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Courageous Naqibullah speaks in Lacombe BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
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Some of the youngest and others with the most experience combined for a memorable performance Saturday during the season finale performance of the Central Alberta Rhythmic Gymnastic Opportunity -—CARGO. Taking place at the New Life Fellowship Church in Red Deer the group made up of young children and teens with the occasional performance from parents took to the stage with a Dr. Seuss inspired performance titled “Oh The Places You’ll Go”. Earlier in the day the club held an inter-club competition with individual and group performances.
When Maryam Sahar Naqibullah sets a goal, she sets it high. The 22-year-old from Afghanistan is studying in Canada but plans to return to her home country. Then, she will run for president. After meeting the passionate Carleton Unversity student, one is left with little doubt her name will one day appear on a ballot. It could be dangerous, she admits, but she is undeterred. “I think my passion is stronger and the change that I care for is stronger than the bullets that I’m going to get for it. I’m not afraid of bullets. “I will only be afraid if I die without making any difference. If I die making a difference, I mean that will be an honour for me because I will serve my country and I will serve the world.” See NAQIBULLAH on Page A8
Spring is in full effect in Central Alberta BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF When the rough-legged hawks stuck around, Carol Kelly knew an easy winter was in store. It never fails, if the hawks stay, it’s a warm winter. Likewise, frisky skunks and motherly squirrels are a pretty good sign the early spring is here to stay. “We’ve already our first baby squirrels. That’s early,” said Kelly, executive director of the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. “I never see baby squirrels until way into May and we’ve already had them.” “Normally, we get a lot of calls about skunks getting active and breeding in March. This year, it was all January, February.” There’s lots of other evidence in the world of wildlife. Songbirds are nesting and great horned owls are having their young sooner than usual. While there’s a risk that the weather could turn ugly, Kelly’s gut instinct is to pay attention to wildlife’s gut instincts. And they seem pretty confident it’s going to stay decent. “I like to think the wildlife kind of know more than we know, that they sense things we can’t.” For moose, an unwelcome harbinger of the warm spring has been a big boost in pesky tic populations, which are annoying and can be killers in some cases. Jim Robertson, executive director of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, has also seen nature push its schedule up a couple of weeks. “Most things are a little bit early that I’ve seen,” he said. The nest boxes are in use. The nuthatches and chickadees seem to be nesting slightly earlier than usual.” Visitors are also reporting tics and mosquitoes are making their presence known. “There are lots of little things biting at ankles and so on.” A centre volunteer, who lives in the Woodlands Hills area near Red Deer, has kept a log of when crocuses come into bloom. This year, they bloomed March 27, close to the earliest ever since her records
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Local BRIEFS RCMP looking for murder suspect RCMP are asking the public’s help to find a Maskwacis woman suspected of second-degree murder in the death of her child. Florencine Potts, 28, had been arrested and was released from custody. When she failed to show up for a court appearance in Wetaskiwin an arrest warrant was issued. Police believe Potts may be hiding out on the Samson First Nation reserve. Media reports in December said emergency medical services responded to a report of a child in distress in a residence near Maskwacis on Dec. 5. When they arrived, they found 15-month-old Jay Johnson dead inside. An autopsy two days later determined the death to be a homicide.
Remains found near Innisfail identified as Edmonton man Human remains found near Innisfail have been identified as those of a missing Edmonton man. RCMP said on Friday the remains found on April 5 belong to Dwayne Demkiw, 42. He had been missing since May 31, 2015. The father of two teenage sons was last seen leaving a club in Edmonton where he worked as a DJ about 4 a.m. Hours later, his car was found burning in Calgary. Edmonton Police Service is continuing to investigate Demkiw’s disappearance and death.
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Nuclear Free Roller Derby - NFRD held its first double header game at the Springbrook Multiplex on Saturday with the Nuclear Free Roller Derby junior team the Nukerwave Shovens playing the Sturgeon County Junior Roller Derby Association in the afternoon. The evening game had NFRD’s Boom playing the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers.
Department says offices will reopen but protesters say they aren’t going INDIGENOUS AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Indigenous and Northern Affairs says its offices are expected to reopen despite the fact protesters continued to occupy two of those offices in Toronto and Winnipeg over the weekend. Claudia Fournier, a spokesperson for the department, says in an email that while those offices remained occupied on Sunday, the department anticipates they will open again on Monday. However, she says the department “will assess the situation in each region as it evolves.” Protesters took over the Toronto and Winnipeg offices of Indigenous and Northern Affairs last week, calling for more to be done to address youth suicides in aboriginal communities, including Attawapiskat in Ontario and Cross Lake in Manitoba. The department responded by closing the offices, and also closing its offices to the public in other cities, including Gatineau, Que., Regina, Edmonton, Calgary and Quebec City. Raquel Kirton, who was among close to 20 people occupying the Winnipeg office on Sunday afternoon, says the protesters are staying put. “We don’t have any intentions of leaving any time soon,” Kirton said, adding the group has been in touch with the Toronto protesters. “We’re doing this for the youth that are facing this in Attawapiskat and Cross Lake.” Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett will visit Attawapiskat on Monday, along with Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus, the NDP critic for aboriginal affairs. But the protesters occupying the Winnipeg office have said they want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with the youth of Attawapiskat, Cross Lake and other communities.
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In a video statement posted online Friday and read by Kirton, the group says it also wants the Indian Act and Canada’s system of reserves abolished, as well as other demands met such as adequate health care, housing and education for aboriginal communities. “We will continue to assert our sovereign right to occupy this space until the Crown, so-called government of Canada, and so-called chief and council, acknowledge this statement and the commands within,” Kirton says in the group’s statement. Supporters of the Winnipeg occupation held a round dance on Sunday on the street outside the office. The federal department said in an email late last week that it was working to resume some of its services at alternate locations due to the office closures. “We recognize the public’s right to engage in peaceful protests and lawful assembly and are balancing that against the need to ensure public and staff well-being,” the statement said.
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CALLS FOR MORE AID FOR JAPAN QUAKE ZONE MINAMIASO, Japan — The U.S. military prepared to join relief efforts Monday in disaster-stricken areas of southern Japan as authorities struggled to feed and care for tens of thousands of people who sought shelter after two powerful earthquakes that killed at least 42 people. Ten people remained missing, and rescuers were redoubling search efforts on the southern island of Kyushu, where many areas were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage. Forecasts for heavy rains, which would make land and collapsed buildings even more unstable, added to the urgency of the searches. Toyota Motor Corp. said it would shut down most of its vehicle production in Japan over the course of this week because of parts shortages stemming from the earthquakes. Nissan Motor Co. also halted production at some facilities. With 180,000 people seeking shelter, some evacuees said that food distribution was a meagre two rice balls for dinner. “We are doing our best,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers when challenged by the opposition over the government’s handling of the relief effort. “This is the way it is. Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we will be working toward a full recovery,” Abe said. U.S. Forces, Japan said troops were preparing to provide aerial support for Japan’s relief efforts. The U.S. has major Air Force, Navy and Marine bases in Japan, and stations about 50,000 troops in the country. Many whose homes were not seriously damaged sought shelter as the area was rocked by more than 500 aftershocks from two big quakes that struck late Thursday night and in the early hours of Saturday. “Without water and electricity, we can’t do anything. Without the TV on, we can’t even get information about disaster relief operations,” said Megumi Kudo, 51, standing in a line for water outside a community centre in Aso city. “We can’t take a bath, not even a shower.” Kudo came with his wife and a 12-year-old daughter, carrying several empty gallon-size plastic containers to get water while his 80-year-old mother waited at home. “It’s better to be prepared than sorry, as we learned the hard way,” he said. His house survived, despite major
“THIS IS THE WAY IT IS. TODAY, TOMORROW, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, WE WILL BE WORKING TOWARD A FULL RECOVERY.” — PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE roof damage, but like many, the family was sleeping in their cars. A few blocks away, 75-year-old Tokio Miyamoto said he was wary of sleeping alone in his house, so he was lugging his futon bedding every evening to an evacuation centre. “It’s a hassle, but it’s too scary to be alone,” he said. Miyamoto said the evacuation centre was short of food, with only a couple of rice balls per meal for each person. Japanese media said most of those missing were in Minamiaso, a mountain village southwest of 1,592-meter (5,223-foot) Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan. There, dozens of troops, police and other rescue workers were shovelling debris and searching through places where they may have been buried. A few stretchers were on hand in case anyone was found alive. Earthquakes on successive nights struck Kumamoto city and the surrounding region late last week. Nine people died in the first earthquake, and 33 in the second. Kumamoto, a city of 740,000, is on Kyushu island. About 80,000 homes in Kumamoto prefecture still didn’t have electricity Sunday, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. J apanese media reported earlier that an estimated 400,000 households were without running water. The areas of Kyushu affected by the quake include technology hubs and other manufacturing, and the disruptions to transport and logistics were expected to ripple through the economy. Toyota’s shutdown began Monday at a factory in Kyushu and was to progress to other plants in Japan through Friday. The company said resumption of operations would depend on the availability of parts. Other companies, including Sony, have announced stoppages of some of their factories in Kyushu.
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Tom Mulcair’s long goodbye MICHAEL TAUBE OPINION
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he NDP convention in Edmonton had all the makings of a typical political event. Instead, it turned out to be one of the biggest political bombshells in Canadian history. Early on, there were few indications that anything unusual was about to happen. Various discussions about policy ideas and political goals went smoothly. Partisan speeches by Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley and former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis were well received by delegates. Marit Stiles, a Toronto school trustee, longtime political activist and an old sparring partner on TV, was wisely chosen as NDP president. Then came the result of confidence in Tom Mulcair’s leadership. Few political observers thought he wouldn’t receive the party’s constitutional threshold of 50 per cent plus one to maintain his leadership. Most
believed he would hit the 70 per cent barrier that political leaders normally receive at party conventions. Instead, the 1,800 NDP delegates voted 52 per cent in favour of holding a leadership convention. Mulcair had been unceremoniously booted out as party leader, after less than four years at the helm. The stunned look on people’s faces, including the party caucus, said it all. A clearly shell-shocked Mulcair addressed the convention after the vote. He handled himself with grace and dignity, and said he wanted to continue as party leader until his replacement was chosen. (While the NDP passed a motion to give itself up to two years to hold a leadership convention, Mulcair’s request remains a wild card at this point.) What on Earth happened? One painfully obvious reason is grassroots members were more angry with Mulcair’s performance in last year’s federal election than originally assumed. It’s no secret they were displeased at losing a golden opportunity to form its first federal government. But few people imagined New Democrats wouldn’t give Mulcair a second kick at the can (a historical tradition
for this party) to win over Canadian voters. But that is not the whole story. Mulcair has a reputation of being a prickly individual. His long-standing nickname, Angry Tom, has hardly been an asset to his public image and political fortunes. He doesn’t fashion himself as a political bridge-builder, and would never be mistaken as one. He doesn’t have the populist touch of his predecessor, the late Jack Layton. He has been described as the left-wing equivalent to former Tory prime minister Stephen Harper. Mulcair’s strategy of shifting the NDP toward the political centre during the 2015 federal election campaign blew up in his face. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals found various ways to outflank the NDP in some of its traditional areas, including income inequality, government spending, and championing the working class. Hence, they were able to consolidate the left side of the political spectrum – and became the top choice of Canadian progressives. In fact, the Liberals are governing from the left. That’s unusual, since this party typically edges slightly to the
right when in power. Are they trying to employ a long-term political strategy to eventually wipe out the NDP? Perhaps. Then again, they may not need to do it. The NDP’s radical side is starting to roar again. If it chooses a new leader who is firmly on the political left, it could wipe out the massive gains made by Layton and Mulcair. Moreover, if it incorporates components of the radical Leap Manifesto, authored by hardline socialists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, as party policy, it will immediately shift from being a political contender back into a fringe outfit. I wonder if that’s what Mulcair is counting on. Maybe he senses that the longer he hangs around, the more likely it is that NDP faithful could experience some sober second thought about his leadership. It would certainly help explain why this intelligent, strategic politician wants to stay on as leader at a time when his party wants him to take a hike. Troy Media columnist and political commentator Michael Taube was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Notley’s delusions and what they mean for Alberta BY BARRY COOPER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE
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o one could miss the theatrics of Rachel Notley’s infomercial last week. The kitchen table, where her family gathers to make plans, was covered by a light green tablecloth. To her left was an old Tory blue pot filled with fruit expressing the NDP livery: shiny oranges and green Granny Smith apples. Visual clues combined with strategic purpose: she sought to get in front of yesterday’s bad-news budget. She wanted to tell us that Alberta’s problems are not the NDP’s fault. They are managing “the serious problem handed to us by the international economy.” She praised her government for two major achievements. First, Alberta has avoided “reckless cutbacks.” What does this mean? On the very day that the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers noted that 110,000 jobs had been lost in Alberta and that investment had
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declined 62 per cent, the NDP told us the salaries of a few politicians and of some of North America’s best paid bureaucrats would not be increased. No reckless cutbacks there. There have been no responsible cutbacks either. In fact, there has been no shrinkage in the size of government and no downsizing of any public-sector union. Indeed, Stats Canada reported that Alberta has been blessed with an annual increase of 32,000 public sector employees. Nor have there been wage cuts for bureaucrats. Why not? Well, you see, according to the NDP, neither wage reductions nor lay-offs is needed. We can maintain robust public sector numbers (unlike the poor suckers in the private sector) and pay them handsomely simply by raising taxes and taking on debt. If ordinary Albertans enjoyed the new tax hikes – and some of us enjoyed them so much we left the province – they will rejoice when the new carbon taxes kick in. Notley calls the new tax regime “fair.” A second message has been repeat-
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ed for two generations: we must “foster diversification” because we are “dangerously dependent on the price of oil.” Consider the alternatives. We cannot accumulate a sovereign wealth fund because we are not sovereign. We can’t even build up the Heritage Fund because doing so would attract the predatory attention of Laurentian Canada. Besides, we are in fact diversifying. In 1985 we had a GDP of $70 billion, about a third of which was energy; in 2013 the GDP was five time as great and energy accounted for less than a quarter. As Ralph Klein learned, the most rational response to a decline in resource revenue is to cut expenditures. In contrast, Notley has chosen to accumulate an impressive debt; we are still dependent on resources revenue to pay it off, of course, but now we’re also dependent on the banks. Notley did announce a shift on pipelines. The same person who opposed Northern Gateway and refused to advocate for Keystone XL now (twice)
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mentioned a need to “get Canadian energy to new markets.” Today “we must get to ‘yes’ on a pipeline.” Better late than never, but how? Alas, she still labours under two massive delusions. The first is that Alberta’s previous environmental policy was the reason why the enviros opposed pipelines to tidewater and that her Climate Leadership Plan solved the problem. Rachel, listen: the enviros want to shut down forever the “filthy, dirty, planet-killing” oil sands. End of story. A second delusion is like unto it: the “divisive battles” of the past that she wishes to avoid in the future are coming, like it or not. You can avoid them only if you give up on pipelines. If you won’t, prepare for battles. If you do, prepare to leave and take the tablecloth with you. Troy Media columnist Barry Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary.
