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NDP REJECTS MULCAIR AS LEADER

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair makes a speech during the 2016 NDP Federal Convention in Edmonton on Sunday. A majority of New Democrats — 52 per cent — rejected Mulcair as leader, triggering a leadership race.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Rank-and-file New Democrats handed Tom Mulcair another ballot-box drubbing Sunday, voting to replace him as leader less than six months after a devastating election loss that dashed the party’s dream of forming Canada’s first federal NDP government.

A stunned silence fell over the convention floor at Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre as delegates realized that not only had Mulcair not attained a respectable level of support,

he hadn’t even reached the 50-percent threshold — unheard of in a federal leadership review.

As a result, the man who less than a year ago was being touted as poised to become Canada’s first-ever NDP prime minister instead became the first federal leader ever to be rejected by a majority of delegates — 52 per cent — at a party’s annual convention.

“The only thing that’s important is that we leave here united,” a calm, resigned-looking Mulcair told delegates after the vote.

Mulcair said he’ll remain as lead-

er until his successor is chosen, within 24 months.

“The person who replaces me must have the absolute and complete support of 100 per cent of the members of the NDP.” He thanked his wife and the delegates, and urged the party to come together around his successor, whomever that turns out to be.

“We will always be the party that dreams no small dreams,” Mulcair said. “We will always be the party that thinks about the little guy.”

The Chariots of Fire theme song played over the loud speakers on his last lap around the ice surface in the Red Deer Arena.

Terry Stone chuckles at the gesture but he quickly grows silent as he tries to keep his composure.

Chances are if you attended a hockey game at the old rink over the last three decades, you will have seen Stone commanding the Zamboni between periods. Stone has taken care of the arena since 1983.

His job title is officially facility maintenance worker but for the first 25 years it was caretaker.

“I like the caretaker part because it embraces what we are trying to do in the community,” said Stone, 67. “The arena meant more than hockey … It is bringing people together. Just looking out for one another and supporting one another.”

Stone flooded the arena for the final time on April 2, his 27,000th flood.

The 1952-built Red Deer Arena will be demolished to make way for a new rink this summer.

“Volunteering is a big part of these facilities and if it weren’t for the volunteers, I wouldn’t have stayed the 33 years,” said Stone.

The Sylvan Lake resident will miss the people that crossed his path either at the hockey games or the people who stopped into the rink for a coffee during the day. There’s also the people who are down on their luck who came in off the street occasionally. He has gotten to know a few of them over the years.

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Council gets an earful on topics ranging from potholes to spending

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Maybe it was the toy cars.

Pedestrian traffic flowed steady at the construction information display at the annual Let’s Talk event on Saturday.

Residents wanted to learn more about the city’s two planned modern roundabouts, which are part of the $45-million 67th Street and 30th Avenue Expansion Project and the $11-million 67th Street and Johnstone Drive Corridor Project.

The roundabouts at 67th Street and

30th Avenue, and 67th Street and Johnstone Drive are both set to open by the end of the 2016 construction season.

Engineer Services manager Wayne Gustafson said the feedback was surprisingly positive with residents wondering when the roundabouts are slated to open and whether more are in the works in other areas of the city.

One woman told him, “You need more of these because roundabouts slow down traffic but the traffic still flows whereas signal lights stop traffic.”

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Mariia Khimych and her daughter, Solomiia Khimych, take a look at the interactive display of the roundabout being put into place near 30th Ave. and 67th St. during the City of Red Deer’s annual Let’s Talk event at Parkland Mall Saturday afternoon.

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NDP adopts principles of Leap Manifesto

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Federal New Democrats spurned the pleas of their Alberta brethren and signalled a desire to shift their party back to the left Sunday by agreeing to explore the merits of a manifesto that calls for more drastic action to combat climate change.

Adoption of the principles of the Leap Manifesto came just hours before delegates to the NDP’s national convention voted to replace leader Tom Mulcair, who led the party to a disappointing third-place finish in last fall’s election on a moderate, centrist platform.

The manifesto advocates a swift end to the use of fossil fuels, including a moratorium on new infrastructure projects such as pipelines that perpetuate reliance on the non-renewable resources that contribute to climate change.

Spearheaded by documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis and his wife, anti-capitalism activist and author Naomi Klein, it declares Canada’s record on climate change thus far to be “a crime against humanity’s future.” And it calls for “energy democracy” in which communities collectively control future renewable energy sources, rather than “profit-gouging” corporations.

On Saturday, Alberta’s NDP premier, Rachel Notley, pleaded with New Democrats to understand that thousands of families in her province depend on natural resources for their living, and need a pipeline and support for the oil and gas sector to maintain their quality of life — even while working to improve the environment.

The resolution adopted Sunday was watered down somewhat in an apparent bid to soften the blow to the party in Alberta.

It recognizes the manifesto as “a high-level statement of principles that speaks to the aspirations, history and values of the party.” But it also stipulates that specific policies advocated in the manifesto “can and should be debated and modified on their own merits and according to the needs of various communities and all parts of Canada.”

Grassroots New Democrats are to debate the policies that will flow from the manifesto as part of the run-up to the party’s next policy convention in 2018.

Lewis stressed on the floor of the convention Sunday that the manifesto is not designed to be inconsiderate of those who work in the oil and gas industry.

“We recognize the pain and wrenching anxiety of tens of thousands of families in this great province of Alberta who are hurting because Big Oil wanted their labour in the boom and then bailed on them in the bust, which is precisely why the Leap Manifesto calls for training and resources for fossil-fuel workers,” he said.

“In fact, it insists that a transition to a clean-energy economy must be led by a democratic participation of the workers themselves.”

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Dancers from JD’s Fabulous Feet perform in the intermediate group contemporary category at the Danceworks 1 Dance Festival Saturday evening at the Red Deer College Arts Centre. The festival is one of two being held in the city this month, with Danceworks 2 held April 13-16.

First Nation declares state of emergency after suicide attempts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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After an increasing number of young people attempted to take their lives in a remote northern Ontario First Nation last week, the chief and council have declared a state of emergency.

The suicide epidemic in Attawapiskat started in the fall, when a number of people tried to kill themselves, said Jackie Hookimaw, a resident of First Nation on James Bay. Hookimaw’s great niece Sheridan took her own life in October. She was 13 years old. Hookimaw said Sheridan had a big heart, but she was plagued with multiple health conditions and was bullied at school.

More recently, Hookimaw said, she was at the community’s hospital where she saw a number of teenage girls being treated after purposely overdosing on drugs. As she was leaving, a man came in for treatment. Later, she would learn that he, too, had tried to take his own life.

The Attawapiskat First Nation, which has been plagued by suicides for decades, is home to about 2,000 people, and Hookimaw said the community needs more resources.

She said the latest round of youth suicide attempts started with Sheridan’s death.

Sheridan’s peers were grieving, Hookimaw said. They didn’t have the support they needed to manage their grief, so they tried to end their lives,

she said.

“There’s different layers of grief,” she said. “There’s normal grief, when somebody dies from illness or old age.

And there’s complicated grief, where there’s severe trauma, like when somebody commits suicide.”

Charlie Angus, the MP for the area and NDP indigenous affairs critic, said northern communities aren’t given the resources to deal with complicated grief.

“When a young person tries to commit suicide in any suburban school, they send in the resources, they send in the emergency team. There’s a standard protocol for response. The northern communities are left on their own,” he said. “We don’t have the mental health service dollars. We don’t have the resources.”

He said it’s been a “rolling nightmare” of more and more suicide attempts among young people throughout the winter.

They didn’t think it could get any worse than it was in March, he said.

But April brought even more attempts.

It’s that situation that led the Attawapiskat chief and council to declare a state of emergency on Saturday.

The designation has meant that a Nishnawabe Aski Nation crisis response unit is being sent to the community.

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Trudeau called the news from Attawapiskat “heartbreaking.”

“We’ll continue to work to improve living conditions for all indigenous peoples,” Trudeau tweeted.

The federal and Ontario health ministers said the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority hospital was immediately flying in a crisis team, including mental health nurses and social workers.

“We will be providing additional health-care experts as needed and we have contacted the ministry of children and youth services about providing emergency life-promotion supports,” Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins said in a release.

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said in a statement that improving the wellness of indigenous peoples will require a focus on improving the socio-economic conditions they face.

“I have worked with the province to set up a joint action table so that federal and provincial governments can work together, hand-in-hand with First Nations leadership, to find concrete solutions,” Philpott said.

Hoskins said Ontario has asked Ottawa to accelerate the work of the action table and will be identifying additional community programming that can help “give people hope in this terrible time.”

Angus said that the work of grief counselling often gets left to untrained community members who are dealing with their own grief.

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Mulcair’s roller coaster ride at the helm of NDP

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A year ago, the New Democratic Party was surfing a swelling wave and Tom Mulcair appeared poised to become the first NDP prime minister in Canada’s history. Poll numbers and party donations were rising and everything looked to be cresting at the perfect moment in the election cycle.

But the wave broke and crashed well short of the party’s 2011 high-water mark. The NDP finished the Oct. 19 election a distant third and lost more than half its seats in the House of Commons.

Mulcair, blamed for running a cautious, uninspiring campaign, paid the price Sunday as a majority of delegates to the NDP convention in Edmonton voted to hold a leadership contest to find his replacement.

Here’s a chronology of the ups and downs of Mulcair’s leadership: Oct. 13, 2011: Mulcair announces his candidacy for the NDP leadership, left open after the untimely death of Jack Layton, who had led the party to its best ever finish — and official Opposition status — just a few months earlier.

His campaign is based on Mulcair’s ability to hang on to the party’s 2011 gains in Quebec and lead the NDP to victory in the next election.

March 15, 2012: Former NDP leader and party icon Ed Broadbent, who backs leadership rival Brian Topp, launches blistering attack on front-runner Mulcair. Broadbent questions whether Mulcair, a one-time Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, is committed to NDP orthodoxy and suggests he’s not a team player.

March 24, 2012: Mulcair wins the leadership on the fourth ballot, beating out Topp.

May 5, 2015: Rachel Notley leads the Alberta NDP to a historic election victory, ending a 44-year Progressive Conservative dynasty. The result galvanizes the federal NDP, which quickly vaults back into the lead in opinion

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● 1986, Liberal leader John Turner faces a vigorous effort to dump him, led in part by supporters of Jean Chretien, runner-up to Turner in the party’s 1984 leadership race. An organized campaign, dubbed the Friends of John Turner, spends almost a full year and pulls out all the stops to win the leadership review.

Turner is endorsed by 76 per cent of delegates, remaining leader until 1990. ● August 2002, Liberal leader and prime minister Chretien announces his intention to retire in 18 months, heading off a potentially humiliating result in a leadership review scheduled for February 2003.

The party, controlled by erstwhile leadership rival Paul Martin at the time, eventually pressures him to move up his retirement date to November 2003. ● 2005, Parti Quebecois leader Bernard Landry quits in a huff during a party convention after winning a 76-per-cent endorsement, which he deems insufficient. ● 2006, Alberta premier and Conservative leader Ralph Klein is endorsed by just 55 per cent of delegates, even though he’d previously announced his intention to retire in 2008. He resigns a few months later.

polls.

May 9, 2015: Mulcair uses the Alberta result to inspire a Montreal rally: “They said we wouldn’t be able to pierce through in Alberta. (But) the NDP has just formed the government.

And now they’re saying we still can’t win at the federal level. Let’s wait to see on Oct. 19.”

June 23, 2015: Polling data suggests Mulcair’s personal popularity is at more than 60 per cent, compared with 46 per cent for Justin Trudeau and 32 per cent for Stephen Harper.

Aug. 4, 2015: Federal election called for Oct. 19. Most polls suggest the NDP holds a slight lead over the Conservatives and Liberals.

Aug. 25, 2015: Mulcair vows an NDP government would balance the budget every year, in contrast to Trudeau who

promises to run modest deficits in order to invest in job-creating infrastructure projects. In retrospect, many New Democrats decide this was a turning point that allowed Trudeau to outflank Mulcair on the left.

Sept. 24, 2015: In a televised French-language debate, tempers flare over the niqab. Mulcair staunchly defends the right of women to wear the head covering, a controversial stand in Quebec.

Oct. 19, 2015: Liberals win the election with 39.5 per cent of the vote and 184 seats.

Nov. 24, 2015: As leader, Mulcair takes responsibility for the disappointing elections results but insists he’ll remain leader. “Yes, I will stay on, I’ve got very strong support in the party,” he says .

seemed to emanate from the party’s caucus in the wake of the vote.

MPs who spoke to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity, fearing the consequences of speaking out publicly, said they would have preferred to see Mulcair step down immediately following the election.

One even called it “ridiculous” that he’s staying on as interim leader despite the clear message delegates sent Sunday.

Mulcair’s fate wasn’t necessarily sealed before the convention got under way, northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus seemed to suggest.

“I think when we got to the convention, what was really noticeable was the energy and enthusiasm among the delegates and I think it was possible to channel that energy,” Angus said.

“Tom wasn’t really present for a lot of the convention people didn’t see him. There was not that sort of interaction. I think New Democrats wanted to be reassured, and they say, ‘Tom’s

our guy, we’re over what happened last fall, but where are we going in 2019,’ and that doesn’t just happen from a fiery stump speech.”

Angus said it was a very emotional scene when Mulcair shared the results with caucus members.

“A lot of people were crying. We’re very close as a party … you spend a lot of time with someone, you’re part (of) them.”

Prior to Sunday’s vote, Mulcair made one last pitch to the New Democrat faithful to allow him to stay on as leader, urging rank-and-file members to stand with him.

In a speech some observers characterized as uninspired at times and passionate at others, Mulcair said he has accepted the blame for the mistakes of last year’s disappointing election campaign, but insisted he is re-energized, reinspired and re-engaged after six months of meeting grassroots supporters.

“We made mistakes that cost us a

A bare-minimum 50 per cent plus one vote would have been necessary for Mulcair to stay on, let alone have anywhere near enough support for a confident mandate — a threshold some had pegged at closer to 70 per cent.

It was clear during Mulcair’s speech that he didn’t have the support of everyone in the room. But when the results were announced, incredulity descended over the delegates as the magnitude of his loss began to sink in.

It was a far worse result for Mulcair than even his fiercest detractors might have expected, the culmination of a festering dispute over the NDP’s future direction in the wake of an election defeat that robbed the party of more than half its seats and the spiritual core of its caucus.

“I’m saddened by the result, but we live in a democratic system, we have a democratic party,” said British Columbia MP Peter Julian.

“I think we were surprised and saddened, there’s no doubt. There were tears, but we are very proud of what is fundamentally a democratic party … the delegates made up their minds. Everyone respects that.”

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Julian — a Mulcair backer who praised his Toll free: 1-855-400-6414 leader’s resilience in dr.towers@hearwell.ca doing battle with former prime minister Stephen Harper — was asked whether he’d be interested in taking over for Mulcair. It’s too early for that conversation, he said flatly.

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FIVE THINGS Here are five next steps for the party: 1. Meeting of the NDP Federal Council The key decision-making team for the NDP met on Sunday to initiate a process to determine the next steps that will eventually set the wheels in motion for a leadership race.

2. Caucus to meet on Wednesday NDP MPs will meet again with Mulcair on Wednesday as they normally do, but they will have much to discuss now that their leader has been rejected by a majority of delegates at the convention. Some members of caucus have already quietly questioned whether it’s in the best interests of the party and the goal of moving forward to keep Mulcair at the helm until his successor is chosen.

3. Potential candidates consider their political future No one openly challenged Mulcair during his bid to stay on as leader. But some of his competitors from 2012, including Manitoba MP Niki Ashton, declined to endorse the leader ahead of the convention. Former MP Peggy Nash, another erstwhile leadership rival, penned a scathing critique of the NDP’s election campaign, stopping just short of calling for the leader’s head.

B.C.’s Nathan Cullen, who finished third in the 2012 leadership race, did endorse Mulcair and said he’s no longer interested in leading the party. Similarly, documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis, who spearheaded efforts to promote the polarizing Leap Manifesto at the NDP convention, denied any interest in the leadership. But that was before there was an opening at the top.

4. Consider how to raise money The party faces a number of financial challenges after the marathon 78day election campaign drained party coffers.

5. Heal divisions The convention exposed a deep divide within the party as New Democrats struggle to reinvent the NDP after the election debacle. The debate over Mulcair’s leadership and over the Leap Manifesto showed a tug of war between those who want the party to shift back to its left-wing socialist roots and those who prefer a more centrist approach.

victory in October, and for that I take responsibility,” Mulcair said.

“I share your deep disappointment in the election results. That’s why we’ve held unvarnished debrief sessions across the country — to understand what went wrong, what mistakes were made, and how we can apply those lessons going forward.”

