, who “are going to have to hear all of this,” according to the report. The details about Dalton’s comments are in documents released by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety and Kalamazoo County sheriff’s office in response to public records requests by The Associated Press and others. Dalton, who has been ordered to undergo a mental competency exam, is charged with murder and attempted murder in the shootings outside an apartment complex, a restaurant and at a car lot. Two people survived. Investigators say Dalton didn’t know the victims. His attorney, Eusebio Solis, did not respond to an email Monday seeking comment on his client’s behalf. When police asked what was going through his mind, the report said, Dalton told investigators that “if we only knew, it would blow our mind.” When he opened the Uber app, he explained, “a devil head popped up on his screen and when he pressed the button on the app, that is when all the problems started.” Dalton said the “devil figure … would give you an assignment and it
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would literally take over your whole body,” according to the report. He added that at some point with the Uber app, “you don’t have to drive at all, the car just goes,” and added “he was seeing himself from outside of his body.” When police pulled him over, the report said, he didn’t shoot because the app went from black to red and “he felt like he was no longer being guided.” Dalton’s wife had told investigators he warned her the night of the shootings that they “couldn’t go back to work anymore and the kids could not go back to school” — and she’d understand everything by watching TV news, police reports said. At that time, the first shooting had already occurred. When Carole Dalton asked him what he meant, Dalton replied that “she would see what he was talking about on the news and that it probably wouldn’t say his name, but as soon as she saw it on the news she would know it was him,” the report said. Dalton later told police he doesn’t remember telling anyone to watch the news. Uber security chief Joe Sullivan said last month that Dalton cleared a background check and was approved to be a driver on Jan. 25. He had given slightly more than 100 rides and had a rating of 4.73 stars out of a possible five. Until Feb. 20, Sullivan said, Uber had no reason to believe anything was amiss and that “no background check would have flagged and anticipated this situation.” Another man told police he sought an Uber driver to take him from a brewery to his hotel because he “did not feel it was safe to be walking while there was an active shooter.” The man said one of his fellow passengers asked Dalton if he was the shooter and he said no, adding, “I’m just tired.” The man told police he joked with Dalton “because he never would have imagined that an Uber driver would actually be the suspect in the shootings.” The ride was just after midnight and shortly before Dalton was apprehended.
He dropped her off in front of a convenience store and drove away in her vehicle. Defence lawyer Norm Clair requested a psychiatric assessment of his client. Charges of uttering threats and theft will likely be withdrawn against Mueller as the case proceeds to sentencing. The case returns to court on May 2 to set a date for sentencing and for an update on the psychiatric assessment.
confront those protesters, deepening divisions within the Republican Party. In a lightly veiled jab at Trump, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said candidates “need to take responsibility for the environment at their events.” “There is never an excuse for condoning violence, or even a culture that presupposes it,” Ryan told WRJN, a radio station in Racine, Wisconsin. Even with the new controversy, Trump was already eying the general election when he appeared at campaign stop Monday in Tampa, Florida, where he was joined by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “If we win Florida and we win Ohio,
we can go and attack Hillary,” Trump said. Heading into Tuesday, the billionaire businessman is locked in a tight contest in Ohio with Kasich. Seeking a final boost in his home state, Kasich spent Monday campaigning alongside Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee and a fierce critic of Trump. “This is the guy Ohio has to vote for, and America’s counting on you,” Romney told the crowd at a Kasich event in North Canton. While Romney has not endorsed Kasich, he’s said he’ll do whatever is needed to help all of Trump’s rivals. Florida Sen. Rubio also hopes to block Trump in a do-or-die primary in his home state, though polling suggests he’s slipping further behind. The senator tried to stay upbeat Monday, perhaps his final full day of campaigning in the 2016 race. “Tomorrow’s the day where we are going to shock the country,” Rubio said during a stop in Jacksonville. Trump’s closest competition has come from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has defeated the businessman in seven states. He’s also the only remaining Republican candidate who still says unequivocally that he would support Trump if he becomes the nominee. In the Democratic race, Sanders reprised a theme that helped propel his surprise Michigan win. On Monday, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, pounded Clinton’s past support for trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. He’s escalated his criticism in recent days, hoping to undercut her edge among minorities and expand his advantage with white working-class voters. “When it came down whether you stand with corporate America, the people who wrote these agreements, or whether you stand with the working people of this country, I proudly stood with the workers,” Sanders said in Youngstown, Ohio. “Secretary Clinton stood with the big money interests.”
World leaders chase goal of gender equality by 2030
BRIEF N. Korea’s Kim warns of impending nuclear and rocket tests SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned of impending tests of a nuclear warhead explosion and ballistic missiles capable of carrying atomic warheads, state media reported Tuesday, in an escalation of threats against Seoul and Washington. Kim issued the order for the tests “in a short time,” according to the Korean Central News Agency. The KCNA dispatch did not say if Kim gave specific dates for the tests. The announcement comes as North Korea said it had mastered a key remaining technology needed to develop a reliable long-range missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland. It is unclear if the tests would happen soon, given that any tests would likely invite harsher international sanctions after the country was hit by the toughest U.N. Security Council sanctions in two decades in early March for a nuclear test and longrange rocket launch conducted earlier this year. In the past, North Korea has typically conducted nuclear tests and rocket launches every three to four years. Kim’s threats came as his country furiously reacts to ongoing annual military drills by Seoul and Washington, which Pyongyang views as an invasion rehearsal. Kim said “a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test-fire of several kinds of ballistic rockets able to carry nuclear warheads will be conducted in a short time to further enhance the reliance of nuclear attack capability,” according to KCNA.
The head of UN Women challenged world leaders to help achieve gender equality by 2030 at the start of annual meeting devoted to improving the lives of females around the globe. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcukasaid said Monday at the opening of the two-week 60th Commission on the Status for Women that while progress has been made, many women and girls are still at risk and change is not coming fast enough. “Excellencies, in your hands is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end poverty and transform gender relations irreversibly for the next generation, making the world a better place for all,” she said. The session will focus on gender equality, one of many sustainable development goals endorsed last year and outlined in the document “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The document outlined 17 broad goals and 169 specific targets, with overarching aims including reducing poverty and inequality and preserving the environment.
Austrian court finds 4 guilty of terrorist-related crimes An Austrian court has found four people guilty of terror-related crimes and sentenced them to prison terms of up to six years. The court in the eastern city of Graz found a man guilty of persuading others to fight for radical groups in Syria while he was a preacher at a mosque. He received the six-year term. Two other men were convicted Monday of fighting for the Islamic State group and given five-year terms. A woman who wanted to join radicals in Syria with her three young children was sentenced to 14 months in prison, with a month suspended. All are ethnic Chechens. None was identified in keeping with Austrian privacy laws.
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NDP firm on tax changes CECI TELLS BUSINESSES SEEKING TAX RELIEF THAT ALBERTA IS THE LOWEST-TAXED PROVINCE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s finance minister is reminding a group of businesses seeking tax and wage relief that the province is already the lowest taxed jurisdiction in Canada. Joe Ceci also said Monday the tax changes being implemented by the NDP government won’t change that and will put the province on a sounder footing. “We have the lowest taxes overall of any province or territory in this country,” Ceci told reporters at the legislature. “The things we’re doing put us on a better fiscal basis going forward.”
Ceci was reacting to a call from 15 business organizations for Premier Rachel Notley’s government to make changes to its tax plan given rising unemployment. The group represents oil and gas, manufacturing, retail and construction businesses. It is seeking a meeting with Notley and her cabinet, but Ceci says he already meets with members of the group. The NDP has hiked corporate taxes last year from 10
per cent to 12 per cent. It also threw out Alberta’s 10 per cent flat tax and replaced it with a progressive system with higher taxes paid by higher-income earners. Last year, it hiked the minimum wage by $1 an hour to $11.20 an hour, and remains committed to moving it to $15 an hour by 2018. In the April 14 budget, Albertans will learn the details of a new $3-billion a year carbon tax that begins on Jan. 1. The tax will see prices rise on everything from gas at the pumps to heating and electricity bills.
JOE CECI Please see TAXES on Page A10
Cheap fuel expected to bring down airfares BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Air travellers should see further dips in fares this year after sizable drops in 2015 as lower fuel prices are passed along to consumers, according to a leading industry association. The International Air Transport ‘THE MITIGATING Association says avFACTOR IN erage fares around CANADA IS THE the world as reported in U.S. dollars COMPETITIVENESS fell about 12 per cent last year, or by OF THE MARKET IS four to 4.5 per cent NOT NECESSARILY adjusted for distorAS STRONG AS tions caused by the strong appreciation SOME OTHER in the U.S. currency. MARKETS SO IT Although decreases in adjusted MAY TAKE LONGER fares stabilized toFOR THOSE PRICE wards the end of the DROPS TO FILTER year, the association says competitive THROUGH . . . .’ pressures within the industry will likely — PATRICK SURRY translate intro furCHIEF DATA SCIENTIST, HOPPER ther fare declines in the first half of the year as currency hedges unwind. Crude oil prices have rallied but are still about 30 per cent lower than they were a year ago. In Canada, average domestic round-trip prices rose two per cent month over month to $457 in February after having dropped 7.3 per cent in January, according to the Consumer Airfare Index from airfare prediction app Hopper. International fares were up 4.2 per cent to $804. However, compared with February 2015, domestic fares were down 2.5 per cent while international fare were essentially flat. Both decreased about 11 per cent in U.S. dollars. Fares will fluctuate as demand picks up heading toward the busy summer season, but prices will remain low because the downward pressure from oil prices is so strong, said Patrick Surry, Hopper’s chief data scientist. Surry said global prices could fall three to five per cent in 2016. He added that Canadian prices could dip more than those in the United States because American carriers have already been pushed by competition to pass along savings more quickly than in Canada. “The mitigating factor in Canada is the competitiveness of the market is not necessarily as strong as some other markets so it may take longer for those price drops to filter through because the airlines obviously don’t need to pass on their fuel savings right way,” Surry said. Please see AIRFARES on Page A10
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Alan Gertner CEO of Tokyo Smoke poses for a photograph at his business in Toronto.
Pot stores work to shake off Reefer Madness stigma BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — You won’t find brightly coloured bongs or bubble gum-flavoured rolling papers displayed against the backdrop of exposed brick and modern, industrial-style furnishings at Tokyo Smoke. Instead, the shop — located in a former shipping dock nestled between two warehouses in Toronto’s west end — carries high-end pot paraphernalia befitting the pages of a design magazine while also serving up cups of artisanal coffee. Pipes handcrafted by California-based ceramicist Ben Medansky sit alongside a pricey portable vaporizer, a reimagined version of the French press coffeemaker launched via a Kickstarter campaign and a selection of what shop owner Alan Gertner calls “museum quality collectibles” — items such as vintage Barbies and a vintage Hermes bag. It’s all part of Gertner’s mission to create a cannabis-friendly lifestyle brand that caters to the urban intellectual — one that breaks the mould of dated weed associations involving video games and junk food. “I don’t think there is a home for someone who’s buying Mast Brothers chocolate and drinking the nicest coffee to have a similar experience in pot,” says Gertner, who quit his job at Google to launch the brand. “It’s no different from someone who has beautiful stemware in their home for alcohol. We ritualize and love our experiences, and I think we should have the same thing with cannabis.” The emergence of a luxury cannabis-oriented lifestyle brand like Tokyo Smoke is the latest development in a saga that has seen the purveyors of pot
work to reshape popular perceptions of the drug. Until more recently, those efforts have been aimed at trying to demonstrate the drug’s medical legitimacy. Philippe Lucas, a vice-president at Nanaimo, B.C.-based grower Tilray, says decades of propaganda — including the well-known 1936 flick “Reefer Madness” — have made rebranding marijuana a challenging task. “I think the stigma is completely understandable when we look at the 70 years of misinformation, propaganda and drug war rhetoric that’s come out of Canada and the U.S.,” says Lucas, who is also the executive director of the Canadian Medical Cannabis Council. Adding to the difficulty are Health Canada regulations that prevent medical marijuana producers from making health claims in their advertising materials — rules which also apply to the broader pharmaceutical industry. Canadian cannabis producers have used a variety of strategies to change perceptions about the drug, including moving away from the street names typically used to identify strains. Mettrum, Bowmanville, Ont.-based grower, uses a colour-coded spectrum — red being the strongest, yellow the mildest — to identify each product’s strength and other characteristics. “We came up with a responsible dialogue for talking about cannabis that doctors would want to use, versus talking about strains like purple kush or super lemon haze,” says Mettrum’s CEO Michael Haines. Please see MARIJUANA on Page A10
Forcing banks to shoulder more risk on the table: CMHC MORTGAGES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is continuing to explore the possibility of forcing banks to shoulder more of the risk associated with home mortgage loans. During a speech in Calgary, CMHC president and CEO Evan Siddall said the option of requiring lenders to pay a deductible on mortgage insurance claims is still on a table. According to speaking notes posted on the website of the federal housing agency, Siddall told his audience that the CMHC is working with a number of government entities, including the Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada, to examine ways of better distributing risk across the financial system. The idea of having banks pay a deductible on mortgage insurance claims was first floated by CMHC under the previous Conservative government.