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EARTH DAY WITH OTIS
Long-term solutions needed for Attawapiskat BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Isabel Knievel, 5, of Red Deer got up close and personal with Otis at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre - KWNC Saturday. Otis, a 13-year-old great horned owl has been touring Central Alberta his entire life as an ambassador with the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. On Saturday Otis and Judy Boyd, left, who is a fostering co-leader with Medicine River, were on hand to help the KWNC to help celebrate an Earth Day celebration.
Free tuition in other provinces virtually inevitable: student leaders BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — New Brunswick’s recent decision to follow Ontario’s lead by covering tuition for college and university students from lower income families has prompted student leaders to suggest it’s the start of a trend decades in the making. “It means that (people) who are traditionally under-represented in post-secondary institutions … are being given more opportunity to access the system,” says Erik Queenan, chairman of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. “Students are thrilled to see this progressive model … The traditional barriers are being eroded.” Queenan, whose group represents 250,000 students, says other provinces will be watching what happens in Ontario and New Brunswick. “This is a really good opportunity for the rest of Canada to see the effectiveness of upfront grants and bursaries … The evidence that will come from these programs will show that grants are the most effective way to removing barriers to post-secondary education.” In February, the Ontario government announced that as of the 2017-18 school year, it will entirely pay for tuition for students from families with incomes of $50,000 or less. The new program also means these students should get enough financial support to cover books, ancillary fees and some of their living costs, leaving about $3,000 for the student to contribute to other cost-of-living expenses. As well, half of Ontario students from families with incomes of less than $83,000 will qualify for non-repayable grants for tuition, and no student will receive less than they currently get. On Thursday, New Brunswick said it will provide upfront financial assistance to cover tuition for stu-
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Teams of mental health workers have travelled to Attawapiskat to help the remote northern Ontario reserve contend with an epidemic of suicide attempts among its young people. But can short-term therapeutic interventions, especially when delivered by outsiders, be effective in stemming the tide of self-harm? And what is needed to sustain any beneficial effects such intercessions may have once these emergency workers go home? The Cree First Nation community declared a state of emergency just over a week ago after 11 youth attempted to take their own lives this month, followed by 28 others in March. Community leaders also subsequently thwarted a suicide pact by 13 other young people, including a nine-year-old child. Chief Bruce Shisheesh said Saturday on Twitter that another five children attempted suicide on Friday evening in Attawapiskat. Dr. Laurence Kirmayer, founder and director of the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research at McGill University in Montreal, says crisis counselling and other supportive interventions are critical for stopping this so-called “suicide contagion.” “The analogy would be like an emergency room in a city,” Kirmayer said. “And there is definitely a place for that. “If somebody is acutely suicidal, then having emergency services available, having somebody be in a safe place … having a chance to assess what’s going on and to give some support and maybe begin some kind of treatment, it can all be helpful. “However, if people are seen in the emergency room and they’re suicidal and you return them to exactly the same circumstances that led to that problem, then they may still be at risk.” Such suicide contagion among youth is driven by a sense of despair, the legacy of white European expansion policies that took away indigenous populations’ autonomy and sought to destroy their native cultures and traditional languages. The trauma of sexual and physical abuse from residential schools continues to reverberate within many families, often leading to widespread substance abuse. For many living on remote or rural reserves, poverty, inadequate housing, contaminated water and a lack of educational and employment opportunities add to the sense of hopelessness felt by many aboriginal youth, who may see death as their only escape. Rod McCormick, a Mohawk psychotherapist and researcher at Thompson River University in Kamloops, B.C., said it’s “important and necessary” for Attawapiskat to have help from fly-in teams — both to ramp up the response but also to give respite to mental health professionals already on the reserve, who have been burned out trying to contain the crisis. Still, given the long-standing Third World living conditions and deeply embedded emotional pain that are the daily realities of life on the reserve, such temporary aid — though welcome — may only provide a Band-aid solution, he suggested. “They can stop the bleeding, so to speak, if they’ve got enough people there to do it, but it won’t fix things,” McCormick said. Psychotherapy, for instance, involves building a trusting relationship between therapists and their clients — a process that takes time, especially when those mental health workers are coming from outside the community and if they’re non-aboriginal. “That in itself would probably take a couple of weeks,” he said. “And then if you know they’re not going to stick around, you’re much less likely to open up to them. “So I don’t think they’re going to be able to address any of the root causes of the problems … The underlying causes, whether it’s a lack if sense of hope or emotional pain they can’t deal with — they’re still there. “It’s like a powder keg. It can go off pretty quickly.” The Ontario government has sent in an emergency medical assistance team (EMAT) to offer relief to full-time nurses and other primary-care providers at the Attawapiskat Hospital, who are part of the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, or WAHA. “I would say they had reached the max in their ability to deal with the situation, for sure,” agreed Deborah Hall, vice-president of clinical services for WAHA, which covers a massive territory around James Bay and Hudson’s Bay. “They needed time to care for themselves, so EMAT’s offered us 30 days of respite,” she said. “So at the end of 30 days, our team will be in a much better place to support the community in whatever way the community needs our support.” Hall, who has travelled to Attawapiskat, said WAHA has also sent in a new team to care for people who come to the hospital, including two traditional healers, two mental health counsellors and a social worker who speaks Cree.
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Dancing the night away Photos and story by JEFF STOKE/Advocate staff Share the magic all for Julietta’s Place in support of Women’s Outreach in Red Deer. The Celebrity Sheraton Red Deer Hotel Dance Off 2016 took place at the Sheraton before a sold out audience with all funds raised going towards funding the Women’s Outreach in Red Deer. Eight Red Deer celebrities were teamed up with professional dancers months ago and it all came down to one performance to see which pair would be crowned the 2016 champions. The true winners of the event, however is Julietta’s Place and the Women’s Outreach, which was expected to be able to burn its mortgage as a result of the fundraising efforts of the hundreds of people in attendance Saturday. Julietta’s Place provides housing to women who are fleeing domestic abuse.
David Brant dances a Jive Freestyle with Miss Natalie Brooks.
LEFT: Ken King got the show rolling with his partner Miss Jena Smith as they danced a Hustle. RIGHT: Performing in a cast with a broken hand Bonnee Gregg is swung by her partner Mr. Jo Jo. Belmonte as they perform a Rumba / Hustle Medley.
LEFT: Hermes Salas along with Miss Jinelle Themig kicked up their heels to a Freestyle dance number. ABOVE; Dusty Daines and her partner Mr. Bryan Senn were the last pair to take the dance floor performing a Polka. RIGHT: RCMP Cst. Charlotte Rockwell and her partner Brett Speight dance a West Coast Swing.
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Locked in ‘Facebook jail’ FACEBOOK’S DEMANDS FOR USERS’ IDS TO UNLOCK ACCOUNTS INAPPROPRIATE: LAWYER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Thousands of Sarah Bell’s online friends knew her only by her roller derby nickname, R’effin Adora Bell. Facebook simply knew her as a brazen offender of its real-name policy. Bell was locked out of her account for using a pseudonym — for security reasons, she says — and was shocked to learn how Facebook demanded she prove her identity. Facebook insisted she share digital copies of her passport and driver’s licence to get her account back. After a five-week battle to maintain her privacy, she reluctantly gave in. “Eventually I had no choice,” she says with a sigh while detailing last year’s incident. “They shut down my primary mode of communication with people…. I couldn’t argue with them anymore.” Bell’s experience is far from rare. Daily complaints on Facebook and Twitter suggest lockdowns in so-called “Facebook jail” have been a regular occurrence for years, and often for unclear reasons. Technology lawyer David Fewer questions why the social media giant can’t verify users through other means. Just because it’s a condition of use doesn’t make it right, he says. “There are other kinds of mechanisms available to Facebook to get after identities,” says Fewer, director of the Ottawa-based Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic. “Just because bad stuff happens that doesn’t mean that we all ought to be providing our identities and our identity documents just to use a service like this.” Facebook’s real-name policy came under intense criticism in 2014 after the company disabled the accounts of several San Francisco drag queens. That prompted assurances it would give suspected violators notice before taking action, and more support in gaining verification. Toronto actor/director Michael Ma-
honen says he received neither when he was forced to submit his driver’s licence to prove his identity, even though he didn’t use a pseudonym. He suspected another user complained about his posts discussing China’s treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, leaving him scrambling to find out why Google could no longer find his Facebook page. “It essentially disappeared off the Internet altogether,” Mahonen says of last month’s incident. “It’s just too easy for anybody to do this to someone they don’t like.” When he asked Facebook why he was locked out, he says he was told he wasn’t allowed to know. Mahonen bristled at being asked for government identification, but says to Facebook’s credit, it was suggested he could black out some personal data including his licence number. Facebook spokeswoman Meg Sinclair says account lockdowns usually happen when community standards are violated. She insists users are always notified when it happens. “One of our rules since the very beginning is that it’s always been a place where people have to be their real identity online, that’s what differentiates Facebook from most other platforms,” says Sinclair. “It’s one of our most important safety features. We’ve seen time and time again that people are much more respectful and more likely to follow rules and not bully or harass or use the Internet for poor purpose if they’re using their real names.” Fewer notes that privacy laws prevent companies from keeping personal information longer than it requires. And by and large, organizations like Facebook generally don’t want to store such data since it increases their liabilities, with Fewer likening them to “ticking time bombs” waiting for a security breach. Bell says she initially tried to regain access to her account by sending other documents proving her identity, including a trading card, links to articles with her name, and links to website
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address with a video image of relatives of a Facebook employee behind him at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference Tuesday. bios. That initially permitted her to re-enter her account, but she was locked out again when another administrator said she needed more proof. “I can’t argue with them wanting to keep people safe, if that’s what it is, but I do feel like it’s odd that it’s so locked down,” says the 37-year-old, wondering why Facebook wouldn’t let her keep her real name private once it was verified. “You shouldn’t have to advertise it.” In her case, she says using her real name actually limited her social circle. She had built up more than 2,000 friends under her derby name, a moniker used at tournaments and games where she worked as an official. “Suddenly there’s this ‘Sarah’ that is no longer being connected with any-
one because nobody tags you, nobody invites you,” says Bell, who also hoped to keep her involvement in the sport secret from her employer. “It totally halted my ability to communicate effectively with people and it was (part of) the slow decline of being as involved as I was.” Mahonen says he was most upset by having to spend hours figuring out a way back into his account. “I had to go mine through levels within levels of sublevels to figure out all of this stuff,” says the 51-year-old, insisting Facebook definitely did not contact him. “I know they have more than a billion users in the world but that also means massive revenues. Other businesses have help that involve humans.”