The speech also steered largely clear of some of the sore spots that have endangered his status as leader.

In particular, Mulcair made no mention of the so-called “Leap Manifesto,” a proposed policy pivot from the leftmost factions of the party who want to see the NDP embrace some more drastic measures to combat climate change and aboriginal issues, among others.

Prior to Mulcair’s speech, delegates voted to adopt a motion to debate the manifesto’s ideas and proposals, including some classic left-wing proposals: a move away from fossil fuels, no new pipelines, higher corporate taxes and spending less on the military.

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MULCAIR: Magnitude of loss began to sink in

A brief history of leadership reviews and some of the most dramatic moments they’ve produced: ● The Liberal Party of Canada was the first to adopt a leadership review process, in 1966, with the implicit understanding that it would not be used until after then-leader Lester Pearson stepped down. That process was first employed in 1970, when Pierre Trudeau’s leadership was handily endorsed. ● Also in 1966, the Progressive Conservatives were waging a bitter internal war over John Diefenbaker’s leadership.

Dalton Camp ran for party president on the promise that he’d hold a leadership convention within a year. He won, the leadership convention was held in 1967 (electing Robert Stanfield). Leadership reviews were entrenched in the party’s constitution in 1969. ● 1983, Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark’s leadership is endorsed by 66.9 per cent of delegates, with 33.1 per cent voting for a leadership convention. Clark decides that’s insufficient to silence his critics within the party and resigns. He runs in the subsequent leadership race but loses to Brian Mulroney.

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Canada on path to debilitating debt GWYNN MORGAN OPINION

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he federal government’s planned $30-billion budget deficit, to be followed by three more deficits totalling $113 billion, brings to mind former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s observation that “It’s not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.”

The budget deficit is triple the “modest” and declining $10-billion deficit promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during last year’s election campaign.

Likewise in 1970, Trudeau’s father Pierre forecast a “minimal” $5-billion federal deficit. That was followed by a dozen years of out-of-control spending that drove the deficit to over $32 billion and saw the national debt balloon by more than 700 per cent. Canada’s prime lending rate reached an incredible 22 per cent, causing a great many personal and business bankruptcies while collapsing private investment.

Sky-high interest rates drove up the cost of servicing that national debt, spawning even higher deficits.

Canada, once one of the world’s strongest nations financially, was transformed into an economic basket case.

Ottawa would implement 27 consecutive annual deficit budgets before tough spending cuts stabilized and eventually reduced our country’s debt burden.

Today, our national debt stands at $617 billion. Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s recent deficit forecast would take that to $730 billion by 2021.

Even with today’s record low interest rates, debt servicing will eat up $26 billion this fiscal year. If interest rates were to rise by a modest two per cent, the cost of servicing that increased debt would rise to over $44 billion by 2021, leaving the next government with no choice but to run even higher deficits or slash program spending.

OK, so taking on more national debt is risky, but isn’t it true that deficit spending is necessary during times of economic difficulty? And doesn’t economic growth eventually make it easier to balance the budget and pay down the debt?

Answering the first question requires defining “economic difficulty.”

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, along with virtually every other government in the developed world, ran large deficits in response to the 2007-8 global financial crisis. For-

tunately, a series of previous budget surpluses lowered the national debt, placing Canada in the strongest financial position of any G-7 country to implement stimulus spending.

The moral of the story is that governments should keep their financial powder dry and only run deficits when the economic need is both imperative and temporary. The current period of low growth doesn’t come anywhere close to meeting that criteria.

And what if this low growth period is not a temporary situation?

There’s good reason to believe that lower growth will be the new normal for our country. Demographics alone make this highly likely. The boomer bubble is greying, with profound implications on labour force growth, the No. 1 driver of economic growth in almost every country.

Statistics Canada forecasts labour force growth will slow to just 0.5 per cent per year during the term of the federal government. Some 250,000 baby boomers are retiring each year.

Soon that number will grow to 400,000.

This will have a profound impact as a smaller pool of working-age taxpayers must fund the rising health care and social costs of a burgeoning population of seniors.

And if the Liberals remain focused on trying to grow the economy through government spending, rather than pol-

icies that encourage private sector wealth creation, the chances of a rebound in growth will be very unlikely indeed.

Running up the national debt in the face of these realities means handing the next generation a massive debt burden. Some of that next generation are uniting to fight against that legacy.

Generation Screwed is a movement made up mainly of millennials (born anywhere from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s).

Their website opens with “Past generations voted to spend more and more money expanding entitlements and the size of government. They are handing the next generation the bill.” The website includes a link to a “How screwed are you?” map that shows combined federal and provincial debt per person depending on where you live.

I met some of these young anti-debt activists during a recent trip to Ottawa.

One of them said to me, “Parents try to leave their kids some money. Governments will leave us nothing but debt.”

Ironically, it was their millennial cohorts who helped elect the government that will make that debilitating legacy a lot larger.

Troy Media columnist Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.

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Our supply-management recipe leaves a bad taste SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS OPINION

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lindly compensating Canadian supply-managed sectors in response to international trade deals makes as much sense as bailing out Bombardier.

Stephen Harper’s defunct Conservative government pledged last fall to pay $4.3 billion over 15 years to the supply-managed dairy, chicken and egg sectors. That amount is apparently based on the premise that Canada will open 3.25 per cent of its dairy market to duty-free imports, among other things, through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Most of the numbers related to the compensation plan are the result of nebulous accounting conducted behind closed doors. That’s hardly the best way to win the trust of Canadians and make our country a major international trader.

At the heart of the global economy’s DNA are open markets. In that kind of marketplace, with no clear and workable trade strategy, Canada is highly vulnerable.

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It’s time we had a broad conversation about how to create a true national trade agenda. It’s a debate we have not had since we signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992.

For starters, supply management in Canada needs a fix — and fast.

Our decades-old, fiscally-inept supply management scheme for dairy, poultry and egg sectors is a protectionist nightmare. It is supported by production quotas and high tariffs on imports that have clearly reached their expiry dates.

Supply management supporters claim that the system works and that it has shown it can adapt. The facts suggest otherwise.

In dairy, for example, the system has begun to crumble. In the past year, Canadian dairy processors such as Parmalat, Saputo, and farmer-owned Agropur and Gay Lea have imported well over $200 million in dairy protein from the U.S. Since supply-managed industrial milk prices are so high as to be uncompetitive in Canada, buyers are forced to look elsewhere.

Since supply management is about producing what we need, imported dairy protein has generated an unforeseen market imbalance.

This situation led to butter shortages that forced Canada to import prod-

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uct. So Ontario dairy farmers dropped the price of industrial milk by creating a new class of milk for dairy processing. The aim, of course, is to entice domestic processors to buy Canadian proteins. But this is purely reactionary and speaks to the jumpy nature of the sector.

Creating a new class of milk presents real dangers: it can be perceived as a hidden subsidy and could attract unwelcome criticism from TPP partners.

Supply-managed sectors need common-sense leadership from Ottawa on trade-related matters. And the new Liberal government is proceeding with extreme caution with the TPP compensation package. To define an appropriate compensation package without having a ratified deal or knowing how our agricultural economy will be impacted makes little sense. Defining amounts and strategic orientations are key to this process.

But Ottawa must define our trade strategy before putting a number on the table for industry to consider.

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union is to be ratified and implemented in 2017. However, it offers no clear compensation to affected Canadian sectors even though CETA creates a real breach in our supply man-

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agement scheme by providing market access to the extent of two per cent of our domestic dairy market.

Ottawa’s position on CETA is only adding anxiety to an already tense situation. Pretending that supply management and an aggressive trading agenda can easily coexist is highly hypocritical and economically dangerous. With a strong mandate from last fall’s election victory, the Liberal government should attempt to resolve this problem as soon as possible.

However, we can’t forget that Canada plays second fiddle to both Japan and the U.S. in the TPP. What both these countries do matters a great deal to us, and the U.S. presidential election is complicating TPP’s path to successful ratification. Presidential front-runners like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have all expressed their opposition to the TPP. The TPP may die a good death as the result of factors outside our borders. But in the meantime, we should embrace the opportunity to reform our supply-managed sectors in order to become a much stronger trading economy.

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Green Deer 2016 April 11 - June 12

As the snow melts, it’s clear that Red Deer needs a spring cleaning, which is why the annual Green Deer cleanup is happening again this year from April 11 to June 12. Green Deer is a volunteer based program where citizens give back to the community by helping to clean up litter from the winter.

“The Green Deer campaign is about beautifying our city and using the positive energy and actions of the majority to cancel out the careless actions of the few who littered over the winter months,” said Suzanne Jubb, City of Red Deer Community and Program Facilitator.

This year the campaign kicks off with a free barbecue on Monday, April 11 from 5p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Parkland Mall parking lot (weather permitting). Those wanting to participate in the Green Deer program can register in person at the barbecue or by any of the methods listed below.

The event is looking for volunteers from all areas of the city to register to help out and clean up during this time. Participating can be as simple as picking up trash while out for a walk, taking 15 minutes with your family in your own back yard and alley way, or by organizing a litter pick up challenge where neighbours, clubs, church groups and sports teams challenge each other to clean up the most trash.

“By individuals picking up even a few pieces of garbage, they are leaving the community better than they found it and have contributed to creating a cleaner and healthier Red Deer for

everyone.”

Those wanting to partake are encouraged to register for the cleanup in order to get the free Green Deer garbage bags and to be eligible for prizes. The prizes this year includes a barbeque donated by Canadian Tire and a BBQ Event hosted by KG Country/ Zed 98.9.

Trash collected during Green Deer can be put out in the special Green Deer waste bags with household garbage on the regular collection day.

Additional bags will not be charged. If large amounts of litter are collected, residents can call 403-309-8409 and The City will pick it up. Residents are asked to ensure that all trash is disposed of properly by securing bins with lids and avoiding overflowing dumpsters. If an issue is identified it can be reported through The City’s website tool Report-a-Problem.

Register for Green Deer • In person: Recreation Centre, Collicutt Centre or G.H. Dawe Centre • At the Green Deer kickoff Barbecue: Monday, April 11, 5 - 6:30 p.m., Parkland Mall Parking Lot (weather permitting) • By phone: 403-309-8411 • Online with Look’n Book: www. reddeer.ca/looknbook , Course Code: #79165 Garbage bags are provided at the kickoff BBQ and from City facilities throughout Green Deer.

For more information about Green Deer, please call Suzanne Jubb @ 403-3098409 or visit the website at www.reddeer.ca/greendeer

Leave it better than you found it.

Green Deer is about more than just picking up trash; it’s about caring for our community and protecting our parks and green spaces.

Join us for a free BBQ and register your team

Community Kick-Off Barbeque Monday, April 11 5 - 6:30 p.m.

Parkland Mall parking lot By registering you are entered in a draw to win a barbeque party for your clean up crew!

For information or to register: 403.309.8411 www.reddeer.ca/greendeer

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Garden PLOT REGISTRATIONS

Public Garden Plot Registration The City of Red Deer prepares and manages plots you can register for and garden for the season. Three locations are available:

Pollinator Parks are areas that promote and preserve the natural habitat of pollinators.

In 2015, The City selected four parks as Pollinator Parks: City Hall, Snell Gardens, Maskepetoon Park and Bower Ponds.

The City Parks section is preserving and enhancing pollinator habitat in these areas by leaving the grass a little longer and by hand picking or using other ecologically sensitive methods to remove weeds and tree pests rather than spraying pesticides or herbicides. Parks crews are also planting some of the pollinators’ favourite flowers, trees and bushes to make the parks more inviting, so pollinators will hang out a little longer.

“Protecting habitat in the city parks is the most important thing we can do to help pollinators,” said Trevor Poth, Parks Superintendent. “As long as we preserve natural areas and promote the establishment of appropriate nectar and pollen sources, they will have shelter, food and water and these insects will thrive.”

The most famous pollinator is the honeybee, yet there are several native species of bees, wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds that are busy pollinating our flowers and vegetable gardens each year. We rely on these pollinators for about one third of the food we eat as many fruits, vegetables, grains and seeds come from flowering plants that need pollinators. Without these helpful insects and animals moving pollen from one plant to the next we wouldn’t have nearly the amount or diversity of fruits and vegetables, bouquets of pretty flowers, or even chocolate bars or coffee.

Studies have shown that some pollinators, including some of our native species are decreasing in number, and this decrease is upsetting the balance in our environment. The exact cause of the decline in population is not fully understood,

however contributing factors may include habitat changes from growing cities, spread of disease (mites and viruses), and pesticide use. In an effort to keep our local pollinator population healthy The City is committed to the development of Pollinator Parks.

Interpretive signs are being added to the four designated parks to teach residents about the role pollinators play in our ecosystem and what people can do to enhance their own yards and gardens to include pollinator habitat and food sources.

“The City is doing excellent things in our parks system and we want to share our knowledge with residents,” said Trevor Poth. “Many of our tactics can be easily incorporated into people’s backyards to help promote healthy areas for pollinators to live.”

Everyone can ‘bee’ a part of the Pollinator Parks System, by doing the following: • Planting flowers that bloom throughout the spring and summer and into the fall.

• Planting flowers and shrubs to create a green corridor connecting with your neighbor’s plants. Even plants in pots on balconies and decks will work.

• Providing nesting sites - bare soil, rotting wood, stacked rocks, even bee houses encourage pollinators to move in.

• Not spraying herbicides or insecticides on your lawn or garden.

• Mowing less! Consider leaving part of your yard as a natural area for pollinators, birds and other wildlife.

• Being an environmental steward. When going for a walk on the Waskasoo Trails, act with care. Try not to disturb nests and if you do pick up a rock or log, put it back where you found it.

For more information on pollinator parks go to www.reddeer.ca/pollinatorparks.

REUSING NATURE’S RUNOFF

Rain Barrels Can Help Reduce Your Environmental Footprint

BY BRIAN MCLOUGHLIN You’ve seen them around for years, hiding in gardens or near the corner of a house under a downspout. Maybe your grandparents had one in their yard and you used to play around it, marveling at the collection of water bugs and moss that accumulated there every summer. What are they? They’re Rain Barrels, and depending on where they come from, they can come in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials and are sold in most home improvement stores and garden centers.

Why do we have them and what can they be used for? From both a gardening and environmental standpoint, Rain Barrels make sense and can provide several advantages to a home owner. If used properly they can: • Reduce water bills and conserve water in the summer months, when demand is the highest. Garden and lawn watering can account for 40 percent of residential water use during the summer. Using a Rain Barrel’s water catch, the typical gardener can recycle hundreds of gallons of water during the growing season.

• Reduce the amount of runoff water in storm sewer systems and cut down on the amount of water that must undergo expensive and energy-intensive recycling treatments. Capturing rainwater and putting it straight to use in your garden eliminates the need for this processing cycle.

• Help protect rivers, lakes, and streams from runoff pollution and erosion by feeding rainwater back to your yard.

• Control moisture levels around foundation of your home by directing overflow away from foundations to help to reduce flooding, damp and mold. Recycled rainwater also works well to keep composts and mulch damp.

• Provide oxygenated, un-chlorinated water which is ideal for watering plants.

Rainwater is highly oxygenated, free of the salts, inorganic ions, and fluoride compounds commonly contained in tap water and that can accumulate in the soil over time and potentially harm plant roots.

Use of rainwater in your garden dilutes this impact, making plants more droughttolerant, healthy, and strong. Care should be taken however, when using runoff rainwater on edible plants as rainwater collected from your roof picks up small levels of pollution as it washes off your roof. But it’s still great water and plants love it.

Rain Barrels are simple and easy to care for and can provide an exceptional return on your investment. For more information on choosing and adapting a Rain Barrel or to see if you qualify under the City of Red Deer Rain Barrel Rebate Program, visit the City on line at www.reddeer.ca/rainbarrels.ch residents about the role pollinators

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Large $45 | Medium $28 | Small $16 Register at Cemetery Services office, Alto Rest Cemetery 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Monday to Friday One plot per applicant. The person working the plot is required to register.

Community Gardens & Orchards These are typically smaller, more localized gardens and orchards that promote walkability and strong community spirit. The City of Red Deer offers some support in the way of funding and expertise but the community groups are instrumental in managing these sites. To start a community garden in your neighbourhood, visit www.reddeer.ca/gardening for more information.

For more information visit www.reddeer.ca/gardening or call 403-342-8303.

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Rain Barrel Rebate Program The City of Red Deer wants to help you conserve water!water!

The Rain The City of Red Deer wants to help you conserve Barrel Rebate Program is now open, offering residents a The Rain Barrel Rebate program will be back in Aprilrebate ofwhere up to $50 ofthe a rain barrel of their choice. wewith will the givepurchase residents opportunity to apply for a utility rebate on a rain barrel that you purchase.

