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Photos by HÅKON MÆLAND/Red Bull Content Pool

ABOVE: Competitors perform during the Red Bull Ragnarok at Hardangervidda in Haugastol, Norway on April 1, 2016.

LEFT: Peter Martel celebrates after winning the Red Bull Ragnarok.

RED DEER’S PETER MARTEL USED THE COMPETITIVE POWER OF TEAMWORK TO EARN THE TITLE OF THE FASTEST SNOWKITER IN THE WORLD

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

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Red Deer’s Peter Martel is the fastest snowkiter in the world, sailing past 350 competitors in blizzard conditions with a broken steering line at the Red Bull Ragnarok in Norway.

Martel, who placed third in last year’s race, used the competitive power of teamwork to propel him to the top of the podium at the 2016 Red Bull event held April 1. The two Alberta snowkiters he trained with blew past most of the competition as well.

Marie-Eve Mayrand of Calgary clinched the top spot in the women’s kiteboarding race, while Josh Barker of Gull Lake placed third in the men’s division.

Martel congratulated his fellow Al-

bertans, saying “They were the underdogs, while I had already podium-ed … I was hoping, with them being so strong and doing so well (in training), that they would place …”

He credited his training with Barker and Mayrand for his own win, saying the three snowkiters motivated each other to get out for at least weekly practices — usually at Sunshine Meadows, near Banff. “We made it a team effort, pushing each other on” to go faster and farther.

All their strength was needed for the 100-km Ragnarok course. Martel, Barker and Mayrand were among only 25 competitors to finish the race — RED DEER WEATHER

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Martel with the top time of four hours, 49 min.

The event that attracts participants from 30 countries is called “the biggest and toughest” snowkite competition on the globe. It’s held on a gruelling, fivelap course on a mountainous plateau in Hardangervidda — the same location used for the ice planet Hoth in the Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back film.

Conditions were initially ideal — sunny and about -2 C — but the wind proved wildly unpredictable.

Martel recalled leading a field of competitors on snowboards and skis when he entered a“wind hole” in the

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course. Other kiters noticed his sail going slack and managed to avoid the poor wind conditions. “They could navigate around me … I watched as six or seven competitors passed me by — and that was discouraging,” he admitted.

Martel had to hike in knee-deep snow to the top of a hill to catch the wind again, and then used all of his skills and knowledge to catch up to the competition.

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Region stands to benefit from spending: Jean

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Wildrose leader Brian Jean says Central Alberta could benefit from the NDP’s focus on infrastructure spending in the new provincial budget but only if investment is properly managed.

Jean said the government says the most important thing it can do is invest in infrastructure and the NDP intends to spend as much as $7 billion a year.

“Very few federal governments, if any, BRIAN JEAN have ever spent $7 billion in infrastructure across the entire country. I know. I was involved in the infrastructure department from 2006 to 2011. We couldn’t rush it out the door fast enough during Canada’s Economic Action Plan,” Jean told members of Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce during his lunch-hour speech at Black Knight Inn on Friday.

“What that means is if they are successful in rushing that money out the door you can bet they will invest it very badly.”

He said taxpayers can expect to have a lot of problems as to where the money goes.

“I don’t think they’ll get quite as much done as they suggest they will, but we’ll wait and see. The situation is we hope they’ll get best return on investment for every dollar spent, because right now Albertans are being overtaxed.”

He said the carbon tax is going to cost a typical Alberta family about $1,000 a year by increasing the cost of gas and home heating. And it’s not even a true carbon tax like the carbon tax in British Columbia where they take the money out of the economy and give it back to the consumers.

“A carbon tax means that you want to change behaviour. If you want people to drive less, you raise the price on gas but then you take that money from raising the price on gas and you put it into bike paths or green areas or you encourage people to buy electrical cars. That’s true carbon tax.”

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Reinhold Gehrer, Martel Peter and Josh Barker celebrate on the podium during the Red Bull Ragnarok at Hardangervidda in Haugastol, Norway on April 1, 2016.

Barker digs deep for third-place finish

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Josh Barker’s third-place finish at the Red Bull Ragnarok snowkiting race in Norway was a triumph over years of debilitating health problems.

The 34-year-old Gull Lake resident began suffering from exhaustion and dizziness in about 2008 while he was living in Edmonton.

“I was bike racing at the time and I started feeling funny. I was dizzy, sick … ” he recalled.

His symptoms were similar to that of multiple sclerosis, but weren’t MS. Barker grew frustrated and depressed. At his lowest point he said, “I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t talk … my muscles weren’t working. I thought I was dying.”

It took a long while before he was diagnosed with Lyme disease, a tickborne illness that often flies under the radar because Barker said, “a lot of doctors don’t believe in it.”

Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected black-legged ticks.

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SNOWKITE: An endurance sport In the endurance sport, “you have to use your body in the most efficient way to get the most impact,” explained the 29-year-old, whose sailor’s sense of

Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash. Some people think you have to be in remote wooded areas to come in contact with these ticks. But Barker said they can be found all over Alberta, on city trails, even in backyards. “They can be carried by birds all over.”

He discovered Canada doesn’t have the best testing for Lyme disease. His first test indicated he didn’t have it, while a second test, done in the U.S., confirmed he did.

Barker was then told by his physician that two weeks of antibiotics would cure it. But “it’s been two years and I’m still fighting it,” said the Central Albertan, who eventually switched to “natural medicine” and slowly began reintroducing activities into this life.

He started with kiteboarding — a sport he first saw in Seattle a decade ago. It’s fairly “static,” working core muscles instead of requiring a lot of running around.

Barker tried it out on water in 2011 and on snow that winter. The sport did help him regain muscle strength.

He eventually started the Alberta Kiteboarding Association. He’s now

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2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He noted the snowboarding half-pipe was a trial sport at the junior Olympics before being accepted into the adult Winter Olympic Games.

The Red Deer electrician who also owns the Element Kite Paddle Surf business, would like to see more corporate sponsorship for snowkiting.

Martel said his future participation will hang on whether he can keep up with the high cost of going to international events. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

“When I was able to calm down, I had to react quickly …” He untangled himself, then haphazardly tied the two broken ends together in a knot that held to the end of the race.

Since Martel was racing in blizzard conditions, he didn’t realize he was the first to cross the finish line until one of the Red Bull organizers told him.

He recalled the fantastic feeling of sharing the podium with Barker, as well as second-place winner Reinhold Gehrer of Austria.

Martel is additionally thrilled that kiteboarding will be an event at the

navigation and core strength as a former speedskater helped him make the most of the conditions.

But on the last lap of the race, the wind picked up considerably and the temperature dropped to about -8 C. “There was near-zero visibility” recalled Martel, who had to navigate by following snowboard and ski tracks in the snow.

At one point, he hit an outcropping and went tumbling. Martel “giftwrapped” himself in this steering lines. Panic set in when he realized one of the lines had snapped in two.

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director of that group, as well as the Canadian Kiteboarding Association.

At Ragnarok, Barker had hoped to make it into the top five or the top 10.

He didn’t expect a third-place finish in five hours, 52-seconds — especially since some of his exhaustion and dizziness kicked in during lap fourth of five laps. “I had to really dig deep and push through that.”

He believes training with other competitive snowkiters helped — including first-place finisher, Peter Martel of Red Deer, and Marie-Eve Mayrand of Calgary, who got the top spot in the women’s division.

It also helped that Alberta’s weather is just as unpredictable as Central Norway’s, said Barker. He noted the race ran a gamut of conditions — from pockets of no wind, to high winds causing near white-out conditions. “We’re always adjusting (in Alberta), so we knew how to handle bad conditions.”

Barker, who credits his wife and kids for their support, said “I’m very pleased. For me this is a really big accomplishment because it proved I could overcome a lot, with my illness … and still do well in life.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Wolf Creek superintendent retires Wolf Creek Public Schools will soon be hiring a new superintendent.

Larry Jacobs, who has held the position for 13 years, retired on Friday.

The board of trustees expressed its gratitude to Jacobs for his dedicated service to the division. Jayson Lovell will take over as acting superintendent until a new superintendent is hired.

Calgary man charged with dangerous driving after incident on Hwy 2 A 20-year-old Calgary man has now been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle following a recent incident on Hwy 2 that included video evidence from a dashboard camera.

Sylvan Lake RCMP have charged Kunal Anand who is scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on May 18.

Police allege that last Sunday at about 11:20 a.m. near Bowden a group of car enthusiasts were travelling north when another vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed approached the group and passed through the middle of two vehicles, nearly hitting them.

The vehicle then passed another member of the group on the shoulder of the road before speeding away.

Sylvan Lake RCMP responded to a complaint regarding the incident shortly thereafter, and located the suspect vehicle in Sylvan Lake approximately one hour later. The driver was identified, questioned but not arrested.

A video that was posted online by a man whose camera recorded the driving incident garnered a lot of attention from the public.

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A man received a global sentence of nine months in jail after pleading guilty to home invasion where two men were assaulted with a hammer.

On Friday in Red Deer provincial court, Tyrel George Jackson, 28, of Red Deer pleaded guilty to break and enter, possession of stolen property, two counts of assault and possession of a controlled substance.

Red Deer RCMP were called to a report of a home invasion in Riverside Meadows just before midnight on Oct. 16. Police said the suspect climbed onto the roof of a parked car to gain access to the balcony of a second floor apartment.

Two men sustained bruises and abrasions, but were able to push their assailant back out of the apartment.

According to police the suspect then jumped from the balcony, landed on the same parked car he used to get up, entered another vehicle and took off.

Police said the suspect knew the victims. Jackson will be on probation for 12 months and has a lifetime firearms prohibition.

Tour of Alberta to stop in Olds, Rocky The fourth edition of Alberta’s largest professional cycling event will pedal through Olds and Rocky Mountain House.

The Tour of Alberta will make stops in eight official host communities and multiple pass-through communities, as the peloton races from Southern to Central Alberta over the span of five days.

The specific routes will be announced at a later date.

The staged race will begin in Lethbridge on Sept. 1 and wrap up on Edmonton on Sept. 5. During the second stage, cyclists will head to Olds from Kananaskis. On the third day, they begin in Rocky Mountain House and finish the day in Drayton Valley.

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JEAN: Carbon tax a money grab He said in the first year the carbon tax will take $3 billion out of the economy. “They’re only putting in about something in the neighbourhood of 9.5 per cent back into the economy in the first year. So we’re talking about $285

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million back into the economy. They’re actually going to be using that money for other things. “That clearly indicates it’s just a money grab, it’s a slush fund.�

Jean said Albertans will also be facing extra debt as the NDP predicts a $58 billion debt by 2019. “The truth is $58 billion works out even at today’s low interest rates, borrowing as the government does at AAA credit rating, at about over $2 billion a year just in interest payments. That’s $58,000 for the average person’s household which means that people are going to have to pay about $2,000 a year just to support that debt.�

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Habitat for Humanity volunteers Mike Morin and Ray Vanderkooi install siding on one of the two new duplexes being built in Lacombe on Friday. The units located on Ranchers Close in Lacombe will be the new home for four families. The homes are scheduled to be ready for June 17.

That’s why Wildrose believe the government should look at efficiencies within the public sector. Just next door in B.C. the public sector costs 20 per cent less, he said. “It costs $2,00o more in Alberta for each and every person to have a public sector that is the most expensive in Canada. And we believe that they should look at efficiencies and I don’t mean layoffs like Ralph Klein did — 20 per cent, that’s ridiculous. We’re suggesting to save a couple pennies on every dollar spent by simply having today an opportunity to discuss with

all of the public sector, which there is 200,000 of them, to freeze their salaries. “Just take a hit like everyone else in Alberta is taking. People have lost 10 per cent, 20 per cent, 30 per cent of their wages through the ability to keep their job and some people have lost 100 per cent of their wages. In fact 100,000 people have lost 100 per cent of their wages over the last year,� Jean said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

As part of the Alberta provincial budget announced Thursday, $100 million is being allocated over five years to build a new interchange at the north end of Gasoline Alley.

City welcomes funding, but questions remain

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

BUDGET REACTION

A major overhaul of a busy interchange and expansion of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre are two wins for the City of Red Deer in the provincial budget.

But there are critical projects for the city and region that did not make the budget — a new courthouse and two highway twinning projects.

Mayor Tara Veer said the city is disappointed about the courthouse and will continue to lobby the province for funding to ensure the safety and security of citizens to speed up legal proceedings. She said a decision needs to be made on that municipal land holding.

There may be a small glimmer of hope because there are global allocations around courthouse renewal in the provincial capital plan, said Veer “There is a report that has yet to be released publicly indicating which courthouse renewals take priority in the province,” said Veer. “Given that we’re Alberta’s third largest city … and the fact that we have extensive dockets at the courthouse … (we are hopeful) that Red Deer will be the top priority.”

The Hwy 11A, east of Hwy 2 to Gaetz Avenue, and Hwy 2A to Blackfalds projects also were not funded but the projects made the list of unfunded projects. It is the first time the province’s multi-year capital plan was released publicly.

Veer said this shows it is on the province’s radar and funding may come eventually. She said it provides the city with useful information so it can focus its advocacy efforts.

City manager Craig Curtis said there are still many unanswered questions about the carbon tax’s impact on the municipality including whether

the city is taxed on emissions or fuel or both. He said it is not clearly addressed in the budget.

Veer said it looks like the advocacy efforts by municipalities to ensure the tax was revenue neutral was ignored.

The carbon levy could have a significant financial impact on municipalities, she said.

Veer said the preliminary analysis suggest the city could be on the hook for millions of dollars over the next five years, which may result in a tax increase, utility rate increases or impact the ability to finance local priorities.

Veer said it looks like there are additional environmental grants in lieu of an exemption from the carbon tax levy but there is no guarantee that Red Deer would receive any of the benefits.

The city is hopeful that some of the $892 million allocated to build affordable housing will flow through to Red Deer.

Curtis said the city is pleased about the $2.6 million additional support for Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams or ALERT, which along with the local RCMP have made significant inroads in fighting crime in the city.

The long-awaited Hwy 2 interchange at 19th Street and Gaetz Avenue will be revamped in time for the 2019 Canada Winter Games to the tune of $100 million. The city had advocated jointly with the county for the project to improve safety and accommodate growth in the Hwy 2 corridor.

The obstetrical unit at the hospital will be expanded to the tune of $9 million.

The city’s budget team will continue to analyze the province’s budget over the next few weeks to determine any further impacts on Red Deer. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Propane tanks, tents, bicycles and even a flat screen TV were hauled out of a makeshift island encampment on the Red Deer River on Friday.

Alberta Environment and Parks used a pair of jet boats to ferry a dozen loads of junk from the camp on an island just south of the 67th Street bridge.

No one was living in the camp when Parks staff arrived on Friday morning. City of Red Deer served eviction notices earlier this week and since the island is Crown land, the province handled cleanup.

Dave Pochailo, district approvals manager with Alberta Environment and Parks, said cleaning up the site gets rid of an eyesore and a potential safety hazard.

A few syringes were found among the debris left behind by the previous tenants.

Although surrounded by water, it’s not uncommon for tubers and other river users to stop off at the small islands created by the braided river.

The site had clearly been a popular spot for squatters, given the volume of stuff collected by seven pro-

vincial workers and stacked near the entrance to McKenzie Trails. Half a dozen propane tanks and numerous bikes, including a modified full-size three-wheeled version were in the pile, which was headed to the city’s landfill.

A flat screen TV, some of its protective plastic wrapping still in place was one of the more unusual finds. A battery and inverter found nearby on the island suggests the TV was likely working at some point.

A pair of skis had been used to create a makeshift sled, to haul belongings across the river ice to the island.

RCMP were notified about the camp cleanup to see if they if they could identify anything, among the various tools and other items.

Pochailo said leaving the encampment alone would only invite more problems.

“If you leave them they tend to accumulate more stuff,” he said.

“My experience in other areas of the province on public land, if it starts becoming a dump site all of a sudden everybody starts dumping there and it gets worse and worse.

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Laws too tough on crime: top court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down two federal laws from the previous Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda, ruling both to be unconstitutional.

The decisions mean an end to rules for minimum sentences for specific drug crime convictions and limits on credit for pre-trial detention in certain conditions where bail is denied, giving trial judges more leeway in how they deal with offenders.

In both decisions, the top court said Parliament has the right to set laws to maintain public safety, but the rules should not be so overly broad that they capture offenders whose incarceration would benefit neither themselves nor the public.

Speaking in Waterloo, Ont., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is reviewing the laws around mandatory minimum sentences.

“There are situations where mandatory minimums are relevant,” Trudeau said.

“The Liberal party of the past in government brought in mandatory minimums around serious crimes like murder, but at the same time there is

a general sense, reinforced by the Supreme Court decision today, that mandatory minimums brought in by the previous government in a number of cases went too far. This is what we are reflecting on.”

In a 6-3 ruling, the high court said a mandatory, one-year minimum sentence for a drug crime when the offender has a similar charge on their record constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of section 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Only twice before has the court found mandatory minimums to violate that particular section of the Charter.

The majority ruled that mandatory minimums in this instance cast too wide a net and catch conduct that can range from a “cold-blooded trafficker of hard drugs for profit” to someone who shares a small amount of marijuana with friends. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, writing for the majority, said that in the latter instance “most Canadians would be shocked to find that such a person could be sent to prison for one year.”

The case came about after Joseph Ryan Lloyd was convicted in September 2014 of three counts of possessing crack, methamphetamine and heroin for the purpose of trafficking in Vancouver’s Downtown

Senators who fear assisted dying law violates charter willing to amend, kill it

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Advocates of medical assistance in dying are hoping to persuade MPs to amend the federal government’s proposed new law to make it less restrictive — but they may have more luck focusing their attention on senators.

Unlike elected parliamentarians who avoided the sensitive issue until forced to deal with it by the Supreme Court, appointed senators chose to grapple with the issue more than 20 years ago, creating a special committee on euthanasia and assisted suicide.

And now some senators argue their immunity to the political pressures facing MPs equips them to more independently and impartially assess whether the proposed law complies with the charter of rights and respects last year’s so-called Carter decision by the top court, which struck down the ban on assisted suicide.

At least two of them — independent Liberals James Cowan and Serge Joyal — don’t believe it does pass the charter test and they’re prepared to try to amend the bill or even defeat it if necessary.

Joyal says another option would be to refuse to vote on the bill until the government agrees to refer it to the Supreme Court to see if it passes muster — much as the Senate did on the previous Harper government’s initial attempt to unilaterally reform the upper house, which the top court eventually determined could not be done without the consent of provinces.

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Cowan and Joyal were members of the special joint parliamentary committee which recommended a much more permissive approach to assisted dying than has been adopted by the government.

Both Conservative and Liberal senators on the committee supported the majority recommendations, although Conservative MPs did not. While some Conservative senators have since denounced the majority report, the consensus among those on the committee suggests the government might have more difficulty getting the numbers to pass the bill in the Senate than in the House of Commons.

“I think that the government has added too many conditions that restrict access to medical assistance in dying beyond, much beyond, what the Supreme Court has stated in Carter,” Joyal said, adding that’s not what he expected from a governing party that has declared itself to be the party of the charter.

The Supreme Court has given the government until June 6 to enact a new law and government House leader Dominic LeBlanc warned Thursday that if the bill is not passed by that deadline, there will be a “a complete vacuum in terms of a Criminal Code framework around this particularly sensitive issue.”