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It’s been unclear whether the new Liberal government is interested in pursuing the idea. Homebuyers with less than a 20 per cent down payment are required to obtain mortgage default insurance from either CMHC or one of the private mortgage insurers. The Canadian Bankers Association warned the previous government that shifting more mortgage risk onto the banks could threaten the country’s financial stability. The industry association laid out its position in a letter to CMHC penned in August 2014, which was obtained by The Canadian Press through an Access to Information request last year. The Department of Finance said last November that it had undertaken preliminary research to examine the impact of shifting more of the risk to the banks. Siddall made his comments Monday during a luncheon hosted by the C.D. Howe Institute, a thinktank that once called for the privatization of the CMHC. During his speech, Siddall defended the organization’s status as a public institution, arguing
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‘THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL WAY IN WHICH WE CONTRIBUTE TO CANADA’S FINANCIAL STABILITY. IN FACT, OUR ROLE NOW IN ALBERTA IS TO SUPPORT CONTINUOUS ACCESS FOR ALBERTANS TO THE HOUSING MARKET, EVEN IF PRIVATE INSURERS CHOOSE TO PULL BACK.’ — CMHC PRESIDENT AND CEO EVAN SIDDALL that it played an important role during the 2008 global financial crisis. “As a Crown corporation with a public policy mandate, CMHC needs to be present in the market through all economic cycles,” he said. “This is a fundamental way in which we contribute to Canada’s financial stability. In fact, our role now in Alberta is to support continuous access for Albertans to the housing market, even if private insurers choose to pull back.”
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.37 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.62 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.00 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.63 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.160 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.80 Cdn. National Railway . . 79.95 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 175.12 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.23 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.10 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.68 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.28 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.01 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.46 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.65 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.18 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.38 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.78 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.94 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.37 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.81 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.09 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.45 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.74 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.01 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.67 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 71.00 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Fresh comments from Iran about its intention to drive up oil production rattled the Toronto stock market Monday, with the news reminding investors on the resource-heavy index that the recent rally in crude prices may only have been temporary. The S&P/TSX composite index fell 44.46 points to 13,477.54, amid declines in the energy, gold and materials sectors. The Canadian dollar was lower against a strengthening U.S. greenback in advance of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loonie lost 0.21 of a U.S. cent to 75.37 cents US as investors awaited the latest policy rate announcement from the Fed on Wednesday. The central bank is not expected to hike rates this time, but investors will still be closely monitoring its comments on the state of the U.S. and global economies for clues about possible moves in the future. The Fed raised its benchmark rate for the first time in almost a decade in December. U.S. indexes ended the day with mixed results, with the Dow Jones industrials edging up 15.82 points to 17,229.13. The Nasdaq added 1.81 points to 4,750.28, while the broader S&P 500 shed 2.55 points to 2,019.64. In commodities, the April contract for benchmark North American crude oil slumped $1.32 to US$37.18 a barrel after Iran’s oil minister dismissed the idea of a production cap, saying his country will keep increasing output until it reaches pre-sanctions levels of four million barrels per day. Four countries — Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar — have been in talks on
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 27.09 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.62 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.36 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.45 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.15 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.85 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.00 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.01 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.92 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.84 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.50 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.35 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.960 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.96 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 19.00 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.42 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.88 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.91 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.02 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.10 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.71 Canyon Services Group. . 3.86 Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 17.34 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1750 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.28 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.690 a production cap in hopes of boosting global crude prices. The deal would only go ahead if other major producers agree. Iran, which is ramping up production following the removal of sanctions imposed over its nuclear program, has resisted the idea. Andrew Pyle, a portfolio manager at ScotiaMcLeod, says the comments from Iran were not surprising but acted as an “excuse” for investors to do some profit-taking. “We’ve had a pretty solid recovery of oil since earlier this year, since basically February,” he said from Peterborough, Ont. “After such a move, you’re going to get a pullback. And today was just a catalyst for some profit-taking. I think that’s what it really was.” Pyle estimates that Iran is currently producing only about a million barrels a day and it looking to regain its share of the crude market and have production back up to the pre-sanction levels of 2008. “However, most analysts would agree that this is something that will take time,” he said, noting “there are logistics involved in returning to where you once were in terms of oil output and Iran is not there yet.” Elsewhere in commodities, April gold was down $14.30 at US$1,245.10 a troy ounce, while April natural gas was unchanged at US$1.82 per mmBtu. May copper was also barely changed at US$2.24 a pound. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,477.54, down 44.46 points Dow — 17,229.13, up 15.82 points S&P 500 — 2,019.64, down
Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.41 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 35.50 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.26 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.36 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 44.31 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.210 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.270 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.14 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.78 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.610 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.82 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.65 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.15 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.05 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.23 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.55 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.35 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.45 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.76 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.84 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.400 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.25 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.32 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.03 2.55 points Nasdaq — 4,750.28, up 1.81 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.37 cents US, down 0.21 of a cent Pound — C$1.8964, down 0.53 of a cent Euro — C$1.4724, down 0.30 of a cent Euro — US$1.1098, down 0.53 of a cent Oil futures: US$37.18 per barrel, down $1.32 (April contract) Gold futures: US$1,245.10 per oz., down $14.30 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.388 oz., down 24.5 cents $687.62 kg., down $7.88 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: March ‘16 $2.70 higher $464.10 May ‘16 $3.00 higher $466.40 July ‘16 $1.40 higher $467.30 Nov. ‘16 $0.70 higher $468.20 Jan. ‘17 $0.30 higher $471.70 March ‘17 $0.30 higher $474.30 May ‘17 $0.30 higher $473.60 July ‘17 $0.30 higher $473.10 Nov. ‘17 $0.30 higher $466.70 Jan. ‘18 $0.30 higher $466.70 March ‘18 $0.30 higher $466.70. Barley (Western): March ‘16 unchanged $174.00 May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 March ‘17 unchanged $180.00 May ‘17 unchanged $180.00 July ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 March ‘18 unchanged $180.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 299,000 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 299,000.
Air Canada to help create 150 maintenance jobs in Manitoba BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Air Canada says it has entered into an aircraft maintenance agreement with the Manitoba government that is expected to create at least 150 jobs in the province. Under the deal, Canada’s largest airline says it will help establish a “Western Canada Centre of Excellence” for aircraft maintenance by bringing to Manitoba three of its aviation suppliers and partners. In return, the deal will help Air Canada (TSX:AC) avoid legal action related to the closure of Aveos Fleet Performance in 2012 after the airline pulled its maintenance work from the company. The closure led to the layoff of 2,600 employees, including more than 1,700 in Montreal along with many others in Ontario and Manitoba. Quebec led the original lawsuit against the company, saying the airline has failed in its obligations under the 1988 Air Canada Public Participation Act to maintain heavy maintenance operations in Quebec. However, the province recently dropped its suit after Air Canada agreed to buy up to 75 Bombardier
CSeries planes and agreed to have heavy maintenance work performed on them in the province for a minimum of 20 years. The airline says the Manitoba government has also agreed to drop its participation in the suit under the new agreement, although the Quebec Federation of Labour filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court last week seeking permission to take up the legal battle there. Under the deal announced Monday, Air Canada said it will help three long-standing suppliers and partners set up shop in the province. They include Hope Aero Propeller & Components Inc., which specializes in propellers, wheels, brakes and batteries and Airbase Services Inc., which specializes in aircraft interior equipment maintenance. It has also agreement to lease one of its Winnipeg hangars to Cargojet Airways Ltd. on favourable terms to enable it to establish its own maintenance activities. Startup for all three is expected in 2017. Air Canada has also agreed to encourage bidding by Manitoba suppliers for other services, including components work on future aircraft to enter the airline’s fleet, subject to certification, price and quality considerations, it said.
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TAXES: Coalition wants end to hikes The government says carbon tax rebate money will go back to about 60 per cent of Albertans, with the rest reinvested in green initiatives and public transit. “We needed to change the regressive flat (income) tax, we needed to change the low corporate tax overall. We just raised it two percentage points,” said Ceci. “The carbon levy … we are recycling 100 per cent back into the economy.” The business coalition wants an end to future tax increases and a delay in the minimum wage increase. It wants to see the carbon tax become revenue neutral with offsetting tax reductions. The low price of oil is hitting Alberta’s economy hard. On Friday, Statistics Canada reported Alberta’s jobless rate has risen to 7.9 per cent. “Albertans from all walks of life are experiencing hardships not seen in decades,” reads the coalition’s letter. “We acknowledge that this downturn is beyond any government’s control. However, we have also seen the rapid deployment of a series of ambitious government policies that have further undermined business confidence and competitiveness.”
AIRFARES: Falling Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said Canada’s two largest airlines have been lowering fares. The RBC Fare Tracker points to WestJet Airlines (TSX:WJA) fares falling about 9.5 per cent in the first quarter, with
Air Canada (TSX:AC) fares decreasing 3.7 per cent. WestJet has lowered fares to stimulate demand and fill planes especially in Western Canada, its base which has faced an economic downturn. Discounting on Air Canada has largely been isolated to select transborder and domestic routes. Despite lower fares, IATA said a nearly 60 per cent increase in global airline profits in the fourth quarter pointed to a strong year in 2015, led by North American carriers.
MARIJUANA: Talk to doctors Tokyo Smoke doesn’t sell cannabis in Canada yet, but the company is on the cusp of launching a line of four marijuana strains south of the border, titled “Go,” “Relax,” “Relief” and “Balance” — names chosen to appeal to the so-called creative class. “It’s always funny for me to think of sophisticated intellectuals smoking strawberry-cheesecake branded cannabis,” says Gertner. Another strategy employed by cannabis producers has been to promote the drug to physicians in a bid to boost patient numbers. Jordan Sinclair, communications manager at Ontario-based grower Tweed, says that while talking to doctors is important, producers also need to find ways to differentiate themselves from the competition. One way that Tweed, a subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corp., has set out to do that is by partnering with rapper Snoop Dogg in a deal announced last month. “There’s lots of different producers in Canada, and we’re all growing a pretty similar product,” says Sinclair. “You want to make sure that people see you as a compelling choice.”
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Peterman ready to take on the world RED DEER CURLER HEADED TO WOMEN’S WORLD CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS ON SATURDAY BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The bus didn’t always take Jocelyn Peterman home from school. In the winter her stop was the Red Deer Curling Centre. When she was five she joined her first team and participated in league play. Her dad, Lowell Peterman, was the ice maker for the Red Deer Curling Club as Jocelyn learned the sport. Lowell now makes the ice at the Innisfail Curling Club. “I was at the curling club pretty much every day,” said Peterman. “I would take the bus there instead of home. I was there all the time. I was in a league when I was five and it has been going ever since then. “It was a family thing, everybody did it and I grew to love the sport at a pretty young age.” The 22-year-old Calgary resident has had a whirlwind year that so far has included a berth in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, winning the tournament over perennial favourite Jennifer Jones who won last year’s Scotties. “I’ve been dreaming about playing in that event since I was really young. It was pretty fun to be on the hometown team,” said Peterman. “My teammates had all played at pretty big events be-
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Alberta second Jocelyn Peterman watches her rock in the championship game at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian Womens Curling Championships, Grande Prairie last month. fore as the hometown team, they warned me about the crowd. “That’s first time we beat Jones, the whole stadium erupted. It was pretty cool.” The win put the rink featuring skip Chelsea Carey, third
Amy Nixon, lead Laine Peters and second Peterman into the Women’s World Curling Championships, set to start on Saturday. Nixon, Peters and Peterman played with Heather Nedohin last season. When Ne-
dohin retired at the end of last season, the remaining three game Carey a call. Carey had lost the 2015 Alberta Scotties to Val Sweeting in Lacombe. But her new team got past Sweeting in Alberta and beat Jennifer Jones’ rink
twice including in the 1-2 page playoff. In the gold medal final, they beat Northern Ontario 7-6. “We definitely weren’t the favourites even to win the province,” said Peterman. “That was exciting to win that. It’s been a surreal experience ever since. “It’s crazy for me. I’m only 22 and I’ve been dreaming about this for a long time. It’s surreal that its happening right now, representing Canada is pretty cool.” It was just five years ago that Peterman and her junior curling team of Britanny Tran, Becca Konschuh and Kristine Anderson left Red Deer to practice and train in Calgary. They won the 2012 Canadian Juniors, the year after they left Red Deer. Peterman said the team took a few days off after the Scotties win and has been at the rink ever since getting prepared. They head to Swift Current, Sask., where the championship is being held, on Wednesday to start their preparation. The championship starts on Saturday. Teams at the worlds include Eve Muirhead’s rink out of Scotland, Ericka Brown’s rink out of the U.S., Anna Sidrova’s rink out of Russia and Binia Feltscher’s rink out of Switzerland. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate. com
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St. Louis Blues’ goalie Anders Nilsson, right, of Sweden, looks back as Calgary Flames’ Sean Monahan scores during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Monday.
Frolik’s hat-trick leads Flames past Blues CALGARY OVERCOMES ST. LOUIS’ ATTEMPTED COMEBACK TO EARN VICTORY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 7 Blues 4 CALGARY — Michael Frolik scored three times, including two short-handed goals, as the Calgary Flames won 7-4 Monday night against the red-hot St. Louis Blues. After seeing a 5-2 third period lead get cut to 5-4 and with the Blues pressing for the equalizer, Frolik broke in alone and fired a shot under the crossbar at 16:49. The 28-yearold Czech comMICHAEL FROLIK pleted his second career hat trick with an empty netter with 35 seconds remaining, sending hats flying onto the ice at the raucous Scotiabank Saddledome. Sean Monahan, with a pair, Joe
Colborne and Mark Giordano also scored for Calgary (29-35-5). Dougie Hamilton finished with a career-high three assists while Johnny Gaudreau also had three helpers. Paul Stastny, with two, Scottie Upshall and Kevin Shattenkirk scored for St. Louis (41-21-9), which had its six-game winning streak snapped. The Blues lost a chance to move ahead of Dallas into top spot in the Central Division. They remain tied in points with Stars, who now hold a game in hand. Tied 2-2 after the first, Monahan gave Calgary the lead at 5:13 when he wristed a perfect shot over the shoulder of Jake Allen. After Mark Giordano’s power-play goal at 11:03 made it 4-2 and led to Allen getting pulled, Monahan made it a three-goal cushion at 13:37 beating Anders Nilsson through the legs on a breakaway. Not going down without a fight, Shattenkirk made it 5-3, taking just 10 seconds to convert an early third-period power play. St. Louis got to within one on Stastny’s breakaway goal at 13:31. Jaden Schwartz nearly tied it, put-
ting a shot off the goal post on the last power play just seconds before Folik put the game away. With 31 stops, Joni Ortio improved to 3-7-3. Nilsson, who had 12 saves in relief of Allen, ended up with the loss to fall to 10-13-2. Allen had 13 stops. Calgary struck first at 10:24 on a flukey goal. Allen went behind his net to stop a dump-in only for the puck to strike the stanchion in the corner and bounce wickedly into the slot where Colborne buried his 13th into an open net. The lead lasted only nine seconds with Upshall beating Ortio over the shoulder from a sharp angle. Notes: Calgary’s TJ Brodie (upper body) and Sam Bennett (upper body) both missed their second game… Flames Matt Stajan hasn’t scored in 28 games… St. Louis had won the previous six meetings between the two teams… Gaudreau increases his NHL-leading home point total to 51 (23 goals, 28 assists). He’s five up on Chicago’s Patrick Kane.