Rebate applications are available: Ĵ At City Hall - First Floor (4914 - 48 Avenue) Ĵ At Environmental Services - Civic Yards (7721 - 40 Avenue) Ĵ Online at reddeer.ca/rainbarrels Available rebates are limited on a first come, first-served basis.

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CIGARETTE BUTTS. A LITTLE LITTER CAN DO A LOT OF DAMAGE Although each cigarette butt is small, the cumulative effect is large. Improperly disposed cigarette butts account for almost 30 per cent of the litter collected during the annual city cleanup events.

Many people carelessly flick cigarette butts out car windows or toss them onto sidewalks, without realizing cigarette butts are not biodegradable, they will not disappear. In fact, the build-up of plastic filters and chemicals from cigarette butts is toxic to the animals, plants, and water around us.

Keeping butts off the ground ensures that properties and streets are litter-free and helps the environment. Building owners and property managers are encouraged to have cigarette disposal sites outside of buildings, providing a convenient way help keep litter off the streets. Considerate smokers are asked to continue to do their part to ensure

cigarette butts are disposed of properly.

As part of Green Deer, the City of Red Deer is giving away 1,000 free pocket ashtrays. These handy little tools help keep cigarette butt litter off the ground. It is a reusable and flexible foil lined pouch.

Drop in your butt, snap it shut, and an air seal suffocates burning matter and traps the odour inside. These light, convenient ashtrays easily fit in a pocket or purse, so people can butt out when they’re on-the-go and then dispose of their cigarette butts in a garbage bin later.

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WHEN IT COMES TO RECYCLING EVERY TOSS COUNTS. It’s time for Red Deer to up its recycling game. So warm up your throwing arm, widen your stance and make your best shot – into the blue box. Now that all numbered plastics are accepted in Red Deer’s residential recycling program, it’s time to fill that blue box to the brim.

Now you can recycle those bulky plastics including shampoo bottles, plant pots, CD cases, yogurt tubs and detergent and fabric softener containers. Simply remove lids and labels, empty and rinse the containers, and toss them in the blue box for weekly pickup. Break down materials to fit as much as possible into the recycling bin. Need a second blue box? No problem! Simply request one at no charge by calling the Blue Line at 403-340-BLUE (2583) or visiting www.reddeer.ca/recycling.

The plastic expansion is part of The City’s Waste Management Master Plan which came into play in 2013. Allowing for more recycled plastics is just one of the key steps in achieving waste diversion targets set out in the plan, including reducing Red Deer’s per capita waste disposal to 500 kg per capita per year. Currently our per capita waste is hovering around 800 kg per capita per year.

It’s a move that The City has wanted to implement for some time.

“We had hoped to roll out the plastics expansion earlier, but the market for recycled plastics was quite unstable at that time,” said Keran Braich, The City’s Waste Diversion Specialist. “However, our recycling contractor has assured us that

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markets have now recovered and we’re excited to be able to recycle more plastics and give residents the opportunity to really maximize their recycling efforts.”

Recycling is one of the most effective ways to reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill and subsequently reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Along with plastics, residents can toss their newspaper, magazines, mixed paper, telephone books, corrugated cardboard, boxboard, metal cans and glass bottles and jars into the blue box.

“Through recycling, we can conserve the valuable natural resources that go into creating new products,” said Braich. “It just makes sense to take our old products and turn them into new ones like tote bags, furniture, drainage pipe, tissue paper, newspaper and drink containers” The ball will start rolling on the new Red Deer Recyclists campaign in 2016 by recognizing and rewarding a select number of households and businesses each month for their exemplary recycling efforts.

“There are Red Deerians who are already doing an incredible job when it comes to recycling and we want to recognize those who are consistently stepping up to their environmental responsibility,” said Braich.

“We need to take care of our planet and that’s what being a Red Deer Recyclist is all about - taking the time and making the effort to make every toss count.

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We can recycle even more in Red Deer now that all numbered plastics are accepted in the curbside Blue Box program.

Look for the recycling symbol and make every toss count.

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A WALKABOUT WITH JANE SHARING OUR CITY’S NEIGHBORHOODS

BY BRIAN MCLOUGHLIN Spring is a great time to get out and explore your neighborhood and your city, and Red Deer’s yearly Jane’s Walks are designed to bring people together to share their knowledge of their environments. The event is named to commemorate Jane Jacobs, the pioneering author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and whose ideas and work centered on building and maintaining livable cities designed for and by the people who live in them.

Every year Jane’s Walks take place in over 130 cities around the world with over 40,000 people taking part in the 2015. Jane’s Walks are free, locally organized walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk about and celebrate their neighborhoods. A Jane’s Walk can focus on almost any aspect of a neighborhood and on almost any topic. They can be serious or funny, informative or exploratory and they can look at the history of a place or at what’s happening there right now. Anyone can lead a walk because everyone is an expert on the place where they live.

Jane Jacobs was not a city planner by training. She was however, a concerned citizen who spent time observing city life around her, first in New York City and then in Toronto. From her observations, she developed some theories about what makes a city a great place to live.

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because and only when, they are created by everybody.” After her death in 2006, Jane’s Walk was founded in Toronto by a group of her friends and colleagues who wanted to share her ideas and legacy.

Since that time the Jane’s Walk phenomenon has spread across the globe and 2016 marks the sixth year the event has been held in Red Deer. Last year there were eight separate walks in the City and so far this year five walks have been scheduled for the weekend of May 6 – 8. They are: 1. Downtown Heritage and Public Art Tour, lead by Pat Matheson, City of Red Deer Public Art Coordinator and Janet Pennington, City of Red Deer Heritage Community Development Coordinator.

2. Air Quality in Red Deer and the Parkland Airshed Management Zone, lead by Kevin Warren, Parkland Airshed Management Zone.

3. Restoring an Ecosystem – the Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project, lead by Rene Michalak and Cynthia Pohl of Rethink Red Deer.

4. Physical Activity Gems in Victoria Park led by Lynsey Hermary of the Red Deer Primary Care Network. This walk will focus on the opportunities for physical activity that Red Deer residents have in their neighborhood.

5. A Reverent Gaetz Historical Tour… with peeks into the Beyond, led by Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer.

Further information regarding organizing and leading a Walk and information on the dates and times Walks are to be held can be found at www.janeswalk.org/canada/reddeer, and you can also contact the Red Deer city organizer, Matthew Chambers at matthew.chambers@reddeer.ca for additional information. Jane’s Walks will take place on May 6, 7, and 8.

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‘We’re not going to stand in the way’ LIFE-INSURANCE INDUSTRY WANTS ASSISTED DYING TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN SUICIDE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Life-insurance providers have told the federal government its members are willing to lift the standard two-year exemption for suicides and pay out policies on people who end their lives through physician-assisted death, says the head of the industry’s professional association.

Frank Zinatelli of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association said if someone follows the legislated process, which is expected to be announced as early as next week, then providers would pay out on policies that are less than two years old.

“The industry has determined that this is obviously something that the Canadian population wants and we’re not going to stand in the way of that,” Zinatelli said in an interview.

“We talked with our members and

we determined that it makes sense that if the governments all make a decision along these lines that this should be … permitted then we want the policy intent to be carried out.”

Life-insurance policies typically contain an industry-standard clause releasing providers from paying if a client commits suicide within two years of signing the contract.

“If you follow the process, which is outlined by the government or governments, then that possible exclusion won’t be applied,” Zinatelli said, adding that the law might differ between provinces.

The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association’s website says it was established more than 120 years ago. The voluntary association represents 99 per cent of the country’s life- and health-insurance businesses.

Providers would not pay if a client misrepresented his or her health when

signing the contract, as is currently the case, or if a policy specifically exempted the particular illness for which the holder sought a medically assisted death, added Zinatelli.

He also encouraged the government to include the underlying condition on a person’s death certificate, though he had no objection to including a reference to assisted death also being noted.

Zinatelli said he didn’t anticipate the legislation would result in an increase to premiums, adding that the policy change likely wouldn’t have a big overall impact on the life-insurance industry.

Representatives from the wills and estates industry had differing views on the anticipated impact of the pending legislation.

Tim Grieve, who chairs the Canadian wing of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, expected the re-

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percussions to be minimal.

Estate planners and litigators are well positioned to accommodate legal changes that would allow Canadians to include an advance directive for assisted dying in their wills, he said.

That would include people being able to ask in advance for a medically assisted death if later diagnosed with a competence-impairing condition, such as dementia. The Canadian Press has reported that the upcoming law is unlikely to include such provisions, citing sources who are unauthorized to speak publicly about the imminent bill.

“Our job as estate planners has always been first and foremost to understand the wishes of our client and to document those wishes in a way that would survive challenges from people who don’t agree with those wishes,” Grieve said.

CHILD CARE

Advocates fear funding promise may fall through

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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People take part in the parade at the 200th Anniversary Celebration for the Steeves family in a 1966 handout photo. It’s not your average family reunion — thousands of descendants of the Steeves family are expected to be in New Brunswick this summer to commemorate their family’s arrival in the province 250 years ago. Steeves 250 will take place July 22 to 29 in Hillsborough and Moncton, and organizers say roughly 9,000 descendants from across the globe — including Rome, Paris, Chicago and California — are expected.

Canada BRIEFS Police hope changing technology will reduce bogus 911 emergency calls False 911 emergency calls continue to be a problem for police in Canada despite changes in cellphone design that are expected to reduce cases of inadvertent “pocket” dialing.

Concerns about how such calls bog down emergency dispatch centres prompted the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to complain to Ottawa about cellphones that can dial 911 with a single button push.

The wireless industry responded with assurances that cellphones with that feature are no longer being sold and those still in use will be gradually replaced by consumers.

But problems persist, including nuisance calls from people who dial 911 in non-emergency situations.

Saskatoon Police Chief Clive Weighill, president of the chiefs association, said bogus calls are a waste of time and resources.

“We had a call here — she forgot her pastries at Safeway and wanted us to go pick them up for her,” Weighill said.

“Sometimes you just get calls you really shake your head at. Why would anybody phone 911 for that?”

Weighill estimates that about one-third of the estimated 62,000 emergency 911 calls made in Saskatoon last year were either misdialed or for non-emergencies.

The Edmonton Police Service says of 388,736 calls made to 911 last year, 152,320 were not for emergencies — about 39 per cent.

Proposed Stuckless sentences show willingness to condemn sexual abuse: expert TORONTO — The sentences proposed for the man at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal have disappointed and angered some of his victims, but at least one expert says they show a growing willingness to condemn sexual crimes against children.

Gordon Stuckless’s lawyer is

recommending his client receive a five-year sentence for sexually abusing 18 boys over several decades, with two years of credit for time spent on house arrest and efforts to prevent recidivism.

The Crown, meanwhile, wants the former teacher and volunteer coach to spend 12 years behind bars — double the sentence he was handed down by an appeal court nearly two decades ago.

Some of his victims and their relatives said Stuckless deserves a life sentence for the harm he has caused, and railed against what they consider the lax penalties entrenched in Canadian law.

Nicholas Bala, a law professor at Queen’s University, said that while no sentence will ever erase the trauma of sexual abuse, the justice system has taken an increasingly severe stance against such crimes.

“The defence is asking for a sentence that a couple decades ago would’ve been more than anybody would have imagined for this kind of offence and I think that’s encouraging,” Bala said.

“The Crown is asking for a significantly longer sentence than the original sentence and that reflects, partly, our greater understanding of the devastating effects that child sexual abuse can have on victims and also a greater willingness to denounce this kind of conduct,” he said.

“Historically, many of these cases… were not reported, they were not effectively prosecuted,” he said.

“It was not taken very seriously, particularly if there was no physical injury to the child.”

Stuckless pleaded guilty to 100 charges and was found guilty of two more for abusing 18 boys between 1965 and 1985.

agencies including Aboriginal Affairs, Health Canada, Justice and the RCMP. The Canadian Press obtained a heavily censored version of the secret report through the Access to Information Act. It found aboriginals and the mentally ill entangled with the justice system often ran into similar difficulties.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to review changes to the criminal justice system and sentencing reforms over the past decade to ensure public safety and value for money. In addition, Trudeau wants her to work with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to address gaps in services to indigenous Canadians and those with mental illness throughout the justice system.

The vexing issues have figured prominently in the reports of federal prison ombudsman Howard Sapers for many years. “It’s nice to see them being put squarely on the agenda of the ministers involved,” Sapers said.

The study says the issues of greatest concern to indigenous people are complex and intertwined, as aboriginal communities, compared with others, struggle with poorer health, lower levels of education, underemployment, higher incarceration levels and higher suicide rates.

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‘Limited programs’ in criminal justice system for aboriginals, mentally ill OTTAWA — The “limited services and programs” in the Canadian justice system focused on aboriginals and the mentally ill pose obstacles to helping reduce the over-representation of both groups as offenders and victims, says an internal federal study.

The researchers underscore a need to address problems at four key points — in the community, from charge to sentencing, in prison and upon return to the community — and they say co-ordinated action “is essential to sustainable change.”

The study of the two vulnerable groups was prepared by Public Safety with input from eight other federal

OTTAWA — A federal promise to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a national child-care system is not a sure thing — and advocates are wondering happens to the money if the Liberals can’t reach agreements on a long-sought day care framework.

The government promised to spend $500 million next year on child care, tying it to ongoing talks with the provinces about a national child-care framework that would establish the ground rules for federal involvement in an area of provincial jurisdiction, not unlike health care.

Included in that promise is $100 million for First Nations child care on reserves, an area for which the federal government has direct responsibility.

Federal officials say the money is intended as an incentive to the provinces to entice them into signing onto a child-care framework and to demonstrate that the federal government wants to be a willing partner in the child care system.

But what if there is no agreement by next year — or only a handful of provinces sign on to a framework?

Employment and Social Development Canada, the federal department overseeing the initiative, would only say that the details of the “disbursement of unused funds are still being determined.”

Don Giesbrecht, executive director of the Canadian Child Care Federation, said his group plans to hold the federal government to its promise for spending.

He sees no reason why the provincial, territorial and federal governments wouldn’t be able to reach an agreement on child care.

The funding proposal matches what child care advocates quietly asked for behind the scenes in the months before the budget. But that’s what they were hoping for in this fiscal year — not next — to help lower day care fees, among other issues.

“We sort of thought, to use a phrase, there was some low-hanging fruit there that perhaps could have been addressed immediately, but it wasn’t,” Giesbrecht said.

“That’s OK. We’ll build and work towards something that is really robust and progressive in terms of policy.”

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Migrants, police clash

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IDOMENI, Greece — Migrants waged running battles with Macedonian police Sunday after they were stopped from scaling the border fence with Greece near the border town of Idomeni, and aid agencies reported that hundreds of stranded travellers were injured.

Macedonian police used tear gas, stun grenades, plastic bullets and a water cannon to repel the migrants, many of whom responded by throwing rocks over the fence at police. Greek police observed from their side of the frontier but did not intervene.

More than 50,000 refugees and migrants have been stranded in Greece after Balkan countries closed their borders to the massive flow of refugees pouring into Europe. Around 11,000 remain camped out at the border with Macedonia, ignoring instructions from the government to move to organized shelters as they hold out hope to reach Western Europe.

Clashes continued in the afternoon as migrant groups twice tried to overwhelm Macedonian border security.

The increasing use of tear gas reached families in their nearby tents in Idomeni’s makeshift camp. Many camp dwellers, chiefly women and children, fled into farm fields to escape the painful gas.

Observers held out hope that evening rainfall, which began about seven hours into the clashes, would dampen hostilities.

The aid agency Doctors Without Borders estimated that their medical volunteers on site treated about 300 people for various injuries.

Achilleas Tzemos, deputy field co-ordinator of Doctors Without Borders, told the AP that the injured included about 200 experiencing breathing problems from the gas, 100 others with cuts, bruises and impact injuries from nonlethal plastic bullets. He said six of the most seriously injured were hospitalized.

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Migrant man runs with a tear gas canister during clashes with Macedonian police during a protest at a fence at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday. Some thousands of migrants protested at the border and clashed with Macedonian police.

Macedonian police said 23 members of the country’s security forces were injured, including 14 police officers and nine soldiers. Five of the police officers sustained serious injuries.

The clashes began soon after an estimated 500 people gathered at the fence. Many said they were responding to Arabic language fliers distributed Saturday in the camp urging people to attempt to breach the fence Sunday morning and “go to Macedonia on foot.”

A five-member migrant delegation approached Macedonian police to ask whether the border was about to open.

When Macedonian police replied that this wasn’t happening, more than 100, including several children, tried to scale the fence.

Greece criticized the Macedonian police response as excessive.