Community support for aboriginal youth needed to guard against suicide

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A university professor who has studied suicides among aboriginal people says strong community support for youth and determined leadership can guard against outbreaks of attempted suicides.

Suicide is not part of traditional aboriginal culture in Ontario, with an increase in deaths being noted in the province’s northern communities only since the mid 1980s, said Western University professor Gerald McKinley.

“Most do not have the suicides,” he said. “The

majority of the deaths are happening in a smaller number of communities.”

The issue of suicide among aboriginal youth was thrust into the spotlight after the First Nation of Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency last Saturday, citing 11 suicide attempts in the month of April and 28 recorded attempts in March. A few days later, officials thwarted what they called a suicide pact by 13 young aboriginal people.

“Things are getting to a crisis point,” said McKinley. “One of the unique and troubling aspects of First Nations suicides in Ontario is it really is the young. It’s the futures of the communities, often very bright futures, that are cut short.” camp gear and garbage could end up washed downstream.

The province dismantled an even bigger camp, dubbed tent city locally, last summer. Located between the northbound and southbound lanes of Hwy 2 just south of Red Deer, the camp was cleared in an operation that filled five dumpsters and produced 33 kg of needles and other drug-related paraphernalia.

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CAMP: A safe place for moose, other animals “This is a bit of a unique situation, being an island in the middle of the river. But it’s not something we want to condone or encourage people to do.”

Jim Robertson, executive director of the nearby Kerry Wood Nature Centre, said visitors had noticed the camp taking shape over the last few weeks and had complained.

While Robertson has sympathy for those without homes, the island is not the place to camp. Historically, it’s been a popular and safe place for moose and other animals to give birth.

The river is low now, but at higher flows the island is often under water and a huge amount of

Eastside.

An addict, Lloyd also had a 2012 trafficking charge.

The provincial court ruled that while the appropriate sentence for Lloyd was one year, the mandatory minimum sentence constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated the charter.

Raji Mangat, director of litigation for the West Coast Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, which intervened in the case, said the Supreme Court’s decision righted a wrong by giving judges more leeway in sentencing.

“Those sentencing judges, this is what they do day in and day out,” Mangat said. “They have the expertise to be able to decide what is going to be a fit and appropriate sentence and we think that that discretion should stay with the judges.”

The Supreme Court also unanimously agreed to strike down provisions passed in 2009 that prohibited a trial judge from giving more than one-for-one credit for pre-trial detention if a justice of the peace denied bail to the person because of a previous conviction.

Canada BRIEFS Addictions expert says more injection sites needed to stop overdose deaths VICTORIA — Two days before Christmas, Debbie Porter was found dead on the floor of her Victoria-area home. She had overdosed on heroin.

“Picture this in your mind: Our daughter was found laying on the floor. That’s how quick she went down,” her stepfather Fred Lang said of Porter’s death after she’d injected the drug.

“Our daughter had done drugs for years,” he said Friday. “She knew how to do drugs. But she got a bad batch.”

“Our daughter was 48. She hated what she was doing. She tried numerous, numerous times to stop.

She lost her family. She lost her future, and it’s really, really sad.”

Lang said he supports British Columbia’s decision Thursday to declare a public health emergency after a dramatic increase in the number of overdose deaths from illicit drugs such as fentanyl.

Drug addiction has its sinister hold on too many Canadians and governments need to look beyond the illegal nature of drug use and examine deeper health and mental health issues connected to addiction, he said.

“The reason I’m doing these interviews is to try and make the connection between mental illness and addiction,” said Lang, adding his daughter’s personal torment led to her death last Dec. 23 in Langford, B.C. “It’s a health issue,” Lang said. “I don’t want to seem like a moaner and throw up my hands and say, ‘The government should fix it,’ because I think we all have a stake in it.”

British Columbia’s medical health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said Thursday that 201 overdose deaths were recorded in the first three months of 2016 and that 64 of them involved fentanyl, an opioid-based pain killer roughly 100 times stronger than morphine.

He said at the current rate, the total for 2016 could exceed 700 or even 800 deaths.

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“Taking him to a doctor for a diagnosis would have been a much more sure way,” Giles said. “Would you agree with that?”

“No one would want a different outcome than my husband and I,” Collet said tearfully. “Do I wish I would have took him to a doctor?

Absolutely.”

Mother accused in son’s death in Alberta wishes she had taken him to a doctor LETHBRIDGE — A woman accused in her toddler’s death from bacterial meningitis says she wishes she had taken him to a doctor.

Collet Stephan said Friday she could not recall doing tests in March 2012 to determine whether her nearly 19-month-son Ezekiel had meningitis.

Stephan and her husband David are on trial in a southern Alberta court on a charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life for their child.

The couple, formerly of Glenwood, Alta., now live in Nelson, B.C. Ezekiel was sick for more than two weeks before he died in hospital.

Court has heard how his parents gave him natural remedies, including smoothies with hot peppers and horseradish because they thought he had croup and the flu.

The jury has already heard that a friend who was a nurse told the Stephans that their boy might have viral meningitis and advised them to take him to a doctor.

Crown prosecutor Clayton Giles asked why Collet Stephan had performed two tests she found on the Internet to check for signs of meningitis.

“I’m not saying I didn’t do them,” Stephan said. “But I just don’t have a recollection of doing them today. I can’t comment on what I saw then if I can’t remember what I saw today.”

Giles suggested Stephan would have taken a significant amount of time researching meningitis in order to diagnose her son’s issues.

Collet disagreed with the term “diagnosis,” but agreed with the Crown that she was researching in order to identify the illness.

“I was just trying to figure out what virus or what illness he had, not try to, like, diagnose my child and say, ‘This is with certainty what he has,”’ she

Judge allows accused killer to stay out on bail during trial, adds drug tests EDMONTON — An Alberta man accused of killing two seniors will remain out on bail while his trial is ongoing.

The Crown asked for the review of Travis Vader’s bail conditions earlier this week after he was late for his murder trial for the fourth time.

Judge Paul Belzil did the review Friday and added a weekly random drug test and search of his residence, unless there is suspicion of a breach.

Vader, who is 44, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, both in their late 70s, who vanished while on a camping trip in July 2010.

They were last seen fuelling up their motorhome in their hometown of St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton, as they headed out to British Columbia.

Two days later their motorhome was found burning in the bush west of Edmonton and the SUV they had been towing was later found hidden in some trees on a nearby rural property.

Their bodies have never been found.

On Wednesday, lawyer Brian Beresh said Vader was 30 minutes late for the trial because a vehicle he was using was “borrowed by someone else and not returned.”

Vader has been tardy three times before — he twice told court he had vehicle trouble and once said he slept in.

Justice Denny Thomas had warned Vader last week not to be late again and ordered him to appear before another judge for the bail review.

Preliminary hearing begins for British sailors charged in alleged sex assault

assaulting a young woman at a military base in Halifax.

“We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think it met the realistic prospect of a conviction. Obviously we’re going to push it forward as far as the evidence allows,” said Scott Morrison outside court on the first day of the preliminary inquiry Friday.

Simon Radford, Joshua Finbow, Craig Stoner and Darren Smalley are all facing a charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm.

All of the men appeared in court wearing suits and with separate lawyers representing them.

When they were arrested last April, the men were in Nova Scotia to participate in a hockey tournament with local Armed Forces personnel.

The Crown alleges they participated in a group sexual assault last April 10 in a barracks at CFB Shearwater.

They were staying at CFB Stadacona, but were asked to leave last May and relocated to another military base in Alberta where there is a British army training unit.

A judge ruled in August that three of the men — Stoner, Finbow and Radford — would be permitted to return to the United Kingdom while awaiting the beginning of the preliminary hearing. Smalley was permitted to return to his home under similar conditions after a separate hearing in September.

Counsellor charged with sexually assaulting client CALGARY — Police have charged a therapist with sexual assaulting one of his clients who had visited him for marriage counselling.

Staff Sgt. Steve Lorne says a woman in her 30s and her husband began seeing the therapist in December 2012.

The husband quit after four months, but the wife kept seeing the therapist on her own.

The alleged assaults began in December 2013.

“It’s alleged the therapist began to ask inappropriate, sexual questions and then began to sexually assault the victim,” Lorne said Friday. “The victim continued with her counselling sessions until April of 2014.”

Johannes Kilian, who is 76 and a registered social worker therapist, was arrested at his downtown Calgary office on Tuesday and charged with one count of sexual assault.

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Lorne said it’s not unusual in these types of cases for “grooming” to take place between counsellor and patient.

“A grooming aspect is a relationship and it can be kind of a warped relationship,” Lorne said. “It’s taken a while for her to come forward … It’s quite courageous for her to do this.”

Police say the woman remains married to her husband.

Kilian, who immigrated to Canada from South Africa 11 years ago, is scheduled to appear in court again May 11.

Lorne said police are looking for any other potential victims.

“He’s not known to police and he is 76 years old. He’s been a doctor for quite a while,” said Lorne. “He’s been in Canada 11 years, so we are reaching out to the public.”

A LinkedIn profile matching Kilian’s identity says he has done work in Nunavut and worked for a year as a clinician for the Canadian Forces in Edmonton in 2011. He attended the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa.

RCMP continue to investigate murder-suicide of 5 TISDALE, Sask. — Mounties found the bodies of the woman and her three children in their mobile home nearly one year ago.

The yellow trailer is still parked in the Wicks’ Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Tisdale in east-central Saskatchewan.

Cody Wicks, who is taking over the business from his father, says he fixed up the trailer soon after the killings and new renters moved in a couple of months later.

“The only damage was in one bedroom,” says Wicks. “I replaced the floor and one wall.”

An online petition had called for the trailer to be destroyed, but Wicks says support waned.

And although the crime may well have been the worst to happen in the town of 3,200 people northeast of Saskatoon, Wicks says many residents aren’t dwelling on it.

“Nobody talks about it anymore.”

Mounties discovered the bodies of Latasha Gosling, 27, and three of her children — Jenika 8 Landen, 7 and Janayah, 4 — in the trailer last April 22.

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Rebels back in the driver’s seat

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Regina Pats goaltender Tyler Brown comes up with a big save on a shot by Red Deer Rebel Michael Spacek after Spacek broke in alone during first-period action at the Centrium in Red Deer Friday night.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 5 Pats 1 The potent Regina Pats power play that tormented the Red Deer Rebels Rebels for two games in Regina was stifled by a determined Rebels penalty kill.

After going 6-for-14 on the man advantage in two games in Regina, the Rebels held the Pats power play scoreless on their five chances in game 5.

“Penalty killing was huge, we killed off enough minutes tonight, more than we would probably have liked to,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“They’ve scored a lot of power play goals this series. But 5-on-5 we’ve

played pretty well. That third period in Regina was maybe the best period we’ve had to date in the series. We carried that on tonight.”

Some of those penalties included a double-minor to Evan Polei for a high stick in the first period and a five minute major and a game misconduct to Adam Musil for goalie interference.

The interference call drew the ire of the Rebels players and coaching staff, who argued Musil was pushed into Pats’ goalie Tyler Brown. Musil had a partial breakaway, but was unable to get the shot off and was hard pressed to move out of Brown’s way as the Pats defender checked him.

Shutting the power play down was key to their 5-1 win over the Pats in their Western Hockey League Eastern

Conference semifinal. The Rebels are one win away from the Eastern Conference final with a 3-2 series lead.

Up until the last five minutes of the game, Rebels goalie Rylan Toth was pitching a shutout. A Sean Richards backhander ended his shutout bid, but Toth still made 28 saves for the win. “(Trevor) Martin did a heck of a job for us, but his last few games probably weren’t his best games,” said Sutter.

“Tother is in now, he got an opportunity to play just over a period in Regina and he was rock solid.

“Toth was solid and big. We need goaltending.”

Toth credited the help in front of him and numerous blocked shots.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Toth.

“That four minute kill in the first pe-

riod and the five minute kill in the second was amazing. I think (the Pats) only got a shot or two off in each one.

The guys did such a good job of blocking shots, I’m really proud of them.”

A bizarre sequence saw a Pats goal called back after the referees missed a high sticking penalty with 6:15 to play in the third period. Adam Helewka took a high stick and was bleeding, but there was no call on the ice. Play continued and the Pats scored a goal.

However, the officials conversed and called the goal off, deciding to send Jared Freadrich to the penalty box on a double minor for high sticking instead.

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Porcello sharp as Red Sox beat Blue Jays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston 5 Toronto 3 BOSTON — R.A. Dickey might be starting to lose his element of surprise.

After allowing just three runs in his season debut, the knuckleballer has given up 11 over his past two starts — both against Boston — and allowed four in 4 2/3 innings as the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Red Sox 5-3 on Friday night.

“These guys are starting to get a lot of at-bats off him now,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “In this division, the element of surprise isn’t what it used to be. It’s going to be tough.”

Dickey (1-2) gave up seven runs on eight hits over five innings in a loss to Boston last Saturday.

“I’m not disappointed in my knuckleball,” Dickey said. “I’m disappointed in the result, obviously. My knuckleball has been pretty good. It’s moving late, I’m keeping the ball in the ballpark.

“It just seems like every one that doesn’t do something gets hit, and that’s not always going to happen. It’s going to even out here soon.”

Edwin Encarnacion hit his first two homers of the season, drove in all three runs for Toronto and had all of three of the Blue Jays’ hits. Last season, he hit 39 homers for the AL East champs.

“I hit the ball good,” Encarnacion said of his first homer. “I’m looking for my pitch, and he threw me a pitch right there, and I don’t miss it.”

Travis Shaw hit a two-run double

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Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz watches his double that scored Xander Bogaerts, in front of Toronto Blue Jays catcher Josh Thole during the first inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Friday in Boston. The Red Sox won 5-3. and David Ortiz added a run-scoring double for Boston.

Rick Porcello (2-0) pitched 6 1/3 solid innings for the Red Sox, giving gave up three runs and two hits while striking out eight and walking one.

Craig Kimbrel got the final three

outs for his third save. He allowed two runners to reach before fanning Justin Smoak.

Coming off consecutive wins over the Yankees, the Blue Jays were held to one hit until Encarnacion’s two-run shot in the seventh.

The Red Sox jumped ahead 3-0 in the first against Dickey. Ortiz made it 1-0 with his double halfway up the centre-field wall.

Shaw then hit his double after Hanley Ramirez had an adventurous atbat.

Ramirez fouled a ball off his left foot and sat down in the batter’s box before limping around a bit. He then reached on a passed ball when he struck out as the bat went flying past Toronto’s dugout. He raced home from first on Shaw’s hit, sliding in safely.

Encarnacion’s first homer went into the last row of Green Monster seats in the second. His second just cleared the Monster in the seventh.

Mookie Betts’ RBI single made it 4-1. Dustin Pedroia also had an RBI single.

STRIKEOUTS GALORE With 12 more strikeouts Friday, the Blue Jays have struck out an MLB-high 112 times through 11 games.

“We’re very aggressive, that’s kind of our mentality,” Gibbons said.

“That’s not initially uncommon when you start pressing a little bit, you try to make something happen. That will change.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Dickey has lost twice to Boston in seven days.

Red Sox: President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said 3B Pablo Sandoval would see orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion on his strained left shoulder. He was placed on the 15-day DL before Wednesday’s game.

Lowry, DeRozan ready to make up for last season’s heartbreak

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO RAPTORS

TORONTO — The pain was less than 24 hours old, and Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan were already plotting.

It was this time last year and Toronto had just been dispatched from the playoffs in the most humiliating fashion, swept in four games by the Washington Wizards, and the two Raptors all-stars had a heart-to-heart. They vowed to do better. They made promises about what they’d do to improve.

Twelve months later, the wait’s finally over. The Raptors host the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series on Saturday,

and Lowry and DeRozan are itching to get on the floor and rewrite their post-season story.

“It’s tough,” DeRozan said. “I think it’s tough to really sit back and understand that last time in the playoffs we got swept, we went out the way we did.

It really ate away at me all summer.”

The Raptors roll into the playoffs having won a franchise-best 56 games, and securing a best-ever No. 2 seed in the East.

They’d set records last season as well, but by the time the playoffs ar-

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rived, the air was quickly seeping out of the team’s tires. They’d lost any sense of rhythm, and the players knew it.

“We was trash,” Lowry said, with a matter-of-fact face. “We knew we were playing like trash. You’ve got to be real with yourself sometimes. Y’all were watching. We just weren’t firing as a team on the same cylinders.”

Then came the heart-to-heart. The most remarkable transformation came from Lowry, who showed up in the fall leaner than he’d been in years.

“We learned a lot from last year, and the day after that series, me and Kyle talked probably every single day, how we were going to change our

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game, how we were going to get better. I think I was the only person who knew that he was going to lose weight,” DeRozan said. “And when you take that type of approach, you understand that the next go-around is going to be different. We were definitely locked in the next day, for him to be quicker on his feet, lighter on his feet, healthy.”

Lowry struggled mightily against the Wizards, sitting out huge chunks of the first two games in foul trouble. He was banged up, with both a sore back and strained calf muscles.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Brandon wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Brandon 6 Moose Jaw 2 Tuesday’s result Moose Jaw 7 Brandon 1 Friday’s game Brandon 7, Moose Jaw 3.

Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) (Red Deer leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Regina 6 Red Deer 4 Tuesday’s result Regina 6 Red Deer 3 Friday’s game Red Deer 5, Regina 1 Sunday’s game x-Red Deer at Regina, 4 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) (Kelowna leads series 3-2) Tuesday’s result Kelowna 3 Victoria 2 Saturday’s result Victoria 3 Kelowna 2 Thursday’s game Kelowna 4 Victoria 3 Friday’s game Kelowna 4, Victoria 1 U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) (Seattle leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Seattle 5 Everett 0 Sunday’s result Seattle 3 Everett 1 Friday’s game Seattle 2, Everett 1 Saturday’s game Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (Series tied 1-1) Thursday’s result N.Y. Islanders 5 Florida 4 Friday’s game Florida 3, N.Y. Islands 1 Sunday’s game Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay leads series 2-0) Wednesday’s result Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 2 Friday’s game Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2 Sunday’s game Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 19 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Washington 2 Philadelphia 0 Saturday’s game Philadelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 18 Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh leads series 1-0) Wednesday’s result Pittsburgh 5 N.Y. Rangers 2 Saturday’s game N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) Dallas leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result

Sunday

Dallas 4 Minnesota 0 Saturday’s game Minnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m.

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

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Dallas at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Golden State 73 9 .890 — y-San Antonio 67 15 .817 6 y-Oklahoma City 55 27 .671 18 x-L.A. Clippers 53 29 .646 20 x-Portland 44 38 .537 29 x-Dallas 42 40 .512 31 x-Memphis 42 40 .512 31 x-Houston 41 41 .500 32 Utah 40 41 .494 32 1/2 Sacramento 33 49 .402 40 Denver 33 49 .402 40 New Orleans 30 52 .366 43 Minnesota 29 53 .354 44 Phoenix 23 59 .280 50 L.A. Lakers 16 65 .198 56 1/2 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division z — clinched conference.

NBA 2016 Playoffs First Round Conference Semifinals

Toronto (2) vs. Indiana (7) Saturday’s game Indiana at Toronto, 10:30 a.m.