Group wants better education about genocide BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — There’s a very personal driving force behind Heidi Berger’s quest to get provinces to introduce compulsory genocide education for high-school students. Her late mother, Ann Kazimirski, was a Holocaust survivor who championed the cause until her death 10 years ago. “Her mission in her life became going to schools all over North America and telling her story and talking about genocide,” Berger said. “She realized children of survivors have to carry on
the story.” Berger is starting with her home province of Quebec and says the teachings take on even more importance against the backdrop of several Quebec youths having travelled to the Middle East in recent years to join jihadist groups. “It’s very topical: we’re talking about 17-year-olds and 16-year-olds being lured into ISIS,” said Berger. “The question is, if these students were educated about genocide, that would certainly help to a large degree.” Kyle Matthews of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is supporting Berger’s initia-
Mature trees along a one-kilometre stretch on Range Road 275 in Red Deer County have been saved. Thanks in part to county resident Bev Finlay the trees will continue to stand while FortisAlberta upgrades the regional electrical distribution line to bring power to the Gasoline Alley area. The land is along the border between the county and residential communities of Woodland Hills and Broderson. Finlay, who lives across the road from the trees, hired a lawyer and complained to the Alberta Utilities Commission last August.
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But the company decided to change the scope of the project in order to minimize the adverse impacts on landowners by the time the challenge was launched, said a FortisAlberta spokesperson. It would only stick to the road allowance and leave the vegetation intact along the municipal reserve. Finlay found out the good news last week. “I am ecstatic,” said Finlay. “It’s just sad that it didn’t happen in the beginning and we had to engage a lawyer and create a big expense. If they had said when we first met them they wouldn’t go into the property and cut all the trees down, we would have all been happy then and they could have finished their work last fall.” was discovered outside a rural community in northern British Columbia. The North District Major Crime Unit has identified the body as possibly belonging to a 51-year-old resident of Fort St. James. The person’s identity is not being released in order to provide an opportunity for family members to be notified. Police say the body was found in a rural area of Fort St. James about 150 kilometres west of Prince George.
The Mane Event, a popular show that focuses on horses, takes place April 21-24 at Westerner Park in Red Deer. The four-day event includes a full schedule including the trade show and horse clinics and demonstrations. Some of the clinicians, including former Olympians, include:Pat Parelli, presenting sessions on Parelli Natural Horsemanship. Eventing trainer and Olympian Jim Wofford. Jumping competitor Candice King. Belinda Trussell, who has represented Canada in dressage at the Olympics and the WEG Games. Warwick Schiller, reining champion and a member of Australia’s first WEG Reining team.
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available around the country. The Toronto District School Board has offered a course since 2007 that investigates examples of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, including Armenia, the Holocaust and Rwanda. Berger, a filmmaker and university lecturer, carries on her mother’s message in her own school presentations on the Holocaust — one in which Kazimirski still figures prominently through a posthumous video testimonial about the harrowing experiences she endured. In her school visits, Berger learned that teachers are afraid to teach it and don’t have the tools.
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tive. “It struck me that we’re not teaching our youth enough about genocide when we have Canadian and Quebec youth leaving to commit genocide overseas,” said Matthews. “Something is missing in our core education when not just a couple of a bad apples but a significant number are embracing an ideology that encourages slaughter (and) extinction. Matthews says it is important to preserve the memory of such massacres: there are no survivors left of the Armenian genocide and Holocaust survivors are elderly and dying. Genocide education is sporadically
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Earthquake kills 246 in Ecuador BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEDERNALES, Ecuador — Aid began to flow in Sunday to areas devastated by Ecuador’s strongest earthquake in decades and the death toll continued to rise as people left homeless hunkered down for another night outside in the dark. Officials said the quake killed at least 246 people and injured more than 2,500 along Ecuador’s coast. Vice-President Jorge Glas said the toll was likely to rise because a large number of people remained unaccounted for, though he declined to say how many. Much damage was reported in the cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Guayaquil, which are all several hundred kilometres (miles) from the epicenter of the quake that struck shortly after nightfall Saturday. But the loss of life seemed to be far worse in isolated, smaller towns closed to the centre of the earthquake. In Pedernales, a town of 40,000 near the epicenter, soldiers put up a field hospital in a stadium where hundreds of people prepared to sleep outside for a second straight night. Downed power cables snaked across the streets with no prospect of electricity being restored soon, making it unsafe for many to return to their homes. The town’s mayor said looting broke out Saturday night amid the chaos but with the arrival of 14,000 police and soldiers to towns in the quake zone the situation appeared more under control. President Rafael Correa, who cut short a trip to Rome to oversee relief efforts, declared a national emergency and urged Ecuadoreans to stay strong. “Everything can be rebuilt, but what can’t be rebuilt are human lives, and that’s the most painful,” he said in a telephone call to state TV before departing Rome for Manta. More than 3,000 packages of food and nearly 8,000 sleeping kits were being delivered Sunday. Ecuador’s ally, Venezuela, and neighbouring Colombia, where the quake was also felt, organized airlifts of humanitarian aid. The European Union, Spain,
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A man holds a child next to a collapsed building caused by a 7.8 earthquake in Portoviejo, Ecuador, Sunday. A magnitude-7.8 quake, the strongest since 1979, hit Ecuador flattening buildings, buckling highways along its Pacific coast and killing hundreds. Peru and Mexico also pledged aid. Rescuers scrambled through ruins in the provincial capital Portoviejo, digging with their hands trying to find survivors. “For god’s sake help me find my family,” pleaded Manuel Quijije, 27, standing next to a wrecked building. He said his older brother, Junior, was trapped under a pile of twisted steel and concrete with two relatives. “We managed to see his arms and legs. They’re his, they’re buried, but the police kicked us out because they say there’s a risk the rest of the building will collapse,” Quijije said angrily as he looked on the ruins cordoned off by police. “We’re not afraid. We’re desperate. We want to pull out our family.” Electricity mostly remained out in Manabi province, the hardest-hit region, as authorities focused on finding survivors. “Compatriots: Unity, strength and prayer,” the vice-president told a throng of people in Manta as he instructed them on how to look for survivors.
“We need to be quiet so we can hear. We can’t use heavy machinery because it can be very tragic for those who are injured.” On social media, Ecuadorians celebrated a video of a baby girl being pulled from beneath a collapsed home in Manta. But fear was also spreading of unrest after authorities announced that 180 prisoners from a jail near Portoviejo escaped amid the tumult after the quake. Shantytowns and cheaply constructed brick and concrete homes were reduced to rubble along the quake’s path. In the coastal town of La Esmeralda, authorities estimated than 90 per cent of homes had damage, while in Guayaquil a shopping centre’s roof fell down and a collapsed highway overpass crushed a car. In Manta, the airport closed after the control tower collapsed, injuring an air traffic control worker and a security guard. In the capital, Quito, terrified people fled into the streets as the quake shook buildings.
OTTAWA — Federal officials say two Canadians are among at least 233 people killed by a devastating earthquake in Ecuador. Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Rachna Mishra confirms two Quebecers were among the victims of the earthquake, centred about 170 kilometres northwest of the capital, Quito. Global Affairs says consular officials are in contact with the families of the two Canadians, who have not been named. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake is the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, levelling buildings and buckling highways along the Pacific Coast of the South American country. President Rafael Correa has declared a national emergency and some 10,000 armed forces have been deployed to the earthquake region in addition to 4,600 national police. Global Affairs has asked friends and relatives of those known to be travelling in Ecuador to contact their emergency response centre. “I am saddened to learn of the tragic loss of life stemming from Saturday’s devastating earthquake near the central coast of Ecuador which has already cost the lives of at least 233, including two Canadians,” Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said in a release Sunday. “Canadian officials at our embassy in Quito are reaching out to Canadian citizens in-country and providing assistance to Canadians affected by the earthquake. “ We will continue to work with local authorities to assess impact and needs on the ground.” Reports out of Ecuador said rescuers are struggling to reach survivors trapped in the ruins of fallen buildings. Shanty towns and cheaply constructed brick and concrete homes were reduced to rubble along the quake’s path, while in Guayaquil a shopping centre’s roof fell down and a collapsed highway overpass crushed a car. In Manta, the airport closed after the control tower collapsed, injuring an air traffic control worker and a security guard. The quake was felt in neighbouring Colombia and more than 135 aftershocks followed, including a magnitude-5.6 aftershock.
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NAQIBULLAH: Fight Asked about the source of her courage, she credits Canada and the schooling it helped provide in Kandahar. “When you get an education I don’t think you become the type of person who is willing to give up. You become the type of person who wants to fight.” Naqibullah was in Lacombe on Saturday to speak as part of charitable organization A Better World’s recognition of Humanitarian Day. The second-year international relations student was only 15 when she began working as an interpreter for the Canadian Armed Forces in Kandahar province. She helped with training sessions, interviews, conferences non-governmental organization meetings and women’s council meetings throughout the province. When the Taliban suspected she was working with the foreigners, they kidnapped and tortured her brother as a warning. Her family eventually moved to Kabul because of the danger. In recognition of her services and the risk she was facing, Naqibullah was granted permanent residency in Canada. She continued to work here with the Canadian Armed Forces and trade and foreign services staff to teach them the ways of her country and its people. As she pursues, what she hopes will become a Phd, Naqibullah is devoted to sharing her message of gratitude and hope. Gratitude for what the Canadians and others are doing to improve her country, and hope for a future where a new generation can follow their dreams and young women can pursue an education. To many Canadians, Afghanistan is associated with violence and TV and newspaper images of the aftermaths of suicide bombings. But those tragedies do not define the country. “There is a resilient and very passionate and very determined young generation that is living there and wanting to take on all the challenges to make Afghanistan a better place,” said Naqibullah. “If you go to Afghanistan and meet any young person or little kid of five years old, he or she already knows what they want to be in the future,” she said. “They have the same wishes, dreams just like a Canadian would have here.” In Afghanistan, one of her brothers has just graduated as an engineer, another is studying computer science and her sister is studying medicine. Her youngest brother wants to be a cricketer, she laughs. “One of my main hopes is as a young person from Afghanistan to go back to my country to invest in women’s education and women’s empowerment and not to give up. “I, and especially a lot of young people of Afghanistan feel leaving is not the solution, fighting for that country is the solution. My dream is one to go back there and run in the presidential election of Afghanistan and become the female president of Afghanistan.” Millions of others have their own hopes and dreams. “I just hope the world will not give up on us and continue to support us, particularly in investing more in education.” After decades of war, change will take a generation. That generation is alive now and she envisions a much different country in the future.
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Maryam Sahar Naqibullah was in Lacombe on Saturday to speak as part of charitable organization A Better World’s recognition of Humanitarian Day.
A Better World’s Afghanistan project ‘going well’ Lacombe’s A Better World recognizes education is one the best investments charitable organizations can make. Azalea Lehndorff recently returned from Afghanistan, where the volunteer checked on the schools the organization has built. “We have two new girls schools with 10 classes each and a renovation project as well that we finished,” said Lehndorff. The University of Calgary medical student went there during March break. “It’s going well. The progress of the schools and the quality of the schools is very good,” said Lehndorff, project manager for the 100 Classroom Project, which has now reached 71 classrooms. Lehndorff also visited classes held in tents and hopes A Better World will be able to build another school this year. They are working in the northern part of the country in Sheberghan area, nearly 600 km north of Kabul. It was encouraging to see that growing numbers of families were making the graduation of their young women from high school a priority. Previously, girls often stopped their schooling before they became teens. Community support is a prerequisite before they go ahead and build a school. At the last school, the locals pooled their money to provide the latrines for the school.