Giorgos Kyritsis, a spokesman for the government’s special commission on refugees, said Macedonian forces had deployed an “indiscriminate use

Group that hit Brussels planned second France attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — The extremists who struck Brussels last month and killed 32 people initially planned to launch a second assault on France in the wake of the November attacks in Paris, authorities said Sunday.

But the perpetrators were “surprised by the speed of the progress in the ongoing investigation” and decided to rush an attack on Brussels instead of going back to France, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It didn’t provide any details on the initial French plot or its targets.

Both France and Belgium warned it was no time to relax despite the recent spate of arrests.

“It’s fresh proof of the very real threat that weighs on all of Europe, and on France in particular,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said it amounted to “a dirty war” when more attacks could be expected in Belgium, France or beyond.

“Once the intention is there, the place of execution is rather secondary,” Geens told VRT network. “If we secure one place, another target opens up.”

Two suicide bombers killed 16 people at Brussels Airport on March 22.

A subsequent explosion at Brussels’ Maelbeek subway station killed another 16 people the same morning. In-

of chemicals, plastic bullets and stun grenades against vulnerable people.”

But he said blame for Sunday’s trouble had to be shared with those in the camp spreading rumours of border openings.

Kyritsis said the Idomeni campers should “not believe the false rumours spread by criminally irresponsible individuals and to co-operate with Greek authorities that guarantee their safe transfer to organized temporary hospitality locations.”

World BRIEFS Earthquake rattles Pakistan, 1 dead, 30 wounded

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Police secure an area during a house search in the Etterbeek neighborhood in Brussels on Saturday. The arrest Friday of six men suspected of links to the Brussels bombings, including the last known fugitive in last year’s Paris attacks, raised new questions about the extent of the Islamic State cell believed to have carried out the intertwined attacks that left 162 people dead in two countries. vestigators have found links between the cell behind those attacks and the group that killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13.

Sunday’s statement provides confirmation of what many had suspected: the series of raids and arrests in the week leading up to the Brussels attacks — including the capture of key Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam — pushed the killers to action.

A laptop seized from a garbage can on a street outside the suicide bomb-

ers last known address contained a message purportedly from Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who blew himself up in the airport attack, that indicated he was expecting to be arrested imminently following the arrest of Abdeslam.

In it, prosecutors said El Bakraoui wrote that he felt “in a hurry,” and “no longer knowing what to do,” and “being hunted from everywhere” — all indications they might have looked for a speedier attack than initially planned.

ISLAMABAD — A powerful earthquake rattled Pakistan’s capital and other cities on Sunday, killing one person in the northwest and wounding 30 others, officials said.

Pakistani official Arif Ullah told The Associated Press that the magnitude-7.1 quake was centred near neighbouring Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan. Germany’s GFZ Research Center for Geosciences set the quake’s magnitude at 6.5.

Residents fled their homes and offices in the capital, Islamabad, as buildings swayed. Television footage showed people praying in public.

Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Two officials at Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said the quake toppled the walls of homes in the northwest, killing one person.

They said 30 wounded people were taken to hospitals in the northwest.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media.

NDMA spokesman Ahmad Kamal said post-quake landslides were a potential threat, and said he had asked regional authorities to prepare for all possible contingencies.

Death toll rises to 110 from fireworks blast at temple

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — Rescue officials on Monday sifted through a Hindu temple in southern India where at least 110 people died when a fireworks display — an unauthorized pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong — swept through a temple packed with thousands for a religious festival.

The death toll so far from the predawn fire on Sunday at the Puttingal Devi temple complex in the village of Paravoor, stood at 110 people with more than 380 others hurt, said police officer, Unnikrishnan.

Scores of devotees ran in panic as the massive initial blast cut off power in the complex, while other explosions sent flames and debris raining down, a witness said. Many people were trapped.

“It was complete chaos,” said Krishna Das of Paravoor. “People were screaming in the dark. Ambulance sirens went off, and in the darkness no one knew how to find their way out of the complex.”

The fire started when a spark from the fireworks show ignited a separate batch of fireworks stored in the temple complex, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the top elected official in Kerala state.

Police were searching for 15 mem-

metres (37 miles) south of Paravoor, as well as the nearby city of Kollam.

Villagers and police pulled many of the injured out from under slabs of concrete and twisted steel girders.

TV channels showed video of huge clouds of white smoke billowing from the temple, as fireworks were still going off in the sky.

One of the explosions sent huge chunks of concrete flying as far as a kilometre (half a mile), said Jayashree Harikrishnan, another resident.

Rescuers searched the wreckage for survivors, while backhoes cleared debris and thousands of worried relatives went to the temple to search for loved ones.

The temple holds a competitive fireworks show every year, with different groups putting on displays for thousands gathered for the end of a seven-day festival honouring the goddess Bhadrakali, a southern Indian incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali.

This year, however, authorities in Kollam district had denied temple officials permission to hold the fireworks display, said A. Shainamol, the district’s top official.

“They were clearly told that no permission would be given for any kind of fireworks,” Shainamol told reporters.

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A man walks past debris from damaged structures at the spot where a massive fire broke out during a fireworks display at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, Kollam district, southern Kerala state, India, Monday. bers of the temple board who fled after the accident. Police were investigating for possible charges of culpable homicide, punishable with life imprisonment, and illegally storing a cache of explosives.

Most of the 110 deaths occurred when the building where the fireworks

were stored collapsed, Chandy told reporters. More than 80 bodies have been identified, officials said. TimesNow, an Indian television news channel, put the death toll at 112.

Das said ambulances carried the injured to hospitals in the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, about 60 kilo-

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BY JEFF STOKOE/ ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deerians were invited to he Red Deer Arena’s celebrate the ay and they were legacy on Friday sic, food trucks, treated to live music, n and a free games for the children family skate on the ice in the Arena one last time. Inside the Arena, sMichael Dawe gave a history lesson on the past 60 years of the Arena’s existence while in the foyer

artists renderings of o the new arena were on displa display for all to see.

The event, plann planned by the city was hosted to recogn recognize the significant importance of the Arena to residents of Red Deer and Central Alberta. The Red Deer Arena Commemorati memorative Celebration was free to attend and included tours of the buildin building, special guest appearances, a c commemorative video.

Co Construction of a new arena facili cility will be completed over the n next two years and by a focal point ffor the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

Games, including a pickup game of road hockey, attracted many of the children in attendance.

2019 Canada Winter Games CEO Scott Robinson, left, looks over an artists rendering of what the new Red Deer Arena will look like with Graham Parsons.

Red Deer Arena staff resurfaced the ice at the Arena for the last time Friday during a family skating event.

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Ukraine’s embattled prime minister resigns

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINSK, Belarus — Ukraine’s embattled prime minister announced Sunday that he is resigning, opening the way for the formation of a new government to end a drawnout political crisis.

In his weekly televised address, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his resignation would be formally submitted to parliament ARSENIY YATSENYUK on Tuesday. The same day, parliament was expected to vote to elect the current speaker, Volodymyr

Groysman, as the new prime minister.

Yatsenyuk’s Cabinet survived a no-confidence vote in February, but two parties left the governing coalition to protest the failure to oust the prime minister, who is under fire over the worsening economy and slow pace of reforms.

The withdrawal deprived the coalition of its majority in the Ukrainian parliament. If lawmakers had failed to form a new coalition and unite behind a new prime minister, that could have led to early elections, which President Petro Poroshenko had sought to avoid for fear of further destabilizing the situation in the country.

“From today I see my goals as broader than the powers of the head of the government,” Yatsenyuk said. He said he would focus on passing a new electoral law, enacting constitutional and judicial reform, and ensuring “the coalition’s control over the course of the new government.”

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Pictured here on the ice at the Red Deer Arena with city volunteer Kelly Miller, left, Long-time City of Red Deer employee Terry Stone, right, worked his last day for the city on Thursday of this week. The Arena is scheduled to be torn down this spring.

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which intersections the best.”

The two roundabouts are expected to improve traffic flow and accommodate growth in the areas.

But it wasn’t only roundabouts that were on the mind of residents.

Council got an earful on everything from potholes, maintenance, and new roads to the new arena and spending.

At times there were line ups to speak with the councillors and Mayor Tara Veer who were at Let’s Talk throughout the day.

Veer talked to about 60 people during her five and a half hour talking stint at Parkland Mall. The top three issues were community safety, enforcement of noise standards and city service levels in recently annexed areas of the city.

The city took note of the comments and will follow up on any operational issues such as maintenance of a specific alley or crossing near a person’s home.

Federal and provincial issues related to the economy such as the Canadian Pension Plan, employment insurance and capacity at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre also came up during some of the conversations.

The city offered to pass on the concerns on to the federal and provincial elected officials.

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Stone’s sidekick Kelly Miller, 61, has volunteered alongside him for about 25 years. The two hit it off over a cup of coffee at a game.

Stone was born in Drumheller and lived most of his life in Sylvan Lake.

He is married to Brenda Stone, a nurse at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, and they have three daughters.

Stone studied horticulture at Olds College.

Stone was working in the parks in Red Deer but at the time there were few permanent positions.

The city tried to keep people on during the winter so a lot of the staff worked in the facilities during the winter months. Stone worked at the arena for six or seven seasons before it became a permanent position.

While the bulk of the job involves fixing, painting and cleaning up, Stone said the memories associated with the games will always stay with him.

It was good hockey and there was quite a bit of fighting in the early days, he said.

“I am not really an aggressive person so I remember one of the first fights I saw on the ice,” said Stone. “I was dressed in my coveralls. That’s what we wore back then.

I was going to go out and break the fight up … Unfortunately I didn’t but I can just imagine now if I had done that.”

There was the time the fans “picked up a bunch of fish and started throwing it on the ice,” laughed Stone.

– A Proud Past and a Promising Future – “It was quite a rowdy crowd,” he said. “One group sat on this side and the other sat on the other side. Throwing things across.”

He will miss how the children would follow the Zamboni around the rink and take pictures with the Zamboni.

Stone will continue to volunteer and hang out with his friend Miller.

He has been approached to look after the Bentley Arena but Stone said his rink days are over.

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REBELS TAKE 2-0 SERIES LEAD

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 4 Pats 3 (Sunday) Rebels 3 Pats 2 (Saturday) Winning two one-goal games backto-back is a confidence booster.

But the way the Red Deer Rebels pulled out the wins over the weekend, brought out the grit it takes to succeed in Western Hockey League playoffs.

Game two was truly a battle as no team led by more than one goal and there were solid chances at both ends of the ice.

“It was one of those games where you’d get up a goal and they were able to even it up,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We scored some big power play goals, as did they. Yet really, the key point in the game was like last night, killing penalties.”

The back and forth game came down an Adam Musil tip. Musil, standing in front of Pats goalie Tyler Brown, tipped home the winner on a point shot from Josh Mahura. The Rebels 4-3 win over the Regina Pats gives them a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-final.

Mahura finished the game with a goal and an assist. The goal was his first of the post season and first since returning from a knee injury that kept him out of the lineup for 70 games.

“I saw Musil push off a defenceman there and threw (the puck) in the area and got a stick on it,” said Mahura.

But it was Martin who kept the Rebels ahead with some big saves in the closing minute, including the game ending save as time expired. With the Pats buzzing 6-on-5, he flashed the leather and snagged the puck out of the air preserving the 3-2 win. Martin made 35 saves.

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Brandon Hagel of the Red Deer Rebels and Colby Williams of the Regina Pats battle for the puck along the boards during first period WHL playoff action at the Enmax Centrium in Red Deer, Saturday third one back,” said Sutter. “The rebound got away from him.

“He was solid, he played solid and in the third period he just shut the door and made some big saves. You have to have good goaltending this time of the year.”

WHL leading scorer Adam Brooks and Cole Sanford both tied the game at various points in the game. They also both finished the game with a goal and an assist.

A clutch penalty kill in the third periods held the vaunted Pats power play

off the board when Regina needed it the most. With the game tied at 3-3 4:42 into the third period, Hayden Fleury took a double minor for high sticking.

The kill kept the game tied and an interference call on Pats forward Sam Steel allowed the Rebels to set up Musil’s game winning goal. ● The Rebels overcame a sluggish start and two early power play goals to edge the Pats on Saturday.

Evan Polei’s gamewinner came halfway through the third period. Coming in on the right wing, he dodged a hip-

check and had a clear path to the net.

From the right hash-marks he sniped it past Brown’s glove side and put the Rebels up 3-2.

“I was thinking about cutting to the middle and putting it low blocker,” said Polei. “But then I thought (Brown) would be cheating that way so I put a quick shot upstairs “It’s always nice to score a goal. We didn’t start off the came too well, our last half the game was better for sure.

It was a nice play by Bobyk.”

Penatly trouble dogged the Rebels in the first period, taking four minors in the frame. The Pats power play capitalized on half of the opportunities to take a 2-0 lead in the first period.

A bizarre goal early in the first put the Pats up 1-0. A point shot from Colby Williams rebounded off of Martin and hung in the air before it bounced off of Kale Doetzel and behind Martin.

The second goal came when Sanford was left alone in front of the net.

Musil and Doetzel had gone to make a play on the puck carrier, Brooks, but Sanford was left open. He buried a wrist shot through Martin’s five-hole to put the Pats up 2-0.

A two-goal outburst from the Rebels in the second came courtesy of sustained pressure. After several good chances in the attacking zone, the Pats were called for two minor penalties simultaneously. Robbie Holmes for Hooking and Colby Williams for slashing. This led to a two-minutes five-onthree.

The Rebels capitalized with two goals on the power plays. Adam Helewka struck first, picking up the garbage in from the of the net, dragged the puck to his side of the crease and put it past Brown.

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Estrada leads Jays past Red Sox

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 3 Red Sox 0 TORONTO — Marco Estrada took up where he left off last season, throwing the Blue Jays an early-season lifeline after four straight losses.

The Toronto right-hander, making his season debut after a sore back limited him in spring training, threw seven shutout innings and Josh Donaldson belted his fourth homer in a 3-0 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday before a Rogers Centre sellout of 46,158.

After three blown save opportunities by the bullpen and a difficult outing for knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, Toronto (3-4) needed some shutdown pitching. Estrada obliged in his 100th career start, showing why the Jays rewarded him in the off-season with a US$26-million, two-year contract.

“I really didn’t know what to expect going into this game, the way his spring training went,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “But it was vintage Estrada. It really was.”

“It’s early in the season but we needed that game,” he added.

Everything is magnified this early in the season, Gibbons noted, especially to a team that fell just short of making the World Series last year.

“We know we have a good ball club,” Gibbons continued. “But with the enthusiasm that’s running around here you want to at least get off to a decent start to keep that going. You don’t want the naysayers to start jumping off that wagon.”

“We don’t want anyone panicking, that’s for sure,” he said with a smile.

Boston (3-2) could not make it three come-from-behind wins in a row as the Toronto bullpen, in the person of Drew Storen and Roberto Osuna, did its job.

Osuna gave up a single but struck out three in the ninth for his third save.

Donaldson provided some late excitement with a booming blast to the second deck in left-centre field off Boston reliever Noe Ramirez to open the eighth. Eighteen of the Jays’ 29 runs have been scored by the long ball this season, with nine home runs in seven games.

Estrada (1-0) outduelled Boston knuckleballer Steven Wright, who blanked the Jays for 5 2/3 innings after giving up two runs in the first.

Estrada shut down a Boston team that had scored 28 runs in its first four games, including 16 in the previous two in Toronto. Despite the sparkling performance, he said he has more to give.

“I felt pretty good. Still a little off.

Things are going to get better,” he said. “(I’m) not quite 100 per cent with a feel for things, but it’s really close.”

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Defending champion Jordan Spieth, left, helps 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett, of England, put on his green jacket following the final round of the Masters golf tournament Sunday, in Augusta, Ga.

Willett wins the Masters after shocking Spieth collapse

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Danny Willett in a green jacket was hard to believe considering he wasn’t even sure he could play the Masters two weeks ago.

No one was more stunned than Jordan Spieth.

Nine holes away from another wire-to-wire victory, the defending Masters champion threw it away Sunday with a collapse around Amen Corner that was shocking even by Augusta National standards. With a fiveshot lead heading to the 10th tee, he dropped six shots in three holes and could never catch up.

“It was a really tough 30 minutes for me that hopefully I never experience again,” Spieth said.

Even more painful for Spieth?

He had to go to Butler Cabin and to the 18th green ceremony to present the green jacket to Willett.

“I feel very fortunate to be standing here, and you not putting the jacket on yourself again,” Willett said to Spieth at the trophy presentation.

Willett always had this Sunday circled on his calendar — the due date of his first child. He wasn’t planning to be at Augusta National until his wife gave birth to their son, Zachariah James, on March 30 and sent the 28-year-old Englishman on an improbable path to becoming a major champion.