Monday, Apr. 18 Indiana at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 21 Toronto at Indiana, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 23 Toronto at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) Friday’s game Nashville 3, Anaheim 2 Sunday’s game Nashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

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

Thursday, Apr. 21 Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston Oakland

Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) Thursday’s result San Jose at Los Angeles, late Saturday’s game San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

ALLAN CUP Canadian Men’s Senior AAA Championship At Steinbach, Man. Thursday’s results Quarter-finals Shellbrook 7 Stoney Creek 4 South East vs. Ile-des-Chenes, late Friday’s games Semifinals South East 2, Grand Falls-Windsor 1 Bentley 3, Shellbrook 1 Saturday’s game Championship Bentley vs.South East

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) Saturday’s game Houston at Golden State, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 18 Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 21 Golden State at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 24 Golden State at Houston, 1:30 p.m.

San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) Sunday’s game Memphis at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 19 Memphis at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 22 San Antonio at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 24 San Antonio at Memphis, 11 a.m.

Miami (3) vs. Charlotte (6) Sunday’s game Charlotte at Miami, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 23 Miami at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 25 Miami at Charlotte, TBA

Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) Saturday’s game Dallas at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 18 Dallas at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 21 Oklahoma City at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 23 Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) Saturday’s game Boston at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 19 Boston at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 22 Atlanta at Boston, 6 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 24 Atlanta at Boston, 4 p.m.

L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) Sunday’s game Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 23 L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 25 L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released RBs Marion Grice and Robert Hughes.

BUFFALO BILS — Released OT Tyson Chandler.

CHICAGO BEARS — Exercised the fifth-year (2017) option for OL Kyle Long.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed S Taylor Mays.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed WR Bennie Fowler.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Announced the retirement of OL Tanner Hawkinson.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released DL Chris Jones and DL Ishmaa’ily Kitchen.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released CB Cortez Allen.

HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled D Kevin Gravel from Ontario (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Reassigned F Michael Dal Colle to Bridgeport (AHL). Agreed to terms with D Devon Toews on a three-year, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed G Alain Valiquette to a professional tryout agreement.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended LA Galaxy M Nigel de Jong three games and fined him an undisclosed amount

Sports BRIEFS Generals off to Allan Cup final against Thunder Generals 3 Elks 1 STEINBACH, Man. — The Bentley Generals have found themselves in familiar territory after a semi-final win.

Now based out of Lacombe, the Generals handed the Shellbrook Elks, of Saskatchewan, a 3-1 loss Friday afternoon at the Allan Cup tournament.

The win puts the Generals into the championship game on Saturday, and a chance to avenge last year’s loss.

They will face the South East Prairie Thunder, the team that beat them in the final game of the 2015 Allan Cup. Matt Stefanishion scored his sixth goal of the tournament, this time on a penalty shot halfway through the second period. It wasn’t the game winner, but it was the insurance goal that cemented the Generals place in the final.

Jesse Todd scored the opening goal of the game while Alex MacLeod scored the game winner.

Chris Furand scored the lone goal, on the power play, for the Shellbrook Elks Thomas Heemskerk made 28 saves for the Generals.

The Generals will meet the Thunder on Saturday at 2 p.m. to decide the champion of men’s hockey in Canada.

The game will be broadcast on TSN. The Thunder punched their ticket with a 2-1 win over the Grand FallsWindsor Cataracts Friday evening.

Brantford Ice Cats, 3:30 p.m.

Chicago Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Minnesota

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for his foul in the 73rd minute of an April 10 match against Portland.

COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE — Named Donnie Yantis assistant athletic director for recruiting and Conrad Hamilton senior defensive analyst.

GEORGE WASHINGTON — Named Jennifer Rizzotti women’s basketball coach.

HIGH POINT — Named Tom Mendoza volleyball coach.

ILLINOIS — Announced women sophomore basketball F Chatrice White was granted a release and plans to transfer.

NOTRE DAME — Suspended junior DL Grant Blankenship for a violation of team rules.

SANTA CLARA — Named Bill Carr women’s basketball coach.

STANFORD — Named Jesse Pruitt men’s assistant basketball coach.

TENNESSEE — Promoted Tom Satkowiak to assistant athletic director for media relations.

TEXAS TECH — Named Chris Beard men’s basketball coach.

WAGNER — Named Heather Jacobs women’s basketball coach.

Friday’s Games Seattle 7, N.Y. Yankees 1 Chicago White Sox 1, Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 5 Boston 5, Toronto 3 Baltimore 11, Texas 5 Houston 1, Detroit 0 Minnesota 5, L.A. Angels 4 Kansas City 4, Oakland 2 Saturday’s Games Seattle (F.Hernandez 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-0), 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 1-0) at Minnesota (Nolasco 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (C.Young 0-2) at Oakland (Bassitt 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Toronto (Estrada 1-0) at Boston (Price 1-0), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-1) at Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 1-0), 4:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 0-1) at Houston (McHugh 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 1-0) at Texas (Lewis 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Seattle at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Toronto at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Detroit at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Toronto at Boston, 9:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Colorado 6, Chicago Cubs 1 Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 4 Washington 9, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 6, Miami 3 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 5 St. Louis 14, Cincinnati 3 L.A. Dodgers 7, San Francisco 3 Arizona at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cincinnati (Finnegan 0-0) at St. Louis (Wainwright 0-1), 12:15 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 2-0), 12:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-2) at Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-1) at Pittsburgh (Niese 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 1-0) at Philadelphia (Nola 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (B.Norris 0-2) at Miami (Koehler 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Arizona (S.Miller 0-1) at San Diego (Cashner 0-1), 6:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Cueto 2-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 2:40 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Colorado at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

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RBC HERITAGE At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head, S.C. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 6,991 Par: 71 Second Round Kevin Chappell 68-68—136 Jason Day 67-69—136 Charley Hoffman 68-68—136 Russell Knox 72-65—137 Luke Donald 66-71—137 Patton Kizzire 69-68—137 David Lingmerth 67-71—138 Chris Kirk 72-66—138 67-71—138 Matt Kuchar George McNeill 68-70—138 Jerry Kelly 70-69—139 Graham DeLaet 69-70—139 Ricky Barnes 71-68—139 Morgan Hoffmann 70-69—139 Bryson DeChambeau 70-69—139 Lucas Glover 72-67—139 Zach Johnson 71-68—139 Russell Henley 72-67—139 Jason Kokrak 71-68—139 Bronson Burgoon 70-69—139 Zac Blair 69-71—140 Bryce Molder 70-70—140 Branden Grace 66-74—140 Tony Finau 67-73—140 Billy Horschel 74-66—140 Steve Wheatcroft 72-68—140 Carl Pettersson 71-69—140 Aaron Baddeley 71-69—140 Si Woo Kim 68-72—140 Chad Campbell 71-69—140 William McGirt 69-71—140 Daniel Summerhays 72-68—140 Boo Weekley 70-71—141 Seung-Yul Noh 72-69—141 Bill Haas 69-72—141 Luke List 73-68—141 Geoff Ogilvy 72-69—141 Johnson Wagner 68-73—141 Spencer Levin 68-74—142 Ben Crane 74-68—142 Vijay Singh 71-71—142 Tyrone Van Aswegen 72-70—142 Shawn Stefani 71-71—142 Kyle Stanley 72-70—142 Justin Thomas 72-70—142 David Toms 69-73—142 Davis Love III 73-69—142 Harold Varner III 72-70—142 Will Wilcox 72-70—142 Andres Gonzales 71-72—143 Ernie Els 72-71—143 Camilo Villegas 71-72—143

Canada downs Denmark 10-2 to open under-18 world championships GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Canada’s men’s hockey team felt frustrated after 20 minutes of their first preliminary-round game at the IIHF under-18 world championships.

Then the light switched on — literally.

Canada’s 10-2 victory over Denmark on Friday night was delayed over an hour during the first intermission when a power outage struck Ralph Engelstad Arena and much of Grand Forks.

The Canadians went into the break tied 2-2 after allowing two quick goals in under a minute. When the power was restored, they came out firing.

“With the break and the lights going out, that probably worked in our favour,” said Canada’s head coach Shaun Clouston. “The guys were able to restart, refocus and it was almost like starting a game 0-0 brand new.”

Jordan Kyrou scored four goals, including one 27 seconds into the second period, and Tyson Jost had two goals and three assists as Canada (1-0-0) cruised to victory after the power outage.

Playing with just 10 forwards, Clouston had to juggle his lines as the game wore on. One specific adjustment in the second period paid dividends.

“We moved Kyrou onto a line with Jost for parts of the game,” he said.

“They got some good ice time and they really seemed to click. “(Kyrou) scored the first goal in the second period and then got himself to the front of the net. We wanted to simplify our game, we wanted to make sure we got pucks through their screens because they were doing such a good job.

He got himself there and was able to chip in a couple of rebounds.”

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Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Activated C Christian Vazquez from the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Marco Hernandez from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned C Blake Swihart and OF Rusney Castillo to Pawtucket.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled LHP Tyler Olson from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHP Luis Cessa to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Activated INF-OF Javier Baez from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Iowa (PCL).

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed RHP David Holman.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed OF Breland Almadova.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed LHP Frankie Reed.

Atlantic League SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed RHP Jerry Sullivan, LHP Chris Rearick and C Wilfredo Rodriguez.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released 1B AJ Kirby-Jones.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed RHP Matt Rusch.

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(Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) Sunday’s game Detroit at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 20 Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 22 Cleveland at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 24 Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Regina Pats,

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St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Series tied 1-1) Wednesday’s result St. Louis 1 Chicago 0 (OT) Friday’s game Chicago 3, St. Louis 2 Sunday’s game St. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 19 St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Basketball NBA Final 2015-16 l standings EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Cleveland 57 25 .695 — y-Toronto 56 26 .683 1 x-Boston 48 34 .585 9 y-Miami 48 34 .585 9 x-Atlanta 48 34 .585 9 x-Charlotte 48 34 .585 9 x-Indiana 45 37 .549 12 x-Detroit 44 38 .537 13 Chicago 42 40 .512 15 Washington 41 41 .500 16 Orlando 35 47 .427 22 Milwaukee 33 49 .402 24 New York 32 50 .390 25 Brooklyn 21 61 .256 36 Philadelphia 10 72 .122 47

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL BRIEFS LIGHTNING 5, RED WINGS 2 TAMPA, Fla. — Tyler Johnson scored a pair of third-period goals Friday night, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-2 in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jason Day putts his ball on the ninth hole during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Friday.

“I need to get out there and hit the shots and focus.”

Day hit the shots he needed at the most crucial times.

Starting on No. 10 a shot behind leaders Donald and Branden Grace,

Day could not get going in the chilly, damp conditions. He kick-started the round with a birdie on the wind-swept, lighthouse 18th, rolling in a 10-footer.

Birdies on the second and third moved him on top. When he fell a

stroke behind Chappell with a bogey

Ben Bishop had 30 saves for the defending Eastern Conference champions, who took the first two games at home despite playing without injured leading goal scorer Steven Stamkos and defenceman Anton Stralman.

A bloody brawl involving several players capped this one, with 14 penalties called — including a game misconduct on Justin Abdelkader — with 54 seconds left.

Game 3 is Sunday in Detroit, where the Red Wings won both regular-season meetings between the teams.

ongo made 41 saves for his first playoff win in five years, and the Florida Panthers evened their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series by beating the New York Islanders.

Reilly Smith and Nick Bjugstad each had a goal and an assist for Florida, which salvaged a split in the series-opening back-to-back. Dmitry Kulikov added an empty-netter with 9.3 seconds left to clinch the win. Game 3 is in Brooklyn on Sunday.

John Tavares scored with 3:33 left for New York, and Thomas Greiss stopped 28 shots for the Islanders.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrew Shaw stuffed home a rebound on a power play with 4:19 remaining, minutes after the Chicago Blackhawks won a coach’s challenge to negate a goal, and the defending Stanley Cup champions pulled even with the St. Louis Blues in their first-round series.

Corey Crawford had a strong game in net and Duncan Keith also scored for Chicago in his first game back from a six-game suspension for a dangerous high stick to Minnesota’s Charlie Coyle. Keith assisted on Artemi Panarin’s clinching empty-net goal with 1:34 to go. The series shifts to Chicago with Game 3 on Sunday.

Vladimir Tarasenko and Kevin Shattenkirk scored for St. Louis.

PANTHERS 3, ISLANDERS 1

RAPTORS: DeRozan, Lowry REBELS: Toth back having career years fom injury

The point guard has been solid all this season, and the only health concerns was a swollen elbow in recent weeks.

And the mood around the two has been overwhelmingly positive, the post-game locker-room like Comedy Central. Friday’s meeting with the media was no different. As DeRozan took his turn to talk in the media room, he was interrupted by a loud hiss from the hallway.

“PSSSSSSTTTTTT!!”

DeRozan shot a glare toward Lowry, who was lurking mischievously in the hallway, and barked: “I’m not going to talk until you leave.”

“You can just see, his confidence level, his comfort level, that says a lot to where you carry yourself,” DeRozan said seriously of his comedic partner and Raptors co-captain. “This time last year there weren’t too many smiles and jokes… guys are really locked in, and at the same time, we’re really enjoying the moment.”

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Brandon Hagel led the Rebels with a goal and an assist, scoring the game winner halfway through the second period. After causing a turnover at the Pats’ blueline he came into the zone 2-on-1 with Evan Polei on the left wing.

Hagel never considered the pass and fired a wrist shot that beat Brown.

Luke Philp also contributed with two assists.

The series now returns to Regina for game 6 at the Brandt Centre. Puck drop is at 4 p.m. and can be listened to on the Drive.

Notes: Rylan Toth got the start in net, one game after returning to the lineup. Out with a lower body injury from Feb. 17 until April 13, Toth was pressed into action halfway through game 4 when Trevor Martin was pulled after allowing four goals on 22 shots … Colton Bobyk finished serving his two game suspension. He is eligible to return to the lineup on Sunday … 6,185 people packed into the Centrium for game 5.

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Jason Day is back at the top in a bid for his third PGA Tour title in a month.

Coming off a disappointing Masters, the top-ranked Day shot a 2-under 69 on Friday at the RBC Heritage to share the second-round lead with Kevin Chappell and Charley Hoffman.

Chappell and Hoffman shot 68s for the second straight day to match Day at 6-under 136.

Luke Donald, tied for the firstround lead after a 66, was a stroke back along with Russell Knox and Patton Kizzire. Donald had a 71. Knox shot a 65, the best round of the week.

Kizzire had a 68.

Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., is three shots back in a tie for 11th place. He shot a 70. Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., dropped 27 spots after a 73.

Past tournament champion Matt Kuchar topped the group at 4 under after a 71.

Day has won two of the past three times he’s entered, starting with a oneshot victory over Chappell a month ago in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Day followed that with a victory at the WCG-Dell Match Play and was a strong choice to slip on his first green jacket last week at Augusta National. Instead, Day tied for 10th and was never truly part of the drama in Jordan Spieth’s late collapse and Danny Willett’s triumph.

Now, Day is fighting off the fatigue and finding success again at Harbour Town Golf Links.

“I felt like I was kind of punch drunk a little bit,” he said of Thursday’s start. “But came out today a lot more alert and on top of it.”

That’s bad news for the rest of the field because Day has shown there aren’t many who can match him when he’s playing like this.

“I may be a little bit mentally fatigued, but it’s not an excuse,” he said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Albertans bewailing the deluge of red ink in the provincial budget can take some comfort in knowing matters could be worse: they could be in Newfoundland and Labrador’s predicament.

The two provinces, which tabled their budgets on Thursday, are both facing massive budgetary holes where oil and gas revenues used to be.

In Alberta, non-renewable resource revenues are expected to be a paltry $1.4 billion this fiscal year — a level not seen in 40 years and 85 per cent below its 2014-15 take.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, oil royalties once made up 30 per cent of the revenues flowing into the province.

Now, it’s more like seven per cent.

Though they face similar challenges, the eastern and western provinces have strikingly different game plans for tackling them.

Alberta’s NDP government has been adamant that it won’t take a hatchet to key government services. Its budget includes a hefty dose of stimulus and help for families hit by the downturn. Aside from its previously announced carbon levy, it included no new taxes.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s includes a litany of tax and fee hikes, including a “temporary” deficit-fighting levy of up to $900 a year for top earners. In a report, Dominion Lending Centres chief economist Sherry Cooper calls it a “brutal austerity budget.”

It’s hard to construct a scenario where Albertans need to press the panic button,” -Trevor Tombe University of Calgary economist

Photo by The Canadian Press

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley reacts to Minister of Finance Joe Ceci’s tie before delivering the 2016 budget in Edmonton on Thursday.

The Atlantic province is in a more dire fiscal situation than its western counterpart and, as a result, has less leeway to run big deficits in the coming years, according to University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.

Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci said he can’t see a return to balanced budget before 2024.

Although Tombe said he’d prefer to see Alberta wrangle its deficits more quickly than that, he said the province has time to sort itself out given the solid debt position it had going into the

downturn.

“It’s hard to construct a scenario where Albertans need to press the panic button,” he said.

“Even if we take 10 years to very gradually get out of deficit, there’s no real risk to the future financial health of the province.”

Tombe said Alberta’s borrowing costs are expected to stay considerably lower than its provincial peers, even with its growing debt load.

Alberta is expected to add $57.6 billion in debt by 2019, representing 15.5

per cent of gross domestic product.

For those who once took pride in Alberta’s debt-free status, those numbers are likely to sting. But in the Canadian context, Alberta’s debt situation doesn’t seem so bad.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s debt is expected to be nearly half of GDP by the end the 2016-17 fiscal year.

“Net debt will weigh in at about 49.5 per cent of GDP by fiscal year-end, which is still below the 70 per cent high of the late 1990s, but up more than 20 percentage points in just the past five years, and once again the highest in Canada,” BMO Capital Markets senior economist Robert Kavcic wrote in a report.

“Had the province not taken some of the action it did today, net debt would be pushing those 1990s highs in very short order.”

Home sales hit March record

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

KeyAg Kubota will be holding an open house today from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. to show off their new location just east of where their former headquarters were located just west of Red Deer on Hwy 11. Customer will have an opportunity to take part in the Kubota Ride and Drive Event, where they can test drive a variety of Kubota equipment. A BBQ will also be held.

TORONTO — A record number of homes across the country were sold in March, although the Vancouver and Toronto markets saw declines from the previous month, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday.

The Ottawa-based group said about 60 per cent of all local markets showed an increase in transactions from February, including Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal and Victoria.

But sales in the Toronto area were down 1.8 per cent from February. The situation was slightly similar in Vancouver, where sales fell a more modest 0.3 per cent, but that contrasted with a national increase of 1.5 per cent.

March was the first full month where new federal rules intended to cool overheated markets were in effect. Under the changes, anyone buying a home that costs between $500,000 and $1 million face a minimum down payment of 10 per cent.

The changes were aimed at slowing the torrid rise in prices in the red-hot markets of Toronto and Vancouver without hurting sales in other markets.

The national average price for homes sold through CREA members was $508,567, up 15.7 per cent from a year earlier — with a disproportionate impact from the Toronto and Vancouver area.

Excluding Canada’s two most expensive real estate markets, the national average price would be $366,950, up 10.4 per cent from March 2015.

The number of properties available for purchase fell 1.4 per cent in March compared with February.

Ex-broker gets three years in fraud case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A former stockbroker described by a judge as the “competent tactician” in a multi-million dollar stock market fraud involving the Knowledge House e-learning company before it collapsed in 2001 was sentenced to three years in prison Friday.