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Predators 3 Oilers 2 EDMONTON — It didn’t take long for the Nashville Predators to start producing points again. One game after suffering their first regulation-time loss following a franchise-record 14-game point streak, James Neal recorded a hat trick as the Predators came away with a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday. “It was good to pull out a big win, because points are so crucial at this point in the season, you have to play good hockey,” Neal said. Calle Jarnkrok added a pair of assists for the Predators (35-22-13), who have earned points in 15 of their last 16 games to take full control of the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference. “I thought our guys played really hard tonight,” said Nashville head coach Peter Laviolette. “James (Neal) had some nice shots tonight and he’s been pretty steady all year. Now other guys are starting to contribute here in the second half of the year. We’re starting to get scoring from different lines and from the other forwards on a consistent basis and obviously, that’s going to help in the outcome.” Jordan Eberle and Iiro Pakarinen replied for the Oilers (27-38-7), who have lost two straight. “We don’t want moral victories, we want to win games,” Eberle said. “It’s still not enough. We’ve got to find ways to win these games — tie game going into the third period — we need to find a way to get the puck to the net and bang one home.” Edmonton started the scoring seven minutes into the contest as Connor McDavid picked off a pass at the blue line and sent it in front to Eberle for the tap-in past Nashville starter Pekka Rinne. The Oilers had failed to score in their previous two home games. Just over a minute later, however, the Predators responded as Neal came in on a breakaway and calmly sent his 24th goal of the season through the legs of Edmonton goalie Laurent Brossoit. Edmonton regained the lead just 31 seconds into the middle period as Leon Draisaitl sent a backhand pass from behind the net to set up a Pakarinen goal. But just 20 seconds later it was knotted up again as Neal used a screen to score his second of the game. Nashville made it 3-2 four minutes into the third period, as Neal beat Brossoit cleanly on a wrist shot to record his sixth career hat trick. Edmonton had some chances in a late flurry with Brossoit pulled, but Nashville was able to keep the Oilers from sending the game to extra time. The Oilers remain at home to face the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday, while the Predators next host the New York Islanders on Thursday.
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Skating, skill led Queens to championship BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE When Kelly Coulter stepped onto the ice with the RDC Queens hockey team for the first time this season he didn’t know what to expect. “I didn’t know what to expect in terms of ability and skills,” he said. “But the first day I watched them play their skating stood out. As a team they could all skate. “They had great work ethic and came to the rink every day wanting to learn. They were very competitive athletes and a joy to be around. And in the end their skill level was the biggest thing that stood out to me.” That combination not only led to an outstanding regular season as they ran away with the league title, finishing with an impressive 18-3-3 record, but earned them an ACAC championship for the first time since 2002. Looking back on the season Coulter, who was in his first year with the program after moving from Grande Prairie, looked back at the very first meeting he had with the team’s leadership group. “I asked them to define what
Queens hockey was all about and they defined it as relentless and with a never give up attitude and work ethic. They showed that from the very first game of the season until that final double overtime goal.” The Queens won the ACAC title with a 4-3 double overtime victory over the NAIT Ooks, winning the best-offive championship 3-1. Winning the title against NAIT made it even sweeter. “I couldn’t think of a better ending than beating the defending champions. A lot of our team wanted redemption after losing to NAIT the past three years (twice in the final) and so you couldn’t write a better story book ending than defeating them in double overtime in their barn.” The Queens had a strong team returning this season even before veteran players such as Megan Jones, Casey Nicholson and Nikki Connor on defence and Jade Petrie and Emily Swier up front confirmed they’d return. “I was preaching to them from the start of the season that defence wins championships and adding players of that calibre made us even stronger. When you have a group like that who skates that well and competes that
hard it speaks for itself. “Those girls returning on the back end did a fantastic job defending … the whole team did. That’s my biggest source of pride in that we allowed the fewest goals.” The Queens had a veteran defence, but two rookie netminders in Jen West and Alex Frisk. But West led the league during the regular season with a 1.22 goals-against-average and a .940 save percentage while Frisk was fourth with a 1.60 GAA and a .928 save percentage. In the playoffs Frisk played just one game, which was a 25-save shutout against SAIT in the semifinals. West played five games and was the top netminder with a 1.34 GAA and a .950 save percentage. “I felt all year that both would give us an opportunity to win,” said Coulter. “I can’t say enough about them. When we needed them to pick us up they did.” The Queens will lose at least five fifth-year players in rearguards Jones, Nicholson and Connor and forwards Jayna Kitchen and Jena Holden. “They are all big losses, but we appear to have a great core returning … a great group of kids,” said Coulter.
“From what I see we could have almost everyone else, but the graduating players back. Still we could lose a couple more if they move on for their education.” Coulter already has several commitments for next season, plus winning a championship will only help in recruiting. Also it’s expected to be announced shortly where they will play next season, which will also help recruiting. “It definitely helps recruiting when you win. Also it was a challenge this year in losing our arena and looking for a new home.” Coulter also gives a lot of credit for the team’s success to his assistant coaches - Laura Salomons, Wes Makofka and Megan Abt. “I was lucky to have them … they are all fantastic and all different,” said Coulter. “Laura pushes for excellence, Wes is an excellent teacher and Megan is a great team person who helps keep us focused. We had a great balance. I can’t say enough about them. Our success is owed to them.” Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter, who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.
Justin Wadsworth steps down as Canada’s cross-country coach CANMORE— Canada’s cross-country ski team needs a new coach after Justin Wadsworth announced he is stepping down from the position Monday. The former U.S. national team skier and the husband of Canadian Olympic gold medallist Beckie Scott said he needs a break from high-performance coaching and the constant inter- JUSTIN WADSWORTH national travel the sport requires. “Beckie and I have dedicated nearly our entire lives almost exclusively to the sport of cross-country skiing — both as athletes and in coaching — but I feel now it is time to take a break, and concentrate my time on being a father and husband,” Wadsworth said in a statement. “Cross-country skiing is in our family’s blood, but at some point it is time to step away. I look forward to watching the team’s continued quest for the Olympic podium while spending some much-needed time at home.” The 48-year-old from Bend, Ore., lives in Canmore with Scott and their two children. Wadsworth took over as head coach of the national team in 2010. Alex Harvey of Saint-Ferreol-LesNeiges, Que., and Devon Kershaw of Sudbury, Ont., won world championship gold the following year in the men’s team sprint. Harvey and Kershaw also became
Local BRIEFS Tickets to Rebels’ first two playoff games on sale Tickets to the Red Deer Rebels first two home playoff games will be up for sale this morning. The Rebels, who clinched second place in the Central Division will host the opening two games of their first round playoff series on Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26 at the Enmax Centrium. Both games start at 7 p.m. Their opponent will be decided in the last week of the WHL, but it will be one of the Moose Jaw Warriors, Calgary Hitmen or Edmonton Oil Kings.
SKIING the first Canadian men to be ranked in the top three in the World Cup overall standings during Wadsworth’s tenure, with Kershaw placing second in 2011-12 and Harvey third in 201314. “I was very fortunate to join a program that had a talented pool of athletes, a fantastic wax team, an established sport-science program, and experienced staff in place,” Wadsworth said. “No program is successful without all of these core pieces in place.” Wadsworth rushed to the aid of skier Anton Gafarov during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, when the host team’s skier crashed and broke a ski during the men’s sprint. Wadsworth supplied Gafarov with a new ski. H i s o w n C a n a d i an team struggled in Sochi. The hoped-for first Olympic medal won by a Canadian man did not materialize. Wadsworth oversaw a large host team of 26 in the eight-race Ski Tour Canada that concluded Saturday in Canmore. Harvey placed fifth overall among the 86 international men who started the series. Wadsworth will coach at next week’s national championship in Whitehorse before vacating the position. “This is an unfortunate day for our sport in Canada, but Justin has been relentless in his pursuit of excellence. He has raised the bar, and allowed Canadian cross-country ski athletes to believe they too can be world champions,” Cross Country Ski Canada high performance Tom Holland said.
The tickets go an sale today at 11 a.m. at www.ticketmaster.ca. For season ticket holders, the first two home playoff games are included in season ticket packages.
Spurs beat Chuckers Jerry Bowler’s 12 points and Adam Bullock’s 16 led the Silver Spurs to a 62-52 win over the Rusty Chuckers in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball action. Bowler was named the Silver Spurs’ player of the game for his effort. On the Rusty Chuckers side of the ball Joel Longard had 13 points while Kevin Bawalden had 10. The Alkin Basin Drillers topped the Johns Mannville 82-55. Jayden Andersen lead the Drillers with 19 points while Nick Duske had 14 in the win. For Johns Mannville Daniel scored 14 and Archie scored 13 points.
MIDGET AA HOCKEY With just a 1:19 to play in the third period, the Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs clinched the South Central Alberta Hockey League Midget AA title. Nathan Katrusch put the puck in the net with Justin Paarup and Benjamin Isaac getting the assist. The goal put the Indy Graphics Chiefs up 3-2 over the Wheatland Chiefs with very little time left to play. Red Deer fell behind early as the Chiefs scored two goals in the first nine minutes. But it was Blake Mahura’s powerplay goal at 7:28 in the first
that put them on the board. Paarup had scored the trying goal about halfway through the third frame as the Indy Graphics Chiefs completed the comeback. Isaac had assists on all three Red Deer goals while goalie Andrew Geordan made 36 saves. The win gave the Indy Graphics Chief a 2-1 series win in the best-ofthree series. They will now move on to provincials from March 24 to 27 in Calgary.
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Linesmen Don Henderson, left, and Mike Cvik look at a monitor during a coach’s challenge by the Vancouver Canucks of an onside call on a goal by Dallas Stars’ Patrick Sharp during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, B.C in December.
Coach’s challenge gets good reviews BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The coach’s challenge is getting good reviews from NHL general managers in its first year of use, but it’s not exempt from a little tweaking. Discussion of the coach’s challenge headlined the first day of the NHL general managers meetings Monday, and support was strong amongst the 30 GMs, who see the added opportunity to get a goal call right as beneficial for the game. The initiative allows coaches to use video review to dispute goals scored on potential offside or goalie-interference plays. “I think everybody feels fairly comfortable with it,” said Maple Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello. “The whole objective is to get it right.” Still, the NHL will make one tweak for the playoffs, adding blue-line cameras to the arenas of the 16 post-season teams. The cameras are intended to further aid clubs in determining whether to challenge a goal on account of offsides. “I think it was a good day to show where we’re at with the coach’s challenge and where we can get to,” said Colin Campbell, the NHL’s executive vice president and director of hockey operations. Forty-two of the 69 challenges (61 per cent) for offsides were upheld entering play on Monday night with 27 overturned to “no-goal.” Video coaches, who advise the head coach on whether to challenge such plays, will have ac-
cess to the feeds of the new cameras. Campbell said the feeds will help video coaches determine whether or not to challenge in a quicker and more effective fashion. There will be two cameras set up for the blue lines, one on the glass boards and another four feet extended above the bench. The NHL tested the cameras at the all-star game in Nashville as well as the two most recent outdoor games. The cameras will be adopted for the start of the next regular season across the league. “The offsides should be a black-andwhite call,” Ken Holland, the Detroit Red Wings general manager, said on the subject. General managers were shown a variety of plays that drew the coach’s challenge so far this season and were then asked to vote whether to allow the goal or call it back. On most plays two-thirds were in agreement, Campbell said. That was evidence of the judgment call which GMs seemed to accept as part of the process, one that improves the bigger picture of determining what is and what isn’t a goal. “You’ve gotta to look back at the reason we did these coach’s challenges originally was to try to take care of the egregious mistakes. We’ve certainly done that,” said Chicago GM Stan Bowman. “There’s been no (incidents) where everyone afterwards is thinking ‘Boy we got that wrong.”’
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CENTRAL ALBERTA KINGS VOLLEYBALL
U16 BOYS It was a winning weekend for the Central Alberta Kings Volleyball U16 boys team as they rolled to a gold medal at the Premier 2 tournament. After tough round robin play including a 1-2 loss to NAVC Black from Edmonton and a 0-2 loss to Nooks Blue from Edmonton they were third out of 19 teams going into the tournament playoffs. They did manage one win, a straight set victory over the Canuck Black from Calgary. The playoffs were much kinder to the U16 Kings with straight set wins over Nooks White, RAVC from Medicine Hat in the quarter-finals and a 23-25, 25-22, 15-13 win in the semifinals over the NAVC Black. In the final, the U16 Kings beat the SAS Valour Green from St. Albert in straight sets, 25-19 and 25-20 to earn their second straight club tournament victory. The U16 Kings have secured the top provincial ranking for the Premier 3 in Edmonton in April.