SPRING: Easy winter But after consulting long-term forecasts, the city decided to go ahead with its gravel cleanup. It has been helped by the easy winter, which meant much less gravel and salt were put down than in some years. An early spring and greening trees could prove a mixed blessing if the weather turns bad. If a big snowfall comes, leafy trees will groan under the weight. That happened last year in Calgary, a spring snow dump destroyed a massive number of trees, he said. Alberta Agriculture crop specialist Neil Whatley said the mild winter has left fields drier than usual. “We could really use a spring soaking right now. The topsoil could be a little wetter for seed placement,” said Whatley, who works out of the Alberta Agriculture Ag-Info Centre in Stettler. In the southernmost part of the province, five to 10 per cent of seeding of pulse and cereal crops is done already. “They are starting to move down there,” he said. “It’s a little sooner than usual.” Central Alberta farmers remain cautious with a hard frost at this time of year not unusual. There are a small number of producers seeding in Central Alberta, he said, adding “but in the last week of April there will be a lot of wheels rolling.”
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Oil companies undeterred by Paris deal BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world’s biggest oil companies aren’t convinced there’s any end in sight for fossil fuel use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among signatories from some 147 countries convening Friday at the United Nations headquarters on Earth Day, the first opportunity to formally sign the global climate agreement completed in December. The Paris accord envisions measures to hold the average global temperature increase to “well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels” and closer to 1.5 degrees. As of 2015, the world had already warmed one degree, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many advocates heralded the Paris agreement as signalling the end of fossil fuels — the beginning of a swift transition to a decarbonized world by mid-century. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, speaking at a World Bank event last week in Washington, said the clean energy transition is a “$3 trillion opportunity.” “As I say to business, ‘You’re crazy if you’re not thinking about this,”’ said McKenna. “If you’re in oil and gas you should be thinking about renewables. That’s a huge opportunity for you, for your shareholders.” But amid the hoopla and enthusiasm that will surround this week’s UN signing ceremonies for the Paris agreement, some global energy giants are suggesting to investors that the most aggressive carbon-cutting scenarios simply won’t come to pass. Calgary-based Imperial Oil’s 2016 shareholder circular, sent in advance of the company’s April 29 annual general meeting, states that “the company’s assessment is that its operations will exhibit strong performance over the long-term.” It cautions that international accords and the accompanying government regulations “are evolving with uncertain timing and outcome” but states that “Imperial’s estimates of potential costs related to possible
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A service rig, left, and a pumpjack in an oilfield outside of Weyburn, Sask., With almost 150 countries, including Canada, poised to sign the Paris climate agreement at the end of this week in New York, some of the world’s biggest oil companies aren’t convinced there’s any end in sight for fossil fuel use. public policies covering energyrelated greenhouse gas emissions are consistent with those outlined in Exxon Mobil Corporation’s long-term ‘Outlook for Energy’….” And Exxon, which owns 70 per cent of Imperial Oil, isn’t buying the talk of “stranded assets” that flared before and since the Paris agreement. “We expect that oil, natural gas and coal — the three fuels that together built the modern economy — will continue to meet almost 80 per cent of the world’s energy needs through 2040,” says Exxon’s 2016 energy outlook, which predicts oil demand will rise 30 per cent over the next 24 years. “We expect oil to continue to be the world’s leading fuel, driven by demand for transportation fuels and by the chemical industry, where oil provides the feedstock to make plastics and
Defend free trade, BoC governor says BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The governor of Canada’s central bank says policy-makers have a duty to explain the merits of free trade at a moment marked by anti-globalization sentiment lapping across different continents. Stephen Poloz will deliver a speech in two weeks in New York on strengthening global trade, its growth rendered sluggish by a variety of factors including low commodity prices and a multi-country economic slump. The Bank of Canada governor said protectionism is also a concern, in an exchange with reporters at the global financial meetings Saturday. He didn’t cite any examples. But England is voting on whether to leave the European Union continental Europe is debating the merits of its open borders, amid terrorist attacks and an influx of migrants and in the U.S. election, trade is a four-letter word. Every major presidential candidate professes opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership — with Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders going one step further: they also propose ripping up existing deals like NAFTA. “It’s a risk for the economic outlook
— that trade becomes unpopular, or less popular,” Poloz said, when asked about global trends. Policy-makers have a responsibility to speak up about the beneficial effects of trade, he said — about how it creates gains and losses, but that the positives outweigh the negatives. He said an economist might take that principle for granted but needs to communicate it clearly, to counter the voices of people who don’t understand economics and might otherwise dominate the debate. “That just puts the onus back on the policy-maker to be very transparent, very open about how trade really works. How the benefits accrue, to demonstrate what life would have looked like without former trade agreements,” he said. “That’s not beyond us, to explain that to people.” That includes being honest about the risks of trade liberalization — like job losses in certain sectors: “It’s real people that are adjusting. It’s not without costs. And you can’t be callous about those costs, because they matter. But the point of it is there’s more income for the country as a result. That’s the essence of a trade agreement.” See BOC on Page A10
other advanced materials,” says the outlook. Both Exxon and Chevron had been seeking to block shareholder proposals at next month’s annual general meetings that dealt with transparency over the business impact of global carbon emissions policies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruled this month that the companies must include the shareholder proposals at their AGMs. Not all former oil executives are as bullish. Jeroen van der Veer, the former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell who retired in 2009, wrote last week that “uncertainty about whether oil demand will continue to grow is already impacting the strategies of oil and gas firms.” In an article for the World Economic Forum, van der Veer asserted that “producers are coming to realize that oil under the
ground might soon be less valuable than oil produced and sold in the coming years. This dramatic shift in expectations is changing the operating environment for the future of oil and gas.” Mark Carney, the Canadian-born governor of the Bank of England, has been warning about the financial dangers of “stranded assets” since 2014. Keith Stewart, Greenpeace Canada energy researcher, said in an interview that bankruptcies among major coal producing companies should be a cautionary example for the oil giants as the world meets to sign on to the Paris accord. “They can adapt to this new reality and become energy companies rather than oil companies, or they can join the dinosaurs,” said Stewart, adding “this is no longer just the Greenpeace crazies” saying so.
Technological advances drive basic income interest BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — In the mid- to late 1970s, every single person in one rural Manitoba city received $1,255 a year — roughly $7,500 in today’s dollars. The amount increased depending on the number of people living in each household, maxing out at $3,969, or nearly $23,500 in 2016 currency, for a family of five or more. The people in the Dauphin, Man., experiment didn’t have to work to receive this stipend. If they did, their benefit dropped 50 cents for every dollar they received. The residents of Dauphin just had to exist to receive their full guaranteed annual income. About four decades later, policymakers and the public in Canada and around the world are eyeing the basic guaranteed income scheme again, buoyed by an evolving labour landscape and technological advances that have left them wondering if today’s social services are enough. Finland plans to launch a basic income pilot next year. The Swiss will soon vote on unconditional basic income in a referendum. Closer to home, the Ontario government’s latest budget promises to run a
GUARANTEED INCOME pilot in the future and multiple politicians across Canada have expressed interest in studying the idea. “I think people are simply looking at the state of the economy and they’re starting to focus on changes that have been taking place for a very long time,” said Evelyn Forget, a professor at the University of Manitoba, who studied the so-called mincome experiment in Dauphin and continues to research data from the pilot. One of these changes, she said, is that work is no longer a permanent, nine-to-five gig with health coverage and a pension. Instead, it takes longer for people to land stable employment and many shuffle between short-term contracts without such benefits, she said. In the Greater Toronto Area, for example, 60 per cent of workers have stable, secure jobs, according to a 2013 report on precarious work. Insecure employment has spread beyond jobs in the service sector to the white-collar workforce as well, a followup report found. See INCOME on Page A10
Options for using your tax savings this year In late 2015 the Liberal government in Ottawa announced that the federal tax rate on earnings between $45,282 and $90,563 will drop to 20.5 per cent from 22 per cent, putting a maximum of $679.22 more a year in the pockets of many Canadians when the tax reform is implemented in the 2016 income tax year. Even higher income Canadians earning more than $90,563 will see the tax reduction because their income between the $45,282 and $90,563 will be taxed less. The question then becomes what to do with this saving? “While it may only be about $55 a month in your pocket and you actually won’t see the money until April 2017, this might be a good time to go back to your financial plan and see if you are putting enough away for your retirement, unexpected life events or other things that really matter to your life,” says Mariska Loeppky, director of tax and estate planning with Investors Group. “Anything that prompts you to review your plan can be a good thing.” There are a number of areas where you may consider putting those new
TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE tax savings such as your retirement, your children’s education, or simply putting it into a contingency fund. Registered Educational Savings Plans (RESPs) are useful tools to help parents save for their children’s education expenses. The government provides additional grant monies to those who set up RESPs. “Prudent planners should take advantage of the government dollars that one can access to save for education costs down the road,” Loeppky says. When determining whether funds should be contributed to your Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), consider the tax bracket you expect to be in when you retire. When the savings as a result of the tax deduction from the contribution are greater than the tax you’ll pay upon retirement it makes sense to contribute to an RRSP.
If the opposite is true you should probably consider the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA). “TFSAs should not be overlooked because the amount that can be sheltered and grow tax free is significant,” Loeppky says.” Some taxpayers have not taken advantage of this additional savings incentive, particularly those who have been unable to set aside funds until now or those who have overlooked it because the amount that could be sheltered has to date been relatively small.” Because of the decrease in the middle income tax bracket, anyone making less than $200,000 will realize the $679.22 savings. For 2016 and beyond the federal government is proposing to raise the federal tax rate to 33 per cent for those with a taxable income of more than $200,000. This tax threshold will be indexed annually after 2016. Given these high rates even high income earners also should consider maximizing their TFSAs. “Maybe the deduction for the RRSP contribution is not worth as much as the tax savings that could be achieved if the funds were held in a TFSA on
death rather than in the RRSP,” Loeppky says. “High income earners should ensure that they are maximizing their TFSAs as growth inside the TFSA is not subject to tax. Where traditionally people have looked to RRSPs to provide retirement monies, the TFSA is an invaluable tool.” Another option is to put your tax savings into a contingency fund for unforeseen events such as death, health issues and loss of employment. “New-found tax savings may prompt taxpayers to revisit whether they have adequate insurance coverage for events,” Loeppky says. “For a younger person it can be used to purchase additional coverage if required. The best planning for any individual is to ensure that taxable income is earned as evenly as possible for as long as possible. This strategy holds true any time, but especially in a high-rate tax environment.” Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Oil meeting in Qatar collapses without freeze as Iran absent BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOHA, Qatar — A meeting of oilrich countries in Qatar that had been expected to boost crude prices by freezing production fell apart Sunday as Iran stayed home and vowed to increase its output despite threats by Saudi Arabia. Oil prices, which hit a 12-year low in January by dipping under $30 a barrel, had risen above $40 in recent days, buoyed by the bullish talks surrounding the Doha summit. But instead of a quick approval of a production freeze, the meeting of 18 oil-producing nations saw hours of debate and resembled the dysfunction of an unsuccessful meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in December that sent oil prices tumbling. The fact that producers couldn’t agree to a freeze, let alone a production cut, likely means oil prices will drop again as markets open Monday. “Prices will trade lower. Maybe sharply lower,” said Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities USA, noting the failure to reach agreement in Doha. He noted that other factors were negatively impacting prices: U.S. crude oil storage remaining at all -time highs, Iran increasing production, and Libya looming on the horizon to boost output. Speaking to journalists after the summit, Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada, Qatar’s energy and industry minister, tried to say the lack of a decision showed officials believed “the fundamentals of the market are generally improving.” However, he largely dodged the questions about whether another special summit will be called before OPEC’s next meeting in June and
whether Iran had anything to do with the breakdown of the talks. “We of course respect their position and … we still don’t know how the future will unroll but it was a sovereign decision by Iran,” said al-Sada, who is serving as OPEC’s president. “The freeze could be more effective definitely if major producers, be it from OPEC members like Iran and others, as well as non-OPEC members, are included in the freeze.” Sunday’s gathering grew out a surprise Doha meeting in February between Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, in which they pledged to cap their crude output at January levels if other producers did the same. The idea of a freeze and not a cut initially looked more palatable to producers already suffering after oil’s dramatic fall since the summer of 2014, when prices were above $100 a barrel. Production continues to rise as countries try to make up the difference. Ahead of Sunday’s meeting, Iraq boosted its production to record territory of over 4 million barrels a day in March, and Kuwait pumped 3 million barrels a day with homes of reaching 4 million a day by 2020. And while car owners and airlines have enjoyed the low oil prices, the plunging oil revenues have wreaked havoc on countries like Nigeria and Venezuela, both of which attended Sunday’s meeting along with nonOPEC member Russia. The biggest wild card of the talks, however, wasn’t even in the room. Iran decided to stay home late Saturday after saying the day before it would send an emissary to the meeting. Speaking to Iranian state television, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said it didn’t make sense to send any representative from the Islamic Republic “as we are not part of the decision to freeze output.”
