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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Benalto School will close despite intense lobbying from parents to save it.

Chinook’s Edge School Division board voted to close the school on Wednesday morning because of dwindling enrolment and cost. Board chairman Colleen Butler said while the school provided excellent education its low student numbers — 22 this year — meant the division had to heavily subsidize it.

“If we had voted to keep this school open they would have gone back on to the regular resource allocation of other schools,” she said.

“We can’t afford to keep subsidizing it because that takes resources away from the rest of the division. We have 11,000 other students.”

On a per-student basis, Benalto is significantly more expensive than any other school at $15,918.

The next closest is Elnora at $11,273. Of the division’s 28 other schools, the cost-per-student is mostly in the $7,000 to $9,000 range.

Depending on enrolment next year the school, 15 km west of Sylvan Lake, would have gone from its two teachers to one with a possible additional part-time position based on the new funding level.

“The feeling, I think, was the quality of education was probably going to diminish if that was the case,” said Butler. It would be a lot to expect a single teacher to make school plans for seven grades, she added.

Students from the kindergarten to Grade 6 school will be bused to Sylvan Lake’s C.P. Blakely School next school year if they stay in the public system.

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RCMP investigate at the scene where bones have been discovered north of Antler Hill just west of the QEII highway along Range Road 275B. Police were focusing their investigation in and around a small wooded wetlands area. A forensic examination will be conducted on the bones to determine if they are human. RCMP Cpl. Laural Scott said police were called to a wooded area near Innisfail around 7 p.m. on Tuesday after someone found the bones. Police and specialized units searched the location throughout the day today to ensure all the bones were recovered. More details about the discovery are expected on Thursday.

Potty shortage forcing residents to take extreme measures MARY-ANN BARR BARRSIDE It may not just be bears and other critters pooping in the woods of Red Deer.

I received a copy of a letter in the mail the other day from “A Citizen With Kids and Grandkids.”

It was addressed to the city’s thrones keepers — the mayor and council.

“This is a plea to have at least one Porta Potty placed in each and every park, play space, soccer field, baseball field and exercise park in the city.”

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Permanent washrooms at Rotary Park and other park facilities throughout the city are still closed. Portable toilets have been installed at these locations.

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Police chief leaving RCMP to take job with city RED DEER NEEDS NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF The search is on for a new police chief in Red Deer for the second time in less than three years.

RCMP Supt. Scott Tod, who joined the city’s detachment in May 2014 is heading into semi-retirement with a new gig at the city.

Tod is the city’s new Municipal Policing Services Manager. He announced his retirement earlier this

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to fill the role since September after Marilyn Slawinsky was appointed to the provincial bench.

The department head position is responsible for the overall management of the policing department on the municipal front, the enforcement continuum, leadership of staff and operation of the buildings and fleet.

Sarah Cockerill, the city’s director of Community Services, said this council has placed a huge emphasis on safety in the community and the

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year and the city approached Tod to take on the role.

His final day in the superintendent’s office is on May 5 and he will start at the city on June 6.

The city has been recruiting

enforcement from municipal side but also from a policing side.

“It’s a huge win for us to have Scott come across from the RCMP with his 27-year career to come lead our team,” said Cockerill. “He knows policing inside and out and he has been the leader of the largest RCMP detachment in Alberta. We’re really looking forward to bringing that leadership and vision to the strategic direction of policing.”

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STARS amazed by response to fundraising plea

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A symbol of gratitude will now be flying with STARS helicopters.

In late-February, STARS Lottery officials were fearful that the annual lottery would not sell out for the first time in its history. Officials were at the Red Deer Airport for a press conference asking Albertans to buy tickets.

Andrea Robertson, STARS president and CEO, said they have never been in a position where they had to reach out to Albertans in this way.

“In three days $2 million comes through the doors and I am telling you we were all walking around with lumps in our throats,” said Robertson. “We were just amazed with the level of response. When we said we needed a little help, holy smokes.”

Robertson said there were line ups out the door, the phone lines were jammed and the website traffic surged with people buying lottery tickets. They took in roughly $11.5 million for the non-profit agency.

As an act of gratitude, every STARS helicopter in Alberta will bear the Times are tough, Albertans are tougher decal until the next lottery in 2017.

The special decals are underneath the nosecone of our BK117 helicopters and under the tailboom of the AW139 helicopters so they are visible when the aircraft passes overhead.

“It felt very overwhelming to us and we felt very appreciative,” said Robertson. “It says a lot about who Albertans are. … how do you ask people who have lost their jobs? The economy is really tough for everybody. That level of response was just extraordinary.”

STARS Air Ambulance flies to Red Deer on average about 70 times each year. Robertson said the need is forever increasing. The requirement for STARS grows on average between three and eight per cent each year.

“When I am asked who owns STARS, I say Albertans own STARS,” said Robertson. “What happened to us this year I think is case in point. When we needed an extra boost, boy, the response was fantastic.”

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Alert for threats, this hare directs his ears towards the clicking of the camera in Red Deer this week. Changing from its white, winter coat, the hares in Alberta are now adjusting to the longer days and lack of snow and will soon be completely brown to blend in with their changing environment.

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Robbery suspect to have bail hearing later this month

BRIEFS Suspect in string of convenience store robberies denied bail The suspect arrested following a string of convenience store robberies in Red Deer will watch his preliminary hearing from the confines of the prisoner’s box.

Red Deer RCMP allege that a Red Deer man stole a vehicle from an acquaintance, and then used it to rob three stores in the southeast area of the city on Nov. 16, 2015.

Geoffrey Allan Godden, 23, was arrested and charged in connection with all four robberies. He is also charged with driving while disqualified four counts of using an imitation firearm to commit an offence and four counts of breaching probation.

Represented by Red Deer counsel Michael Scrase, Godden was in court on Wednesday to hear Judge Jim Hunter’s decision on whether or not he would be released on bail.

Following up from a hearing held earlier on, Hunter announced that Godden would be denied bail.

Godden had previously asked that the charges against him be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with a preliminary hearing in provincial court beforehand. Preliminary hearings are optional and may be requested to test the Crown’s evidence against a suspect before proceeding to trial.

Godden’s preliminary hearing has been set for

Bail will be addressed later this month for a Red Deer suspect arrested in Blackfalds on Christmas Day. Red Deer City RCMP had issued an Alberta-wide warrant for Lyndon William Olsen, 33, in connection with a robbery and a robbery attempt in Red Deer on Nov. 23, 2015. Police have named Olsen as one of three suspects in connection with a robbery at the Bell Fever Lounge and a robbery attempt at the Post Time Lounge.

Olsen was arrested in Blackfalds at about 11 a.m. on Christmas Day and taken into custody on charges including break and enter and uttering threats.

Represented earlier by Red Deer lawyers Andrew Phypers and Brad Mulder, Olsen appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday with yet another new lawyer, via TV feed from the Red Deer Remand.

Counsel Will Willms asked that he be given time to review the Crown’s evidence against Olsen before returning to court for a bail hearing and to advise the Court on how they would like to proceed.

Willms and his client are due back in court on April 27.

Preliminary hearing in stabbing case slated for August Court will examine details in August of a stabbing on the O’Chiese First Nation, northwest of Rocky Mountain House.

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pital in Rocky for treatment and released later. The third was not transported.

Police later arrested one adult and one youth, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Following a series of appearances in Rocky provincial court, the adult, 23-year-old Keith Beaverbones, has elected to be tried in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with the benefit of a preliminary hearing.

Such hearings are optional and may be held to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

Beaverbones’s hearing is set for Aug. 2, in Rocky provincial court.

Red Deer RCMP looking for man who robbed downtown 7-Eleven at gunpoint Red Deer RCMP are looking for the man who robbed the downtown 7-Eleven store at gunpoint on Wednesday.

Police say a a suspect purchased a package of cigarettes then brandished a handgun at the clerk and demanded cash around 5:30 a.m.

Police Dog Services tracked his trail north in front of the building and through the parking lot, where police believe the suspect entered a vehicle.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian man, 1.91 metres (six-foot-three) tall with an average build. He was wearing a bandana over his face, a black jacket with grey stripes on the sleeves, a black hoodie underneath with the hood up, and a ball cap with a grey or beige peak If you have any information about this robbery, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

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Notley to make TV address

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — One week before her government is to introduce its budget, Premier Rachel Notley is to deliver a 15-minute talk on TV about the economic challenges facing Alberta families.

Notley’s pre-recorded address is to be broadcast Thursday at 6:45 p.m. on CTV and Global stations.

The premier delivers the chat while sitting at the kitchen table in her home.

Notley says she will outline her government’s plan to create jobs and help families through the economic shock created by low oil prices.

The total cost for production and air time for the televised address is pegged at $90,000.

Notley’s staff say she decided to do the TV talk after hearing concerns about the economic downturn from people around the province.

“There is no doubt the oil price collapse is causing serious economic pain and it’s a scary time for many families,” Notley said Wednesday in a release.

“I want to talk directly to Albertans about what we’re up against and walk them through our plan to get Alberta through this.”

Her staff said Notley will not release specific budget numbers but will use graphics to show how slumping oil prices are affecting the province.

The government says Opposition Leader Brian Jean is being offered the opportunity to reply to Notley’s address at a later date.

Alberta BRIEFS Calgary father’s ‘ordeal’ ends with sentencing of teenage son’s killer CALGARY — The maximum seven-year sentence for a young offender has been given to a man who admitted that, as a 17-year-old, he shot and killed another teen.

The man was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty last November to second-degree murder in the death of Adam Cavanagh.

The 18-year-old victim was shot in the head when a gun was fired through a basement window of his parents’ home in 2007.

Four years of his sentence will be served in custody while three will be spent under supervision in the community.

Perry Cavanagh, Adam’s father, says he’s glad the ordeal is over and he hopes the man can turn his life around.

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Connie Levitsky is shown in this handout photo. A plus-size women’s clothing store has apologized to an employee after it fired her for using “fat” to describe customers. Levitsky of Edmonton used the word on her Facebook page last week when updating her job status as a new sales associate with Addition Elle.

Woman fired for using the word ‘fat’ gets apology from plus-sized store

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A plus-size women’s clothing store has apologized to an employee after it fired her for using “fat” to describe customers.

Connie Levitsky of Edmonton used the word on her Facebook page last week when updating her job status as a new sales associate with Addition Elle.

Levitsky wrote: “Conquering the world, one welldressed fat lady at a time.”

She said a store manager called her Friday to tell her that using “fat” on Facebook was inappropriate, so she deleted the post. And she thought that was the end of it.

But when she showed up for her shift Tuesday at the company’s West Edmonton Mall location, she was fired. Levitsky said a district manager told her that the company couldn’t be associated with “fat” and that she considered it a swear word.

Levitsky, a 24-year-old university student, said she was shocked, hurt and angry. And when she got home, she took to Facebook to vent her frustrations.

She wrote that it took years for her to accept her plus-size body and she prefers to use “fat” instead

of store-accepted euphemisms such as “curvy” and “shapely.”

“As part of the body-positivity movement, I feel that if companies … are still censoring the word fat, then we are never going to get anywhere,” she wrote.

“This is one less store I can shop at, not because their clothes don’t fit me, but because what they don’t stand for doesn’t.”

Addition Elle later posted a statement on its Facebook page that said it took Levitsky’s use of “fat” out of context and worried the word would offend customers.

“We believe that anyone should use whatever words they are comfortable with when describing themselves and whatever makes them feel empowered,” it said. “We recognize that letting her go was a mistake and have apologized to our employee for any hurt this may have caused her.

“We stand for body positivity in all its forms.”

The company said it has offered Levitsky her job back.

But Levitsky said that’s not going to happen.

It would be disingenuous to return and work for an organization that has disappointed her so much, she said.

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Donald Trump and Groucho Marx GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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hese are my principles, and if you don’t like them …Well, I have others.”

Groucho Marx The odds have lengthened against a Donald Trump presidency after his Wisconsin defeat, and they were probably already 10-to-one against. If he wins the Republican nomination, which is still very likely, he will almost certainly face Hillary Clinton in the November election, and lose badly.

Or at least that is the orthodox calculation, for Trump is far behind Clinton with key voter groups like women, Latinos, African-Americans, and young people who bother to vote. But she is an uninspiring campaigner, she is the ultimate Washington insider in a season where insiders are out, and there are a few skeletons that might come rattling out of her closet during the campaign. A big terrorist attack could also change the odds.

So President Donald Trump is still a small but real possibility. You wouldn’t be a fool to put a dollar down if somebody offered you 12-to-one odds. That frightens a lot of people

quite badly, especially when it comes to foreign policy, for he is the loosest of loose cannons — or so it seems.

There he goes, starting a trade war with China, pushing Japan and South Korea to get their own nuclear weapons, trashing NATO, building a wall to keep Mexicans out, and closing the U.S. border to all Muslims. He’s even in favour of torturing suspected terrorists. But would he really be as rash and ignorant in the White House as he is while in campaign mode?

All of his present positions are calculated to appeal to the group whose support he must win to get the Republican nomination: “angry white men” who feel that they have been cheated of their right to a good job and a central role in American politics by unseen economic and demographic forces and clever, wicked foreigners.

The internal politics of the Republican Party is now largely dominated by their concerns.

Trump is so focussed on getting their support that he even opposes the traditional Republican policies that have contributed to their marginalization and impoverishment: free trade, low taxes for the rich, deep cuts in welfare programs. And he gets away with it, although no other Republican candidate would.

Once Trump wins the nomination, however, he must appeal to a broader audience to win the election, and he is a past master at changing his tune.

Five years ago his publicly declared principles would have qualified him to run for the Democratic presidential nomination — but, like Groucho Marx, he can come up with other principles in a flash when it serves his interests.

Take abortion rights: five years ago he defended women’s right to choose, last week he wanted to jail women if they chose abortion — and in the face of a public outcry, he rapidly retreated and said he just wanted to punish the doctors who did the abortions. Whatever the audience wants, it gets.

Once the Republican nomination is in the bag and the audience Trump must address a broader audience to win the election, he will have to shift his ground, and he will do it. (The angry white men will just have to tag along, because they have nowhere else to go.) Then, if he should win the election, he might change his policies again. Who is the real Donald Trump?

The answer is that there is no real Donald Trump, in terms of policies and principles. He will do anything and say anything to get what he wants — but beyond being elected president, it isn’t clear that he wants anything in particular. If ideologues frighten you, then you needn’t worry about the Donald.

What does legitimately frighten people about Donald Trump is his ignorance (which is not just a show to appeal to his current audience) and his impulsiveness. On the other hand,

he is actually quite intelligent, and as president he would have to rely on military officers and civil servants who really do not want to uproot and overturn everything. Moreover, they can generally block or sabotage truly stupid decisions, if that becomes necessary.

The result might be a presidency with a foreign policy like Richard Nixon’s: paranoid, unscrupulous, but not ideological at all and not given to needless provocations on the international scene. The trickiest bit would be Trump’s first few months in office, because he has definitely frightened the horses internationally and they are getting ready to bolt.

It is hard to overstate just how frightened other governments are about Trump in the White House. The word “fascist” gets used a lot in private even by national leaders, and of course it is used publicly every day by the mass media in most other countries. Perhaps the biggest danger is that America’s allies and enemies would react preemptively to his rhetoric without waiting to see what he actually does in office.

So, on mature reflection, it really would be a very bad idea for Trump to become the president of the United States.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Freeman book reviews will be missed Compliments to Peggy Freeman for insightful and entertaining book reviews on a wide range of topics for any age group.

I first met Peggy at the downtown Severna Nash book store. Her knowledge and expertise was appreciated where she could find the book you were interested in, even if you had forgotten the title. She now continues this valued service at Chapters.

Peggy is also an author with several books published and available at Chapters.

Thanks Peggy for your wonderful sense of humour and sharing your love of reading. As you retire from writing book reports I look forward to a new format of enjoying your style and thoughtful comments in the Advocate.

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Neiman column missed the mark on voter unrest It was nice to see Greg Neiman’s editorial on Saturday, April 2, and how he outlines the parallels

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between the Rob Ford phenomenon, and the rise of Donald Trump. Unfortunately, and as usual, Neiman misses the mark by a mile.

I agree with Neiman’s assessment of both men riding a wave of anti-elitism. However, to point at privatization of “public” services as a major source of voter unrest is to gross mis-characterization of the root of public anger While it can’t be denied that some businesses that have bellied up to the government trough and enriched themselves at the expense of the taxpayer, blaming those who have done what the system actually asked them to do, is to give a free pass to government’s willful role in the problem.

The electorate has good reason to be restless. For decades now, we who pay the tab have been sold an increasingly empty bill of goods by those who deem themselves our moral and intellectual superiors.

For example, for decades left-leaning politicians and their sympathetic friends in the media told us government debt was the path to prosperity. We knew otherwise, but were shouted down. So, show us an example where that debt has resulted in greater prosperity. I’ll save you the trouble. There isn’t one.

We’re told that taxes must rise to meet increasing expectations of public services, yet no one can ever point to any such groundswell of demand among those who will actually be tasked with making the payments.

For example, we Red Deerians are going to com-

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mit all of the property taxes from roughly 1,000 homes to an initiative to end homelessness. We’re told that “Red Deer” is solidly behind the proposal.

Are we?

This is just one of about a thousand of these kinds of things that are making the taxpayers restless, Greg. Increasingly, we who pay taxes see ever more powerful alliances between those who collect and administer taxation, and those who receive taxes.

For example, when the (NDP) Alberta government hires a former public sector union leader as lead negotiator with the Alberta public sector unions, you know the taxpayer is not being looked after. Our roadsides are littered with deer less lame than the excuse that Kevin Davediuk was hired because he is familiar with the union’s negotiating strategies.

Really? That response is full blown stupid, and everyone who repeated it knew it.

We all know that government is bloated and wasteful, yet leftists such as Neiman decry any attempts at actual respect for taxpayer dollars, and open cheerleading for such moronic mendacity as fighting climate change.

