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Funeral for theft victim today BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Family and friends will gather to celebrate the life of the 23-year-old man who died while trying to stop thieves from stealing his truck last week. The service for Dawson James “DJ” Wegner-Cramer of Red Deer will be held at 10 a.m. at the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium (6287-67th Street) at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Wegner-Cramer died in hospital on March 16 after he was injured as he attempted to prevent two men from taking his white Ford F-650 in the Normandeau neighbourhood. Police believe he was struck by the truck as the thieves drove away. The 23-year-old was found in distress at an alley behind Nordegg Crescent just before 5 a.m. Just minutes later police received a 911 report of an erratic driver in a white cube truck leaving the scene at 31 Nordegg Crescent. Police then responded to a report of a suspicious white truck that had been parked on Page Avenue in the Pines neighbourhood.

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Jayden Campbell, left, and Austin Taylor make their way along Ross St. as an afternoon snow storm blows through Red Deer on the first full day of spring Monday. Cool weather is expected through this week with daytime highs around the freezing point or slightly below. More snow flurries are forecast for Thursday and Friday of this week.

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Red Deer dentist among plaintiffs Hwy 2 search by RCMP ‘stinks’: critic in class action lawsuit BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF An outspoken Red Deer dentist is suing his governing body over advertising rights. Michael Zuk is one of three plaintiffs in a class action suit against the Alberta Dental Association and College (ADAC). Other plaintiffs in the lawsuit are dentists Thayne Blunston, of Airdrie, and Lawrence MICHAEL ZUK Stanleigh, of Calgary. They have launched the suit on behalf of some

100 dentists who are not named for “fear of retribution and repercussions from the ADAC,” according to a Statement of Claim filed on Feb.25. The dentists allege the association’s advertising restrictions are an infringement of the Competition Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Zuk said the rules prevent the dentists from using words such as affordable and advertising free consultations and senior discounts or limited discounts. The claim reads “the advertising restrictions prevent class members from engaging in forms of expression that would encourage more competition in the market for the supply of dental services to consumers in Alberta.”

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Using police to search the Hwy 2 median near Blackfalds for personal effects of a government minister involved in a traffic fatality last November was wrong, says a Red Deer man. On Saturday morning, RCMP Special Tactical Operations officers spent two hours searching a 60-metre area in the highway median south of Blindman River at the location where Calgary MLA Manmeet Bhullar was killed while as- MANMEET BHULLAR sisting a stranded motorist. Jack Steenson, who is retired after a long career

with the provincial government, said having police do the search was appalling and showed favouritism. “It stinks. This just smells and I don’t think we can let this go. I don’t think we can allow that to take a hold in this country,” said Steenson. On Friday in consultation with Alberta Transportation, the Integrated Traffic Unit advised that traffic on the busy highway would be down to one lane north and one lane south in the area to allow police to search. The search was not related in any way to the investigation into the collision. His family reported that his missing watch and eyeglasses were recovered. His kara — a bracelet worn by Sikhs — was still missing along with his cuff links and shoes. RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Laurel Scott said tactical members were involved because they are trained in searching so they are efficient and have equipment available to them. Please see SEARCH on Page A10

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Baseline for protecting watershed released

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer midwives must wait to find out if they will be funded to help more women give birth in the Red Deer area in 2016-17. Last week the Alberta Association of Midwives announced that Alberta Health Services was funding services for 2,774 midwifery patients for the upcoming fiscal year — the same amount as in 2015-16. In September, the province provided an additional $1.8 million to fund up to 400 more midwife-supported births to boost the births to 2,774 by the end of the 2015-16 fiscal year. Jennifer Bindon, of Prairie Midwives in Red Deer, said it was too late for her to arrange to hire another midwife for six months. Bindon expects to meet with AHS within the next month to find out if Prairie Midwives will be funded for more births in 2016-17. “We may be getting some. It’s not finalized yet as far as if we’ll be hiring any more midwives, or if we’ll be able to reorganize our funding to hire another midwife,” Bindon said. She said the cap on patients is frustrating for midwives across the province. “Here in Red Deer we won’t be experiencing any cutbacks. We will be caring for at least as many women as we did last year.” In 2015-16, the three Red Deer midwives participated in 116 births, at a maximum of 40 births each, and serve Red Deer and surrounding communities. Bindon said between 10 and 30 women per month are on the wait list for a midwife in the Red Deer area. “Red Deer could easily support six to eight midwives just with the wait list we’re dealing with right now. What we’re finding is the more women we care for, the more referrals we’re getting, the more women are wanting this kind of care. “Our plan for quite some time has been to grow and hire more midwives so that we can care for more women. We’re not sure if we’re at a place where that can happen.” She said the more midwives working in Red Deer, the better it is for patients and midwives. Publicly-funded midwifery care has been available in Alberta since 2009. For 2015-16, the province put a total of $14.5 million into midwifery care to pay for pre-natal, birth, labour and post-natal support. Wildrose health-care critic Drew Barnes said the lapse in midwifery funding by the NDP government eliminates choice for parents and prevents other Albertans from accessing hospital beds and staff that midwives open up. “Our information shows that this method of delivery is about $1,000 per instant more efficient and the Alberta government is unable to re-allocate assets and tax dollars to where they could do the most good,” Barnes said. “Next year we’re at $21.5 billion in health care costs for Alberta taxpayers and the access to services seems like it gets worse every year.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

If there’s one word to describe protecting the quality of the Red Deer River watershed, it’s “complicated”. The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance chose this day — World Water Day — to release part one and recommendations on how to make that happen. Blueprint: An Integrated Watershed Management Plan for the Red Deer River Watershed, Phase 1: Water Quality, is essentially a baseline for protecting the watershed, Josée Méthot, watershed planner and an environmental scientist with the RDRWA, said Monday. Méthot was the lead author of the plan, which was developed through a large collaborative effort. “This plan is really about putting all of the puzzle pieces together,” Méthot said. The Red Deer River Watershed includes an area of 49,650 sq kms, bigger than Denmark, she said. “If we zoom out and look at the big picture, which is that all of the water in a given watershed or the boundary flows to a common point, how are we going to manage our landscape to ensure that our water quality is protected so that we have abundant and clean water. “And that’s a really complex challenge, involving a huge area of land and many different people from different sectors, walks of life, maybe different or competing ideas about what should be happening on the landscape. “What do we need to do together in order to meet the needs of all of these different users?” Méthot said people should be concerned about the watershed. Just last year the World Wildlife Foundation did a report on the state of watershed health across 25 different watersheds in Canada. While they found that water quality in the Red Deer watershed is overall good, it considers future threats to the watershed as being “very high.” The Red Deer watershed was one of two in Canada that received that ranking. The integrated approach to protect the water quality is a best practice nowadays in water shed management. In the past, resource management was often done in silos, Méthot said. “It wasn’t connected. … That approach led to problems because we now recognize that water quality issue is ultimately tied to our activities on the landscape. “We say the quality of our waters is a report card of how we live on the land.” There are real challenges with nutrient loading, pathogen contamination such as blue-green algae, increasing salinity, pesticides, and more ero-

Counterfeit bills found in city Fake money is circulating in Red Deer. Red Deer RCMP have received reports of three fake $50 American bills in the past 11 days. In one case police found a wallet containing various identification pieces and a counterfeit American $50. In another case, a $50 was used to pay

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Red Deer River Watershed Alliance outreach co-ordinator Joey Temple, left, and watershed planning manager Josée Methot look out over the Red Deer River across from the Lions Campground in Red Deer Monday afternoon.

RECOMMENDATIONS ● Improve the understanding and strengthen the commitment of watershed users to protect water quality. ● Establish a robust monitoring program for surface water quality. ● Develop and implement a management-response framework for the Red Deer River and major tributaries. ● Encourage and promote the implementation of beneficial management practices across municipalities, industry, and agriculture. ● Research, curate, and share information on emerging issues that impact water quality (e.g., pharmaceuticals, pesticides). ● Identify and address risks to source sion, Méthot said. “We need to maintain or even improve surface water quality across the watershed because if we continue to degrade in certain areas that just won’t work for aquatic life.” “Times are changing and pressures are intensifying, whether we’re looking at population growth, climate change or cumulative affects on the landscape … we have all of these different land uses eating up more and more of the land, we have changing water levels in the river. … All of these are happening at the same time and so we are trying to be pro-active in our approach. Some of the recommendations are already moving forward and for others

they need to find partners. “We don’t want a shelf duster,” said Méthot. The water quality report is a significant milestone for the alliance, she said. “We hope it will really contribute to moving the needle on some of these water issues.” “I think in the context of climate change, we really have to be proactive and working together now.” The RDRWA will begin working on Phase 2, which is even larger than the first phase, and will look at land use and riparian areas, Méthot said. Blueprint is accessible online through the RDRWA’s website at rdrwa.ca barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Ambulance lacked proper PCs’ fate gear to save boy: paramedic hinges on byelection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — A paramedic says the ambulance in southern Alberta that picked up a toddler who’d stopped breathing didn’t have the proper equipment to save his life. Kenneth Cherniawsky, who works for Alberta Health Services, testified Monday the ambulance that was rushing Ezekial Stephan to Cardston had a bag valve mask for supplying oxygen that was too big for a small child. He said an endotracheal tube managed to provide the child with some oxygen, but it was only partially effective because tube was also the wrong size. Cherniawsky said by that time 18-month-old Ezekiel had been without oxygen for more than eight minutes. The toddler’s parents, David and Collet Stephan, have pleaded not guilty to failing to provide the necessities of life for Ezekiel, who died of bacterial meningitis on March 13, 2012. Meningitis, an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, can be life-threatening if not treated right away with antibiotics. The trial has been told that the boy had been sick for about 2 ½ weeks and his parents thought he had croup. They treated him with natural remedies and homemade smoothies containing hot pepper, ginger root, horseradish and onion. Naturopath Tracey Tannis testified last week that she told her employee to tell Collet Stepan to take Ezekiel to a hospital immediately when she called her Lethbridge clinic in March 2012. Tannis said she never met Ezekial’s mom, although she visited the clinic later in the day and picked up some

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David Stephan and his wife Collet Stephan arrive at court in Lethbridge, Alberta. The Stephans are on trial for failing to provide the necessities of life to their 19-month-old son, Ezekiel, who died in March 2012. echinacea for the boy. Court has heard little Ezekiel stopped breathing soon after that. After being taken to Cardston hospital, he was rushed to a Calgary hospital, where he died a week later. Cherniawsky told the jury that before Alberta Health Services took over local ambulance services, the ambulance had all the proper equipment. But in anticipation of AHS taking over,

and through some miscommunication, he said much of the equipment was removed. He also said it was never replaced after AHS took over even though its own protocols required it and health officials knew about the shortfall. Cherniawsky requested the equipment several times, but within a week of the incident with Ezekial, the ambulance got all the missing equipment.

Baby drowned in crate of homebrew: report BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s child advocate is calling for more support for children of parents with addictions after a baby drowned in a batch of homebrew. Del Graff also recommended in his report released Monday that workers need to better know what to do and who to notify when a child is at risk. “Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by compulsive use despite harmful consequences,” wrote Graff. “It is possible for addicts to become so focused on the substance they overlook needs of their children.” Graff’s report doesn’t identify the dead girl’s family. The child’s mother earlier pleaded guilty in court to criminal negligence causing the death of her daughter in 2013. A judge heard that the 10-month-old girl tumbled head first into a crate of a fermented potato-yeast concoction while her mother was sleeping off a night of drinking in their trailer in Fox Lake, a remote, northern community that is part of the Little Red River Cree Nation. The baby’s 12-year-old brother

Second-degree murder trial slated for November The Samson Cree Nation man accused of a fatal stabbing in Wetaskiwin will stand trial there in November. Casey Lee Lightning, 51, was arrested and charged with seconddegree murder on May 7, 2014 by Wetaskiwin RCMP investigating a stabbing at a local fast-food restaurant. Police allege that 33-year-old Jonathon Greene, 33 and also a resident of the Samson Cree Nation, suffered fatal stab wounds while seated in the restaurant. Lightning was ordered to stand trial in the Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s bench at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing in Wetaskiwin provincial court in the late winter of 2015. He is to be tried by judge alone, with the date set for Nov. 14-25, 2016.

made the discovery when he came home from school for lunch. The mother was sentenced to 90 days in jail. The report detailed how the woman, whose own mother was an alcoholic, started drinking as a teen. She and her husband both drank, which led to violence, and their children would often go to their grandparents when they didn’t feel safe. Child intervention workers received concerns about drinking in the home about a year before the girl was born, said the report. The grandparents agreed to monitor the situation and the file was closed. When the baby was about eight months old, the woman was assaulted by her husband and she was jailed for a night because she was drunk and not co-operating with police, the report said. She separated from her husband and refused a referral to a treatment program. A month later, the woman fell asleep after drinking at a friend’s home and a fire started. A family member rescued her and the baby. The report said the fire was not revealed to social workers. A First Nations agency was assessing the home’s safety when the girl

died. Her siblings were later placed in the care of their grandparents. Graff said that when the woman and her husband were sober, they were caring and attentive parents. Still, the girl lived in an unpredictable environment. “Her parents’ drinking and lack of stable housing were problems that were not easily solved,” he wrote. “Family and community members tried to create a safety network, but did not have the resources they needed nor does it appear that they knew what to do when the risk increased.” Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir said in a statement that his office will review the report and meet with Graff. “This heartbreaking story underscores the need to continuously work to prevent similar incidents,” Sabir said. “By strengthening how we work with children, families and our service delivery partners, including indigenous partners, we can improve the system as a whole.” The province needs to do what it can to prevent similar tragedies, added Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann.

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on May 24. Calgary business charged Woo and Chow face other charges that were laid last year and in 2014. with animal cruelty after 333 animals seized Boy airlifted to hospital after CALGARY — The owner and operfalling from chairlift ator of a Calgary store that sells fish,

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reptiles and amphibians have been charged under Alberta’s Animal Protection Act. The Calgary Humane Society says the charges stem from the seizure of 333 animals from Riverfront Aquariums in December. Brad Nichols, senior manager of animal cruelty investigations, says the case involves the blatant disregard for the basic welfare of the animals. The society says Wayne Woo and Michael Chow are to appear in court

CALGARY — A report of a man with a handgun near a crowded Calgary park ended with an officer opening fire over the weekend. Police received a call Sunday about someone dressed in black and armed with a gun walking near Stanley Park, where some children were playing soccer. A loudspeaker-equipped police helicopter was used to evacuate the park and warn area residents to stay indoors. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says in a news release that police confronted a suspect in the park and he produced a gun. An officer fired but didn’t hit the man, who briefly ran off before surrendering. ASIRT says no one was injured and the suspect’s weapon was actually a replica antique handgun.

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CALGARY — A 10-year-old boy has been taken to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary after he fell from a chair lift at Lake Louise ski resort. EMS says they were called to the scene at around 2:30 Monday afternoon. The boy reportedly fell about 14 metres from the Glacier Lift. It is believed his injuries include a broken leg. No word yet on the cause of the fall.

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EDMONTON — Voters go to the polls Tuesday in an Alberta byelection that political observers describe as a barometer of whether the provincial Progressive Conservatives still got game. “For the PCs it would be devastating if they didn’t hold on to something like this,” said Melanee Thomas, a political scientist with the University of Calgary. “If they can’t hold seats that they have always held in Calgary, they’ve got some issues to work on.” The Calgary Greenway seat became vacant last November when Tory legislature member Manmeet Bhullar was killed in a chain reaction highway crash after he got out of his vehicle to help a stranded motorist. Bhullar was one of 10 PCs who were left after Rachel Notley and the NDP won a majority in last May’s election and ended more than four straight decades of Conservative governments. The PC party and caucus are trying to pick up the pieces. They have yet to pick a new leader and are facing pressure from some circles to unite with Brian Jean’s right-of-centre Wildrose party. The last leader, Jim Prentice, quit as his party went down to defeat on election night. The Tories lost Prentice’s Calgary Foothills seat, a longtime stronghold, to the Wildrose in a byelection last September. Calgary Greenway, an ethnically diverse constituency on the city’s eastern boundary, has also been a Tory fortress and Bhullar had held it since he was first elected in 2008. Political scientist Duane Bratt said this byelection has wider ramifications for PC fortunes. “This is really about the PCs and whether they can hold it,” said Bratt, who is with Mount Royal University in Calgary. “If they don’t, then any discussion about mergers and the Wildrose are going to be even stronger. “(But) if the PCs win, they’re going to be able to say, justifiably, ‘We’re not dead yet’ and that there’s a problem with Wildrose and their ability to win in the cities.” Prab Gill, a real-estate appraiser, is running for the PCs, while businessman Devinder Toor is the Wildrose candidate. Roop Rai, a former radio host and producer, is the candidate for the NDP and property developer Khalil Karbani is carrying the Liberal banner. The other candidates are Thana Boonlert of the Green party and Independents Larry Heather, Sukhi Rai and Said Abdulbaki. The Alberta Party is not fielding a candidate. There are 28,298 registered voters in the constituency and 2,397 cast ballots in four days of advance polls. That’s 569 fewer than voted in advance in last spring’s provincial election. The NDP took more seats than expected in Calgary last May by capturing 15 of 25.