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Ontario opposition says corporate grants should be made public BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ontario’s opposition parties say the Liberal government hands out billions of dollars in grants to profitable corporations every year, often with virtually no oversight. The government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers, and should provide a level playing field for all companies in a sector instead of giving grants to ones the Liberals select, said Progressive Conservative economic development critic Monte McNaughton. McNaughton complains he’s been asking for a list of companies that benefited from what he calls the Liberals’ “crony capitalism,” along with the amounts they received, since January, but has only partial results so far. There were at least 374 grants in a 10-year period, he said. “We have no idea what the dollar amount is,” McNaughton said. “It makes one suspicious when we have a minister who won’t even reveal to taxpayers what companies got grants and how many jobs they created.” Those suspicions grow even more when the companies who get grants turn around and donate money to the Liberal Party of Ontario, added McNaughton. “Quite of few of them, quite frankly,
IMF. “The Liberals’ infrastructure plan will not create the kind of economic growth and increased productivity that Canada needs,” said opposition critic Dianne Watts. “Instead of investing in roads, bridges and highways, the Liberals are playing a game of bait and switch and spending on projects that experts don’t think of as economic infrastructure.” That didn’t stop the Wall Street Journal this week from calling Canada a poster child for the IMF position that now’s the time to spend on infrastructure.
Poloz also addressed the question of whether he’d waded too deeply into another political issue: the Liberals’ deficit spending. The non-partisan governor drew some eyebrow-raises this week for crediting the federal budget, as his institution improved the country’s economic forecast. He said it’s his job to explain how he arrives at his projections. This week the bank revised its forecast to 1.7 per cent economic growth for the year, up 0.3 per cent from the January expectation. This changing labour force is prompting people “It comes with the territory,” Poloz told reporters. “We’ll always give an accounting of where the revi- to rethink how governments deliver social programs, said Forget, and realize that current solutions like sion to our outlook is coming from.” Poloz made the remarks at an international con- income assistance are expensive and for the most ference where the big-spending budget appeared to part, ineffective. “I think tensions are building in our society,” said have friends in high places. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund lauded it in pub- Wayne Lewchuk, a McMaster University professor of economics and labour studies, who co-authored both lic and private. Christine Lagarde said stimulative measures ob- reports in conjunction with United Way Toronto & viously won’t work everywhere — but places with- York Region. out heavy debt burdens could afford to pursue growth-friendly measures. She singled out one example. “Canada stands out as one such country making the most of this space,” she said in a speech before the spring meetings, and apparently echoed those remarks behind closed doors. This annoyed the opposition back home. The Conservatives said people were being misled. They said the budget’s nearly $30-billion annual deficit was being improperly branded as progrowth. They said the government had been overly generous in its definition of infrastructure by lumping green programs and social spending into the GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH category of infrastructure investment touted by the
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have donated to the Liberals, and it makes you suspicious about what the process is for giving out corporate welfare,” he said. Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid defends the corporate grants as necessary to attract new business investment and expansions, and said the Liberal government has “invested” $2.8 billion in companies through its Jobs Prosperity Fund. “That has leveraged $29 billion in private sector investment here in Ontario, rather than somewhere else in the world,” he told the legislature. “That’s 160,000 Ontarians whose jobs have either been created or supported as a result of these investments.” The minister promised the government would make public all the corporate grants once the privacy commissioner had reviewed them and given the green light. “We’re happy to share publicly all of the investments that we’ve made with businesses across this province,” said Duguid. One big problem, said McNaughton, is many of the corporate grants were given out to companies that were invited by the government to apply for them, which means no other firms even had a chance to get the money. It’s small and medium-sized businesses that create most of the jobs, not the large corporations, he added.
“More and more people are questioning … the wisdom of how we’re organizing our labour markets and our economy.” Lower wages and precarious employment lower a person’s purchasing power, he said, and more people spending less negatively effects the economy. A guaranteed basic income could be a way to prime the economic pump, Lewchuk said. Another change in the workforce could come from technological advancements that will eliminate jobs, some basic income advocates argue. Millions of positions will be lost over the next several years thanks to disruptive labour market changes, according to a World Economic Forum report published this year. No job is safe from machine-outsourcing, writes Scott Santens, a basic income advocate who lives in the U.S. off of a crowdfunded monthly basic income. He argues people need to prepare for a world where their income isn’t dependent on the jobs machines can do, but instead should be given a stipend to sustain themselves while doing the kind of work they still find valuable. Forget believes it is a matter of continued public interest and political will for basic income to become reality. “I think it’s almost inevitable, eventually, that this kind of a policy will be implemented.”
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Pats push series to the brink
Regina Pats forward Cole Sanford snaps a rebound past Red Deer Rebels goalie Rylan Toth (31) during the second period of a playoff game held at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Sask. on Sunday. Photo by MICHAEL BELL/REGINA LEADER-POST
BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Pats 5 Rebels 1 REGINA, Sask. — Since game 1, the Regina Pats and Red Deer Rebels series seemed destined to go the distance. And after a lacklustre effort from the Rebels in game 6, a seventh and deciding game in the Eastern Conference semifinal will conclude a series that has been a battle for both teams. The Pats came on fast and furious in game 6 on home ice Sunday, scoring four unanswered goals from the second period on to take it by a score of
5-1. The win evened the series at three games apiece. Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was disappointed with his teams effort in a game that could have ended the series. They’ll have one day to regroup before hitting the ice again. “If game 7 doesn’t wake you up, I don’t know what does,” said Sutter. “It’s either you win and move on, or you don’t and you go home.” In the win the Pats outshot 40-21, while the Rebels struggled to get shots on goal including long stretches without a shot on Pats goalie Tyler Brown. “Our level of play wasn’t where it needs to be at playoff time,” said Sutter.
“Credit to (the Pats), they played with urgency. We played with no urgency. It’s not the way you have to play in the playoffs, especially when you get into game 6. “We were on our heels a lot, we didn’t play with any assertiveness.” Neither team has won on the road this series, and fortunately for Red Deer game 7 will be on home ice. After exchanging goals in the first period, it didn’t take long for the Pats to retake the lead. Just 24 seconds into the second period, Connor Hobbs fired a sneaky wrist shot that fooled Rylan Toth. The goal gave the Pats a 2-1 lead. DeBrusk scored the lone Rebels goal less than seven minutes into the
first period. He broke in with the puck on Brown on a 2-on-1 rush. He took the initial shot, which brown stopped. The first-round draft pick of the Boston Bruins never gave up on the puck and scored on the rebound. Toth stopped 34 shots in just his second start since Feb. 17, when he went out with a lower body injury. For the Pats, Hobbs had a goal and an assist and Sam Steel had two assists to lead the team. Game 7 is scheduled for Tuesday at the Centrium. Puck drop is at 7 p.m. Notes; Colton Bobyk returned to the lineup after serving a two game suspension. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
Blues rally past Blackhawks Gens to take series lead take STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS
Allan Cup in OT
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blues 3 Blackhawks 2 CHICAGO — The St. Louis Blues kept pushing and pushing until a costly play by Patrick Kane provided an opening. And there was nothing for the Chicago Blackhawks to challenge. Jaden Schwartz scored at 13:32 of the third period with Kane in the penalty box for high-sticking, and the Blues beat the Blackhawks 3-2 on Sunday for a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series. Patrik Berglund and rookie Colton Parayko also scored as St. Louis rallied after a difficult 3-2 loss in Game 2 that included two key coach’s challenges that went against the Blues — one of them wiping out a tiebreaking goal for Vladimir Tarasenko. Brian Elliott made 44 saves Sunday, keeping St. Louis in the game during Chicago’s strong second period. “No one said it was going to be a short series and even with them getting the win in Game 2, that didn’t affect us,” Schwartz said. “We came out and executed again today and we did a good job of that.” It was Chicago’s first regulation loss when leading after two periods since Game 2 of the 2014 Western Conference finals against the Los Angeles Kings. The Blackhawks had been 700-4 since the start of last season when they had the lead at the beginning of the third, according to STATS. “That was a tough loss,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “Let’s get back into it. But it was a pretty competitive game, kind of comparable to what we saw in the first two.” Kane, the NHL’s leading scorer this season and one of the favourites for league MVP, got four minutes for a high stick on defenceman Alex Pietrangelo, and St. Louis made Chicago pay for the mistake. “I’ve got to be smarter in that situation,” Kane said. “Obviously I can’t take a penalty at that time of the game, especially when the score’s 2-2. I take responsibility on that one.” Tarasenko passed down low to David Backes, who sent it right to Schwartz in the slot. Schwartz then beat Corey Crawford low on the glove side for his third career playoff goal and a 3-2 lead. The Blackhawks pulled Crawford
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St. Louis Blues goalie Brian Elliott reacts as time expires in the Blues’ 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of an NHL first-round Stanley Cup playoff series, Sunday, in Chicago. for an extra attacker with 1:10 remaining, but Elliott and the Blues held on. Game 4 is Tuesday night in Chicago. “We’ve got home ice back again,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “To me, that’s the whole thing. We’ve got to find a way to keep it now.” Brent Seabrook and Artem Anisimov scored for the Blackhawks, who dropped to 28-7 in home playoff games since the 2013 post-season. It was their first home playoff game since they hoisted the Stanley Cup at the United Center last June. Anisimov’s fluttering shot past Elliott at 1:04 of the second put Chicago
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in front, and Crawford’s stellar play helped preserve the 2-1 lead for a while. First, Crawford stuffed Carl Gunnarsson on a nice look in front. Then Blackhawks defenceman Michal Rozsival had an ugly turnover and Crawford made an outstanding glove save on Jori Lehtera at 5:31. The sellout crowd of 22,207 responded with cheers of “Co-rey! Co-rey!” and then resumed the chants after the goaltender turned away Lehtera again and Tarasenko on a couple more prime opportunities. He finished with 33 saves.
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Generals 4 Thunder 3 (OT) STEINBACH, Man. — Avenging last year’s loss in the Allan Cup final wasn’t easy for the Bentley Generals, but that’s what made their victory that much sweeter. Fifteen minutes into overtime, Carter Rigby was the dagger that exacted the revenge when he beat South East Prairie Thunder, defending Allan Cup champions, goalie Steve Christie and scored the game winner. The Generals concluded their run at the Allan Cup in Manitoba with a 4-3 over the Thunder, taking the national men’s senior hockey championship. “It’s unbelievable,” said Rigby. “Everyone wants to be the hero — you dream about it — so to get (the game-winning goal) in a game like this means the world to me.” Rigby had two goals in the game, his only ones of the tournament. Ian Schultz had a goal and an assist while Kyle Bailey had two assists to lift the the Generals over the Thunder. “We knew to win this tournament, you would probably have to go through South East, and after losing to them last year, you don’t get too many chances for a second chance,” said Generals head coach Ryan Tobler. “When you lose in the final, you think about it all summer and everything we went through this year led up until this point and this moment, so I’m really happy for the men.” Generals goalie Thomas Heemskerk was pelted with 47 shots throughout the game, he stopped 44 of them. This will be the last season the Generals call Bentley home. Citing an aging building and small crowds, the team will call Lacombe home for the 2016-17 Chinook Hockey League season. They played their league final games in Lacombe.