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It was a comeback that ranks among the most surprising at the Masters.

Five shots behind with six holes to play, Willett birdied three of his last six holes to polish off a round that might not get its due because of the unforgettable images of Spieth’s meltdown. Willett closed with a 5-under 67, with no bogeys on his card, to match the best score of the weekend.

He won by three shots at 5-under 283, the highest winning score at the Masters in nine years.

It already was early Monday in England — his wife Nicole’s 28th birthday.

“We talk about fate, talk about everything else that goes with it,” Willett said. “It’s just a crazy, crazy week.”

Willett ended Europe’s 17-year drought at Augusta National, and he became the first player from England in a green jacket since Nick Faldo in 1996.

How fitting.

Twenty years ago, Faldo also shot a bogey-free 67 in a final round remembered just as much for Greg Norman throwing away a six-shot lead.

Spieth was trying to become only the fourth back-to-back winner of the Masters, and the first player in 156 years of championship golf to go wireto-wire in successive years in a major.

And it looked inevitable when he ran off four straight birdies to end the

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front nine and build a five-shot lead.

This didn’t look like one of those Masters that would start on the back nine Sunday.

But it did — quickly.

Spieth made bogey from the bunker on No. 10. A tee shot into the trees on the 11th, missing an 8-foot par putt.

He still had a two-shot lead and only needed to get past the dangerous par-3 12th to settle himself, especially with two par 5s in front of him.

His 9-iron sailed to the right, bounded off the slope and into the water. His wedge from the drop area was fat, and Spieth turned his head as the ball plopped into the water again.

He had to get up-and-down from a bunker just to make a quadruple-bogey 7.

“It was a lack of discipline to hit it over the bunker coming off two bogeys, instead of recognizing I was still leading the Masters,” Spieth said.

The turnaround left him dazed.

Spieth was five shots ahead on the 10th tee and three shots behind when he walked to the 13th tee.

Willett poured it on with a shot into the 14th to about 4 feet, and a tee shot on the par-3 16th to 7 feet for a birdie that stretched his lead. Spieth still had a chance when he birdied both par 5s to get within two shots, and then hit his tee shot to 8 feet behind the hole on the 16th.

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Smith headed to nationals in wrestling

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The term natural is usually reserved for a few athletes.

But for Hunter Smith, the term applies to his ability as a wrestler.

Smith, a student at David Thompson School west of Red Deer, was encouraged by a friend about three years ago to go wrestling practice with him. The 15-year-old did and enjoyed it then.

He’s stuck with the sport ever since.

“Some of the guys I train with in Cochrane have been wrestling since they were five years old,” said Smith. “To accomplish all that I have in two years is pretty insane.

“I still have a lot of time.”

Now in his second full season wrestling, Smith went to provincials in late February in Lethbridge. There he wrestled in the 82 kg weight class and won the provincial gold.

“It was awesome,” said Smith. “It was nerve-racking, but to go there and win felt really good.

“You work so hard during your season to get to those points. It was a pay off for all the hard work.”

Just after provincials Smith said he was talking with someone from the University of Alberta about wrestling with the school. Smith still has to get through Grade 11 and 12.

The victory at provincials put him into nationals starting on Friday in Calgary. He will compete in the Cana-

dian Cadet/Juvenile Championships taking place at the University of Calgary.

Smith and three others drive from the Rocky Mountain House/Condor/ Eckville area down to Cochrane three times a week. A rotation of parents takes them the hour-and-a-half to two hours drive down to practice with the Cowboys Wrestling Club in Cochrane.

They leave school early to make practice.

But that’s not all the work the Grade 10 student puts in.

“There are extra workouts at school, waking up early in the morning and running or swimming,” said Smith.

“Then almost every weekend there are camps or clinics with different coaches around Alberta.”

The camps take place in Edmonton, Calgary or even Grande Prairie. Last summer Smith went to California to train.

And when he can’t make practice he makes up for it at home, even running down the dirt road near his residence.

Getting ready for nationals, Smith said he has upped his intensity at practice and changed his eating habits to fit into his weight class.

He plans to wrestle in the 76 kg category, below his provincial winning weight.

“In the weeks leading up to nationals we’ll go super intense and then the week before drop the intensity down and do light work so I don’t risk anything,” said Smith.

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Hunter Smith helps his opponent up after his gold medal final in provincials.

“We take nationals very seriously.”

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McDavid impresses in abbreviated rookie season

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Connor McDavid did more than enough in his abbreviated rookie season to earn the respect of his teammates, who already see him as their present and future leader.

“On the ice he was everything and more,” teammate and former No. 1 draft pick Taylor Hall said.

“By the end of the year he was our leader on the ice. With all the expectations on him, the way he conducts himself off the ice and the kind of kid he is, he’s a lot of fun to be around.”

McDavid said he appreciated the praise from his roommate this winter.

“That’s a real honour to hear that and have him say that. He’s someone

I look up to and respect so much so to have him say that means a lot to me,” the 19-year-old centre said.

“I’m definitely not the loudest guy in the room but I got more comfortable as the year went on. I’m someone who tries to lead by example on the ice.”

The No. 1 draft pick did just that in his first season, even though he missed 37 games with injury.

He finished with 16 goals, 48 points and five game-winning goals.

He missed 37 of those games after breaking his clavicle on Nov. 3, an injury he said helped him in his adjustment to the NHL. “It was unfortunate it happened in my first year, but I moved on from it.,” he said Sunday as the Oilers cleaned out their lockers after finishing out of

the playoffs for a 10th straight season.

“It was a good chance to watch the game from a different angle and learn a bit more about the game.”

What he learned in his NHL season is that the pace of play is so much faster.

“No one makes mistakes and everyone is so much bigger and stronger.

And the chances don’t come as often as they do in junior.”

He did, however, use his speed and talent to create enough chances to average more than a point a game on a team that finished with just 31 wins and 70 points.

“It’s a funny game,” said the sixfoot-one, 190-pound centre. “Some games you play great and get no points

and some you don’t have it and get two or three points. It’s tough to get points, but for whatever reason I felt fairly comfortable right away.”

What he didn’t feel comfortable with was the losing that has become common-place with the Oilers, who finished 29th in the 30-team league.

“It eats me alive,” he said. “Losing is something that has happened a lot here for a while now.

“I think it just get to a point where you get so sick of losing that you can’t do it anymore. I think a lot of guys are at that point and I’m someone who definitely doesn’t handle losing very well so this season has been hard on me.”

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Koe wins world championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BASEL, Switzerland — Kevin Koe took a chance when he left the team he skipped to victory at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier to form a new squad with an eye on qualifying for the next Winter Olympics.

His results this season have gone a long way toward backing up his decision.

Koe led Canada to its first men’s world curling title in four years with a 5-3 win over an inexperienced but tough Denmark team in Sunday’s gold-medal game at St. Jakobshalle arena. Canada scored a decisive two points in the ninth when Danish skip Rasmus Stjerne, who was brilliant all week, barely missed on a double-runback raise attempt, giving Koe an open draw.

After a disappointing first season together, Koe and his Calgary-based team — vice-skip Marc Kennedy, lead Ben Hebert and second Brent Laing — have rounded into top form.

“This is why we put this team together,” said Koe. “This is it, this is amazing. And there’s more in the tank. We have things to improve on. Honestly, though, you couldn’t write a better script for all we’ve gone through this year.”

Koe qualified for the world championship by leading Alberta to a 9-5 win over Newfoundland and Labrador skip Brad Gushue in the final of the Tim Hortons Brier. His team continued to roll in Basel, losing just one game to defending champion Sweden en route to claiming Canada’s 35th world title.

“We put a lot of hard work into it,” Koe said. “Last year was a bit of a struggle and we made some changes (Kennedy moved to vice-skip), and they’re paying off.

“What a year we’ve had - world champions, we’ve won a lot of other big events and hopefully we’ll just keep getting better. And I think we can. It’s only our second year playing together, and with more time, I think we’ll get better.”

Denmark, led by skip Rasmus Stjerne, proved a difficult opponent for Canada over the course of the tournament. Canada needed an extra end to defeat the Danes 11-8 in round-robin play, then broke open a close match late in Canada’s 5-3 win over Stjerne in the 1-2 Page playoff.

“It was a battle today, they’re a good young team,” Koe said. “It wasn’t flashy, but it was solid, and what a feeling. It’s so hard to win the Brier, so you just want to win the worlds when you get here, and it feels awesome.”

The Danes scored the game’s first deuce in the third end to take an early 2-1 lead.

Canada, though, managed to fight back with a goahead deuce in the fifth end to carry some momentum into the second half of the game.

After forcing to Denmark to a single in the sixth, Canada blanked the next two ends before coming up with the winning two points.

In the 10th, Kennedy’s runback double takeout all but killed the Danes’ hopes of a comeback, and it was left to Koe to finish it off. After Stjerne’s beautiful freeze, Koe was able to pick out the Danish stone.

Denmark was making its first appearance in the final in 39 tournaments.

“I’m sad right now,” said Stjerne. “I thought we played a good game. My shot in the ninth, it was there really and then we just let it slide away. I’m gutted right now, but in a few days from now I think

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Canada’s skip Kevin Koe celebrates after delivering his last stone and winning the gold medal game against Denmark at the world men’s curling championship 2016 in the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, on Sunday I’ll be proud of what we did.”

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Earlier Sunday, John Shuster of the United States

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Bryan Murray stepping down as GM of Senators

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) steals the ball from New York Knicks guard Sasha Vujacic (18) in the second half of an NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Sunday

Raptors stay alive in race for East top seed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 93 Knicks 89 NEW YORK — DeMar DeRozan converted a tiebreaking three-point play with 1:05 left on a night he became Toronto’s No. 2 career scorer, and the Raptors beat the New York Knicks 93-89 on Sunday to stay alive for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.

DeRozan finished with 27 points as the Raptors pulled within two games of Cleveland with two to play for both teams. Toronto won the season series and owns the tiebreaker if the teams finish with the same record.

Kyle Lowry scored 15 points and Jonas Valanciunas had 14 for the Raptors, who set a franchise record with their 23rd road victory.

DeRozan has 9,426 points and moved ahead of Vince Carter (9,420). He now trails only Chris Bosh (10,275) on the Raptors’ career list.

The Raptors close with games against Philadelphia and Brooklyn, the two worst teams in the Eastern Conference. Cleveland finishes against playoff-bound Atlanta and Detroit.

Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points in just 25 minutes in the Knicks’ final home game of the season.

Jerian Grant added 19.

DeRozan and Lowry returned to the lineup after sitting out against Indiana on Friday, but the Rap-

tors started poorly and could never shake the Knicks even when the All-Star guards turned it on in the second half.

The Knicks raced to a 21-10 lead, but Toronto recovered to take a 54-51 edge into halftime, then built their own double-digit advantage that the Knicks wiped away in the fourth quarter.

DeRozan then drove baseline to beat two defenders and make a layup while being fouled, giving Toronto an 89-86 lead. Grant followed with a basket, but the Knicks didn’t score again and Valanciunas just beat the shot clock with 33 seconds left before the Raptors finished it off from the foul line.

TIP-INS Raptors: Toronto had won 22 road games in each of the last three seasons. … The Raptors played without Luis Scola, who was rested and didn’t make the trip, and Delon Wright (left hip pointer). … Toronto closes the season with another trip to New York, visiting the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday.

Knicks: New York remained without injured starters Kristaps Porzingis (strained right shoulder) and Jose Calderon (bruised right quadriceps). … The Knicks honoured Walt Frazer with the Dick McGuire Knickerbocker Legacy award. The Hall of Fame player has been a broadcaster for the team for 27 years.

UP NEXT Raptors: Host Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Knicks: Visit Indiana on Tuesday.

Bryan Murray would have liked his time as general manager of the Ottawa Senators to have a better ending, but at least he is confident that he’s leaving the position in good hands. Less than 24 hours after the Senators’ season ended, Murray announced Sunday he would be stepping down as GM and taking on a senior advisory role. Pierre Dorion will take over as the eighth general manager in franchise history. Dorion, an Ottawa native, had spent the past three seasons as assistant general manager and has been with the organization since 2007. Murray was first hired as head coach in June 2004 and was promoted to GM in June 2007 following the Senators only Stanley Cup final appearance. In Nov. 2014 Murray announced he had Stage 4 colon cancer, but would remain in his role while he battled the disease. He said his health was just one of many factors involved in the decision.

“I guess I’ve been struggling with it for the last month in particular, but probably Wednesday of this past week (the decision came),” Murray said. “I thought about it, I met with (owner Eugene Melnyk).

We had a long discussion about where we’re going, what we’re doing and I just felt at the time and I suggested ahead of time in all likelihood it would be the right time. “I think having Pierre in position to do to the job and take it over and be a strong general manager was important, obviously. There really wasn’t any other consideration. Knowing that and how I feel and how much time I’ve taken away from my family.

Tolerant is an underused word, but putting up with me wanting to be the young man still in hockey, I just felt that after much discussion it was time to pull the plug.”

Murray admitted leaving following a losing season was probably the hardest part of his decision.

“You always want to try and leave on the up and that wasn’t to be this year, but I really feel good about the talent level that is on the ice in the future,” he said. “I was adamant that when I stepped aside to let someone else take over, that we all feel good about the future here. I think it is a very bright future. I think it’s a very bright future. I think we will be competitive for years to come.”

The Senators went through five head coaches under Murray. They missed the playoffs four out of nine years and only advanced past the first round once.

Dorion has a wealth of hockey experience. His career started in 1992-93 working as a junior scout in the Central Junior Hockey League and eventually led to 13 seasons in scouting (11 with the Montreal Canadiens followed by two with the New York Rangers) before being hired by the Senators. When Ottawa entered the league Dorion recalled telling his father, the late Pierre Dorion Sr., who was also a scout for many years, that one day he would be the GM. “The number one priority is definitely to get back to our winning ways,” Dorion said. “I think we have to be more consistent as a team. At times we look like we can beat any team in the league. There are nights we look like we have no chance to win. Consistency is definitely something we’re going to look at. It hasn’t been a long while that I’ve known I’m going to have this job. A plan will be put in place, a plan will be executed.”

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Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Brandon leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Brandon 5 Moose Jaw 2 Friday’s result Brandon 5 Moose Jaw 3 Tuesday’s game 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, Apr. 19 x-Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) (Red Deer leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Red Deer 4 Regina 3 Saturday’s result Red Deer 3 Regina 2 Tuesday’s game 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 x-Red Deer at Regina, 4 p.m.