Time and again, tax spending authorities, and a compliant media, align themselves against those who pay taxes.

Eventually we just push back.

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EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says the former head of Alberta Health Services was trying to set policy rather than simply implement it.

“It felt like that could have been the case from time to time,” Sarah Hoffman said at the legislature Wednesday.

Hoffman made the comments after the CBC revealed the contents of Vickie Kaminski’s resignation letter from November.

The CBC says Kaminski wrote that Hoffman’s department was straying too far into her area of responsibility, which made it difficult to do her job and put her professional reputation at risk.

In particular, Kaminski wrote, the department overruled an Alberta Health Services decision to take over ambulance services in Calgary.

AHS is an arm’s-length agency responsible for the day-to-day operations of medical care, but under policy direction from the Health Department.

Hoffman noted that Kaminski was hired by the former Progressive Conservative government with a mandate to expand privatized services under the public health umbrella.

Hoffman said that was not the direction given by the NDP government when it took power last May. “Certainly we ran on a platform of ending experiments in privatization,” she said. “Public health care is public business.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi took issue with Kaminski’s version of events.

Nenshi said in a written statement that he was forced to go to Hoffman directly after Kaminski unilaterally

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Legislation introduced to help seniors with home repairs EDMONTON — Alberta is introducing new rules for seniors who want to stay in their homes but need loans for home repairs and renovations. “(This) will help seniors remain secure and independent in their own homes,” Seniors Minister Lori Sigurdson said Wednesday after tabling the proposed legislation.

It would allow Sigurdson’s depart-

ment to hand out loans to homeowners over 65 for up to $40,000 in home improvements related to quality of life.

They could include walk-in tubs, wheelchair ramps, stair lifts or room renovations. New roofs, replacement furnaces and updated hot-water tanks would also be eligible.

Loans would be made against the equity in a house and would have to be repaid once an owner died or the home was sold.

Homeowners making more than $75,000 a year would not be eligible.

Low-income seniors who didn’t qualify for the loans could be eligible for grants for necessities such as furnaces and water heaters.

CALGARY — A survivor of a deadly crash during an after-hours visit to a luge-bobsled track is crediting his deep faith for helping with his recovery.

Caleb Hettinga suffered critical injuries when he and seven other teens climbed over a fence at Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park in the wee hours of Feb. 6 and went down the run on three plastic sleds. They hit a large gate used to separate the luge and bobsled tracks.

In a video posted to social media, Caleb thanks members of his family’s church for their prayers and support.

A metal halo circles the top of his head and a patch covers his right eye.

“One thing that I learned through this experience is that God never leaves you alone to suffer through an experience like this,” says the 18-yearold.

“A lot of people would probably get really depressed after something like this. But I’ve really felt a peace and a hope through this.”

Caleb’s grandfather, Larry Sagert, told parishioners in another video that the youths had no idea there was a barricade on the run. He said “five of the eight boys were clotheslined by a heavy chain.”

The impact “smashed every bone” of his grandson’s face, broke the base of his skull and cost him the vision in his right eye, Sagert said.

The videos can be viewed on You-

Tube at http://bit.ly/1WcNECl .

Twin 17-year-old brothers Evan and Jordan Caldwell, who had worked at the facility the previous summer, were killed.

Caleb’s uncle, Mark Hettinga of Saskatoon, said Tuesday that the teen got out of hospital a few weeks ago and is continuing to recover at home.

Hettinga plans to hold a silent auction this weekend to raise money to help out his brother’s family, which is facing high medical expenses.

“It’s to raise money for the whole family, for all the major expenses they’re going to have to come across — the dental, the orthodontist and physio, and all those that aren’t covered.”

The Caldwell Fund, a fundraising effort by the relatives of the two boys who died, has also been hard at work to help out and has raised $46,665 to date.

Hettinga said Caleb’s “whole face pretty much had to be rebuilt” and he continues to wear a halo to support his head because of the neck fracture, although he is able to walk and the prognosis for recovery is good.

“He’s pretty good,” Hettinga said of his nephew. “He’s a fighter. He’s determined to come through and get back on track. He’s determined to get better.”

The family has relied on the help of friends and their church. Caleb’s parents, Justin and Tammy Hettinga, have worked as missionaries in Peru. Justin Hettinga has also worked at the Calgary headquarters of Bible translator Wycliffe Canada.

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“This is not how AHS should be run and not what the citizens who pay the bills expect from our public servants,” wrote Nenshi.

“Minister Hoffman’s putting a stop to these games is not ‘political interference.’ It’s proper governance of Alberta’s largest expense.”

Kaminski, in her letter, also said deputy health minister Carl Amrhein, the department’s top civil servant, would order specific changes without committing anything to paper in what Amrhein referred to as “voice mode.”

Kaminski said she believed that was done to avoid a paper trail and to duck accountability in the event of freedom-of-information searches.

Hoffman said that’s not the case, that she doesn’t believe Amrhein was trying to avoid a paper trail and that she has never given such direction to her senior staff.

She said that while she doesn’t personally use the term “voice mode,” conversations are a common means of getting work done.

“I’d say most of us communicate in voice mode for most of the day.”

Kaminski now works in Australia and couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

Opposition Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said Kaminski’s concerns are valid.

“It obviously shows that this NDP government is interfering politically.”

Progressive Conservative interim leader Ric McIver said Amrhein’s “voice mode” references suggest the government is trying to hide its actions.

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A group of Blackfeet riders escort the tractor-trailer carrying 88 bison earlier this week from Elk Island National Park in Alberta, Canada, to be released east of Browning, Mon., on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. The bison are descendants of one of the last herds of prairie bison captured by the Blackfeet in 1873 and sold to the Canadians. The relocation follows a 2014 treaty among 11 tribes in the U.S. and Canada to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.

SCHOOL: Prospects uncertain for many years Jodie Turner, chair of the Benalto Parent Advisory Council, was among about a dozen parents who attended the school board meeting and tried to buy two more years for the school to see if enrolment climbed.

School supporters went door to door in their community and were convinced that student numbers were poised to grow in coming years based on the number of pre-school children counted.

Turner, who has children in Grade 1 and Grade 5, said students won’t get the same level of attention in larger schools that they enjoyed in Benalto.

Parents believe it was the cost, not quality of education, that motivated the board’s decision.

“It sucks that it came down to dollars and cents rather instead of what the students need and the support they will get,” she said. “There’s no way they can get the same one-on-one attention that they get in Benalto.”

Benalto School was able to accommodate her daughter’s daily speech therapy, something that wouldn’t happen in a big school, she said.

Benalto School’s long-term prospects have been uncertain for a number of years.

A viability study was done in 2007 and updated two years ago. Last fall, a review committee was formed to meet with area residents and gather information for the board to consider before making its decision on whether to close the doors at the end of this school year.

Parents rallied to save their kindergarten to Grade 6 school, which they said was the heart of their small community.

Support for the cause came from Red Deer County, which urged the board to keep the school open to maintain the viability of the hamlet and its attractiveness to young families with school-age children.

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre MLA Jason Nixon also went to bat for the school. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

POTTY: Things are bound to get messy Unfortunately, for those who share a similar sentiment, City of Red Deer Parks manager Trevor Poth confirmed Wednesday that there are no plans this year to add any more bathrooms to any city facilities.

Citizen writer outlined a number of scenarios that could be resolved with more bathroom facilities, and suggested maybe corporate sponsors and community associations could help solve the problem.

This brings to mind the Adopt A Highway or Adopt A Park programs. Adopt A Pot has a nice ring to it.

Some of the scenarios the writer noted: ● You have a five-year-old at soccer or T-ball along with a three-year-old in tow. If one has to go potty “you pack them up and head to the nearest place, which may or may not let you use the facility.” ● You are 80 and you won’t walk the three blocks to an exercise park “because you know you are going to have to use the potty by the time you get there.” ● You are with your slo-pitch team, it’s hot outside so you have been drinking a lot of water.

Citizen writer outlines “things that have happened when no potty is around. (This gets a little graphic.): ● One father held his child over a garbage can while the child defecated in the can. ● Mom brings a potty chair. Once the child has used it, it in the nearest bush, no matter what it is.

The writer concedes that vandalism might be a problem. “… you could ask the community association if they could keep an eye on the Porta Potty.”

Poth said the city as whole gets requests for washroom facilities that relate to various departments.

For example, it also gets requests from transit users for washroom facilities.

“The city doesn’t have a formal policy on the provision of washrooms but we do … a pretty fair job at accommodating washrooms across the community,” he said.

“We’ve got 2,100 hectares of park space through the city and so how to facilitate an appropriate allocation of washrooms, it’s done very much on a regional basis. So we do actually have a lot of washroom complexes in our park nodes through the Waskasoo Park for example.

“The challenge that we’re faced with is a lot of those are either shallow water servicing with no heating in those buildings or they’re an outhouse-type facility and unserviced washroom.”

For the Parks Department, this is the challenging “shoulder season” where the city can’t open washrooms until the ground thaws.

There are portable toilets in high-use areas such as Bower Ponds, and a number of contractors in the park system, such as at Heritage Ranch, maintain publicly accessible washrooms, Poth said.

It would be a challenge to put a washroom every

two or three kilometers along the trail system, and to get a vacuum truck in. The community does have decent washroom provisions in the well-developed urban areas, such as all of rec facilities, City Hall, the public library, Poth said.

“There are some washroom opportunities out there.” If you know you are going to need one, maybe plan around these areas, he suggests.

Poth said they get these complaints every year, but most come in the spring when people are anxious to start using parks and playgrounds.

The city is working on its Integrated Mobility Playbook, and looking at possible amenities along mobility routes. “I know that washrooms will certainly come up in that.”

As for what goes on when there’s no washroom available in the parks, Poth said people are asked to pack out everything they pack in. “It would be our expectation that people aren’t using the woods to go to the washroom.”

Just in case that’s not happening, last word goes to the letter writer — “I hope to see a Porta Potty in my park soon!”

Power to the potty people. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

She said the department is growing and is expected to grow as the city grows.

Tod will make between $111,927 and $139,909.

Tod replaced former Supt. Warren Dosko who unexpectedly stepped down in December 2013 after less than three years on the job. Tod started with the Red Deer RCMP in May 2014. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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END OF AN ERA OILERS WIN FINAL GAME AT REXALL PLACE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 6 Canucks 2 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers gave their fans something to cheer about in their final home game of the regular season.

Patrick Maroon scored twice as the Oilers won at Rexall Place for the final time, beating the Vancouver Canucks 6-2 on Wednesday.

Nail Yakupov, Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Taylor Hall also scored for the Oilers (31-43-7), who snapped a three-game losing skid.

“It was a really good effort from all fronts,” Hall said. “We had some really good goaltending and the special teams that have been letting us down of late were there tonight, huge. It was a good way to finish it off here. It was a fun night with really good electricity in the building. We finished it off right.”

McDavid ended up with three points on the night.

“It was a pretty special night,” said the rookie centre. “We put on a good game for the last one here, everybody wanted to do that.”

Making the win especially important was the poor performance put forward by the team in their second-last game at Rexall, a 5-0 loss to the rival Calgary Flames on Saturday.

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Edmonton Oilers players celebrate a goal against the Vancouver Canucks during third period NHL action in Edmonton, on Wednesday.

ACAC HOCKEY

Queens to play in Centrium

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE One of the biggest concerns surrounding the RDC hockey Queens last season was where they would play the next two seasons before their new facility opens at RDC. It was officially announced Wednesday that the Queens will play out of the Centrium.

“Where we would play was something that’s been on the backburner all season and in the back of all our minds,” said Queens head coach Kelly Coulter.

“It’s nice to finally get a home. It helps in recruiting and made it easier for some of the girls who are returning, especially in nursing.”

One of those veterans is star centre Ashley Graf, who is heading into her fifth year as a player and in her fourth year in nursing.

“Getting a home and a good practice time was really important for me to return, and for the other girls in nursing,” she said. “If we would have had practice in the morning or middle of the afternoon just didn’t work for some of us.”

As it stands the Queens will practice at 6:45 p.m.

“We really appreciate all those who worked to find us a place to play and for the work they did on the practice time. Diane (Athletic director St-Denis) and the Science Department did a great job.”

Coulter agreed.

“It makes a world of difference in knowing we’ll have a home for the two years and a top-notch facility. I know in recruiting the players like to know where their home will be. When they have their own dressing room, stalls and storage facility it makes an impact on a player’s decision to come here.

“If we had a smaller facility and no room where the players had to haul their equipment around it makes a difference.”

“It does make a difference,” said Graf. “Just knowing the Centrium is giving us a room and stalls is exciting for a women’s team. Being treated like that is a real positive.”

It’s a move Westerner Park CEO and GM Ben Antifaiff was glad to make.

“We’re proud to work with Red Deer College to support the Queens Hockey team,” says Antifaiff.

“We are committed to serving our community and celebrate the opportunity to have the RDC Queen’s call our facility home for the next two seasons.”

The Centrium is an elite facility, but will seem a bit empty for the RDC games.

“It’s a challenge to play in a facility that large,” said Coulter. “But we play for the crest on front of the sweater and while it will be a slight adjustment it will still be a great place to play.

“All the coaches are certainly happy going into a WHL class facility with a great ice surface. When the coaches and team is happy it’s important for our success. I know we will be well taken care of and it’s top notch all the way.”

It will also be a lot warmer than the Red Deer Arena, which has been the home of the Queens for a number of years.

“That’s been the talk of the team on how much hotter it will be, but we’ll get conditioned to it. I know it’s the same at SAIT and usually we die there.

So once we get used to it, it will be to our advantage.”

While Graf is looking forward to moving into the Centrium, she said she’s also a bit sad.

“I know all of us are excited … it’s a big thing for us, but as a player from Red Deer it’s a bit sad to leave the Arena. I grew up playing there. But I’m also a fan of the Rebels and it will be a pleasure to play there.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher J.A. Happ delivers to the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game Wednesday, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Souza homers twice as Rays beat Blue Jays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 5 Blue Jays 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Steven Souza Jr.’s first multihomer game helped the Tampa Bay Rays to a second straight late come-from-behind victory.

Souza’s second home run of the game, a go-ahead, three-run drive in the eighth inning, lifted the Rays over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 Wednesday.

Erasmo Ramirez (1-0) allowed one hit over the final two innings as the Rays split the four-game series after losing the first two.

“Just to even it up with those guys over there was so big for us,” Souza said. “It’s a great team over there. Obviously a playoff team and one of the best in the American League.”

Souza pulled Tampa Bay to 3-2 in the sixth with a solo homer off J.A. Happ. Tampa Bay has homered in a team-record 18 consecutive games dating to Sept.

20.

“I’m just staying within myself,” Souza said. “Letting the ball take its course.”

Evan Longoria and Desmond Jennings singled off Gavin Floyd (0-1) in the eighth, and Arnold Leon relieved with one out. Souza homered to centre for his fourth hit of the game, tying his career high.

Josh Donaldson hit a three-run homer in the third off Matt Moore. The reigning AL MVP left after a seventh-inning at-bat with a strained right calf.

“The calf just sort of locked up,” Donaldson said.

“I tried to go three or four innings with it. It was just one of those situations where one, I didn’t think I was quite able to play defence the way I wanted to, and two, if I had to try and run, it was pretty difficult.

But I don’t think it’s too serious and, hopefully, I’ll be back for our next game.”

Troy Tulowitzki nearly made it 6-0 later in the third, but his drive with two on was caught by centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier near the wall at the deepest part of the ballpark.

Tampa Bay won 3-2 Tuesday night on a disputed game-ending double play in the ninth that was the result of a video review under baseball’s new slide rules. Logan Forsythe had given Tampa Bay the onerun lead with a two-run homer in the eighth of that

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“Not a real good 24 hours, put it that way,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said.

The Blue Jays failed in a bid to win their fourth series in the last 26 trips to Tropicana Field.

“Obviously an exciting win,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said.

“Anytime you drop the first two and you can come back, whether it’s the opening series, last series, whatever, it feels pretty good. It’s a quality split because we put ourselves in a little bit of a hole.”

Moore gave up three runs, five hits and two walks in five innings with six strikeouts. Happ allowed two runs and seven hits in six-plus innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: LF Michael Saunders, who played the first three games of the series on the artificial turf at Tropicana Field, got the day off. He was limited to nine games last season due to left knee injuries. .

RHP Marco Estrada (back) remained on schedule to start Sunday against Boston LHP David Price.

STRIKEOUT ZONE Rays pitchers struck out 46 during the series.

“They have a pretty good pitching staff over there,” Gibbons said. “That’s what they do.”

REAL HIGH FLY Casali hit a pop fly that struck an overhanging catwalk 194 feet above the infield in the third inning that was caught by Tulowitzki at shortstop. It was just the fourth ball to strike the ‘A’ ring, which is in play, since the Rays started playing at Tropicana Field in 1998.

MOVING DAY The Rays claimed OF Jake Goebbert off waivers from Pittsburgh and optioned him to Triple-A Durham.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (1-0) is to face Boston RHP Rick Porcello on Friday night in Toronto’s home opener. . The Blue Jays are scheduled to work out Thursday in Toronto.

Rays: RHP Chris Archer (0-1) will start a threegame trip against Baltimore and RHP Chris Tillman of Friday night. The Tampa Bay ace is 0-4 with a 5.50 ERA in seven starts since the beginning of last September.

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Fighting plummeting steeply in the NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shawn Thornton used to scan the roster of his team’s next opponent for players he might have to fight, but in today’s NHL that’s no longer necessary.

It’s a new reality embraced by the 38-year-old one-time enforcer.

“I’m OK with not having to lose sleep every single night,” Thornton said.

Fights have plummeted nearly 50 per cent from only five years ago, according to HockeyFights.com, a stunning reversal for a league that has long contemplated fighting’s place in the game.

The NHL is on pace for about 300 fewer fights from the 2010-11 season, a 47 per cent drop, and nearly 400 fewer scraps from the more 730 of two years before that. In fact, the NHL is likely to see fewer fights this season, about 345, than the 347 during the lockout-shortened 48-game campaign in 2013.