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Wings shut out Bolts in return home THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Red Wings 2 Lightning 0 Detroit hit harder, skated faster and simply appeared to want to win more than Tampa Bay did. Andreas Athanasiou and Henrik Zetterberg scored, Petr Mrazek needed to make just 16 saves and the Red Wings beat the Lightning 2-0 on Sunday night, cutting their deficit to 2-1 in the first-round series. “The more desperate team won the hockey game,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper lamented. Game 4 is Tuesday night at Joe Louis Arena. Game 5, which is now necessary, will be at Tampa Bay. After brawling late in the last game, gloves were dropped, fists flew and there were piles of players on the ice when Game 3 ended. Detroit’s Justin Abdelkader and Tampa Bay’s Brian Boyle grabbed each other. Abdelkader didn’t throw a punch — following instructions from his coach — and Boyle skated away and flapped his arms to indicate his opponent was too chicken to fight. “If he needs to do that, good for him,” Abdelkader said. Ben Bishop made 28 saves for the Lightning, whose top line got shut down. Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Alex Killorn had six points apiece in the first two games of the series, combining to score the first and game-winning goals. Red Wings rookie coach Jeff Blashill said the key to slowing down the
trio was playing puck-possession hockey. “You can’t just go out there and defend,” he said. Blashill benched goaltender Jimmy Howard for Game 3 and put Mrazek in net. The Red Wings’ swarming defence and backchecking forwards limited Tampa Bay’s shots on net. “I know they switched goaltenders, but I don’t know if they even needed a goaltender tonight,” Copper said. At the other end, the Red Wings kept Bishop much busier. Athanasiou, a rookie, scored his first career playoff goal midway through the second period on a one-timer from the left circle that fluttered between Bishop’s stick on the short side. “The old knuckle puck,” he said. “You never know where it’s going to go.” Zetterberg, in his 13th post-season, crashed the net late in the second period and was credited with a goal that appeared to go off his left skate. The goal stood after a video review and Cooper’s challenge. Blashill made another decision that paid off by putting Brendan Smith, who had been a healthy scratch since March 26, in the lineup instead of Kyle Quincey. Smith used his right shoulder to put Cedric Paquette on his back early in the game. “It was a nice hit there, first shift, I think,” Zetterberg said. “Got the crowd going, got us going. He’s been out for a bit and it was nice to see him back.” Smith, an agitating player, also
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Detroit Red Wings goalie Petr Mrazek (34) stops a shot by Tampa Bay Lightning center Valtteri Filppula (51) in the first period of Game 3 in a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series, Sunday, in Detroit. drew another penalty late in the game. “He had an immediate impact,” Blashill acknowledged. Tampa Bay went on the power play for the first time late in the second period. The Lightning got a second opportunity to have an extra skater early in the third and had another power play late in the game. Each time, the Lightning failed to take advantage of the chances to pull within a goal. The Lightning pulled Bishop to add
an extra skater with 2:28 left, but had to put him back in 11 seconds later because Braydon Coburn was called for interference for hitting Smith, who didn’t have a stick as he tried to push him away from the net. Mrazek didn’t have to make many saves, but he made enough to shut out the high-scoring Lightning. He had two shutouts against them last year, pushing the series to a Game 7 before being eliminated with a 2-0 loss.
Islanders take series lead with overtime victory BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Islanders 4 Panthers 3 (1OT) NEW YORK — Thomas Hickey scored 12:31 into overtime to lift the Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday in Game 3 of their first-round series, giving New York a win in its first playoff game in Brooklyn. Ryan Pulock, Shane Prince and Frans Nielsen scored for the Islanders, and Thomas Greiss had 36 saves. John Tavares and Kyle Okposo each had two assists. Hickey scored on a one-timer off a pass from Brock Nelson from behind the net to give the Islanders a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 4 is also in Brooklyn on Wednesday night. Reilly Smith had a goal and two assists, and Aleksander Barkov and Nick Bjustad also scored for the Panthers. Smith has four goals and four assists in the series. Roberto Luongo stopped 35 shots. Florida had several chances in the first seven minutes of overtime, but couldn’t get anything past Greiss. The Panthers were leading 2-0 when Aaron Ekblad appeared to give them a three-goal advantage just past the 4-minute mark of the second period. However, that goal was overturned on a coach’s challenge when video showed Florida was offside when it entered the zone, firing up the raucous
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New York Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey (14) celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal during overtime in Game 3 of an NHL Stanley Cup playoff series against the Florida Panthers, Sunday, in New York. The Islanders won 4-3. Barclay Center crowd. Penalties on Alex Petrovic and Jussi Jokinen 25 seconds apart gave the Islanders a 5-on-3 advantage 5:08 into the period. New York quickly took advantage as Pulock scored just 13
seconds later as he took a pass from Okposo and fired a slap shot past Luongo, sending the sellout crowd into a frenzy. But the Panthers regained their two-goal lead just 15 seconds after the
Islanders’ power play ended as Bjugstad knocked in the rebound of a shot by Smith at 7:23. However, Prince took a feed from Pulock and fired it up high on Luongo’s blocker side to make it 3-2 with 8:12 remaining. Then, about 40 seconds after Dmitry Kulikov was whistled for clipping, Nielsen tied it as he took a pass from Tavares in the slot and backhanded it past Luongo with 3:05 left in the period. After a tight first period that saw the Panthers take a 1-0 lead, the teams combined for five goals — and the one that was waved off — in the second period. Barkov made it 2-0 just 1:11 into the second period. Smith’s shot from the right side was wide right, but the rebound came off the end boards to Barkov on the left side and he knocked in the rebound for his first goal of the post-season. Smith got the Panthers on the scoreboard at 2:25 of the first period. Michael Matheson sent the puck to Petrovic on the right side and Petrovic fired a shot at the net. The rebound bounced to Smith at the left side and he backhanded the puck over a diving Greiss’ stick for his fourth goal of the series. Smith, who tied Dave Lowry for the franchise record with goals in three straight playoff games, nearly scored again in the first but his backhand attempt hit the crossbar a little more than 7 ½ minutes in.
Queens adding seven to roster for next season RDC BASKETBALL BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE RDC Queens head coach Ken King spent a lot of time on the road and in gyms over the last month looking to fill his roster for the 2016-17 ACAC Women’s Basketball League season. With the provincial high school 3A championships in Olds and the 4A finals in Red Deer it helped with the travel budget. But King also took time to attend the provincials in Saskatchewan. His work has paid off as he has seven newcomers committed to next season, joining the six returnees. “The important thing was to establish a strong core around the players like Emily White, Eva Bonde and Dedra Janvier,” he said. “We tried to compliment them as best we could.” Six-foot-two White, who was the ACAC South Division rookie of the year and an all-star, and point guard Bonde are from Denmark and fill two of the team’s import slots. Janvier, who led the team in scoring last season, is returning for her fifth year. “We’re excited to see Emily at 100 per cent healthy,” said King. “Evan at 80 per cent last year she turned out pretty good. At 100 per cent we expect her to take the team and lead it from the front. Allowing Emily to drive us will be great. “Eva came in as a rookie last year and played over 30 minutes a game and did a great job considering it was a new system, a new coach and a new country. This year her comfort level will be a lot higher, which will make a huge difference. “As for Dedra she can shoot the ball and is a great piece returning for her fifth season. I’m sure she wants to go out with a bang.” Also returning are backup point guard Keitlyn Williams, wing Lauren Bailey and forward Shaylee Farren. Of the seven new faces, two – Kiana Mintz and Mary Krause – played last season with the Olds College Broncos. Mintz, originally from Medicine Hat,
is a five-foot-11 small forward or wing while Krause, from Wetaskiwin, is a forward. “I liked Kiana a lot when she was in high school and she fits well into our program,” said King. “She’s long, athletic and an aggressive scorer, something we need at that spot.” Six-foot-three Riley Baquie from Olds Koinonia, Larissa Shannon from the provincial 4A champion St. Francis Browns of Calgary, and Kayla Guillet from Eagle Butte are other forwards among the recruits. Larissa Wolitski from the Saskatchewan 2A provincial champion Wynard Bears and Brooke Kirkpatrick from Archbishop Jordan in Sherwood Park, are listed at guard. King feels Wolitski may be the first of many players to come out of Saskatchewan. “We have a solid alumni base in Saskatchewan and I met a lot of girls who would like to be part of the RDC program,” he said. King has one international slot open which he hopes to fill shortly. “There are a couple of girls who are really interested and we’re waiting for them to weigh their options. Once the NCAA signing date is over (on Saturday) we will have more of an idea. Then we can see who will help us the most. “If we can find someone off the ball who will compliment some of our new additions and our returnees who can score as well as defend it will be ideal.” Last season the Queens posted a 9-12 record and missed the playoffs by one game. King looks to improve on that this year although he knows it won’t be easy. “You always look to improve, but the south promises to be a strong division once again,” he said. “But that’s good. You can’t get complacent. You always want to improve as we know everyone in our division will be doing so as well.” King should have his final roster set before the end of May, then will start looking toward the following season. “Once we wrap up by the middle or end of May we will start looking at recruits for the 2017-18 season,” he said. “We were lucky this year in that the 4A
provincials were in Red Deer and the 3A in Olds so we got an opportunity to talk with a lot of the Grade 10 and 11 players and show we’re interested in them and why we’d like them to consider coming here. For those select
girls we want to come to mind when they are in Grade 12.” Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.
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Sanchez leads Jays over Red Sox BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 5 Red Sox 3 BOSTON — For the second time in eight days, Boston Red Sox pitcher Steven Wright held the Toronto Blue Jays offence at bay but got little run support and took the loss. Wright allowed two runs on six hits, struck out six and walked none in six innings, as the Red Sox lost 5-3 to the Blue Jays at Fenway Park on Sunday. Wright (0-2) allowed two runs on four hits, including a solo home run by Jose Bautista and a RBI-single by Chris Colabello last Sunday, before shutting out Toronto for the next five innings. “Outstanding job,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said about the knuckleballer. “He threw a lot of strikes. He was able to change speeds effectively. And against that lineup, which as we know is very powerful, he was able to slow them down for six innings and clearly keep us in the ballgame.” The Red Sox had one run on two hits in seven innings against Toronto starting and winning pitcher Aaron Sanchez (1-0). Travis Shaw hit a tworun homer in the ninth inning against Toronto closer Roberto Osuna. “Sanchez threw the ball well. Steven gave us a chance to win but offensively we just couldn’t gather any momentum off of him,” Shaw said. Bautista drove in two runs with a solo homer and a double and Edwin Encarnacion added two singles and an RBI for the Blue Jays, who had lost two straight and were 1-4 against the Red Sox. Toronto’s Kevin Pillar had three singles and made two nice catches in centre after being dropped from leadoff to eighth in the batting order. The teams meet in the finale of the four-game series on Monday in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game, which is scheduled for an 11:05 a.m. EDT start and coincides with the running of the Boston Marathon. Sanchez held Boston hitless until Marco Hernandez’s broken-bat single with two outs in the fifth, his first major league hit. Sanchez struck out seven and walked four.
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Boston Red Sox’s Marco Hernandez, right, steals second base as Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Ryan Goins, left, is unable to tag him in the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Sunday, in Boston. After scoring just five run in the previous two days, the Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead in the first. Bautista’s homer caromed off the left-field foul pole and rolled behind the infield, where it was picked up by third-base umpire Angel Hernandez. They followed with three straight singles, with Chris Colabello driving in a run. Hernandez, making his major league debut, had his soft liner drop into left in the fifth when his bat shattered and went back into the new protective screen along the first-base line. He stole second, advanced on catcher Russel Martin’s throwing error and scored on Mookie Betts’ single. Josh Donaldson’s RBI double off the
Green Monster made it 3-1 in the seventh. Encarnacion had his RBI single in that inning. TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Colabello was hit on the head by an 87 mph fastball from Wright. After being seated on the ground for a few minutes and checked out by a trainer, he got up and trotted to first. Wright walked down and the two briefly spoke, which appeared cordial. Red Sox: 2B Dustin Pedroia was given the day off, and Hernandez played second and batted ninth. LF Chris Young also was inserted into the lineup to give Brock Holt a break. GOOD DEBUT Farrell was happy with Hernan-
dez’s first game. He was 1-for-2 with a walk. “I don’t think the moment or the day was something that he didn’t handle emotionally,” the manager said. “He gets a good read to get the stolen base. He advances on an error, scores. But I thought he took some good swings, controlled the count with the base on balls. A very good first day.” UP NEXT Blue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ (0-0, 3.00 ERA) hopes to keep his string of solid starts going Monday. He’s given up two runs or fewer in each of his initial two starts. Red Sox: RHP Clay Buchholz (0-1, 10.00) has allowed five runs in each of his two starts.