Bruce Elliott Clarke appeared in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax, with his wife, daughters, sons and other relatives seated behind him as Judge Jamie Campbell issued the sentence, recommended by both the defence and Crown.

“Bruce Clarke was a conspirator in a multi-million dollar complex stock manipulation fraud,” Campbell read from his decision.

“He also defrauded a union pension fund of close to $900,000. Those are serious crimes for which only a significant period of time in jail is the fit and proper sentence.”

Clarke was facing six charges, but pleaded guilty late last year to conspiring to affect Knowledge House’s share price and defrauding a trust fund established by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America of more than $5,000.

Campbell said the three-year sentence applied to both counts and would be served concurrently. No restitution was involved.

He said the magnitude, complexity, duration and degree of planning of the fraud were aggravating factors in sentencing.

“On any measurement the size of this fraud was significant,” Campbell said. “It is impossible to quantify the exact scale of the loss but there is no doubt that this involved millions of dollars.”

Each charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years, but defence lawyer Barry Whynot said Clarke,

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who turned 71 a week ago, was remorseful and co-operated with an investigation that dragged on for years after charges were eventually laid in 2011 following the collapse of the company in 2001.

Campbell also noted Clarke had no criminal record and that his name had been publicly associated with the collapse of Knowledge House and with the offences since being charged in 2011.

“It is hard to imagine that his life has been anything like normal over that period of time,” he said.

Crown attorney James Martin described in court how Clarke used three main techniques to elevate the price of Knowledge House shares and spur on buying by investors.

He said he used different accounts to continually buy the stock to make sure the price didn’t decrease and, in the process, spent millions to keep the stock price rising. He said Clarke also actively discouraged people from selling their stocks.

“This was an incredibly sophisticated fraud,” Martin said in court. “He spent million of dollars over the course of 18 months doing what they could to make sure the price of Knowledge House did not fall.”

Martin said Clarke also invested $997,000 belonging to the carpenters’ union in Knowledge House, with the union ultimately being defrauded of $849,000 before it recovered some of that money.

Martin said the fraud amounted to $31 million in total.

He said the crimes were mitigated by the fact that Clarke pleaded guilty, was disciplined by the regulatory commission and endured public scrutiny during the investigation and the lengthy court proceedings.

Whynot said Clarke had good reason to believe Knowledge House would be a success, employing about 150 people at its offices in downtown Halifax

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in 2000. However, its fortunes changed dramatically when the tech bubble burst soon after.

The collapse and the subsequent charges ended Clarke’s career and left him in a legal limbo that went on for 15 years, Whynot said, adding that his client now works for a bus tour company in the summer.

“Mr. Clarke would like to pay his penalty to society and move on with the rest of his life,” he told the court.

Daniel Frederick Potter, who was CEO at the company, and Robert Blois Colpitts, the firm’s lawyer, were also charged in the case and their cases are still before the courts.

They were charged in 2011 with manipulating the company’s shares in the 21 months before the firm went under.

Last May, Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal ordered National Bank Financial to pay $3 million in punitive damages for the way it dealt with investors who lost money when the technology firm collapsed.

Judge Jamie Saunders said the money was owed to four investors who were affected when the company failed.

The court says the shares in Knowledge House began trading publicly on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1999, and went from a few cents to more than $9 before suddenly collapsing.

During the many legal cases that followed, National Bank secured a confidential agreement with the Nova Scotia Securities Commission concerning the role it played overseeing the actions of a broker involved in the stock trades.

Saunders said once that deal was revealed, it showed the bank didn’t properly oversee the actions of its broker.

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THE CANADIAN PRESS Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 107.41 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.12 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.74 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.07 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.620 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.97 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.18 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 187.65 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.30 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.79 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.80 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.37 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.00 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.38 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.86 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.56 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.19 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.70 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.46 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.21 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.37 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.07 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.25 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.63 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.84 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.88 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American markets closed slightly lower Friday in anticipation of this weekend’s meeting of OPEC countries that could culminate in an oil production freeze.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was down 31.09 points at 13,637.20.

New York indexes were also in the red as the dip in oil prices dragged down energy companies.

The Dow Jones industrial average slipped down 28.97 points to 17,897.46. The broader S&P 500 lost 2.05 points at 2,080.73 with energy stocks being the worst performer by far. The Nasdaq composite dipped by 7.67 points at 4,938.22 “There’s a real lack of direction,” said Stephen Carlin, portfolio manager and head of equities at CIBC Asset Management.

The lacklustre closing figures reflect that little noteworthy economic data was being released Friday, he said.

Instead, the markets are waiting to react to news from Sunday’s meeting of some members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in Doha, Qatar.

“Obviously all eyes are on the OPEC meeting this weekend and so there’s some caution,” Carlin said.

Reports and rumours earlier in the week that a production freeze was imminent have been dying out, said Carlin, adding that the market views this as a potential risk, which pushed down oil prices slightly ahead of the gathering.

The May contract for benchmark North America crude closed down $1.14 at US$40.36 a barrel on Friday, adding to losses of the two previous sessions after the commodity closed

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.72 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.49 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.83 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.06 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.50 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.11 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.99 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.14 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.56 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.26 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.47 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.28 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.09 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.800 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 10.90 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.43 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.96 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.80 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.58 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.84 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.68 Canyon Services Group. . 4.32 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.23 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.57 above US$42 on Tuesday for the first time since late November.

This commodity-sensitive Canadian dollar turned slightly higher after two days of loses. It edged up 0.07 of a U.S. cent to 77.90 cents US. Earlier in the week, the loonie hit a nine-month high, reaching 78.38 cents US on Tuesday after a reported deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut oil production sent energy prices higher.

The outcome of the OPEC meeting will likely drive Monday’s oil prices and market movement. If OPEC decides to cut back oil production and work towards balancing the current excess oil supply, prices could rise, Carlin said. While the opposite scenario is expected if OPEC does not reach a production freeze deal.

The oil price will then likely drive Canada’s commodity-sensitive loonie and influence energy prices in a similar direction, he said.

Elsewhere in commodities, May natural gas shed 6.8 cents to US$1.90 per mmBtu, while May copper was off nearly two cents at US$2.15 a pound. June gold rose $8.10 to US$1,234.60 a troy ounce.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,637.20, down 31.09 points Dow — 17,897.46, down 28.97 points S&P 500 — 2,080.73, down 2.05 points Nasdaq — 4,938.22, down 7.67 points Currencies: Cdn — 77.90 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.8224, up 0.40

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GATINEAU, Que. — The country’s broadcast regulator says tens of thousands of Canadians have either signed up for the first time or switched to the recently mandated skinny-basic TV packages.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says more than 66,000 consumers have signed up to the new basic TV packages in the five weeks since cable and satellite service providers were required to offer them. As well, the CRTC says more than one in three TV service subscribers have opted to buy individual channels, small packages or both.

Service providers including Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Cogeco began offering the new basic packages as of March 1 under new rules that cap the cost of service at $25 per month.

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.650 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.97 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.27 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.80 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.82 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.600 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.280 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.98 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.92 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.520 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.96 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 36.07 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1950 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.20 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.64 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.50 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.58 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.61 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.25 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.95 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.23 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.42 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.250 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.51 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.42 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.54 of a cent Euro — C$1.4484, up 0.21 of a cent Euro — US$1.1283, up 0.27 of a cent Oil futures: US$40.36 per barrel, down $1.14 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,234.60 per oz., up $8.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.851 oz., up 27.5 cents $702.51 kg., up $8.84 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $3.20 lower $476.90 July ‘16 $3.30 lower $481.40 Nov. ‘16 $3.30 lower $479.70 Jan. ‘17 $1.70 lower $485.30 March ‘17 $1.20 lower $487.30 May ‘17 $1.20 lower $487.00 July ‘17 $1.20 lower $487.00 Nov. ‘17 $1.20 lower $479.40 Jan. ‘18 $1.20 lower $479.40 March ‘18 $1.20 lower $479.40 May ‘18 $1.20 lower $479.40.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 623,620 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 623,620.

The CRTC also required service providers to offer either individual “pick and pay” channels or small bundles of no more than 10 channels.

Some consumers have complained about the new basic packages, even characterizing them as a “ripoff,” because service providers take away bundling and other discounts offered with more expensive service options.

Many of the carriers also charge connection and cable box fees in addition to the $25 monthly charge, even as they often waive those same fees for their higher-cost bundled services.

A handful of companies include U.S. channels as part of their slimmeddown basic packages while others do not.

The CRTC said the subscription figures were provided by carriers, which include Eastlink, MTS, SaskTel, Shaw Communications, Telus and Videotron.

Service providers will be required to offer full pick-and-pay as of Dec 1.

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OTTAWA — Mitel Networks Corp. has a friendly deal to pay US$1.96 billion in cash and stock for Polycom Inc., a Silicon Valley company with global expertise in workforce collaboration and video conferencing.

Ottawa-based Mitel — one of the original tech companies in what has been called Silicon Valley North — said Friday that Polycom will complement its own expertise in voice communications for business.

Polycom would also swell Mitel’s workforce to 7,700 employees around the world, up from 4,500 at the end of 2015.

Because of the number of Mitel shares involved in the transaction, Polycom shareholders would end up with 60 per cent of the combined company’s equity.

Corporate headquarters would remain in Ottawa, the Mitel corporate name would be retained, its directors would still have a majority on the board and its chief executive and its chief financial officer would remain in those roles.

“Mitel has a simple vision — to provide seamless communications and collaboration to customers,” Mitel CEO Rich McBee said in a statement.

It’s offering Polycom shareholders US$3.12 cash and 1.31 Mitel shares for each share of Polycom stock (Nasdaq:PLCM), or the equivalent of US$13.68 based on the recent value of Mitel’s stock (TSX:MNW) (Nasdaq:MITL).

That would be 22 per cent above Polycom’s stock value prior to an April 5 news report that a deal was in the works. The stock portion of the offer would also entitle Polycom to have two representatives on the Mitel board of directors.

Mitel’s board currently has seven directors, including McBee and Mitel co-founder Terry Matthews, who is chairman of the board.

The deal is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals, but it’s expected to close in the third quarter.

There have been reports that Elliott Management, which owns minority stakes in both companies, had been calling for months for a merger of the two companies.

“Together, Polycom and Mitel expect to drive meaningful value for our shareholders, customers, partners and employees around the world,” said Polycom president and CEO Peter Leav.

“We look forward to working closely with the Mitel team to ensure a smooth transition and continued innovation to bring the workplace of the future to our customers.”

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BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Two voices raised in song are far better than one.

That thought occurred to singer/ guitarist Andrew James O’Brien the first time he heard the Catherine Allan sing.

He had been performing as a solo artist in his native Newfoundland, but after hearing Allan’s “incredible” voice, with its “amazing” tone, warmth and sincerity, at a private gathering in downtown St. John’s, he was compelled ask her to perform with him.

It was a great hunch. Six years later, the two are engaged to be married. And their duo, Fortunate Ones — which performs on Friday, April 22 at Fratters — received a Juno Award nomination for the debut album The Bliss.

Although the release lost out to Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Power in the Blood for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year, O’Brien considers losing to a legendary Canadian singer still a win in his books.

Besides being invited to the award ceremony in Calgary, he and Allan were asked to perform at the Juno gala dinner, where they met many influential people in the music industry.

“When you get some face time with them, you hope they will remember you — but I think the performance is the most important thing,” said O’Brien.

Fortunate Ones, formed in 2013, won the 2015 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year.

It’s also nominated for the 2016 International Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year.

The group has been gaining traction in Western Canada. “We’ve been making a big effort to get out (to Alberta) a few times and we’ve noticed that the crowds are getting bigger each time,” said O’Brien.

Allan, a pianist and accordion player from a musical family, and O’Brien, who made the 2011 solo album Songs for Searchers, both contribute vocals, music and songwriting on The Bliss.

The album was produced by multiEast Coast Music Award winner Daniel Ledwell, and features guest appearances by East Coast favorites Jenn Grant, Don Brownrigg, and Kinley Dowling.

O’Brien noted the title track is about being happy no matter where you are in life — “even if you’re not where you expected to be.” People tend to gloss over their sadness and doubt, when both reflective emotions are necessary for achieving personal growth and appreciating better times, he said.

“Without sadness, there’s no wave to your joy.”

Although Allan and O’Brien have wedding plans, no date has been set because the musicians are so focused on touring.

“We’ve got to make hay while the sun shines,” said O’Brien, with a chuckle.

There’s a $10 cover for their 9 p.m. show. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fortunate Ones perform on Friday, April 22, at Fratters.

Drumming at the Junos RED DEER KIDS HAVE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXPERIENCE AMONGST CANADA’S MUSICAL STARS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF He’s drummed in Italy and Indianapolis, but none of Michael Levia’s concert band experience has quite compared to performing at the Juno Awards.

“It was unreal, amazing,” said Levia who, with fellow Red Deer drummer Riley Parker, shared the stage with singing sensation Alessia Cara during the Juno broadcast from the Calgary Saddledome.

The 18-year-old percussionists are both members of the Calgary Stampede Band. At a practice in midMarch, one of their instructors — who also works as a sound engineer in the music industry — called a special meeting of the drum line. The musicians were asked they were interested in performing live on stage at the Junos on April 3.

Levia remembers feeling astonished and thrilled at the prospect. “I said, absolutely!”

But the momentum had to build for Parker. Once he made sure the Junos

didn’t conflict with his work schedule, he said, “I thought it would be cool to be on national television.”

The group of 10 young drummers from the Stampede Band learned a new piece of music to go with Cara’s song Wild Things. With two rehearsals and then a final dress-rehearsal the morning of the show, Levia concluded it wasn’t a difficult beat to pound out on multi-tenor drums (five different-sized drums mounted together). “It was for showmanship, really.”

The hardest part was playing for an audience of 10,000-plus in the sold-out Saddledome.

The jitters don’t usually affect Levia, a former member of the Red Deer Royals, who performed in umpteen parades, at the Calgary Stampede and in Italy and then Indianapolis, Indiana, with the Stampede Band.

But when a stage screen was raised, revealing the packed-to-the-rafters arena stands, he recalled, “I’ve never been as nervous… My knees were shaking, and I could hardly feel my feet… ” Parker, who’s also a former Royal, said “It didn’t really hit me until I was

on stage and saw the size of the crowd that the Junos were a really big thing.”

The young drummers didn’t get much chance to fraternize with stars, such as host Jann Arden, but they got to meet Cara, who gave them signed photos. They also enjoyed the rest of the concert, which included such high-wattage Canadian entertainers as Bryan Adams and The Weeknd. “The Weeknd was great!” recalled Levia.

The whole experience was a oncein-a-lifetime thrill.

Neither Levia, a Grade 12 student at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, nor Parker, who graduated last year from Thurber, intend careers in music. Levia plans to attend the University of Alberta for business and psychology courses in the fall, and Parker plans to go to Red Deer College to study commerce.

But both drummers say they will continue making music in their spare time. Parker is also considering becoming a teacher with the Red Deer Royals. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Percussionists Michael Levia and Riley Parker recently performed at the Juno Awards.

Canadian praised at Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Robert Lantos remembers trying to secure a theatrical release for his first movie, only to have a booking agent dismiss it without watching it.

“I said, ‘You haven’t seen the movie,’ and he said, ‘I don’t have to, it’s Canadian,”’ recalled Lantos, a veteran TV and film producer who is among the recipients of this year’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

The film he was promoting at the time, George Kaczender’s 1978 feature “In Praise of Older Women,” went on to be a hit both in Canada and abroad,

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but Lantos said he never forgot the agent’s words.

“That was a very important moment because it got me really, really riled up, and I said, ‘I’m going to show you,”’ said Lantos, 67, whose dozens of film credits include the Oscar-nominated “The Sweet Hereafter” and “Barney’s Version,” as well as “Eastern Promises.”

Lantos and six other winners of this year’s performing arts awards were announced at a news conference in Montreal on Thursday.

Juno-winning Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark, dance choreographer Marie Chouinard, tenor Ben Heppner and children’s playwright Su-

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As Bard on the Bower celebrates the 400th year of William Shakespeare, there will be an unveiling of their 2016 season at the downtown branch of Red Deer Public Library on Sunday from 2-3:30 p.m. with An Abundance of Bard! There will be readings from this summer’s plays, pop sonnet readings by local actors, prizes and other Shakespearerelated topics.

zanne Lebeau will receive lifetime artistic achievement awards, along with Lantos.

Philanthropist John D. McKellar will receive the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts and pop singer Michael Buble will receive the National Arts Centre Award.

Lantos said that in the nearly three decades following his conversation with the theatre representative, Canadian filmmakers have produced some of the most celebrated independent films in the world, with Academy Award nominations and Cannes film festival prizes to prove it.

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JORDAN KLASSEN PLAYS FRATTERS Vancouver folk artist Jordan Klassen will be playing Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer on Sunday at 8 p.m. as he promotes his latest album Javelin.

There is a $20 cover at the door.

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wrong,” he said.

Buble said from Los Angeles that Canada has one of the highest number of artists per capita, allowing it to punch above its weight when it comes to artistic achievement.

In an interview, the B.C.-born singer said while some people in the entertainment industry try to cut down and criticize successful artists, the Canadian community in comparison is more supportive.

“Canadians really pull for Canadians,” he said. “The support I’ve gotten from my home country is astounding.”

The award Buble is receiving recognizes exceptional recent work by a performing artist.

MOMMYLICIOUS TRADE FAIR AT THE WESTERNER The Mommylicious Trade Fair focuses primarily on local businesses and offering products and services geared towards families. The show will be making a stop in the Marquis room at the Westerner on Sunday and will also include a bouncy house, face painting, mini photo sessions, graft area, a fun zone and shopping and is free to attend.

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

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Flags of Remembrance documentary premiers today A public screening of a locally made documentary about the Flags of Remembrance site beside Hwy 11 will be held today.

The Veterans Voices of Canada will screen the Flags of Remembrance doc at 7 p.m. at Lacombe’s Royal Canadian Legion. The video was produced

by Rueben Tschetter of The Cache Project for Telus Optix, the project’s funder.

“This video is a great tribute to what we at Veterans Voices of Canada are trying to do, in our way…for remembrance,” said the non-profit group’s executive-director Allan Cameron. “We will also be taking sponsorships for our 2016 Flags of Remembrance.”

Those interested in seeing the screening can come early for the Legion’s fundraising meat draw at 6 p.m. A trailer for the documentary can be seen at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8xSkq7G69Co.

The Small Glories coming to The Homeplace April 23 Some stirring roots music will be performed at a rural house concert south of Gull Lake.

The Small Glories, a Winnipeg group made up of Cara Luft and JD Edwards, will be playing folk-roots music with beautiful harmonies and plenty of banjo twang on Saturday, April 23, at The Homeplace. It’s a home concert venue in the Woodynook Church area, west of Lacombe.

The band’s debut album Wondrous Traveller, contains a raucous cover of the Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg song Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key, as well as some more tender original tracks.

Tickets for the show are $30 from General Appliances in Lacombe. For information about the location or tickets, please call Jason at 403-3486546.

Tamara Plant book signing at Chapters next Saturday

Edmonton author Tamara Plant will sign copies of her memoir about struggling to come to grips with her troubled childhood, in Red Deer next week.

Plant will be at the Red Deer Chapters store from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, with copies of Forgiveness and Other Stupid Things.