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Here’s to the demise of the trolls GREG NEIMAN OPINION

art of the blame for our decline in social civility, especially when we talk about issues around the economy, the environment — or politics generally — is the notion that we are entitled to anonymity in social media. If nobody knows who you are, you can say anything. If nobody can trace your online lies to you, or know that you are the person behind the words, you can be as rude, hateful and disgusting as you like to other people. If you work for a political party or interest group, you can create as many different fake online identities as you like to make it appear your group is larger than it is, or has more support than it deserves. I’m not alone in believing that allowing people to comment on public issues from behind a screen has allowed discussions to deteriorate into irrelevance. How can we talk together

about important things, when trolls operating in secret destroy the bonds of civility that allow us to come to a consensus? It’s an ironic conundrum; social media wields such power over the way we make decisions today, yet the tone of its power makes it nearly impossible for rational people to give social media comments any credibility. So it is very encouraging that one of Canada’s major online news outlets — CBC.ca — will soon ban the use of pseudonyms in the comments section beneath its news stories. Here’s hoping all others soon follow suit. Jennifer McGuire is general manager and editor in chief of CBC News. She publishes an editor’s blog on the national website and announced Thursday that complaints of hate speech against Francophones in New Brunswick became the tipping point for a decision that nobody anywhere will be allowed to say things on their news site, without everyone else knowing who the speaker really is. As an old-school newspaperman I say it’s about time social media grew up. I don’t even agree there should be anonymous “editorial boards” holding fort in print media on public issues. The courage of one’s convictions gets

pretty thin when one doesn’t need to stand behind them while in line at the grocery counter. A CBC article on the issue quotes Chris Waddell, an associate professor of journalism at Carleton University. It’s a school that produces many of the reporters, editors and technical staff behind the reports you read, hear or watch every day. He says several newspaper websites in the U.S. require people to supply their name, phone number and address before being allowed to comment on articles. But given the number of commenters possible on a story, and the fact these people might be anywhere in the world, it makes verification time-consuming and expensive. That’s hard enough in a newspaper’s Letters section, can you imagine trying to call all these people back to verify they are who they say they are online? When money is the limiting factor, Waddell rightly notes most readers would rather see resources used for getting reporters out gathering the news. So, if it costs too much to verify the identities of online commenters to news stories, how do you balance the right of people to speak, with the no-

tion they should be constrained to tell the truth about themselves? The Toronto Star recently decided that the truth should not be sacrificed to economy. So they simply shut down the comments section of their online news site. I remember when the Advocate took its first steps in online news reporting. We had a full-time staffer responsible for updating the site and for being the referee of the comments section. It became almost too much of a job just to compile a complete dictionary of swear words for the site — complete with every spelling alternative conceivable — for our online filter to catch and block them all. Things have not improved much since, and staffing at news media has not improved with growth in online participation. So if we can starve anonymous trolls of their voice in our public debates, maybe we can regain what we hoped social media would help us achieve — a better-informed, more democratic public debate, and a better-informed, more democratic society. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at Readersadvocate.blogspot.ca

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Cuba: The communist regime that will not end GWYNNE DYER OPINION

British journalist compared the huge American delegation (800-1,200 people) that is accompanying President Barack Obama on his first visit to Havana to Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago. And the Rolling Stones, who are staging a free concert for half a million people in the Cuban capital on Friday, explained that Obama was their opening act. The U.S. embassy in Havana has already reopened, but only the U.S. Congress can end the 55-year-old American trade embargo against Cuba. Under Republican control Congress is not going to do that, so this visit is really just a social call. Indeed, it was scheduled to coincide with spring break in U.S. schools so the Obamas could bring their daughters along. Yet no journalist watching all this can resist speculating about whether this opening portends great political changes in Cuba, maybe even the eventual end of the long dictatorship of the Castro brothers and the Cuban Communist Party. Least of all me, as I have been speculating about that in public,

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at intervals, for most of my adult life. I never went to Cuba during the “heroic” years when the leadership lived in permanent fear of American invasion or subversion, and most Cubans really were ready to fight to defend the revolution. My first visit was in the mid-1980s, when the bloom was already off the revolutionary rose. Most of Latin America was living under brutal U.S.-backed military dictatorships at the time, and the Cuban dictatorship seemed to me almost gentle by comparison. It didn’t even kill people much. But Cubans, unable to travel and aware that the regime’s propaganda usually lied, were in a stroppy mood. If you spoke even a little Spanish, they unloaded their discontent on you. So I went home and predicted that the regime, if not on its last legs, was at least in its last decade. This did not come to pass on schedule, but when I next went to Cuba, in 1994, it certainly looked imminent. The collapse of the old Soviet Union had cut off all the subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat despite the American embargo and its own huge inefficiencies. During the “Special Period in Time of Peace,” which lasted through most of the 1990s, nobody starved, but almost everybody went hungry and the average Cuban lost 9 kg (20 lbs) in body weight. Social order broke down, with crime rampant and desperate young people openly selling their bodies in

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the streets. I brought my wife’s parents with me on one of these visits, and my mother-in-law was mugged in central Havana twice in a week. On the second occasion my father-in-law was injured while resisting the muggers, and I had to bribe a police inspector U.S. $100 to free him from the police station where he was being held — technically as a witness, but really for ransom — so that I could get him proper medical attention. So I went home and predicted the imminent collapse of the regime again. Communist regimes in Europe whose people were quite well-fed had been falling to non-violent democratic revolutions with scarcely any resistance in the past few years, so it seemed implausible that this aging, ramshackle dictatorship would last much longer either. Wrong again. But when Fidel Castro retired after 42 years and handed power to his brother Raul in 2008, Western embassies in Havana (minus the United States, of course) arranged for various “experts” from their countries to visit Cuba and explain how things were done in a real democracy — which they fully expected that Cuba would shortly become. I was asked to go along as an alleged expert in media and civil-military affairs, to tell Cuban journalists and military officers how they should operate in a democracy. It was a wellmeant but ridiculous initiative, but I

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went anyway because it gave me unprecedented access at a very interesting time. And I came back convinced once again that a democratic transformation was really imminent, because most of those I was speaking to expected it themselves. Few of them, even in the armed forces, feared for their jobs, and most of them thought that change would be for the better. But fast forward another eight years, and very little has changed. Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 (when he will be only 86), but a new generation of Communist leaders is already being promoted into key positions. Up to three million American visitors a year are expected now that the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba has been lifted, which will widen the economic gulf between Cubans with access to dollars and those without, but it is unlikely to trigger a revolution. The surge of incoming money will magnify corruption at every level of the regime, but that won’t cause its overthrow either. In fact, I now think that the regime will probably survive until and unless the U.S. Congress finally ends the embargo and exposes Cuba to the full force of international capitalism. Of course, I have been wrong in the past. Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Canadian sites join UNESCO biosphere network BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Two Canadian regions have been singled out by a United Nations agency for how well they combine economic and environmental concerns. In an meeting in Lima, Peru, over the weekend, UNESCO welcomed Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories and the Beaver Hills east of Edmonton into its World Network of Biosphere Reserves. “This opens another door for us,” said Glen Lawrence of the Beaver Hills Initiative, which has been working towards the designation since 2008. UNESCO has 669 such reserves in 120 countries worldwide. The program recognizes regions that have maintained a healthy economy while hanging on to significant environmental values. It’s meant to encourage co-operation and innovative thinking. The Beaver Hills are a prime example, said Lawrence. The area covers about 1,600 square kilometres of boreal forest and wetlands and includes a national park and two petrochemical complexes. Decisions are made by Ottawa, the Alberta government and five municipalities — and involve aboriginal people, farmers, landowners and industry. The city of Edmonton with more than a million people is just a 20-minute drive away. Yet the Beaver Hills have still managed to hold on to forest, grassland and wetlands, as well as abundant habitat for elk, moose, deer, bison and uncounted millions of migratory and resident birds. Co-operation and communication

has been the key, said Lawrence. “You can’t start isolating people out. We’ve never pressured anyone. It’s completely voluntary.” Great Bear Lake in the northern half of the N.W.T. is the world’s eighth-largest lake, so large it creates its own weather. Aside from the abundant fish in its pristine waters, its shores are home to moose, muskox and vast herds of caribou. Dene in the community of Deline were recognized by UNESCO for unique land management between the territorial government and First Nations. “This last pristine Arctic lake is under pressure from climate change, but also possible mineral, oil and gas and mining exploration,” says the UNESCO designation. “Local community elders and leaders worked for many years to develop environmental stewardships.” Canada has 16 other biosphere reserves. To be eligible for the UNESCO designation, biospheres must be nominated by their country, land must already be set aside for conservation and the idea must have local support. The designation does not carry any legal protection for the land nor does it restrict local decision-makers. Its purpose, according to the Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association, is to share best practices and make it easier to conserve ecosystems without damaging residents’ ability to make a living on them. Lawrence said he’s not sure yet what difference being a biosphere reserve will make to his group’s ongoing efforts to protect and enhance the Beaver Hills. He is, however, “extremely

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A snowshoer goes down a trail in Beaver Hills. Two Canadian regions have been singled out by a United Nations agency for how well they combine economic and environmental concerns. Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories and the Beaver Hills west of Edmonton have been named to a world network of biosphere reserves by UNESCO. happy” with the prospect of having to find out. “I had this stupid grin on my face,” recalled Lawrence, who lives in the

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Vigils held to bring children home from Iraq BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Vigils were held across Canada Monday urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to bring home four young Canadian siblings from northern Iraq, where they are believed to be with their fugitive father, a noted British Columbia doctor. Alison Azer’s four children, Sharvahn, Rojevahn, Dersim and Meitam, have been missing for seven months. Their aunt, Tammy Jeffrey, attended a rally in Calgary and said their father, Saren Azer, took the two boys and two girls to Germany last summer but failed to return in late August as scheduled. “The nightmare still hasn’t ended for us,” Jeffrey said. “Try to think of how you would feel if your child (or) children went missing, and not really knowing for sure where they are, if they’re safe, if they’re healthy. It’s a terrifying prospect for any parent.” Jeffrey said Canadian children should be home with their Canadian families and that the family and supporters would never stop their search. “We will never give up hope,” she said. “We will continue to do this until the end of time. We want these kids back.” Lorraine McKendry was one of about a dozen people who held candles and signs during a vigil outside the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Monday. Her placard read: “Justin Trudeau,

these are your children, bring them home now.” McKendry says Alison Azer’s four children, who range in age from three to eleven years, have been located in an area of northern Iraq that has become the focus of bombing and increasing violence. McKendry’s two daughters were also on hand for the event in Victoria. Michelle McKendry described the situation as “insane” and encouraged the prime minister to use Canada’s clout in the region. Her sister, Virginia McKendry, suggested the Canadian government should use it’s leverage from providing support and training to Kurdish troops to demand the children’s safe return. “We can say, ‘You want money? You want weapons? You want training? Well then we want something in return,”’ she said. Besides Victoria and Calgary, vigils were also held in Ottawa and Courtenay, B.C., on Vancouver Island where the children live. A Canada-wide warrant was issued last August for the father for abduction and contravention of a custody order. Saren Azer is also know as Salahaddin Mahmudi-Azer and is a well-known Canadian doctor of Iranian descent. He has spoken publicly about volunteering medical care for refugees in Iraq and humanitarian aid to Syria. Alison Azer has said that she believes her children were taken to northern Iraq, where ongoing conflicts with Islamic State fighters have forced people out of their homes.

Conservative motion to save religious freedoms office fails to pass Commons BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Liberals all but flipped off the lights on Canada’s Office of Religious Freedoms, voting Monday against a Tory motion to keep open the controversial post and saying that its stand alone status is over. The writing has been on the wall for the office since the Liberals took power in November and were made aware its mandate and funding will expire at the end of this month. They’ve been signalling no new funding for the office in Tuesday’s budget. The office had been set up by the previous Conservative government in 2013, given its own ambassador and $5 million in funding to promote religious freedoms around the world. But it was controversial from the start. Concerns were raised it was going too far in combining religion and politics. Having begun as a campaign promise some saw it as a ploy to win support from ethnic voters. There were also fears it would focus primarily on minority Christian groups, since it was inspired by the death of a Christian activist in Pakistan. Now in Opposition, the Tories had been trying hard to save the office and sought to force the government’s hand Monday by introducing a motion calling for MPs to recognize its good work and for the government to renew its mandate. But it was voted down 226 to 90, with the NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Green party leader Elizabeth May joining the Liberals in opposing the move. If the Conservatives cared so much about it, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion questioned why they set a deadline for its mandate. He insisted the Liberal government remains committed to strengthening

and enhancing Canada’s fight for religious freedom, but within the context of its broader foreign policy. “It is a fundamental universal right that is deeply important for Canadians, especially when they see how religious freedom is violated in many parts of the world.” Current ambassador Andrew Bennett had already seen the writing on the wall — though he remains in his position until month’s end, last week he accepted a voluntary position at public policy think tank Cardus to lead its efforts to promote religious freedoms. In its three years, the office has funded projects in Nigeria, Ukraine, Pakistan, Myanmar and Iraq, among others. The projects have ranged from the creation of books and school materials on religious tolerance to conflict mediation around the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Some Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Muslim groups had also been calling for the office to stay open. Edmonton MP Garnett Genuis, who brought forward the motion, likened the need for the office with the requirement to have one focused on the status of women, calling them both required “centres of excellence” to deal with today’s challenges. “Without specific centres of excellence, individual areas that need attention could risk getting lost in one murky interdependent and indivisible soup,” he said. Genuis said there are too many people who have an “allergy to religion.” “Western democratic governments are not in the business of promoting religion but all governments have to be in the business of protecting freedom, including freedom of religion.” The Liberals agreed, but said the place for that is within a broader foreign policy context.

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Lorraine McKendry (left to right) and her daughters Virginia McKendry and Michelle McKendry hold a vigil in front of the legislature in Victoria, Monday. Vigils are being held across Canada urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to bring home four young Canadian brothers and sisters from northern Iraq, where they are believed to be with their fugitive father, a noted British Columbia doctor.

Canada BRIEFS Montreal law students file judicial review in Federal Court over Saudi arms deal MONTREAL — A group of Universite de Montreal law students and their ex-MP professor filed a judicial review in Federal Court on Monday seeking to block the federal government’s controversial $15 billion Saudi arms deal. Law professor Daniel Turp and his students say Canada is violating its own laws and policies that he says prohibit Ottawa from selling arms to countries with poor human rights records and without assurances the equipment won’t be used against civilians.

Turp’s judicial review asks the court to revoke the export permits for the armoured vehicles. “It’s about the rule of law, it’s about legislation and guidelines and all kinds of other rules that should be respected by the Canadian government,” said Turp, a former Bloc Quebecois MP who specializes in international and constitutional law. “Citizens like my myself and my students are concerned by the idea of having a government respect its own law … and also because the consequence might be breaching human rights in another country.” The notice was formally filed Monday in Federal Court in Montreal and might be heard later this spring — in May or June. The Liberals have faced criticism for refusing to cancel the contract given Saudi Arabia’s abysmal human rights record and its military intervention in Yemen. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested in New York last week that cancelling the contract would have weakened the credibility of the Canadian government.

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he opportunity to travel is one of the best perks of retirement. Even men and women who are only semiretired have more freedom to travel than those who are still working full-time. But while men and women over 50 may have more time to travel, they also must take more precautions when traveling, thanks in large part to medical conditions. Many men and women over 50 have medical conditions that may require they take medication and/or visit their physicians somewhat regularly. But those who want to travel need not let their health prevent them from seeing the world. The following are a few travel tips for men and women with medical conditions. • Speak with your healthcare provider before any trips. Whether you are about to embark on an overseas adventure or just spend a couple of weeks visiting your grandchildren, speak to your healthcare provider in advance of your trip. Healthcare providers may recommend certain vaccinations to men and women traveling abroad, and providers also can explain coverage and what to do in case of a medical emergency while away from home. • Refill your prescriptions. Men and women who must take medication should refill their prescriptions before traveling away from home. Doing so ensures you will have enough medication to last your trip. When filling a prescription, explain to your pharmacist and/or physician that you are about to travel and tell them where you will be going. They may recommend you avoid certain foods native to your destination, or they may give you the green light to indulge in the local cuisine. • Carry a list of your medications and medical conditions with you when traveling. Before traveling, make a detailed list of the medications you take and why you take them. The list should include dosage and the names, both generic and brand name, of the medications you take. Include any past medical conditions, such as a heart attack, you have had as well. Carry this list with you when traveling. In case of emergency, the list will alert responding medical professionals to any current or past medical conditions you have so they can better treat you. • Keep medications in their original containers. Some men and women find it easier to remember to take their medications if they transfer pills from their original containers into pill organizers. Such devices can be very convenient at home, but they make create problems when traveling through customs or even on domestic flights. Pills can always be transferred to organizers upon your arrival at your destination; just make sure they are placed back into their original containers before you return home. • Drink plenty of water on flights. Airplane cabins can be very dry, which can exacerbate dry mouth that results from taking medication. When boarding a flight, speak to the flight attendant and explain that you need some extra water so you can stay hydrated and avoid irritating dry mouth that may result from your medication. If you must take medication while on your flight, don’t be afraid to ask the flight attendant for a fresh glass of water and even a light snack if you need to eat something with your medicine. Men and women over 50 have more freedom to travel than many of their adult counterparts. But such travelers must exercise extra caution if they have medical conditions.

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ne of the best things about aging is being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor without as many obligations as you might have had when you were a younger adult. For example, many men and women have a lot more freedom to travel once they turn 50. Many of today’s older adults have a wealth of discretionary time, and those who focused on retirement planning from an early age have the money to fund a recreational lifestyle. Travel companies and other businesses understand that Baby Boomers and other seniors are valuable customers and are rolling out the red carpet with a bevy of discounts and perks. AARP Services, Inc. Has long been a trusted resource in senior-based information and resources. The organization continues to broker relationships with various companies to arrange deals on travel-related services and products for older men and women. Members of AARP can link directly to deals through the organization’s website. In addition to companies that work with AARP, many other travel companies have discounts or other perks available to men and women over 50. All consumers need to do is inquire about such benefits. When in doubt, log on to the company’s website or give their customer service department a call. Here are some other ways to secure deals on travel and other services. • Do some networking. Fellow seniors who log in to chat rooms or who are members of social clubs may have the inside scoop on agebased travel deals. Learn the ropes from others who have been there before you and take notes on which companies offer the best deals. • Read the fine print. Understand the details of senior discounts and compare them to other promotions offered to anyone, regardless of age. You may be able to get a better deal or combine

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HOW TO EAT AFTER 50

he opportunity to travel is one of the best perks of retirement. Even men and women who are only semi-retired have more freedom to travel than those who As people age, their dietary needs begin to change. Foods that were once staples of your diet as a youth may be restricted once you hit a certain age, while other foods you may have always avoided may now be necessary to fuel and support a healthy body. Eating healthy foods and exercising may not be enough to sustain health, as hormonal changes and other health effects as a person reaches age 50 can have a profound impact on his or her nutritional requirements. The following are a few things men and women over 50 may want to consider as they look to eat a healthy diet for years to come.

Vitamin D

Both men and women age 50 and up have a reduced ability to produce vitamin D through exposure to the sun. Extra vitamin D will be needed from foods and supplements. Everyone over the age of 50 should take a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU (10 μg), according to Canada’s Food Guide. Without adequate vitamin D, bone strength and health can deteriorate because vitamin D promotes calcium absorption. Vitamin D also has other roles, including helping

neuromuscular and immune function and reducing inflammation.

Friendly fats

People over age 50 should increase their intake of unsaturated fats and reduce consumption of saturated fats. Nutrient-rich unsaturated fats can guard against heart conditions, protect against stroke, keep skin supple, and even help men and women maintain good neurological health. Omega-3 fatty acids can be found in nuts, olives, seeds, and fatty fishes.

Increase protein

According to Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, as they age, men and women need more protein in their diets to maintain their muscle mass. The amount of protein needed at a younger age no longer may be adequate. Look for lean sources of protein from fish and poultry. Beans are also a low-fat source of protein that can help fulfill daily protein requirements.

More fiber

Eating more fiber can help with digestive and intestinal problems, such as constipation. Constipation can occur when fiber intake is not enough, coupled with a more sedentary lifestyle.