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) (Victoria leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Victoria 3 Kelowna 2 Thursday’s result Victoria 2 Kelowna 1 Tuesday’s game Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) (Series tied 1-1) Sunday’s result Seattle 3 Everett 1 Friday’s result Everett 3 Seattle 0 Wednesday, Apr. 13 Seattle at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

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

Saturday, Apr. 16 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.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts

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Pittsburgh vs. N.Y. Rangers Wednesday, April 13: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 16: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBD x-Saturday, April 23: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD x-Monday, April 25: Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBD x-Wednesday, April 27: N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas vs. Minnesota Thursday, April 14: Minnesota at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 16: Minnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Monday, April 18: Dallas at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Dallas at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 22: Minnesota at Dallas, TBD x-Sunday, April 24: Dallas at Minnesota, TBD x-Tuesday, April 26: Minnesota at Dallas, TBD

Anaheim vs. Nashville Friday, April 15: Nashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 17: Nashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19: Anaheim at Nashville, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 21: Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m. x-Saturday, April 23: Nashville at Anaheim, TBD x-Monday, April 25: Anaheim at Nashville, TBD x-Wednesday, April 27: Nashville at Anaheim, TBD

NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Florida vs. N.Y. Islanders Thursday, April 14: N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 15: N.Y. Islanders at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 17: Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. x-Friday, April 22: N.Y. Islanders at Florida, TBD x-Sunday, April 24: Florida at N.Y. Islanders, TBD x-Tuesday, April 26: N.Y. Islanders at Florida, TBD GF

Washington vs. Philadelphia Thursday, April 14: Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 16: Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 18: Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. x-Friday, April 22: Philadelphia at Washington, TBD x-Sunday, April 24: Washington at Philadelphia, TBD x-Wednesday, April 27: Philadelphia at Washington, TBD:

St. Louis vs. Chicago Wednesday, April 13: Chicago at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 15: Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 17: St. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19: St. Louis at Chicago, 730 p.m. x-Thursday, April 21: Chicago at St. Louis, TBD x-Saturday, April 23: St. Louis at Chicago, TBD x-Monday, April 25: Chicago at St. Louis, TBD

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Anaheim 2, Washington 0

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Wednesday, April 13: Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 15: Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 17: Tampa Bay at Detroit,5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19: Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, April 21: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBD x-Sunday, April 24: Tampa Bay at Detroit, TBD x-Tuesday, April 26: Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBD

Los Angeles vs. San Jose Thursday, April 14: San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 16: San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, April 18: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 20: Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 22: San Jose at Los Angeles, TBD x-Sunday, April 24: Los Angeles at San Jose, TBD x-Tuesday, April 26: San Jose at Los Angeles, TBD

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Saturday’s Games Boston 8, Toronto 4 N.Y. Yankees 8, Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay at Baltimore, ppd., rain Houston 6, Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 7, Minnesota 0 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 1 Oakland 6, Seattle 1 Sunday’s Games Toronto 3, Boston 0 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 3 Milwaukee 3, Houston 2 Cleveland at Chicago, ppd., rain Kansas City 4, Minnesota 3, 10 innings L.A. Angels 3, Texas 1 Oakland 2, Seattle 1, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, ppd., rain

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh (Niese 0-0) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 11:10 pa.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 1-0) at Boston (Price 1-0), 12:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 0-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-1), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 0-1) at Houston (McHugh 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Tropeano 0-0) at Oakland (Gray 1-0), 8:05 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 0-0) at Seattle (Iwakuma 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

National League

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta

Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee St. Louis

San Francisco Los Angeles

3 2 2

3 .500 4 .333 5 .286

1 2 3

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Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 2, 10 innings Miami at Washington, ppd., cold weather Houston 6, Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 1, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 12, Atlanta 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Arizona 2 San Diego 16, Colorado 3 Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 4, Miami 2 St. Louis 12, Atlanta 7 Milwaukee 3, Houston 2 San Francisco 9, L.A. Dodgers 6 Chicago Cubs 7, Arizona 3 Colorado 6, San Diego 3

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Kansas City at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

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

Texas at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

East Division W L Pct GB 3 1 .750 — 2 3 .400 1 2 4 .333 2 1 3 .250 2 0 5 .000 3

Colorado San Diego Arizona

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Central Division W L Pct GB 5 1 .833 — 5 1 .833 — 4 2 .667 1 3 3 .500 2 3 3 .500 2

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh (Niese 0-0) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

San Diego (Cashner 0-1) at Philadelphia (Nola 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-0) at St. Louis (Wacha 0-0), 2:15 p.m.

Atlanta (B.Norris 0-1) at Washington (Scherzer 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Finnegan 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:10 a.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

West Division W L Pct GB 5 2 .714 — 4 3 .571 1

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 54 26 .675 — x-Boston 47 33 .588 7 New York 32 49 .395 22 1/2 Brooklyn 21 59 .263 33 Philadelphia 10 70 .125 44

x-Atlanta x-Miami x-Charlotte Washington Orlando

Southeast Division W L Pct GB 48 32 .600 — 47 33 .588 1 46 34 .575 2 39 41 .488 9 34 46 .425 14

y-Cleveland x-Indiana x-Detroit Chicago Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct GB 56 24 .700 — 43 37 .538 13 43 37 .538 13 40 40 .500 16 33 47 .413 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 65 15 .813 —

x-Memphis Dallas Houston New Orleans

y-Oklahoma x-Portland Utah Denver Minnesota

● Men’s senior hockey Allan Cup: Round robin game 2 Bentley Generals vs. Stoney Creek Generals, 3 p.m., Steinbach, Man. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Regina Pats, game 3, 7 p.m., The Drive ● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball: Division 3 best-of-three game 2 Triple A Batteries vs.

Johns Manville, 7:15 p.m. and Division 2 best-of-three game 3 (if necessary) Wells Furniture vs. Henry’s Eavestroughing, 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber

Wednesday

● Men’s senior hockey Allan Cup: Round robin game 1 Bentley Generals vs. Ile-des-Chenes North Stars, 3 p.m., Steinbach, Man.

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Regina Pats, game 4, 7 p.m., The Drive

Thursday

● Central Alberta Men’s Basketball: Division 3 best-of-three game 3 (if necessary) Triple A Batteries vs. Johns Manville, 7:15 p.m. and Division 1 best-of-three game 3 (if necessary) Grandview All Stars vs. Washed Up Warriors, 8:30 p.m. Lindsay Thurber

Friday

● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, game 5, 7 p.m., Centrium ● Calgary and Area Midget Football: Calgary Broncos at Prairie Fire, 7:30 p.m., ME Global, Lacombe

Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Recalled RHP Michael Ynoa from Birmingham (SL). Placed OF Adam Eaton on the paternity list.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF-INF Danny Santana on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Max Kepler from Rochester (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed OF Shin-Soo Choo on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 9. Placed C Robinson Chirinos on the 60-day DL. Recalled OF Nomar Mazara from Round Rock (PCL). Purchased the contract of C Brett Nicholas from Round Rock.

Assigned OF Justin Ruggiano outright to Round Rock.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated RHP Marco Estrada from the 15-day DL. Placed LHP Franklin Morales on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 7.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed OF Ender Inciarte on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Chris Withrow from Gwinnett (IL). Optioned RHP John Gant to Gwinnett. Agreed to terms with INF-OF Emilio Bonifacio on a minor league contract.

CINCINNATI REDS — Selected the contract of RHP Tim Melville from Louisville (IL). Designated 1B Brandon Allen for assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Acquired OF James Ramsey and INF-OF Zach Walters from Cleveland Indians for cash considerations and assigned them to Oklahoma City (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed INF Yangervis Solarte on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF-OF Alexi Amarista from El Paso (PCL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MIAMI HEAT — Signed G Briante Weber.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Named Bryan Colangelo president of basketball operations.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK JETS — Acquired OT Ryan Clady and a 2016 seventh-round draft pick from Denver for a 2016 fifth-round draft pick.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned F Turner Elson, F Hunter Shinkaruk, F Drew Shore, D Oliver Kylington and D Pat Sieloff to Stockton (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Assigned F Brendan Woods to Charlotte (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned F Andrew Agozzino to San Antonio (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned LW Anthony Mantha to Grand Rapids (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled F Ross Johnston from Bridgeport (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Announced the resignation of general manager Bryan Murray to take on an advisory role within the organization. Named Pierre Dorion general manager.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F Zach Sill from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed D Ryan Rehill to an amateur tryout agreement.

SAN ANTIONIO RAMPAGE — Reassigned F Troy Bourke to Fort Wayne (ECHL).

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Loaned D Jacob MacDonald to Springfield (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Loaned F Anatole Abang and D Justin Bilyeu to New York (USL).

United Soccer League NEW YORK RED BULLS II — Announced D Amobi Okugo was loaned to the team by Major League Soccer.

North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA FC — Signing M Kevan George.

COLLEGE DUKE — Announced men’s freshman basketball G Derryck Thornton is transferring.

Curling 2016 World Men’s Curling Championship BASEL, Switzerland — Final round-robin standings and playoff results Sunday at the 2016 World Men’s Curling Championship, at the Scotiabank Centre: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) x-Canada (Koe) x-Denmark (Stjerne) x-Japan (Morozumi) x-U.S. (Shuster) Norway (Ulsrud) Sweden (Edin) Scotland (Brewster) Finland (Kauste) Switzerland (Michel) Russia (Tselousov) South Korea (Kim) Germany (Baumann) x — clinched playoff berth.

W 10 8 8 8 7 6 5 5 4 2 2 1

L 1 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 9 9 10

World Men’s Curling Champions Past winners of the world men’s curling championship (with skip in parentheses): 2016 — Canada (Kevin Koe) 2015 — Sweden (Niklas Edin) 2014 — Norway (Thomas Ulsrud) 2013 — Sweden (Niklas Edin) 2012 — Canada (Glenn Howard) 2011 — Canada (Jeff Stoughton) 2010 — Canada (Kevin Koe) 2009 — Scotland (David Murdoch) 2008 — Canada (Kevin Martin) 2007 — Canada (Glenn Howard) 2006 — Scotland (David Murdoch) 2005 — Canada (Randy Ferbey) 2004 — Sweden (Peja Lindholm) 2003 — Canada (Randy Ferbey) 2002 — Canada (Randy Ferbey) 2001 — Sweden (Peja Lindholm) 2000 — Canada (Greg McAulay)

1999 — Scotland (Hammy McMillan) 1998 — Canada (Wayne Middaugh) 1997 — Sweden (Peja Lindholm) 1996 — Canada (Jeff Stoughton) 1995 — Canada (Kerry Burtnyk) 1994 — Canada (Rick Folk) 1993 — Canada (Russ Howard) 1992 — Switzerland (Markus Eggler) 1991 — Scotland (David Smith) 1990 — Canada (Ed Werenich) 1989 — Canada (Pat Ryan) 1988 — Norway (Eigil Ramsfjell) 1987 — Canada (Russ Howard) 1986 — Canada (Ed Lukowich) 1985 — Canada (Al Hackner) 1984 — Norway (Eigil Ramsfjell) 1983 — Canada (Ed Werenich) 1982 — Canada (Al Hackner) 1981 — Switzerland (Jurg Tanner) 1980 — Canada (Rick Folk) 1979 — Norway (Kristian Soerum) 1978 — U.S. (Bob Nichols) 1977 — Sweden (Ragnar Kamp) 1976 — U.S. (Bruce Roberts) 1975 — Switzerland (Otto Danieli) 1974 — U.S. (Bud Somerville) 1973 — Sweden (Kjell Oscarius) 1972 — Canada (Orest Meleschuk) 1971 — Canada (Don Duguid) 1970 — Canada (Don Duguid) 1969 — Canada (Ron Northcott) 1968 — Canada (Ron Northcott) 1967 — Scotland (Chuck Hay) 1966 — Canada (Ron Northcott) 1965 — U.S. (Bud Somerville) 1964 — Canada (Lyall Dagg) 1963 — Canada (Ernie Richardson) 1962 — Canada (Ernie Richardson) 1961 — Canada (Hec Gervais) 1960 — Canada (Ernie Richardson) 1959 — Canada (Ernie Richardson)

Swimming

Basketball National Basketball Association

Tuesday

42 41 39 30

38 .525 39 .513 41 .488 50 .375

23 24 26 35

Northwest Division W L Pct GB City 54 26 .675 43 38 .531 11 40 40 .500 14 33 48 .407 21 28 52 .350 26

Pacific Division W L Pct GB z-Golden State 72 9 .889 — x-L.A. Clippers 52 28 .650 19 Sacramento 32 48 .400 39 Phoenix 22 58 .275 49 L.A. Lakers 16 64 .200 55 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinchedconference Saturday’s Games Phoenix 121, New Orleans 100 Atlanta 118, Boston 107 Golden State 100, Memphis 99 Chicago 105, Cleveland 102 Sacramento 114, Oklahoma City 112 Minnesota 106, Portland 105

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Sunday’s Games Washington 113, Charlotte 98 L.A. Clippers 98, Dallas 91 Houston 130, L.A. Lakers 110 Utah 100, Denver 84 Milwaukee 109, Philadelphia 108, OT Miami 118, Orlando 96 Indiana 129, Brooklyn 105 Golden State 92, San Antonio 86 Toronto 93, New York 89 Monday’s Games Atlanta at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Chicago at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games New York at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Red Wings’ Datsyuk plans to retire from NHL after playoffs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Red Wings centre Pavel Datsyuk is expected to retire from the NHL after the playoffs.

Dan Milstein, his agent, confirmed Datsyuk’s decision.

Datsyuk discussed his plans for the first time Sunday.

“I’m thinking I go home after this season,” he told the newspaper. “I may not be done with hockey, but — it is hard to say — I think I am done playing in NHL.” Datsyuk wants to return to Russia to reunite with his teenage daughter and to play in the Kontinental Hockey League for at least one season.

Milstein said Datsyuk’s plans will not be final, though, until after the post-season when he meets with Red Wings general manager Ken Holland along with owners Mike and Marian Ilitch.

“It’s not over until it’s over, but it is Pavel’s desire to go back to Russia,” Milstein said.

Holland said in a text message that he’d have no comment until after the season.

The 37-year-old Datsyuk has one season left on his three-year, $22.5 million contract.

He will count $7.5 million against Detroit’s salary cap next season even if he leaves, a big hit for a team that barely earned a spot in the playoffs.

“I feel very bad about it,” Datsyuk told the paper.

Milstein said Datsyuk plans to express his appreciation to his fans in the Detroit area by hosting a hockey camp for kids in late June as he has for the past 10 years in Russia.

Datsyuk helped the Red Wings extend their post-season streak to 25 this season, when they finished third in the Atlantic Division. They will face the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the playoffs.

Datsyuk had 16 goals and 33 assists this season, and his 49 points were one shy of Henrik Zetterberg’s team-leading total. In the regular season, he has 314 goals and 918 points in his career. In 152 playoff games, he has 113 points.

Canada’s swim teams for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games TORONTO — Canada’s swim team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Aug. 5-21: Javier Acevedo, Toronto Ashton Baumann, Brisbane, Australia Dominique Bouchard, North Bay, Ont. Hilary Caldwell, White Rock, B.C., Ryan Cochrane, Victoria Santo Condorelli, Kenora, Ont. Kennedy Goss, Toronto Yuri Kisil, Calgary Audrey Lacroix, Pont-Rouge, Que. Brittany MacLean, Toronto Sandrine Mainville, Boucherville, Que. Kylie Masse, Lasalle, Ont. Martha McCabe, Toronto Rachel Nicol, Lethbridge, Alta. Penny Oleksiak, Toronto Emily Overholt, West Vancouver, B.C. Sydney Pickrem, Oldsmar, Fla. Katarine Savard, Pont-Rouge, Que., Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, Ottawa Kierra Smith, Kelowna, B.C. Noemie Thomas, Richmond, B.C., Markus Thormeyer, Markham, Ont., Chantal Van Landeghem, Winnipeg Evan Van

Moerkerke, Tillsonburg, Ont. Richard Weinberger, Surrey, B.C. Michelle Williams, Toronto. Taylor Ruck, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Canada’s team for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Sept. 7-18: Morgan Bird, Regina Isaac Bouckley, Oshawa, Ont. Nathan Clement, West Vancouver, B.C. Tammy Cunnington, Red Deer, Alta. Jonathan Dieleman, Quick, B.C. Danielle Dorris, Moncton, Ont. Sabrina Duchesne, Quebec City Alexander Elliot, Kitchener, Ont. Devin Gotell, Antigonish, N.S. Benoit Huot, Montreal Nydia Langill, Mississauga, Ont. James Leroux, Repentigny, Que. Sarah Mehain, Vernon, B.C. Gordie Michie, St. Thomas, Ont. Tyler Mrak, Aldergrove, B.C. Aurelie Rivard, St-JeanSur-Richelieu, Que. Tess Routliffe, Caledon, Ont Kataina Roxon, Kippens, N.L. Samantha Ryan, Saskatoon Nathan Stein, Maple Ridge, B.C. Abi Tripp, Kingston, Ont. Nicolas Turbide, Quebec City.

Golf Masters Sunday At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Purse: TBA (Last year: $10 million) Yardage: 7,435 Par: 72 Final a-amateur Danny Willett, 70-74-72-67—283 Jordan Spieth (270), 66-74-73-73—286 Lee Westwood, 71-75-71-69—286 Paul Casey (127), 69-77-74-67—287 J.B. Holmes (127), 72-73-74-68—287 Dustin Johnson (127), 73-71-72-71—287 Matthew Fitzpatrick, 71-76-74-67—288 Soren Kjeldsen, 69-74-74-71—288 Hideki Matsuyama (94), 71-72-72-73—288 Daniel Berger (73), 73-71-74-71—289 Jason Day (73), 72-73-71-73—289 Rory McIlroy (73), 70-71-77-71—289 Justin Rose (73), 69-77-73-70—289 Brandt Snedeker (73), 71-72-74-72—289 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, 72-72-77-70—291 Louis Oosthuizen (60), 72-77-71-71—291 Rafa Cabrera Bello, 74-73-75-70—292 Emiliano Grillo (54), 71-75-74-72—292 Billy Horschel (54), 70-77-73-72—292

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Danny Lee (54), 68-74-79-71—292 Jamie Donaldson (49), 74-72-75-72—293 Brooks Koepka (49), 73-72-76-72—293 a-Bryson DeChambeau, 72-72-77-72—293 Angel Cabrera (45), 73-73-73-75—294 Bill Haas (45), 75-74-72-73—294 Matt Kuchar (45), 75-73-72-74—294 Bernhard Langer (45), 72-73-70-79—294 Henrik Stenson (45), 72-75-78-69—294 Charley Hoffman (40), 71-77-73-74—295 Smylie Kaufman (40), 73-72-69-81—295 Scott Piercy (40), 70-72-79-74—295 Webb Simpson (40), 77-72-74-72—295 Jimmy Walker (40), 71-75-74-75—295 Sergio Garcia (36), 69-75-81-71—296 Kevin Streelman (36), 71-75-79-71—296 Bernd Wiesberger, 73-72-79-72—296 Kevin Kisner (34), 77-72-76-72—297 Bubba Watson (34), 75-75-76-71—297 Shane Lowry (31), 68-76-79-75—298 Justin Thomas (31), 76-73-78-71—298 a-Romain Langasque, 74-73-83-68—298 Victor Dubuisson, 73-76-76-74—299 Harris English (26), 74-73-76-76—299 Anirban Lahiri (26), 76-73-75-75—299 Davis Love III (26), 73-73-76-77—299 Troy Merritt (26), 74-71-79-75—299

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RINGETTE

Locals named to all-star teams LONDON, Ont. — Several Red Deer ringette players were honoured for their contributions at the Canadian Ringette Championships being named all-stars.