“I know what it’s like to struggle with the demons of an abusive childhood and lose faith in the universe, thinking you don’t deserve anything good in your life,” the author has stated.”My book is meant to inspire others to keep going no matter how bad things seem.”

Plant, who was given a day in her honour in Edmonton after founding the FIERCE Awards to celebrate people who have made a difference, believes readers will gain insight into their own struggles through her perspective. She went from thinking forgiveness was “just another fluffy concept, to it being my second favourite F-word.”

Plant first wrote about her tough inner-city upbringing as part of Standing Together, a 2005 collection of stories published by the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters.

She expanded upon the story in Forgiveness and Other Stupid Things, which made Edmonton’s bestseller list, and is available at bookstores throughout Alberta.

RDC Motion Picture Arts screening next weekend Some unpredictable lost and found stories will be screened as part of the Red Deer College Motion Picture Arts presentation next week in downtown Red Deer.

Film students from the college will be showing some of their best short works and class projects on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, at the Welikoklad Event Centre.

Each of the dramatic shorts is less than 15 minutes long, said Motion Picture Arts instructor James Wilson.

“There are some completed films and some less-than-complete stories, such as acting scenes, or lighting scenes…

“They are collected works from throughout the year, so you should see some progression and improvement.”

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Yuk Yuk’s founder and comedian Mark Breslin poses for a photograph in Toronto on Tuesday, Forty years after launching the national standup comedy chain Yuk Yuk’s, Breslin sees many positive things happening in his clubs.

“We’re always on the knife edge between madness and creativity and all artists are, I think,” says Breslin. “But I think comics perhaps more than anybody.”

Breslin says he always tells budding comics to be clean, sharp and sober onstage. They also have to put the hours into honing their craft, he says, noting “every word matters.” (He once watched comedians Jerry Seinfeld and George Wallace spend an hour in a diner debating whether to use an “a”

or “the” in his act.)

And he stresses to them: “You’ve got to find your enemy. You have to learn how to hate.”

“Because in life you have to know how to love, but in work you have to know how to hate, in this job,” says Breslin.

“You have to know what the target is. Every joke has a target and if it doesn’t have a clearly defined target, it comes off mushy.

“I don’t like mushy. I like sharp.”

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One film is about an over-achieving mathematics genius who’s pushed to her limit. “There are some really interesting stories… and these dramatic narratives are some of the best we’ve had here in MPA,” added Wilson.

A violence and language warning accompanies the 7 p.m. screenings.

Admission to the 120-minute event is by donation at the door.

queen to help girls see themselves in a more positive light. She will be co-organizing a grad service project on Saturday, May 7, to help girls aged 817 create confidence “from the inside out.”

The 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. seminar at Notre Dame school will include confidence-building activities, games, guest speakers and more. Each participant will also receive a mini-makeover, two edited head shots, as well as lunch.

Tickets are $75 (or if you recruit a friend, and sign up together, both will receive $25 off). All proceeds will go towards the non-profit Parkland Schools.

The goal of the student team of Wojcik and classmates, Matthew Demelo, Cole Malcolm, and Owen Sick, is to raise $5,000 towards the school-wide goal of $45,000 for the local organization.

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“There’s never been so many people really interested in comedy,” he says, crediting the Internet and social media with fostering fans’ interest.

“Rather than having just an occasional interest in it, ‘Hey, we should go out and see some comedy,’ they actually follow it and they have their favourites and they know what they want and they know what they like.”

He also feels the standup scene is more diverse than ever, noting: “There’s never been more minorities, there’s never been more women in comedy.”

“Probably the best late-night talk show right now is being hosted by a Canadian and a Canadian woman, Samantha Bee,” he says.

But Breslin also feels standup comedy has “gotten really, really soft,” with too many comics delivering autobiographical material, “tiny little moments that don’t really mean anything.”

“Comics no longer have that big thing they’re struggling and fighting against that they did when I started,” says the 63-year-old, noting he likes when comedy involves “some kind of anger and passion.”

“When I started, that culture was evil, mass culture was wrong. That was Vietnam, man, and we knew who the bad guys were and we knew who the good guys were.

“But nowadays we don’t live in that kind of world and it’s hard to find targets.”

Breslin got his start running a comedy night at Toronto’s Harbourfront in

the 1970s, sporting lapels “out to here” and what looked like “a porn stache.”

Eventually he and pal Joel Axler started up Yuk Yuk’s in the basement of a community centre. They charged one dollar to get in and had a policy of “absolute free speech” for their comics.

Breslin says there was more freedom on the standup scene in the ’70s because there was a lot less attention paid to it.

“When I chose it, there was no business, there was no business model,” he says. “We were pioneering absolutely everything. And at the beginning, it’s not like people thought it was so great.

“We were losing a third of our audience every night, they were just walking out in disgust and horror — and mostly at my act, by the way.”

In the ’80s, comedy entered a boom period. That’s when Yuk Yuk’s opened most of its clubs (today it has 17 across Canada) and featured major talent, from Jim Carrey to Howie Mandel and Russell Peters.

The ’90s were a contraction, “because a lot of people who sampled the product in the ’80s decided it just wasn’t for them,” says Breslin. “So a lot of comedy clubs went bust, especially in the States.”

Yuk Yuk’s also saw pickets from feminist groups calling for “healthy humour” in that decade.

“Healthy humour? That’s like a sober orgy. Who wants that?” wisecracks Breslin. “Humour is a way of dealing with your mental sickness in a very positive way.”

Yes, Breslin knows and has seen the dark side of standup comedy, from depression to suicide to drugs. He recalls once seeing “Sam Kinison do smack in the kitchen at the old club.”

He himself suffered from dark periods in his life that were lifted the moment he got onstage.

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Pope Francis has an unusually positive view of sex

BY JULIE HANLON RUBIO ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES When Pope Francis released a widely anticipated document on family life last week, he didn’t just weigh in on controversial topics like whether remarried Catholics may take communion (maybe) and whether the Catholic church will approve gay marriages (definitely not).

He said something more likely to be overlooked but also very unusual for a Catholic leader: He wrote about the joy of sex.

In the document, called Amoris Laetitia, Francis frankly addressed sex as a practice married couples work at over a lifetime. His approach to sex and contraception is notable for its affirmation of sexual passion, its realism about what can go wrong in marital relationships and its focus on growing in intimacy. All three are unusual in official Catholic teaching.

Affirming passion The pope wrote in this apostolic exhortation that he seeks to avoid continuing a tradition of “almost exclusive insistence on the duty of procreation” combined with a “far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage.”

His more earthy vision of marriage links the “one flesh union” mentioned in Genesis with the love poetry of Solomon’s Song of Songs and a provocative phrase from Psalm 63: “My soul clings to you.”

Citing these texts, Francis paints a vision of a loving union of two spouses whose passion is an “icon” or symbol of God’s own inner life. Yet, he insists, it is always imperfect, always a work in progress.

He affirms sexual desire, giving and receiving in sexual encounter and the self-transcending passion attested to by the great mystics of the Christian tradition.

Francis does not abandon his predecessors’

teaching that sex is meant for procreation. He briefly references Humanae Vitae’s ban of contraception on the grounds that the unitive and procreative meanings of sex are inseparable. Francis clearly states that “no genital act of husband and wife can refuse this meaning.”

The document will disappoint those who hoped the pope’s recent comment that contraception might be acceptable to prevent the spread of Zika, or his earlier claim that Catholics are not required to “breed like rabbits,” indicated an opening on the morality of artificial birth control.

But Francis justifies the prohibition of contraception by putting it in a far more positive context than did earlier Catholic leaders.

Unlike Pope John Paul II, who characterized contraceptive use as a selfish manipulation and degradation of human sexuality, Francis paints an attractive picture of a love so intense that it seeks to go beyond itself.

Children, he says, are living reminders of deep married love. Sex is fundamentally passionate and essentially fruitful. Francis’ focus is on the positive connection between life and love.

Keeping it real Despite his affirmation of love, Pope Francis is realistic.

He recognizes the violence and domination that can distort sexual relationships, even in marriage.

He says, “We also know that, within marriage itself, sex can become a source of suffering and manipulation.”

These sexual sins receive much more attention in his document than the hot-button issues of contraception and same-sex marriage.

Francis is also realistic about social pressures that make passionate marriage difficult to sustain.

He worries about a growing “inability to give oneself to others” or commit to the hard work of improving imperfect marriages.

During the synods on the family that preceded Amoris Laetitia, some leaders in the Church urged the pope to be more critical of modern society and to clearly state the superiority of Catholic doctrine. But Francis avoids simplistic, sweeping judgments of cultural views. He says family is “not a problem” but an “opportunity.” He is realistic, but not pessimistic.

Lifelong learning Francis describes marriage as a vocation and intimacy as something couples work on and grow into over time.

He stresses the importance of a sexual relationship in the life of couple. Over and over, he urges married people not to give up when physical attractiveness fades or passion wanes. Rather, they should enter more deeply into their shared life. Since sex is an essential part of that sharing, Francis says, couples ought to pay attention to it.

And for those at the start of their sexual lives, rather than the twilight, the pope speaks openly of the need for sex education.

When earlier popes addressed the topic, they tended to emphasize the parental prerogative to teach children what they want them to know about sex. But Francis is concerned that children and young adults are being shortchanged by limited curricula.

He suggests they need help placing sex in a broader framework, understanding themselves, communicating and preparing to give the gift of their body to another person. He calls for schooling young adults in a “patient apprenticeship” that will prepare them for the intimacy of marriage.

In a document whose title celebrates “the joy of love,” Francis’s main contribution is to lift sexuality in marriage from a framework of rules and place it in the context of a vocation - one that is demanding, and joyful.

Julie Hanlon Rubio is a professor of Christian ethics at St. Louis University.

Conference urges end to doctrine of ‘just wars’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Participants at a Vatican conference called Thursday for the Catholic Church to renounce its “just war” doctrine and for Pope Francis to write an encyclical on nonviolence and “just peace.”

Church teaching has long allowed for “just wars” — the use of force to stop an unjust aggression — as long as certain conditions are met. They include that other peaceful means have been exhausted, that the force is appropriate and won’t produce worse effects, and that there is a reasonable chance for success.

But participants at a conference sponsored by the Vatican’s justice and peace office and Pax Cristi International, the Catholic peace movement, said in a final communique Thursday that too often the doctrine had been used to justify and endorse military action rather than prevent it.

They called for the church to no longer use or teach “just war” theory, for the church to instead develop a new peacemaking framework “consistent with Gospel nonviolence,” and for Francis to articulate it all in a new encyclical.

“The time has come for our church to be a living witness and to invest far greater human and financial resources in promoting a spirituality and practice of active nonviolence and in forming and train-

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ing our Catholic communities in effective nonviolent practices,” the statement said.

Francis, named after the peace-loving St. Francis of Assisi, has echoed his predecessors in condemning wars and promoting peace. He hosted a marathon prayer vigil to stave off threatened military action in Syria, brought the Israeli and Palestinian presidents together for a peace summit, and issues near-weekly appeals for peaceful ends to conflicts around the globe.

But he has also endorsed military action to stave off the Islamic State group advance in Iraq and

Syria, where Christian minorities have been slaughtered by Islamic extremists. In comments to reporters in 2014, Francis said it was “licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” but said such military action must be endorsed by the international community and that the type of force must be evaluated.

Francis issued an opening greeting to the Vatican conference — in and of itself a sign that he endorsed its goals. He didn’t mention the “just war” theory, but made clear his position, saying the “ultimate and most deeply worthy goal of human beings and of the human community is the abolition of war.”

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NDP strife has no upside CHANTAL HEBERT NATIONAL AFFAIRS

The storm over the Liberal handling of a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia is a gift to an NDP caucus still reeling from the summary execution of its leader at the hands of party members.

It is also confirmation that fate does not always smile on politicians in a timely fashion.

For months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been implying that the controversial $15-billion sale of armoured vehicles to the Saudis was a done Conservative deal he could not renege on.

Regardless of Saudi Arabia’s appalling human rights record, regardless of a recent European Union arms embargo on that country, Trudeau argued he was bound to honour the contract negotiated by his predecessor.

As it turns out, until late last week, the government had yet to give the sale the final approval.

Would outgoing NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair have fared better at the weekend’s convention if discrepancies in the Liberal narrative on an issue close to the hearts of most New Democrats had come to light before the confidence vote in his leadership? That’s hard to say.

But Mulcair could only have benefited from having had something more solid to sink his teeth into in the leadup to that vote than the wedding cake crumbs of a honeymooning Liberal government.

His case for staying undeniably suffered from the absence of a largerthan-life ideological foe in power in Ottawa.

Most New Democrats saw the Conservative agenda as a critical threat to their collective values. Stephen Harper’s defeat at the hands of the Liberals added impetus to their return to their existential quarrels.

The irony is that an NDP in relative turmoil is not necessarily good news for the Trudeau government.

For one, with Mulcair staying on until his successor is chosen, the Liberals should forget about getting a free ride from the NDP in the House of Commons.

They certainly have not been getting an easy ride from the Conservatives under the interim leadership of Rona Ambrose.

If he can live with his diminished status, Mulcair should be no less able to hold the fort for the NDP in the Commons for one to two years than Bob Rae was for the Liberals in the long lead-up to Trudeau’s selection as leader.

By the same token, the Liberals should find no cause to rejoice at the notion that their NDP rivals could turn their guns on pipelines in general and the TransCanada’s Energy East project

in particular.

The fact that the New Democrats have so far kept their powder dry on the issue has bought the Liberals a lot of cover as they tried to advance a pro-pipeline agenda.

That restraint has served not only the interests of Alberta’s NDP government.

A more aggressive New Democrat take on pipelines could make life more difficult for its political advocates, especially in Quebec.

According to many past and present Quebec NDP MPs, the absence of a firm anti-Energy East stance came second only to the party’s opposition to a niqab ban in the list of the grievances they heard about on the doorsteps last

fall.

Since then, the TransCanada project has risen on the province’s radar while the fortunes of the ruling Quebec Liberals have declined among francophone voters.

That is not a promising combination for the project.

As NDP leader, Mulcair implemented a virtual pact of non-aggression toward his former provincial party.

He watched the social protests that attended the end of Jean Charest’s last mandate from the sidelines.

He has had little to say about the austerity measures implemented by Philippe Couillard’s government - with attending cuts to the province’s social services.

Mulcair invoked the need to marshal all resources on the federal election front to put the creation of a Quebec New Democrat party on the back burner.

That may now be about to change.

The advent of a new federalist centre-left provincial party could sap support from the Quebec Liberals and help clear the way for the election of a less federalist-friendly government in two years.

Couillard and Trudeau will come to miss having a former Quebec Liberal at the helm of the NDP. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

We need small businesses to grow out of being small The International Monetary Fund gave the federal Liberals some good advice when it argued last year that it was okay to run budget deficits to finance needed infrastructure. With interest rates so low, almost free money, and with the expected productivity gains from improved infrastructure, deficit financing for infrastructure could more than pay for itself. After much foot-dragging, the Liberals took the advice.

Now, the IMF has some more good advice, which the Liberals would also be smart — and responsible — to follow: Scrap the promise of a further cut in the small business tax rate. It’s expensive but a waste of money and, the IMF says in a new report, it can even be counter-productive. If Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new advisory council on innovation, led by Dominic Barton of McKinsey & Co., is doing its job, it will add its voice to that of the IMF. A small business tax cut will do little to improve Canada’s innovation performance.

Despite the IMF’s warning, pandering to small business is something that all of our leading political parties share. Every year they join together in proclaiming small business to be the backbone of the nation. It isn’t. The businesses of all sizes that produce

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In last year’s federal election campaign, all the major political parties promised to cut the small business tax rate, currently 11 per cent on up to $500,000 of profits for Canadian-controlled private corporations. In 2011, according to Finance Canada, the small business tax rate cost the federal treasury $3.2 billion. Since the provinces also share the enthusiasm for the small business tax rate, their cost was about $3 billion. This is a lot of money when there’s little evidence this does much for entrepreneurship, innovation or job creation.

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In his recent budget, Morneau held back from implementing the promised small business tax cut, but indicated that it was only deferred, meaning it will come before the next election. Moreover, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mandate letters to Morneau and Small Business Minister Bardish Chagger call for implementation of the small business tax cut.

In its recent report the IMF urges countries to do much more to improve innovation and productivity through fiscal policy — tax cuts and spending.

“Fiscal policy,” it says, “can play an important role in stimulating innovation through its effects on research and development, entrepreneurship and technology transfer.”

But giving small business preferential tax treatment is not one of the ways. Instead, it says, it is new companies that deserve special consideration. “Given that most small firms are neither new nor innovative, such tax incentives are not well targeted for relieving tax barriers to entrepreneurial innovation (except for those related to R&D expenditures, which are targeted to innovation),” the IMF says. In fact, Canada does provide more generous tax treatment of small business for R&D spending and this is helpful to tech-based companies in their early

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stages of growth.

“Evidence indicates that a firmís rate of growth, job creation and export activity are related more directly to the age of the business than to its size,” the IMF adds. Most small businesses start small and stay small. It is the tiny proportion of companies that start small, but then quickly grow, often called gazelles, that really matter.

They tend to have proprietary technology, are growth oriented, invest in innovation and export. These are the ones to be nurtured. For them, the most important current policies are direct grants through the Industrial Research and Assistance Programme (IRAP) and refundable tax credit for R&D spending.

The danger with the existing tax treatment of small business is that it may encourage small business to stay small. “By deterring firms from growing large, size-based tax preferences might harm productivity growth rather than support it,” the IMF concluded.

“Encouraging the creation or growth of firms would be achieved more efficiently by targeting support to new firms.” What we really need to be looking at is how to create more gazelles, not more mice.

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CHRIS SALOMONS STREET TALES I received one of those story type e-mails a few years ago that went something like the following; it is not verbatim but I remember it well because it made an impact on me.

In an interview with Ruth Graham (the now deceased wife of evangelist Billy Graham) I believe it was after another school shooting, she was asked by the interviewer, “so where was God when all this was going on?”

After an indignant pause, she gathered herself to respond with the following. “When society listened to Madeline O’Hare demanding that prayer should be removed from the classrooms, we stood by and let it happen. Not long after, when atheists demanded that all Bibles and any other Christian scriptural material be removed from schools and universities, once again we stood by and let it happen.”

Not letting the interviewer interrupt, she went on; “Then over a few years, it was demanded that all references to God and scripture be removed from government sessions, buildings, and even public squares, so it happened. To top it all off, when any discussions like abortion, same-sex mar-

riage, including the definition of marriage came up, we were told that God does not have a say in it, because we have separated church and state. You have done everything in your power, to remove any reference to God in any way, shape or form from society.

“So I’ll ask you,” Mrs. Graham went on, “if we have gone to such great lengths to drive God from our society, wherein would you have the right or even the audacity to ask where was he? My God is a gentleman; you demanded he leave, and so he has, why would you expect anything different.

“Furthermore,” she went on without stopping for a decent breath, “If God does not condemn this country for its actions in these days, then he will have to apologize to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

For thousands of years, travellers whether to new worlds or across a country, have relied on the North Pole or the Stars or some sort of compass to navigate them to their destination.

A standard if you will. In some cases, even with this standard, they went off course, but they could always come back to a navigable point and so find their way.