The best way to get fiber is through diet. Leave the skins on fruit and vegetables and choose whole fruits over juices. Whole-grain breads and cereals also are good sources of fiber. Dry beans and lentils can add a fiber boost. Always increase fiber slowly to determine your tolerance.

Fewer calories The National Institute on Aging says women over the age of 50 need between 1,600 and 2,000 calories, depending on how physically active they are. Men need between 2,000 and 2,400 calories per day. With each passing year there is a decrease in the energy required to maintain body weight, so caloric intake should be adjusted accordingly.

More water As a person ages, his or her body may not signal it is thirsty as well as it once did, so it’s possible that you may not recognize when you are thirsty or dehydrated. The Mayo Clinic recommends around nine to 10 cups of beverages per day to remain hydrated. Eating healthy and changing one’s diet is important as a person ages, as dietary needs at age 50 may be quite different from what they were at age 30.

SIMPLE WAYS TO MAINTAIN YOUR MENTAL ACUITY now cite boosting brain function as a great reason to get together with family and friends. Routine socialization can keep a brain sharp by reducing its levels of cortisol, a potentially destructive hormone brought on by stress. Researchers also believe that routine interaction with other people stimulates structures in the brain’s frontal lobe that are likely responsible for planning, decision making and response control. • Squeeze in a nap every so often. Naps can have a re-energizing effect on men and women, but a study from German researchers also found that naps also can improve memory. In the study, researchers divided participants into three groups: people who would stay awake for 60 minutes; people who would sleep for six minutes; and people who would sleep for 30 to 45 minutes. After the hour was up, participants were given a word recall test, and those who slept performed better on the test than those who hadn’t. But the development that was perhaps most interesting was that those who slept for just six minutes performed just as well on the test as those who slept for far longer, leading researchers

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Arbitrator slashes payments BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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OTTAWA — Ten of 14 senators who chose to contest an order to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expense claims back to the Senate have had their payments reduced by a special arbitrator. Former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie ruled that 10 of the 14 senators properly billed the Senate for travel and hospitality expenses in about half the cases. As a result, the final total of disputed expenses for the entire group of current and former senators has been halved to $177,898, down from $322,611. The other four senators must repay their disputed expense claims in full. “I impute no bad motives to any of the senators,” Binnie said in his report.

He said the predominant attitude he encountered from the senators was that they were not fully aware of the rules, rather than specifically seeking to break or get around them. “The attitude was, ‘If we knew the rules, we would follow them,”’ Binnie told a news conference. “I didn’t feel for the most part that they were gaming the system.” The expenses were flagged last year in a critical audit of Senate spending by the auditor general that identified nearly $1 million in problematic expense claims. In his final report, Binnie said senators were acting in accordance with what they “believed to be their entitlements.” The arbitration process was established after the

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auditor general raised questions about spending claims from 30 current and former senators totalling nearly $1 million. Binnie was appointed as arbitrator last May to oversee disputes of the auditor’s findings. Of the 30 senators identified in the audit and ordered to repay the questioned amounts, 14 chose to go through the arbitration process led by Binnie, while seven opted out of it and the remaining nine paid back money, according to the Senate website. Senators found to have spent inappropriately will have 30 days to reimburse the amounts owed. Amounts outstanding range from $1,120 to $75,227, according to the latest publicly available repayment status report. The Senate expense scandal was narrowed last week when it was revealed the RCMP informed 24 of the 30 named senators that the evidence against them didn’t warrant a full criminal investigation.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A military board investigation into the handling of a high-profile sexual misconduct case is complete, but still under review by the commander of the Canadian Army more than a year after it was ordered at National Defence. The board was convened by the country’s former top military commander, retired general Tom Lawson, on Jan. 28, 2015, to demonstrate the Canadian Armed Forces take the issue of sexual assault and abuse seriously. It was ordered alongside an investigation by retired Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps, who concluded last spring that bad behaviour was “endemic” in the military — an institution steeped in a macho culture that leaves women fearful to report abuse. The inquiry examined how the military responded to the allegations and grievances of former master corporal Stephanie Raymond, who alleged she was raped by a superior and then driven out of the army for reporting it. A defence spokesman said the inquiry report is being examined by Lt.-Gen. Marquis Haines, the commander of the army, and will need to be signed off by Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of the defence staff. Toronto lawyer Emma Phillips, who was counsel to the Deschamps review, says Vance has made important strides to combat abuse and sexual misconduct, but they could be undermined if the military is seen to be foot-dragging on its own internal inquiry.

Private sponsorship of refugees a model for the world: UN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency says he’d like to see Canada’s private sponsorship program exported around the world. Filippo Grandi says while it is important for governments to show leadership by resettlement programs, having private citizens also engaged encourages a feeling of solidarity for the world’s most vulnerable. Canada is one of only a handful of states that currently run such programs and private groups have sponsored more than 9,000 Syrians in recent months. Grandi says Canada as a whole has been a leader in global Syrian resettlement and that’s why he chose to visit here this week. He says he’d like the Canadian government to help other countries roll out programs like the one the Liberals put in place to resettle 25,000 Syrians in a matter of three months.

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FUNERAL: Public urged to contact RCMP Two suspects were seen running from the abandoned vehicle into a wooded area off of the street. The Calgary RCMP Major Crimes Unit is now investigating with help from Red Deer RCMP specialized units. Police are appealing to the public for information about the theft or the abandonment of the white truck. Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen a white F-650 driving erratically between 4:50 a.m. and 5:50 a.m. in the area of Nordegg Crescent, Nolan Street, Page Avenue, Gaetz Avenue and 76 Street. Contact the Red Deer City RCMP Detachment at 403-343-5575 if you have any information on these incidents. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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Protesters chant out front of the Toronto Police Headquarters in Toronto on Monday. A group of Black Lives Matter protesters have set up to occupy a space in front of Toronto Police HQ after the Special Investigations Unit cleared a Toronto police officer of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of 45-year-old Andrew Loku from this past July.

Canada BRIEFS Terror charges downgraded against Canadian man detained in UAE TORONTO — Terrorism charges against a Canadian imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates for more than a year have been dropped, marking what his family called a major development in the man’s case. But Salim Alaradi’s legal battle is far from over, as a state prosecutor announced at a court hearing Monday that the Libyan-born man had been charged instead with two lesser offences. “What happened today is clear evidence that my father is innocent,” Alaradi’s 18-year-old daughter Marwa said. “The closer we get to his innocence the more the U.A.E. State Security plays games with his freedom.” Alaradi, who immigrated to Canada in 1998 from the U.A.E. but returned there in 2007 to run a home appliance business, was on vacation with his family in Dubai when he was arrested in August 2014. He was among 10 men of Libyan origin detained around the same time — some of them have since been released. assertive. They are just interfering with that access to care.” According to the statement of claim, “the overall implementation and enforcement strategy adopted by the ADAC, including an over broad interpretation and unduly aggressive application of the advertising restrictions insofar as they relate to the information on websites, has created a climate of intimidation and bullying,” Zuk is currently being sued by the association for defamation for $9 million related to his website, newsletters and a satitrical video and cartoon critical of the ADAC. Tobin Doty, president of the Alberta Dental Association and College, said the Alberta Dental Association and College has a statutory duty to respond to complaints about violations of marketing rules, set out in its Code of Ethics. “The Code of Ethics was adopted by its members through a consultative process with membership and government, and applies to all dentists in Alberta,” he said in a written statement. “The allegations in the Statement of Claim are denied, and will be vigorously contested in court.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

SEARCH: Median a LAWSUIT: Dentists treated dangerous place like criminals “It would be nice to be able to show what you do, talk about what you do, offer some alternatives, show your work,” said Zuk. “They are treating advertising dentists as if they are criminals. We’re not criminals. We are just doing dentistry.” Zuk said the issue has been brewing about eight years since the association hired a lawyer as the complaints director. He said the cost of dentistry is very high. “You are not going to get dentistry for free,” he said. “You are going to get dentistry for a little better of a deal if we’re allowed to compete and be more

She said Bhullar’s family made it known they wanted to search the median and there were safety concerns. “We didn’t want anybody, any members of the public to be at risk. Just by virtue of the fact of where the search was, we already know that’s a very dangerous place for somebody to be out. So we wanted it to be very controlled by our members,” Scott said. She did not know how many officers participated in the search. Steenson, said while Bhullar’s death was a tragedy, people go out all the time along the highway and look for bottles to recycle, and volunteers pick up garbage. “Kids clean up the ditches. You don’t see the swat

Man guilty of thrill killing in case that used beyond-the-grave testimony SYDNEY, N.S. — A judge has found a Nova Scotia man guilty of murdering a 19-year-old woman solely for thrills, in a case that turned partly on evidence from a dead witness. Thomas Ted Barrett, 41, continued strangling Brett MacKinnon because watching her die “excited” him, said Judge Robin Gogan. MacKinnon’s decayed remains were found in 2008 near a Glace Bay hiking trail, two years after she went missing. It is the first of two murder trials for Barrett involving young female victims. On Monday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Gogan convicted him of second-degree murder, saying she accepted evidence from Crown witnesses who said Barrett had told them he’d killed MacKinnon with his bare hands. The Crown case relied partly on Sheryl Ann Flynn’s videotaped account of Barrett telling her in 2009 that he felt “a rush” of adrenaline as his hands tightened on MacKinnon’s throat. Gogan said during her decision that Flynn’s evidence, given before her overdose death, was weakened because she couldn’t be cross examined by defence counsel. However, she also said similar testimony from other Crown witnesses was consistent with a “bizarre pattern of disclosure” by Barrett to acquaintances and girlfriends that built a case proving his guilt. The judge set down April 13 as the sentencing hearing date in Sydney. team out with them. People get killed every day on the highway and you don’t see them the next week looking for their wristwatch,” Steenson said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com — with files from The Canadian Press

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AER releases report on Primose leak BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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CALGARY — Excessive steaming was one of the factors that caused more than one million litres of oily water to ooze to the surface at an eastern Alberta oilsands site nearly three years ago, an investigation by the Alberta Energy Regulator has concluded. The AER’s report released Monday also said the bitumen-water emulsion was able to travel from deep underground through old unused wellbores, natural fractures and faults as well as man-made cracks in the rock. “This is one of the most complex investigations we’ve ever undertaken,” said Kirk Bailey, executive vice-president of operations at the provincial energy watchdog. A separate investigation into a 2009 leak at the same site came to a similar

conclusion. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) had been using an extraction method at its Primrose oilsands property called high-pressure cyclic steam stimulation, the safety of which has been questioned by environmental groups. The technique involves injecting steam deep into a reservoir through a well, letting it soak so that the thick bitumen is liquefied, and drawing the oil up to the surface through the same well. Pressure restrictions imposed at Primrose following the leaks discovered in May and June of 2013 have been made permanent to avoid a simi-

lar event from happening in the future. “The company will not be able to pursue its original operating strategy at Primrose,” said Bailey. Cyclic steaming is widely used in the oilsands. Bailey said the AER took a broader look at other operations and concluded that they are safe. The AER said CNRL didn’t break any rules with its steaming technique. Both the company and the regulator say the amount of bitumen that can ultimately be recovered at Primrose is unchanged. But the AER said it may just take longer to do so. The AER’s final report on Primrose follows probes by the company and by an independent technical panel. The AER disagreed with CNRL’s view that the wellbores were the main culprit. As a result, the restrictions the AER

is imposing are “more conservative” than they would have been if the wellbores were the main factor. CNRL spokeswoman Julie Woo said knowledge the company gleaned as a result of its investigations should help lower the risk of a future seepages. “Our enhanced operational practices and strategies — in place since July 2013 — includes modified steaming strategies, enhanced pressure monitoring and response strategies as well as remediation of wellbores to mitigate the risk of future seepages.” Chris Severson-Baker, with Pembina Institute environmental thinktank, said while other operators have a much better track record with high-pressure cyclic steam stimulation, “I think these incidents call into question whether this is a viable method for extracting bitumen in the future.”

Terra Energy shuts down BANK CALLS IN LOAN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A small energy producer with wells and facilities in Alberta and B.C. says it has shut down production, laid off all non-executive employees and its directors and officers have resigned after a bank called in a loan. Calgary-based Terra Energy Corp. has long been struggling to turn a profit, first as low natural gas prices cut into earnings and then as the collapse in crude prices derailed its plans to switch focus from natural gas to oil. But the final blow came last week, when Terra said Canadian Western Bank was exercising its right under the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to call in its loan of $15.9 million plus interest, costs and fees. The company has until next Monday to repay. Terra said since it was losing money on its operations at current commodity prices and had no alternative financing options, the company had no choice but to halt production and lay off staff. “The directors have determined that Terra’s business is no longer viable,” the company said Monday in a news release. It did not respond to requests for comment. The company did not say how many employees were affected, but as of an early 2015 filing, the company had a total of 32 staff in its Calgary and Fort St. John, B.C., offices. As of its last corporate filing dated Sept. 30, 2015, Terra was producing the equivalent of about 2,500 barrels of oil a day. Sonny Mottahed, chief executive of Black Spruce Merchant Capital, said he expects more small exploration and production companies to fall victim to low oil and gas prices if they persist. “With the commodity price where it has been for as long as it has been, it certainly would not surprise me to see a number of junior (exploration and production) companies being forced into bankruptcy,” said Mottahed. He said the number of bankruptcies in the oilpatch so far have been limited in part because banks are reluctant to take on company assets, but at some point they may feel forced to step in. “Banks are not in the business of owning assets, they’re in the business of loaning money,” said Mottahed. “But after a certain point of time they need to inject themselves and get more actively involved. I think you’re going to see that in a number of cases moving forward.” He said banks may have less appetite to lend to small producers if volatile commodity prices continue.

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Bundles of bottled water are seen in a Montreal store, Sunday, March 20, 2016. After moving to ban plastic bags by 2018, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre hasn’t announced any firm game plan on the bottle issue but says a debate on plastics is important.

Montreal mayor’s musings on bottled water ban has industry’s attention BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A passing mention by Montreal’s mayor that plastic-bottled water is next on the city’s environmental to-do list has caught the industry’s attention. After moving to ban plastic bags by 2018, Mayor Denis Coderre hasn’t announced any firm game plan on the bottle issue. “But the debate is important,” Coderre said recently. “We need to have that debate on plastic.” The Canadian Beverage Association, which represents major players such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi Co. and Nestle, has hired a lobbyist to deal with the city. “We don’t think banning (bottled) water is a solution,” says Martin-Pierre Pelletier, suggesting a ban would only deprive residents of choice. Pelletier said the perception that people favour bottled water over the tap variety isn’t accurate, noting 91 per cent of those who drink bottled water reach for the tap at home. “Bottled water isn’t in competition against tap water, it’s in competition

BRIEF Penn West Petroleum to withdraw from one of its core areas, selling Slave Point CALGARY — Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:PWT) says it has negotiated the sale of an additional $230 million of assets, including a formerly core property in the Slave Point area of northern Alberta. The Slave Point transaction is worth $148 million. The sale of non-core assets will add a further $80 million in cash.

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against other beverages,” he said. The industry wants the city to favour a recycling solution, estimating it currently recovers about 70 per cent of bottles that way. The plastic bottles are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is completely recyclable and reused in making water bottles, Pelletier said. “Instead of banning a product that is healthy, useful, we believe we should spend our time and efforts in building up public space recycling,” he said. More than 80 Canadian towns and cities restrict the use of bottled water, including Montreal. Most involve activities in municipal buildings but in Toronto it extends to parks, facilities and civic centres. Many post-secondary institutions also do the same. In 2013, Concord, Mass., came out with a bylaw banning the sale of one-litre bottles of water or less in that community and is believed to be the first U.S. community to have done so. In late 2014, San Francisco became the first large U.S. city to ban the sale of water bottles on city prop-

Penn West says the sale of Slave Point will reduce its overall operating costs. It also expects to have room to develop and grow through its Cardium play south of Slave Point and its Viking play on the AlbertaSaskatchewan border. It says the effective sale date for the Slave Point transaction will be Jan. 1 and the deal is expected to close during the second quarter of 2016. The sale of non-core assets is also to close during the second quarter. Since the beginning of 2015, Penn West has completed or arranged $1 billion in cash asset sales. “Although Slave Point has long been one of our core assets, given the current outlook for commodity prices, we had no development activity planned for at least the balance of this year,” Penn West chief financial officer David Dyck said Monday. “While we believe that Slave

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erty, with some exceptions such as sporting events. Coderre said his contemporaries abroad are grappling with the same issues elsewhere. “I don’t have any problem if we can address the issue of recycling the bottles,” he said. “But I think clearly there is a problem worldwide.” Emma Lui, water campaigner for the Council of Canadians, says her organization oppose bottled water for many reasons. These include the environmental impact of using, making and transporting the product as well as the impact left on communities where the bottled water comes from. In some instances, bottled water in the only option. Lui gives the example of remote indigenous communities where clean water isn’t available. “We understand that some in cases, bottled water is needed,” Lui said. “But in places where there is clean drinking water and solid waste water infrastructure, we don’t feel bottled water is needed or necessary.”

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China-based Geo-Jade offers $575 M cash to take over Bankers Petroleum CALGARY — Bankers Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:BNK) has received a friendly takeover offer that values the Calgary-based company at $575 million, excluding debt obligations. The directors and management of Bankers are fully supporting the offer from Charter Power and a numbered

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Alberta company, which are affiliates of China-based Geo-Jade Petroleum Corp. Under the proposal, Bankers would maintain a corporate and technical headquarters in Calgary and operational offices in Albania, Hungary and Romania. David French, the president and CEO of Bankers, says the deal would provide the company with resources to accelerate activity in Albania and provide its shareholders with a premium price compared with recent stock values. The offer is worth $2.20 per Bankers share cash, about double the Friday closing price of $1.11 per share. The stock hit a 52-week high of $3.83 last April but fell to as low as 60 cents in January. The deal requires approval of two-thirds of the votes cast by Bankers shareholders. Each side has agreed to pay US$20 million to the other in certain circumstances if the deal doesn’t go through.