The Anaheim Ducks led the league with 78 fights as recently as the 2009-10 season. They may be the only team to hit 40 this season.

It’s become clear in internal emails made public last week that the NHL has wrestled with fighting amid the rise in concussion awareness. But it’s apparent that fighting has diminished almost naturally in a game that relies on speed and skating more than ever before.

“It’s just like anything,” said Maple Leafs forward and long-time fighter Rich Clune, “the fat’s getting trimmed.”

Toronto led the league in fighting as recently as two seasons ago with heavyweights like Colton Orr, but has since veered in the opposite direction under team president Brendan Shanahan, adding as much speed and skill as possible.

Previously the NHL’s senior vice-president of hockey operations and player safety, Shanahan advocated for fighting’s removal in the fall of 2011, internal emails show. Earlier that year, three former players and regular fighters, Wade Belak, Derek Boogaard and Rick Rypien, died in the span of a few months.

Shanahan urged league officials

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Montreal Canadiens’ Mike Brown and Florida Panthers’ Shawn Thornton square off during first period NHL hockey action March 15, in Montreal. to adopt stiffer penalties for fighting.

“Let’s be first,” Shanahan said of becoming the first North American hockey league to adopt such rules. “I believe it’s the right thing to do.”

The NHL did not follow his lead ultimately, making small tweaks instead that penalized players for removing helmets or fighting with visors. “…I think the NHL is cognizant of the fact that they can’t eliminate it and turn it into a non-contact sport because I don’t think it’ll sell,” Clune said. “I don’t think it’ll sell, especially in America where the game is still growing.”

A faster game, Thornton suggests, has left less room for the “one-dimensional” enforcers that once roamed the ice, the kind Shanahan described in a 2007 competition committee meeting as “essentially trained fighters.”

Teams don’t dress players like that much anymore, buoyed by analytics that shine light on who’s actually effective and who’s not.

Internal emails suggest that the

NHL’s concern in eliminating fighting would mean that the role and job of fighters would simply die. But that’s happened anyway.

The leading fighters of today mostly average at least 10 minutes, including the Islanders’ Matt Martin, who plays a regular shift with a heavy presence on New York’s fourth line.

Fourth lines with some degree of skill are more common today.

“Some guys (are) going to play in the league because they’re gritty and they’re going to fight sometimes,” said Florida’s 23-year-old winger Jonathan Huberdeau. “But I think these days there’s no fighters that can’t play hockey.”

Young players today just don’t fight like they used to either. Many of the leading fighters this season are pushing 30 or older. Recent rule changes in junior hockey tied to taming fighting have also added to the changing culture.

Increased awareness about concussions has led some, including top

league officials, to question fighting’s place in the game, but not Thornton.

He estimates one, maybe two concussions in a career that included hundreds of fights.

The Florida Panthers veteran thinks a speedier game with higher-impact collisions is primarily to blame for the prevalence of concussions.

“How many guys get them from fighting? It’s few and far between,” said Thornton. “It actually kind of pisses me off a little bit that the fighting thing is the first thing that’s thrown out there when they talk about concussions.”

At the GM meetings in the spring of 2009, the league’s “Fighting Analysis” showed that about half of all fights that season could be described as “Want to go” fights, which happened for no apparent reason, or “Face-off Fights”, which happened immediately after a faceoff, the internal documents revealed.

Thornton knew, for example, that when his old Bruins squad played the Sabres he was dropping the gloves at some point with six-foot-four heavyweight Andrew Peters. He’s glad those staged fights don’t happen anymore as is Clune, who describes them as “embarrassing”.

“I’m selfish,” Clune said. “I don’t want to have John Scott breathing down my neck.”

Fights today mostly occur as organic flare-ups or as retaliation. The number of fights per game has dropped nearly every season, from a post-lockouthigh of 0.60 fights per game in 2008-09 to less than half that at 0.28 on average this season, according to HockeyFights.com, the go-to source on fighting stats.

Whether fighting eventually dies altogether some day is unclear. Some believe a good balance has emerged.

“I don’t know but I would assume if you asked every guy on my team they like when I’m in the lineup,” Thornton said. “You always want to know somebody has your back. I just think you have to be able to play now.”

“I like to fight,” Clune added. “But I like to play hockey more. I think where the game is going right now is pretty close to where I think it can still sell and it’s a lot safer for the players.”

Masse breaks Canadian mark twice to book Olympic ticket OLYMPIC SWIMMING TRIALS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Kylie Masse showed in the morning heats that she was in top form at the Olympic Trials.

She raised the bar even higher in the 100-metre backstroke final Wednesday night to book her ticket for the Rio Games.

Masse started the day by breaking the Canadian record with a time of 59.17 seconds at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. She trimmed the mark a little more in the evening with a 59.06, over a second faster than the Olympic qualifying standard.

“I felt good (after the heats) but I felt like I had a little more in me still,” she said.

Dominique Bouchard of North Bay, Ont., also earned a Rio spot with her second-place finish in 59.96.

In order to be nominated for the national team that will compete at the Games, the qualifying standard must be reached and a top-two finish is required.

Masse, from Lasalle, Ont., broke the mark of 59.68 set by Sinead Russell in July 2011.

She was hoping to perfect a lot of the smaller details in her race for the final.

FROM PAGE B1: OILERS “We needed to win,” said Jordan Eberle, who had two assists. “That was a must-win for us. We knew in the locker room that we had to come out and play our best, and we did that. We got the points and sent the fans off here well.”

Matt Bartkowski and Bo Horvat replied for the Canucks (30-37-13), who saw a three-game winning streak come to an end.

The Oilers scored first, 8:27 into the second period when Yakupov brought a puck out of the corner and sent a wrist shot over Vancouver goalie Jacob Markstrom’s shoulder for his eighth goal of the season.

Edmonton made it 2-0 with seven minutes left in the second as Maroon picked off an Emerson Etem pass in front of the Vancouver net and whirled around to score his sixth goal and 12th point in 15 games since joining the Oilers.

The Oilers added to their lead with a power-play goal late in the second as McDavid got to a rebound and was able to poke in his 16th of the season.

The Canucks finally got one past Edmonton goalie Cam Talbot five minutes into the third period as a Bartkowski shot went off the stick of Edmonton defender Adam Pardy and in.

Edmonton bounced back with a pair of goals just 18 seconds apart midway through the third. McDavid started a cycle that ended with Maroon scoring his second on a tip-in, followed quickly by Hall turning on the jets and scoring on a backhand.

Horvat got one back for the Canucks, walking around a defender for his 15th. However, Draisaitl scored a power-play goal with less than two minutes remaining, officially recording the final goal scored at Rexall. The Canucks play in Calgary on Thursday before returning home to face the Oilers again on Saturday in the final game of the season for both teams.

“I don’t think this morning that I was expecting that,” Masse said. “I was shocked to see what I (raced). But it was more incentive to go faster and see what I could do tonight knowing that it’s a final and Olympic trials.

“The atmosphere and the environment makes it even more exciting. I think that helped a lot.”

There were a few hundred vocal fans on hand for the evening competition.

The venue also hosted last year’s Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.

Sydney Pickrem and Emily Overholt finished one-two in the women’s 400-metre individual medley to lock up spots for Rio. Pickrem, a dual citizen from Oldsmar, Fla., finished in four minutes 38.34 seconds while Overholt,

from West Vancouver, B.C., was right behind in 4:38.50.

The men’s swimmers were shut out on the opening day but Toronto’s Javier Acevedo ended the qualification drought with a time of 53.67 in the 100-metre backstroke.

“Surreal. It’s the biggest moment.

I stepped up to the plate,” he said. “I was able to get to the wall first and now I’m the first male qualifier for Rio.” Calgary’s Russell Wood was second in 54.47, just off the needed qualifying time of 54.36. Mack Darragh of Oakville, Ont., was first in the 200-metre butterfly in 1:58.22, but well off the Rio standard of 1:56.97.

Competition continues through Sunday.

Oilers alumni and fans bid goodbye to Rexall

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Wayne Gretzky stood at centre ice in the building he made famous Wednesday night and saluted the fans.

“My gosh, I wish we could be out there and play for them again but we can’t do it anymore,” Gretzky said to cheers from thousands of supporters —most clad in orange, blue and white team jerseys — in a tribute ceremony to mark the final Oilers game at Rexall Place.

“The greatest thing about hockey is the people you meet,” he added.

“The friendships I have, the memories, there’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest game in the world.”

Gretzky was among scores of former Oilers of the NHL and World Hockey Association eras to join fans bidding goodbye to the rink after almost 42 years of hockey.

Before the game, fans watched the current Oilers, in their retro orange jerseys, down the Vancouver Canucks 6-2.

The game was called on television by Bob Cole, the broadcaster who was at the mic when the Oilers began their Stanley Cup dynasty run in the 1980s.

Other Oiler greats on hand for the ceremony included the stars of those Stanley Cup dynasty years — Mark Messier, Jari Kurri, Glenn Anderson, Grant Fuhr, Kevin Lowe and Paul Coffey.

Before the game, Gretzky and his family posed for photos outside Rexall Place in front of the lifesize bronze statue of Gretzky holding aloft the Stanley Cup. The statue was erected in 1989, a year after Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings, to

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commemorate his contributions to the Oilers.

The first game was played Nov. 10, 1974, when the Oilers were still in the World Hockey Association.

That night, the Oilers and goalie Jacques Plante defeated netminder Gerry Cheevers and the Cleveland Crusaders 4-1.

The rink was still a work in progress at that point due to numerous construction delays. Crews were still installing seats as fans filed into the building that night.

Many of the building’s signature memories revolve around Gretzky.

He led the team to four of their five Stanley Cups, the first one captured at home on May 19, 1984. The Oilers clinched the Stanley Cup four out of five times on home ice — in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988. On Dec. 30, 1981, hometown fans roared as Gretzky scored five times on the Philadelphia Flyers to seal a record 50 goals in 39 games.

On Oct. 15, 1989, Gretzky returned to Edmonton as a member of the Kings to set the all-time NHL points record of 1,851, surpassing Gordie Howe.

He is the leading point-getter at Rexall with 933 points in the team’s NHL era.

In the NHL, the Oilers played 1,428 regular season games and 129 playoff games in Rexall.

The Oilers move into the new downtown Rogers Place in the fall. The future of Rexall Place is uncertain.

In February, the non-profit Northlands board that runs the complex pitched converting it into an amateur sports multiplex, with seven ice surfaces.

The Oilers finish the regular season with a rematch against the Canucks on Saturday in Vancouver.

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Hockey

Local Sports x-Red Deer at Regina, TBA Tuesday, Apr. 19 x-Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

:2016 Western Hockey League Playoffs All Times Local First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE

80 36 38 6 78 212 232 80 28 41 11 67 193 238 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 79 55 17 7 117 244 186 x-Pittsburgh 80 47 25 8 102 240 197 x-N.Y. Rang80 45 26 9 99 232 211 ers x-N.Y. Island79 44 26 9 97 223 206 ers Philadelphia 79 39 27 13 91 203 211 Carolina 80 35 29 16 86 194 217 New Jersey 80 37 35 8 82 177 203 Columbus 80 32 40 8 72 210 247 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Dallas 80 48 23 9 105 260 226 x-St. Louis 80 48 23 9 105 221 195 x-Chicago 80 47 26 7 101 230 202 x-Nashville 80 40 26 14 94 223 210 x-Minnesota 81 38 32 11 87 215 204 Colorado 80 39 37 4 82 211 231 Winnipeg 80 33 39 8 74 206 232 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Anaheim 79 44 24 11 99 210 187 x-Los Ange80 47 28 5 99 220 190 les x-San Jose 80 45 29 6 96 236 205 Arizona 80 35 38 7 77 207 241 Calgary 80 33 40 7 73 222 256 Vancouver 80 30 37 13 73 184 233 Edmonton 81 31 43 7 69 200 241 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) Thursday’s game Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday’s game Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12 Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Thursday, April 14 Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, April 15 x-Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday, April 17 x-Victoria at Kelowna - 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19 x-Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.

East Division Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (WC2) (Brandon wins series 4-2) Tuesday’s result Brandon 10 Edmonton 3 Prince Albert (2) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Moose Jaw wins series 4-1) Central Division Lethbridge (1) vs. Regina (WC1) (Regina wins series 4-1) Red Deer (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Red Deer wins series 4-1)

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) Friday’s game Everett at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

Sunday’s game Everett at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 13 Seattle at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 15 Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 16 x-Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 18 x-Seattle at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 19 x-Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. x — played only if necessary.

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Spokane (WC2) (Victoria wins series 4-2) Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kelowna wins series 4-3) U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Prince George (WC1) (Seattle wins series 4-0) ——— Everett (2) vs. Portland (3) (Everett wins series 4-0) Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7)

WHL SCORING LEADER Scoring leaders following the opening round of the Western Hockey League’s 2016 playoffs: G A Pt Adam Brooks, Reg 5 9 14 Brett Howden, MJ 3 8 11 Dryden Hunt, MJ 6 4 10 Keanu Yamamoto, Spo 3 7 10 Brayden Point, MJ 2 8 10 Tyler Soy, Vic 5 4 9 Jack Walker, Vic 5 4 9 Tanner Jeannot, MJ 4 5 9 Sam Steel, Reg 4 5 9 John Quenneville, Bdn 4 5 9 Gage Quinney, Kam 3 6 9 Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn 2 7 9 Collin Shirley, Kam 5 3 8 Cole Sanford, Reg 3 5 8 Nolan Patrick, Bdn 3 5 8 Adam Helewka, RD 5 2 7 Reid Duke, Bdn 5 2 7 Noah Gregor, MJ 2 5 7 Mathew Barzal, Sea 0 7 7 Vladimir Bobylev, Vic 0 7 7

EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) Friday’s game Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s game Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 12 Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 13 Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 15 x-Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 17 x-Brandon at Moose Jaw, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19 x-Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) Saturday’s game Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Regina at Red Deer, TBA Tuesday, Apr. 12 Red Deer at Regina, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 13 Red Deer at Regina, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 15 x-Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 17

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts y-Florida 80 46 25 9 101 x-Tampa Bay 80 45 30 5 95 Detroit 80 41 28 11 93 Boston 80 41 30 9 91 Ottawa 80 36 35 9 81 Buffalo 80 34 35 11 79

GF 233 221 207 234 227 196

GA 198 194 216 222 245 215

Baltimore Tampa Bay Toronto Boston New York Chicago Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Seattle Houston Texas Los Angeles Oakland

Thursday’s Games Chicago White Sox(Latos0-0)at Oakland (Graveman 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Houston (Fiers0-0) at N.Y.Yankees(Eovaldi 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Boston (Kelly 0-0) at Cleveland (Salazar0-0), 4:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Hughes 0-0) atBaltimore(Jimenez 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (Holland0-0) at L.A.Angels(Santiago 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 11:08a.m.

Cleveland a tChicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5:07p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 6:10p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.

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

Oakland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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Tuesday’s Games Houston 5, N.Y.Yankees 3 Boston 6,Cleveland 2 N.Y. Mets 2, KansasCity 0 Detroit 8, Miami 7,11innings Tampa Bay 3,Toronto 2 Seattle 10, Texas 2 Chicago Cubs 6,L.A.Angels 1 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland 4 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5,Toronto 3 Seattle 9, Texas 5 Detroit 7, Miami 3 Cleveland 7, Boston 6 N.Y. Yankees 16, Houston 6 Baltimore 4,Minnesota 2 Chicago White Sox at Oakland, Late

Washington New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee St. Louis

National League East Division W L Pct GB 2 01.000 — 1 1 .500 1 0 2 .000 2 0 2 .000 2 0 2 .000 2 Central Division W L Pct GB 3 01.000 — 2 01.000 1/2 2 01.000 1/2 1 2 .333 2 0 3 .000 3 West Division W L Pct GB

Tuesday’s Games Carolina 2, Boston 1, SO Buffalo 3, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 3, OT N.Y. Rangers 3, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 4, Montreal 1 Pittsburgh 5, Ottawa 3 Nashville 4, Colorado 3 San Jose 3, Minnesota 0 Chicago 6, Arizona 2 Los Angeles 5, Calgary 4, OT Winnipeg 2, Anaheim 1, OT

NBA CHICAGO — Named Horace Grant special advisor to the president.

BASEBALL MLB LEAGUE — Announced the resignation of chief marketing officer Jacqueline Parkes.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with C Chris O’Dowd on a minor league contract.

L.A. ANGELS — Placed LHP Andrew Heaney on the 15-day DL. SEATTLE — Assigned C Rob Brantly outright to Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY — Claimed OF Jake Goebbert off waivers from Pittsburgh and optioned him to Durham (IL).

TEXAS — Traded LHP Sam Freeman to Milwaukee for cash.

National League ARIZONA — Optioned RHP Silvino Bracho to Reno (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Kyle Drabek from Reno. Transferred OF A.J. Pollock from the 15- to the 60-day DL. MILWAUKEE — Designated RHP Ariel Pena for assignment.

WASHINGTON — Placed OF Ben Revere on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 5. Recalled OF Matt den Dekker from Syracuse (IL).

FOOTBALL NFL DENVER — Agreed to terms with DE Jared Crick on a two-year contract.

HOCKEY NHL ARIZONA — Recalled G Marek Langhamer from Springfield (AHL).

CAROLINA — Reassigned F Sergey Tolchinsky to Charlotte (AHL).

CHICAGO — Recalled F Bryan Bickell from Rockford (AHL). Agreed to terms with F Tyler Motte on a three-year contract.

DALLAS — Recalled F Curtis McKenzie from Texas (AHL).

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Signed F Jackson Houck to an amateur tryout agreement.

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Reassigned D Daniel New to Florida (ECHL). Signed D Logan Roe to a professional tryout agreement.