Without a standard or reference point, these early sailors and travellers would have landed who knows where. I think you understand my point.

Whether you believe in the God of the Bible or not, a thorough and honest examination of history will tell us that

if nothing else, it gave society a list of standards and morals by which to live and function as a peaceful community. Not that it was followed all that well, but it was there. As long as governments of the day honoured it and subscribed to it, the standards were always there.

Most religions in the world today have as their standard, a life of peaceful co-existence with each other; they also have a combative and or a defensive side. The only problem with this duality is that natural man tends to gravitate toward the latter portion of combat and defence. The spirit that moves man to live harmoniously within a community is set aside for personal gain or other ulterior motives which the C and D portion seems to feed in their limited thinking.

Where the focus is, is where the heart will follow. We see the evidences of it all around us and all around the globe.

Being of the Christian persuasion, one saying — that I agree with — states that “A world without God is a world of chaos.” Many are the folks that will dispute that, especially atheists, but you only have to look at history; both long past and recent histories and current events, and you will be able to see where the absence of a Godly standard often led to a chaotic movement within a society.

My opening quote from Ruth Graham corroborates that statement. In our schools, teachers are no longer

permitted to introduce moral standards, much less their origins; all for the sake of a few persistent objectionists.

Currently in our schools, the absence of standards has had a detrimental effect. The children for the most part have no sense of direction.

They are encouraged through their school years and then sent out in the world and we wonder why they chose the lifestyle that they do. They have learned that 2+2=4 and that letters on a page spell words, but have learned nothing on how to cope with failures and or oppositions in life. They try but without a guiding standard it does not ring true.

When an Edmonton teacher is fired for failing a student because the student more than deserved it, I believe we have crossed the line. In essence we have taken away the right of a student to fail at something; a learning tool that the student will require later in life. In a misguided effort to not inflict a negative in his life, we have instead told him that life is only good, there is nothing against him, in other words, we are setting him up for a colossal failure that will lead him to make choices that could easily destroy him.

At the kitchen, I see more and more youth that are the results of that standard-less world view. Is it any wonder?

Need I say more?

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Making a beeline for the feline HARLEY HAY HAY’S DAZE I’ve always been a dog person. I don’t mean a person who looks like a dog, or sometimes acts like a dog, both of which I probably have been accused of over the years, but what I mean is a person who loves dogs. I’ve never really liked cats, except Kitty who allowed us to live with her for nearly 17 years. But there were always dogs in our house too.

I’ve always thought cats to be weirdly aloof and sort of snotty and possibly possessed by an evil feline force that I couldn’t understand. Also they have very sharp claws, and most cats I meet tend to want to embed those claws into any available portion of my sensitive skin. For me, an attempted cuddle with a cat most often results in a painful streak of scratches that make excruciating paper cuts seem like a rather pleasant sensation.

We never had a cat growing up. I grew up with Bim — a rescue beagle who lived a long and happy life and I can still remember how nice his floppy ears felt when I twirled them in my fingers, and how much he liked the cookies dad always had with his coffee.

And then once the Better Half and I were happily hitched we shared our lives with Shirpa the Lhasa Apso, Scamp the Deranged Shih Tzu, and Scotty the West Highland White terrier. And all three of them helped raise the Rotten Kids. And from Shirpa on we also had Willow, aka “Kitty” — a barn cat from the farm that ruled our roost and everyone in it, as well as the entire neighbourhood. This made life interesting indeed.

And then, somehow, suddenly they were all gone. Some humble advice: if you have a bunch of family pets that you inevitably love more than you thought possible, then it’s best if they aren’t all relatively the same age.

When they depart for the sparkling endless happy-meadows of the great beyond, they all tend to do it at about the same time. Which sucks for us.

So last summer, we found ourselves without a pet for the first time in decades. It was very strange not having to constantly shovel several metric tons

of doggie doo in the backyard on a regular basis, or not having to get up to let an elderly dog out several times a night, or not having to coerce hapless family members into babysitting a canine whenever we wanted to go away for more than 24 hours.

In a word: Freedom! In several other words: Hey, something important is missing!

So it was with mixed feelings that we have lasted this long without getting another dog. We have had many discussions around what kind of dog we would get “next time,” and what we would do differently to train it so that it didn’t become a spoiled brat like all our other previous dogs. (Yeah, right.)

We decided it should be a rescue dog, especially when we looked into our favourite highfalutin breeds and found out that these days pedigree dogs are worth more than I paid for my first car. And we also found out suddenly “mixed breeds” are now all the rage, and you must re-mortgage your house to be able to afford one.

But the B.H. and I, at the urging of our R.K.s decided we would definitely get another dog; I think the technical term was “one of these days.” Or perhaps it was “real soon.” We decide this about every three weeks, on a rotating basis.

Until then, we vowed to stay away from the heart-tugging temptation of the SPCA, pet stores, and Internet pet adoption and highfalutin dog breeding websites. And for quite a while we did — or, more accurately, Yours Truly did. It was the Better Half who weakened. She gave in and made the mistake of accompanying her sister Theresa to the pet store. I’m pretty sure she promised to keep her eyes closed and stick only to the pet food aisle, but she was ambushed. As soon as you walk in, right there in the middle of the store was an unavoidable display by something called Alley Cats Rescue Society which featured a nice large cage and in that cage was a lonely, sad cat. So of course she made a beeline to the feline.

The Better Half came home with a photo of the lonely sad cat on her phone. “She’s so beautiful,” the B.H. says, looking at me with appropriately melancholy puppy dog eyes.

“I don’t think we need a cat right now,” I stammer.

“This beautiful little cat is only eight months old, and she was found

abandoned in a dumpster,” she says, showing me the picture on her phone again. “In a dumpster!”

“Um … er … maybe we can go look at it tomorrow,” I say, avoiding eye contact.

“Ok!” she says, a little too enthusiastically. And it was not long after that that I notice the B.H. is looking up cat names on her iPad. Yep. We finally took the plunge, jumped in with both feet, started the ball rolling. Except the ball isn’t a tennis ball, the kind you throw for dogs.

It’s a little fuzzy ball with a bell inside that you roll for cats. And that carefully chosen dog breed that we decided

on? Turns out that dog is, well, technically, a cat.

I tried, I really tried, all you dog lovers out there, honest, but instead of a canine, now there’s a feline in her forever home. Ours. And dare I say it: I now have a new catitude. If you live in the mewment, a cat can be quite clawsome. But that’s another story …

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Notley mirrors Wynne’s failed economic strategy

BY BEN EISEN AND CHARLES LAMMAM THE FRASER INSTITUTE In her recent “kitchen table address” about the state of Alberta’s finances, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley confirmed her government will once again increase spending in 2016/17, despite the province’s deep deficit. It appears the plan is to try to reduce the deficit over time by slowing down the rate of spending increases while hoping for revenue growth to gradually fill the budget hole.

Notley’s plan closely resembles the fiscal strategy employed in Ontario in recent years by premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, which led to a string of budget deficits and a rapid run-up in provincial debt.

If Alberta pursues the same approach, it will likely get the same undesirable results, particularly if oil prices stay low.

In some respects, Ontario’s fiscal situation in 2009/10 mirrors Alberta’s today. The province was in the process of absorbing major economic shocks that had hobbled a major industry (manufacturing in Ontario’s case). Fur-

ther, the province’s medium-term fiscal outlook was bleak, and showed that without meaningful spending reform the province would rack up considerable new debt.

Unfortunately, Ontario’s government never delivered the kind of spending reform needed to put public finances on sound footing. Instead, it continued to increase spending, albeit at a slower pace than before and during the recession when spending rose markedly. It also raised taxes while hoping revenues would increase robustly and eventually close the budget shortfall.

This “wait and hope” approach to deficit reduction has proven unsuccessful.

In its 2009 budget, Ontario projected it would run operating deficits for the next six years totalling $52.9 billion before finally balancing the budget in 2015/16. In fact, things have turned out much worse.

Ontario’s budget is still not balanced, and the cumulative deficit from 2009/10 to 2015/16 has been approximately $81.9 billion – more than 50 per cent more than projected in 2009.

In total, Ontario has seen its net

debt (a measure that adjusts for financial assets) increase by $126.5 billion since 2008/09, a 75 per cent increase in just seven years. As a share of the provincial economy, Ontario’s debt increased from 27.9 per cent to 39.6 per cent.

Ontario’s government now boasts about its plan to finally balance the budget in 2017/18 — but only after significant damage has been done. And what’s more, the province plans to pile up more debt through debt-financed capital spending (at a rate of about $10 billion per year) for years to come after reaching a “balanced budget.”

Despite these negative outcomes, Notley more or less promised in her kitchen table address to bring Ontario’s model to Alberta. Despite the bleak fiscal outlook, she stated that her government would increase spending again in 2016/17, this time by about 2.8 per cent, with further (smaller) increases promised in future years.

In other words, even as the government faces a $10 billion deficit this year, the premier refuses to take decisive action to reform and reduce provincial spending. Instead, the government will try to merely slow down the

rate of spending growth.

So Alberta is largely pursuing the same “wait and hope” deficit reduction strategy Ontario pursued. One major problem with this approach is that even if it “works” and the deficit is eventually eliminated, it results in billions of dollars of new government debt that will be passed along and must be serviced and/or repaid by future generations of Albertans.

Another major problem, as Ontario’s example shows, is that the economy and thus government revenues may not grow as robustly as forecasted. In this case, the result will be even bigger deficits and even more debt. Failing to control spending means government finances will be even more vulnerable to future economic shocks.

Ontario provides a good example of how not to respond to an economic downturn leading to a large deficit.

Unfortunately, the “kitchen table address” suggests Alberta may be poised to make the same mistakes.

Troy Media columnist Ben Eisen is associate director of provincial prosperity studies and Charles Lammam is director of fiscal studies with the Fraser Institute.

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ADVICE SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2016

Readers react to indoor shoe question KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: “Clean Shoes in Wisconsin” objected to his sister-in-law asking him to remove his shoes in her house. Yikes. Outdoor shoes in the house? The University of Houston did a study and found that 39 percent of shoes contained the bacteria C. diff. In Japan, as well as in many Asian and Scandinavian countries, shoes are removed. It would be a kindness, as you suggested, to provide slippers at the door. Guests could also bring their own. — Maria in New Mexico Dear Maria: We had a mountain of responses to this letter. Several readers directed us to the study you mention, and another by the University of Arizona. Both tested people’s shoes and discovered nine different species of bacteria, many of which can cause infections in our stomachs, eyes and lungs.

The studies found that bacteria live longer on our shoes than on anything else, and in most cases, the bacteria was transferred to both tile floors and especially carpeting. There are more bacteria on shoes

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES

Saturday, April 16 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Ellen Barkin, 62; Pope Benedict, 89; Jon Cryer, 51 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to express yourself in your own unique way today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Other appreciate your sparkling sense of humour. 2016 is the year to be more adventurous at work, and more cautious and canny with cash.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rushing Rams — don’t barge in and think you can fix a situation. There’s a lot going on behind the scene that you’re not aware of. So check the facts thoroughly before you proceed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The planetary aspects make for a positive day, as your love for someone grows in intensity. Single Bulls — give frivolous suitors the flick. You need to find someone who you can really rely on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your quicksilver mind is on fire today Gemini, so make sure you have plenty of exciting projects to keep you busy.

Turning abstract ideas into practical projects is the best way to go.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Communicating with friends will be productive today Crabs, as you tune into each other’s thoughts and feelings. A close relationship becomes very intense so tread carefully.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Creativity is high today but don’t get so carried away with abstract concepts that you lose sight of reality. The more energy you put into your future goals, the more headway you’ll make.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mental energy is high today, as you find practical solutions to pressing problems.

With lucky Jupiter on your side, there’s no challenge that’s too great for you to handle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do something different today. Romance is also highlighted, as love-planet Venus visits your relationship zone. Single Librans — love and travel are linked in mysterious ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time to ditch superficial chit-chat and get deep and meaningful with family and friends. Don’t be a secretive Scorpio — make sure you open up and say what’s really on your mind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s so much to do involving home and family responsibilities — perhaps it would be helpful to make a to-do list? But avoid taking on more commitments than you can realistically handle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Jupiter is jumping through your learning zone, so it’s the perfect time to study a subject — or language — that has always intrigued you. Make the most of your clever Capricorn mind.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): With Neptune and

than on toilet seats, including E coli. This is especially dangerous for children under the age of 2, because they play on the floor and frequently put their hands in their mouths. Here’s more: Dear Annie: The host is responsible for making guests feel welcome and comfortable. Many people have health conditions that make walking in stockings or soft-soled slippers unsafe. Such things as diabetes, neuropathy, planter fasciitis and balance issues require that shoes be worn at all times. If the hosts care more about their floors than their guests, they should not entertain in their homes. — J. Dear Annie: Who does this person think he is to decide that he can walk around someone else’s house with his shoes on?

No one has perfectly clean shoes unless they have just taken them out of the box from the shoe store. Your word choice of “detritus” was very polite. Street shoes have everything from dog poop to dead bugs on them. Who on earth wants that on their floors? Not me.

Dear Annie: People who care more about their house than their guests are cold, materialistic, uncaring and a few other things you wouldn’t print.

What happens when someone spills red wine on the white carpet? Will that person need to be escorted out? Where does it stop? — E. Dear Annie: We also live in a snowy part of Ameri-

ca, so dirt, mud, snow and road salt get tracked in all the time.

Most everyone takes off their shoes in others’ homes. (The elderly and disabled are exempt.)

“Clean” could buy an extra pair of comfortable slippers or loafers and keep them at his sister-in-law’s house, or better yet, buy some crazy socks that will be a conversation starter and fun! — Feel Better Dear Annie: The sister-in-law could easily provide a box of shoe covers for her guests. That would be a win-win solution. — Sara in Ohio Dear Annie: This reminded me of a Christmas party held at my bosses’ home. I bought a special outfit and the perfect shoes, only to be asked at the door to remove them. I was wearing 3-inch heels and when I took them off, my white wool slacks dragged all over the place.

What made it worse was that they owned two dogs and a cat. It’s been 10 years and it still bugs me. — Hairy Pants In Pennsylvania

Jupiter powering through your money zones, it’s time to study up on your current financial situation. The economic climate is constantly changing so don’t get stuck in a fiscal rut.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re in the mood to help others, as you feel great sympathy and compassion for those in need. Artistic types will be flooded with creative ideas, and motivated to do great work.

ipate in current projects within your local community.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Pluto encourages you to be much more considered and canny with cash and credit. As birthday great, financier J. P. Morgan said, “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Mercury/Pluto trine helps focus your mind on serious subjects, and gives you some profound insights into a complicated situation involving a child, teenager or close friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Imagination and intuition are heightened, as you tap into your unconscious mind and receive important guidance or inspiration. When communicating with others, avoid rushing. Think things through.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t just look at problems from your own perspective today Pisces.

Take the time to listen closely to others, with your head and heart. When it comes to a family member, be extra patient.

Sunday, April 17 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Rooney Mara, 31; Victoria Beckham, 42; Jennifer Garner, 44 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars encourage talking about profound subjects.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are practical and responsible but avoid placing too much importance on material possessions. There is much joy to be found via improving relations with loved ones.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your ability to concentrate is heightened today Aries, as you cut through trivialities and focus on what’s really important, especially involving work and/or financial matters.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today, aim to get the balance right between socializing with family and friends, and spending some quality time on your own. Plus shine a spotlight on your aspirations for the future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Superficial topics fly out the window today as you focus on serious matters and complex issues. Don’t accept things at face value — dig a lot deeper to discover what’s really going on.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do you have a brewing relationship drama on your hands?

Honesty is the best policy, as you speak up and say what’s really on your mind — plus listen to what a loved one is telling you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may have to do extra work, study or research today but don’t worry Leo. Any additional effort you put in will be well-rewarded further down the track. But you must adopt a long-term perspective.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s like you have x-ray vision today Virgo, as you zero in on the cause of a problem and come up with a satisfactory solution. All types of education, study and research are also favoured.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look at a current situation in a deeper and more profound way.

And are you stressing about making an important decision? If you combine intuition and logic, then you’ll know what to do next.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re in the mood to nurture relationships as you circulate, communicate, socialize and schmooze today. It’s also a great time to partic-

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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This photo provided by The Monacelli Press shows a group of the Lina Bo Bardi, Bowl Chair, photographed from above, which was originally designed in 1951. The chair is featured in the book ‘Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture.’

Brazil’s midcentury modern furniture gets a new look

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Brazil’s modernist architecture may be better known, but the country’s distinctive midcentury modern furniture is getting new international attention.

Sensuous curves, tropical woods, woven leathers, and traditional techniques like caning and netting were all part of a style that developed from the 1940s to the 1970s called Brazil Modern.

“When it all comes together, it’s like the music of Gilberto Gil,” said Juliet Kinchin, curator of modern design in the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which recently acquired four chairs by Brazilian furniture designer Lina Bo Bardi.

Piece by piece, midcentury modern works from Latin America are gaining visibility in museums and galleries across the United States.

“Brazil is one of the last — if not the last — great discoveries of 20th century design,” says collector Zesty Meyers, who wrote the introduction to Brazil Modern (Monacelli Press), a mammoth new survey by design curator and writer Aric Chen.

Brazilian author and design professor Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santa interviewed many of the stars of Brazilian furniture design in person, wrote a book on furniture of the era, and co-curated Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940-1978, an exhibit at the Americas Society in New York last year.

“Interest (in the style) has been building for 10 years or so in the U.S., but now people are really talking about it,” she said.

A recent turning point, she said, was the convergence of last year’s “Moderno” show with an exhibit on Latin American urban design at the Museum of Modern Art. Packed with over 400 photos and sketches, the book Brazil Modern brings the era to life with a detailed history of Brazil during the post-war decades of breakneck economic growth. It in-

troduces titans of Brazilian design like Italian immigrant Bo Bardi (one of the few women designers of the era), Oscar Niemeyer, Joaquim Tenreiro and Sergio Rodriguez.

The same immigrant wave that brought post-Bauhaus designers and architects to the United States, ushering in elements like floor-to-ceiling windows, family rooms and open-flow houses, likewise brought post-Bauhaus architects and designers to Brazil.

“People think of Brazil as this faraway land,” Meyers said. “But the waves of immigration were almost the same as the ones that came here.”

In Brazil, this generation of designers became part of a national melting pot just as the country was emerging from colonialism and developing a national spirit known as “brasilidade,” or Brazilianness, Meyers said.

The Brazilian design quest was for “authentic modernism,” combining lustrous indigenous materials and traditional local craftsmanship with European references and Bauhaus geometries to form an esthetic all its own.

The idea got a boost from two early visits by the Swiss-French midcentury modern architect Le Corbusier. And a groundbreaking 1940 MoMA exhibit on “Organic Design in Home Furnishings” featured a Latin American section.

But because the pieces were not made in large numbers and were generally made to order for private homes, not corporate settings, they weren’t readily available or visible outside Brazil. Today, they seem to have gained new relevance.

“One of the qualities of Brazilian design that really appeals to the contemporary audience is its embrace of the modern, while remaining deeply rooted in a profound relationship with natural landscapes, resources and the traditions of Brazil,” Kinchin said.

An eye-popping 1947 chair by Joaquim Tenreiro is crafted from four very different types of Brazilian hardwood, and features a bonded laminated frame and three elegantly tapered wooden legs.