In the U19 division, which the Central Alberta Sting played as Team Alberta, defence Melissa Misutka was named a first team all-star while defence Brynn Lunn is a second team allstar.

In the National Ringette League, Lacombe’s Dailyn Bell was named a second team all-star.

BUSINESS

B5 THE ADVOCATE Monday, April 11, 2016

B.C. real estate firm faces licence conditions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Council of British Columbia has issued licence conditions to a Vancouverarea brokerage under investigation for alleged violations of the province’s real estate regulations.

The council says New Coast Realty has agreed to the conditions, which include the appointment of a managing broker approved by the council to conduct all training sessions and licensee supervision.

“In order to ensure the brokerage complies with the Real Estate Services Act, the council has imposed a number of licence conditions that will establish appropriate oversight,” it says in a statement.

The statement says allegations in an article that appears in Saturday’s Globe and Mail have been “a matter

of serious concern” for a number of weeks.

As soon as the council was informed by the Globe of a tape recording containing statements of “potentially serious violations” of the act, the council says it launched an investigation though the newspaper did not provide the recording.

Earlier this week, the council says it met with the owner and legal counsel of New Coast Realty, who provided a tape recording that was reviewed by investigators.

New Coast Realty, based in Richmond, B.C., did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The council says the brokerage is cooperating with the investigation.

The council’s statement, which is dated Friday, says the conditions include that the managing broker must submit monthly reports on any in-house transactions, trust accounts,

transactions involving licensees personally, activities of unlicensed assistants and any complaints.

The council will also hold approval of account-signing authorities and require New Coast Realty to provide trade records relating to assignments and commission bonuses.

The brokerage must also keep copies of all offers received for properties for inspection by the council.

The council will conduct quarterly audits of New Coast Realty.

If it finds non-compliance with the conditions or any other aspects of the act, the council says it will take further action.

“There are a significant number of buyers and sellers with transactions in progress at the brokerage. Those consumers have contractual obligations that they must meet, and the council does not wish to impede

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the transactions,” said Robert Fawcett, executive officer of the council.

“The conditions that have been agreed to with the brokerage will ensure that those transactions are able to proceed, and that the appropriate controls and oversight will be in place.”

Any consumers with concerns about transactions at New Coast Realty are asked to contact the council.

The council, which is responsible for overseeing and disciplining real estate agents in B.C., is also awaiting the results of an independent advisory group’s probe into standards of conduct for real estate licensees.

The investigation was announced in February in response to allegations that some realtors were exploiting an assignment clause in contracts that allowed them to repeatedly sell properties, driving up prices and inflating commissions.

KEYSTONE

Pipeline reactivated at low pressure

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Vance Rycroft of Birch Leaf Alpacas shows off Birch Leaf Sambuca, a white male yearling alpaca that placed first in its category, at the Canadian National Select Alpaca Sale and Futurity Saturday afternoon at the UFA Agricentre. Alpacas were judged based on the density of their fibers, as well as their structure and bite.

IN BRIEF Iran says Boeing officials will visit Tehran soon TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official IRNA news agency is saying a delegation from Boeing Co. will visit the country to review “possible co-operation” with Iranian airlines.

The late Friday report by IRNA says officials from Iran’s national carrier, Iran Air, and other Iranian airlines will meet the Boeing delegation.

Earlier in March Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, said Iran will likely sign an agreement to buy airplanes from Boeing. The Chicago-based airline manufacturer has denied repeatedly that it will sell airplanes on the visit, instead saying it will discuss fleet-planning options with Iranian officials.

Iran Air has already signed agreements to buy 118 planes from the European consortium Airbus and 20 more from French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR.

Uber offers refunds after Mexico City pricing spat MEXICO CITY — The Uber ride-sharing app offered discounts and

free rides to Mexico City clients on Friday after they were charged five times normal rates or more during the city’s recent pollution alert.

The company said in a statement that it understood riders’ “surprise and frustration” and would reimburse clients for any trip they were charged at five times the normal rate or more.

Uber said it will offer two free rides worth up to 150 pesos ($8.50) apiece to customers charged 3.5 to 4.9 times the normal rate. The app came under fire by users and city officials on Wednesday when the city ordered 40 per cent of the city’s cars off the road to reduce smog. On normal days, 20 per cent of cars can’t drive, at least through June.

With more customers and fewer Uber drivers on the road, the company’s “dynamic pricing” policy kicked in, raising rates.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Oil is flowing once again through the Keystone pipeline after a leak in South Dakota caused a shutdown that lasted more than a week.

TransCanada says in a news release that the cross-border line was restarted Sunday following permission that was granted by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration in the U.S. The company says the line will operate at a reduced pressure as part of the plan that was approved to return it to service.

The leak, which was reported April 2, let over 63,000 litres of oil seep into a South Dakota field in Hutchinson County.

The company has said on-site specialists and regulators have not observed any significant environmental impact.

It says cleanup and land restoration has already started and will continue over the coming days.

“Our goal over the 40,000 miles of pipeline we have operated for the past 65 years is zero incidents. We will apply what we learn from this incident to move us closer to that goal,” the company said.

The city’s mayor, Miguel Angel Mancera, crowed on his Twitter feed that “we reached an agreement to eliminate the dynamic pricing,” but the company did not go that far in its statement, saying only “you will no longer see excessive dynamic pricing.”

“We are working together with the authorities to find creative solutions that will achieve a balance between demand, efficiency and price during these environmental crises,” the company said. “We want to be part of the solution and avoid this happening again.”

Uber users are normally advised when rate hikes go into effect. But Hector Serrano, the head of the city’s transport department, said the city government had received over 300 complaints, some from people who claimed they had not been warned about how much their ride would cost.

Trump victory could have Canadian tax repercussions Donald Trump’s victories in recent U.S. primaries could have tax repercussions for Canadians based on comments the Republican Party candidate has made.

During the months-long campaign the billionaire entrepreneur has made a number of pledges regarding estate tax, taxation of low income earners and regulations regarding visas, all of which could have an impact on Canadians. Many Americans have said in news reports and on social media that they would leave the United States and come to Canada to escape the country’s political climate should Trump become President.

“Whatever happens in the U.S. we in Canada tend to get tarred with the same brush, which may not necessarily be a bad thing,” says Carol Bezaire, vice president of tax and estate planning with Mackenzie Investments.

For example, Trump is talking in his platform about getting rid of the U.S. estate, or “death” tax. This could be good news for Canadians who own property in the U.S. and hold U.S. bonds and stocks in their portfolio.

If the net worth of those individuals worldwide exceeds $5.45 million (U.S.) their U.S. situs (legally situated) property and investments in their estate is

TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE currently subject to U.S. estate tax up to the top tax rate of 45 per cent. “If Trump indeed gets rid of this tax there will be a lot more less-worried Canadians around,” Bezaire says.

Trump is promising to eliminate income tax on U.S. workers who earn less than $25,000 a year. This could be an advantage for Canadians who work in border cities like Windsor/Detroit but who live in Canada. Under current Canadian income tax rules that do not tax income that is not taxable in the U.S. the first $25,000 in income could be tax free.

Trump’s platform also calls for getting rid of many deductions that Canadians living in the U.S. now enjoy.

He wants to lower the tax rate for the middle class and this could mean disallowing some deductions to Canadians such as the interest deduction on their vacation property. He also may have new property taxes, Bezaire says.

Trump also is proposing to tighten

up on visa offenders, which could have an impact on Canadians.

U.S. tax implications for Canadians depends on how many days they spend in the United States per year.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a complicated way of conducting the “substantial presence test” which determines whether you have been in the U.S. long enough to be considered a U.S. resident for tax purposes.

The formula works this way. Each day in the U.S. in the current calendar year counts as one day; each day in the U.S. in the prior year counts as onethird of a day; and each day in the U.S. in the year before that counts as onesixth of a day. If the sum of those three numbers totals 183 or more, the IRS may insist you file a U.S. tax return.

Spending too much time in the U.S. also can affect your eligibility to receive benefits here in Canada such as OHIP. “He (Trump) really wants to have more scrutiny over who is coming across the border and not having too many non-American citizens in the country,” Bezaire says. “You have to watch your timing because there can be tax and financial implications on both sides of the border.”

News reports and comments on so-

cial media show that many Americans say they would move up to Canada if Trump is elected President.

Canada is one of the few countries that allows people from foreign countries such as the U.S. and United Kingdom to transfer their registered retirement plans into an RRSP here without using up its contribution room. This can only be tax effective for Americans if they relinquish their U.S. citizenship. However, there is a departure tax in the U.S. for those renouncing their U.S. citizenship and U.S. citizens still have to file a U.S. return if they remain a U.S. citizen while in Canada.

“Our consultants are getting a lot more inquiries and interest from Americans about moving up here because they feel U.S. politics is getting worrisome and they’re not sure they could stand the political climate there if Trump became President,” Bezaire says. “If he does there likely will be tax implications on both sides of the U.S./Canada border.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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Monday, April 11, 2016

Britain’s ‘out’ campaigners mistrust the EU, and each other

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Tempers are flaring and insults are flying in Britain’s battle over the European Union. Leading campaigners have branded one another elitist, irrelevant and unfit to run a sweet shop — and they’re all on the same side.

With less than three months to go until a June 23 referendum, Britain’s anti-EU campaigners are bitterly divided, with two rival camps battling over which will be the standard-bearer in the campaign — and over how to win the historic vote.

Will voters make up their minds based on concerns about immigration and national sovereignty, or on worries about the value of the pound in their pocket? How to answer that question divides the two rival anti-EU groups, Grassroots Out and Vote Leave.

“The other campaign is much more ‘Immigration, immigration, immigration,”’ said Vote Leave spokesman Robert Oxley. “They think they can win on immigration alone.”

Oxley said Vote Leave recognizes that the campaign also needs to win an economic argument. “People need to be reassured that by voting to leave, their job is not being put at risk.”

Grassroots Out and Vote Leave are vying to become the official “leave” side in the referendum campaign, a designation that will be made by the Electoral Commission before April 15.

The chosen group will be able to spend up to 7 million pounds ($10 million) and will get free television broadcasts and a mail-out to households across the country.

On the pro-EU side, only one group is seeking the mantle: Britain Stronger in Europe. On the side arguing for a British exit — or Brexit — the two rival groups have been jostling and criticizing one another for months.

The more polished is Vote Leave, which has the support of many prominent Conservative Euroskeptics, including Cabinet minister Michael Gove and London Mayor Boris Johnson, as well as figures from other parties. It has slick branding and a professional media campaign that aims to persuade wavering moderates and young voters.

Its rival, Grassroots Out, paints itself as the down-to-earth alternative.

It’s an umbrella group whose main component is Leave.EU, a well-funded group founded by Arron Banks, a brash multimillionaire backer of the anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party.

Grassroots Out has focused on holding street stalls and local events up and down the country. Its highest-profile figure is UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a divisive politician who is loved by some and loathed by others for his blunt-spoken, British-as-a-bull-

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Farage built UKIP from fringe party into political force by stressing its anti-establishment credentials. He is taking the same approach to the referendum, painting Vote Leave as a bunch of out-of-touch political insiders.

“They are so much seen as the centre-right and so much seen as SW1 (the postal code for Parliament), and not actually out round the country doing the stuff we are doing,” he said recently.

Farage accused Vote Leave of seeing their rivals as “members of the lower orders and not really fit to sit round the same table as them.”

Banks has been even less complimentary, saying of Vote Leave’s organizers: “I wouldn’t put them in charge of the local sweet shop.”

The divisions have become acutely personal. UKIP’s sole lawmaker in the House of Commons, Douglas Carswell, defied party leader Farage to support Vote Leave. “I don’t care,” Farage said. “He is irrelevant.”

The infighting has left the “leave” camp without a strong single figurehead to go up against Prime Minister David Cameron, the face of the “remain” campaign. The best-known pro-Brexit figures are an almost comically diverse bunch, ranging from Farage on the hard right to wonkish Conservative politicians like Gove and House of Commons leader Chris Grayling to the bombastic left-wing former lawmaker George Galloway. Steven Fielding, professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, said there was a perception that the anti-EU campaign is run by “oddballs.”

“These are not people who look as though they ought to be on The One Show — a popular suppertime TV talk show. “The absence of a face is a difficulty these days, because all political communication has to go through a personality,” Fielding said.

The most famous Brexiteer by far is London’s bicycle-riding, tousle-headed mayor, one of the few politicians to have first-name recognition: Boris.

With his amiable-buffoon manner and Latin-quips, Johnson is widely popular and could potentially sway many voters. But he’s also a one-man band who has so far declined to share a stage with Farage and other campaigners. Critics accuse him of caring more about his own hopes of succeeding Cameron as prime minister than about the future of Britain.

Matthew Goodwin, a political scientist who studies Britain’s Euroskeptic movement, says the “the divisions on the ‘leave’ side, in a way, contain some hidden strengths.”

“They essentially need to mobilize and turn out two groups of voters: UKIP-leaning, older white working-class committed Euroskeptics and softer, younger, more Conservative-leaning voters,” Goodwin said.

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CRTC: The country’s telecommunications watchdog kicks off a second round of public hearings on Internet and telecom services on Monday in Gatineau, Que. The CRTC is also unveiling a map that gives a general view of Internet service availability across the country.

Earnings: Several companies report earnings this week, including DavidsTea on Tuesday, Cogeco and Corus

Business BRIEFS U.K.’s Daily Mail considers bid for Yahoo The owner of Britain’s Daily Mail is in early discussions over a bid for the ailing U.S. internet company Yahoo.

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BY BONNIE BENWICK ADVOCATE STAFF A good roast beef sandwich is not so easy to come by these days — and this one really spoke to us, with an exterior crisped in golden chive butter; an interior with gooey cheese and thinly sliced, tender potatoes; and a creamy sauce (the “dip”) with the zing of horseradish.

We recommend using the optional garlic powder on the potatoes.

Serve with a salad of peppery greens.

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American Dip Grilled Cheese.

AMERICAN DIP GRILLED CHEESE

1/4 cup crème fraîche or sour cream 2 tablespoons prepared white horseradish 4 slices rustic artisan bread, such as levain or sourdough 4 slices Colby Jack or Monterey Jack cheese 6 ounces thinly sliced roast beef

MAKES: 2 servings INGREDIENTS 2 small Yukon Gold potatoes 1 teaspoon olive oil Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Granulated garlic powder (optional) 8 fresh chive stems 2 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature

STEPS Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.

Scrub the potatoes well, then cut them into 1/4-inch slices, letting them fall into a bowl as you work. Add the oil, and season lightly with salt and pepper and the garlic powder, if using; toss to coat evenly, then spread the potato slices on the baking

sheet. Roast for about 15 minutes, until they are browned in spots and cooked through.

Meanwhile, mince the chives and combine half of them in a small bowl with the butter; stir until well blended. Combine the remaining chives, the crème fraiche or sour cream and the horseradish in a separate small bowl; whisk together until fairly smooth.

Heat a cast-iron or nonstick skillet over medium heat. Spread the chive butter on one side of each bread slice. Place two of the slices buttered side down on a clean cutting board. Top each of the two slices with ingredients in this order: one slice of cheese, half of the roast beef, half of the roasted potato slices, then another slice of cheese. Finish by topping both sandwiches with the remaining slic-

es of bread, buttered side up. Use a wide spatula to transfer both sandwiches to the skillet. Cover and cook for about 4 minutes or until they’re browned on the bottom, adjusting the heat to avoid burning them, and pressing on them as needed to help compact the sandwiches a bit. Then carefully turn the sandwiches over and cook for 4 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the sandwiches hold together top to bottom.

Transfer to the cutting board; cut each sandwich in half, on the diagonal if you like. Serve warm, with the horseradish cream for dipping.