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Valeant CEO stepping down

MARKETS COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 120.58 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.24 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.37 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.51 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.370 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.97 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.52 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 176.43 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.31 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.33 Cervus Equipment Corp 10.47 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.54 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.55 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.22 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.81 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.08 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.43 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.79 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.25 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.72 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.66 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.90 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.44

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 27.06 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.58 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.97 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.02 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.21 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.13 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.40 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.01 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.34 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.13 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.37 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.77 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.830 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 11.05

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.88 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.13 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.66 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.99

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.73 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.88 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.04 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.92 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.48 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.59 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.14 Canyon Services Group. . 3.71 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.76 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.80 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.670

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market kicked off a shortened trading week Monday with a solid advance as Canadian pharmacare giant Valeant Pharmaceuticals announced its CEO is leaving the company. The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 64.02 points to 13,561.09, with the health-care and utilities sectors the biggest gainers. Shares in Valeant (TSX:VRX) rose after the embattled drug company disclosed a shakeup to its corporate leadership, which included the departure of chief executive Michael Pearson and the appointment of activist investor Bill Ackman to its board of directors. Its stock gained more than eight per cent, or $2.97, to $37.90. At its peak last August, the share price was $346.32 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. “What investors are looking at today with the appointment of Ackman to the board is a bit more involvement from the activist investor side of things that could potentially right the ship a little bit quicker,” said Craig Fehr, a Canadian markets strategist with Edward Jones. “Time will tell, obviously. (Valeant’s) got a lot of issues they will continue to work through but I think the market is finding some solace that there’s a bit of a shakeup at the top today that could help put this company and stock back on course.” Valeant has been battling a number of controversies in the past few months, including investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney’s offices in Massachusetts and New York, and U.S. Congress on allegations that it is gouging customers on drug prices. The company has

denied the accusations. Last month, the drugmaker also had to restate its financial results for 2014 and 2015 after discovering that about US$58 million of sales were recognized at the wrong time. It expects to resubmit revised financial statements to regulators by April 29. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar shed 0.28 of a U.S. cent to 76.42 cents US. In New York, markets were up modestly amid a disappointing report on housing sales. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes sank 7.1 per cent last month as a result of a limited inventory in many markets. The limited inventory has driven home prices higher and reduced affordability. The trend could weigh on homebuilders, many of whom rely on buyers who must sell their home before they can purchase a newly built one. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 21.57 points to 17,623.87, while the broader S&P 500 added 2.02 points to 2,051.60 and the Nasdaq rose 13.22 points to 4,808.87. In commodities, the May contract for benchmark North American crude oil rose 38 cents to US$41.52 a barrel, while April natural gas plunged eight cents to US$1.83 per mmBtu. April gold lost $10.10 to US$1,244.20 a troy ounce while May copper added a penny to US$2.29 a pound. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,561.09, up 64.02 points Dow — 17,623.87, up 21.57 points S&P 500 — 2,051.60, up 2.02 points Nasdaq — 4,808.87, up

Business BRIEFS David Segal, co-founder of Montreal-based DavidsTea, leaves company MONTREAL — David Segal, a co-founder DavidsTea, has resigned as brand ambassador for the Montreal-based company. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company says Segal left last Friday to “dedicate more of his time to exploring other entrepreneurial interests.” A company spokeswoman declined to provide any details about the impact of his departure on its operations. Segal, 35, remains one of DavidsTea’s largest shareholders with 6.5 per cent of its outstanding shares, she said. He co-founded the company (Nasdaq:DTEA) eight years ago with his cousin, Herschel Segal, also the founder of Le Chateau. DavidsTea opened its first bricksand-mortar outlet in 2008 in Toronto and now boasts 156 stores in Canada and another 37 in the U.S., selling various blends of tea, along with tea accessories and other products. In its last fiscal year, DavidsTea opened 39 stores and is planning to open the same number again this year. After going public last June, its shares soared to nearly US$30, but have since fizzled, and closed Monday at US$11.88.

B.C. LNG decision faces three-month delay to review project details VICTORIA — Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the creation of a liquefied natural gas industry offers a significant economic opportunity for British Columbia and Canada, which is why more time is needed to get it right. McKenna has granted the federal environmental review agency an extra three months to review pollution-pre-

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 83.62 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 36.38 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.34 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.37 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 44.81 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.280 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.260 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.81 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.31 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.370 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.85 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.57 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1600 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.04 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.46 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.99 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.60 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.26 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.27 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.02 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.15 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.32 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.90 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.68 13.22 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.42 cents US, down 0.28 of a cent Pound — C$1.8804, down 0.62 of a cent Euro — C$1.4711, up 0.11 of a cent Euro — US$1.1243, down 0.33 of a cent Oil futures: US$41.52 per barrel, up 38 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,244.20 per oz., down $10.10 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.589 oz., up 13.7 cents $694.09 kg., up $4.41

THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals is replacing its CEO and blaming its former chief financial officer for misstated earnings, an allegation he rejects. The embattled Quebec drugmaker announced a shakeup Monday that will see Michael Pearson leave the company following a succession of setbacks that have hammered its reputation and sapped its stock value. “It’s been a privilege to lead Valeant for the past eight years,” Pearson said a statement. “While I regret the controversies that have adversely impacted our business over the past several months, I know that Valeant is a strong and resilient company, and I am committed to doing everything I can to ensure a smooth transition to new leadership.” Once one of Canada’s most valuable companies, Valeant has been embroiled in controversy for months. It is facing allegations of gouging customers on drug prices, accusations it has denied. It is also under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney’s offices in Massachusetts and New York, as well as Congress, as part of their probes into price hikes for certain drugs. Last month, Valeant announced it had to restate its financial results for 2014 and 2015 after discovering that about US$58 million of sales were recognized at the wrong time. It hopes to submit its restated financial statements for 2015 to regulators by April 29 to avoid defaulting on its debt. On Monday, the company assigned some fault on Howard Schiller, its former chief financial officer who sits as a board director. Valeant accused Schiller of “improper conduct” in pro-

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $3.60 higher $469.40 July ‘16 $2.80 higher $474.10 Nov. ‘16 $2.50 higher $479.40 Jan. ‘17 $2.50 higher $483.40 March ‘17 $2.40 higher $486.00 May ‘17 $2.80 higher $485.50 July ‘17 $2.80 higher $486.10 Nov. ‘17 $2.80 higher $481.80 Jan. ‘18 $2.80 higher $481.80 March ‘18 $2.80 higher $481.80 May ‘18 $2.80 higher $481.80. Barley (Western): 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 May ‘18 unchanged $180.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 195,520 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 195,520.

vention plans for the proposed $36-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG export facility in northern B.C. McKenna says in a statement today she wants to give the project developers, who are backed by Malaysian state-owned energy giant Petronas, more time to clarify its pollution-reduction and construction plans before she presents the project to the federal cabinet for approval. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency issued a draft report last month that concludes the plant can be built without major environmental impacts, but it’s now reviewing 34,000 public comments and new information provided by Pacific NorthWest LNG. B.C. government officials have been dispatched to Ottawa to discuss and clarify project details with officials. B.C.’s Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman says the project has the potential to create thousands of construction jobs and generate billions of dollars in revenues.

Kinross to fight shutdown of Chilean mine, says it didn’t cause low water level TORONTO — Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K) says it will mount a legal defence of its Maricunga mine in Chile, which faces the loss of its water source in a drought-ridden part of the country if an environmental regulator gets its way. The Toronto-based company says a drop in groundwater levels in the area is unrelated to its mining operation, which it says relies solely on water from wells in the Pantanillo area within the Atacama Region. “Kinross wishes to also underscore that the Atacama region has suffered from a protracted drought for many years, resulting in a drop in groundwater levels across the region that is unrelated to (Maricunga’s) operations,” it said in a statement Its says its Maricunga subsidiary and the regulator SMA want the Environmental Tribunal in Santiago to address the issue and render its decision on an expedited basis. Meanwhile, the mine continues to operate normally. Kinross says it’s committed to responsible environmental management and has spent years studying, understanding and limiting the impact of its water use.

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viding incorrect information to an audit and risk committee and the company’s auditors, adding that it continues to assess its financial reporting and disclosure procedures. “In addition, as part of this assessment of internal control over financial reporting, the company has determined that the tone at the top of the organization and the performance-based environment at the company, where challenging targets were set and achieving those targets was a key performance expectation, may have been contributing factors resulting in the company’s improper revenue recognition,” Valeant said. Valeant also said an internal committee review concluded that the company’s heavily performance-based focus may have affected compensation decisions for some top managers and contributed to the company’s improper recognition of revenues. Valeant’s board requested that Schiller tender his resignation as a director, but he refused. It also placed corporate controller Tanya Carro on administrative leave. Carro couldn’t be reached for comment. In a statement, Schiller denied Valeant’s allegation that he provided incorrect information. He said the misstated sales figures were the result of “a careful and reasoned accounting decision” by the corporate controller based on what she considered to be complete and accurate facts. “As a result of the fact that I did not engage in any improper conduct regarding this proposed restatement, I have respectfully declined the request from the company’s board to resign from the board,” Schiller said. Schiller filled in for Pearson during a two-month medical leave early this year after resigning as CFO last June. Pearson will leave after his successor is named, the company said.

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Nylander lifts Leafs over Flames BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Maple Leafs 5 Flames 2 TORONTO — William Nylander is three weeks into his NHL career and growing rapidly in confidence. The 19-year-old put on a show at the Air Canada Centre on Monday night, registering the first three-point game of his NHL career in a 5-2 Leafs win over the Calgary Flames. It was Toronto’s fourth victory in the past five games and fifth in the past seven outings. The club also pulled within one point of Winnipeg for 29th overall. Nylander was instrumental in the effort. He whistled his fourth NHL goal past Jonas Hiller for the eventual game winner 29 seconds into the third period and added two assists in a mesmerizing 18-minute performance. “When you’re feeling it you’re feeling it and he certainly was tonight,” said defenceman Jake Gardiner. Coming off the first multi-point game of his career over the weekend, Nylander also registered 12 shot attempts against the Flames, won 9-of-18 faceoffs and was overwhelmingly dominant in the puck possession game. He most impressed his head coach though by his efforts in areas outside the offensive zone. Mike Babcock liked the way he backchecked, the way he fished pucks free from opponents, as well as his 80 per cent success rate (45) on defensive-zone faceoffs. “The other stuff, we know that he has that,” Babcock said. Teammates have noticed a young player rapidly gaining in confidence. Nylander, who has five points in the past two games after joining the Leafs from the AHL’s Toronto Marlies on Feb. 29, is now 12 games into a promising NHL career. “Confidence, for sure,” teammate Nazem Kadri said of Nylander’s apparent growth. “If you get on a roll and start scoring in this league you start to become more confident, more poised with the puck and really start to not doubt yourself and not doubt that scor-

ing touch. He’s got that. He’s gifted in that sense.” Gardiner echoed Babcock, sensing a player who was “buying into the system, playing a complete game and starting to get better”. “He’s the kind of player who likes the puck on his stick and he likes to hold onto it and make plays and in order to do that you have to have confidence,” said linemate Zach Hyman, who also scored his fourth NHL goal in the win. Nylander helped the Leafs open the scoring in the first frame, picking a puck free from Hiller behind the Calgary net before finding linemate P.A. Parenteau in front. He added his second assist a period later, winding up for a shot that was redirected into the net by Hyman. It was the first two-assist night in Nylander’s brief NHL tenure. His fourth NHL goal and first NHL game winner was a blast that electrified the Toronto crowd moments into the final period. Hanging just inside the blue line as Gardiner dipped deeper into the Flames zone, Nylander onetimed his pass beyond Hiller, benefiting from the presence of Hyman in front. He scored an equally loud wrist shot against the Sabres two nights earlier. “He’s just got an elite shot,” Hyman said. The 23-year-old Hyman noted that Nylander liked to go blocker-side typically with such a shot, though playing against the left-handed Hiller, the shot streamed by the goaltender’s glove. Nylander’s performance came with the head coach of Sweden’s entry at the World Championships in attendance, though Babcock declared that the AHL playoffs would be first priority for the former first-round pick come spring. Babcock seems intent on testing Nylander as the NHL season winds down. He sees a difficult matchup ahead for Nylander on Thursday night, one that could feature either Ducks

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier, right, makes a save on Calgary Flames’ Michael Frolik during third period NHL action in Toronto on Monday. The Maple Leafs downed the Flames 5-2. captain Ryan Getzlaf or the club’s equally imposing No. 2 centre, Ryan Kesler. “Then you get out there every shift against men and you figure out how hard it is to have the puck in the league,” Babcock said. The Leafs coach planned to match Nylander against Calder Trophy candidate Jack Eichel over the weekend only to have Eichel miss the game with the flu. Babcock has made it clear that he’d rather not play Nylander at centre at this early stage in his NHL career, if only to shelter him from the demands of facing those like Getzlaf and Kesler. He’s sensed an aspiration for greatness in Nylander, describing him as a “smart, smart guy” who “knows what you’re going to talk to him about be-

fore you talk to him.” It’s apparent that Nylander is finding more and more of a comfort zone. Some evidence is apparent, such as the electric offensive capabilities. Other details that suggest growth, such as the ability to backcheck with vigour, are less so. Babcock believes Nylander’s drive to continually improve will determine how high he ultimately flies down the line. “What’s going to decide that for him is just how much drive he has to do all the little things right, to train, to eat, to live. “But he’s got ability and seems to be comfortable with himself. He’s a kid, let’s not kids ourselves. It takes time in this league to be a man and become a player.”

WOMEN’S CURLING WORLDS

Canada suffers first loss at worlds BUT REBOUNDS IN EVENING DRAW WITH WIN OVER SWEDEN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Notre Dame Cougar Cody White competes in the 40th annual Central Alberta Schools Athletic Association Senior Bowl, an all-star game of local high school basketball players. White is considering playing at Red Deer College next year.

White wants to take his game to next level at RDC BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF For many it was their last time playing basketball as high schoolers, but for at least one it was his first taste of playing at the Red Deer College Gym. The 40th annual Central Alberta Schools Athletics Association Senior Bowl Games, held on Monday at Red Deer College features the top graduating players from Central Alberta at the 3A and 4A level. Among them was Cody White, a Notre Dame Cougar who wrapped up his season just this past weekend at provincials. The tall Grade 12 student wants to take his game to the next level with the RDC Kings. “They have a good program, they’re usually going to nationals and doing well at provincials,” said White. “I really like their coach (Clayton Pottinger), he’s been helping me the last few years and I want to come play for him.” He had a chance to showcase his game on Saturday before a packed RDC gym. The senior bowl comes two days after provincials, held in Red Deer and in White’s home court at Notre Dame. “I’m glad I ended my season like this, we won zones, we went to provincials and we gave Lethbridge Collegiate Institute a good run,” said White. The Cougars lost their first two games in provincials, 106-87 to LCI and then 76-61 to Foothills. They won their 13th place game over Charles Spencer 85-77. “In the summers I’m in the gym every day for five hours,” said White. White and his Cougar teammates played on the light side in the senior bowl. They lost 122-78 to the dark side.

The dark side led from the start and never looked back. On the girls side, the game’s electric finish brought the crowd to their feet. The dark side fell behind 37-26 at the half, but rallied late to a 78-75 win. Morgan Jensen of Wetaskiwin Composite High School had the winning points. Girl all stars: Lindsay Thurber — Kesley Lalor, Elizabeth Morneault, Kiera Fujimoto and Jenna Hawkes; Lacombe — Adi Waqatabu, Katie McMillen, Mackenzie Reiss and Jessalyne Stanvick; Notre Dame — Gemma Davis and Ayzhel Tultog; West Centre — Jessica Lublinkhof, Shallyn Lainchbury and Nicole Nicolay; H. J. Cody — Anna Carlson; Hunting Hills — Kristen Loney, Madi Nimmo, Gabby Spenst and Sarah Stewart; Innisfail — Elizabeth Maciborsky; Wetaskiwin Composte — Lauren Stashko, Katie Cown, Jensen and Sarina Peek; Camrose — Braxtyn Horbay; Ponoka — Lindsay Gartner, Alexandra Wynnychuk, Tawni Kjenner and Lily Raugust. Boy all stars: H.J. Cody — Tyrone Noble, Chase Allan, Michael Branton and Tayler Deibert; Notre Dame — White, Josh Ballantyne, Griffin Moline and Rohit Razzaq; Hunting Hills — Joe Vincent and Gabe Duckering; West Central — Anders Eklund, Brandon Simmerlink and Carter Friesen; Lacombe — Thomas Willougby and Eryk Calkins; Lindsay Thurber — Ben Pasiuk, TK Kunaka, Jacob Higham and Jonathan Goulet; Wetaskiwin Composite — Kenje Espeleta, John Krause, Alex Omeasoo and Isaiah Feldberg; Camrose — Kyle Nickel; Ponoka — Nils Simon, Corey Fillinger, Iggy Cattleman and Shaden Littlechild; Innisfail — Jaycee Ellis and Reid Money. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Chelsea Carey just needed to clear her head. The Canadian skip returned to her winning ways with a 9-4 victory over Sweden’s Margaretha Sigfridsson on Monday night in Draw 8 of the women’s curling world championship, hours after a disappointing loss to Russia. Carey and her Calgary-based rink suffered its first defeat of the tournament in Draw 6, falling to Anna Sidorova of Russia 6-3. Carey said after that loss that she had slept poorly the night before and needed to nap to get into a better headspace. “Even if you don’t win that game, you just want to bounce back and feel like you’re doing the right things,” said Carey outside her locker-room at Credit Union iPlex. “This morning wasn’t so much about the loss, it was about where I was mentally. “That’s a big recovery even if we didn’t win just to be feeling like I’m doing the right things.” Canada is now one of five teams with an identical 4-1 record. The Canadians face Germany (3-2) in Draw 9 on Tuesday morning and then Italy (0-5) in the afternoon. Sigfridsson, who throws lead but is Sweden’s skip, fell to 1-4 at the international event. In the morning draw against Russia, Carey missed shots in the seventh, eighth and ninth ends as the win slipped from her grasp. She used Monday afternoon to regroup and focus on enjoying her time on the ice. “You have to remember to have fun and enjoy what you’re doing and throw everything to make it,” said Carey after the evening’s win. “I was in a better headspace this last game and obviously it went better.” Sweden scored a single in the first end, but Carey replied in the second with a single to tie it 1-1. Sigfridsson’s rink answered with another point in the third with Canada coming back with an easy draw to make it 2-2. That trend ended in the fifth end when Sweden’s fourth Maria Prytz’s hit and roll slid out of the house, giving Canada a deuce and a 4-2 lead. Prytz recovered in the sixth end, earning a single to cut into Canada’s lead. A simple tapback by Carey to close out the seventh end re-established Canada’s two-point cushion, 5-3. Prytz got a point back in the next end, drawing just slightly closer to the button than the nearest Canadian stone. It was clear that Carey’s restful af-