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This 2013 photo released by Sergio Rodrigues Design shows the “Kilin” chair designed by Brazilian designer Sergio Rodrigues.

“Tenreiro’s work has a real lightness and feel to it. The wood itself becomes part of the decoration of the furniture,” said Sarah Coffin, curator and head of product design and decorative arts at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. That museum acquired a chair and stool by Tenreiro in 2004, soon after midcentury modern furniture from Brazil started to appear on the market.

Born and raised in Portugal, Tenreiro settled in Brazil in 1928, honing his craft and coming into his own as a furniture designer by the 1940s, when he declared lightness “a principal to which I felt modern Brazilian furniture should adhere .. Lightness which has nothing to do with weight per se,

but with grace and functionality in space.”

Lina Bo Bardi, also featured in the book, is most famous perhaps for her 1951 Bowl Chair. Featured on the 1951 cover of “Interiors” magazine in the U.S., it was an upholstered half-sphere nesting in a circular metal frame with four legs, and came in a rainbow of colours.

Bo Bardi and her husband, architect and designer P.M. Bardi, arrived in Rio in 1946 from Italy, where she had worked with designer Gio Ponti.

“Arrival in Rio de Janeiro, by ship, in October. Dazzle,” she wrote then. “I felt myself in an unimaginable country, where everything was possible.”

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Adding attic insulation is the long hanging fruit of energy upgrades. Aim for at least R50.

Insulation upgrade options STEVE MAXWELL HOUSEWORKS Q: What’s the best way to improve the insulation in our house? It was built in 1968 and only has the original attic insulation — R12 I believe.

A: You’re in for some very big savings. R12 is much less than currently recommended, and you’ll notice a huge drop in heating costs, plus greater comfort both in winter and summer. I recommend Canadian homeowners have at least R50 in the attic.

More is better.

If you want to do the work yourself, consider buying bundles of batt insulation and laying them out in the attic yourself. Adding two layers of 5 ½-inch batts will deliver about R40 to the R12 you have now.

Place the layers in opposite directions for best results.

Blowing loose fill insulation into your attic is another option. You can rent machines to do this yourself or you can hire a contractor. Regardless of how you get the insulation up top, it will pay for itself in just a few years. After that, all the savings go directly into your pocket.

A surprising number of Canadian homes don’t have sufficient insulation. That’s one reason I made my video info tour ‘Five Reasons to Love Insulation.’

You can watch it at BaileyLineRoad.com/love-insulation.

Septic System Revival Business Q: What’s the best way to revive a clogged septic system? I’m a licensed septic installer, I’m developing a business to refurbish failed systems and I know you’ve written about this topic before.

A: Over the years Ive researched and tested many ways to avoid the expensive and disruptive process of rebuilding failed septic systems, and I’ve found two things that work in many cases: aeration and pressure washing.

Aeration uses a small, electric pump to inject bubbled air into the second half of the septic tank.

This increases the amount of digestion that happens in the tank, while also dissolving sludge that clogs the soil of the septic system. I’ve heard of stories where aeration alone has revived a failing system permanently, but in my experience this isn’t always enough.

In tougher cases I’ve had good results using an attachment for my gas-powered pressure washer.

It’s a 100-foot-long hose that has a multi-direction nozzle on the end. The hose connects to the pressure washer, delivering high pressure cleaning action right inside the pipes. The unit I used is made by a company called Clog Hog. The end of the hose propels itself into the weeping tile after opening up the ends, while also blasting water ahead and to the sides. The pressure is tremendous and it does a lot to clean and open up the stones and sand around the weeping tiles. This method won’t eliminate tree roots blocking the system, but I have seen it revive a completely sludge-clogged system for two years and running. You can see the process in action at BaileyLineRoad.com/unclog.

Steve Maxwell lives on Manitoulin Island, Ontario and helps people with construction and home improvement projects around the world. Visit Steve online at BaileyLineRoad.com.

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The top ideas for living and working at home DAVID FERGUSON CREATIVE SPACE

Pairing a home office with a guest room seems like a natural idea, since one is, ostensibly, used during the business day and the other during evenings and weekends.

Unfortunately, that’s where the parity ends.

The guest room is a place where you want your guests to feel at home; cosy and comfortable.

Really, that’s the last thing you want your clients to feel when they visit your office.

Unless you sell bedding for a living, you certainly don’t want them looking at a bed while you’re discussing business.

A comfortable bed is the most important factor contributing to a good night’s sleep, and the bed you lay out for your guests should be no exception.

On the other hand, camouflaging the guest room bed should be a priority in any home that combines an office with a bedroom.

1. The Murphy bed is a natural.

Folding easily into the wall, the

Murphy bed has been around since the turn of the last century.

It was patented by William Lawrence Murphy in 1900 and has been around in one form or another since then, but in the last five years has made a strong appearance as the need for creating more space in our new limited spaces became necessary.

The Murphy bed is a beautiful alternative to the sofa bed, and can be customized to suit any type of cabinet, closet or wall system.

The sofa bed is the tried and true workhorse of the space-limited bedroom.

The sofa beds manufactured today’s are undeserving of the poor reputation of its predecessors.

Once upon a time, sofa bed mattresses were, by necessity, uncomfortably thin and, because of its hulking steel hardware, the sofa seat was rock hard.

Thanks to advanced technology, that is not so today.

Whether it’s an inexpensive futon or flip-foam sofa, or a top-of-theline sofa-bed pull out, sofa-beds are manufactured for comfort above all else.

A daybed is basically a sofa in the proportions of a single bed. Its greatest advantage over other variations is that it does not need to be opened or closed; just dressed for bed.

2. Hopefully, you have joined the paperless (or less paper) generation, so it is not as necessary to keep reams of paper at your fingertips.

For those documents that you do need at hand, consider a small, locking filing cabinet on wheels that can roll out of the room or into a closet when it’s not needed.

3. Shelving of one type or another is a necessity in any office, and there is little you can do to disguise its purpose, unless it is closed.

But shelving with a combination of open and closed compartments could be the perfect compromise for your dual-purpose room.

If you only have open shelving, however, consider paring down what is stored there, leaving lots of breathing room for decorative accessories and personal items that make the room feel more welcoming.

4. Depending on what you do for a living, your desk will be the heart of the room.

Even in a limited space environment, it is critical and sometimes unavoidable, to choose a desk that suits your occupation.

If you only require space for a laptop, a small secretary desk could be appropriate; a larger horizontal sur-

face when you really don’t use it is a waste of space.

5. Choose wall-hangings that are appropriate for both functions.

You may need to hang your credentials on the wall, and that’s perfectly OK, but why not mix in a few personal photographs or other personal memorabilia?

6. Probably my favourite idea that will ensure your guests feel welcome is their own copy of your house key on a personalized, engraved keychain.

It’s an inexpensive and simple, but meaningfully, gift that memorializes their visit, and lets your guest know that they are always welcome.

Read more on the Creative Space V2 blog at www.topcreativespaceideas.com; join the discussion on Facebook (Creative Space) and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (DFCreativeSpace).

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s Ontario Today. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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JOHNSON Linda 1959 - 2016 Mrs. Linda Joan Johnson, beloved wife of Mr. Robert ‘RJ’ Johnson of Leslieville, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at the age of 56 years. Linda was born to Jim and Marie Holtom on October 3, 1959 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She was the eldest of five children. Her family moved to Alberta and settled in Sylvan Lake, where Linda attended school, meeting her soul mate, Robert Johnson. The couple married in October 1976. Together they raised seven sons. Linda was active in her church, she loved to cook and feed people. If ever there was a need, she was the first to help. She always enjoyed meeting people, which has made her countless friends over the years. Her fondest childhood memories were of church camp in the summers while growing up. Throughout their forty years together, Linda and RJ moved around due to Robert’s work. From Sylvan Lake to Medicine Hat, to Red Deer to Brooks; and then on to Prince Albert, Nipawin, Joffre, Canora, Saskatchewan, and then to Leslieville, where she finally got her dream home. Friends and family would come out for a visit, and a simple meal would always end up as a buffet. Between raising seven sons, running a Mac Store, a family restaurant, home schooling the boys, and tirelessly doing payroll, accounts receivable, invoicing, etc. for their mechanical and welding business, she found time to knit, garden and game online with friends. She also reinvented the word, Nighthawk. Linda was honest to a fault, never took anything, always giving and had a gift of making any gathering a special event. To her, there were no strangers, only friends she hadn’t met. She also truly loved anything baby. Be it children, puppies, kittens, chicks, mice, pigs or calves, anything that was starting on its journey. She especially enjoyed the way kids would gravitate to her, and always took time out of her day for them. Linda will be lovingly remembered by her husband, RJ of Leslieville; her sons, Michael (Alorlie) of Blackfalds (Rene Dennis of Yorkton), Matthew (Andrea) of Thompson, Manitoba, Christopher (Lesly) and Joshua (Crystal), all of Blackfalds, Zachary, Samuel and Jacob; as well as Maverick, all of Leslieville; special mention, Carrie Mazer of Redwater, Alberta, her ‘daughter’; ten grandsons and finally one granddaughter. She will also be sadly missed by her parents, Jim and Marie Holtom of Sylvan Lake, siblings, Robert of Red Deer, Darin (Gerry) of Sylvan Lake, Jacqueline (Bryan) Phillips of Penticton, and Jim (Angie) of Sylvan Lake and her mother-in-law, Eleanor Greggain, of Sylvan Lake. Linda was predeceased by her father-in-law, Elmer Johnson in 1984 and a sister-in-law, Valerie Denman in 1996. A Celebration of Linda’s Life will be held at the Withrow Gospel Mission, Zion Road, Clearwater County, Alberta on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Brian Allen officiating. A reception will follow at the Leslieville Community Centre, Leslieville, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations may be made directly to the Sunnyside Christian Retreat Center, 202 Birchcliff Road, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, T4S 1R6, where a memorial is being set up in Linda’s honor for underprivileged children to be able to attend camp. The family would like to express their most sincere gratitude to Dr. Johannes Myburgh and the staff of Unit 32 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, especially to Catherine, for making her brief time there as pleasant as possible.

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GILTNER - Terry Nov. 22, 1939 April 16, 2008 In loving memory of my husband and best friend, and our Dad Love’s greatest gift Remembrance Lovingly remembered, deeply missed, Lorna, Kerry, Tammy, Jody, Pete, Austin, Dylan, Delaney, and P.K.

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Companions McCALLUM (nee Staudinger) Hedvi (Heddy) Rauha Helen June 4, 1922 - April 12, 2016 Hedvi McCallum died peacefully on April 12, 2016 at the age of 93 years. Hedvi was born to FinnishCanadian parents in the Marianne District of Sylvan Lake on June 4, 1922.

Following a farming childhood, she built a life in Calgary where she would meet her husband and enjoy a long and fulfilling career as a mother, secretary, payroll manager, and real estate agent.

She spent her retirement years in High River, Penhold, Innisfail, and Sylvan Lake. Hedvi was a lifelong member of the Apostolic Lutheran Church of Sylvan Lake and a valued and productive member of the community, very much loved by all. She was predeceased by her loving husband Victor Douglas McCallum in 2010 and is survived by her children: Lorena Dmytriev (André), James McCallum (Elisabeth) and Laurie McCallum and grandchildren: Ainsley McCallum; Iris, Callum and India Dmytriev, Amadeus (Kate Jefferson) and Riali Williamson. Those who wish to pay their respects may do so at The Chapel of Sylvan Lake Funeral Home on Monday, April 18, 2016 from 7:00 - 9:00pm. A service in Celebration of Hedvi’s life will take place on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at the Sylvan Lake Apostolic Lutheran Church at 11:00 AM and all are welcome to attend. A private family internment at Kuusamo Cemetery will follow. Friends are invited to gather in her memory for a time of fellowship and refreshments at the Sylvan Lake Alliance Church from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Family will be attending this gathering after the interment.

Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.com SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements.

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MANDRUSIAK Barry Wayne June 9, 1955 - April 16, 2005

Herb Schatschneider Apr. 7, 1930 - April 16, 2015 One year has passed since that sad day When one we loved was called away God took you home, it was his will But in our hearts you liveth still

We thought of you with love today But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday And the days before that too.

We think of you in silence, We often speak your name.

Now all we have are memories And your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake With which we’ll never part.

God has you in His keeping We have you in our hearts.

Love Cindy and the kids.

KRAUSER Charlotte Claire Jan. 15, 1947 - March 16, 2016 First child of Violet Marion Mackenzie of Carlea, Saskatchewan, Charlotte was born Donna Lynn in Winnipeg, MB and put up for adoption at one month of age. We only found Charlotte 15 years ago and now we have lost her again - far too soon. Charlotte leaves behind her husband, Jeff Krauser and their children Jonathan and Amy (Ethan), Wendy and Eric (Adeline, Vivienne and Tabitha), Jennifer (Cammy, Sammy and Miriam) and Robbie and Sadie (Abraham and Levi) and “Uncle Larry”. Charlotte will also be deeply missed by her brother “Skip” Kehane and new found siblings Nancy and Jim Knievel, Susan Glover (Whitesell), Gwen Glover, Bette and Dwayne Axani, Annie Glover, Bob and Carrie Glover, Gord Glover and Ed Glover and their families.

Although Charlotte did not get to go on her dream cruise of the Mississippi River or see the mountains of Banff (little Alps), she was ‘over the moon’ to see her nine grandchildren grow and was eagerly making a baby quilt for a new addition in June. Rest in peace oh sister of ours……

59 YR. old farmer near Sylvan Lake seeks his country, n/s, slim, honest, healthy, sweetheart, for lifetime relations. I am around 175 - 180 lbs, 5’ 9”.

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Caregivers/ Aides PATRICK HALL April 16, 2014 If only you could come back Our lives to share with you To hear your voice and laughter To show how we love you.

In Loving Memory of LUCILLE MARSHALL June 2, 1932 - Apr 16, 2013 God put two lonely people together and gave them true friendship and a sincere love for each other. Then He took you home and the loneliness has returned - I miss you more and more as I walk through life alone. I miss your hand in mine and the wonderful feeling of togetherness we had, and with your gentle, trusting, loving presence beside me. I know you are in a better place. I will never forget you and our love for each other.

Forever in my mind and heart Your husband, Lorne Marshall

Always loved and remembered your parents John and Mary Neelenan, siblings, nieces, and nephews

DOBSON In Loving Memory of our Parents and Grandparents Amy (April 16, 1997) Ross (July 22, 1988) Those we love don’t go away They walk beside us everyday Unseen, unheard but always near Still loved, still missed, and very dear.

Always remembered and sadly missed by Jim (Lyn), Judy, Barb (Colin) and grandchildren

JOHN WASILENCHUK Aug. 19, 1922-Apr. 16, 2015 A silent thought, A secret tear, Keeps your memory ever dear God took you home, it was his will But in our hearts you’re living still.

Love you forever, Your wife Lillian and family

DOAK Carmen Dec. 10, 1964 - Apr. 2, 2016 Passed away suddenly at home on April 2, 2016 age 51. Donations can be made at MS Society. Loved and survived by Lorne Ashton, family and her kitty Tigger.

Funeral at: Red Deer Funeral Home & Crematorium

WHAT’S HAPPENING

GARY COLEMAN 1958 - 2013

Kristie Ann Doucet (Forster) 1973 - 2009 Our angel; You are always on our minds and forever in our hearts.

You left this world so quickly We still wonder why For the saddest part of all You never said good-bye.

You left us so many memories To us you were so dear No matter when we needed you We always found you near.

You gave us all you had to give Gifts both big and small But most of all you gave us love The greatest gift of all.

Lovingly remembered by your family

Love and miss you Mom and Dad

MORRIS POOR Apr. 16, 1956 - May 16, 2007 We often sit and think of him When we are alone.

For memory is the only friend That grief can call its own; Like ivy on the withered oak, When other things decay Our love for him will still be green And never fade away.

Love Mom & Brother Evert

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

710

EXPERIENCED Caregiver needed for a Diabetic Mother, $18/hr. Mon. Friday). Please apply to robert_seeliger@ hotmail.com

Clerical

720

PAYROLL COORDINATOR Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 invites application from qualified individuals for the position of Payroll Coordinator at their Division Office in Innisfail, Alberta (20 minutes south of Red Deer and 50 minutes north of Calgary). Working directly with the Treasurer and the Associate Superintendent of People Services, the successful candidate will coordinate and provide direction to the Payroll Team, ensuring timely and accurate administration of pay and benefits for our 1500 employees. Reporting to the Treasurer, but working closely with the Payroll Team and the People Services team, this position ensures high standards of pay and benefits administration as well as strong relationships with all employees.

The successful candidate will have extensive payroll experience, ensuring compliance with legislation, collective agreements, handbooks, benefit plans and pensions. Excellent leadership, team building, interpersonal and organizational/time management skills is required. Preference will be given to candidates with Canadian Payroll Association certification and experience using Bellamy software.

Cover letter and resume, complete with the names and telephone numbers of three current work related references are accepted by email only and should be forwarded to: Ray Hoppins, Associate Superintendent People Services Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 Email: careers@cesd73.ca For further information on this posting and Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73, please check our website (www.cesd73.ca).

Applications will be accepted until 12:00 midnight, April 18, 2016.

Dental

740

REG. DENTAL Hygienist Must be flexible with hours.

Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resumes attn: Corinne or Chrissy (403) 347-2133 or email: healthysmiles4life@ hotmail.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 16, 2016 D5

ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (Chilliwack, BC) Provides services such as bookkeeping, A/P, A/R, payroll. Univ. Degree in Acct. or Bus. with CPA designation.

Email resume to currentopenpositions1@ gmail.com Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Sales & Distributors

830

WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747 67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm.

Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume - retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Trades

850

900

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Bicycles

1540

SEKINE ladies 5 spd bike, exc. cond. new tires, tubes, brakes & lines plus spokes. $185.

403-358-8765

Children's Items

1580

BABY Basinette, solid wood, brown w/ matress, easy to move, exc. clean cond. $25. 403-346-5423

Electronics

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Operator 2 Position Plant operations/ Sanitation Rahr Malting Canada Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for 1 full time Operator 2 position in the area of operations and sanitation. The ideal candidate should have experience in sanitation/operations, shift work and have excellent communication skills to interface with the operations, maintenance and management team.

This position will report to the Operator 1.

Application Closing Date: April 22, 2016.

Applicants must apply in writing to: Human Resources Department Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Truckers/ Drivers

860

1640

Tools

METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

403-343-6044

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FREE firewood.

Bring your own chainsaw.

403-346-4307

Household Furnishings

1720

DINING TABLE, Rectangular, glass top 42x72, with 2 beige faux stone pedestals, used in show home, $200. obo 403-346-6317, 597-2508 GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $150. 403-877-0825 MEDIUM dark wood rectangular table, $50, and wicker patio chair, $50. 403-347-8697

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020 AIR CONDITION, DANBY (new in box) 8000 BTU, with remote, 3 spd. fan. $200. 403-358-5568

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS in AB. Super B exp. req’d.

Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Restaurant/ Hotel

BLOW OUT SALE, die cast models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons.

Two stores to serve you better, Man Cave and Gold Eagle, entrance 2, Parkland Mall.

BROTHER electric typewriter, 3 yrs. old, $50.

403-347-8697

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

CONSTRUCTION heater, 3 BDRM. townhouse in 220 power required, $50.