SOCCER MLS MLS — Fined New England F Charlie Davies an

BASKETBALL

Saturday

● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, first game, best-of-seven, Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League GP Buffalo 13 New England12 Rochester 13 Georgia 13 Toronto 13

East Division W L Pct GF 9 4.692 187 7 5.583 156 6 7.462 145 4 9.308 163 4 9.308 138

West Division GP W L Pct GF 13 10 3.769 173 13 10 3.769 159 15 6 9.400 170 13 3 10.231 143 —clinched playoff berth.

GA GB 162 — 140 1.5 148 3 183 5 159 5 GA GB 140 — 148 — 174 5 180 7

Wednesday’s Games Columbus 5, Toronto 1 Edmonton 6, Vancouver 2 Detroit 3, Philadelphia 0

2016 World Men’s Curling Championship BASEL, Switzerland — Standings Wednesday after Draw 14 at the 2016 World Men’s Curling Championship held through Sunday at the Scotiabank Centre in Basel, Switzerland)

Thursday’s Games Detroit at Boston, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

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

Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Florida at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Arizona at Nashville, 6 p.m.

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

Colorado at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.

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

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

ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) Canada(Koe) Denmark (Stjerne) Japan (Morozumi) Norway (Ulsrud) Sweden (Edin) U.S. (Shuster) Finland (Kauste) Scotland (Brewster) Switzerland (Michel) Russia (Tselousov) Germany (Baumann) South Korea (Kim)

3 2 2 1 0

01.000 — 1 .667 1/2 1 .667 1/2 2 .333 1 2 .000 2

W 8 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 2 1 1

L 1 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 7 8 8

Wednesday’s results

Friday’s Games Columbus at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco Arizona San Diego

Sunday

● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, second game, best-of-seven, Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball Association: Division I and II second game best-of-three final, 4:15 p.m.; Division III first game best-ofthree final, 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber

WEEK 14 Saturday’s results Colorado 12New England 10 Buffalo 18 Georgia 14 Saskatchewan 11 Calgary 9 Toronto 13 Vancouver 11 WEEK 15 Friday, Apr. 8 Saskatchewan at New England, 5 p.m.

Saturday,Apr. 9 New England at Toronto, 5p.m.

Rochester at Buffalo, 5:30p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 7p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 10 Colorado at Georgia, 12:05p.m.

Curling

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Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 2,Kansas City 0 Pittsburgh 6, St.Louis 5,11innings Detroit 8, Miami 7,11innings San Francisco 2,Milwaukee 1 Arizona 11,Colorado 6 Chicago Cubs 6,L.A. Angels 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 0 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 4, San Francisco 3 Colorado 4,Arizona 3 Detroit 7, Miami 3 Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 1 Cincinnati 3,Philadelphia 2 Washington 3,Atlanta 1 L.A. Dodgers 7 atSanDiego 0 Thursday’s Games Philadelphia (Morton0-0) at Cincinnati(Stephenson 0-0), 10:35 a.m.

Miami (Conley0-0) atWashington(Roark0-0), 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers(A.Wood0-0) at San Francisco(Peavy 0-0), 2:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs(Lackey0-0) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 0-0), 7:40 p.m.

Friday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets,11:10 a.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 2:10p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:10p.m.

St. Louis at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 6:10p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona,7:40p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at SanFrancisco,8:15p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions

● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball Association: Division II first game best-of-three final, 7:15 p.m.; Division I first game best-of-three final, 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber

x-Sask. x-Colorado Calgary Vancouver x

Baseball American League East Division W L Pct GB 2 01.000 — 2 2 .500 1 2 2 .500 1 1 1 .500 1 1 1 .500 1 Central Division W L Pct GB 2 01.000 — 2 01.000 — 1 1 .500 1 1 1 .500 1 0 2 .000 2 West Division W L Pct GB 2 1 .667 — 1 1 .500 1/2 1 2 .333 1 0 2 .000 1 0 2 .000 1

Today

Montreal Toronto

undisclosed amount for violation of league policy for hands to the face/head/neck of an opponent.

Suspended Orlando City D Brek Shea one game for serious foul play that endangered the safety of an opponent.

United Soccer League USL — Suspended Portland M Dylan Damraoui, Orlando City M Tony Rocha and Bethlehem M Bolu Akinyode one game.

COLLEGE COLUMBIA (MO.) — Announced the retirement of men’s basketball scouting and recruiting co-ordinator Steve Burk.

KENTUCKY — Announced sophomore G Tyler Ulis will enter the NBA draft.

LOUISVILLE — Announced additional self-imposed sanctions on its men’s basketball program in the wake of an escort’s allegations, reducing one scholarship in each of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons with official visits reduced by one each in 2016-17 and 2017-18.

MICHIGAN — Announced sophomore G/F Aubrey Dawkins is transferring to UCF. UCONN — Announced junior F Morgan Tuck will enter the WNBA draft.

VANDERBILT — Named Bryce Drew men’s basketball coach.

WEST VIRGINIA — Announced QB Will Grier is transferring from Florida.

Draw 12 Canada 9 South Korea 2 Denmark 9 Russia 1 Scotland 7 Finland 3 United States 8 Norway 3 Draw 13 Sweden 4 Canada 3 (extra end) Denmark 7 Switzerland 6 (extra end) Finland 9 Germany 1 Japan 8 United States 7 Draw 14 Japan 6 Norway 4 Scotland 7 Germany 6 (extra end) Sweden 7 South Korea 4 Switzerland 6 Russia 3 Tuesday’s results Ninth Draw Canada 6 Germany 3 Denmark 7 Japan 5 Finland 8 Sweden 6 Uniited States 9 Switzerland 7 Draw 10 Germany 7 Russia 2 Japan 6 South Korea 3 Norway 6 Sweden 4 Switzerland 5 Scotland 4 Draw 11 Canada 7 Russia 2 Norway 7 Finland 5 South Korea 8 Denmark 5 United States 9 Scotland 7 Thursday’s games Draw 15, 1 a.m.

Scotland vs. Denmark, Russia vs. Finland, South Korea vs. United States, Norway vs. Canada.

Draw 16, 6 a.m.

Japan vs. Russia, Sweden vs. Scotland, Switzerland vs. Norway, Germany vs. South Korea.

Draw 17, 11 a.m.

Canada vs. Switzerland, United States vs. Germany, Finland vs. Japan, Denmark vs. Sweden.

PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Tiebreakers (if required), 5 a.m.

Page Playoffs One vs. Two, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Apr. 9 Page Playoffs Three vs. Four, 6 a.m.

Semifinal One-Two Loser vs. Three-Four Winner, 9 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 10 Third Place Semifinal Loser vs. Three-Four Loser, 2 a.m.

Championship One-Two Winner vs. Semifinal Winner, 7 a.m.

PREVIOUS RESULTS Saturday’s results First Draw Sweden 8 Japan 5 Scotland 9 South Korea 3 Norway 11 Russia 3 Switzerland 8 Germany 2 Second Draw Canada 7 Finland 3 Russia 9 South Korea 8 (extra end) Denmark 7 United States 1 Scotland 6 Norway 3 Sunday’s results Third Draw Sweden 9 Switzerland 5 Japan 8 Germany 3 Fourth Draw Canada 11 Denmark 8 (extra end) Norway 9 South Korea 6 Russia 9 Scotland 6 United States 7 Finland 5 Fifth Draw Canada 10 United States 9 (extra end) Denmark 9 Finland 2 Japan 9 Switzerland 6 Sweden 8 Germany 4 Monday’s results Sixth Draw Japan 6 Scotland 5 Norway 8 Germany 2 Sweden 4 Russia 3 (extra end) Switzerland 12 South Korea 4 Seventh Draw Canada 5 Scotland 3 Finland 6 South Korea 4 Norway 8 Denmark 6 United States 9 Russia 6 Eighth Draw Canada 9 Japan 2 Denmark 9 Germany 1 Finland 12 Switzerland 6 United States 8 Sweden 3

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Cleveland 56 23 .709 — y-Toronto 52 25 .675 3 x-Atlanta 46 32 .590 9 1/2 x-Boston 46 32 .590 9 1/2 x-Miami 45 32 .584 10 x-Charlotte 45 33 .577 10 1/2 Indiana 42 36 .538 13 1/2 Detroit 42 37 .532 14 Chicago 39 39 .500 16 1/2 Washington 38 40 .487 17 1/2 Orlando 33 45 .423 22 1/2 Milwaukee 32 46 .410 23 1/2 New York 31 48 .392 25 Brooklyn 21 57 .269 34 1/2 Philadelphia 10 68 .128 45 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Golden State 69 9 .885 — y-San Antonio 65 12 .844 3 1/2 y-Oklahoma City 54 25 .684 15 1/2 x-L.A. Clippers 49 28 .636 19 1/2 Memphi 42 36 .538 27 x-Portland 43 37 .538 27 Dallas 40 38 .513 29 Utah 39 39 .500 30 Houston 38 40 .487 31 Denver 32 47 .405 37 1/2 Sacramento 31 47 .397 38 New Orleans 29 49 .372 40 Minnesota 26 52 .333 43 Phoenix 20 58 .256 49 L.A. Lakers 16 61 .208 52 1/2 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 107, New Orleans 93 Toronto 96, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 109, Milwaukee 80 Memphis 108, Chicago 92 Miami 107, Detroit 89 Atlanta 103, Phoenix 90 Oklahoma City 124, Denver 102 San Antonio 88, Utah 86 Portland 115, Sacramento 107 Minnesota 124, Golden State 117, OT L.A. Clippers 103, L.A. Lakers 81 Wednesday’s Games Indiana 123, Cleveland 109 Detroit 108, Orlando 104 Washington 121, Brooklyn 103 Boston 104, New Orleans 97 Charlotte 111, New York 97 Dallas 88, Houston 86 Portland 120, Oklahoma City 115 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late Thursday’s Games Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Miami, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games New York at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 7 p.m.

Austin Collie informs B.C. Lions he plans to retire from football

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — Austin Collie has informed the B.C. Lions he plans to retire.

The 30-year-old receiver spent his only CFL season with the club in 2015, hauling in 43 receptions for 439 yards and seven touchdowns.

Collie was originally drafted by the Indianapolis

Colts in 2009, where he became a preferred target of star quarterback Peyton Manning.

In five NFL seasons, the Brigham Young University product registered 179 catches for 1,908 yards and 16 touchdowns in 49 games, but also suffered a number of injuries, including three concussions.

He had just seven catches in six games for the New England Patriots in 2013 and sat out all of 2014 before giving the CFL a try after teams south of the

RINGETTE NATIONALS

Sting drop two playoff games LONDON, Ont. — The Central, Alberta Sting, who were competing in the U19 Division at the Canadian Ringette Championships as Team Alberta, lost both their playoff games Wednesday.

The Sting, who were 4-0 in pool play, lost 4-1 to Team Quebec and 3-1 to Team Manitoba.

Kristin Demale scored against Quebec with Baylee Schulhauser making 28 saves in goal.

Shae-Lyn Baxter connected against Manitoba with Grace Romansky making 27 saves.

The Sting meet the Calgary Red in a placement game today.

In the U16 division, the Sting split a pair of placement games, downing Gloucester, Ont., 5-2 and losing 6-5 in overtime to Team B.C. Brianna Abell had two goals against Gloucester with singles added by Madison Pluister, Kailyn Smalley and MaKenna Tonery.

McKenna Smalley made 25 saves in net.

Kailyn Smally scored twice against B.C. with Abell, Hannah Morrison and Colby Wagar adding single markers. McKenna Smalley finished with 29 saves.

In the National Ringette League the Edmonton WAM downed the Black Gold Rush 7-2 to neven their record at 2-2 during preliminary play.

The team is coached by Ralph Bell and Michelle Brown of Lacombe with Lindsay Brown, Jamie and Dailyn Bell and Emily Otto of Lacombe and Kelsie Caine and Breanna Beck of Red Deer on the roster.

Dailyn Bell had two goals and an assist, Jamie Bell a goal and two helpers and Brown three assists against the Rush.

The WAM face Misson, B.C. today and the Calgary Rath on Friday.

The final goes Saturday.

border stopped calling.

Collie — who grew up in California, but was born in Hamilton while his father played for the Tiger-Cats — was an intriguing prospect for the Canadian game.

He counted as a national player at a skill position, meaning that an American could be plugged into another area of need on the field of a ratio-driven league.

SENIOR MEN’S BASKETBALL Dave and Jon McComish dropped in 25 and 16 points respectively at Wells Furniture downed the Vikings 81-53

in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association play Tuesday.

TEAM HANDBALL Notre Dame won three of four games against Hunting Hills as the Central Alberta School Athletic Association Team Handball opened Tuesday.

The Notre Dame Cougars boys and girls I teams won 1612 and 22-7 respectively with the Notre Dame girls II squad taking a 10-8 decision. The school’s only loss was a 14-9 setback in boys II play.

Payton LaGrange and Parker Booth both had four goals for the Cougars boys I team while Bryndelle MacDougall had nine goals and Isra Alan three for the girls I squad.

Sam Gagnon had four goals and Kristen Loney two for the Cougars girls II team while Gabe Duckering had five goals and Brett Porter four for the Cougars boys II.

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NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

RBC to review files in light of scandal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PANAMA PAPERS

The CEO of RBC, the only Canadian financial institution linked to the so-called Panama Papers scandal, said Wednesday the bank is combing through four decades worth of files to determine whether any wrongdoing took place.

David McKay said he is unhappy the bank’s name has been “dragged into” the controversy involving offshore tax evasion allegations, especially considering that there is no evidence to suggest the company has done anything illicit.

“As a CEO, I have to be concerned about our brand and reputation, particularly in a situation where there’s absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing,” McKay said.

McKay’s comments came following the bank’s annual general meeting in Montreal, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also asked about the data leak that has pulled a curtain on the use of offshore tax havens.

Trudeau called on the international community to work together to make

global finance more transparent so that rich investors can’t simply “hop” around to favourable jurisdictions to avoid paying tax.

“The level of awareness that citizens of the world are beginning to take in regards to tax avoidance and evasion is a good thing,” Trudeau said in his first public comments on the matter. “But it’s certainly something that we will be working on together as a community of nations.”

The federal government knew tax avoidance was a problem long before the scandal put offshore havens in the headlines, he added.

The Toronto Star and CBC, which

worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, have reported that RBC and its subsidiaries used Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the centre of the data leak, to set up more than 370 shell companies.

McKay emphasized that there are many legitimate reasons for setting up such companies and said it’s important not to conflate tax evasion, which is illegal, with tax planning.

“We just happen to have a couple hundred files, going back 40 years, that are attached to this legal firm,” he said. “That’s all that’s been reported.”

NEW HOPE FOR HEROIN ADDICTS?

Liberals launch defence review

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Alberta BRIEFS Climate plan shifting oilsands perception says author Leach CALGARY — The lead architect of Alberta’s climate change plan says that despite some opposition, the initiative is helping shift the debate on the province’s biggest resource.

“I think you’ve seen a very different framing of the oilsands nationally and internationally,” said Andrew Leach, who led Alberta’s climate change advisory panel.

It’s all part of a changing dialogue globally on greenhouse gas policy, he said in a recent interview, pointing to the Paris climate accord and a Canada-U.S. agreement on methane reductions.

“It’s moved a long way just over the past year, and I think our work is part of that, and I think a lot of other people have played a role as well, but I think the conversation has moved a long way,” said Leach.

Nonetheless, Leach says, Alberta’s action on climate change isn’t going to suddenly open up export routes for oilsands crude.

“What I don’t think anyone should have expected was that the carbon pricing question was the only thing affecting oilsands development,” said Leach. “The spill risk view, whether accurate or not, is still a perceived risk to people and it’s not going to change with carbon pricing in Alberta.”

He says the 100 megatonne cap on oilsands emissions set by the province’s NDP government, while not part

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Tracey Loyer injects hydromorphone at the Providence Health Care Crosstown Clinic in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday. A Vancouver study suggests severely addicted heroin users could be treated with an injectable pain medication. The Study to Assess Longed-Term Opioid Medication Effectiveness, or SALOME, found hydromorphone is as effective as a pharmaceutical-grade heroine for people who do not respond to methadone or suboxone.

Montreal teen in terror case jailed three years

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A Montreal teen convicted on two terrorism-related charges for attempting to join up with Islamic State militants was handed a three-year sentence Wednesday.

The boy, now 16, was found guilty in December on two charges: committing a robbery in association with a terror organization and planning to leave Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group abroad.

Despite some reservations, youth court Judge Dominique Wilhelmy agreed to a joint recommendation of two years of supervision, with 16 months in a detention centre and another eight served in the community.

The final year would be 12 months probation with stringent conditions: refraining from social media activity consulting an imam or theologian on a

regular basis undergoing a psychological follow-up staying in Canada and avoiding people who have terror links.

Three years is the stiffest sentence that can be doled out under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. “Despite the worry and the questions that exist … I will sign off on the common suggestion,” Wilhelmy told the boy.

The case stems from an October 2014 convenience store robbery by the teen, then 15, who had hatched a plan to go to Syria to help ISIL. His father found out about the robbery and turned him in. Subsequently, terrorism charges were laid and the boy has since served a sentence for the hold-up.

Wilhelmy said the recommendation by the Crown and defence was based on reports on the boy’s considerable progress.

Five experts, working independent-

ly, came up with largely similar views about his chances of reforming.

The defence argued at trial the teen was confused and just wanted to help fellow Muslims.

The Crown argued he was radicalized, as shown in Twitter conversations with jihadist sympathizer Martin Couture-Rouleau and in the accused’s references to the convenience store loot as “war booty” when he spoke to police investigators.

Wilhelmy noted one expert said the risk of recidivism couldn’t be evaluated and another suggested the length of the deradicalization process would be equivalent to the time it took to radicalize him in the first place.

The court heard the teen has reconciled with his family and that his rigid views on Islam and radical views have changed thanks to the help of an unnamed imam.

of his recommendations, sends the right signal.