U15 BOYS The U15 boys team did not fair as well as their older counterparts, losing the consolation final at the Premier 2 tournament. Their consolation final loss was to SAS Valour from St. Albert with scores of 25-20 and 31-29. In round robin action they finished third and lost the first crossover game in a hard fought third set 14-16. In the consolation bracket, they swept the EKVC Avalance and then Canada West 25-22 putting them into the consolation final. They will next play at the Best of the West tournament in Calgary from March 25 to 27.
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Chicago Bulls’ Doug McDermott, left, shoots on Toronto Raptors’ Norman Powell during first-half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Monday.
Bull continue to have Raptors’ number CHICAGO GETS NINTH-STRAIGHT WIN OVER TORONTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bulls 109 Raptors 107 TORONTO — The Chicago Bulls continue to have Toronto’s number. Doug McDermott scored 29 points as the Bulls edged the Raptors 109-107 on Monday, Chicago’s ninth straight victory against Toronto. Kyle Lowry led Toronto (44-21) with 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, while DeMar DeRozan had 27 points, and Patrick Patterson chipped in with 13 off the bench. The loss dropped Toronto’s record on this seven-game homestand to 5-2, and it was only the Raptors’ second loss at the Air Canada Centre in their last 17 outings. More bad news for the Raptors came when they lost Jonas Valanciunas with 2:25 left in the first quarter, when the forward headed to the locker-room holding his left hand. X-rays were negative but the team said he would undergo further testing. Valanciunas missed 17 games early in the season with a broken bone in the same hand. The Bulls have been tumbling down the Eastern Conference standings, and they arrived in Toronto trailing Detroit by a game for the eighth and final playoff spot. But the Bulls have owned the Raptors, winners of eight straight prior to Monday, including an historic 115-113 victory at the ACC on Jan. 3 that saw Jimmy Butler go off for 40 second-half points to break Michael Jordan’s franchise record. “It does (matter) for me because they’ve spanked us every time we’ve walked on the floor,” Raptors
coach Dwane Casey said, on whether beating the Bulls was of particular importance. “We’ve been here, we’ve been on a little semi-roll or whatever every time we play them then they come and spank us.” The Bulls played without Derrick Rose (groin strain) or Pau Gasol (swollen knee), but the Raptors still couldn’t catch a break, as Chicago led most of the night, and took a seven-point advantage into the fourth quarter in front of a capacity crowd of 19,800 that included former heavyweight boxers Lennox Lewis and George Chuvalo. The Raptors nearly came back to win with some late-game heroics. A drama-filled final minute saw the Raptors pull to within a point on a DeRozan basket with 20 seconds left. DeRozan answered a pair of free throws from Nikola Mirotic with another basket, but a Butler free throw iced the victory for Chicago. The Bulls shot 49 per cent on the night, to Toronto’s 45 per cent. E’Twuan Moore scored 11 points as part of a Bulls’ 67 per cent shooting performance in the first quarter, and Chicago took a 34-29 lead into the second. The Bulls would pull ahead by 12 late in the second, but the Raptors ended the quarter on an 8-2 run capped by a Patterson three that cut Chicago’s lead to 58-52 at the break. A McDermott three early in the third put the Bulls up by 13 but the Raptors battled back again and Chicago led 84-77 with one quarter left. The Raptors play 10 of their final 17 games on the road, beginning Tuesday in Milwaukee. They’re in Indiana on Thursday before returning home to host Boston on Friday and Orlando on Sunday.
Red Deer gymnastics club had some substantive success at the Alberta 3rd Cup Championships in Airdrie over the weekend. The Thunder County Trampoline and Gymnastics Club took home quite the haul of medals. The club based in Red Deer totaled 28 medals including 17 gold, two silver and nine bronze. Exelta Gymnastics Club, also from Red Deer, had one gold and one silver at the competition. At the senior men level Kyle Soehn and Keegan Soehn won gold in the synchronized trampoline. In individual trampoline Kyle took bronze and Keegan took fourth place. Kalena Sohen won gold in both individual trampoline and double mini trampoline for the junior women while Zach Blakely won gold in both of the same categories for junior men. Alexandra Potter won silver in individual and bronze in double mini in the level 6 women category. She also took gold with Kalena Schen at the national level 5 women’s synchronized trampoline. Ashton Henfrey and Blakely won gold in the synchronized trampoline national level 5 men. Other gold medal winners include Carter Pisko (double mini trampoline lefel 4 men), Jesse Starchuck (individual trampoline level 4 men), Gabi Clarke (double mini trampoline level 3 women), Brenyn Chapman (individual level 2 women), Taelum Henfry (double mini trampoline level 2 men), Starchuk and Spencer Kooman (synchronized level 4 men), Laura Arnusch and Ebony Campbell (synchronized trampoline level 4 women), Eoin Wolfe and Kevin Missikewitz (synchronized level 3 men), Kayden Lewis and Taelum Henfry (synchronized level 2 men) and Madison Ruff and Nadine Rajotte (synchronized level 2 women. Silvers went to Liam Wygeria and Jack Johnston (synchronized trampoline level 1 men), Spencer Kooman (individual trampoline level 4 men) and Taelum Henfry (individual level 2 men). Bronzes went to Ashton Henfrey (individual and double mini trampoline level 5 men), Ebony Cambell (individual trampoline level 5 women), Laura Arnusch (individual trampoline level 4 women), Spencer Kooman (double mini trampoline level 4 men), Jocelyn Berkech (individual level 1 women), Rees Hawryscko (individual level 1 men), Gabi Clarke and Sophie Nossack (synchronized level 3 women) and Melissande Perron and Kaeleigh Boston (synchronized trampoline level 2 women). The championship was held from March 11 to 13 in Airdrie.
Judge tosses concussion lawsuit by former player BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A British Columbia judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a former Canadian Football League player who claims negligence, alleging players haven’t been protected from concussions. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Christopher Hinkson said in a written ruling that the issues raised in Arland Bruce’s lawsuit are part of a collective bargaining agreement between the league and the CFL Players’ Association. Hinkson dismissed the case, saying those issues must be resolved through the grievance and arbitration process, not the courts. The defendants included the league, former commissioner Mark Cohon, neuroscientist Dr. Charles Tator, the Canadian Football League Alumni Association and every team in the league. Bruce played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, B.C. Lions and Montreal Alouettes over the course of his 14 year career. He was part of Grey Cup winning teams in Toronto in 2004 and with the B.C. Lions in 2011. The former wide receiver first filed his lawsuit in July 2014, claiming the defendants downplayed the effects of repetitive head trauma and misrepresented player safety issues about concussions. His lawsuit claimed Bruce was knocked unconscious and suffered a concussion while playing for the Lions in September 2012 and he reported fogginess, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound, memory loss, confusion, dizziness, anxiety and personality changes. Court documents alleged he was permitted to return to play in November of that year and then again for the Alouettes in the 2013 season despite still suffering from the effects of concussion. The lawsuit stated that the CFL should have intervened and prevented Bruce from returning to the field. Bruce alleged that he has suffered permanent disability, and his head injury will continue to cause earnings loss along as well as the loss of enjoyment of life. This is not the first time professional athletes
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Hockey WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt y-Brandon 69 45 18 4 2 304 193 96 x-Prince Albert 69 37 24 7 1 213 212 82 x-Moose Jaw 69 34 26 7 2 240 231 77 x-Regina 69 34 27 3 5 233 243 76 Swift Current 69 24 36 6 3 182 235 57 Saskatoon 69 25 40 4 0 209 305 54 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Lethbridge 69 45 22 1 1 290 207 92 x-Red Deer 69 43 23 1 2 247 198 89 x-Calgary 69 39 26 2 2 231 210 82 Edmonton 68 28 33 6 1 190 222 63 Medicine Hat 70 29 36 3 2 216 276 63 Kootenay 69 11 52 6 0 146 309 28 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Victoria 69 47 16 3 3 266 159 100 x-Kelowna 68 46 18 4 0 246 201 96 x-Kamloops 70 36 25 5 4 242 217 81 x-Prince 70 36 29 3 2 239 219 77 George Vancouver 70 23 38 5 4 195 258 55 U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt x-Seattle 68 42 23 3 0 215 179 87 x-Everett 68 37 24 4 3 174 159 81 Portland 68 34 30 4 0 218 211 72 Spokane 68 31 28 5 4 211 230 71 Tri-City 69 32 34 2 1 223 245 67 x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Sunday’s results Victoria 4 Prince George 3 Medicine Hat 4 Calgary 3 Everett at Portland Edmonton at Lethbridge Kelowna at Tri-City Saturday’s results Regina 5 Moose Jaw 1 Brandon 8 Saskatoon 1 Prince Albert 2 Swift Current 1 (OT) Calgary 4 Edmonton 2 Kootenay 4 Medicine Hat 3 Red Deer 6 Lethbridge 1 Seattle 3 Portland 2 Kelowna 6 Spokane 1 Tri-City 4 Everett 1 Kamloops 2 Vancouver 1 (SO) Monday’s games No Games Scheduled. Tuesday’s games Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m. Edmonton at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Spokane at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday’s games Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Saskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m. Spokane at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Local Sports Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Boston 70 39 23 8 86 Tampa Bay 69 40 24 5 85 Florida 69 38 22 9 85 Detroit 69 34 24 11 79 Ottawa 70 32 30 8 72 Montreal 69 32 31 6 70 Buffalo 70 28 33 9 65 Toronto 68 23 34 11 57 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts Washington 68 49 14 5 103 N.Y. Rangers 69 39 23 7 85 N.Y. Islanders 67 38 21 8 84 Pittsburgh 68 36 24 8 80 Philadelphia 67 32 23 12 76 Carolina 69 31 26 12 74 New Jersey 70 33 30 7 73 Columbus 69 28 33 8 64
GF 213 190 194 173 202 187 167 160
GA 188 163 170 182 218 194 190 201
GF 219 197 193 188 174 170 154 180
GA 160 181 168 173 180 186 178 215
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 70 41 20 9 91 227 203 St. Louis 71 41 21 9 91 187 179 Chicago 70 41 23 6 88 195 173 Nashville 70 35 22 13 83 192 179 Minnesota 69 32 27 10 74 182 172 Colorado 70 35 31 4 74 188 198 Winnipeg 69 29 35 5 63 181 205 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 68 41 22 5 87 185 154 Anaheim 68 38 21 9 85 174 160 San Jose 68 38 24 6 82 203 179 Arizona 69 30 32 7 67 185 211 Vancouver 68 27 29 12 66 166 197 Calgary 69 29 35 5 63 189 217 Edmonton 72 27 38 7 61 171 212 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Tampa Bay 4, Columbus 0 Toronto 1, Detroit 0 Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 3, Florida 2 Los Angeles 5, Chicago 0 Calgary 7, St. Louis 4 Nashville 3, Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 5, Vancouver 2 Anaheim 7, New Jersey 1 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m. Detroit at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Florida at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Boston at San Jose, 8 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.
Predators 3, Oilers 2 First Period 1. Edmonton, Eberle 21 (McDavid) 6:48. 2. Nashville, Neal 24 (Bitetto, Johansen) 8:04. Penalties — Bitetto Nash (hooking) 11:08 Nugent-Hopkins Edm, Salomaki Nash (roughing) 16:29. Second Period 3. Edmonton, Pakarinen 5 (Draisaitl, Fayne) :31. 4. Nashville, Neal 25 (Weber, Jarnkrok) :51. Penalties — Arvidsson Nash (holding) 3:20 Hall Edm (roughing) 13:37. Third Period 5. Nashville, Neal 26 (Ekholm, Jarnkrok) 4:18. Penalties — Edmonton bench (too many men, served by Draisaitl) 8:10 Weber Nash (cross-checking) 19:47 Draisaitl Edm (roughing) 20:00. Shots on goal by Nashville 9 10 6 — 25 Edmonton 7 12 11 — 30 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (W, 28-19-10). Edmonton: Brossoit (L, 0-2-1). Power plays (goals-chances) — Nashville: 0-2 Edmonton: 0-3. Referees — Jean Hebert, Dan O’Rourke. Linesmen — David Brisebois, Trent Knorr. Attendance — 16,839 at Edmonton. Flames 7, Blues 4 First Period 1. Calgary, Colborne 13 (Bouma, Hamilton) 10:24. 2. St. Louis, Upshall 6 (Parayko, Reaves) 10:33. 3. St. Louis, Stastny 8 (Brouwer, Fabbri) 12:14. 4. Calgary, Frolik 12 (Backlund) 16:42 (sh). Penalties — Engelland Cgy (roughing) 1:29 St. Louis bench (too many men, served by Fabbri) 6:58 Hathaway Cgy (interference) 16:18. Second Period 5. Calgary, Monahan 22 (Gaudreau) 5:13. 6. Calgary, Giordano 17 (Gaudreau, Hamilton) 11:03 (pp). 7. Calgary, Monahan 23 (Hamilton, Jokipakka) 13:37. Penalties — Fabbri StL (hooking) 10:18 Backes StL, Jooris Cgy (roughing) 20:00 Backes StL (tripping, served by Fabbri) 20:00. Third Period 8. St. Louis, Shattenkirk 13 (Schwartz, Lehtera) 3:28 (pp). 9. St. Louis, Stastny 9 (Paajarvi, Brouwer) 13:31. 10. Calgary, Frolik 13 (Giordano) 16:49 (sh). 11. Calgary, Frolik 14 (Monahan, Gaudreau) 19:25 (en). Penalties — Giordano Cgy (interference) 3:18 Calgary bench (too many men, served by Ferland) 14:54. Shots on goal by St. Louis 8 9 18 — 35 Calgary 9 14 9 — 32 Goal — St. Louis: Allen (L, 24-14-3), Nilsson (11:03 second, 14 shots, 12 saves). Calgary: Ortio (W, 3-7-3). Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 1-4 Calgary: 1-3. Referees — Dave Jackson, Frederick L’Ecuyer. Linesmen — Greg Devorski, Mark Wheler. Attendance — 19,107 at Calgary.
Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Mike Clevenger, LHP Ryan Merritt, LHP Shawn Morimando and INF/OF Zach Walters to Columbus (IL) and RHP Dylan Baker to Akron (EL). Reassigned RHP Adam Plutko and RHP Will Roberts to their minor league camp. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned INF Cheslor Cuthbert to Omaha (PCL) and LHP Matt Strahm to Northwest Arkansas (TL). MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned announced today that they have optioned the following players to Triple-A Rochester LHPs Pat Dean and Mike Strong, and OF Adam Brett Walker to Rochester (IL) LHP Mason Melotakis and RHP J.T. Chargois to Chattanooga (SL) and LHP Randy Rosario and RHP Yorman Landa to Fort Myers (FSL). Reassigned RHP Jake Reed, C Alex Swim, INFs Heiker Meneses and Engelb Vielma and OF Reynaldo Rodriguez to their minor league camp. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Vicente Campos to Tampa (FSL). TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned OF Patrick Kiviehan to Round Rock (PCL) and RHP Jose Leclerc, LHP Yolander Mendez and RHP Connor Sadzeck to Frisco (TL). Released RHP Steve Johnson. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Chris Withrow to Gwinnett (IL) and LHP Matt Marksberry to Mississippi (SL). Reassigned LHP Hunter Cervenka to their minor league camp. CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHP Andury Acevedo, LHP Eric Jokisch and INF Dan Vogelbach to Iowa (PCL). Assigned RHPs Jonathan Pettibone, Duane Underwood Jr. and Armando Rivero and LHP Jack Leathersich to their minor league camp. CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Carlos Contreras to Louisville (IL), RHP Rookie Davis, LHP Amir Garrett and RHP Sal Romano to Pensacola (SL). Reassigned RHP Nick Travieso, C-1B Chad Wallach, 2B Alex Blandino, SS Calton Daal, 3B Eric Jagielo, OF Phillip Ervin and RHP Matt Magill to their minor league camp. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHPs Juan Minaya, Joe Musgrove, David Paulino and Danny Reynolds to their minor league camp. Reassigned RHPs Brady Rodgers and Brendan McCurry to their minor league camp.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHPs Tyler Glasnow and Jameson Taillon to Indianapolis (IL) and OF Harold Ramirez to Altoona (EL). Reassigned LHP Steven Brault, RHP Chad Kuhl, LHP Kelvin Marte, C Reese McGuire and RHP Trevor Williams to their minor league camp. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHPs Tayron Guerrero and Cory Mazzoni to El Paso (PCL), INF Jose Rondon to San Antonio (TL) and LHP Jose Torres to Lake Elsinore (Cal). Reassigned LHP Frank Garces and OF Hunter Renfroe to their minor league camp. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned OF Charlie Tilson to Memphis (IL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned OF Brian Goodwin and LHP Sammy Solis to Syracuse (IL) and LHP Nick Lee, C Spencer Kieboom and INF Chris Bostick to Harrisburg (EL). Reassigned INF Matt Skole and OF Logan Schafer to their minor league camp. American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Released C Ryan Babineau. Signed LHP Brent Choban. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed RHP Michael Pereslucha and LHP Brandon Stennis. Atlantic League SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed INF Brooks Conrad, LHP Roy Merritt, LHP Derrick Loop and RHP Ian Marshall. Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS - Signed INF Nick Lombardi. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Shane Weedman to a contract extension. LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Released OF Chandler Brock and RHP Brad Duffy. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Michael Shreves to a contract extension. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DENVER NUGGETS — Signed F Alex Toupane to a second 10-day contract. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Pittsburgh WR Martavis Bryant at least one year for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.
Rebels vs. Calgary Hitmen Tonight, 7 p.m., Centrium The Calgary Hitmen enter their third last game of the regular season locked into third place in the Central Division, and a playoff berth, with a 3926-2-2 record, good enough for 82 points. In their last five games the Hitmen are 5-4-1-0 and sit seven points back of the Red Deer Rebels, unable to catch them before the start of the post-season … Centre Radel Fazleev leads the team in scoring 69 points (19 goals and 50 assists) while left winger Jakob Strukel with 32 goals and 55 points has been on a tear since he was acquired from the Vancouver Giants early in the season scoring 30 of those goals with the Hitmen … The Hitmen get scoring from their blueline with Travis Sanheim 64 points (14 goals and
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with TE Jermaine Gresham on a one-year contract. Resigned DT Red Bryant to a one-year contract. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Agreed to terms with S Eric Weddle on a four-year contract. CHICAGO BEARS — Re-signed TE Rob Housler to a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with TE Zach Miller on a two-year contract. DALLAS COWBOYS — Re-signed TE James Hanna. DETROIT LIONS — Re-signed TE Tim Wright. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DE Ray Drew. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed WR Rod Streater. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed S Michael Griffin and CB Josh Robinson. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LB Keenan Robinson. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed LB Daren Bates. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Re-signed K Phil Dawson to a one-year contract. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Re-signed S Chris Conte. Agreed to terms with CB Josh Robinson. HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with D Viktor Svedberg on a two-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season. DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Anthony Mantha from Grand Rapids (AHL). American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Recalled D Joel Chouinard from Toledo (ECHL). SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned D Justin Hamonic to Fort Wayne (ECHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer PORTLAND TIMBERS— Signed F Fanendo Adi to a contract extension. Acquired F Darren Mattocks from Vancouver for targeted allocation money in 2016, and general allocation money and an international roster slot in 2017. National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Signed G Caroline Stanley. TENNIS United States Tennis Association USTA — Named Stacey Allaster chief executive, professional tennis.
50 assists) and Jake Bean 24 goals and 62 points sitting second and third in team scoring … Cody Porter has started four of the Hitmen’s last five games including a shutout win over the Edmonton Oil Kings last Friday night. Porter has an 0.887 Save Percentage to go along with a 24-11-1-1 record in the 39 games he’s started for the Hitmen. Injuries — Calgary: D Matt Dorsey (lower body, indefinite). Red Deer: F Reese Johnson (upper body, indefinite), D Josh Mahura (lower body, indefinite) and G Rylan Toth (lower body, 2-4 weeks). Special Teams — Calgary: power play 22.7 per cent, sixth overall; penalty kill 81.2 per cent, fifth overall. Red Deer: power play 21.9 per cent, 11th overall; penalty kill 77 per cent, 19th overall.
SCOUTING REPORT
OHL’s Firebirds forge unbreakable bond as difficult season draws to a close BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Flint Firebirds’ inaugural Ontario Hockey League season has seen the same head coach fired twice, the players walk out on the team, the new owners suspended by the league and the city itself in crisis with undrinkable tap water. And yet some good has come out of the Firebirds’ tumultuous debut in the beleaguered Michigan city. Captain Alex Peters and leading scorer Will Bitten say the challenges have brought the team together, forging an unbreakable bond. “We’ve had some experiences that no team has had,” said Peters after a 4-1 loss to the Niagara IceDogs on Thursday night. “We’re a group of brothers in there,” added Peters, gesturing to the Firebirds’ locker-room. The Plymouth Whalers moved to Flint in the off-season, where they were renamed the Firebirds by a new ownership group that includes Norwegian-born industrialist Rolf Nilsen. On Nov. 8, all 23 players on the team quit the team in response to the firing of thenhead coach John Gruden and his staff. Gruden had been let go over an ongoing dispute with Nilsen, who wanted more ice-time for his son,
defenceman Hakon Nilsen. The players’ protest worked, as Gruden and his staff were rehired that day and given three-year contract extensions. However, Gruden was fired again on Feb. 17. OHL commissioner David Branch responded by suspending Nilsen and his appointees on the management and coaching staff, a ban that is still in effect. He also insisted on counselling for the players, at the owner’s expense. Joe Stefan has served as interim head coach and general manager since then. “As a unit and as a team we’ve all stuck together and had to deal with a bunch of challenges together,” said Peters. “Our team stuck together and dealt with everything as a team and now we’re a real close unit.” Flint will miss out on the playoffs after a 7-2 loss to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds on Saturday night. The Firebirds have four more games left in the regular season and head into the summer with the league continuing its investigation of its ownership group. “It’s not a thing that happens to every team in the league,” said Bitten, “This year’s been really tough for us and something we didn’t expect. We’re so close as a team, we stuck together.
Today
Stony Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 8 p.m., Lacombe Arena
Thursday
● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 9 a.m. Finals at 5 and 7:30 p.m. ● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.
● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium
Saturday
● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 2 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 7 p.m. (The Drive)
Friday
● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 10 a.m. Semi-finals at 6 and 8 p.m. ● Men’s AAA senior hockey:
Sunday ● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints
Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 44 21 .677 — Boston 39 27 .591 5 1/2 New York 28 40 .412 17 1/2 Brooklyn 18 48 .273 26 1/2 Philadelphia 9 57 .136 35 1/2
Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando
Cleveland Indiana Chicago Detroit Milwaukee
Southeast Division W L Pct GB 39 28 .582 — 38 29 .567 1 37 29 .561 1 31 35 .470 7 28 37 .431 10 Central Division W L Pct GB 47 18 .723 — 35 31 .530 12 33 32 .508 14 34 33 .507 14 29 38 .433 19
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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 56 10 .848 — Memphis 39 28 .582 17 1/2 Houston 34 33 .507 22 1/2 Dallas 34 33 .507 22 1/2 New Orleans 24 41 .369 31 1/2
Oklahoma Portland Utah Denver Minnesota
Northwest Division W L Pct GB City 45 22 .672 35 33 .515 10 31 35 .470 13 28 39 .418 17 21 46 .313 24
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W y-Golden State L.A. Clippers 42 Sacramento 25 Phoenix 18 L.A. Lakers 14 y-clinched division
L Pct GB 59 6 .908 23 .646 17 40 .385 34 49 .269 42 53 .209 46
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Sunday’s Games Cleveland 114, L.A.Clippers90 Utah 108,Sacramento 99 Atlanta 104, Indiana 75 Milwaukee 109,Brooklyn100 New York 90, L.A.Lakers87 Monday’s Games Dallas 107,Charlotte 96 Chicago 109,Toronto 107 Miami 124, Denver 119 Houston 130,Memphis 81 Oklahoma City 128, Portland94 Washington 124, Detroit81 Phoenix 107, Minnesota104 New Orleans at GoldenState,Late Cleveland at Utah, Late Tuesday’s Games Boston at Indiana, 5 p.m. Denver at Orlando, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5:30p.m. Toronto at Milwaukee, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at SanAntonio, 6:30p.m. Sacramento at L.A.Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Dallas at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Boston, 5 p.m. Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m. Orlando atCharlotte, 5p.m. Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30p.m. Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30p.m. New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m. New York at GoldenState, 8:30 p.m.
Baseball MLB Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Toronto 10 2 .833 Houston 9 3 .750 Texas 8 4 .667 Detroit 8 6 .571 Oakland 6 5 .545 Los Angeles 7 6 .538 Minnesota 7 6 .538 Chicago 6 6 .500 Seattle 7 8 .467 Cleveland 6 7 .462 Tampa Bay 6 8 .429 Kansas City 6 9 .400 Boston 5 8 .385 New York 3 8 .273 Baltimore 2 11 .154 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Los Angeles 9 2 .818 Arizona 11 3 .786 Washington 8 3 .727 Philadelphia 10 4 .714 St. Louis 7 5 .583 Colorado 7 6 .538 Milwaukee 6 6 .500 Miami 5 6 .455 New York 5 6 .455 Cincinnati 6 8 .429 San Francisco 6 9 .400 Pittsburgh 5 8 .385 San Diego 4 9 .308 Atlanta 4 10 .286 Chicago 3 10 .231 NOTE: Split-squadgamescount in thestandings games againstnon-majorleagueteams do not. Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 3, N.Y.Yankees 0 Houston 7, Atlanta 6
Minnesota 14, Baltimore 5 N.Y. Mets 11, Miami 0 Washington 4, St.Louis 4, tie Tampa Bay (ss) 13,Boston 5 Pittsburgh 9,Detroit 5 Toronto 6, TampaBay(ss) 1 Milwaukee 5, Cleveland(ss) 4 Oakland 3, ChicagoCubs 3, tie Arizona 11, Chicago White Sox 4 Cleveland (ss) 9, Kansas City 4 L.A. Angels 7,Texas 3 Cincinnati 5,Seattle 3 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 4 San Francisco 8,San Diego 1 Monday’s Games Baltimore 8,Philadelphia 7 Washington 1,Houston 1,tie Detroit 9, N.Y.Mets 2 Atlanta 5, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 5, St.Louis 3 Pittsburgh 3,Boston 1 L.A. Dodgers 6,Milwaukee 2 San Diego 10,Chicago Cubs 2 Kansas City 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Cleveland 4,Texas 2 Colorado 6, Seattle(ss) 4 L.A. Angels 10 , Cincinnati 2 Arizona 8, Seattle(ss) 3 Oakland 10, San Francisco 3 Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia vs.TampaBay 11:05 a.m. Atlanta vs. Detroit 11:05 a.m. Washington vs.Houston 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets vs.Miami 11:05 a.m. Baltimore vs.Toronto 11:07 a.m. Cleveland vs.Texas 2:05p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Chicago WhiteSox 2:05 p.m. Kansas City vs.Cincinnati 2:05 p.m. Oakland vs.Colorado 2:10 p.m Seattle vs. L.A.Angels 2:10 p.m. . Chicago Cubs vs.SanDiego 2:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees vs.Boston 4:05p.m.