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ternoon made a difference in the ninth end. Carey ticked a guard on the second last throw of the ninth, allowing Prytz to set up a second guard with a narrow opening between the two Swedish rocks. Carey seamlessly navigated the gap between the two guards and then hit a triple takeout for the deuce and a 7-4 lead. The Canadian fans in attendance burst into applause as lead Laine Peters, second Jocelyn Peterman and third Amy Nixon celebrated in the house and Carey pumped her broom in the air. “I knew it was there and it was worth a try,” said Carey. “I knew if I got through the hole with the kind of weight I was going to throw it was going to be close and so we just got through the hole and it worked out perfect. “It felt really good to make it. That was a big couple of points for us.” Sweden missed a double takeout in the 10th end, giving Canada an additional two points for the final score.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Jays look past contract issues BAUTISTA, ENCARNACION CONTRACTS COULD BE LOOMING PROBLEM BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Jose Bautista already told the Toronto Blue Jays what it’ll take to keep him. Edwin Encarnacion doesn’t think he’ll be back next year. It’s too early for the defending AL East champions to worry about losing their biggest sluggers. Then again, letting Bautista and Encarnacion walk after a season the organization and its fans hope ends with a World Series title could have a positive impact on Toronto’s future. “If you deduct that from the payroll and you’re still a contending team, you’re going to add back players that offset (the loss) and obviously you get draft picks,” Blue Jays President Mark Shapiro said Sunday. “Those aren’t things we’re thinking about now. We’re thinking about these great players, wanting to keep them and wanting to win with them. But it doesn’t take a lot of science or math to figure what the implications would be.” Bautista, a six-time All-Star, made it clear when he arrived for spring training that he wants a significant raise. Something like $150 million over five years might be his goal. The 35-year-old right fielder will make $14 million this season in the final year of his contract. The 33-year-old Encarnacion will earn $10 million this season and he told the Toronto Sun he doesn’t think he figures into the team’s future plans. Encarnacion, a two-time All-Star first baseman/designated hitter, has not appeared in an exhibition game as he recovers from a strained oblique. “They’ve earned that right,” Shapiro said about players discussing their contracts in public. “That’s their prerogative. I just have had enough experience to recognize that the back and forth in that forum doesn’t accomplish anything.” Shapiro spent 24 years with the Cleveland Indians and was a two-time executive of the year before joining the Blue Jays at the end of last season. Health will be a big factor in the team’s decision to pursue contracts with both players. Bautista, who takes pride in staying fit, hasn’t been on the disabled list since 2013. He’s played at least 149 games four

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista, left, and Edwin Encarnacion celebrate after scoring on a three-run double during Game 5 of baseball’s American League Championship Series in Toronto last October. Bautista, a six-time All-Star, made it clear when he arrived for 2016 spring training that he wants a significant raise. Encarnacion will earn $10 million this season and he told the Toronto Sun he doesn’t think he figures into the team’s future plans. times in the past six years. Encarnacion has dealt with several nagging injuries over the years, but he’s averaged 38 homers and 106 RBIs since 2012. “Every player needs to be looked at on an individual basis,” Shapiro said. “You can’t look at any one decision in isolation. Players age. … It’s only a question of what level they’re going to decline from and in this case, we’re talking about players at the most elite levels of the game.” The Blue Jays are in better position than most

teams to overcome losing star players because they also have AL MVP Josh Donaldson and five-time AllStar Troy Tulowitzki in their potent lineup. Donaldson can’t become a free agent until 2019 and Tulowitzki is signed through 2020. “Every decision needs to be looked at with the collective landscape of the entire team,” Shapiro said. “You look at those decisions (to re-sign Bautista and Encarnacion), and you’re not looking at one decision, you’re looking at the rest of the team, that dynamic and that complexion as well.”

Bleakley to miss significant time with wrist injury BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Rebels will be without the services of forward Conner Bleackley, who left Saturday’s game against the Edmonton Oil Kings with a cut on his wrist from a skate. The Rebels announced Monday that Bleackley would be out indefinitely after having surgery on the wrist. “It’s definitely a long term thing, it’s not a few days or a week, it’s a long term injury,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “I see it as a significant injury to the team, he’s a heavy

player for us and he’s been playing well in the last few weeks.” Bleackley was seventh on the team in scoring during the regular season with 13 goals and 33 assists. He missed some time earlier in the season with a knee injury. ● The full schedule for the first round of the playoffs has been released by the Western Hockey League. Game 1: Friday, March 25, Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, Centrium, 7 p.m. Game 2: Saturday, March 26, Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, Centrium, 7 p.m.

Game 3: Sunday, March 27, Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, Saddledome, 4 p.m. Game 4: Friday, April 1, Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, Stampede Corral, 7 p.m. Game 5: Saturday, April 2, Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, Centrium, 7 p.m. (if necessary) Game 6: Monday, April 4, Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, Stampede Corral, 7 p.m. (if necessary) Game 7: Wednesday, April 6, Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, Centrium, 7 p.m. (if necessary

Major midget female Chiefs fall in playoff series to Stony Plain MINOR HOCKEY Major Midget Female A tough weekend of hard fought hockey brought the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs season to an end. After splitting the first two games of their five game series against the Stony Plain PAC Saints in Red Deer, the series switched to Stony Plain. The Saints won both games, winning the series. Game 3 on Friday night was a back and forth tilt that ended in a 4-3 Saints win. A late goal from Chelsea Cassidy was the game winner. Breanna Martin and Kaitlan Linnell both had a goal and an assist for the Chiefs while Erika Marshall had the team’s third goal. Goalie MacKenzie Fairbrother-Skinner made 34 saves in the losing effort. In Game 4 on Saturday, the Saints skated to a 3-0 lead with little time left in the third period. Breanna Martin had the Chiefs’ lone goal, coming with eight seconds left to play. Kristen Baumgardt and Abagael Thiessen had the assists. Bantam A The Red Deer Holiday Inn Chiefs finished Provincials in Beaumont out of the playoffs with a 1-2-1 record. After tying the Lake Bonavista Breakers 4-4 on Thursday, they lost 6-0 to the Strathmore Storm on Friday. On Saturday they split their games, beating the Sherwood Park Lightning 8-2 and losing to the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers 5-3. Denver Smith led the team with two goals and three assists while Cale Stecyk, Kyle Gladney and Pierce Shybukna had two goals and two assists each. Bantam C The Blackfalds Bulldogs lost all three of their games at the Bantam C provincials in High Prairie. They lost 4-1 to the Vermilion Tigers, 5-4 to Airdrie and 7-2 to the High Prairie Thunder. Bantam A Female The Red Deer Chiefs made it all the way to the semi-finals before falling in a close game to Lethbridge at provincials in Edmonton. Wins over the weekend

included 3-0 over Okotoks and 3-2 over St. Albert. They lost 4-1 to the Edmonton Chargers and their last game of the round robin to Sherwood Park 3-2. A 3-2 loss to Lethbridge on Sunday put Red Deer out of contention for the gold medal. Stephanie Keeper led the Chiefs with two goals and four assists while Cassidy O’Neill had two goals and three assists and Robyn Wlad had three goals. Bantam Female B Lacombe and Lloydminster skated to a 2-2 tie in the championship game of provincials in Hinton. After going undefeated all weekend including a 6-3 win over Lloydminster during the round robin, Lacombe drew even with the 4-1 team out of the Border City. Earlier scores had Lacombe defeat Irma 4-2, GHC (Calgary) 10-2, 11-1 over Onoway and 3-2 over Bonnyville. Leading the team in scoring was Hailey Hoogkamp with six goals and eight assists, Jaynee Klinger, Ivy Wolfe and Zoe Lorenz-Boser each had five goals and Rachel Wood had eight goals and three assists. Atom AA Minor A couple of 11 goal games carried the Sylvan Lake Lakers into the semi-finals of provincials in Bonnyville, but they came up short in semi-finals, losing 6-1 to the Stony Plain Raiders. Winning 11-8 over the St. Albert Thunder, 6-5 over the Glenlake Hawks and 11-5 over the Edmonton KC Crusaders put the Lakers in good position. A loss on Saturday to the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers 9-3 was followed by the semi-final loss. Talon Brigley led the Lakers with 15 goals and three assists while Keith McInnis had five goals and six assists. Atom A Two Central Alberta teams had a chance to reach

the finals in provincials in Lacombe over the weekend, with Olds prevailing in the final. The Lacombe Rockets fell to Olds in the semi-final on Sunday 10-1. Olds then scored eight goals on Wetaskiwin in the final to win 8-1. Olds won its round robin games 11-4 over Wetaskiwin, 6-2 over Stettler and 25-0 over Kitscoty. Leading Olds in scoring were Rhett Miller with eight goals and 17 assists, Colby Joyce had 10 goals and 10 assists and William Christian had 17 goals and three assists. Lacombe lost its opener 4-2 on Thursday before winning back to back games, 9-2 over Slave Lake and 13-0 over the Foothills Flyers. Brody Pearson had eight goals and six assists and Drayton Leonard had five goals and three assists to lead Lacombe in scoring. Atom Female Olds and Okotoks skated to a 0-0 tie to close out provincials in Innisfail. Olds had gotten past the host Innisfail Flyers 3-2 Sunday morning before tying Okotoks in the final. Olds beat the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs 15-0, Strathcona 6-5 and Cold Lake 8-1 to reach the semi-finals. Sydney Grover led Olds with 10 goals and one assist, Sharlese Weigum had three goals and four assists and Abby Maetche had four goals and one assist. Innisfail tied Calgary 3-3 and Okotoks 4-4. A win in the middle of those two games, 10-0 over Lloydminster, put them into the semi-finals. Ryann Holbein led Innisfail with seven goals and two assists and Belle Smith had six goals and two assists. The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs fell in their three games. After losing to Olds, they lost to Cold Lake 6-0 and then to Strathcona 7-1. Red Deer’s lone goal game from Rhyan Volk.

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MacDonald wants a fair deal TO FIGHT IN THE UFC SAYS CANADIAN WELTERWEIGHT CONTENDER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS After six years and 12 fights in the UFC, top welterweight contender Rory (Red King) MacDonald says he wants a fair deal. So the Montreal-based mixed martial artist plans to honour the last fight on his UFC contract and then test the free-agent fighting waters. The 26-yearold MacDonald, ranked No. 1 among 170-pound contenders, is scheduled to meet No. 2 Stephen (Wonderboy) Thompson in the main event of a televised fight card June 18 in Ottawa. MacDonald, who has been fighting professionally since he was 16, is no prima donna. He just wants what he believes he is due. “Hopefully I’ll find an offer somewhere, whether it be in the UFC or somewhere else, where I feel like I’m appreciated the way I feel I should be,” said the B.C.-raised fighter. MacDonald (18-3-0) has not fought since last July when he lost to champion (Ruthless) Robbie Lawler at UFC 189 in Las Vegas. The back-and-forth bout, named the UFC’s fight of the year in 2015, ended one minute into the fifth round when MacDonald’s nose, broken in the second round, was shattered by another punch. MacDonald went down, protecting his bloody face, and the fight was stopped. Lawler won but looked like someone had taken a box-cutter to his lip. MacDonald’s basic pay was US$59,000, according to the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He collected another $50,000 for a fight of the night bonus. Lawler also got a $50,000 bonus on top of a purse of $300,000, which included a $150,000 win bonus. The UFC does not divulge all its fighter pay details but MacDonald says $50,000 is about what he normally takes home from a fight after paying taxes, his management and other costs. It’s a tough way to make a living. “It certainly is, but it’s the only way I know,” said MacDonald. He saw some specialists after the

Lawler fight to have his busted beak examined but said everything was fine. He resumed training five days after the Lawler fight but did not spar for some three months. Ironically the sparring helped his nose. He’s not sure what happened, but the nose seemed to get hit back into place. “It started to feel better afterwards,” he said. MacDonald is due to become a father in July, another reason that he wants to get his financials in order. He says his agent presented the UFC with a “very complex breakdown.” “The offer was very fair, in our opinion,” the fighter said. “We weren’t reaching for the stars.” MacDonald says he has no problems with the UFC and hopes that, after the Thompson fight, the best offer comes from the UFC so they can continue their relationship. The Canadian isn’t the only fighter to have issue with the UFC over fighter pay. Former lightweight champion Benson Henderson signed with Bellator on February after his UFC contract expired. The UFC had wanted MacDonald to fight No. 13 Hector Lombard on the recent Brisbane card but the Canadian balked, saying he didn’t want to go to Australia to do it. The matchup had been made at other closer venues but never stuck. “I just see less and less money at the end,” he said of fighting Down Under. It hasn’t helped matters that Canadian UFC cards have been rare in recent months. The Ottawa card is the first since a televised show last August in Saskatoon. The last pay-per-view event in Canada was UFC 186 in Montreal in April 2015, when MacDonald was slated to meet Lombard. The fight was scrubbed when Lombard failed a drug test and MacDonald was given the title fight with Lawler instead. “It would be nice to see them give me an opportunity to headline a Canadian pay-per-view,” said MacDonald.

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Welterweight fighter Rory MacDonald salutes the crowd during weigh-ins for UFC 189 mixed martial arts bouts, in Las Vegas in July, 2015. After six years and 12 fights in the UFC, top welterweight contender MacDonald says he wants a fair deal. “It doesn’t seem like they want to test those waters, for whatever reason.” MacDonald has no problem facing Thompson (12-1-0), saying the 33-yearold American will be a good test. Thompson has won six straight and is coming off a dominant first-round stoppage of former champion Johny Hendricks. “I think it’s a good opportunity for me. I couldn’t ask for a better one really,” said MacDonald. “A tough guy with a lot of hype and momentum behind him. So if I can stop that, it really

catapults me right to the best possible situation for myself.” MacDonald is hoping for a third crack at Lawler. He lost a split decision to the American the first time they met, in a non-title bout at UFC 167 in November 2013 that MacDonald believes he won. “Hopefully I get a deal with the UFC after I beat Wonderboy. And then get the rematch for the title. That would be picture-perfect for me .. I’m hoping I get a chance to really show I can beat Robbie.”

Spieth gets longtime friend in Match Play group BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Defending champion Rory McIlroy will face a player he knows very little about in the Dell Match Play. Jordan Spieth knows one of his opponents all too well. Spieth, the former Texas Longhorn and crowd favourite at Austin Country Club, wound up in the same group as longtime friend Justin Thomas. Both are 22 and they have been friends since 2007, when they were selected to represent the United States in the Evian Junior Masters. Spieth beat him in a high-profile match in

the NCAA Championship at Riviera in 2012, which the Longhorns won, and has gone on to two majors and reach the No. 1 world ranking. The 64 players were broken into four groups based on this week’s ranking, and one player was chosen by lottery to fill out the 16 four-man groups. The draw was held at the Paramount Theater, and Ben Crenshaw picked the names out of the bowl. “Jordan probably won’t talk to me the rest of the week,” Crenshaw said. “They’ve played a lot of golf together. Obviously, they know each other very well. They’re admirers of each other.” Spieth and Thomas already have played together three times this year

— the opening two rounds at Riviera, and the third round at Doral. They won’t play each other at the Match Play until Friday. Also in their group are Victor Dubuisson of France and Jamie Donaldson of Wales. McIlroy won last year at Harding Park with three close calls before beating Gary Woodland in the championship match. He is the only player among the top six in the world who has yet to win this year, and hopes this week will spark him in his final tournament before the Masters. In his group is Smylie Kaufman, who won his first PGA Tour event in Las Vegas in just his second start as a member. McIlroy also has Kevin Na

and Thorbjorn Olesen. “Thorbjorn is a good friend of mine. The first time I played with Thorbjorn was in Egypt in 2010. We’ve got a little bit of history,” McIlroy said. “Smylie, I really don’t know that much about. I know that he got off to a great start in his PGA Tour career. As I said, no matter who you draw in this event, you know you’re going to get a tough match.” The 18-hole match play switched to group last year, moving away from the single-elimination format that made this event aggravating to those who lost early, and difficult on the sponsors because top players often were gone by the weekend.

Raptors might be the best team you never saw BRUCE ARTHUR THE OTHER SIDE For the Toronto Raptors, these are the good times. They’re incomprehensibly good, actually. They have the fourth-best record in the NBA. With their next win, the Raptors will tie a franchise record. With the win after that, they’ll break it. They are on pace to go 57-25, all told. It would just be the seventh time the franchise has finished above .500, in 21 years. And outside of the arena itself, people are missing out. Yes, they get second-tier channels with regularity, but the TV ratings on both TSN and Sportsnet have dropped by close to 15 per cent from last season, when the Raptors played free and easy and won 49 games before . . . well, we’ll come around to that, in a second. But this season has been gradually incredible. This is the year the Raptors will finally win 50 games, leaving Charlotte as the only NBA franchise outside of brand-new Brooklyn without a 50-win season. (The old Charlotte Hornets had three 50-win seasons, though.) There are only four teams in the league who are better than .500 against the top 12 teams in the league, before Monday’s games, and here are

their records: Golden State, 22-1, Toronto 18-6, San Antonio 14-6, Cleveland, 16-10. The only top-12 team that Toronto has a losing record against is Golden State. The two losses to the Warriors, 62-7 going into Monday night, were by a combined eight points. The Raptors can score, and can play defence when they want to, and win games with regularity, and still, fewer people are watching. Look, I know it’s hard to believe until it happens. The second Raptors game I ever covered was Game 5 in Detroit in 2002, when Chris Childs forgot the score and hucked up a running banana-cakes 40-footer while trying to get fouled, and Keon Clark smoked cigarettes in the showers after the game. I was there when the franchise gave out red shirts that matched New Jersey’s third uniforms in a six-game loss in 2007, and when Orlando toyed with them in 2008. I was there when Kyle Lowry came within two inches of winning Game 7, even after the Raptors ran the wrong play out of the timeout. And of course, there was last year, when the Raptors swept Washington in the regular season, and then were pantsed and hung from the flagpole by that same Wizards team. The Raptors didn’t just lose, they flailed like drowning armadillos, surrendered to the inevitable, embarrassed themselves. It was bad. Ask general manager Masai Ujiri nearly a year later, and he will tell you he’s still not quite over

check your

it. So maybe that’s it. Maybe last year showed how empty regular-season wins can be, and all but the hardcore Raptors fans — a tribe that has endured a lot, truth be told — are holding back, wondering idly when the Leafs will be something other than a near-perfect Rube Goldberg losing machine, wondering just how much of last year’s Blue Jays will be left by November, or just watching the Golden State Warriors. Seriously, I would buy a BluRay collection of Warriors highlights from this season. I’d buy two. “We just need to get in the playoffs and take advantage of it,” DeMar DeRozan said in a conversation earlier this season. “If we go far and prove we can play with anybody, on the main stage when the whole world is watching, you know what I mean, that could be the next step to breaking the stereotypical barrier of how people look at Toronto. We just got to do what we have to do in the playoffs.” It’s simple, when you put it like that, and it’s true. Once a team has a great regular season and then honks the playoffs, the regular season becomes the line you have to sit in before your appointment, and that’s what basketball success has brought to Toronto. This city has been conditioned to expect this Raptors team to find the trapdoor, the banana peel, the fart cushion. This is the team the piano falls

on, year after year. It’s all they’ve ever done, more or less. And even when We The North ramped up, gathered, filled the square outside the arena with enough people to fill the arena again, the team barely missed and then went splat. That leaves scars. And as a result, Toronto — and Canada, which basketball-wise is a different country — are both missing out on an admirable team. Kyle Lowry hasn’t fallen apart this season, and has instead played second-tier MVP basketball, willing the Raptors to win after win. DeMar DeRozan is someone you can depend on, more or less. The bench has filled the gaps with DeMarre Carroll limited to 23 games, with Jonas Valanciunas out, with whatever comes. They are ticking the boxes, filling in the forms. Last year you could see the cracks. This year, not so much. The Raptors haven’t lost so many as three games in a row since early November. But, they have to prove it. They know. They know from the players to the coach to the front office. The Raptors deserve more attention than they’re getting. But deserve ain’t got nothing to do with it, until the playoffs come. Bruce Arthur is a sports columnist for the Toronto Star. He was named the 2012 sportswriter of the year by Sports Media Canada, and he has been named to Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 people to follow on Twitter four times.