“It creates the tension in the system to say, look, if we want to grow barrels, we need to improve technology, and that’s the signal the world markets are sending anyway. For Alberta oilsands to grow, it has to lower its input costs and lower its environmental footprint,” said Leach.

Since completing the report, Leach no longer has an official role on the provincial climate change file, but he’s been busy defending the plan.

Vibration from blown tire a factor in landing gear failure in Edmonton: TSB EDMONTON — Excessive vibration from a blown tire triggered the collapse of landing gear on an Air Canada Express flight that skidded off the edge of a runway, says a report.

The Transportation Safety Board says the collapse of the right main landing gear caused a propeller blade to slice through the Jazz Aviation Dash 8 402 on Nov. 6, 2014.

Three passengers suffered minor injuries from bits of debris as the propeller punctured the fuselage during the hard landing.

The report released Wednesday warns that a similar landing-gear failure could happen unless aircraft components and airframes are required to undergo dynamic vibration tests.

“There is a risk that similar or other aircraft systems could fail during high-vibration conditions,” says the report.

The turboprop had taken off from Calgary and was flying to Grande Prairie when the pilot told the passengers and crew that they had blown a tire, but he could still land the aircraft.

The flight was diverted to Edmonton because officials felt conditions were safer there.

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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government began swimming against the tide of recent history Wednesday as it embarked on a long-awaited review on the future of the Canadian Armed Forces An ambitious public consultation was announced, something the defence minister hopes will make the process “credible and relevant.”

The Liberals hope to have the entire review completed by early 2017, in time for the next federal budget cycle, the point where previous exercises in defence policy-making have hit the rocks.

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he’s beginning with a blank slate and, to kick-start the review, National Defence has produced a 35-page primer asking the public a series of broad questions.

“We need to do a defence review to actually determine not only the capabilities that we need, but also help us with how they’re going to be employed,” Sajjan told a news conference.

Consultations between now and the end of July will look at the future size of the military, the kinds of missions it will undertake and the type of equipment it will have.

Sajjan also created a ministerial advisory council, which will give input as the Liberals sift through the responses, which will include feedback from MPs and senator, as well as six roundtables across the country.

The council consists of retired Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour, former defence minister Bill Graham, former chief of defence staff Ray Henault and Margaret Purdy, a former federal cabinet secretary.

The roundtables will be held in Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, Edmonton, Montreal and Halifax.

During the last election, the Liberals hinted clearly where they believe the military fits within the foreign policy framework.

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Leitch launches leadership bid

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Ontario MP Kellie Leitch became the first official candidate in the race for leadership of the Conservative party on Wednesday.

She had for weeks been assembling a team to support a possible bid and took the step of formally registering so she could carry out that work in the open and in accordance with leadership race rules.

Leitch was first elected in 2011 in Simcoe-Grey. She was drawn into federal politics by former Conservative finance minister Jim Flaherty, though she was a party volunteer for years and said she is thankful that support is now being returned to her.

“I’m looking forward to speaking with party members across the country — to hear directly from them and to share my ideas about what I believe we need to do to grow our movement and chart a course for our party to win in 2019,” she said in a statement.

She won’t have long to wait for company on the campaign trail as Maxime Bernier is expected to file his leadership application on Thursday.

Bernier, known for his libertarian bent, was first elected in 2006 in the riding of Beauce and has remained one of the party’s most high-profile Quebec MPs ever since.

Ahead of his formal registration, he was active on social media promoting his belief that the government should not provide any grants or bailouts to the corporate sector — despite the fact his party, when in government, gave a leg up to General Motors.

“Give me a break with the GM bailout,” he posted on Twitter. “I was not in favour of it.”

Leitch, who is also a pediatric or-

Detailed questionnaire greets would-be candidates OTTAWA — Get caught cheating on a test? Being sued by anyone? Support any groups calling for a province to secede from Canada? Hopefully not, if you aspire to lead the federal Conservative party.

On top of 300 signatures, a $50,000 application fee and the political will, would-be leadership candidates are required to submit an application to the party that’s more than 40 pages long.

They are asked for basics like education and work history, three references, credit and criminal records checks, a list of their social media accounts and everywhere they’ve ever published anything from a novel to a letter to the editor.

The application also asks detailed questions about political, personal and financial histories and associations. The Conservatives say the questionnaire is designed to help someone decide whether they should run and for the party to ask itself the same question of the potential candidate.

Whether or not they or future applicants are approved is up to a small committee of party members who have the right to disqualify a candidate for “any grounds it sees fit.”

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Kellie Leitch (centre right), then a Conservative minister, kicks a ball at the Fan Experience zone while Minister of State for Sport Bal Gosal (centre left) looks on at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Trophy Tour launch at the Ottawa’s City hall on Wednesday, April 1. thopedic surgeon, speaks French, though she does not consider herself bilingual.

The co-chairs of her campaign committee are Dany Renauld, head of a Quebec-based marketing and advertising firm, and Sander Grieve, a Toronto-based corporate lawyer who met Leitch when they were students in university.

The vote for the next Conservative leader is scheduled for May 27, 2017, but the party faithful are to gather in

Vancouver this spring for a policy convention.

While the rules for the leadership race were set in March, many consider the convention to be the real starting point for the race.

Others considering a bid including MPs Jason Kenney, Michael Chong, Tony Clement, Andrew Scheer and Lisa Raitt. So far, the only party outsider who has suggested an interest in the job is businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary.

NDP’s Mulcair heads to Edmonton in hopes of quieting critics

Canada BRIEFS Man accused of killing seniors late to court for third time, says he slept in EDMONTON — A man accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of two Alberta seniors has showed up late for court again, this time saying he slept in.

Travis Vader’s tardiness has twice before delayed trial proceedings over mechanical problems he said he was having with various vehicles.

Wednesday’s 45-minute delay appeared to vex Justice Denny Thomas, who warned Vader not to let it happen again.

Vader apologized and told the judge he had been evicted from his motel room because the owners didn’t like being subjected to RCMP surveillance and phone calls.

He said after packing and finding a new place, he slept through his alarm on Wednesday morning.

“You can see the number of people who were inconvenienced by this, the effect it has on the pace of the trial,” Thomas said. “I’m imploring you not to let that happen again.”

Later Wednesday, an RCMP scientist testified about a DNA sample found on a beer can in the SUV belonging to Lyle and Marie McCann, who vanished in the summer of 2010.

He said the odds that the DNA could be from anyone else other than Vader is one in three trillion.

DNA linked to Vader was also found on the SUV’s steering wheel and on a passenger seat.

The bodies of the couple, both in their late 80s, have never been found.

Detainees from Toronto G20 summit win right to sue TORONTO — More than 1,000 people detained during the chaotic G20 summit almost six years ago won the right Wednesday to go the class-action route in lawsuits against police and others.

In approving the class-action process, Ontario’s top court said various reports on the events to date had made only non-binding recommendations.

“The remedies sought by the plaintiffs, which include a declaration that class members’ charter rights have been violated and an award of damages, would be stronger instruments of behaviour modification,” the Court of Appeal said in its decision.

The G20 summit over a weekend in June 2010 — marred by vandalism from several dozen protesters — saw more than 1,000 people arrested or detained in what was later described as one of the worst violations of civil liberties in Canadian history. Many were kept in appalling conditions at a

makeshift detention centre. Almost all were released without charge within 24 hours.

In response to the court decision, lawyer Eric Gillespie said a class action could “help protect the basic freedoms of all Canadians” while co-counsel Kent Elson said it could lead to the disclosure of confidential police documents and tapes about what really happened as well as “positive reforms about policing.”

A number of New Democrats — speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of being seen as openly critical of their leader — say they remain deeply conflicted about whether to support Mulcair, who they say has struggled to connect with Canadians on a personal level despite his strengths in the Com-

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The charges included two counts of weapons trafficking, theft, possession of stolen property, four counts of carrying a concealed weapon, and four counts of possession for a purpose dangerous to the public peace, among others.

Following a four-minute court hearing Wednesday, Crown prosecutor John Nisbet said that the weapons seized included a shotgun, a rifle, a pellet rifle and a pellet pistol.

“We are worried about them maybe selling these weapons,” said Nisbet.

Nisbet said he opposed the release of the 15- and 17-year-olds because he simply needs to find out more information about the case. They have been remanded until a show cause hearing on Friday.

“They are not charged with threats, they are not charged with actually assaulting anybody,” he said. “Part of what we need to find out is what was going on, what was in their heads, what’s the risk to the public, what’s the danger, and what are they likely to do in the future.”

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Driver released without charges after collision that killed B.C. Mountie LANGFORD, B.C. — A driver taken into custody after a collision that killed a British Columbia Mountie has been released without charges.

RCMP Cpl. Janelle Shoihet confirmed the man was released Wednesday morning but she says a criminal investigation is active and ongoing.

The man was taken into custody early Tuesday after a crash killed 11-year member of the force Const.

Sarah Beckett in Langford, B.C., near Victoria.

Shoihet says in a statement that investigators and analysts have completed their scene examination and are continuing to gather evidence.

She says investigators will take the time necessary to gather all information and evidence and consult with Crown counsel with respect to applicable charges.

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members are gathering to decide their leader’s political fate.

Mulcair travelled to the Alberta capital Wednesday without any visible rivals for his job in sight, and yet he remains under pressure from critics, party insiders and others who believe it’s time for a change at the top.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as Okie From Muskogee and Sing Me Back Home, died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday.

Haggard’s manager, Frank Mull, said the country icon died in Palo Cedro, California, of pneumonia that he had been battling for months. His publicist, Tresa Redburn, said no official cause of death has been deter- MERLE HAGGARD mined.

He had kept up an ambitious touring schedule, but the pneumonia in both lungs had forced him to cancel several shows this year. Mull said his family was by his side when he died at home and they were planning a funeral for Saturday at his home.

A masterful guitarist, fiddler and songwriter as well as singer, the Country Music Hall of Famer with the firm, direct baritone recorded for more than 40 years, releasing dozens of albums and No. 1 hits.

“He was my brother, my friend. I will miss him,” said Willie Nelson, his longtime friend, in a statement. Tonya Tucker recalled fondly the time they ate bologna sandwiches by the river: “I just can’t imagine a world without Merle. It’s so hard to accept, but I’ll continue honouring him on stage just as I do during every show.”

The White House called Haggard a “legend” and said President Barack Obama was sending his thoughts and prayers to Haggard’s family. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Haggard told stories that people from all walks of American life could relate to.

“His passing is a loss for country music, but obviously is a loss for all the people who got to know him personally, too,” Earnest said.

Haggard — along with fellow California country star Buck Owens — was a founder of the twangy Bakersfield Sound, a direct contrast to the smooth, string-laden country records popular in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1960s.

His music was rough yet sensitive, reflecting on childhood, marriage and daily struggles, telling stories of shame and redemption, or just putting his foot down in The Fightin’ Side of Me and I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink.

His most beloved songs included the prison ballad Sing Me Back Home, the tributes to his mother Mama Tried and Hungry Eyes, the romantic lament Today I Started Loving You Again and such blue collar chronicles as If We Make It Through December and Workin’ Man Blues.

“We’ve lost one of the greatest writers and singers of all time. His heart was as tender as his love ballads,” said Dolly Parton. “I loved him like a brother.”

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Ben Hall sets up flowers and a book for condolences in front of the plaque of Merle Haggard in the Rotunda Hall at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Wednesday, in Nashville, Tenn., after learning of his death. Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame through his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as ‘Okie From Muskogee’ and ‘Sing Me Back Home,’ died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday.

NEW YORK — Here’s a sample of reaction to the death of country music star Merle Haggard.

sandwiches. Merle was a simple man with incredible talent like no other.” — Tanya Tucker

“He was my brother, my friend. I will miss him.” — Willie Nelson

“I remember when I was 15 years old on tour with Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard. They both were wondering which one of the two was going to make it. Well, they both made it.” — Hank Williams Jr

“The greatest singer-songwriter of my lifetime is gone. Thanks for the music and friendship.”— Toby Keith “We’ve lost one of the greatest writers and singers of all time. His heart was as tender as his love ballads. I loved him like a brother. Rest easy, Merle.” — Dolly Parton “We played a lot of gigs together through the years, but some of my fondest memories were hanging out in a natural setting, like the time we sat there by the river in his backyard and ate bologna

nizable as Haggard’s, with its wary, sideways glance and chiseled, haunted features that seemed to bear every scar from his past.

General audiences knew him best for Okie From Muskogee, a patriotic anthem released in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War that quickly became a cultural touchstone for its anti-hippie lyrics proclaiming “we don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street we like living right and being free.”

Okie from Muskogee made him a hero among conservatives, but he softened on the counterculture and released the lighthearted Big Time Annie’s Square, a tribute to a hippie girl and her “crazy world.” More recently, he was a backer of prominent Democrats.

In 2007 he unveiled a song to promote

“Merle Haggard was one of the greatest songwriters, performers and story-tellers that ever lived. I grew up on his music and am I’m so saddened by his passing.” — Kiefer Sutherland “When Merle Haggard sang, you paid attention. He is about as close to perfection in country music as we will probably ever have.” — Lorrie Morgan

Hillary Clinton and two years later he penned Hopes Are High to commemorate Obama’s inauguration. In America First, he even opposed the Iraq War, singing “Let’s get out of Iraq, and get back on track.”

In 1970, Haggard was named entertainer of the year by the Country Music Association, and Okie From Muskogee won best album and single. The No. 1 hits Mama Tried and Workin’ Man Blues also broke onto the charts around that time, sealing his reputation as one of country’s defining voices. He picked up another CMA album of the year in 1972 for Let Me Tell You About a Song.

Still, Haggard referred to the improvisations of his band, the Strangers, as “country jazz,” and in 1980, became the first country artist to appear on the

“One of the first things John and I realized we had in common was our love of Haggard songs.” —“Big Kenny” Alphin of Big & Rich “His death seems somehow unfathomable. He carried the sounds and spirit of his heroes Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie into the present day, and he wrote the songs that told, and will continue to tell, our stories.” — Kyle Young, CEO, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum “Nobody sang better or with more heart than Merle Haggard. It was an honour to spend time and share the stage with him on many occasions. Merle had a special way of making everyone around him feel like a friend, after just a short time with him.” — Neal McCoy

cover of the jazz magazine Downbeat.

He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994, the same year he won a Grammy for best male country vocal performance in That’s the Way Love Goes.

Haggard also began headlining at Farm Aid, the benefit founded by his longtime friend Willie Nelson, and started touring with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.

Along with his albums of original songs, he recorded tributes to such early influences as country pioneer Jimmy Rodgers and Western swing king Bob Wills, and paired up with Nelson and George Jones among others. He also resisted the slick arrangements favoured by some pop-country stars.

Peace, love and understanding? Not always at the Rock Hall

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — All you need is love.

Love’s often in short supply at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, however. For all the good vibes of a career’s crowning achievement, the event can be a display case for long-running feuds, petty jealousies and business disputes. Paul Simon once jokingly suggested the hall create a special wing for musical acts that didn’t get along.

This year’s ceremony, taking place Friday in Brooklyn, has a bumper crop of squabbling inductees.

Current members of Deep Purple have refused to perform with Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist who wrote the signature riff to “Smoke on the Water” and probably the most identifiable person who passed through the band.

He left in 1993. So Blackmore told the hall he won’t show up this week.

A reunion was in the works for Chicago and its former lead singer, Peter

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Things didn’t look good for Cheap Trick, whose longtime drummer Bun E. Carlos hasn’t played for them in six years. He explained to Rolling Stone last year that “me and the singer don’t get along.” After legal wrangling, Carlos is still considered a member for business purposes, but guitarist Rick Nielsen’s son Daxx now plays drums.

Yet, Carlos is expected to appear Friday and perform with Cheap Trick again for one more night.

Maybe love will prevail after all.

CAN’T BUY ME LOVE The Beatles actually set a sour tone early. George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, appeared for the act’s induction in 1988, but Paul McCartney stayed away.

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Ian Gillan, right, and Roger Glover, of British Rockband Deep Purple, perform on the main stage during the Caribana Openair Festival, in Crans-sur-Nyon, Western Switzerland. Current members of Deep Purple have refused to perform with former band member Ritchie Blackmore at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction so Blackmore told the hall he won’t show up this week.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It’s the world’s oldest profession. It’s very popular with amateurs. With or without money changing hands, sex reigns as a transaction that stimulates no end of longing, curiosity and obsession.

No wonder The Girlfriend Experience should seduce viewers with this business of companionship between a high-end female escort and her satisfied clients.

A dramatic series of 13 half-hours premiering on Starz with two episodes Sunday, The Girlfriend Experience comes from producer Steven Soderbergh, loosely based on his 2009 film, and stars Riley Keough as an ambitious young woman who acknowledges she’s trying to burn the candle at three ends: she’s a promising law student in Chicago who lands a coveted internship with a prestigious law firm at the same time she follows a gal pal into a $2,000-an-hour sideline offering a “girlfriend experience” for men of means and premium urges.

Market value? A fair exchange?

“They’re paying for somebody who’s giving them something they’re not getting otherwise in their life,” says Keough, floating a commonsense reply.

In a recent interview, the 26-yearold actress displays a manner — buoyant, girlish, clad in a gauzy Valentino frock but with her designer heels comfortably dislodged from her bare feet — in stark contrast to her performance as Christine (escort nom de guerre: Chelsea), who is as poised, sleek and elliptical as this sexy show.

But as it glides through its narrative, whether in the office or the bedroom, is The Girlfriend Experience really about sex?

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FEUD: Awkward moments McCartney cited business differences between band members and said he would “feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling … at a fake reunion.”

That was a bummer, Beach Boys singer Mike Love said that same night in a memorably cranky speech where he took shots at nearly everyone in sight. At one point, he said Mick Jagger was afraid to have the Rolling Stones perform on the same bill with the Beach Boys.

“I’d like to thank Mike Love for not mentioning me,” Bob Dylan deadpanned when he spoke later that night.

McCartney was all smiles when inducted as a solo artist in 1999, five years after Lennon, but his designer daughter Stella didn’t hide her feelings that the honour was overdue.