WHL ROUNDUP ROYALS 4 COUGARS 3 VICTORIA — Vladimir Bobylev scored once and set up two more as the red-hot Victoria Royals became the first Western Hockey League team this season to reach the 100-point mark with a 4-3 victory over the Prince George Cougars on Sunday. Alex Forsberg and Bobylev scored 1:14 apart early in the first period and Jack Walker added another to make it 3-0 before the first intermission for the Royals (47-16-6), who have won 10 in a row and are 21-1-1 since Jan 6. Scott Walford scored the eventual winner 8:18 into the second, putting Victoria ahead 4-0 before Prince George found its offence. TIGERS 4 HITMEN 3 CALGARY — Matt Bradley scored the third of three unanswered goals in the third period as Medicine Hat came from behind to beat the Hitmen. David Quenneville and Mason Shaw also scored in the third for the Tigers (29-365), while Zach Fisher opened the scoring in the first. Nick Schneider stopped 22-of-24 shots for the win after taking over for Mack Shields, who left after a period of work. Travis Sanheim, Bryce Platt and Radel Fazleez built up a 3-1 lead for Calgary (39-26-4), which had its three-game win streak snapped. Nik Amundrund made 29 saves in defeat. OIL KINGS 4 HURRICANES 3 LETHBRIDGE. — Lane Bauer and Brett Pollock both had a goal and two helpers as
Edmonton toppled the Hurricanes. Aaron Irving and Brandon Baddock also scored for the Oil Kings (29-33-7), who got a 32-save outing from Payton Lee. Giorgio Estephan scored once and set up two more for Lethbridge (45-23-2), while Andrew Nielsen and Brayden Burke added a goal and an assist apiece. Stuart Skinner made 40 saves in defeat. SILVERTIPS 3 WINTERHAWKS 2 (OT) PORTLAND, Ore. — Noah Juulsen scored 1:12 into overtime as Everett held on to beat the Winterhawks. Brian King and Yan Khomenko gave the Silvertips (38-24-7) a two-goal lead before needing extra time to pick up the win. Mario Petit made 24 saves for the win. Rihards Bukarts and Rodrigo Abos found the back of the net in the third period to earn Portland (34-30-5) a single point. Adin Hill kicked out 25of-28 shots in a losing cause. AMERICANS 6 ROCKETS 4 KENNEWICK, Wash. — Parker AuCoin had a goal and two assists and Evan Sarthough made 32 saves as TriCity downed Kelowna. Mackenze Stewart, Jusso Valimaki, Dylan Coghlan, Jordan Topping and Michael Rasmussen also scored for the Americans (33-34-3). Tanner Wishnowksi, Rourke Chartier, Tyson Baillie and Calvin Thurkauf supplied the scoring for the Rockets (4618-4). Brodan Salmond gave up five goals on 26 shots for the loss.
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THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Laughter is the best medicine BUT FOR THESE WAR VETERANS, IT’S MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH BY GLENN DIXON ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES
dog, enjoying it from the glass, from a distance.” Nobody laughed at that part.
WASHINGTON — Michael Garvey has about 2 ½ minutes of material, and it’s rough. It’s also heartfelt — and angry. He opens with a joke about being from a Catholic family, “raised off fairy tales and bullsh—.” After all, his mother needed something to keep all her kids in line. Garvey’s voice shakes just a touch, but maybe it’s only nerves. It’s his first time in front of his stand-up comedy class filled with fellow vets. He has taken the stage alone. His service dog, Liberty, is present, but Garvey has left him out of the set he is fleshing out. Retired from the Marines after just under eight years as a combat engineer that included tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Garvey has, by his own reckoning, grown into a “distrusting and cynical” adult. He wears a dark red T-shirt reading “Suicide Watch,” with two stick figures on it. One stands on a chair with a noose around his neck. The other sits in profile, staring at the first, a bucket of popcorn on his lap. Checking his notes, Garvey rattles through a list of holidays, dismantling the seemingly innocuous stories behind them: the Easter Bunny teaches children to take candy from strangers. Thanksgiving and Columbus Day are for “celebrating rape and genocide.” Even the stoner feast day of April 20, which Garvey says you’d figure would be his favorite, is revealed to coincide with Hitler’s birthday. Then there’s a perfectly clear-eyed take on the Fourth of July. It was his favourite holiday, he says, because as a kid he loved blowing stuff up, an enthusiasm that eased the way to a military career. But he doesn’t see it that way anymore. Garvey isn’t talking about post-traumatic stress disorder in his set, not yet, but in the room, when he mentions fireworks, it’s understood. “Now all I can think about is how it’s just a war reenactment up in the sky,” he says. “And I don’t think anyone really understands that, except my nephews, who have the headphones and sit in the corner with me and the
★★★ It’s a brave and curious thing to put yourself onstage and say, The war broke something inside of me, and I don’t know if it will ever be fixed, and then wait for a laugh — and hope somehow that helps you adjust to civilian life. But that’s the idea behind Comedy Bootcamp, a free course for veterans offered by the Armed Services Arts Partnership, a fledgling nonprofit organization. After six weekly classes, Garvey and nine other students will perform five-minute sets of original material at a graduation benefit show at the Arts Club of Washington. On this pleasant Sunday in October, Garvey, a thin, scruffy-bearded 28-year-old, has driven from his home in Annapolis, Maryland, to a nondescript room at Georgetown University for the third week of the class. The Arts Club show is a month off. He and the other vets have a long way to go. Chris Coccia, a comedy pro from outside Philadelphia, is going to help them get there. In a business known for self-destructive types, he’s more apples and CrossFit than hookers and blow. And his material isn’t edgy. He tells jokes about the traffic on Interstate 95 and the crappy service he gets from AT&T. But he knows how to roll with the crowd. Don’t ask them questions. Tell them questions, he advises his students. When you’re skilled enough, no one notices the difference. Really good stand-up is like magic that way. It’s a sleight of mind so deft that no one suspects they’ve been tricked. The room has notes for Garvey. Clifton Hoffler, an avuncular man whose own set features the wisecracks of his grandkids, points out that the nephews with the headphones could be introduced a sentence or two earlier. “I can’t figure out how to make it funny yet,” Garvey says. “Or even try,” he adds softly. See GARVEY on Page B7
Photos by MARVIN JOSEPH/Washington Post
TOP: Michael Garvey performs during the Comedy Bootcamp Graduation Show at the Arts Club of Washington in Washington. He takes his dog Liberty with him everywhere. Garvey spent eight years in the United States Marine Corps. BOTTOM: Veterans John Dorling, left, and Michael Garvey, center, listening to their comedy bootcamp instructor Sam Pressler at Georgetown University in Washington.
Another drop in the ocean of hipster miseries BY HANK STUEVER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES In Flaked, a slackluster dramedy premiering Friday on Netflix, Will Arnett stars as Chip, a shorts-and-flipflops fixture of Venice — not the ancient Italian city of canals, but that free-spirited, laid-back beachside community south of Santa Monica and north of Los Angeles International Airport. Chip’s world is limited to Venice’s few familiar blocks. Years ago, according to his testimony at the daily Alcoholics Anonymous meetings held at a local community center, he killed someone while driving drunk and permanently lost his license. That’s why Chip gets everywhere by bicycle, stopping after AA to get free coffee at a new cafe called Free Coffee (it’s $5 a cup for everyone else) and then pedaling over to his sad little shop off trendy Abbot Kinney Boulevard, where he makes and sells simple wooden stools and flirts with women half his age. Chip lives in one of those terribly cute, meticulously ramshackle Venice bungalows, which is owned
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Will Arnett as Chip, David Sullivan as Dennis and Ruth Kearney as London in the Netflix series ‘Flaked.’ by the mother of his best friend, Dennis (David Sullivan), a sommelier and wine distributor who lives in the guest house.
ART OF FRIENDSHIP COURSE IN RED DEER
THINGS HAPPENING TOMORROW
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Art of Friendship is an eight-week course designed to help people who feel lonely or isolated learn and practice the skills that help people make and keep friends. The March course meets weekly beginning March 16 until June 16 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The course takes place at the Canadian Mental Health Association office in downtown Red Deer with a cost of $25.
All of which is to say that Arnett and his co-creator Mark Chappell have worked very hard to accurately convey the Venice vibe here, from its eclec-
SYLVAN LAKE COMMUNITY SUPPER
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The Sylvan Lake Memorial Church is hosting a supper open to the community and free to attend. All are welcome for food, fellowship and entertainment from 5-7 p.m.
tic boardwalk to the midday meals at foodie-approved Gjelina restaurant to the ever-looming forces of gentrification, development and high-dollar upgrades that threaten to price Chip and his fauxhemian ilk out of their dreamy existence. With his Naugahyde tan and Marlboro rasp, Arnett easily inhabits the portrait of Chip and his world — there is perhaps nothing more thrilling for an actor/writer in the premium TV dramedy biz than to portray someone poor. Or somewhat poorer than himself. In other words, Flaked arrives with the same conspicuous barrier to entry that is common to several half-hour boutique shows in the mix right now — including, but far from limited to, HBO’s Togetherness, Netflix’s Love, Hulu’s Casual, Amazon’s Transparent, and FXX’s You’re the Worst. In each of these shows there are moments and situations that are meant to seem authentic and relatable, but instead come across as an off-putting and insular display of creative-class kvetching. See FLAKED on Page B7
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PARFENIUK Jeanette (Jean) June 21, 1927 - Mar. 11, 2016 Jean passed away with her daughter, Karen, by her side on Friday, March 11, 2016 at the age of 88 years. Jean is lovingly remembered by her daughter, Karen Tiffin, (Steve); four grandchildren, Shane (Nicole), Kerry (Kevin), Myka, and Travis; and six greatgrandchildren, Noah, Jonah, Sola, Mikayla, Jake, and Mackenzie. A celebration of Jean’s life will be held at City Chapel, 5850 Kerrywood Drive, Red Deer, AB on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Light lunch to follow.
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YOU ARE INVITED! An evening of family fun at South Side Christian School OPEN HOUSE. Drop in for games, refreshments, tour the school, and door prizes! Meet the teachers and team that by God’s grace are “Educating for Eternity.” Preregistration for next school year will be available. March 15th from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Like us on FB. 37370 Range Road 274 south of Gasoline Alley.
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NICHOLAS ROBSON Dec. 29, 1981 - Mar. 15, 2015 It’s been a years since you’ve been gone, yet you are missed every single day. Your friends and family have a hole in their lives which can never be replaced. You brought us laughter, tears, joy and memories to help us through the days. We know we will meet again and the laughter you gave us all will begin anew. Sorely missed by Mom, Christopher, Justin and Nathaniel. As well, you are missed by family and friends
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LOOKING for responsible shut-down cleaners for trailers for the Dow Prentiss Plant, about 20 min. outside of Red Deer. Two people needed for day shifts, and two people needed for night shifts. Wage $17 per hr/day, and $18 per hr./night, weekends incl. Fax resume with 3 ref. to 403-885-7006 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
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EXPERIENCED Pigging Personnel required. Minimum 3 years’ experience required. Class 1 would be an asset. Position requires you to work away from home. Looking for mature, reliable personnel. Please email resume to decoking1@ icloud.com with current drivers abstract, and current tickets. Drug testing will be required. Only those qualified will be contacted. Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds
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Vintage (circa 1950’s) HUDSON’S BAY fur shrug/wrap. Red fox fur. Mint condition. $60 (firm). Call (403) 342-7908. WIZZARD of OZ dolls, complete set of 6. $200. 403-314-9603
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Children's Items
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Sporting Goods
CADDY Ease” golf pull cart with optional/removable seat. Sturdy/solid. Mint condition. $35 (firm). Call (403) 342-7908. DOUBLETRACK bike rack, asking $150. 403-505-0819
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Collectors' Items
GAMING System, Intellevision with key board, joy sticks, guide book, 28 games & music synthesizer, $50. for all. 403-347-5846 GARFIELD collectible phone, 10”h x 8”w, speaks phrases when it rings, uses regular phone jack, $40. 403-347-5846
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AHRENS March 15 - ALF (2007) LOU (2012) The love of 2 wonderful people Is something that always lives on, Filling the days with sweet memories Long after their presence is gone... You still feel the warmth of their caring Their wisdom will never depart For their love to our wonderful family Forever lives on in our hearts. ~Fondly remembered Lois, Ashley, Beth, Val, Frieda and family.
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Art in the Garden-PREVIEW TO SPRING sale Saturday, March 19th from 11:00am-5:00pm At the Parkland Garden Centre in Red Deer, Ab Come enjoy a relaxing shopping day in this beautiful spring setting. Free Admission Shop for your Easter and spring Wedding gifts. Featuring personally designed and handcrafted art items, Live music, Door prizes, What’s up Dawg hot dog cart, and more. Contact: spiritofclay@hotmail.com
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Handyman Services
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Plumbing & Heating
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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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3 BDRM. townhouse in Lacombe, 11/2 baths, single car garage, $1495/mo., 403-782-7156 / 403-357-7465
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4 BDRMS, 21/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1695/mo. in Red Deer. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465
TABLE lamp, green ball base, cream shade. $10. 403-314-9603
B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275
Busy road construction company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to 403-309-0489
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CHAIR, recliner, very good cond. medium brown. $60. CARD Table, folding, $10. 403-347-5846
Firewood
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BRASS bell with leather strap. Has the word “ Canadian” in raised lettering on two sides. $40 (firm). Call (403) 342-7908.