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Hockey WHL

Wednesday

Saturday

● Chinook Hockey League: Bentley Generals at Stony Plain Eagles, 8 p.m.

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Chinook Hockey League: Stoney Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 7:30 p.m., Lacombe arena

Friday ● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 50 20 .714 — Toronto 48 21 .696 1 1/2 Miami 40 29 .580 9 1/2 Atlanta 41 30 .577 9 1/2 Boston 41 30 .577 9 1/2 Charlotte 40 30 .571 10 Indiana 37 33 .529 13 Chicago 36 33 .522 13 1/2 Detroit 37 34 .521 13 1/2 Washington 35 35 .500 15 Milwaukee 30 41 .423 20 1/2 Orlando 29 41 .414 21 New York 28 43 .394 22 1/2 Brooklyn 19 50 .275 30 1/2 Philadelphia 9 62 .127 41 1/2

Sunday’s Games Dallas 132, Portland 120, OT Toronto 105, Orlando 100 New Orleans 109, L.A. Clippers 105 Boston 120, Philadelphia 105 Utah 94, Milwaukee 85 Sacramento 88, New York 80

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Golden State 63 7 .900 — y-San Antonio 59 11 .843 4 y-Oklahoma City 48 22 .686 15 L.A. Clippers 43 26 .623 19 1/2 Memphis 40 30 .571 23 Portland 36 35 .507 27 1/2 Houston 35 35 .500 28 Dallas 35 35 .500 28 Utah 34 36 .486 29 Denver 29 42 .408 34 1/2 Sacramento 27 43 .386 36 New Orleans 26 43 .377 36 1/2 Minnesota 22 48 .314 41 Phoenix 19 50 .275 43 1/2 L.A. Lakers 14 55 .203 48 1/2 d-division leader y-clinched division

Tuesday’s Games Charlotte at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m. Miami at New Orleans, 6 p.m. Houston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cleveland 124, Denver 91 Indiana 91, Philadelphia 75 Charlotte 91, San Antonio 88 Boston 107, Orlando 96 Detroit 92, Milwaukee 91 Chicago 109, Sacramento 102 Golden State 109, Minnesota 104 Washington 117, Atlanta 102 Memphis at Phoenix, late

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 5:30 p.m. Orlando at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. New York at Chicago, 6 p.m. Sacramento at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Utah at Houston, 6 p.m. Miami at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Denver, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Dallas at Portland, 8 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Named Jorge Perez-Diaz as senior vice-president and special counsel, litigation and international affairs. American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Erik Johnson to Charlotte (IL). Reassigned RHP Tyler Danish and INF Steve Lombardozzi to their minor league camp. DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Jose Valdez to Toledo (IL). Assigned RHP Preston Guilmet, LHP Drake Britton, C Miguel Gonzalez, INFs Dominic Ficociello, Tommy Field and JaCoby Jones and OFs Mike Gerber and Jason Krizan to their minor league camp. HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned OF Andrew Aplin, INF Nolan Fontana and RHP Asher Wojciechowski to their minor league camp. Reassigned INF Tony Kemp to their minor league camp. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned INFs Tyler Ladendorf and Max Muncy to Nasvhille (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned LHP Alex Claudio, RHP Anthony Ranaudo, 3B Joey Gallo, INF Jurickson Profar and OF Nomar Mazara to Round Rock (PCL). Assigned RHP Francisco Mendoza, OF Lewis Brinson, INF Ryan Cordell and INF Drew Robinson to their minor league camp. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reassigned INF Brandon Hicks, C Shawn Zarraga, OF Corey Brown and INF/OF Cody Bellinger to their minor league camp. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Marco Gonzales to Memphis (PCL). SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned INF-OF Alez Dickerson to El Paso (PCL). Reassigned C Jason Hagerty and INFs Nick Noonan and Ryan Schimpf to their minor league camp. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reassigned RHPs Erik Davis, Michael Brady and Burke Badenhop to minor league camp. American Association TEXAS AIR HOGS — Signed RHP Alan Oaks and LHP Griffin Russell. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed OF Blake Tekotte. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released C Josue Peley. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed LHP Hunter Ackerman and OF Kurt Wertz, Jr. to contract extensions. Signed LHP Jeff Dally, RHP Kevin Kleis and RHP Randy McCurry.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed 1B Rock Shoulders. NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed C Dylan Kelly. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Jordan Farmar to a 10-day contract. FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed S Trenton Robinson to a one-year contract. DETROIT LIONS — Signed WR Jeremy Kerley. Assigned G Jared Coreau to Grand Rapids (AHL). GREEN BAY PACKERS — Promoted Eliot Wolf to director-football operations and Brian Gutekunst to director of player personnel. Re-signed RB James Starks. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Named Monte Kiffin defensive assistant, John Benton assistant offensive line coach and John Donovan offensive quality control coach. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed TE Brian Leonhardt. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Philip Samuelsson to Springfield (AHL). BUFFALO SABRES — Signed F Hudson Fasching to an entry-level contract. CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled F Derek Ryan from Charlotte (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Signed LW Eric Tangradi to a two-year contract extension. Assigned G Jared Coreau to Grand Rapids (AHL). GREEN BAY PACKERS — Re-signed RB James Starks. NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F Brian O’Neill to Albany (AHL). American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Bakersfield LW Kale Kessy one game. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned D Cody Corbett to Fort Wayne (AHL). SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Announced they extended their affiliation agreement with Washington (NHL) through the 2017-18 season. ECHL MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Announced G Taran Kozun was returned to the team from loan by Ontario (AHL). Released F Matt Harlow. READING ROYALS — Signed G Matt Skoff to an amateur tryout agreement. Announced Gs Martin Ouellette and Conner Knapp and F Pavel Padakim were recalled by Lehigh Valley (AHL) and F Joe Rehkamp has been returned to the team from Lehigh Valley.

REBELS PLAYERS AWARD

EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF z-Brandon 72 48 18 4 2 319 x-Prince Albert 72 38 26 7 1 222 x-Moose Jaw 72 36 27 7 2 249 x-Regina 72 36 28 3 5 243 Swift Current 72 24 38 7 3 189 Saskatoon 72 26 42 4 0 219

y-Lethbridge x-Red Deer x-Calgary Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL 72 46 24 1 1 72 45 24 1 2 72 42 26 2 2 72 30 37 3 2 72 29 36 6 1 72 12 53 6 1

GF 304 260 246 223 197 155

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF z-Victoria 72 50 16 3 3 281 x-Kelowna 72 48 20 4 0 269 x-Kamloops 72 38 25 5 4 237 x-Prince Geo. 72 36 31 3 2 240 Vancouver 72 23 40 5 4 199

GA Pt 197 102 223 84 239 81 253 80 249 58 318 56 GA 218 205 219 287 238 320

Pt 94 93 88 65 65 31

GA Pt 166 106 218 100 218 85 225 77 273 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pt y-Seattle 72 45 23 4 0 228 186 94 x-Everett 72 38 26 5 3 182 172 84 x-Portland 72 34 31 6 1 228 227 75 x-Spokane 72 33 30 5 4 223 245 75 Tri-City 72 35 34 2 1 236 253 73 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division z — clinched conference Sunday’s results Calgary 6 Kootenay 5 (SO) Seattle 4 Portland 1 Tuesday’s game Tiebreaker Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. End of Regular Season WHL Scoring leaders Adam Brooks, Reg Dryden Hunt, MJ Brayden Burke, Let Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Nolan Patrick, Bdn Parker Bowles, TC Tyson Baillie, Kel Reid Gardiner, PA Alex Forsberg, Vic Tyler Wong, Let Brayden Point, MJ Mathew Barzal, Sea Tyler Soy, Vic Jack Walker, Vic Ivan Nikolishin, RD Chase Witala, PG Collin Shirley, Kam Brett Pollock, Edm Matthew Phillips, Vic Jesse Gabrielle, PG

G 38 58 27 47 41 39 43 43 31 43 35 27 46 36 31 40 37 30 37 40

A 82 58 82 59 61 57 52 49 60 46 53 61 39 48 51 39 42 48 39 35

Pts 120 116 109 106 102 96 95 92 91 89 88 88 85 84 82 79 79 78 76 75

WHL 2016 Playoffs First Round Division Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Medicine Hat/Edmonton (WC2) Thursday, Mar. 24 Medicine Hat/Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mar. 25 Medicine Hat/Edmonton at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Monday, Mar. 28 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Red Deer at Calgary, 4 p.m. Friday, Apr. 1 Red Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 2 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Monday, Apr. 4 Red Deer at Calgary (Stampede Corral), 7 p.m Wednesday, Apr. 6 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2) Friday, Mar. 25 Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Portland at Everett, 8:35 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Portland at Everett, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29 Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30 Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF 73 40 24 9 207 72 41 26 5 196 73 39 26 8 216

GA Pts 181 89 171 87 197 86

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF x-Washington 71 51 15 5 227 NY Rangers 73 41 24 8 207 Pittsburgh 72 40 24 8 204

GA Pts 168 107 192 90 179 88

Dallas St. Louis Chicago

Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) Friday, Mar. 25 Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29 Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30 Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m. Friday, Apr. 1 x-Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 5 x-Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 6 x-Regina at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 24 Carolina at Columbus, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m. Florida at Boston, 5 p.m. Montreal at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Anaheim at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Nashville, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 8 p.m. Edmonton at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1) Friday, Mar. 25 Prince George at Seattle, 8:35 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29 Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30 Seattle at Prince George, 8 p.m.

NY Islanders Detroit Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Ottawa Montreal Buffalo Columbus Toronto

x-Los Angeles Anaheim San Jose

GP 71 72 71 73 72 73 73 73 72 72

WILD CARD W L OL 38 24 9 36 25 11 35 24 12 35 31 7 31 27 14 34 31 8 33 34 6 29 34 10 29 35 8 26 35 11

GF 197 184 186 166 175 211 192 173 188 174

GA Pts 181 85 190 83 190 82 189 77 195 76 223 76 209 72 198 68 223 66 209 63

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 73 43 21 9 236 73 42 22 9 194 73 42 24 7 203

GA Pts 211 95 185 93 179 91

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF 72 44 23 5 198 71 40 22 9 182 72 41 25 6 214

GA Pts 165 93 164 89 185 88

WILD CARD GP W L OL Nashville 73 37 23 13 Colorado 73 38 31 4 Minnesota 73 34 28 11 Arizona 72 31 34 7 Calgary 73 31 36 6 Vancouver 71 27 32 12 Edmonton 75 29 39 7 Winnipeg 72 29 37 6 x — clinched playoff berth.

GF 202 198 194 188 202 167 181 184

GA Pts 187 87 204 80 186 79 217 69 228 68 205 66 219 65 216 64

Monday’s results NY Rangers 4 Florida 2 Toronto 5 Calgary 2 Philadelphia 4 NY Islanders 1 Nashville 5 Los Angeles 2

Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 26 Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Sunday, Mar. 27

Tuesday, March 22 Philadelphia at Columbus, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Carolina, 5 p.m. Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Anaheim at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Winnipeg, 6 p.m. Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. Edmonton at Arizona, 8 p.m. St. Louis at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23 Ottawa at NY Islanders, 5 p.m. Boston at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.

Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) Friday, Mar. 25 Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Saturday’s game Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29 Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 30 Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Friday, Apr. 1 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 2 x-Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m. Monday, Apr. 4 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Florida Tampa Bay Boston

Anaheim 3 Winnipeg 2 (OT) New Jersey 2 Columbus 1 Pittsburgh 6 Washington 2 Calgary 4 Montreal 1 Minnesota 3 Chicago 2 (SO) Colorado 3 Edmonton 2 San Jose 3 Arizona 0

Sunday’s results

Monday’s summary Maple Leafs 5, Flames 2 First Period 1. Toronto, Parenteau 18 (Nylander) 11:27. Penalties — Bennett Cgy (slashing) 5:43. Second Period 2. Calgary, Stajan 6 (Hathaway) 10:25 (sh). 3. Toronto, Hyman 4 (Nylander, Gardiner) 14:26. 4. Calgary, Colborne 16 (Giordano, Hamilton) 17:32. Penalties — Parenteau Tor (tripping) 2:22 Rielly Tor (slashing) 3:17 Frolik Cgy (interference) 6:22 Jooris Cgy (slashing) 9:39 Kadri Tor (embellishment) 14:54 Jooris Cgy (roughing) 14:54 Gaudreau Cgy (slashing) 14:54. Third Period 5. Toronto, Nylander 4 (Gardiner) :29. 6. Toronto, Greening 3 (Smith, Laich) 18:39 (en). 7. Toronto, Leivo 5 (Brown) 19:33 (en). Penalties — Jokipakka Cgy (interference) 7:05 Bollig Cgy (elbowing) 11:25. Shots on goal Calgary 3 15 7 — 25 Toronto 7 8 11 — 26 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 9-11-1). Toronto: Bernier (W, 10-19-3). Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-2 Toronto: 0-6. NHL scoring leaders following Sunday’s games Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal Sidney Crosby, Pgh Tyler Seguin, Dal Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Erik Karlsson, Ott Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Joe Thornton, SJ Joe Pavelski, SJ Brent Burns, SJ Anze Kopitar, LA Alex Ovechkin, Wash Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Artemi Panarin, Chi Blake Wheeler, Wpg Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Patrice Bergeron, Bos Mark Stone, Ott Claude Giroux, Pha Steven Stamkos, TB Nikita Kucherov, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Daniel Sedin, Vcr Taylor Hall, Edm Matt Duchene, Col John Tavares, NYI Sean Monahan, Cgy Jaromir Jagr, Fla Kyle Okposo, NYI Kris Letang, Pgh Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Brad Marchand, Bos Jason Spezza, Dal Loui Eriksson,Bos David Krejci, Bos Filip Forsberg, Nash Max Pacioretty, Mtl Mats Zuccarello, NYR Jussi Jokinen, Fla John Klingberg, Dal Corey Perry, Ana Derick Brassard, NYR Bobby Ryan, Ott Nathan MacKinnon, Col Mike Hoffman, Ott Jeff Carter, LA Ryan O’Reilly, Buf Roman Josi, Nash P.K. Subban, Mtl Kyle Palmieri, NJ

G 39 36 31 33 20 13 27 17 34 26 24 42 34 25 19 18 28 22 18 33 27 27 26 23 29 26 26 24 19 14 11 34 29 27 15 29 24 22 15 10 29 25 22 21 26 18 17 11 6 27

A 53 44 45 40 53 60 44 53 35 39 41 21 29 38 44 45 33 37 41 25 31 31 32 35 27 30 29 31 36 41 44 20 25 27 39 24 29 31 38 43 23 27 30 31 25 33 34 40 45 23

Pts 92 80 76 73 73 73 71 70 69 65 65 63 63 63 63 63 61 59 59 58 58 58 58 58 56 56 55 55 55 55 55 54 54 54 54 53 53 53 53 53 52 52 52 52 51 51 51 51 51 50

Curling 2016 World Women’s Curling Championship SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Standings and results Monday after the eighth draw from the Women’s World Curling Championship, to be held Saturday through Mar. 27 at Credit Union iPlex: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) Japan (Fujisawa) Scotland (Muirhead) Canada (Carey) Russia (Sidorova) Switzerland (Feltscher) Germany (Driendl) South Korea (Chi Gim) Denmark (Nielsen) Finland (Kauste) Sweden (Sigfridsson) United States (E.Brown) Italy (Apollonio)

W 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 0

L 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5

Monday’s results Sixth Draw Russia 6 Canada 3 Denmark 11 Japan 4 Switzerland 9 Finland 6

United States 5 Italy 3 Seventh Draw Germany 9 Finland 6 Japan 6 South Korea 5 (extra end) Russia 10 Sweden 5 Scotland 8 Italy 7 Eighth Draw Canada 9 Sweden 4 Scotland 6 United States 5 South Korea 9 Denmark 3 Switzerland 9 Germany 2 Sunday’s results Third Draw Canada 7 Switzerland 4 Denmark 8 United States 7 (extra end) Fourth Draw Germany 9 Sweden 6 Finland 8 Italy 7 Japan 6 Russia 1 Scotland 8 South Korea 6 Fifth Draw Canada 10 United States 2 Switzerland 7 Denmark 6 Scotland 10 Germany 3 South Korea 8 Sweden 6

Tuesday’s games Ninth Draw, 9 a.m. Sweden vs. Switzerland, South Korea vs. United States, Scotland vs. Denmark, Germany vs. Canada. Draw 10, 2 p.m. Denmark vs. Finland, Canada vs. Italy, Switzerland vs. Japan, United States vs. Russia Draw 11, 7 p.m. Italy vs. Germany, Finland vs. Scotland, Russia vs. South Korea, Japan vs. Sweden. Wednesday’s games Draw 12, 9 a.m. Russia vs. Scotland, Japan vs. Germany, Italy vs. Sweden, Finland vs. South Korea. Draw 13, 2 p.m. South Korea vs. Canada, Sweden vs. Denmark, Germany vs. United States, Scotland vs. Switzerland. Draw 14, 7 p.m. United States vs. Japan, Switzerland vs. Russia, Canada vs. Finland, Denmark vs. Italy.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Toronto 12 4 .750 Detroit 14 7 .667 Houston 11 8 .579 Chicago 10 8 .556 Los Angeles 10 8 .556 Texas 11 9 .550 Oakland 9 8 .529 Cleveland 10 10 .500 Minnesota 9 9 .500 Seattle 10 11 .476 New York 8 9 .471 Tampa Bay 8 9 .471 Kansas City 10 13 .435 Boston 9 12 .429 Baltimore 5 12 .294

Arizona Washington Philadelphia Colorado Los Angeles Milwaukee Cincinnati New York San Francisco Miami St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L 17 4 13 4 14 5 9 8 10 9 10 9 9 11 7 9 9 12 7 10 7 10 6 13 6 13

Pct .810 .765 .737 .529 .526 .526 .450 .438 .429 .412 .412 .316 .316

San Diego 5 12 .294 Atlanta 6 15 .286 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not. Sunday’s Games Detroit (ss) 7, Washington 6 Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 8, tie Detroit (ss) 8, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Yankees 6, Minnesota 4 Philadelphia 5, Houston 4 Miami 5, St. Louis 2 Toronto 3, Pittsburgh 2 Boston 9, N.Y. Mets 4 Arizona 9, Cincinnati 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Kansas City 2 L.A. Angels 5, Texas 1 Chicago White Sox 6, Oakland 2 San Diego 12, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 5 Milwaukee 3, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 1 Cleveland 3, Seattle 1 San Francisco 10, Colorado 4 Monday’s Games Washington 5, Houston 3 Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh (ss) 3 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 3 Boston 4, St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh (ss) 2, Minnesota 0 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Oakland 6, San Francisco 4 Seattle 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Milwaukee (ss) 4, L.A. Angels 3 Cleveland 9, Chicago White Sox 4

Bowling Heritage Lanes High Scores

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Red Deer Advocate sports reporter Murray Crawford presents the Red Deer Advocate Players Award to Red Deer Rebels defenceman Kayle Doetzel before the Rebels’ last regular season game Saturday night. This is the second time Doetzel has won the award. Haydn Fleury was honoured as the club’s most valuable player and top defenceman, while Ivan Nikolishin was recognized as the Rebels’ top scorer and winner of the three-star award. Also feted were Michael Spacek as top rookie and Evan Polei as the humanitarian player of the year.