Printed on the shirt she wore that night was the message: “About F—-ing Time.”

AWKWARD! The hall and inductees have months to prepare and smooth over unpleasantness for the ceremony. That’s not always enough to avoid awkward moments.

Creedence Clearwater Revival members Doug Clifford and Stu Cook were left uncomfortably standing to the side in 1993 when leader John Fogerty stepped to the stage to play Creedence songs with Bruce Springsteen and Robbie Robertson. Fogerty had bitterly split with the other two and his late brother Tom over business issues.

When Blondie re-formed in 1999, they left out members Frank Infante and Nigel Harrison, who sued unsuccessfully to rejoin. They lost again during the band’s 2006 induction, when Infante pleaded onstage with singer Deborah Harry to perform one last time.

“Debbie, are we allowed?” Infante said.

Nope.

Elvis Costello still performs with two-thirds of his longtime backing band, the Attractions. But not bass player Bruce Thomas, who didn’t help

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In this image released by Starz, Riley Keough appears in a scene from ‘The Girlfriend Experience.’ The 13-episode series premieres Sunday and is loosely based on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film.

“The show to me is about control,” says Soderbergh. “This is a really interesting venue to explore a character who is discovering that she has power and that she likes control. And what’s also interesting is that, as often happens in life, this idea of control, even in a context that SEEMS to be very prescribed, is still an illusion.”

And therein lurk the pressures on a woman who (while keeping up her lawschool grades and navigating the gender politics of the law firm where she hopes to excel) is selling men the personal touch while struggling to maintain professional boundaries.

To bring the series to life, Soderber-

gh paired filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan and actress-filmmaker Amy Seimetz (“I thought the show would benefit from male and female cross-talk”), who began by jointly writing the 13 episodes.

“All life is transactional,” says Kerrigan. “Here, we were very interested in a woman who goes into these readymade situations to be very intimate with her clients: the question is, how intimate can she really be? And how does this role collide with the others in her life?”

By collaborating on the scripts, line by line, Kerrigan feels he and Seimetz counterbalanced male and female

relations by penning a thinly disguised novel about an autocratic band leader. When handed his rock hall trophy in 2003, Thomas said, “thanks for the memories, that’s it,” then walked offstage and out of the Waldorf Astoria ballroom.

Costello waved goodbye with a lewd gesture.

tucky.”

When it came to Garfunkel, Simon said, “I regret the ending of our friendship, and I hope that one day before we die we will make peace with each other.”

With perfect comic timing, Simon waited for the audience’s warm applause to wash over him.

“No rush,” he said.

NO SHOWS Most often, the bad feelings produce emptiness, with musicians fans would love to see on their big night not showing or playing.

Three members of the classic Guns N’ Roses lineup appeared in 2012, but frontman Axl Rose skipped the event, saying it didn’t “appear to be somewhere I’m actually wanted or respected.”

Eddie Van Halen entered rehab the week before his namesake band was inducted in 2007. His drummer brother Alex also stayed away, and vocalist David Lee Roth was a last-minute pullout because of a dispute over what song he’d perform.

Diana Ross stayed away from the Supremes’ 1988 induction, two years after Mary Wilson wrote unflattering things about her in a book. Levon Helm didn’t show up in 1994 he didn’t get along with Robbie Robertson. Roger Waters’ longstanding disputes with his former Pink Floyd members kept him away from their 1996 induction.

Kiss members appeared, but refused to perform, in 2014 in a dispute over which members would go into the hall.

It wasn’t bitterness that kept Jerry Garcia away when the Grateful Dead were inducted in 1994, a year before he died. He didn’t believe in the hall as an institution. His fellow members did, and brought along a cardboard cutout of Garcia.

Leave it to the Sex Pistols to demur most colorfully. Surviving members posted a note comparing the hall to “urine in wine” and saying they wouldn’t come because they were “not your monkeys.”

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS Paul Simon was already a rock hall member with partner Art Garfunkel when he was inducted as a solo artist in 2001. A nostalgic Simon took 10 minutes to read a list of his inspirations, from the first record he bought to “those two girls from Covington, Ken-

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GOOD TIMES It doesn’t always have to be bad times. The hall brought Robert Plant and Jimmy Page back onstage together, joined by Neil Young, for Led Zeppelin’s 1995 induction. The Police

points of view: “We looked at the characters — Christine and the rest — as individuals, not as a man or a woman, then tried to understand their psychological and emotional lives.”

Then, with the literal flip of a coin (Kerrigan won the toss), they divvied up which episodes each would direct.

At the core of their tale is Christine/ Chelsea, and tackling this multifaceted role was no small challenge for Keough.

Wed to stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen, she is a grandchild of Elvis Presley and a daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough, and already has an impressive list of film credits including Mad Max: Fury Road, The Runaways and Magic Mike.

“It’s liberating taking on a female role where she’s doing things that woman aren’t ‘supposed’ to do,” Keough says. “And it made me think a lot about sex: Why there’s so much attention to it, why it’s so secretive, why some people think it’s bad. I didn’t come up with a lot of answers.” That’s not surprising, since the series furnishes few answers to the many questions it poses.

Meanwhile, the sex scenes presented their own challenges.

“You’re not really having sex with the other actors but you’re doing everything else: the motions, the kissing, the being very intimate. And you have to do it for take after take. It gets tiring.” Even all that heavy breathing: “I’d get dizzy-headed,” she says with a laugh. “I was thinking a lot about Christine and who she is before we began shooting,” she says. “I don’t want to do something if I don’t understand it, because it feels like fraud. But by the time we started, I had gotten to a place where I was like, ‘OK, I think I get it.”’ reformed for a spirited set in 2003, and later toured together again. The Talking Heads, who dissolved in bad feelings, played their first live gig in 18 years for their 2002 induction.

“I’d like to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for giving this band a happy ending,” drummer Chris Frantz said at the time.

Cheap Trick looked past its problems to please its fans and plan the set with Bun E. Carlos, although current drummer Daxx Nielsen joked this week that he feels like a girlfriend on a night the ex-wife is coming out.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Daxx’s dad, Rick Nielsen.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Signs of spring everywhere BOB SCAMMELL OUTDOORS The umpteenth running of my annual April Fool North Raven River Slalom in search of signs of spring was totally out of sync this year.

Just out the front door, my wild crocus patch was nearly done blooming, at least two weeks early, a clear suggestion that the signs of spring had already won the slalom, come and gone, before we even got going.

We started the wild crocus patch years ago by planting fertilized, viable seeds collected from wild plants and given to us by a friend. The early wildflower blossoming of recent years may be the plants playing a deadly April Fool joke on themselves, according to Dr. Elisabeth Beaubien of Alberta Plant Watch: if the blossoms are come and gone before the bees are out and about their pollination business, there will soon be no fertilized, viable seeds to sustain and renew the species.

En route, below Dickson Dam on the Red Deer River, the huge over-wintering gaggle of Canada geese seemed to have dispersed, leaving several mated pairs to hold the fort. There was a new sign of the times posted below the dam warning of a zero tolerance policy in effect for various crimes against fishumanity.

The sloughs and potholes en route to Caroline were blanks, the ducks, geese and swans having long come, rested briefly, and then flown on to more northern nesting grounds.

This year we chose to run the zigzag of roads along the North Raven River from top to bottom, so we decided to head for Rocky Mountain House for lunch. Unfortunately, we did not bring my wheelchair, or we could have tried the new sensation out here: a restaurant called Cucina, a strange name for a Korean restaurant, Gino, my Canadian-Italian field associate and driver thought, but then we find it also does Mexican.

We settled for quick drive-through at the A & W, then went south again to check out Prairie Creek and the Stump Ranch. The shore ice was long gone on Prairie, meaning that the magic ice-

out fishing was also over. The Stump Ranch was still there, but so was lots of snow compacting into ice on the woods trail in.

Many aspens seemed out of focus, fuzzy with female flowers, at least two weeks early. But there was no sign yet of the later, long, dangling male aspen blooms that signify early brown stonefly hatches, plus, for me and many others, acute sinusitis as any breeze fills the air with aspen pollen.

We crossed the Clearwater on Hwy. 22X, then took the first right to start our trip south and west. By then there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the temperature was approaching the day’s high of 18 degrees; as fine a June day as you’ll ever find in April.

When we got into the North Raven valley’s microclimate, we started to see the influence of the little river on its environment. Just south and west of the source springs there were bluffs of male aspens already in full bloom, and the pussy willows were already going to seed, beyond bouquet condition for Herself, who had remembered to send her pruning shears.

The perfect day had drawn anglers from everywhere to Alberta’s finest trout stream; each wide spot and turnout was filled to capacity with their rigs. Half way down, where there was still some bank ice, the pussy willows were perfect’ and the Bucks for Wildlife Parking lot was overflowing anglers’ rigs.

We parked on the road and, as he went a - foraging with the shears, Gino muttered “Pesce d’Aprile!” (April Fish), which is what April Fools are called in Italy (Poissin d’Avril in France). Not so this year. One of them came out onto the road from upstream, stopped by my side of the rig, opened the door, and interviewed me.

It was an old acquaintance, George Iwaniuk, down from Edmonton for the “opener” (even though the North Raven never closes). George was almost embarrassed he’d had such a good day, including one 16-inch brown, all his trout taken on his old reliable Prince nymph, bead head.

Near home, at the Fas Gas just south of Penhold, a sure sign of spring exits her car: flip flops, short shorts and muscle shirt. At home are emails with pictures from one of those North Raven Maniacs who hide their rigs for

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Early brown stonefly on male aspen flower. the security of the obscure stretches of the North Raven where there be monster brown trout. He, too, had a great day, the April fish being the April Fools, six of them to 21 inches on streamers and nymphs.

This gent also saw two trout rising regularly to something, probably bee-

tles, that refused to be fooled by anything he cast them, meaning, early as it is, that the North Raven brown trout are already rounding into mid-season form.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

A guide for pruning deciduous trees LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING It is best to prune deciduous trees when they are dormant. Without it is easy to determine the shape and size of the plant. Cuts made with hand saws go quicker without sap to plug and bind the teeth.

Deciduous trees, with the exception of fruit trees, need to be pruned less often than shrubs. One prunes trees to remove deadwood, correct shapes, for safety or convenience. If a tree is pruned to reduce its size it will become an ongoing struggle and will need to be pruned yearly.

Start by removing all dead or diseased wood. Dead wood is unattractive, likely to fall in a wind storm and is an invitation for insects and diseases. Dead wood will be brittle, often with loose bark and warms up to hand temperature.

Diseased wood needs to be removed

immediately regardless, of the time of year, as diseases can quickly spread to the rest of the tree or to other trees.

Diseased branches can be misshapen with sunken areas but often they will just appear to be dead.

When removing diseased branches, make sure the final cut is in healthy wood. Dipping the tools in a 10% solution of bleach between cuts will keep the disease from spreading in warm or wet weather.

During the winter season diseases are dormant, tool sterilization unnecessary.

It is important to either burn or double bag diseased wood immediately to stop the disease from spreading to other plants.

Trim all broken branches. Breaks and tears that are not smooth take the tree longer to heal than do smooth cuts.

Remove all suckers or water sprouts. Suckers are found growing from the roots around the trunk. Water sprouts are long thin branches that grow straight upwards with out any side branches. Water sprouts usually appear when a plant has winter killed or been severely pruned.

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Next look for branches that are crossing and or rubbing. Branches that rub together damage bark and create openings for insects and diseases.

Wounded branches are also weaker and more likely to break in a storm.

Remove or cut back one of the branches that rub against another. The decision of which one to remove depends on the plant shape, size, health and the direction the branches are growing. As the ultimate goal is to have an attractive plant, be sure the branches that are removed will not make the plant misshapen. If possible keep the largest branch. Never keep a branch that appears to be weak or diseased.

Also take into consideration the angle between the tree and branch. The more perpendicular the branch the greater weight it can hold and the less likely it is to break.

Next remove branches that are a hazard. Branches should not obscure crosswalks or crowd sidewalks or driveways. They should not rub against buildings. If the branches are close to a utility line call the company who will

send qualified personnel to deal with the problem.

Some people will prune trees to make maintenance easier. Do not do this if it will damage the esthetics of the landscape.

Lastly, shape the plant into a natural shape.

Never remove more than a ¼ of tree in one year. Removing more wood will stress the plant causing it to send up a multitude of thin branches, water sprouts that will need to be removed next season. Better results are achieved by spreading massive pruning projects over a number of years.

Never leave stumps. Always cut back to another branch or node.

Stumps will not produce new growth.

They will die, rot and look unsightly.

Pruning is not hard as long as the basic rules are followed. Remember, removing less is better than too much.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com

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SCIENCE THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016

Got milkweed?

MONARCHS STILL NEED YOUR HELP DAVID SUZUKI SCIENCE MATTERS

Three years ago, the eastern monarch butterfly population plummeted to 35 million, a drop of more than 95 per cent since the 1990s. More than a billion milkweed plants, which monarchs depend on for survival, had been lost throughout the butterfly’s migratory range — from overwintering sites in Mexico to summer habitat in Canada.

We needed more milkweed in the ground, quickly. But many provinces and states listed the plant as “noxious”, and few nurseries and garden centres carried local “weeds”.

A lot has changed in three years.

The David Suzuki Foundation launched its #gotmilkweed campaign in April 2013 to encourage Toronto residents to plant milkweed in yards and on balconies.

Foundation volunteer Homegrown Park Rangers also planted milkweed in local parks and schoolyards. The Ontario government pulled the plant from its naughty list and media stories about the monarchs’ plight took flight.

By winter 2015, the #gotmilkweed campaign had inspired more than

10,000 milkweed plantings in Toronto, with another 11,000 people across the country pledging to help monarchs via the Monarch Manifesto. This week, the 2016 #gotmilkweed campaign launched, offering milkweed plants in Toronto and Montreal and seed packets for the rest of the country. As author and urban gardening guru Lorraine Johnson noted, these and other campaigns have made milkweed the hottest native plant on the market.

How are monarchs doing? Last month, Mexican authorities estimated the population that survived the epic 5,000-kilometre journey from Canada and the U.S. Midwest last fall was three-and-a-half times greater than the year before.

Media across the continent ran stories about the comeback.

Then the weather turned. The worst winter storm in more than 30 years hit the mountainous forest where eastern monarchs overwinter, killing as many as 11 million.

Scientists worried the damage would be even greater, such as in 2002 when a storm wiped out more than 220 million monarchs.

According to a recent study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and U.S. Geological Survey, published in Scientific Reports, eastern monarchs face a significant risk of extinction, with quasi-extinction — when so few are left that recov-

ery is impossible — occurring over the next 20 years.

Severe weather is a major threat to monarchs, from winter storms in Mexico to scorching summer droughts in their breeding grounds. Near eradication of milkweed along parts of their migratory route is an even more pressing concern. Milkweed has long been found in roadsides, ditches, medians, meadows and fields. But sprawling development coupled with a dramatic increase in use of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) has killed tens of millions of the plants.

No one knows what the future holds for monarch butterflies. But there’s reason to be encouraged.

U.S. federal agencies have offered millions in funding, and dozens of government agencies and conservation groups are working with projects like the Monarch Joint Venture.

The U.S. Environmental Defense Fund is developing the innovative Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange, allowing landowners to get paid for opening marginal land to butterflies.

In Canada, while the federal government remains quiet, a handful of researchers and municipalities — and thousands of concerned individuals — are leading the charge.

Since last fall, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked with University of Guelph conservation biologist Tyler Flockhart to assess how to best

manage linear infrastructure corridors — transmission lines, railways and highways — as potential “butterflyways.” We hope the results will help establish best practices and make an economic case for boosting milkweed and monarchs throughout North American corridors.

Many cities are aiming to make space for bees and butterflies, but the City of Markham wants to become one of the most monarch-friendly municipalities on the continent. This winter, the Ontario city committed to creating the world’s first municipal milkweed nursery, in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.

It recently became the first Canadian city to sign a mayoral monarch pledge, and has started posting “butterfly parking signs” in city parks.

Although milkweed is spreading and monarch numbers have bounced back from historic lows, the population remains more than 80 per cent lower than 20 years ago.

This summer, the great-grandkids of butterflies we welcomed last year will return to Canada. I encourage you to continue bringing them home, one milkweed plant at a time.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation communications strategist Jode Roberts.

Gold mine left high arsenic levels in Yellowknife lakes: research

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The head frame of the Giant Gold Mine stands high above the ground in Yellowknife in 2001. Research has found that levels of toxic arsenic in lakes circling a former gold mine on the outskirts of Yellowknife exceed guidelines for human and environmental safety. It’s another level of complexity to what is one of Canada’s biggest environmental cleanups. About $1 billion in tax dollars is already earmarked to deal with the defunct Giant Mine, where 237,000 tonnes of arsenic sit underground on the shores of Great Slave Lake. arsenic levels were between three and 13 times higher than drinking water guidelines, Blais reported. Even 17 kilometres away, about two-thirds of the sampled lakes had enough arsenic to damage aquatic life.

“This is where we would expect to see adverse effects on aquatic life,” said Blais. “There is evidence to suggest that important components of the

aquatic food web are affected by arsenic in lakes around Yellowknife.”

Blais said arsenic in some of the lakes is also a human health concern, especially since other studies have found similarly high levels in groundwater.

“People who derive water from wells or lakes need to be concerned about this.”

Blais said he and his colleagues are studying the arsenic’s environmental effects, including how it moves and where it’s accumulating. The Giant Mine is currently the site of a massive federal remediation plan. Engineers plan to install subterranean heat pumps to cool the mine’s chambers and tunnels to essentially freeze the underground arsenic in place.

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Research has found that levels of toxic arsenic in lakes circling a former gold mine on the outskirts of Yellowknife exceed guidelines for human and environmental safety.