Raptors stars vow to bounce Gushue, Muirhead capture Players’ Championship titles back after bad Game 1 BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
expect to win.” Lowry told reporters he holds himself to “a high standard,” and knows his playoff performance last season in a four-game sweep by Washington, and Saturday, have been well below his capabilities. Asked if his confidence has taken a beating, Lowry replied “My confidence is unshaken. Do I look shaky?” The point guard said this year’s version of the Raptors isn’t the same as the one that folded against the Wizards last year. “We’re mentally stronger,” he said. “(Saturday) night, we literally did not play well. It happens. We really shot 38 per cent. And we still had a chance to win.” Pacers all-star Paul George, who has bounced back from a gruesome leg break in August of 2014, also created huge problems for Toronto, scoring 33 points and virtually shutting down DeRozan at the other end. DeMarre Carroll, who was acquired in the off-season for his defensive intensity, but is still playing limited minutes after coming back from knee surgery, said he’d love the challenge of guarding George. “I live for those types of moments,” Carroll said. “I want to get out there and make every shot hard for him, I want to be that gnat, you know that gnat on a hot summer day when you’re eating barbeque? That’s the gnat I want to be.” Following Monday, the series moves to Indianapolis for Game 3 on Thursday and Game 4 on Saturday.
TORONTO — Brad Gushue defeated defending champion Brad Jacobs 5-4 in Sunday’s men’s final to win the Players’ Championship and complete a career Grand Slam. Gushue and his rink from St. John’s, N.L., — featuring third Mark Nichols, second Brett Gallant and lead Geoff Walker — already claimed the Rogers Grand Slam Cup on Saturday and earned a total of $101,500 for their week of work. Gushue has had a very successful Grand Slam of Curling series, winning three titles including the National and Elite 10. He also finished runner-up at the Tour Challenge Tier 1. “It means a lot,” Gushue said about winning the event. “This is right up there right next to the Brier as the most important event of the year. It was a disappointing finish at the Brier, so to come back and win this week and finish the career Grand Slam for all four of us, it’s been a great year and definitely a great way to cap it off.” Also on Sunday, Scotland’s Eve Muirhead won her third Players’ Championship title with a 9-6 victory over Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones in the women’s final. Gushue grabbed singles in the first and second end, but Jacobs, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., scored a deuce in the third to make it 2-2 going into the fourth end. The two teams traded singles in the fourth and fifth end before Gushue
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TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan believes athletes sometimes compete at their best when the situation is most dire. That’s part of the reason why the Raptors all-star believes Toronto will bounce Monday after a thorough Game 1 thumping by the Indiana Pacers. “You’re fighting for your life,” DeRozan said Sunday. “If you were drowning in water, you’re going to figure out something to hold onto, to float, right? You have that natural instinct when you’re a competitor and that’s the beauty of the game. When things get rough, you kind of find enjoyment in it, and trying to overcome it. “That’s the great thing about basketball.” If that’s in fact true, there will be plenty to enjoy on Monday, when the Raptors try to even up their opening-round series against Indiana. The Raptors came in as the undisputed favourites, after winning 56 games this season, and earning the No. 2 seed in the East. But DeRozan and fellow allstar Kyle Lowry, both leaders in Toronto’s record-breaking season, all but disappeared. Asked about his reference to drowning, DeRozan said they aren’t at that point yet. “We’re in a puddle right now. A little puddle. We’ve got some new shoes on, they got a little wet, that’s all,” he said, prompting laughter from reporters. DeRozan and Lowry said they both watched the game in its entirety twice on video. The errors were glaring. The team’s 20 turnovers and 38 per cent shooting were the two huge differences in the game. Coach Dwane Casey said cleaning up the turnovers — that the Pacers parlayed into 25 points Saturday — will be at the top of the team’s to-do list in Game 2. “We shot ourselves in the foot,” Casey said. “We took our Smith & Wesson and pulled the trigger a few times. You can’t do that in a playoff situation and
made it 5-3 when he took two in the sixth. Jacobs made it 5-4 in the seventh but could not come any closer after running out of rocks in the eighth. The team of Jacobs, third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden, and lead Ryan Harden were competing in their third consecutive Players’ Championship final. Earlier in the day, Jones defeated Winnipeg’s Kerri Einarson 6-4 in the semifinal to clinch a berth into the 2017 Canadian Olympic curling trials. The spot was up for grabs after Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion Chelsea Carey finished off of the podium at the worlds. Jones won the last trials and captured the gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Ottawa’s Rachel Homan won this season’s Rogers Grand Slam Cup women’s title as the overall season champion, earning a $75,000 bonus. Homan lost to Einarson 7-6 in the Players’ quarter-finals. As the defending champions, Muirhead’s rink started the women’s final with the hammer but their skip had to make a draw to the button with Jones sitting four plus two guards above the house. Jones gave up a steal of one in the second. Jones made a straight runback double to count three for a 3-2 advantage in the third. Muirhead reclaimed the lead 4-3 with a deuce in four but Jones made a hit and roll on to the button to tie it in five. Muirhead grabbed the lead for good in the sixth end, drawing for three with her last to go up 7-4. Jones closed the gap to within one with a deuce in seven, but gave up the hammer in the process.
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THE ADVOCATE B4
SCOREBOARD MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016
Hockey
● Esso Cup: Express du Richelieu vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Weyburn
Today ● Esso Cup: Rocky Mountain Raiders vs. Metro Boston Pizza (Nova Scotia), 12 p.m., Weyburn
Tuesday
Thursday ● Esso Cup: Weyburn Gold Wings bs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 7 p.m., Weyburn
● Esso Cup: Saskatoon Stars vs. Rocky Mountain Raiders, 12 p.m., Weyburn
Saturday
● WHL: Regina Pats at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium (if necessary)
● Rugby: Red Deer Titans at Drayton Valley Riggers, 2 p.m., Frank Maddock High School
Wednesday
Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 1, Detroit 0 Sunday, April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101 Wednesday, April 20: Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Friday, April 22: Cleveland at Detroit, 5 p.m. Sunday, April 24: Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Indiana 1, Toronto 0 Saturday, April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90 Monday, April 18: Indiana at Toronto, 5 p.m. Thursday, April 21: Toronto at Indiana, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23: Toronto at Indiana, 1 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 26: Indiana at Toronto, TBA
Golden State 1, Houston 0 Saturday, April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78 Monday, April 18: Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21: Golden State at Houston, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24: Golden State at Houston, 1:30 p.m. San Antonio 1, Memphis 0 Sunday, April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74 Tuesday, April 19: Memphis at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22: San Antonio at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24: San Antonio at Memphis, 11 a.m. Oklahoma City 1, Dallas 0 Saturday, April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70 Monday, April 18: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 5 p.m. Saturday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Miami 1, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91 Wednesday, April 20: Charlotte at Miami, 7 p.m. Saturday, April 23: Miami at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 25: Miami at Charlotte, TBA
L.A. Clippers vs. Portland Sunday, April 17: Portland at L.A. Clippers, late Wednesday, April 20: Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 25: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.
Atlanta 1, Boston 0 Saturday, April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101 Tuesday, April 19: Boston at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Friday, April 22: Atlanta at Boston, 6 p.m. Sunday, April 24: Atlanta at Boston, 4 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE
Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB x-Buffalo 16 11 5 .688 224 194 — x-New England 15 9 6 .600 193 179 1.5 Georgia 16 7 9 .438 213 213 4 Rochester 15 6 9 .400 168 179 4.5 Toronto 16 5 11 .313 168 196 6 West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Sask. 16 12 4 .750 208 167 — x-Colorado 16 10 6 .625 182 187 2 Calgary 17 7 10 .412 198 199 5.5 Vancouver 15 4 11 .267 168 208 7.5 x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division. WEEK 16 Saturday’s results Buffalo 14 Toronto 8 Georgia 17 Rochester 11 Saskatchewan 11 Colorado 8 Vancouver 13 Calgary 12 Friday’s results
Georgia 16 New England 9 Saskatchewan 11 Colorado 5 Toronto 12 Buffalo 9 WEEK 17 Saturday, Apr. 23 Georgia at New England, 5 p.m. Buffalo at Rochester, 6 p.m. Toronto at Colorado, 7 p.m. Saskatchewan at Vancouver, 8 p.m. WEEK 18 Friday, Apr. 29 Vancouver at Colorado, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 30 Vancouver at Georgia, 5:05 p.m. New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Saskatchewan at Rochester, 6 p.m. Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m. Sunday, May 1 Rochester at New England, 4 p.m. End of 2016 NLL Regular Season
Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Montreal 4 2 0 12 Philadelphia 3 3 0 9 Orlando City 2 1 3 9 Toronto FC 2 2 2 8 New England 1 1 5 8 New York City FC 1 2 3 6 Chicago 1 2 3 6 D.C. United 1 3 3 6 Columbus 1 3 2 5 New York 1 6 0 3
Friday’s Games Los Angeles 4, Houston 1 GF 10 8 11 6 8 9 6 7 6 5
GA 6 7 8 5 10 10 7 10 9 15
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 5 1 2 17 15 10 Real Salt Lake 4 0 2 14 10 6 Colorado 4 2 1 13 7 5 Sporting KC 4 3 0 12 9 7 Los Angeles 3 1 2 11 12 5 San Jose 3 2 2 11 10 10 Portland 2 3 2 8 11 14 Seattle 2 3 1 7 6 7 Vancouver 2 4 1 7 6 11 Houston 1 3 2 5 13 13 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Saturday’s Games Montreal 2, Chicago 1 Toronto FC 1, D.C. United 0 Columbus 3, New York City FC 2 Colorado 2, New York 1 Seattle 2, Philadelphia 1 Real Salt Lake 1, Vancouver 0 Portland 3, San Jose 1 Sunday’s Games Orlando City 2, New England 2, tie FC Dallas 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 Saturday, April 23 Toronto FC at Montreal, 2 p.m. New York City FC at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. New England at D.C. United, 3:30 p.m. Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Seattle at Colorado, 7 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 24 Sporting Kansas City at San Jose, 1:30 p.m. Orlando City at New York, 5:30 p.m.