March 7 to 13: Monday Club 55+: Lorne Fowler High Single 277 Monday Mixed: Marcel Serre High Single 284 Monday Scratch League: Derek Ware High Single 373 Tuesday Mixed: Dave Breau High Single 385 Wednesday Club 55+: Don Harris High Single 271 Wednesday Mixed: Jeremy Lee High Single 289 Thursday Morning Ladies: Tammy Downey High Single 252 Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed: Anthony Kubasek High Single 319 Thursday Mixed: Sharon Warring High Single 313 Bumpers Saturday: Brodie Ehret High Single 83 Bowlasaurus Saturday: Rogan Clark High Single 100 Pee Wees Saturday: Caleb Collins High Single

Colorado 9, Texas 6 Arizona 3, Milwaukee (ss) 2 Cincinnati vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., late Tuesday’s Games Boston vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m. Minnesota (ss) vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m. Atlanta vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m. Toronto vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m. Baltimore vs. Minnesota (ss), 11:05 a.m. San Francisco (ss) vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m. Oakland vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m. Texas vs. San Diego, 2:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets vs. N.Y. Yankees, 4:35 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Kansas City, 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (ss) vs. Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m. Miami vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Kansas City vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m. San Diego vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees vs. Washington, 3:05 p.m. Philadelphia vs. Houston, 4:05 p.m. Oakland vs. Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL 119 Bantams Saturday: Blake Stanley High Single 220 Juniors Saturday: P.J. Clubine High Single 256 Seniors Saturday: Landyn Brown High Single 268 March 14-20: Monday Club 55+: Bill Dunlop High Single 280 Monday Mixed: John Lebrech High Single 267 Monday Scratch League: Cindy Seifried High Single 333 Tuesday Mixed: Paul Waisman High Single 345 Wednesday Club 55+: Bill Dunlop High Single 349 Wednesday Mixed: Bruce Hicks High Single 312 Thursday Morning Ladies: Shelby Cobbe High Single 289 Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed: Anthony Kubasek High Single 227 Thursday Mixed: Bruce Hicks High Single 342

Going undefeated all weekend, the U13 boys Kings volleyball team claimed first place at a recent Premier in Calgary. In the final they faced off against Calgary Coyotes Volleyball Club White. The match went the distance, 25-20, 20-25 and 15-11. In the lead up to the final, the Kings went on a hot streak winning every game they played, four on Saturday and two on Sunday.

SPORTS

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Chan says good chance he’ll be at 2018 Olympics BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Despite all the ups and downs of his comeback season, Patrick Chan is enjoying himself. So chances are good, he said, that he’ll stick with the sport until the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. The 25-year-old will take aim at a record-fourth world title when he competes at the world championships next week in Boston, and then decide whether to continue with his comeback, or retire for good. “I will be pretty honest with you, things are looking pretty good,” Chan said on a conference call Monday. “I’m healthy, I didn’t run into any major road blocks this season, and I’ve kind of got back into the rhythm of things and what it’s like to compete again, and I enjoy it, especially when there’s the success that comes with it. But even through the challenging times, I think Kathy (Johnson, his coach) and I have figured out how to get through them, and that I think is a good starting point for the next two years.” The 25-year-old from Toronto

stepped away from competing for almost 18 months after his heartbreaking second-place finish at the Sochi Olympics. His rocky return saw him win Skate Canada, finish fourth at the Grand Prix FiPatrick Chan nal, then bounce back to win the Four Continents championships last month with a personal-best free skate score. “If I decide to go ahead and compete, then I’m going for the next two years, I’m not going to give up after next year because it would be such a shame,” Chan said. “And if I decide not to compete next season, and decide to pick it up just for the Olympic season, that would be completely ridiculous strategically, so this is going to be the deciding factor after this season, whether I keep going.” Chan won three consecutive world

titles — in 2011, 2012 and 2013 — and a fourth would tie him with Kurt Browning for most titles won by a Canadian. But while Chan was away, the global men’s field changed, with skaters such as his Japanese rival Yuzuru Hanyu packing their programs with quad jumps. Now Chan goes into Boston as an underdog for the first time in a long time, and he’s perfectly fine with that. “This is a completely different world championships because I’m a much different skater, a much different individual in my life, my skating has improved a ton. However, I’m not the favourite for the event,” he said. “I am a bit of an underdog, but it’s kind of exciting for me. I don’t feel like I need to defend anything. The combination of keeping it fresh, yet familiar is a good balance. And I think that might help me a lot.” Chan has been vocal in his displeasure over the focus on the quad jump, saying it’s turned the sport into a “slam dunk contest.” Hanyu has five quads over his short and long programs. China’s Jin Boyang became the first skater in history to land four

quads in his long program at the Four Continents, but he still lost to Chan. “I’m at a disadvantage now, technically. I’m competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I’m at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn’t enough for some people?” Chan said. Nam Nguyen of Toronto is Canada’s other entry. Liam Firus earned the second spot on the team, but stepped down in favour of Nguyen, who has had better results internationally, including a fifth-place finish at last year’s worlds. The world results determine how many skaters Canada can enter in next year’s worlds, which in turn determine the entries for the Olympics. “(Firus) wasn’t selfish and really thought about the men’s team and the benefit and what he could do to make the team stronger for the Olympics, and the next world championships,” Chan said. “It’s just proof of how great Canadians are at being sportsmen and thinking not only about themselves but the rest of the team and the benefit of the country.”

Simon Fraser football star a master of time management BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Jordan Herdman has become a master of time management. The six-foot-two, 231-pound Simon Fraser middle linebacker has been the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s top defensive player the past two seasons. What’s more, the Winnipeg native is carrying a lofty 3.99 grade-point average in biomedical physiology kinesiology, leading all football players on the GNAC’s all-academic squad. Herdman’s GPA is out of a possible 4.33, with the average undergraduate grade for his major being 2.7. But such excellence comes at a price, namely a lot of nights burning the midnight oil. “It’s very exhausting and tough,” Herdman said during a telephone interview. “You’ve just got to be very disciplined in time management and make sure you’re focused on getting those things that need to be done finished on time.” Herdman’s day typically begins at 5:45 a.m. to make Simon Fraser’s 7 a.m. football practice. After the two-hour session, Herdman has about 30 minutes to make the first of his two morning classes. After a two-hour break, Herdman is off to a two-hour lab that begins around 1:30 p.m. When class is over, Herdman hits the gym at 5:30 p.m., arriving home around 8 p.m. After dinner, he’s back in the books until about 1 a.m. before retiring. Herdman’s semester ends next month but he won’t get a reprieve. He plans to take summer classes through to August before resuming a full academic/football workload in September. And Herdman won’t necessarily be finished studying upon graduation. He’d like to attend medical school and study radiology while also chasing a pro football career. Herdman is eligible for the 2017 CFL draft but also wants to pursue NFL opportunities. Herdman — whose twin brother, Justin, is also an SFU linebacker carrying a 3.55 biomedical physiology GPA — was a finalist for last year’s Cliff Harris Award, given annually to the top U.S. small college defensive player. “I’d love to play in the NFL, that’s always been my dream but I definitely want to try to pursue a pro career,” he said. “I’d like to do both (med school and football) but I’d probably have to see just how demanding football was at the time. “I think about it (pro football career) all the time.” Jordan Herdman is two minutes older than Justin but the two are inseparable. The brothers come by their football prowess honestly as their father, James Reed, was a former NFL, USFL and CFL linebacker. Jordan Herdman wears No. 57 while his six-foot-one, 233-pound brother dons No. 48, numbers their father wore when he played. “They’re very special human beings and if people could spend a day in

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Simon Fraser University linebacker Jordan Herdman (right) is shown in a handout photo. Herdman, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s top defensive player the last two years, is also carrying a lofty 3.99 grade point average in his major, biomedical physiology kinesiology. their shoes and see the way they approach life, they’d see that,” SFU football coach Kelly Bates, a former CFL offensive lineman, said of the Herdmans. “They have the grades that if they don’t wish to play professional football they’ll both be doctors … their time management skills are amazing. “When I speak to schools I use them as our prototype of people you want to aspire to be like. If my daughters were of dating age I’d ask they find two men like that.” However, Bates finds it hard telling the brothers apart. “Right now, Jordan’s hair is a little longer and Justin has a little birthmark on his face that tips it off for me,” he said. “Otherwise, I really couldn’t tell you. “They go everywhere together, they’re never apart, they work out together, their schedule at school is the same, they both want to be radiologists. They’re quite impressive.” Jordan Herdman’s top individual goal this season is winning a third straight defensive player award but would gladly relinquish that achievement for more team wins. Simon Fraser was 0-9 last season and has managed just five victories the last three years. “I’d just like us as a team to do better overall,” Herdman said. “That’s what I’d like to see, hopefully help turn this program around a little bit.” A stadndout middle linebacker. Herdman says could play outside linebacker or even safety at the pro level. Special teams wouldn’t be a problem, either, as he covers punts and kickoffs at SFU. Herdman definitely knows his way around a weightroom (27 reps of 225 pounds in bench press) and feels with consistent training he could get his 40-yard dash time under 4.7 seconds. “I feel my strength is there and I’m quick,” Herdman said. “At the next level I think I have to focus on things like technique because I feel I have the hustle, effort and strength.” Herdman’s good study habits also extend to the filmroom. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s how to be a student of the game,” he said. “It has helped me grow as a player.” Simon Fraser plays in the NCAA under American rules but Herdman said he could easily re-adjust to Canadian football if the CFL beckons. “I’ve always loved Canadian football,” Herdman said. “I love football in general so I could make the transition.”

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Live from Cairo, it’s Saturday Night! BY SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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CAIRO — The marquee lights and stage set look familiar, as does the band that opened before the comedy sketch began: a nuclear plant manager is trying to cover up an accident as an employee with an oversized, conical head deadpans that she’s healthy, drawing laughter from the audience. When the skit ends, the actors freeze and shout out in unison. “It’s Saturday Night Live in Arabic!” Welcome to the Middle East’s newest comedy show, launched across the region last month and, of course, modeled after its famed U.S. counterpart. There’s all the usual stuff: celebrity guests, “news anchors” who parody current events, musical performances and skits with edgy social commentary. But unlike its New York-based parent, SNL Arabia has a daunting task: finding comedic inspiration in a region plagued by war and Islamic State violence. And don’t expect the show’s comedians to impersonate Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and other Arab leaders or poke fun at their policies or rhetoric. These days, political satire could easily shut down the show and even result in a jail sentence. “We are doing SNL without politics. It’s like you’ve lost a leg out of two,” said George Azmi, one of the show’s head writers, adding that sex and religion are also taboo subjects.

Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.’

Batman versus Superman: tale of the tape Photo by DAVID DEGNER/The Washington Post

Egyptian comedians rehearse a comedy sketch about Satan’s family. The Arabic version of ‘Saturday Night Live’ recently was launched in Cairo, and has its own comedic challenges “We are trying to tread softly as we go.” The arrival of SNL Arabia comes as cultural repression is deepening in Egypt and other parts of the region. In Saudi Arabia, blogger Raif Badawi is serving a 10-year sentence for “insulting Islam” on his website. In Bahrain, the government has jailed journalists on what human rights groups describe as flimsy charges. Turkish authorities seized control of the nation’s largest newspaper earlier this month. In Egypt, no comedian has forgotten what happened to Bassem Youssef, a popular satirist. Known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, his version of the The Daily Show was shut down two years ago — the same month Sis-

si entered office. Youssef once mocked Sissi, the former army general who overthrew Egypt’s Islamist president in 2013 and consolidated power in a landslide electoral victory the following year. Declaring the political climate too dangerous to continue his show, Youssef left Egypt and eventually moved to the United States. “You don’t know exactly what will put you behind bars,” said Amr Salama, the show’s director. There are other “SNL” franchises in Spain, Italy and Germany, as well as in China and South Korea. The Arabic version reaches audiences across the Middle East and North Africa.

Tearing down Drumpf’s wall, brick by brick BY JUSTIN WM. MOYER ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES It was just last month that HBO’s John Oliver slammed Donald Trump the presidential candidate and Donald Trump the man, suggesting that Americans begin referring to him by his ancestral name — “Drumpf” — to undo the spell he has cast over parts of the electorate. “We cannot keep being blinded by the magic of his name,” Oliver said. Of “Drumpf,” he added: “It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy.” Now Oliver, having failed to derail the Republican front-runner’s recent string of primary wins, has had a go at Trump again. During Last Week Tonight on Sunday, the host took aim at one of Trump’s signature policy proposals: a border wall. But Oliver didn’t just want to make jokes. He noted that the wall is “one of the few policy proposals Trump has talked about in detail,” and set about dissecting it ahead of Tuesday’s primary in Arizona, where the wall is a big issue and anti-Trump protesters have blocked roads. Oliver began by noting the Trump’s varied estimates of how much his wall would cost: $4 billion, $6 billion, $7 billion, $10 billion and $12 billion. Estimating the cost of the wall based in part on a piece by Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post, Oliver concluded that the wall would actually cost “conservatively” $25 billion. Oliver also questioned Trump’s claim that Mexico would pay for the wall “and they’re going to be happy about it,” pointing out that two former Mexican presidents and Mexico’s current treasury secretary have said the idea is a nonstarter. Trump has said that the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico would give the United States bargaining power to force Mexico to build the wall. Oliver, who pointed out that American trade dollars don’t go to the Mexican government, but to Mexican private business-

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John Oliver slams Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall for 18 brutal minutes. es, dismissed the idea, saying “that’s not how anything works.” “It’s not lying around in some centralized Scrooge McDuck money bin,” Oliver said, “labeled ‘Dumb Americans’ money — do not spend on border fence.’” Oliver then explained how complicated it would be to figure out where to build the wall. Large stretches of a fence approved by President George W. Bush in 2006, Oliver said, couldn’t be built along the Rio Grande —- one natural border between parts of the nations — because a treaty prohibited it. As a result, the fence had to be built inland — which, among other problems, resulted in a golf course in Brownsville, Tex., being stuck functionally on the Mexican side of the fence but still in technically in the U.S. Moreover, some land on the border was owned by private citizens, which resulted in lawsuits. And, Oliver added, a wall wouldn’t prevent immigrants from overstaying their visas. A wall might make people feel bet-

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ter, Oliver said. But since immigrants are less “crime-prone” than their “native-born counterparts,” that feeling is based on nothing but racism — and even if it wasn’t, would still cost $77 per person, he said. Oliver’s counterproposal: waffle irons. “If the main thing it’s going to get us is a warm sense of satisfaction inside, I suggest instead of building that wall, we use the money to buy every man, woman and child in America a Palmer waffle iron,” Oliver said. “These beauties retail at $75 apiece, so we’d still have about $1 billion left over.” Oliver admitted the waffle-iron idea was “obviously” stupid, but wondered whether it was any stupider than Trump’s wall. “This waffle iron plan will cost less,” Oliver said. “It’ll do nearly as much to keep out immigrants and drugs. It won’t harm our relationship with our third-largest trading partner. If it is racist, it’s only toward Belgians.”

MAGSPARKS: BUNNIES + BOWS Head to the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery on Mondays and Wednesdays for an afternoon of art making in our studio. MAGsparks is a community art program tailored to individuals with developmental disabilities, but is open to all members of the community. Annual memberships are available to persons with disabilities. The admission fee is $3

BY MICHAEL CAVNA AND DAVID BETANCOURT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Two iconic characters in capes rocketed the comic-book industry into the American mainstream: Superman and Batman, twin pop-culture monuments who, though born in the late ’30s, still reign ageless. And on March 25, these Spandex heavyweights will go (Super-)mano a (Bat-)mano for the first time on the big screen, in director Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. So who has the edge in this epic showdown of DC Comics’s most popular warriors? Sure, Superman is the stronger combatant — but don’t think Batman doesn’t have something in his utility belt to counter him. To weigh their pros and cons, here’s our tale of the tape: BIRTH NAME Superman: Kal-El Batman: Bruce Wayne Advantage: Superman, with a name so distinctive, fan Nicolas Cage even tagged his son with it. OFFICIAL CHARACTER HEIGHT Superman: 6-foot-3 Batman: 6-foot-2 Advantage: Push OFFICIAL CHARACTER WEIGHT Superman: 235 pounds Batman: 210 pounds Advantage: Depends of weight of Batman’s gadget-laced utility belt. HAIR Superman: Signature S-curl Batman: Potential “helmet hair” from the cowl. Advantage: Superman LOGO Superman: Chest-spanning “S” Batman: Fear-inducing black bat Advantage: Batman. The “Bat-Signal” looks impressive projected into the midnight skies over Gotham. SECRET IDENTITY Superman: Bumbling, stumbling newspaper reporter Clark Kent Batman: Billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne Advantage: Superman - those media connections pay off in times of trouble. ICONIC CRASH PAD Superman: Icy “Fortress of Solitude” Batman: Dank, subterranean “Batcave” Advantage: Batman - better manservants. PERSONALITY Superman: Earnest do-gooder (aka “The Big Blue Boy Scout”) Batman: Dark, moody, tortured vigilante Advantage: Superman. Batman’s a real downer as a plus-one. ORIGIN STORY Superman: The infant Kal-El’s parents rocketed him away in a capsule like a cosmos-Moses (“cos-Moses”?) before they died in the explosion of home planet Krypton. Batman: Young Bruce Wayne saw his own parents murdered before his eyes, while old enough to remember the psyche-scarring event. Advantage for lifelong mental torture as compelling narrative: Batman FIGHTING ATTRIBUTES Superman: Super-flight, super-speed, super-hearing, super-intelligence, super-near-invulnerability, super-heat vision. Batman: Hand-to-hand combat; a street fighter’s hard-won guile. Advantage: Batman WEAKNESS Superman: Kryptonite radiation, love of humanity Batman: No actual superpower, Catwoman’s feline allure Advantage: Batman

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Getting past the hate for exercise LINDSAY BROWN ME PLUS THREE 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 ole 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 par-

ticular 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. 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 taco’s! Lindsay Brown is a mother of two and a freelance writer from Alberta.