It’s another level of complexity to what is one of Canada’s biggest environmental cleanups. About $1 billion in tax dollars is already earmarked to deal with the defunct Giant Mine, where 237,000 tonnes of arsenic sit underground on the shores of Great Slave Lake.

Two new studies are among the first to look at the impact of the mine’s operations on lakes outside the mine property.

“Concentrations of arsenic are well above drinking water quality guidelines and protection of aquatic life for lakes within 17 kilometres of the Giant Mine,” says an academic paper released Wednesday and co-authored by Jules Blais of the University of Ottawa.

A 17-kilometre radius is big enough to include most of the city of Yellowknife. The territorial capital gets its water from the Yellowknife River, which flows near the mine. But the river’s watershed is big enough to keep the arsenic low. The city also tests for arsenic. A Northwest Territories government study concluded that 45 of the lakes within 30 kilometres of the mine had arsenic levels that exceeded drinking water standards.

The Giant Mine was the city’s economic mainstay for 56 years before it closed in 2004.

Its gold was locked within crystals of arsenopyrite, a mineral that contains iron, arsenic and sulphur. Most of the arsenic was blown back underground, where huge dustpiles of it sit in 15 subterranean chambers, some big enough to swallow an 11-storey building. About 3,600 cubic metres of arsenic and arsenic-contaminated material also remain in surface structures.

Previous studies suggest another 16,500 tonnes of arsenic were blown into the air between 1947 and 1974 before emissions equipment was installed. As late as 1997, the mine was puffing out 30 kilograms a day of the potent poison. Much of that arsenic drifted into dozens of small, shallow lakes that dot the rocky tundra and bush surrounding Yellowknife. The government research found the smaller the lake, the higher the arsenic level.

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Our power grids are vulnerable “…while sufficient motive to take out an electric power grid may be lacking for the moment, capability is not.”

Ted Koppel, author of Lights Out Remember the monotone American journalist from the show Nightline? Koppel was so famous in the late 20th century, that Saturday Night Live alumni, such as Dana Carvey and Joe Piscopo lined up to impersonate him.

But now Koppel has written a very scary book about the vulnerabilities of our electrical grid – and thus our entire way of life – to a terrorist attack.

How serious could it get? Koppel, summarizing a 2008 U.S. congressional commission report, notes that the estimate is that “…only one in ten of us would survive a year into a nationwide blackout, the rest perishing from starvation, disease, or societal breakdown.”

Think that only refers to the U.S. grid? Think again, since the two main North American grids (east and west) extend well into Canada. That’s partly why there was such a furor over the AltaLink transmission lines, the thought being that our energy would get shipped south. True, but energy also gets shipped north on the vast grids.

The dystopian vision of the 2008 report looked at an attack on the grid via an electro-magnetic pulse bomb. If that sounds like science fiction, then I’ve got bad news. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union demonstrated how easy it would be to detonate an EMP

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bomb from a satellite back in the early 1960’s (search on-line for “Starfish Prime” and “Soviet Project K”). The first bomb took out Hawaiian streetlights from 1,400 km’s away, and the second disabled a Soviet power plant from an equally remote vantage point.

And that’s where the North Korean regime figures into the equation.

According to James Woolsey, former head of the CIA, they could set off an EMP bomb either via a Scud missile from a barge out in the ocean, or from a satellite similar to the one that Pyongyang launched in 2012.

And the North Koreans have one huge advantage over us. We can’t retaliate in a similar manner. Ever see a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night? South Korea is lit up, but North Korea just sits in pre-industrial darkness. So they aren’t afraid of any existential threat to the their almost-non-existent electrical grid.

The EMP threat is only half the story. The North American grid can also be easily attacked on the ground…as it was back in 2013 by a small group with sniper’s rifles (search “Metcalf attack”). Within nine minutes, these unknown assailants did $15 million

worth of damage, and it took 27 days to bring the sub-station back on line. Jon Wellinghoff, who was the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, figures that it was likely just a rehearsal. He notes that further analysis by the FERC found that if as few as nine similar coordinated attacks were to occur, the ensuing blackout would cover most of the U.S. (with us in Canada as collateral damage, of course).

EMP? Sniper attack? What else?

Well, there’s the potential for a cyber-attack, of course. And this was demonstrated by the U.S./Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear program (search “stuxnet” and “Natanz”), during which a few mega-bytes of computer programming hiding on a zipdrive fooled the Iranian technicians into thinking that a surprising number of their faulty centrifuges were just lemons…instead of victims of a carefully disguised and orchestrated attack via a western computer virus.

(Nuclear centrifuges are similar to our electrical grid, not only because they’re both finely balanced and easy to disrupt, but also because they both use the same rudimentary computer software made by a company called Siemens.)

So, where are the Russians and the Chinese in all this?

You guessed it: they’re already here. Koppel interviewed George Cotter (former chief scientist for the U.S. National Security Agency) and Tom

Ridge (the first Director of the U.S. Office of Homeland Security).

They – and many others in the know – are both convinced that Russia and China already know the North American grid inside-out, and they only have to move around a few ones and zeroes in order to bring us back to the Stone Age. So why don’t they? Because Putin and Xi Jinping know that their countries would suffer greatly in the subsequently crippled global economy.

And the Iranians? Koppel notes that a couple of leading cyber-security firms agree that Tehran hackers are also inside our grid. This, by the way, is a good reason for Obama’s recent agreement with Iran on nuclear time-tables and reducing economic sanctions.

The more that Iran is integrated into the global economy, the less likely it is that they’ll want to destroy it.

Koppel’s book is divided into three sections, the first of which I’ve just skimmed.

As for what our governments are doing (or not doing) to avoid a catastrophe, as well as what citizens can do, that will have to wait for my next column.

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www. evanbedford.com.

Indonesia “hobbit” fossils older than first thought NEW YORK — It was a spectacular discovery: Fossil remains in an Indonesian cave revealed a recent relative of modern humans that stood about 3 feet tall.

The creatures were quickly nicknamed “hobbits.”

With evidence that they had survived to just 12,000 years ago, the hobbits appeared to have been the last of our companions on the human branch of the evolutionary tree to go extinct.

Now, a decade after they made headlines, they’ve lost that distinction.

New investigations indicate they evidently disappeared much earlier — about 50,000 years ago, before Neanderthals did, for example.

The new date raises speculation about whether hobbits were doomed by the arrival of modern humans on their island.

But it doesn’t change much about their scientific significance, said Matt Tocheri of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

He and others wrote the new paper with three of the researchers who’d first reported the discovery in 2004.

The new paper was released Wednesday by the journal Nature.

The hobbits are formally known as Homo floresiensis, reflecting their home on the Indonesian island of Flores.

With small, chimp-sized brains, the hobbits had skulls that resembled Homo erectus, which lived in Africa and Asia.

But they also had long arms and short legs that harkened back to the much older evolutionary forerunners best known for the skeleton dubbed Lucy.

It’s not clear where they fit in the human family tree.

They may have descended from taller ancestors who shrank because of their isolation on the island.

Some scientists have argued they were diseased modern humans rather

than a separate species, but experts called that a minority view and several said the new dates make it less likely.

Hobbits evidently made the stone tools that were found along with skeletal remains in the Liang Bua cave.

The new analysis says the remains are 100,000 to 60,000 years old, while the artifacts range in age from about 190,000 to 50,000 years.

Researchers revised the original age estimates after new excavations revealed more about the geology of the cave.

Sediments were sampled to date the artifacts and bones.

“I think it’s a terrific paper,” said Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who had no role in the research.

“They have done everything you can possibly ask.”

So did the arrival of modern humans spell the end for the hobbits, as is proposed for the demise of the Neanderthals in Europe and Asia about 40,000 years ago?

There’s no evidence that modern humans occupied Flores until long after the hobbits were gone.

But they are known to have lived not far away, in Australia, some 50,000 years ago — right about the time the hobbits evidently disappeared.

“It is certainly suggestive,” said anthropologist Karen Baab of Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, who studies the hobbits but didn’t participate in the new work.

Richard Roberts of the University of Wollongong in Australia, a study author, said in an email it is “certainly a possibility to be considered, but solid evidence is needed in order to demonstrate it.

One thing we can be certain of, it will definitely be a major focus of further research.”

Online: Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature

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Jatmiko, an Indonesian archaeologist examines a prehistoric stone spall at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island of Indonesia.

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Audacious startup turns 40 MANY HIGHS AND LOWS IN FOUR DECADES OF APPLE “There was a time when you were worried about keeping engineers here,” said Cheryl Thomas, a vice-president for software engineering who joined Apple in 1989.

And in 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst, Joswiak said Jobs refused to cut spending when competitors were tightening their belts.

Joswiak said Jobs pledged to “invest in ourselves more than ever before.

We then suffered through 11 straight quarters” of dismal financial returns.

Jobs’ death from cancer in 2011 led to the elevation of current CEO Tim Cook, who’s intense but softer spoken.

Tribble credits Cook with maintaining Apple’s focus on quality products, even as Cook has taken his own path in running the company.

Far more than Jobs, Cook uses his prominence to speak out on social issues, from global warming to civil rights and individual privacy.

He recently challenged the U.S. government in a high-stakes legal dispute over an encrypted iPhone used by an extremist killer.

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ald Trump, Joswiak said he was proud of Apple for taking what he considers a principled stand.

Apple remains one of the most sought-after brands.

BAV Consulting, a firm that tracks brand reputation, said that after reaching a low in 2001, just before the iPod came out, Apple is now in the top 1 per cent of American brands.

And it’s in the top 2 per cent of brands “being worth paying more for” — which means it can get away with charging more for its products, according to BAV. Even at 40, the company hasn’t lost its passion, Thomas said.

She said she wanted to work there since seeing the famous 1984 Macintosh commercial, in which a young woman hurls a hammer at the giant image of a Big Brother figure.

The idea of joining what was then a tech upstart didn’t sit well with her father, a career IBM scientist, who advised Thomas: “You need to think with your head and not your heart.”

But Thomas said: “I thought with my heart.”

Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it’s a very different company from the audacious startup that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976.

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“We still think we’re going to change the world,” said Tribble, one of a half-dozen Apple staffers selected by the company to briefly reminisce with reporters this week. Tribble started with Apple in 1980 and worked on the original Macintosh team. He added: “We had no idea back then that Apple would grow to the size that it is.”

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New shop caters to pedalling population

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Mud, Sweat and Gears bike shop has rolled into Red Deer.

The bicycle, ski and snowboard sales and service business was started

by Paul Burgess, who opened his first shop in Sherwood Park 10 years ago and a Spruce Grove location followed two years ago.

When the company went looking a new location, Red Deer with its population of 100,000 and position as a regional retail centre, made it an attractive destination.

Sean Watson, manager of the local store at 7121E 50th Ave., said they saw room to provide more selection locally while catering to a pedalling population ranging from tots to hard-core cyclists and mountain bikers.

“You need somebody who can service the whole community,” he said.

“It just seemed like the right opportunity at the right time.

“Red Deer is a good hub for both Edmonton and Calgary.”

Mud, Sweat and Gears has been open for about a month and the response so far has been great, said Watson, who joined the company in Sherwood Park nine years ago and opened the second store before moving to Red Deer.

“We’ve been received super well,” he said. “So far, I love the community of Red Deer.”

Not surprisingly, the first rush of customers has come from the dedicated cycling community.

But as word gets out, Watson expects to see more families and casual riders come to check out the roughly 300 bikes in stock at the 3,000-squarefoot location. The store also has a wide range of biking accessories, clothing and safety gear as well as a full service and repair desk.

A van runs back and forth daily to the company’s Sherwood Park warehouse, so they are always restocked, he said.

“We always have a good selection.

We offer any style of bike, right down

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Bicycle mechanic Cory McRae works on a customers mountain bike in the back shop of Mud Sweat and Gears. The new bike shop in Red Deer opened recently at 7121-50 Avenue. to the very beginner, family-style bikes all the way up to the most high-end bikes you can buy,” he said.

If a customer can’t find what they want on the racks, it can be brought down from the warehouse within a day or two.

“Our bikes start at around $400 and they go all the way up to as much as you could possibly want to spend,” he

says with a laugh. A die-hard cyclist with deep pockets can spend $20,000 on their ride.

The store specializes in the Trek, Kona, Transition and Intense lines, but staff all have a passion for the sport and know all brands.

During the winter, they set aside about half the store to offer full ski and snowboard service with a large se-

lection of equipment and apparel.

The staff are all enthusiastic cyclists and service manager Greg Potts leads Fat Tire Tuesdays, an event geared to cyclists of all skill levels looking for a group to ride with for a couple of hours.

A Sunday cruiser ride from the shop is also in the works.

CRA implements new measures IN EFFORT TO HELP STREAMLINE TAX FILING

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INCOME TAXES

OTTAWA — Tax season is upon us once again and the Canada Revenue Agency has implemented several new measures in an effort to help streamline the filing of income tax returns.

Tax partner Bruce Ball at BDO Canada says missing slips can be a common problem for many people, but the changes make it harder for them to slip through the cracks.

Those registered with CRA’s My Account service can use a new auto-fill service with certain tax software packages that automatically fills in parts of an income tax return.

Ball said it will be a “good check” to make sure that people have included everything in their tax filings, especially if they’re doing their own return.

“I think that will help increase the accuracy in terms of missing things,” he said.

The auto-fill service will help fill in certain information on a tax return including T4 and T5 slips.

Filers will still have to check to ensure the information is correct and if they notice a mistake, they’ll have to

contact whoever issued the slip.

The Canada Revenue Agency has also updated notices of assessment.

The forms, which are sent after the government processes tax returns, includes an account summary, explanation of changes as well as an RRSP deduction limit and other details.

Marc Lacasse, the director of the agency’s international and Ottawa tax services office, said the form has been simplified.

“All of the relevant information will fit on one page,” he said.

Lacasse said the agency’s mobile apps have been improved to allow people to change their addresses and direct deposit information.

If people are using someone to help prepare their tax return, Ball said it’s important to update them on any big life changes.

That includes getting married, especially if they are at the lower end of the income range.

“It might impact their qualification

for credits and that sort of thing,” Ball said.

Ball said if people are using a professional for their taxes, they should ensure they have all of their information before they start.

“That’s probably one of the things that would make your bill a little higher, if you bring in some of it and then you discover more of it later and bring some more in,” he said.

“We tend to give clients an organizer, so we give them sort of a checklist of things that we need to get from them. So for the clients who have been with us for a while, they get the process pretty well too.”

The deadline to file tax returns is April 30, but because it falls on a Saturday this year, people have until May 2.

For the self-employed and their spouses and partners, the deadline is June 15, but if they owe the government money, they still have to pay it by May 2.

B.C. ski resorts celebrate remarkable seasons KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Predictions of slushy, El Nino-dampened ski seasons were snowed under across British Columbia this winter as many resorts celebrate one of their most successful years. At Sun Peaks Resort, north of Kamloops, director of marketing Aiden Kelly says 350,000 people, a record number, packed the slopes and there is more to count until closing on Sunday. He credits the low Canadian dollar, strong demand following last year’s dismal season, and outstanding snow conditions for the record.

The Big White Resort, also closes Sunday, but is still enjoying fresh powder, while Silver Star Mountain closed last weekend despite 20 CM of new snow before the lifts shut down.

Lump sum or regular payments? Know your options DEREK FUCHS WEALTH WATCH Derek, I am leaving my employer and I need to decide whether to take the pension payments or get paid out a lump sum – what’s the best option?

Leaving a job that you’ve worked at for years can be a daunting process.

There are many decisions to be made and often in a relatively short amount of time. One decision is what should be done about your pension assets and there is no easy answer in these cases, it simply comes down to personal preference.

In most cases very little support is given to the employee to help them make this choice. It is important to discuss your personal situation with a qualified financial advisor prior to making a decision. That said the decision really comes down to understanding the numbers.

Receiving payments from your company pension is pretty straightforward.

Usually your entitlement in a defined benefit pension is based on a formula which takes into account how long you

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worked at the company, your average salary, and a certain percentage (usually 1% to 2%). The resulting calculation tells you how much you’ll receive on a monthly basis. Although your payment options vary, typically they will continue through the remainder of your lifetime and may continue on for your surviving spouse.

By taking the lump-sum payout, you forfeit all your monthly payments from the pension. The lump-sum is based on the present value (or commuted value) of the monthly pension payment that would have been received. The calculation makes assumptions about your life expectancy, inflation, and uses a discount factor to determine what the lump-sum should be. The lump-sum is supposed to represent what a lifetime of pension payments would be if they were received all at once in today’s dollars. From here it is invested and you can determine what income you want based on your financial needs.

So back to your question – should you take the lump sum or take the pension payment? Since the monthly payments from the pension are guaranteed you need to consider the amount of the lump sum to help with your decision. Your tax rate, rate of return, time horizon, and many other factors need to be considered when looking at these

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options. Ultimately a qualified financial advisor should work with you to crunch some numbers any by doing so should be able to help you in the right direction.

In some cases, you may only need to earn a consistent 5% from the lump sum to provide a similar pension payment to last all the way to age 90. In other cases your rate of return needs to be much higher. With this example, an investor who feels they can achieve 5% or more on an annual basis would be inclined to take the lump sum. However, a risk-averse investor who is not comfortable in trying to earn 5% would be better off taking the monthly payments.

Once the math is done, you need to look at your personal preferences.

Keep in mind the pension payment is guaranteed – that guarantee may offer you comfort in knowing you will always have money deposited to your account each month. One important consideration is that once you decide on receiving the pension you can’t go back, so if you require additional funds down the road you won’t be able to access more of your pension.

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lump-sum can be passed on to your beneficiaries compared to the pension payment which ends once your guarantee period is over. The thinking here is that you spent years saving this money through your company plan that it should be passed onto your estate, rather back to the company itself. Others take the lump-sum because they prefer to have the flexibility in their monthly payments and the ability to access more money if need be. Often, taking the money upfront gives you more freedom in how you wish to manage your finances.