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Obituaries
DUFFY Linda 1953 - 2016 Mrs. Linda Duffy (nee Dolan), beloved wife of Mr. Paul Duffy of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at the age of 62 years. Linda was born on July 20, 1953 at Fernie, British Columbia. She graduated from Fernie Secondary School, and worked at several jobs in Cranbrook and Fernie before moving to Red Deer. For many years, she worked at the Michener Centre. In 1996, she married Paul Duffy and they remained happily together until her passing. Linda loved to do crafts such as crocheting, and she also enjoyed word puzzles. She was always interested in her many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. Linda will be very deeply and sadly missed by all those who knew and loved her. Linda will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Paul Joseph Duffy and her sisters, Evelyn Dolan of Eston, Saskatchewan, Joyce Dundas of Prince Rupert, British Columbia and Margaret Dolan of Nelson, British Columbia. She was predeceased by her parents, William and Gladys Dolan; sisters, Doreen Kupka and Anna Anderson; a niece, Beth Kupka; and a brotherin-law, Carl Anderson. A Memorial Service will be held at Fernie, British Columbia at a later date. Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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NORMANDEAU 3 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., fenced yard, rent $1275., S.D. $900; incld’s all utils. avail. Now or Apr. 1. 403-304-5337 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS
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SEIBEL PROPERTY 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
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3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Apr. 1. 403-304-5337
CLEARVIEW 2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls. Rent $925. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.now or Apr. 1. 403-304-5337
ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail. Apr. 1st. 403-304-5337 SYLVAN LAKE, 3 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appl., no pets, n/s, $975/mo. inclds. utils. 403-350-4230 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Apr. 1 403-304-5337
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1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $700 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458
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Farms/ Land
RANCH FOR SALE: 17 deeded quarters of ranch land in Sask, some with aggregate. Will consider acreage, small business, commercial property as partial payment. Call 306-531-8720 for details
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Manufactured Homes
OLDER MOBILE home, 4 appls., clean, brand new Áooring, drapery, immed. possession. $18,500. 403-304-4748
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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d. 403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889
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CITY VIEW APTS. 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700. Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 LARGE bsmt. suite, shared kitchen & laundry facilities, Michener area. $725. 403-358-2955 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 LIMITED TIME OFFER: One free year of Telus internet & cable AND 50% off Àrst month’s rent! 2 Bedroom suites available. Renovated suites in central location. Cat friendly. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 784-9274
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2011 DODGE Caliber, only 56,000 km, exc. con., $8,900. 403-406-7600
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2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, topper, security bar, $12,500. 403-505-5789
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Mobile Lot
2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, show room cond., 1,700 km, $2,000. 403-346-9274
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MAIN Áoor in Grandview, all utils. incl. shared kitchen & laundry. $695. 403-318-5416 TWO fully furn. rooms, all util. incl., Deer Park, AND Rosedale, 403-877-1294
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GARVEY: Jokes are killing The room bats around the idea that civilians could use more surprise in their Independence Day celebrations. Sam Pressler, a slim, confident guy who founded the partnership last year as a spin-off of the William and Mary Center for Veterans Engagement, pipes up: “So one year I started to fire mortar shells at my neighbors or something, like, so they’d understand.” “Just randomly at night, not on the Fourth of July,” adds Mike King, a big, bald Army Reservist from outside Boston, who also has PTSD. “That other thing [that] was going around,” King continues, “was those guys with the stupid signs, like, ‘A veteran lives here. Don’t set off fireworks.’ And that, like, really pissed me off,” he says. “Yeah, me too,” Garvey says. “It’s like, f—- you,” King continues. “Go celebrate Fourth of July. That’s why we went to war, you know?” Another classmate brings up the stoner-day bit. “I’d play up the weed angle, too,” says Navy vet John Dorling, originally from Sarasota, Florida. “Because I don’t think most people are going to be expecting a veteran who, uh, partakes.” “It’s prescription, man,” King goofs. “It started that way,” says Garvey, in all earnestness. “My doctor told me to smoke, and I didn’t believe him. I thought it was a trick, because I was trying to get retirement at the time” and needed to pass a drug test. But the doctor explained so long as Garvey had a prescription, it was OK. Everyone in the class agrees he should use the fine line between therapeutic and recreational pot smoking in the set. “Do you have to get the generic version?” asks Margot Beausey, a Deloitte consultant who used to be in the Navy and is quick to see comic fodder in practical considerations. “Is your co-pay less than a dime bag?” Garvey says doctors later suggested he switch to morphine or another narcotic — which he rejected — to treat his chronic pain. More than four years after he was shot, more than three years after his last surgery, his jangled nerves won’t let him forget it. “Ooh, I love morphine,” coos Ama Lopez, like a teenager fawning over a matinee idol, breaking everybody up. “Narcotics Anonymous is across the hall,” quips King, who stopped drinking about six months ago. “I had it, like, twice, and the doctor asked me, ‘How are you feeling?’ ” Lopez dreamily continues. “The hand of God just rubbed my …” The room explodes, drowning out precisely where the hand of God had paused. “Write it down, write it down, write it down,” says Coccia. ★★★
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By the last day of class, Garvey has grown accustomed to talking about getting shot. He got hit twice, and his body armor caught one of the bullets — on its way out. For someone who spent his days “swinging a metal detector, looking for a bomb,” it was an ironic exit from the battlefield. Then came Germany and morphine, and as his body healed, his mind began to come undone. “You’re just going about your business, then one day your body says, ‘Hey, I’m bored. Let’s create a chemical imbalance and kick this sh— up a notch,’ ” he says. He finds the condition baffling. “It’s like, imagine an abusive husband claiming to have battered women syndrome. Which is hard to wrap your unraveling mind around.” He talks about his dog now. Everyone has been waiting for this. Since Day 1, Liberty has been a genial presence in the class. He accompanies his master into the room, his vest is unstrapped and he goes free-range, his good vibes available to everyone. It’s easy to see how Liberty, a black labrador retriever, could alleviate the anxiety Garvey feels in public. He is large and warm and sleek. His coat is mesmerizing. You could stare at it for days. “I don’t want people to think that our dogs are on the same level,” Garvey says. “Mine’s better.” He scoffs at people who call their pound dogs “rescues,” when he had to get his from a New York prison, where Liberty had been part of a program called Puppies Behind Bars. “I had to tunnel my guy out of max security, like El Chapo Guzmán,” Garvey cracks. He also does jokes about people who interfere with Liberty while he’s working or misunderstand the dog’s purpose altogether. “What’s the dog’s disability?” is a frequent query. “Did the dog really fight in both of those wars?” asks a woman at Jiffy Lube. Five minutes later, she identifies
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Michael Garvey has grown accustomed to talking about getting shot. herself as a psychic and tells Garvey, a high school dropout, that he’ll go on to write books, something he finds unlikely. The theme running through Garvey’s jokes about his dog, in fact through the jokes of each one of the comics who address PTSD head-on, is that his wartime experience has marked him and set him apart. I ask Garvey if perhaps the seriousness of his injury could be dissuading some of his classmates from talking about their own military experiences. “Sometimes it seems like people, if they hear something that’s more military-y than what they have, they don’t want to say it, because it feels inferior,” he explains. He has seen himself have a similar reaction. “When I meet Special Forces people, I take a little step back, too. Like, this guy, he knows it all — what am I going to say?” ★★★ The theater at the Arts Club is intimate and old-fashioned, with oak flooring and a proscenium scalloped with butterscotch swags. The jewel-box scale suggests it could host a family-manse musicale in a Wes Anderson film. Half an hour before showtime, Garvey still hasn’t decided whether Liberty will be joining him. He’s concerned the dog could be a distraction. Garvey has on a sweater reading “God Bless America” that looks like Old Glory got run through a shredder then taped back together. One suspects underneath the garishness, the sentiment is genuine. It jibes with the mind-set of a patriotic guy who chafes at authority, who the week before had explained: “I liked the Marine Corps; I never went full-in Marine. I have five Marine Corps tattoos, and that’s the only tattoos I have, but I never took it completely seriously.” When Garvey steps in front of the lights, Liberty is by his side and proves to be only a slight distraction, with the “Awww”s from the seats more than making up for any restlessness. Garvey’s jokes are killing: The fine line between medicinal and recreational smoking, Liberty’s canine superiority, El Chapo, the Jiffy Lube psychic with the career advice for “the jarhead pothead who draws pictures on his college essays.” Garvey has toned up his line about people asking how Liberty was injured. “I don’t understand what kind of a—hole people think that I must be to drag a disabled dog around,” he says. Afterward, he seems relieved and a little surprised at how quickly the time went, the set streaming past him in a blur until suddenly there he was, safely at the end. I next catch up with Garvey right after New Year’s, in the den of the Annapolis home he shares with his parents and his wife, Leonora, who recently quit her job as an insurance agent and went back to school for her business degree, hoping to one day work for a nonprofit. She tells me later that she’s “in love” with Comedy Bootcamp, crediting it with giving Michael the push he needed to pursue something he’d always be interested in. Season three of Maron is cued up on the TV, and an aquarium containing a turtle the size of a silver-dollar pancake burbles soothingly nearby. Garvey and I sink back into comfy overstuffed sofas. We drink our coffee black. “I just have trouble making myself happy,” he says. “All my old interests” — bowling, paintball, cards, movies — “don’t interest me anymore.” It’s harder for him to get into the music of 311, a reggae/punk/metal band he had followed religiously since high school. About six months ago, concerned he was becoming dependent, Garvey came off all his prescribed medications for both nerve pain and behav-
ioral health. He had discussed it with his doctors, but they didn’t seem to be in a hurry to change anything. He researched it online, then, without telling anyone, not even his family, Garvey went cold turkey. It’s not a path he recommends. He wound up on the treadmill, screaming at the walls. Later in the week is his first open mic. He’ll bring along a friend from the Marines but nobody from Comedy Bootcamp. He’s worried about how it’ll go. Garvey has been encouraged in his writing by his professor at Anne Arundel Community College, where he’s taking classes, and he’s been working on it steadily. “I do most of my writing in the morning, because it’s when I’m most miserable,” he explains. “That’s when I come up with the most creative ideas.” But he hasn’t been performing. “I just need to do it more,” he says. “I’m really nervous about this open mic … I will not have sat through a class for six weeks preparing it.” He’s unsure of his new material, all of it a work in progress. “I just keep writing. I’m like, I wonder if this’ll work, I wonder if this’ll work, I wonder if this’ll work,” he says. “You gotta say it eventually.”
FLAKED: Exquisite West Coast suffering Sending mixed signals about the distance between possibly rich and technically poor, these shows all ask their viewers to accept and understand the most exquisite kind of West Coast suffering, as experienced by a very certain stripe of creative, nerdy Los Angeles-area residents. On Flaked, Chip is worried about his store’s landlord selling the building. On Togetherness, Brett (Mark Duplass) has been sleeping on his best friend’s couch and moonlighting as an Uber driver during a marital spat. In Transparent, youngest daughter Ali (Gaby Hoffmann) depends on checks from her father (Jeffrey Tambor), who has come out as a woman. Watch and stream enough of these downbeat, post-yuppie shows and you could build a bingo game out of the usual tropes: Character who works a menial job in the media/entertainment industry? (Check.) Non-starvation-related financial crises? (Check.) References to house envy? Fretting about real estate, school districts? (Always.) A wallow in the status-conscious mommy wars? (Usually.) High ficus walls and swimming pools symbolizing the wealth gap? (Check, check.) A Prius breaking down on the freeway? (Check.) A Stephen Malkmus soundtrack? (In Flaked’s case, check.) These background class cues — which I confess can be catnip for this gimlet-eyed viewer — sometimes serve as a less Trumpian way of bemoaning the middle-class squeeze. The characters in Flaked are experiencing a marginalization-in-progress, exemplified by an everyday grubbiness and a sense of loss and personal failure. These details are idealized and even romanticized by the people in charge of writing and pitching TV shows to Netflix, Amazon, HBO, et al — and the people in charge of green-lighting them. Such mirror-gazing, such lock-step redundancy in look and feel (and writing and acting), indicates more than just a failure of imagination. Lumped together, the shortcomings become more obvious, particularly in terms of diversity — not only racial diversity, but diversity of location, premise and sensibility. Flaked has something to say about a man who is utterly trapped in his own world. But since this is L.A., he’ll have to take a number.