Lacombe, 1 1baths, single 403-877-0825 car garage, $1495/mo., 403-782-7156 / 403-357-7465 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

AVAIL. May 1, 3 & 4 bdrm.

403-343-6044 townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, ELECTRIC heater, $15. close to shopping & 403-885-5020 schools.$975 - $1100 + GARBAGE Cans (2), util. + d.d. 403-506-0054 heavy duty, from 1940’s, IMMACULATE 2 bdrm, good for decorative use. condo, SE Red Deer, fire$20. each. 403-358-8765 place, cherrywood floors, LAWN chairs, 2 sets, pad4 appls, utils. incld., avail. ded seats and backs, $25.

May 1, $1195/mo. per set. 403-358-8765 403-358-4582 RUG, off white with blue CELEBRATIONS border, 5’x7’, exc. clean HAPPEN EVERY DAY cond. no pets, N/S, reg.

IN CLASSIFIEDS price $600. will sell for $30.

403-346-5423

1860

Sporting Goods

INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044 LADIES set of RAM FX golf clubs, 403-341-5141.

RED DEER GUN SHOW April 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Westerner Agri Centre West Admission $ 5

1870

Collectors' Items

(100), 45 RECORDS, in good shape, $1. each.

403-885-5720 BESWICK English porcelain horse, pinto pony model 1373. $175.

403-352-8811

Travel 1605 Packages 1900

WIRELESS 360 degree M6 mode speaker from Veho. Connect with any electronic device, 1800 ma, rechargeable battery, built-in microphone with auto music interrupt.

BRAND NEW Won in Lottery. $95. 403-352-8811

EquipmentHeavy

1760

Misc. for Sale

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337

GLENDALE

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337

AGRICULTURAL 2000-2290

2140

Horses

FARRIER 403-392-5533 Graduate of the OKLAHOMA Horseshoeing School Serving Red Deer & surrounding areas

2200

Seed Grain

MALT BARLEY GROWERS WANTED for new high yielding specialty craft brewing variety. Attractive terms.

Call Mastin Seeds @ 403-994-2609 for details.

3060

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Rooms For Rent

4010

ONE room, new custom built home, lower floor of bi-level, with queen size beauty rest mattress, great room, internet, telephone, cable, kitchen, full bath, 43” Samsung TV, use of tool garage and total privacy. No children, dogs, cats in house. $600/mo., $325. d.d. Call Gord or Joyce 403-346-2859

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 Looking for a new pet?

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Houses For Sale

4020

3170

90 ACRES of crop land at cash rent of $80 per acre. 25 minutes east of Red Deer. 403-885-4528 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Mobile Lot

WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337

RISER HOMES 43 Morris Court Blackfalds 1 ONLY! Modified walk out bi-level backing onto green space and alley access. Many upgrades. REDUCED!! $409,000 includes GST, legal fee, front sod. Tree.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294 www.riserhoes.com

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

WASKASOO Down payment $4000. Call $333,500. at anytime. 403-588-8820 5816 43 Ave. Tired of Standing?

1.5 Storey 4 bdrm. 2 baths, Suites Find something to sit on dbl. det. garage, large yard in Classifieds fully fenced, 1057 sq ft.

2 BDRM. bsmt suite.

Mature Landscaping. $850/mo. 403-348-1304 Looking for a place Margaret Comeau, to live?

RE/MAX 403.391.3399 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult Take a tour through the bldg, free laundry, very CLASSIFIEDS clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337

3060

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Clearview Ridge

Riverside Meadows

34 Castella Cres., Fri. Apr. 6018-56 AVE 15, 4 - 8 p.m., and Sat. Apr. 15/16 Fri. 2-7, Sat. 9-4 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, Apr. 16, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Lots of stuff, driftwood, arts newly reno’d adult building. Home decor, clothing, out& crafts, fairy homes, Rent $900 S.D. $700. door gear, misc. See Kijiji ad. paintings, collectibles, Avail. immed. Near hospimisc. household. tal. No pets. 403-318-3679 TOO MUCH STUFF? Deer Park LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Let Classifieds SUITES. 25+, adults only 109 DEMPSEY STREET help you sell it. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Fri. Apr. 15, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

CLASSIFICATIONS and Sat. Apr. 16, 10 a.m. LIMITED TIME 2 p.m. Antiques, decorative Timberland FOR RENT • 3000-3200 OFFER: housewares, clothing, etc.

WANTED • 3250-3390 One free year of Telus 126 & 122 TRAPTOW CL internet & cable AND one 152 DIXON CRES. Apr. 15 & 16 month’s rent FREE on 2 Back Alley. Apr. 16 & 17 Fri. 5 - 7, Sat. 10 - 4 Houses/ bedrooms! Renovated Sat. 9 - 5, & Sun 10 - 4 Children’s and suites in central location.

Sports equip., yard items, Duplexes household items.

Cat friendly. leasing@ tools, household misc. rentmidwest.com 3 BDRM. 2 bath, newly re1(888)482-1711 Out of Town no’d 2 minutes from R.D. Kentwood Estates $1600/mo. 403-346-1825 #35 OAKWOOD ESTATES 3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, 144 KELLOWAY CRES. (W.of Costco, follow signs) no kids, no drugs, mature, Complete Household Goes Corner of McKenzie Rd. & quiet adult, fully employed Rental incentives avail.

Apr. 16 to April 23 Hwy 2A . Apr. 15, 16 & 17 preferred. $650 rent/dd, 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

9 am - 9 pm Fri. 10 - 8, Sat. & Sun. 9-6 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3 only, N/S, No pets.

Everything Must Go! Multi family - tons of kids 403-596-2444 Massive Party Lights, clothes 0-2 yrs., Alfred 4 BDRM. house on home, women & Sung Wedding Dress, Kingston Drive, $1400/mo. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 children’s decor. corset back sz. 2-6, Ron @ 403-304-2255 bdrm. apartments, rent work boots, speakers, $750, last month of lease 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, table & chairs, tools, free, immed. occupancy. single car garage, 5 appls, Mustang Acres misc. left hand golf clubs, 403-596-6000 $1695/mo. in Red Deer. household items.

403-782-7156 100 MUSTANG ACRES Opposite Hospital 403-357-7465 Fri. and Sat., April 15 & 16 You can sell your guitar 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, Starting at 10 a.m. for a song... adults only, no pets SYLVAN: 2 fully furn. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Tools, antiques, furniture. heat/water incld. $875. rentals, incld’s all utils., and we’ll sell it for you!

10,000 items!!!

403-346-5885 $550 - $1300. 403-880-0210

CITY VIEW APTS.

3020

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To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Accounting

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities • Medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820 7554137D13-26

Industrial Property

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Acupuncture

1020

Traditional Chinese Acupuncture & Therapeutic Massage ~ Acute or chronic pain, stress, surgery problems. 4606 - 48 Ave., Red Deer. Walk-ins.

Call or txt 403-350-8883 Wholistic Health Care for stress, anxiety, pain, insomnia: DrLyla.ca Acupuncture, TCM, TuiNa Massage, QiGong Exercises for appts. or house calls contact 403-597-4828/ docyip@me.com

Contractors

1100

Contractors

1100

DAMON INTERIORS Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

1130

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Handyman Services

CONCRETE???

1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt.

DALE’S Home Reno’s renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Free estimates for all your Call James 403-341-0617 reno needs. 403-506-4301 We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777

PARKING LOT, Street Sweeping, Pressure washing, complete hotmix asphalt services, crack sealing, complete concrete services. Call ConAsph reception 403-341-6900

Painters/ Decorators

1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Plumbing & Heating

1330

JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER Exc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro Geary 403-588-2619

Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

4120

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Roofing

1370

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

5030

Cars

2004 PONTIAC Grand Am SE auto 4 dr, loaded, 133,000 kms, 3.4L, new glass and tires, silver $2900. 403-505-3113 2002 FORD Taurus well maint, p.w, p.l. p. seats CD radio, 300,000 kms. new trans. w/80,000 kms. $1500. obo 403-598-2727

5040

SUV's

2014 CHEV Traverse 2LT, 19,500 km, awd, tt, loaded, $32,500. 403-352-1007

5060

Heavy Trucks

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

2010 DURASTAR 3 ton box truck, 24’ box, ext. cab. auto. trans.

403-347-1255, 350-8018

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

5070

Vans Buses

2001 WINDSTAR, lady driven 184,000 kms. Exc. cond. $3000. 403-598-1906

Motorcycles

5080

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC ALL the bells & whistles!!

44,600 kms.

Excellent Condition Never laid down.

$7600. o.b.o.

(403)318-4653

Boats & Marine

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

5160

1430

All grass & Aerating services. 587-876-7983 Little R & R Yard Care 20 yrs. in business.

Spring yard clean-ups, free estimates.

Phone Randy 403-341-3780 SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates.

Now booking 403-302-7778 SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call Ken 403-304-0678 THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

Call Tammy at 403-314-4306

CARRIERS NEEDED WatersEdge Marina

+

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Seniors’ Services

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

Boat Slips Available For Sale or Rent Sylvan Lake, AB 403.318.2442 info@watersedgesylvan.com www.watersedgesylvan.com

1000-1430

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

SUPERVISORS

4110

SYLVAN LAKE SMALL OFFICE 1,050 sq. ft. office for lease, center of downtown, one block from the beach, parking on site, already partitioned, excellent rate of $8 sq. ft. plus triple net, bhibbert@shaw.ca

MORRISROE MANOR

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

FULL TIME

Commercial Property

rentals

820

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

4100

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CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100.

Tire - Step, $23.

403-343-6044

Now Hiring

40 Living! Two bedroom condo, huge master bedroom, gas fireplace, brand new flooring throughout, new kitchen appliances, shows like new! Underground parking too! Only $249,900 in Red Deer.

Amenities include hot tub, swimming pool, exercise facilities, roof top terraces.

Call Kim Argent RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-357-4525

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000.

403-391-1780

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Land

4040

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

$425. MO/D.D. incld’s

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Condos/ Townhouses

Income Property

3090

403-342-1834 SEIBEL PROPERTY oreverything.

587-877-1883 after 2:30 $500 OFF $500, 1ST MONTH’S RENT all BLACKFALDS, inclusive. 403-358-1614

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337

CLASSIFICATIONS

Suites

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now! Tenders

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

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Professionals

Employment Training

6020

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FAST FOOD CONCESSION OPERATIONS ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS PARKS DIVISION

We are seeking individuals, groups or firms to operate the Fast Food Concession facility located at Pigeon Lake Provincial Park. The concession building is located in the hub of the Provincial Park. It shares an active day use area, boat launch and large re-developed campground.

We invite all interested parties to download the Request For Proposal documents by creating a free account with Alberta Purchasing Connection at http://www.purchasingconnection.ca/ and using the reference # AB-2016-02481 or by picking up a hard copy from the address noted below: Alberta Environment and Parks Parks Division, Suite 700, Millennium Centre, 4909-49 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1V1.

The Province reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.

For more information on Alberta Parks, please go to the following website address http://albertaparks.ca. For specific details regarding this opportunity, contact 403-755-1452.

THE ADVOCATE D6

YOUTH THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2016

College kid doesn’t like curfew at home HARLAN COHEN HELP ME HARLAN Dear Harlan; My college freshman daughter does not want a curfew when she is home on breaks.

She will come home after 2 a.m. I think it’s fair to have a curfew when she is home, but my daughter thinks I am psycho.

Am I the only parent who wants a curfew? — Not a Psycho Dear Not a Psycho; Your college freshman daughter doesn’t realize that her curfew has NOTHING to do with her happiness or how much you trust her.

This has everything to do with you being able to sleep at night. When she is out late at night, you are up late at night. When she doesn’t come home at night, you don’t sleep at night. It’s simple math. This is what she can’t understand. This is what you can do a better job explaining.

When she tells you that you have no idea when she comes home when she’s at school, agree with her. When she tells you she’s safe while she’s out, agree with her. When she tells you that she wants to stay somewhere else for the night, tell her that you’re fine with this as long as you make a plan. Agree with everything she has to say. Then explain that when she’s home, it’s hard for you to sleep when you don’t know when she’s coming home.

If she can come up with a system

that works, then welcome it. But right now there isn’t a system in place. She can disagree, but it’s only for a short amount of time. Keep an open mind.

Her having a curfew is not a psycho move. It’s just you wanting to sleep at night.

Dear Harlan; I have been in a long-distance relationship and have been dating the guy for five years.

Four months ago I was drunk and let a guy kiss me. We kissed for about two seconds. I immediately realized it was wrong. I left and told my boyfriend immediately after it happened.

I keep feeling really bad. He forgave me. We are still together. I know I love him very much, but I know many people say if you cheat, you don’t really love someone.

Is there any way I can stop feeling bad about this? Do you have any advice? — One Kiss Dear One Kiss; Guilt is normal. This what happens when you kiss someone other than your boyfriend.

Your boyfriend might forgive you, but you can’t forgive yourself. Maybe you’re scared to admit the truth? Maybe this is more than a kiss?

Once you face the truth, the guilt will go away. Here’s how see it: Either you have a drinking problem, a relationship problem or both. If you have a drinking problem, you need to stop drinking or get help. If you don’t stop, make it a rule to never drink without your boyfriend.

If you kissed this guy because you’re having doubts about your current relationship, you need to figure out what’s wrong and discuss it with your boyfriend.

The mistake would be to call this a

mistake and move on as if nothing happened. If you can’t talk about this with your current boyfriend, find a counselor who can help you work through this.

It’s normal to want to kiss other people, but it’s not normal to drink too much and kiss other people.

Dear Harlan; I get very nervous when presenting in front of people.

When you present a project or Powerpoint presentation in front of a group, do you find it scary and frightening? Do you get embarrassed easily?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate it? Any suggestions to make it easier? — Nervous Dear Nervous; I speak in front of eighth graders. It doesn’t get any more frightening. We’re talking an 11 out of 10.

When I do get nervous and scared, I let the content take focus. The materials and message are what matters most. It helps me give people permission to think whatever they want.

Giving people permission means that I can’t control everyone’s reactions. Some people will love me. Some people will not. I can just offer it up and get feedback. I can give people permission to think whatever they want to think, because I’m an imperfectionist.

As an imperfectionist, I’m always working to be my best. I appreciate that I’m only going to get better over time. I give myself permission to grow and improve. I enter every situation prepared to do my very best, but I’m open to feedback. I know that I’m never going to be as good doing something the first time.

It takes practice to get better. Another suggestion is for you to practice.

Put down the screen and practice faceto-face time. The more you practice, the sooner you will get comfortable with these uncomfortable feelings.

Find people you trust to help you practice and get better.

Dear Harlan; What’s the best way to reject someone who’s in the friend zone without ruining the friendship?

I have a friend who likes me, but I’m not interested. I don’t want to ruin the friendship, but have to tell the truth.

Help! — Friendzoned Dear Friendzoned; Why is it so hard to be honest with a friend? Aren’t your close friends the ones you’re supposed to be honest with?

Let me be direct: You’re not responsible for anyone else’s feelings. When a friend approaches you, there should be an understanding that you can say YES or NO. You don’t need to walk on eggshells, practice your responses or protect anyone’s feelings. You just have to be honest and expect that this friend wants to hear the truth. If you’re not sure your friend wants the truth, ask him if he wants to hear the truth. Explain that whether you say “yes” or “no,” there should still be a friendship.

If the friend isn’t prepared to hear the truth, then there is no reason for the friend to share his feelings. It’s unfair to only expect one answer.

Explain that you can’t even have the conversation if you’re not able to be honest about your feelings.

Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

Solar-powered plane ready to resume its historic round-the-world flight tinue across North America to Europe and finish their journey in Abu Dhabi this summer.

Piccard answered some questions for KidsPost last weekend during an 18-hour flight above Hawaii to test the plane’s instruments before continuing the big trip.

Solar cells work well enough to power a plane, but the plane needs to be extremely lightweight to conserve energy. The cabin fits just one pilot at a time, and there’s no room for baggage. The walls are thin and the plane isn’t pressurized, which means that the pilot has to dress like a mountaineer and wear an oxygen mask at high altitudes.

Piccard says he was born for this kind of adventure. His grandfather was a balloonist, and his father, Jacques Piccard, explored the deepest part of the ocean.

“I remember very clearly saying to myself ... that I also wanted to have that kind of life; the life of an explor-

ter, he set his sights on a round-theworld solar flight and joined up with Borschberg.

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Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is a statutory corporation incorporated under the Electric Utilities Act (Alberta), which is governed by an independent Board. The AESO is responsible for the safe, reliable and economic planning and operation of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System (AIES) for the benefit of all Albertans on a cost recovery basis.

The 2019 Canada Winter Games is hiring. From February 15 until March 3, 2019, Red Deer, Alberta will host the 2019 Canada Winter Games—the largest multi-sport and cultural event for youth in the nation.

AESO is seeking candidates for the position of Board Chair as well as experienced Board Members to join the Board effective January 2017.

We have three exciting term career opportunities to join the 2019 Games team available:

The Board is actively involved with the AESO executive in the strategic planning process and approves the strategic plan and the annual business plan and budget. The Board also oversees succession planning, executive compensation, cost and risk management.

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The new Board Members will be appointed by Alberta’s Minister of Energy and must be independent of any material interest in the Alberta electric industry.

• Administrative Assistant, Marketing & Revenue Visit www.2019canadagames.ca or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/reddeer2019 to learn more about these opportunities. Applications can be sent to info@canadagames. ca Closing date for all opportunities is Monday, April 25, 2016.

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Early one morning last June, pilot André Borschberg stepped aboard an odd-looking plane — its wings long like those of an albatross, its cramped cabin as small as a refrigerator — and guided it into the sky above Japan.

In a typical airliner, it would have taken him eight hours to arrive at his destination in Hawaii, but Borschberg was at the helm of Solar Impulse 2, a plane powered entirely by the sun’s rays. Lightweight but slow, traveling at an average of 38 miles per hour, it landed in Hawaii after 117 hours 52 minutes, or five days and five nights — the longest solo flight in history.

Borschberg, 63, and fellow Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard, 58, were in the middle of attempting the first roundthe-world trip in a solar-powered plane, taking turns at the controls of the single-seat aircraft.

They left Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East, in March 2015, and have divided their trip into 13 segments. The Powered by flight from Japan to HaCentral Alberta’s waii was the longest and career site most dangerous. On the of choice. first day, a quick ascent overheated the plane’s batteries, which store energy supplied by hair-thin solar cells that cover the top of the plane. The batteries could not be cooled enough during the long flight to prevent permaContract nent damage.

Now, after replacing Western Horsemanship Instructor the plane’s batteries and Equine Science Program waiting for calm, sunny Animal Science and Horticulture has an opportunity available weather, the pilots are for an individual to instruct Western horsemanship, ground ready to resume their training, and training the young Western horse within the journey. Later in April, Equine Science program. This is a 3-year part-time contract position that involves full-time hours from late August to the Piccard will make the end of April annually. four-day flight from Hawaii to North America, This position may be renewed following the initial 3-years.

Please forward a resume quoting competition #16045F by where, depending on the April 27, 2016. weather, he’ll land in Arizona or California or near For information on this or other employment opportunities, the Canadian city of Vanplease visit our website at couver. From there, he www.oldscollege.ca/employment and Borschberg will con-

er, interesting and useful,” he said.

He made the first nonstop, round-theworld balloon flight in 1999. Soon af-

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