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INGREDIENTS 4 large artichokes (about 3 pounds total) 1/2 lemon Pinch saffron threads 1 tablespoon boiling water 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 large shallot, minced (1/4 cup) 3/4 cup plain low-fat Greek-style yogurt Leaves from about 5 stems flat-leaf parsley (1/3 packed cup) 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper

When I put the words “food + spring + Mediterranean” into my mental search engine, artichokes are first to pop up. A couple of years back, I spent a week in Sicily in April, which is peak artichoke season there. You could buy a dozen for 1 euro, and they were on every restaurant menu in every imaginable form: baby ones fried crisp, large whole globes stuffed with bread crumbs, and artichoke hearts in salads, vegetable medleys and pasta sauces. I returned home forever artichoke-inspired.

The accompanying recipe taps that inspiration in a way that requires minimal effort and yields maximum pleasure and healthfulness. Artichokes top the nutritional charts with their concentration of protective antioxidants.

By steaming them and serving them whole, you don’t need to fuss with scooping out their chokes (the inedible purple-ish inner fibers) or removing the hearts before cooking.

Here, what can be tedious for the cook becomes fun for diners of all ages once the vegetable is cooked, as they pluck off each leaf, dipping it in sauce before scraping the meaty part off with their teeth. They eventually get to the tender treasure of the heart, and the choke easily falls away from it when scraped with a butter knife.

Rather than the butter- or mayonnaise-based dip that is typically served

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Steamed artichokes with saffron yogurt dip. with artichokes prepared this way, I up the nutritional ante on the creamy accompaniment with a savory yogurt dip that is enriched with extra-virgin olive oil, parsley and saffron.

The steamed artichokes and sauce are sumptuously delicious together and make for a delightfully different start to a meal. Their flavor never fails to take me back — if not to Sicily, exactly, certainly to somewhere along

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STEPS Cut off the artichoke stems so the vegetables can sit upright. Peel off the woody, green exterior of each stem and keep the tender cores. Cut off and discard the top 3/4-inch of each artichoke, then rub the cut tops well with the cut side of the lemon half (to keep the vegetable from discoloring). Squeeze 1/2 tablespoon of juice from the lemon half and reserve. Use scissors to snip off the sharp top from each artichoke leaf.

Arrange the artichokes and pieces of peeled stems in a large steamer basket set over at least 3 cups of water in a pot, over medium heat. Cover and steam for 35 to 40 minutes or until the leaves can be easily removed and the artichoke hearts are tender when pierced with a knife. About halfway through the cooking, check the water level and add more as needed. Transfer the artichokes and stems to a serving dish.

Meanwhile, stir together the saffron and boiling water in a small bowl. Let it sit for a few minutes.

Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil shimmers, stir in the shallot; cook for 3 minutes or until it’s softened and beginning to pick up color. Remove from the heat.

Combine the saffron and its water, the shallot, yogurt, parsley, the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil, the reserved lemon juice and the salt in a mini food processor; puree until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl and season lightly with pepper. Serve as a dip with the artichokes and peeled stems.

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She studied Physical Education and Dance at Dunfermline College of Physical Education, in Aberdeen, Scotland, founded the Glasgow Modern Dance Group and taught at Coatbridge High School. In 1962, she married Alan Leslie Johnson and together they emigrated to Jasper, Alberta in 1966, where she became involved in community theatre with the Jasper Players. In 1972, the family moved to Red Deer, Alberta, and Christine became a driving force in Central Alberta Theatre, as a director, producer, choreographer, actor, President and Board member. She was probably best known for her direction of CAT’s productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and West Side Story, as well as her role and collaboration in the creation of A Dish of Cream for the opening of The Red Deer College Performing Arts Centre. Audiences in Red Deer also enjoyed her talent for acting in diverse roles in plays such as Absurd Person Singular and the Odd Couple. She also became quite (in)famous for her tongue and cheek portrayals of Queen Liz of Red Deer. In 1990, she was recognised for her contribution to the cultural life of Red Deer, for ‘Continuous Voluntary Service ‘ in the Mayor’s Awards for Citizenship. Christine and Alan moved to Victoria, BC, in 1990. She continued to explore her passion for theatre with Langham Court, directing On Golden Pond, the Life of Galileo and the Diviners. After that, her focus became her family. Christine and Alan enjoyed travelling the world and visiting their children and grandchildren and her brother, Alan Auld. In the latter years of her life, Christine was a devoted caregiver for her husband Alan, until he passed in 2011. Christine is survived by her daughters, Catriona, Mairi and Fiona, sons-in-law, Ben, Ali and Tyson, grandchildren, Tara (and husband, Kenny), Asher, Tavis, Ava, Eliyar and Darian and greatgrandchildren, Aleena and Mirah. Services will be held at a later date. Donations in lieu of flowers can be sent to Central Alberta Theatre.

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‘He did everything for the art’ TOLLER CRANSTON’S FINAL PAINTINGS COME HOME

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The final paintings of Canadian figure-skating great Toller Cranston have returned home after his untimely death in Mexico more than a year ago.

Christopher Talbot, Cranston’s longtime friend and agent, feels sadness despite successfully negotiating his way through months and months of red tape to retrieve dozens of pieces from Cranston’s home in San Miguel de Allende.

“For the most part it’s over. He’s gone. There’s no more paintings and I’m not sure what happens from here,” said Talbot, president of Art Evolution Gallery and Lounge in Calgary.

“I miss him, painful as he was. It’s so sad. It’s spectacularly sad because you know it’s the end.”

Cranston, who was 65, was found dead from an apparent heart attack in his home in January 2015. The current display of his paintings will remain at the Calgary art gallery until April 20, which is Cranston’s birthday.

He was a six-time Canadian senior men’s champion, and won bronze at the 1974 world championships and 1976 Olympics. While he never won an Olympic or world title, his dramatic showmanship on the ice presented a unique artistic vision that forever changed the sport.

Even while achieving uncommon acclaim as a figure skater, Cranston attended art school and pursued a career in art. After retiring from skating in 1997, he moved to Mexico, where art became his obsession.

Among the paintings at the gallery are two of Cranston’s personal favourites. The Contessas are matching paintings of young women, wearing medieval garb, that hung in his bedroom.

Brightly coloured, fanciful themes are a trademark of Cranston’s work. He once explained in an interview that his colourful compositions grew from an interest in Eastern influences at an unusually young age, specifically Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Turkestan.

“The inclination, the subject matter, the concepts, the sense of colour, the people, the worlds, the imagery — miraculously — was in evidence when I was six years of age,” Cranston said.

Talbot said it’s difficult to describe the late painter’s style.

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Christopher Talbot, president and CEO of Art Evolution, speaks about his friend and artist Toller Cranston at his gallery in Calgary.

“There are hints of surrealism there are hints of realism. In some of the paintings, there’s a lot of cubism. You can’t really nail it down,” he said.

“He would take exotic things and he would take that influence and completely mix it up in his mind and put it on the canvas. Maybe it’s Tollerism — something completely different.”

One of Talbot’s fondest memories was watching Cranston, who he estimates produced more than 20,000 paintings during his career, working in front of an easel.

“Disturbing Toller Cranston when he was painting, which was usually 12 hours a day, was akin to running a bull through the china shop. He did not welcome any kind of intrusion,” he said with a smile.

“Having said that, I had lots of opportunity to sit quietly and just watch him paint, and it was like

watching a magician. It was like watching something extraordinary to just see something come to life.”

Talbot said Cranston was not a happy man, his only moments of joy coming when he was creating.

That would end the minute he put his signature on the painting. He often never looked at the finished work again.

“He certainly suffered. Nothing was ever good enough, he was a perfectionist to the point of absolute dysfunction. The only thing this man was interested in was the next painting.”

Talbot hopes Cranston is eventually recognized as the great Canadian artist that Talbot feels he became.

“He did everything for the art. This man lived, breathed and thought of nothing else but creating things. It was a solitary experience for him.”

There is a new boss at the box office

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Step aside, Batman and Superman. Melissa McCarthy is The Boss at the box office now.

The actress’ latest comedy narrowly topped Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice at the weekend box office with a $23.5 million debut, according to comScore estimates Sunday. The Boss stars McCarthy as an over-the-top business mogul attempting to rebound after being convicted of insider trading.

McCarthy’s win wasn’t a total knockout. The Warner Bros. superhero smackdown starring Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight and Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel nabbed $23.4 million in its third weekend.

Despite poor reviews and word of mouth, Batman v Superman has earned an estimated $296.7 million to date.

When the final box office figures are released Monday, the DC Comics mash-up could end up overcoming McCarthy’s R-rated Universal comedy.

“It’s incredibly close,” said Paul Dergarabedian, comScore’s senior media analyst. “It’s one of the closest results between first- and second-place films I’ve ever seen. Anything can happen. We’ll know for sure tomorrow.”

Disney’s Zootopia landed in third place with $14.4 million. In its sixth weekend, the animated film featuring the voices of Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin has earned a total domestic haul of $296 million.

The weekend’s only other newcomer, STX Entertainment’s first-person action romp Hardcore Henry, opened in fifth place with a dismal $5.1 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. The Boss, $23.5 million.

2. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, $23.4 million.

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Country music entertainer Joe Nichols opened for Canadian country recording artist Gord Bamford of Lacombe at the Centrium in Red Deer on Friday.

Bamford fans hear plenty of favourites File photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

LANA MICHELIN REVIEW Two thousand fans warmly welcomed back one of their own when country singer Gord Bamford took the stage at Red Deer’s Centrium.

Lacombe-raised Bamford looked out at the cheering Central Alberta crowd and said, “This is a cool moment for me‌â€?

After moving to Nashville last summer to ignite his career in the U.S., Bamford admitted, “It’s really good to be back in Red Deer.�

He thanked fans for buying tickets to his Friday night concert despite Alberta’ rough economy, then lightened the mood by joking about returning to a local drinking hole: “I hope I don’t get kicked out of Billy Bob’s!�

Sporting his usual black cowboy hat and jeans, Bamford performed with a five-musician band, including a crack electric-fiddle player/multi-instrumentalist from Calgary and bassist Lisa Dodd from Hanna — who also got a rousing welcome from the audience.

Bamford, who followed a high-energy performance by U.S. Country sing-

er Joe Nichols, had a solid opening with his earnest rendition of Farm Girl Strong, He then launched into the toe-tapper, Is It Friday Yet? which got fans clapping along.

Must Be a Woman came with a preamble about Bamford’s best friend cleaning up his act for a female — “true story.�

Bamford, a three-time Canadian Country Music Association Male Artist of the Year, exhibits an easy comfort on stage earned from many a cross-country tour. He signed a poster for a fan, accepting flowers and presenting his young cousin with a guitar for his birthday.

He also mentioned his own upcoming 40th birthday, then thought better of it. (“Don’t cheer that. It’s not that much fun.�)

Fans heard plenty of favourite Bamford tunes, including Leaning on a Lonesome Song, Heard You in a Song, Red Dress, his recent No. 1 hit When Your Lips Are So Close, and a few new selections from Bamford’s just released album,Tin Roof.

The moody title track was delivered with rain and lightning effects. Bamford later performed his haunting hit Don’t Let Her Be Gone and gave a shoutout to its songwriter, his friend Buddy Owens, who waved from his box seat.

Bamford said he’s next pushing for his Sony label to release Breakfast Beer

Canadian country music star Gord Bamford. as a single. “What they don’t know is that in four weeks time, it’s going to be out on radio.� His irreverent ode to vacations will be a hit, judging by the exuberant fan reaction.

He played a couple of covers with the band. Bamford also invited out young Salmon Arm, B.C. singer Jesse Mast out to sing his rising single Bad Blood. The crowd — especially the two-steppers in the back — enjoyed the steamy song with edgy guitar and banjo parts.

But it was Bamford’s song Apples, written for his son Nash, that really struck a chord with the audience.

Bamford’s earnest delivery took the tune’s sentimental lyrics, about a father who sees his younger self in his son, to a level that’s both personal and universal. That kind of relatability makes him special to fans.

Nichols had previously served up a loud set with his band in an old-school style that melded well with Bamford’s traditional approach to country music.

The Grammy-nominated American singer performed songs he’s best known for: Hard to be Cool, Size Matters, Sunny and 75, Yeah, and the memorable Tequila Makes her Clothes Fall Off with a deep, resonant voice.

While lights circling overhead,

Nichols also sang the stirring and beautiful The Impossible, about surviving life’s blows. Then, to shake things up, he did a slow cover of I Like Big Butts. “That’s me rapping for you, Canada!� he said, to laughs from the crowd.

Nichols was more poignant in his tribute to the recently deceased Merle Haggard, with a cover of Footlights.

As much as the Arkansas native likes touring with Bamford, Nichols suggested he has yet to acclimatize to cold Alberta mornings. “I got to play golf this morning and it was a refreshing experienceâ€? he said, to laughs from the audience. “We lost a couple of crew guys on the golf course — and we’re not going back! But it warmed up a little later‌â€?

The concert was opened by the voice of Bower mall in radio promotions, Beverley Mahood. “It feels so good to be back in Red Deer,� said Mahood, who sang a gutsy version of Melissa Etheridge’s Bring Me Some Water as well as her own single, New Religion, about the urge to stick with someone who isn’t necessarily good for you. lmichelin@redderadvocate.com

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My mother and stepfather support this relationship and think it will be good for her. My older sister and I do not approve. Because of this, my mother decided to disown me and my sister.

We have not spoken for six months.

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Dear Annie: I am writing about “Crying Mother,” who views her formerly loving and involved daughter-inlaw as “cold and distant” now that the children are older. You gave her some possible explanations. I’d like to suggest another.

Parents’ days are filled with meeting the needs of their growing children, in addition to maintaining a home and keeping up with career responsibilities. This may be the busiest and most stressful time of their lives.

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After our first was born, my father-in-law would call to say that he would be grilling that weekend and wondered if the baby would like some prime rib. My mother-in-law was happy to bake and decorate cookies with my second-grader for a school activity. I would suggest that “Crying Mother” step into a more supportive role.

Does she invite the family over for a meal and fun activity? Does she offer to take the children so the parents can have time alone? Does she inquire about the children’s activities and attend when possible? Grandparents can be very important to families, and such efforts are greatly appreciated. — Been There on Both Sides Dear Been There: There are always two sides to every story (sometimes three). We hope “Crying Mother” will give your great suggestions a try.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you say exactly what’s on your mind, others may be shocked. So think carefully before you speak — especially when dealing with family, friends and people within your local community.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today’s star patterns encourage lively Lions to lead others in a creative, confident and inspiring way. Just make sure you are being determined and dynamic — rather than dogmatic and domineering.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Versatile Virgos love to take immediate steps to solve problems — but some forethought is required before you spring into action. The current situation is more complex than you think.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you meddle

in other people’s affairs or engage in garrulous gossip then you could end up with egg on your lovely Libran face. So take the time to check the facts before you open your mouth!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve got your finger on the financial pulse — haven’t you? The less realistic you are about money matters, the more worried and out of control you’ll feel. So get on top of your finances ASAP. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You have a natural talent for putting your foot firmly in your mouth — especially today. Avoid being too blunt, as some people aren’t ready to sample your special brand of Sagittarian truth serum.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You won’t get much support from others — they have their own problems to deal with. So

strive to be a self-sufficient Capricorn. And don’t let yourself fall into the trap of negative self-talk.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Financial matters look complex and confusing today, as someone offers you vague instructions or complicated directions. When in doubt, ask for further clarification — and keep your cool.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you in a mental rut? Shake up your thinking by trying a new hobby or studying a topic that has always intrigued you. When talking to a colleague or family member, choose your words carefully.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Monday, April 11 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jeremy Clarkson, 56; Michelle Phan, 29; Joss Stone, 29 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Avoid blurting out something inappropriate today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You can expect some personal and professional disruptions in 2016, as Uranus continues to blast you out of your comfort zone. So hold on tight!

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11:00 am to 3:00 pm

Place

Eventide Funeral Chapel • D Dentall services i ffor alllll ages • Accepting new patients • Warm and welcoming atmosphere to ease you back into the dental chair

4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer

#NN YGNEQOG ç (TGG EQOOWPKV[ GXGPV A pre-arrangement information session will be held in our chapel at 1:00 pm. Everyone attending the session will receive a FREE registry work book.

Dr. Caroline Krivuzoff-Sanderson DMD Dr. Robert Kurio DDS

For more information call: 403-347-2222 eventidefuneralchapels.com

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Eventide Funeral Chapel & Crematorium

GENERAL DENTISTS PLEASE CALL TODAY FOR AN APPOINTMENT EVENING HOURS AVAILABLE 403-346-0077 • 6130 67th St. Red Deer, AB

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KATHY MITHCELL AND MARCY SUGAR

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