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FAMILY TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016
Remembering the handwritten letter When I was a kid winter was longer than forever and we talked to each other without texting. When I was a kid there was no Facebook. No computers. No cell phones. A wall telephone was held in awe by those of us who were lucky enough to have one. And a handwritten letter — ahhh, that was a rare and wonderful gift. I remember my father getting these mysterious pale blue airmail letters from his native Scotland. It was a grand day when those letters arrived. My father had only reached the tender age of seven when he left his homeland. No doubt, his parents wanted a better life here in Canada for themselves and their family, but I believe my father, though I only knew the man for 15 short years, never forgot his Scottish roots. But whether it was an airmail letter, or a plain old handwritten letter in a plain old white envelope, snail mail was as much a part of my childhood as were visits with the owners who lived behind the general store and Sunday School every Sunday morning. If memory serves me correctly (which quite often it doesn’t), the
TREENA MIELKE FAMILY post office was a little white clapboard building with the sign ‘Condor Post Office’ written over the door. Inside there were two wickets and the postmaster, a kindly old bachelor whom I think lived in the back, was always behind one of those wickets to hand out the mail. I remember standing on my tiptoes just so I could see over the top of the wicket, feeling all grown up and proud when he handed me our mail. The post office was kind of like the social hub of our community. It was a great place to meet, to catch up on the latest gossip and finally, when all was said and done, to come home with the proud announcement, “I got the mail.” When I travel down the hallowed halls of childhood memories, I seem to remember the post office also had its own peculiar smell, probably a combination of old wood and newspapers
and mail and those big burlap gunnysacks the mail came in. I was thinking about that long ago post office today as I scrolled down the many entries on my Facebook timeline. I am not a Facebook fan and yet I am a closet user. I find myself reading all the posts, the inspirational ones, the stupid ones and, accidentally, I even have found my little cursor hovering over the occasional post that is worth sharing. But, Facebook does serve another and more serious function. It keeps us in contact with family and friends who have somehow, almost, but not quite vanished from our lives. I think about my brother, who is completely cool and wears his Korean veteran hat at a jaunty angle with more than a touch of class, even though he is confined to a wheelchair and lives in a nursing home. Sometimes, his pale blue eyes seem far and distant and he talks about those long, lonely days in the service and how letters from home were his own personal key to survival. Can you imagine if he had Face-
book? But still I wonder if Facebook, for all its instantaneous capabilities, can ever replace the absolute delight of receiving a handwritten letter. How can you match the anticipation of breaking open a sealed envelope, smoothing out the pages of the letter inside and maybe sitting down with a cup of tea, as you read the pages. And finally, after going through that ritual you read news from home: the five-year old sitting on the writer’s knee, your brother who batted a home run in the bottom of the ninth, and your sister who is off to a dance at the town hall with a group of young people. Another gift of the past to be remembered and cherished. And, perhaps, even though we now have Facebook and texting, one that will not be completely abandoned. I hope not! Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is the editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.
Avoiding conflict and Today I chose tacos averting criticism LINDSAY BROWN
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.” – Wayne Dyer, American philosopher, author and a motivational speaker.
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“Yeah, sure, I’ll do it,” I replied. “I’ve got a bit of a green thumb, you know.” Years ago, I offered to watch a friend’s house while she was away on vacation. More specifically, I offered to watch her houseplants. Recently divorced, she admitted that caring for the plants had been the domain of her ex-husband and she knew or cared little about them. After handing me a key, she informed me that her neighbour — a crusty, old bachelor named Viggo — would be checking on the house, making sure nothing was amiss with the utilities. The first time I checked on the plants everything seemed fine — lush and healthy. The second time I was shocked to find most of the plants turning brown and leaves littering the floor. A quick examination revealed the cause — all the plants had been heavily over-watered. Viggo had obviously assumed plant-watering was part of his house-checking responsibility. I didn’t want to confront Viggo so instead left him a “cease and desist” note on the dining room table. Most of the plants seemed to be rallying but the once-lush creeping ivy that sat on top the china cabinet died. What to do? I didn’t want to face criticism from my friend, especially after bragging about my horticultural skills. I didn’t want to blame it on Viggo for fear of incurring his wrath. That’s when I hit upon the ideal solution. I would go to the florist and buy an identical plant. I could replace the original with an imposter. No-one would be the wiser. Looking back, it would have been much easier just to explain to my friend what had happened. This open
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and honest approach didn’t occur to me at the time. You see, for years, I avoided criticism and I did whatever I could to side-step conflict. I suspect this fear was born in my childhood where conflict and criticism seemed to invariably walk hand-in-hand. The reality is no matter who you are or what you’re doing, someone will have a critical comment. And as hard as you might try, you’ll never be able to avoid every conflict or confrontation. Someone told me once I should think of criticism as a gift. If the criticism was valid, I could learn something important, and if it was inaccurate, facing the criticism would help me develop a thicker skin. I was also told that facing conflict would help me grow a backbone — a criticism I found especially hurtful as I had the added challenge of being a perpetual people-pleaser. I think most people dislike criticism and would prefer to avoid confrontation — even people in management roles who must deal with both on a regular basis. I’ve discovered over the years that deflecting criticism and avoiding confrontation doesn’t reduce tension, it escalates it. Thankfully, I’ve learned a few things about these siblings over the years. An important question to ask when faced with criticism is, “Are you grading the criticizer’s opinion as higher than your own?” There was a time when my self-esteem was so low that I immediately accepted any critical comment directed at me.
I was scrolling through Facebook the other day when I saw one of my friends showcasing their yoga headstand for all to see. Now, I’m not going to lie, I sort of instantly found myself Facebook crushing, hard. Like seriously, who at 30 years old can actually do a headstand without the crippling fear of their own body weight combined with, hello, gravity working against them and crushing their oh so fragile neck into smithereens. It is a constant dread that dangles precariously in the back of my mind at literally any given moment when the mention of headstands, cartwheels or even a damn somersault for matter comes up in conversation. So yes when I saw this video so nonchalantly placed on her news feed, I was pretty impressed to say the least. It got me to thinking, hey, I should really try to tone up the ol’ bod. After all I will be entering back into the workforce soon and I’d like to be sort of in shape for those grueling eight hour work days. I have a feeling I’m not “work ready” right now. I say this as I eat tacos, sitting in the computer chair, at 9 o’clock in the morning. And as the good Lord is my witness I will never give up my beloved morning tacos so I’m going to have to start counterbalancing them with something. My problem with working out is that I actually hate it. It’s just so hard! I
always start off strong. Every day for about a week I will exercise, but then once I remember my total and utter revulsion for the task I end up quitting. This is a problem for two major reasons. One, it really isn’t helping me in achieving my goals and two, I am setting a horrendous example for my children. I can’t just let them see me quit every little thing that makes break down crying from exertion. I must teach them that exercise is healthy and a necessary *coughevilcough* for a hale and hearty existence. Therefore I have decided that if I am going to exercise I should really look into the different programs and explore what would fit my lifestyle best. I really enjoy jogging, although with the state my body is in at the moment it is more like walking and hopping into a job when I feel nervous about a dubious character approaching me. (It was an elderly gentleman walking his poodle. He looked pretty questionable from afar in my defense.) However walking/sometimes jogging just isn’t going to cut it at this point. I need something to up the ante a little. I began looking online for some workout videos and came across a particular hybrid yoga fad that is pretty big right now. It involves dance and yoga and some other pretty cool things that I think I could totally get on board with. Upbeat yoga? Yes please. Look out Facebook friend, I will be joining you in news feed headstands in no time! I think to myself as I saddle up for my very first online class. See BROWN on Page B10
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Sibling dispute causing problems Dear Annie: My oldest and youngest sisters are 10 years apart. They used to be good friends, but in the past three years, something apparently happened and now they can’t stand to be in the same room together. At family events, the tension is awful. They can’t talk to one another without condescension and sarcasm. My parents and I are caught in the middle. Each sister comes to me to complain about the other. I have tried to get them to talk it out or call a truce for the sake of the family, but it continues to get worse. My oldest sister will invite everyone for dinner except my youngest sister. Then my youngest sister complains to our mother. Mom is 86 years old and worries constantly about her daughters. My brother wanted to move back home to help with my parents, but he changed his mind because he didn’t want to deal with the bad vibes coming from our other two sisters. No other family members will talk to them about this, because they don’t want to hurt their feelings. I am so sick of this family feud. Is there anything we can do with these selfish adults? — The Middle Sister Dear Middle Sister: Does anyone know the original cause of this animosity? Sometimes, a minor problem can become a major rift because it isn’t dealt with at the time, so it festers. Could you, your mother, your clergyperson or a professional mediator get the two of them in a room together to discuss it? One common problem with estranged siblings is that they spend years unable to enjoy each other’s company, only to regret it when it’s too late to fix. You might remind your sisters that they could have less time to repair this than they think. We hope one of them can be the bigger person and make the first move. Dear Annie: A while back, I read with interest a letter from “Jungle Jim in Indiana,” regarding the things men
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should know if their wives become incapable of doing common household tasks. What is good for one is good for the other. Please print my list of things a woman should know if her husband were no longer around, or incapable of doing these things. — Dover, Pennsylvania Dear Dover: Thanks. Here it is: 1. Know how to check the fluids in the car (oil, power steering, brake, windshield washer). Also, know how to check the air pressure in the tires and properly wax the car. Or know where to find a reputable mechanic and car wash. 2. Know where the main water shutoff is located in the home in case a pipe bursts. 3. Know where important papers are kept (car titles, insurance papers, deeds, IRA and CD certificates, bonds), as well as retirement information and medical records. 4. Know what to do if the pilot light goes out on the gas stove and who to call if there is a gas leak. 5. Know how to replace the batteries in the smoke detectors/radon detectors in the home and do it every six months. 6. Know where the fuse box is and how to change a fuse. 7. Know how to fix a toilet that has stopped working properly. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.
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FUHRER: Criticism To me, it wasn’t so much criticism as it was a confirmation of my own lack of worth. Another question to ponder is, “Are you setting yourself up to be criticized?” If you think of yourself as unworthy, you may be unconsciously seeking confirmation. A final question is, “Is this a case of bullying?” Remember, bullying can be subtle and insidious. Of course, all of these questions are easier to answer when your self-esteem is intact. If you’re looking to assess the value of a particular criticism, you’ll need to determine — first and foremost — if the intent of the criticizer is to help or harm you. Has there has been a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of information or an event? Find out if the criticizer has all the information. Be willing to assert yourself and ask for clarification. If you feel the criticism is unwarranted, state your assessment of the situation kindly, but assertively. Remember, some people are legitimately in a position to criticize — a supervisor for example — while others feel the need to express an opinion whether it’s warranted or wanted. Know the difference. When it comes to conflict, it’s important to create awareness of your automatic reactions. Do you become angry and amp things up emotionally? Do you shut down and disengage? Do you view conflict as a
Tuesday March 15, 2016 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Eva Longoria, 40; will.i.am, 40; Bret Michaels, 52 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Energetic and enthusiastic, you like to be in control of situations. 2016 is the year to combine being dynamic with being diplomatic. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Two-way conversation is the secret to a successful day. So keep the lines of communication open Rams, and resist the temptation to be critical or judgemental of family and friends. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twoway conversation is the secret to a successful day. So keep the lines of communication open Rams, and resist the temptation to be critical or judgemental of family and friends. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it comes to work or domestic issues, try to be more flexible. There are many different ways to approach projects, as you embrace new ideas and encourage powerful positive changes. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Moonís moving through Gemini so communication, writing, study, social networking and short trips favoured. But — if you don’t listen to others carefully — then mix-ups are likely. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When you’re communicating with others today, avoid being superficial and glossing over important subjects. The more deeply you connect with family and friends, the more satisfying the day will be. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): All types of study and research are favoured but avoid being drawn into a long and complicated conversation about money. Joint finances are a minefield at the moment, so steer well clear of the subject. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Avoid the tendency to make mountains out of molehills today Virgo, as you get worked up about something that really doesn’t matter. Plus avoid making fast money moves.
win/lose scenario — only one remains standing when the dust has settled? Conflict often ignites intense emotions. If you’re unable to manage your emotions, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to resolve a conflict effectively. Conflict is often the result of unfulfilled expectations. Make conflict resolution the goal rather than being right or winning. Conflict is an opportunity for growth — to listen and learn. When agreement is impossible, agree to disagree. Be willing to be wrong (if you are) and willing to acknowledge it. It’s OK to make amends and it’s fine to forgive. My friend called when she returned from vacation and I told her everything had gone fine. She made no mention of the “imposter” ivy and I didn’t bring it up. A couple weeks later when I stopped by the house, I noticed the replacement was missing from the top of the china cabinet. When I asked about it, she told me she had never much liked it so had thrown it out. “Any fool can criticize, complain and condemn,” wrote American writer and lecturer, Dale Carnegie. “But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” Avoiding the unavoidable seldom produces a favourable outcome. Honesty, integrity and courage will always yield better results, whether it be with plants or people. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca-
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Take your time. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you being super-critical about your appearance? Remember perfection is a goal, not a destination. And the current standards of beauty portrayed in the mass media are more fantasy than fact. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Attached Scorpios — listen to your partner. Singles — you won’t meet your soul mate if you’re mooching around at home. So find creative ways to circulate, socialise and advertise, in person and online. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With powerful Pluto powering through your finance zone, let’s hope you’ve got your spending spree tendencies under control! It’s definitely time to replace shortterm whims with long-term strategies. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Avoid being a lone wolf — or should that be goat? The more inclusive and adaptable you are, the better the day will be. Plus you’ll find praising others will get you a lot further than constant criticism. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Put aside some time to spend with family and friends today, as you relax together and share the latest news. But avoid getting drawn into confusing and stressful conversations about money matters. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have much to contribute within a group situation so don’t be shy about voicing your opinions. Work looks stressful though, as Saturn demands exceedingly high standards. So pace yourself Pisces. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
BROWN: Having fun Now, never in my life have I been coordinated, not even a little bit. I fall down almost every day, usually while walking over level ground. But that doesn’t matter, it’s all about having fun while you work out. This new routine is the money ticket, I can already tell. It begins. A tribal beat pumps methodically out from my computer speakers and I find myself unconsciously moving to the sounds. I am squatting and bouncing and I imagine if an outsider was looking in it would seem as though I was doing some pretty unholy things to my living room floor. I am feeling fantastic. Pretty soon I am literally the sexiest woman who has ever lived and I am “yoga-ing” and dancing in ways I never knew possible. That is until I catch a glimpse of myself in the reflection of the television. I don’t want to say I look awful because that would be cruel and self-loathing but I will say I resemble that of an uninhibited sloth attempting some sort of grimaced and lonely mating ritual. In every instance in the past this mere sight would have turned me off of my new exercise endeavour, however not today. Because today I choose health! Today I choose to be a positive role model for my children! Today I choose to make a difference! And most importantly today and every day henceforth I choose tacos! Lindsay Brown is a mother of two and a freelance writer from Alberta.
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