The decision to take the lump-sum value of your pension or the monthly payments can affect your financial security for the rest of your life. It is an important choice so be sure to seek the advice of a qualified advisor who can guide you accordingly.

Happy Investing, Derek Fuchs Senior Wealth Advisor This is for information purposes only.

It is recommended that individuals consult with their financial advisor before acting on any information contained in this article. The opinions stated are those of the author and not necessarily those of Scotia Capital Inc. or The Bank of Nova Scotia.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American markets closed solidly higher Wednesday, helped by a sharp rise in oil prices amid reports of a big drop in U.S. stockpiles of crude The energy sector was among the biggest gainers on Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index as the May contract for North American benchmark crude rose US$1.86 to US$37.75 a barrel.

The resource-heavy Toronto Stock Exchange advanced 42.80 points to 13,347.46 to end four straight days of losses, while the loonie jumped 0.36 of a cent to 76.37 cents US. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said oil inventories fell by 4.9 million barrels last week, confounding analysts who had been expecting that stockpiles would rise.

“It’s a big surprise drawdown,” said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada.

“Energy and energy stocks are the big turnaround story here.”

Some analysts believe that oil inventories need to come down much more before crude prices can rise significantly.

Meanwhile, speculation continues over whether oil-producing members of OPEC will agree to a output freeze at an upcoming meeting on April 17. Current prices are a far cry from the more than US$100 a barrel that oil sold for in 2014.

Besides energy issues, the Toronto stock market was also propped up by a surge from the health-care sector as shares in Valeant Pharmaceuticals soared more than 18 per cent.

The Montreal-based drug company said it is weeks away from hiring a new chief executive. The firm has been

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.37 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 27.43 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.77 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.04 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.91 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.28 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.09 First Quantum Minerals . . 6.42 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.02 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.42 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.67 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.16 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.32 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.770 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 10.18 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.38 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.97 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 42.83 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.40 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 20.46 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.00 Canyon Services Group. . 3.66 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 16.46 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1450 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.75

in the midst of several controversies over drug prices and its relationship with U.S. mail-order pharmacy Philidor and had announced last month the departure of its CEO Michael Pearson after eight years.

Its shares climbed $7 to $44.77 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At its peak in August, Valeant shares closed at $346.32.

Elsewhere in commodities, the June gold contract lost $5.80 to US$1,223.80 a troy ounce, while the May copper contract was unchanged at US$2.14 a pound and the May natural gas contract lost four cents to US$1.91 per mmBTU. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 112.73 points to 17,716.05, while the broader S&P 500 climbed 21.49 points to 2,066.66 and the Nasdaq gained 76.79 points to 4,920.72.

In economic news, minutes from the latest meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve showed that policy-makers grappled over how to respond to a slowing global economy. They ultimately decided to leave a key policy rate unchanged despite arguments by some officials that delaying further rate hikes could be risky.

Minutes of the Fed’s March 15-16 meeting showed that several participants argued for “proceeding cautiously” with future rate hikes because of global risks such as weaker growth in China.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,347.46, up 42.80 points Dow — 17,716.05, up 112.73 points S&P 500 — 2,066.66, up

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21.49 points Nasdaq — 4,920.72, up 76.79 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.37 cents US, up 0.36 of a cent Pound — C$1.8488, down 1.37 cents Euro — C$1.4927, down 0.57 of a cent Euro — US$1.1400, up 0.11 of a cent Oil futures: US$37.75 per barrel, up $1.86 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,223.80 per oz., down $5.80 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.841 oz., down 2.4 cents $670.04 kg., down 77 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $2.20 higher $482.90 July ‘16 $2.00 higher $488.00 Nov. ‘16 $1.80 higher $486.30 Jan. ‘17 $2.40 higher $491.00 March ‘17 $3.10 higher $492.90 May ‘17 $3.40 higher $492.90 July ‘17 $3.40 higher $492.90 Nov. ‘17 $3.40 higher $485.30 Jan. ‘18 $3.40 higher $485.30 March ‘18 $3.40 higher $485.30 May ‘18 $3.40 higher $485.30.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 399,080 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 399,080.

tin Trudeau says the international community has to work together to make global finance more transparent to prevent the sort of inequality highlighted by the the so-called Panama Papers scandal. Trudeau says otherwise, rich investors will simply “hop” around to favourable jurisdictions where they can avoid paying tax. He says the federal government knew tax avoidance was a problem long before the controversy put offshore havens in the headlines.

Trudeau was asked about the matter in Montreal, where the annual general meeting of the Royal Bank of Canada was also taking place.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The chairman of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission has a message for Brad Wall as the Saskatchewan premier and high-profile carbon-tax opponent embarks on his third straight majority mandate.

“If you have a stated goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and Saskatchewan does — the most cost-effective way to do it is carbon pricing.

Period,” says Chris Ragan, the McGill University economist who acts as the non-partisan commission’s chief spokesman.

And unless Saskatchewan abandons its objective, Ragan says he’ll keep talking about why the province should go the carbon pricing route.

The commission is an independent, privately funded think-tank with one overriding goal: to start putting a price on pollution while reducing taxation on income, employment, profits and other things Canadians actually want more of. The commission is comprised of 10 nationally recognized economists and backed by a cross-partisan advisory board that includes the likes of Reform party founder Preston Manning, former Alberta finance minister Jim Dinning, tax specialist Jack Mintz and Suncor CEO Steve Williams.

In its latest report, released Wednesday, the commission steps past Wall’s frequent objections to carbon pricing and goes directly to existing provincial systems that already are, or soon will be, generating billions in government revenues.

Ontario says its coming cap-andtrade market will raise $1.9 billion annually. B.C.’s carbon tax generated $1.2 billion in 2013-14 (all returned in tax cuts and rebates). And Alberta is projected to reap north of $3 billion a year from its new carbon tax.

Smart, transparent, rules-based public policy detailing how governments “recycle” those carbon revenues will be the key to public acceptance and approval, argues Ragan.

The report is titled “Choose Wisely” because different provinces should use the revenues in different ways, depending on their circumstances.

“Carbon pricing generates two challenges: the household fairness challenge and the business competitiveness challenge,” said Ragan.

“We don’t want to shy away from those.”

The commission aims to identify the challenges and quantify them. Carbon revenues, whether through a direct carbon tax like B.C.’s or a cap and trade market like Quebec’s, can then be used to address those issues.

That still leaves cash in hand, says the report, which can be used to cut corporate or personal taxes, support clean technology, build infrastructure or pay down debt — whatever the government determines is most in the public interest.

And governments should not just dictate their priorities, and leave it at that.

“If you’re going to give the money back to households, tell us why,” said Ragan.

“If you’re going to put the money into clean tech, tell us how you’re confident that those investments will be good. If you’re going to give the money back to the emissions-intensive industries, tell us why and how much and for how long.”

Governments are already spending public dollars on climate change, from disaster assistance to industrial subsidies such as Saskatchewan’s public support for carbon capture and storage technology. Wall, in a post-election scrum Tuesday in Regina, presented a more nuanced view on carbon taxes than in the past.

“We haven’t ruled it out ourselves in the long term,” Wall said. “A price on carbon, effectively we kind of have one because we’re selling CO2 right now to oil companies out of Boundary Dam 3,” he said, referring to a carbon capture project.

“But in terms of a broader application of a price, that’s possible down the road but it’s not right now.”

The 13 provinces and territories are currently in a six-month research phase looking at a quartet of broad climate policy measures with the federal government, including carbon pricing.

Ragan, for the record, doesn’t buy the argument that Saskatchewan’s carbon capture technology actually prices carbon, although he applauds Wall’s government for funding the initiative.

He believes the debate over carbon pricing has moved beyond yes or no arguments, as evidenced by the commission’s detailed report on what to do with actual new streams of revenue.

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McINTOSH Kenneth (Mac) James Jan. 24, 1940 - April 2, 2016 Kenneth (Mac) James McIntosh passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at RDRHC surrounded by his family. He will be forever loved and remembered by his brother, four sons, 2 daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. A small service will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Friday, April 8, 2016 at 1:00 p.m.

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MORRISON Nadine 1924 - 2016 Mrs. Nadine Morrison (nee Haluschak), beloved wife of Mr. Don Morrison of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at Harmony Care Home, Red Deer on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at the age of 92 years. Nadine was born at Vilna, Alberta to parents, Sam and Anna Haluschak.

She attended Primary School at Vilna and then moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where she attended Teacher’s College.

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While living and teaching at Poplar Ridge, she met her husband, Don and moved to the Shady Nook Community where they raised their six children and worked together to run the farm. Nadine was always a hard worker. She helped Don with the farm accounting, fed the harvesting crews, raised six children, and even went back to the University of Alberta to obtain a Degree in Teaching, her lifelong passion, where she made a difference in many children’s lives. After retiring from teaching in 1985, Nadine’s adventurous side led her to travel extensively, visiting eastern Canada, Europe and rural China, as well as enjoying cruises to the Caribbean and Panama. She continued to contribute to the community by delivering Meals On Wheels to seniors in need, and she spent fifteen years selling pull tickets to support the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Nadine also volunteered cooking many a meal for the Shady Nook Community Centre, and also served on their Board of Directors. Nadine will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Don; her six children, Pat (Sandy), Daryl (Lorraine), Margaret (John), Michael (Connie), Carole (Don), and Ross (Anne); seventeen grandchildren; Jennifer, Erin (Ryland), Carrie, Tara (Angus), Melissa, Kayla (Beau), Krista, Becky (Cory), Michael, Sheila (Cory), Laura (Doran), Colin (Kelsey), Greg, Scott, Ashley (Jeremy), Theresa (Manu) and Monica; and four great grandchildren; Lauchlin, Kalem, Logan and Ayla.

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Cruz win leaves Trump a damaged front-runner

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE — Republican Donald Trump emerged from the Wisconsin primaries as a damaged front-runner following a crushing primary loss to rival Ted Cruz, deepening questions about the billionaire businessman’s presidential qualifications and pushing the Republican Party toward a rare contested convention nomination fight.

Democrat Bernie Sanders also scored a sweeping victory Tuesday giving him fresh incentive to keep challenging Hillary Clinton. But Sanders still lags behind Clinton in the all-important delegate count.

Both parties now turn their sights toward New York, which offers a massive delegate prize in its April 19 contests. It marks a homecoming of sorts for several candidates, with Trump, Clinton and Sanders all boasting roots in the state.

In the Republican primary system, candidates vie in each state to win delegates, who then vote for the nominee at party conventions over the summer.

If no candidate wins an outright majority in the first vote of the convention, most delegates are free to change their allegiance, so candidates would have to compete to win their support.

Cruz has stepped forward as the candidate best positioned to block Trump in the Republican race, though it would likely take a convention battle to accomplish that goal.

A Texas senator with a complicated relationship with Republican leaders, Cruz cast his Wisconsin victory as a “turning point” in the race and urged the party to rally around his candidacy.

Even if Cruz’s gains do force the Republican race into a contested convention in July, it is unclear whether he would emerge as the nominee, or whether the party would try to put forward someone else.

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, raises hands with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, and his wife Heidi, right, during a primary night campaign event, Tuesday in Milwaukee.

In the Republican race, Cruz was poised to collect most of Wisconsin’s 42 Republican delegates.

In the Democratic race, Sanders still trails Clinton in the pledged delegate count and has so far been unable to persuade superdelegates— the party officials who can back any candidate — to drop their allegiance to the former secretary of state and back his campaign.

At a raucous rally in Wyoming, Sanders cast his victory as a sign of mounting momentum for his campaign.

“With our victory tonight in Wisconsin, we have now won 7 out of 8 of the last caucuses and primaries,” he declared. Sanders is favoured to win Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses on

Saturday, but it offers a small delegate prize.

Because Democrats award delegates proportionally, Sanders’ victory in Wisconsin did not cut significantly into Clinton’s lead in the pledged delegate count.

Sanders’ win will net him at least 47 delegates and Clinton will gain at least 36.

That means Sanders must still win an unlikely 67 per cent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The state-by-state nominating contests are choosing delegates who will select the presidential nominees at the parties’ national conventions in July.

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“Somebody said (to me), ‘Well, there’s a rule and another rule.’

I don’t care about rules, folks,” Trump told a rally in Milwaukee.

“I go out, I campaign, we win.”

If he wants to be president, however, he’d better start caring.

That’s because Trump’s chances of imminently wrapping up the Republican nomination have dropped, especially with his loss Tuesday in Wisconsin, meaning his hope of victory now hinges on the hard, complex, organizational slog he professes to disdain.

His loud dominance of the TV airwaves isn’t enough anymore.

Backroom success is now key.

Trump has about 46 per cent of delegates elected so far — which means he needs to improve his pace by at least four percentage points, if he’s to secure a majority victory in a convention vote. That’s no easy task his rival Sen. Ted Cruz is the one gaining momentum, winning most of the supporters who’d previously backed Marco Rubio.

To arrive at that magic number of 50-per-cent-plus one, Trump must court the supporters of candidates who’ve dropped out and organize county- and state-level bids to elect delegates who’ll be loyal if the convention goes to multiple ballots. He also needs to get his people elected to the convention’s powerful rule-making committee.

Anecdotal evidence abounds that he’s losing on that organizational front.

The campaign has reportedly folded operations in states once their primaries are over. And that’s just as the organizational battle begins to pick and choose convention delegates.

Obama slowly stepping into role as anti-Trump

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has opened his final presidential campaign — against Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

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Woman doesn’t like dog being petted KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: While my leashed dog and I are bonding and enjoying our time together, people will virtually block our way and — without asking me — begin to vigorously pet my dog and interact directly with her.

My dog is small and fluffy, and strangers, particularly kids, feel free to approach and play with her.

These encounters are often not welcome or convenient for me. Sometimes I only have enough time to walk the dog before I have to be elsewhere, and other times, frankly, I’m just not in the mood.

My dog doesn’t care one way or the other about the attention, but her long hair gets sticky, smelly and dirty when it’s stroked by unclean hands continually.

I know other pet owners experience similar problems, but feel too guilty to deprive dog lovers of their fun. Are there any tactful and effective ways for me to keep people’s hands off my dog without sounding hostile? — Need to Get Moving Dear Need: No one, particularly children, should approach and pet a strange dog without permission. It is dangerous.

It’s perfectly OK for you to say, “Please don’t pet my dog.”

If you say it nicely, but firmly, most people will not consider it hostile.

They will think you are protecting them or your dog from potential harm.

We have also heard about pet owners tying a yellow ribbon on the dog’s collar to indicate that the dog needs to be left alone.

If this is not common practice in your area, feel free to inform everyone that when your dog is wearing the yellow ribbon, it means she needs her

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Thursday, April 7 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jackie Chan, 61; Francis Ford Coppola, 76; Russell Crowe, 51 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon is a time of renewed energy and magical beginnings.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Over the next 12 months, aim to get the balance right between work and play. But resist the urge to be permanently impatient. July is a marvellous month for love and romance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The New Moon’s in gung-ho Aries so it’s the best day of the year to set new intentions, initiate bold ideas, and turn dreams into positive action via productive projects. No excuses Rams!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you been bustling around like a busy Bull on steroids? Slow down! The New Moon encourages you to make room in your stretched timetable for some rest, relaxation, reflection and recuperation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The New Moon urges you to rejuvenate your peer group. So it’s the perfect time to join a club or local organization; nurture your professional contacts; and polish up your natural networking skills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The New Moon shakes up your career/reputation zone so get ready for a few surprises over the coming month. Work will be unpredictable — or perhaps others are saying unexpected things about you?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Has life in Leo Land has become too predictable? The New Moon’s activating your adventure zone, so it’s time to introduce an international flavour to the mix, via travel or linking up with overseas

MOCHA AND THE MOOSE

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We think they will appreciate the information and respect your decision.

Kids especially love having “special knowledge” and will be sure to pass it along.

Dear Annie: This is for “Sad Nana,” who says her granddaughter isn’t allowed to bring presents back to her Dad’s house because it might create resentment with her stepsister, who rarely gets presents.

Nana needs to step up to the plate.

How can any grandmother buy gifts for one child and not the other, even if she is not a blood relative, when they are living in the same house?

She is just pitting the girls against each other. I want to tell her to open her heart.

This is an opportunity for her to have a second granddaughter. She could be a special person in this young girl’s life, providing a true gift of friendship and love that will last a lifetime.

The girl will always remember Nana’s kindness, and hopefully she’ll pass on the same thoughtfulness when she becomes a grandmother.

We should be building bridges and teaching our young the right values in life.

These girls are now sisters and should be treated as such. Nana should be helping to cement this family, rather than separating them. If money is an issue, both gifts can be smaller. Kids don’t need so many things anyway. — Nana of Seven Dear Nana: We are with you 100 percent. It is so much better to be kind to one another.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attached Virgos — with the New Moon stimulating your sensuality sector, it’s time to get up-closeand-personal with your partner. Singles — look for a lover who is kind, creative and compassionate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you doing all the giving, while your beloved is doing all the taking? Balance is the key. Singles — stop searching for the “perfect” partner.

Instead, look for someone who stretches you in exciting new directions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): With the New Moon firing up your well being zone, it’s the ideal time to improve your daily diet, plus find fun ways to boost your fitness levels. But resist the temptation to be overly possessive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re in the mood for fun and entertainment. But forethought and planning are required so you can capitalize on your energy surge, and avoid making impulsive moves and messy mistakes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All work and no play make Goats grumpy and damn difficult to live with. The New Moon encourages you to adjust your home/work balance so that it is more balanced — and much more family friendly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With the New Moon stimulating your online zone, it’s a terrific time to set up a social media account or launch a blog or website. With a fresh format and innovative ideas, you can go far in the digital world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Money tends to run through Fish fingers like water. With the New Moon activating your cash zone, it’s the best time of the year to commit yourself to a responsible new financial plan.

And then follow it!

Photo courtesy of the Cook Family

This moose was on Castle Crescent March 30th. The Cook family’s Siamese cat, Mocha, was extremely excited watching the moose, and they managed to capture the two’s mutual interest

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