Curbing judgmental tendencies MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM “When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.” – Earl Nightingale, American radio personality, speaker and author “I’m very judgmental,” she admitted. “I know that about myself and I hate it!” I was speaking with an acquaintance about some life changes she hoped to make. One of them was the seemingly uncontrollable urge she had to judge every person, place and thing. “I grew up in a family where everything had to be a certain way or it was wrong. It forced me to become a perfectionist – a control freak. Now I’m an out-of-control-freak. I’m hyper-critical of everything and everyone including myself. I really want to change. I need to change.” We are all judgmental at times. It can be difficult not to be. We see people and, based upon their appearance or actions, we pass judgment upon them – sometimes positive and other times not. Often this assessment happens with little if any knowledge of or interaction with the person – rarely, with the effort to know the person or understand the motivation. Before I continue, let me draw a distinction between forming a conclusion based upon a review of the facts versus passing a judgment based upon assumptions, misinterpretations or deeply-ingrained prejudices. A judge or a jury would pass judgment after hearing testimony and weighing the evidence. A prejudiced individual might pass judgment on a person or entire race of people based upon nothing more than fear, ignorance and a lack of understanding.

What happens when we pass a snap judgment? We observe, hear, read or witness in some way something another person does and we feel a specific emotion: anger, sadness, envy, disgust. We form an opinion without awareness – without all the facts. Instead of building bridges of understanding, we create a gap which we fill with assumptions and our personal biases. I remember taking my five children with me to a downtown soup kitchen. We would be helping to serve a hearty Thanksgiving dinner to the less fortunate. My children were reluctant at first to join me and even a little fearful of whom or what they might encounter. It didn’t take long though for most of those fears and judgments to be allayed. Warm smiles and sincere thankyous from the many diners helped to dissolve most of our negative presuppositions. At the root of many of our judgments is fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of being wrong. Fear of having to admit our error and re-examine our beliefs. The greater our fear, the more likely we are to pass an unfounded judgment. A judgement without investigation or the facts to support it is simply an assumption and denies us the opportunity to learn, grow and evolve. When we assume, we do not pause to re-evaluate. As we grow in our awareness and build our self-esteem, the more we are able to love and accept ourselves and everyone else around us. Some people feel that it’s a right to pass judgment and they do it endlessly. You probably know people who are critical and vocal about just about everything. Perhaps, like my acquaintance, you’re one of those people. If you genuinely want to curb your judgmental tendencies, here are a few techniques that may help. It’ll take effort but the results will be worthwhile. Stop. If only it were that easy, right? Stopping judgments requires awareness. You’ll need to become intently aware of your thoughts. Try to no-

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CLARK It is with very deep sadness that the family of Judith Ann (Judi) Clark (Toivanen) announces her sudden passing on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. A Memorial Service will be held in Red Deer. Further details will follow as arrangements are made this week, so that many of Judi’s friends and colleagues will be able to pay their last respects.

GREEN Giselle 1962 - 2016 Ms. Giselle Diane Green of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at the age of 54 years. Giselle was born on February 1, 1962 at Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. She lived in Ontario for many years and then met her husband, Joe. During the couples thirty-one years together, they raised two beautiful children. In the mid nineties, the couple moved out west to Alberta, leaving Cape Breton behind. Giselle made friends with everyone she knew; she was a wonderful mother, a true best friend, and most of all, a great wife. We had a great life and friendship; you’re going to be missed but never forgotten. I know you’re in a better place now. Love you! Giselle will be lovingly remembered by her spouse, Joe Bennett of Red Deer; her son, Dylan Bennett of Red Deer and her daughter, Corry Taylor of Grand Bend, Ontario; and two beloved grandchildren, Jack and Vaeda. She will also be sadly missed by her mother, Verna Green of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; her brother, Pierre, also of Dartmouth; and four sisters, Jo-Ann of Ontario, Debbie of Newfoundland, Shari of Fort McMurray, Alberta, and Sonya Green of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Giselle was predeceased by her father, Bruce and a brother, Greg. Relatives and friends are invited to pay their respects one hour prior to the Funeral Service. A Funeral Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Giselle’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com. 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.

Obituaries RUHE Adriana Helena Maria Feb. 13, 1935 - Mar. 17, 2016 It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved mother and Oma, Adriana (Sjaan) Helena Maria Ruhe on March 17, 2016 at the age of 81. Left to mourn her passing are her five children: Ron Ruhe (Heather), Ingrid Ruhe, Jacqueline Ruhe, Kathy Ruhe (Darren) and Jerry Ruhe. Mom was blessed with eight grandchildren: Carly, Oksana, Jason, Cody, Lindsey, Kindrie, Shannon and Jake, who will all miss their Oma very much. Adriana was also blessed to welcome six greatgrandchildren into the world: Jaden, Cash, Thyler, Adriana, Cole and Wyatt, and three on the way. She is predeceased by her loving husband Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus Ruhe. A Funeral service and Celebration of Adriana’s life will be held at the Alliance Community Church in Sylvan Lake, AB on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Those wishing to pay their final respects will be able to do so at the Church prior to the service between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations can be made in Adriana’s name to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Cremation to follow is entrusted to Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, AB. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com. SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

VAN LOON Kenneth Edward July 10, 1944 - Mar. 18, 2016 Following a long and valiant battle, Kenneth Edward Van Loon passed away on March 18, 2016 in Red Deer, Alberta, surrounded by his friends and family. Ken is survived by his daughters; Leah (Neil) and Heide (Stefan), his son, Roger (Deanne), and his longtime partner, Anne Cowick. Also mourning his passing are his grandchildren; Zuzu, Gabriel, Emily, Sarah and Kayden. Ken was an Alberta boy through and through, and a loyal team mate and friend to many. He had a great passion for teaching and football. A member of the 1967 Vanier Cup winning Golden Bears and a teacher and coach throughout his long career, Ken, who many simply referred to as “Coach” taught many lessons and touched many lives. Ken was the recipient of a kidney transplant more than 20 years ago and in lieu of flowers, he asked that we all consider signing our organ donation cards. Services will be private, but we welcome all to a Celebration of Ken’s Life to be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at Bo’s Bar & Grill, 2310 50 Avenue, Red Deer, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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KINLEY Fern It is with profound sadness, yet also with the knowledge that she is no longer in pain, the family of Fern Kinley announces her passing on March 11, 2016 in Lacombe, Alberta. Fern is survived by her son Larry (Lynda) Kinley and daughter Marlene Jewell along with 4 grandchildren Roxanne (Paul), Stacey (Kurtis), Erin (Justin), Gavin (Gwen) and four greatgrandchildren Hunter, Kelsey, Easton and Emersyn. Fern was predeceased by husband Ray in 1995, son-inlaw Delbert Jewell in 2015, as well as her parents, four brothers (Elgin, Wallace, Alvin and Howard) in infancy, her sister Violet (Pete) Johnson and brother Harold (Jessie) McIntosh. Also predeceased by brothers and sisters-in-laws Harlin Kinley, Howard (Nancy) Kinley, Betty (Vernon) Rathwell and Margaret Kinley. She is survived by her sister-in-law Claire Kinley as well as numerous nieces and nephews. A Graveside Service will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 2:00 pm with procession at 1:45 pm from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel (6120 Hwy 2A) to Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers family & friends may wish to make donations to the Diabetic Association of Canada or the Canadian Cancer Society. WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366 or 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families for 40 Years”

RADKE Gilbert 1944-2016 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Mr. Gil Radke on March 16, 2016 at the age of 71 years. He leaves to mourn his loving wife Virginia; children: Cindy Radke, Cheryl (Brad) McDermid, Chad (Ewa) Radke; and five grandchildren. At Gil’s request a private service will be held on March 23, 2016. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.heartlandfuneralservices.com HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD. INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements. 403-227-0006.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference at the Verizon Center, on Monday, in Washington. United Nations to impose conditions on either side during future peace talks in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that “it will only further delegitimize Israel.” Anti-Trump protesters gathered outside the venue, but there was no mass walk-out of AIPAC attendees as some had planned. Trump was followed on stage by rival Ted Cruz, who opened his speech by pointedly noting Trump’s use of the term “Palestine.” Although the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in 2012 to recognize Palestine as a “non-member observer state,” the U.S. does not currently recognize the Palestinian territories as an independent state. “Perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948,” the Texas senator said. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton also addressed the conference, questioning Trump’s readiness to guide the nation through international entanglements. “We need steady hands,” Clinton said. “Not a president who says he’s neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday and who-knows-what on Wednesday because everything’s negotiable.” Israel’s security, she proclaimed, “is non-negotiable.”

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DENVER — Marijuana is a political debate, not a legal one — for now. The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it won’t consider a lawsuit filed by two other states challenging Colorado’s pot law. But lawyers say that Nebraska and Oklahoma officials could pursue other legal challenges down the road. For now, the many states considering pot laws this year won’t have immediate guidance from the nation’s high court about whether they’re free to flout federal drug law by regulating the drug. Instead, the 26 states and Washington, D.C., that allow marijuana for medical or recreational purposes don’t have any immediate roadblocks on their marijuana laws. Nebraska’s attorney general said Monday that his state would consider trying again to challenge Colorado’s pot law, just not directly to the nation’s highest court. “What it basically tells us is to go forth in the federal district court to start off the lawsuit,” Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson said. A lawsuit by some Nebraska and Kansas law enforcement officials was dismissed last month by a federal court in Denver. “It doesn’t mean that all the legal wrangling is done,” said Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver who studies drug law. “It just means that for a case to end up before the Supreme Court before we have a new president is extremely unlikely.” Marijuana legalization advocates immediately seized on the Supreme Court’s announcement as a signal that states are free to legalize marijuana if they wish. “States have every right to regulate the cultivation and sale of marijuana, just as Nebraska and Oklahoma have the right to maintain their failed prohibition policies,” said Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. “Colorado has done more to control marijuana than just about any other state in the nation. It will continue to set an example for other states that are considering similar laws in legislatures and at the ballot box.” But Colorado officials weren’t so sure. Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican who opposes legal weed, said that while Nebraska and Oklahoma chose the wrong legal approach, pot is very much a question in need of federal guidance.

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Dear Annie: I live with a friend who wants the house to be neat all of the time. But his personal habits are disgusting. “Bruno” washes up in the morning with a washcloth that he leaves on top of the hamper. He takes a shower once every two weeks. He coughs and hacks and spits into the trash can by his desk. He gets black newsprint on his fingers when he reads the paper and then it gets all over our white walls when he touches them. He is diabetic and disposes of his bloody test strips and tissues in a garbage can in the kitchen. Next to the table. Where we

eat. How can I tell him to be more sanitary? I get so nauseated by his habits that sometimes I want to move out, but I can’t afford that option. When I speak to him about it, he gets crabby. — Disgusted Roommate Dear Roommate: This is what happens when people share living quarters — you have to find ways to live with those traits that irritate one another. We recommend putting a trash can with a flip lid in the kitchen, so his tissues and test strips are not visible, and the container is easy enough to use that Bruno won’t drop the tissues on the floor. You can do the same with the one by his desk. Do the reverse with the hamper — replace it with one that has no lid, so everything goes into a basket that can be carried to the washer. Don’t clean up his inky fingerprints. If he doesn’t like to see them, simply direct him to

the cleaning supplies. There’s nothing you can do about how often he showers. We think you should start scouting for another place to live that, with a second or even a third roommate, would be affordable. Dear Annie: My niece is married and they have three children. Each year, I send my niece a Christmas gift of a significant amount of money for the family. I send a gift certificate for each child’s birthday, and I also send my niece a gift for her birthday. She never sends a thank you via letter, card, text or email. She never acknowledges receiving the gifts at all. I always have to write and ask whether the gifts arrived, and usually, I will get a response a day or two later. I realize I don’t send gifts simply to be acknowledged, but it is a courtesy to let the giver know something was received. At what point can I let go of this tradition since it certainly doesn’t seem to be appreciated? She lives in

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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Tuesday March 22 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: William Shatner, 84; George Benson, 72; Reece Witherspoon, 39 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to be proactive and creative in an organized way. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Enthusiastic and dynamic, you thrive on a challenge but must strive to be more diplomatic. July is the prime month for passion and romance, so plan accordingly. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Communication planet Mercury moves into your sign today, where it stays until April 5. So you’re in the mood to mix and mingle; socialize and circulate; network and discover wonderful new contacts. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ‘I want to be alone’ is your mantra today Taurus, as you withdraw from the busyness around you, and look for guidance and inspiration from within. Plus pay attention to the symbolism in your dreams. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Mercury — your ruling planet — moving into your networking zone, it’s the perfect time to participate in group activities, and communicate your ideas to the world in person and via social media. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The spotlight is on paid or volunteer work today Crabs, so make sure you are putting on a good show. But a relationship with a loved one will take a dive if you are too stubborn and set in your ways. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When communicating with others today, look for the true meaning behind what they are saying. Over the next two weeks, many Lions will go trav-

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my modest bi-level home, only interrupted by the faint gurgle of the coffee maker. The room was sun kissed and tidy, not yet touched by the disarray of daily living. The pussywillows, trapped in their crystal prison, nodded their soft grey heads at me, and suddenly, my mind, unbidden, went on a journey of its own. I was driving down a dusty gravel road, jumping over a ditch where black water oozed through quack grass and rocks, finally climbing through a barbed wire fence. My running shoes sank almost to their tops in the gooey mud. But it didn’t matter. I had my prize within reach. An explosion of pussywillows. I happily helped myself, eagerly breaking off the branches without the aid of scissors or knife. How many springs have I done that? For sure, more springs than I can remember. Sometimes with my dad as he drove an old ’49 Chevy down the road to somewhere, sometimes with my kids as they raced through childhood on an ever ending quest to grow up and most recently with my grandchildren. And sometimes, just with me. The coffee maker stopped gurgling. My coffee was ready, but I was not and the day was calling. But, suddenly, for some reason in that particular moment, I felt an overwhelming sense of joy, a feeling that doesn’t really need to be explained; it’s just there. My feeling of joy evaporated slightly when I forgot my coffee cup at home, discovered we were out of milk and the number on the scales in my bathroom went up instead of down, overnight. But, even with the little crappy things that sneaked uninvited into my day, like pesky mosquitoes, I was quite pleased and even just a tiny bit smug that I knew what it was like to feel, for one fleeting moment in time, joy in the morning. And I’m pretty sure, in fact, almost positive, it had something to do with those pussywillows. Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is the editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for morethan 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

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Obama, Castro come face to face in historic meeting BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other Monday over human rights and the long-standing U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference that stunned Cubans unaccustomed to their leaders being aggressively questioned. The exchanges underscored deep divisions that still exist between two countries despite rapidly improved relations in the 15 months since Obama and Castro surprised the world with an announcement to end their Cold War-era diplomatic freeze. Obama, standing in Havana’s Palace of the Revolution on the second day of his historic visit to Cuba, repeatedly pushed Castro to take steps to address his country’s human rights record. “We continue, as President Castro indicated, to have some very serious differences, including on democracy and human rights,” said Obama, who planned to meet with Cuban dissidents Tuesday. Still, Obama heralded a “new day” in the U.S.-Cuba relationship and said “part of normalizing relations means we discuss these differences directly.” Castro was blistering in his criticism of the American embargo, which he called “the most important obstacle” to his country’s economic development. He also pressed Obama to return the Guantanamo detention centre, which is on the island of Cuba, to his government. “There are profound differences between our countries that will not go away,” Castro said plainly. White House officials spent weeks pushing their Cuban counterparts to agree for the leaders to take questions from reporters after their private meeting, reaching agreement just hours before Obama and Castro appeared before cameras. It’s extremely rare for Castro to give a press conference, though he has sometimes taken questions from reporters spontaneously when the mood strikes. While the issue of political prisoners is hugely important to Cuban-Americans and the international community, most people on the island are more concerned about the shortage of goods and their struggles with local bureaucracy. Castro appeared agitated at times during the questioning, professing to not understand whether inquiries were directed to him. But when an American reporter asked about political prisoners in Cuba, he pushed back aggressively, saying if the journalist could offer up names of anyone improperly imprisoned, “they will be released before tonight ends.” “What political prisoners? Give me a name or

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World BRIEFS Turkish police hunt for 3 Islamic state militants ISTANBUL — Turkish state-run media reported on Monday that police are searching for three suspected Islamic State militants who are allegedly planning to carry out a “sensational” act in the country, which has already been rocked by six suicide bombings since the summer,. The Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources, said that the three are members of a local cell linked to Islamic State militants and that all provincial police departments have been alerted and ordered to capture them. There was no immediate comment from the interior ministry. The search comes two days after an IS suicide bomber killed himself, two Israeli-Americans, an Israeli and an Iranian in Istanbul’s busiest pedestrian shopping street. It was the sixth deadly suicide attack in Turkey since July. They have either been blamed on the IS group or claimed by Kurdish militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Belgium searches for man linked to key Paris attacks suspect BRUSSELS — Belgian authorities are focusing a new search on a man known to have travelled with key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was captured last week in Brussels, officials said Monday. Federal prosecutors appealed to the public for information about 24-year-old Najim Laachraoui, who allegedly travelled to Hungary with Abdeslam before the Nov. 13 carnage, and has been traced to safe houses under a false name. Laachraoui was checked by guards at the AustriaHungary border on Sept. 9 while driving in a Mercedes with Abdeslam and one other person, Belgium’s federal prosecutors said in a statement. Laachraoui, whose nationality wasn’t disclosed, had travelled to Syria in February 2013, prosecutors said. It wasn’t clear when he returned to Europe.

EU official optimistic about Syria’s political process BEIRUT — The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Monday expressed cautious optimism about Syria’s peace process, urging international and regional actors to build on the current, favourable conditions even as fighting raged between rival militant groups in southern Syria. In Geneva, where ongoing proximity peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition had adjourned over the weekend, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura was to meet with the two sides separately. On a visit to Beirut, the EU’s Federica Mogherini said recent developments reflect “positive” steps unseen in the previous five years of conflict.

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