Golf RBC Heritage Sunday At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head Island, S.C. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,099 Par: 71 Final Branden Grace, $1,062,000 66-74-69-66—275 Luke Donald, $519,200 66-71-69-71—277 Russell Knox, $519,200 72-65-73-67—277 Bryson DeChambeau, $259,600 70-69-72-68—279 Kevin Na, $259,600 73-71-66-69—279 Whee Kim, $197,650 71-72-68-69—280 Jason Kokrak, $197,650 71-68-68-73—280 Bryce Molder, $197,650 70-70-73-67—280 Aaron Baddeley, $147,500 71-69-73-68—281 Ricky Barnes, $147,500 71-68-74-68—281 Kevin Chappell, $147,500 68-68-75-70—281 Matt Kuchar, $147,500 67-71-72-71—281 William McGirt, $147,500 69-71-72-69—281 Ernie Els, $88,631 72-71-73-66—282 Tyler Aldridge, $88,631 71-73-67-71—282 Graham DeLaet, $88,631 69-70-72-71—282 Bill Haas, $88,631 69-72-69-72—282 Charley Hoffman, $88,631 68-68-71-75—282 Si Woo Kim, $88,631 68-72-71-71—282 Patton Kizzire, $88,631 69-68-71-74—282 Colt Knost, $88,631 73-70-70-69—282 David Toms, $88,631 69-73-71-69—282 John Senden, $49,729 71-73-74-65—283 Chad Campbell, $49,729 71-69-73-70—283 Jason Day, $49,729 67-69-79-68—283 Russell Henley, $49,729 72-67-71-73—283 Morgan Hoffmann, $49,729 70-69-74-70—283 Charles Howell III, $49,729 69-75-70-69—283 Chris Kirk, $49,729 72-66-71-74—283 Adam Hadwin, $39,235 71-73-73-67—284 Marc Leishman, $39,235 71-72-68-73—284 Shawn Stefani, $36,580 71-71-69-74—285 David Lingmerth, $31,172 67-71-76-72—286 Chez Reavie, $31,172 70-74-71-71—286 Kyle Stanley, $31,172 72-70-71-73—286 Will Wilcox, $31,172 72-70-72-72—286 Lucas Glover, $31,172 72-67-72-75—286 Zach Johnson, $31,172 71-68-70-77—286 Bronson Burgoon, $23,600 70-69-74-74—287 Tony Finau, $23,600 67-73-73-74—287 Luke List, $23,600 73-68-78-68—287 George McNeill, $23,600 68-70-73-76—287 Johnson Wagner, $23,600 68-73-74-72—287 Boo Weekley, $23,600 70-71-76-70—287 Ben Crane, $16,874 74-68-71-75—288 Fabian Gomez, $16,874 68-76-73-71—288 Jerry Kelly, $16,874 70-69-77-72—288 Spencer Levin, $16,874 68-74-71-75—288 Ben Martin, $16,874 70-74-74-70—288 Francesco Molinari, $16,874 69-74-73-72—288 Daniel Summerhays, $14,199 72-68-80-69—289 Jim Herman, $14,199 72-71-73-73—289 Seung-Yul Noh, $14,199 72-69-75-73—289 Jason Dufner, $13,452 76-67-73-74—290 Billy Horschel, $13,452 74-66-74-76—290 Geoff Ogilvy, $13,452 72-69-74-75—290 Ian Poulter, $13,452 72-72-76-70—290 Mark Wilson, $13,452 72-72-73-73—290 Zac Blair, $12,862 69-71-75-76—291 Justin Leonard, $12,862 73-71-72-75—291 Davis Love III, $12,862 73-69-77-72—291 Will MacKenzie, $12,862 73-71-71-76—291 Tyrone Van Aswegen, $12,862 72-70-73-76—291 Scott Brown, $12,449 71-73-76-72—292 Vaughn Taylor, $12,449 70-74-75-73—292 LPGA-Lotte Championship Saturday At Ko Olina Golf Club Course Kapolei, Hawaii Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,397 Par: 72 Final Round a-denotes amateur Minjee Lee, $270,000 In Gee Chun, $143,765 Katie Burnett, $143,765 Moriya Jutanugarn, $93,516 Su-Yeon Jang, $75,270 Joanna Klatten, $61,584 Megan Khang, $45,770 Mo Martin, $45,770 Sei Young Kim, $45,770 Nontaya Srisawang, $32,224
68-66-74-64—272 74-67-65-67—273 70-66-67-70—273 68-70-68-68—274 71-66-67-71—275 71-70-67-68—276 76-64-70-67—277 72-71-66-68—277 69-69-69-70—277 70-71-71-66—278
Shanshan Feng, $32,224 73-68-69-68—278 Brooke Henderson, $32,224 69-70-71-68—278 Pernilla Lindberg, $32,224 70-72-67-69—278 Lexi Thompson, $32,224 75-66-68-69—278 Chella Choi, $23,904 73-71-68-68—280 Lee-Anne Pace, $23,904 73-69-69-69—280 Ariya Jutanugarn, $23,904 72-70-69-69—280 Haru Nomura, $23,904 72-71-67-70—280 Danielle Kang, $23,904 72-68-70-70—280 Ai Miyazato, $20,619 75-68-73-65—281 P.K. Kongkraphan, $20,619 74-69-65-73—281 Kris Tamulis, $19,524 72-70-70-70—282 Marion Ricordeau, $15,893 71-73-73-66—283 Jacqui Concolino, $15,893 74-71-71-67—283 Brittany Lang, $15,893 72-73-71-67—283 Mika Miyazato, $15,893 77-69-68-69—283 Kim Kaufman, $15,893 69-75-70-69—283 Lydia Ko, $15,893 71-72-71-69—283 Lizette Salas, $15,893 75-66-73-69—283 Q Baek, $15,893 74-69-69-71—283 Beatriz Recari, $15,893 72-71-69-71—283 Suzann Pettersen, $15,893 71-71-69-72—283 Stephanie Kono, $11,465 72-71-76-65—284 Pornanong Phatlum, $11,465 73-70-72-69—284 Angela Stanford, $11,465 71-74-69-70—284 Julie Yang, $11,465 73-70-70-71—284 Thidapa Suwannapura, $11,465 72-71-69-72—284 Azahara Munoz, $11,465 71-70-71-72—284 Alena Sharp, $9,124 69-73-75-68—285 Sarah Jane Smith, $9,124 73-72-70-70—285 So Yeon Ryu, $9,124 72-73-67-73—285 Eun-Hee Ji, $9,124 70-71-71-73—285 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $9,124 73-67-72-73—285 Paula Creamer, $8,029 72-70-74-70—286 Budsabakorn Sukapan, $7,618 73-72-70-72—287 Lindy Duncan, $7,618 75-71-68-73—287 Gaby Lopez, $6,678 73-73-77-65—288 Celine Herbin, $6,678 72-74-76-66—288 Casey Grice, $6,678 74-70-74-70—288 SuOh, $6,678 71-73-71-73—288 Jenny Shin, $6,678 74-68-71-75—288 Nannette Hill, $5,565 76-70-73-70—289 Simin Feng, $5,565 73-72-73-71—289 Lee Lopez, $5,565 73-72-73-71—289 Brianna Do, $5,565 71-75-71-72—289 a-Hye Jin Choi 72-73-72-72—289 Becky Morgan, $5,565 72-71-73-73—289 Briana Mao, $5,565 74-70-70-75—289 Cristie Kerr, $4,744 70-74-77-69—290 Sarah Kemp, $4,744 75-70-74-71—290 Haeji Kang, $4,744 73-70-72-75—290 PGA Tour Champions-Mitsubishi Electric Classic Sunday At HTPC Sugarloaf Duluth, Ga. Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 7,179 Par: 72 Final (x-won on second playoff hole) x-Woody Austin, $270,000 72-69-64—205 Wes Short, Jr., $158,400 70-67-68—205 Paul Goydos, $129,600 71-68-67—206 Miguel Angel Jimenez, $82,350 72-67-68—207 Tom Lehman, $82,350 73-67-67—207 Colin Montgomerie, $82,350 72-66-69—207 Joey Sindelar, $82,350 70-70-67—207 Billy Andrade, $57,600 70-69-69—208 Roger Chapman, $48,600 74-66-69—209 Kevin Sutherland, $48,600 72-70-67—209 Tommy Armour III, $38,250 72-70-68—210 Bart Bryant, $38,250 70-69-71—210 Bernhard Langer, $38,250 75-68-67—210 Mark O’Meara, $38,250 68-70-72—210 Glen Day, $31,500 71-69-71—211 David Frost, $31,500 70-69-72—211 Tom Byrum, $27,000 68-71-73—212 Tom Watson, $27,000 68-76-68—212 Willie Wood, $27,000 72-72-68—212 Scott Dunlap, $20,550 73-74-66—213 Sandy Lyle, $20,550 73-75-65—213 Scott McCarron, $20,550 73-67-73—213 Jerry Smith, $20,550 73-70-70—213 Esteban Toledo, $20,550 73-71-69—213 Kirk Triplett, $20,550 74-68-71—213 Joe Durant, $16,020 71-72-71—214 Lee Janzen, $16,020 70-72-72—214 Kenny Perry, $16,020 69-73-72—214 Jeff Sluman, $16,020 76-67-71—214 Doug Garwood, $12,446 72-72-71—215
Penalties — Petrovic Fla (boarding) 4:43 Jokinen Fla (holding) 5:08 Kulikov Fla (clipping) 16:12 Cizikas NYI (tripping) 18:32. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Hamonic NYI (high-sticking) 4:38. First Overtime 7. NY Islanders, Hickey 1 (Nelson, Bailey) 12:31. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Florida 12 12 7 8 — 39 New York 8 16 7 8 — 39 Goal — Florida: Luongo (L, 1-2-0). NY Islanders: Greiss (W, 2-1-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Florida: 0-3 NY Islanders: 2-4.
Tuesday’s game Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 21 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.
WHL 2016 Playoffs Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7)
Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Washington 4 Philadelphia 1 Thursday’s result Washington 2 Philadelphia 0 Monday’s game Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 20 Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Brandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3) (Brandon wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Brandon 7 Moose Jaw 3 Central Division Red Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1) (Series tied 3-3) Sunday’s result Regina 5 Red Deer 1 Friday’s result Red Deer 5 Regina 1 Tuesday’s game Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Red Wings 2, Lightning 0 First Period No Scoring. Penalties — Coburn TB (tripping) 4:34 Helm Det (embellishment) 4:34 Johnson TB (tripping) 14:32 Palat TB (tripping) 15:33. Second Period 1. Detroit, Athanasiou 1 (Tatar, Andersson) 12:42. 2. Detroit, Zetterberg 1 (unassisted) 17:22. Penalties — Sustr TB (hooking) 5:26 Hedman TB (slashing) 7:37 Zetterberg Det (interference) 18:52. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Kucherov TB, Helm Det (unsportsmanlike conduct) :58 Kronwall Det (holding) 2:23 Johnson TB (hooking) 3:20 Killorn TB (tripping) 5:47 Datsyuk Det (tripping) 14:20 Coburn TB (interference) 17:43 Carle TB (slashing) 20:00 Boyle TB, Killorn TB, Abdelkader Det (misconduct) 20:00. Shots on goal Tampa Bay 9 3 4 — 16 Detroit 12 11 7 — 30 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 2-1-0). Detroit: Mrazek (W, 1-0-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 0-3 Detroit: 0-7.
Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Series tied 1-1) Saturday’s result N.Y. Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 2 Wednesday’s result Pittsburgh 5 N.Y. Rangers 2 Tuesday’s game Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 21 Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. Division Victoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2) (Series tied 3-3) Sunday’s result Victoria 3 Kelowna 2 Friday’s result Kelowna 4 Victoria 1 Tuesday’s game Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Dallas 2 Minnesota 1 Thursday’s result Dallas 4 Minnesota 0 Monday’s game Dallas at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 20 Dallas at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.
U.S. Division Seattle (1) vs. Everett (2) (Seattle wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Seattle 3 Everett 2 Friday’s result Seattle 2 Everett 1 x — played only if necessary. Sunday’s summary Pats 5, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Regina, McAmmond 1 (Steel, Cole) 2:24. 2. Red Deer, DeBrusk 5 (Bobyk) 13:20. Penalties — Rattie RD (cross-checking) 16:12 Helewka RD, Zablocki Reg (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 20:00. Second Period 3. Regina, Hobbs 4 (Wagner, Brooks) 0:24. 4. Regina, Sanford 7 (Zborovskiy, Richards) 5:36. 5. Regina, Zablocki 7, 13:03. Penalties — Hagel RD (high-sticking), 7:48. Third Period 6. Regina, Williams 2 (Hobbs, Steel) 7:07. Penalties — Philp RD (major-fighting), McAmmond Reg (kneeing), Zablocki Reg (major-fighting) 15:53 Hagel RD, Nogier RD, Harrison Reg, Macklin Reg (roughing) 20:00. Shots on goal Red Deer 6 4 11 — 21 Regina 10 22 8 — 40 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 1-2) Regina: Brown (W, 7-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 0-1 Regina: 0-2. 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders lead series 2-1) Sunday’s result N.Y. Islanders 4 Florida 3 (OT) Friday’s result Florida 3 N.Y. Islanders 1 Wednesday, Apr. 20 Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m. Friday, Apr. 22 N.Y. Islanders at Florida, TBA
St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis leads series 2-1) Sunday’s result St. Louis 3 Chicago 2 Friday’s result Chicago 3 St. Louis 2 Tuesday’s game St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 21 Chicago at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.
Blues 3, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Chicago, Seabrook 1 (Toews, Kane) 2:18 (pp). 2. St. Louis, Parayko 1 (Pietrangelo, Fabbri) 12:11 (pp). Penalties — Brodziak StL, Svedberg Chi (roughing) 1:49 Bouwmeester StL (hooking) 3:41 Bouwmeester StL (interference) 5:46 Svedberg Chi (high-sticking) 12:04 Shaw Chi (slashing) 19:31 Edmundson StL (cross-checking) 19:31. Second Period 3. Chicago, Anisimov 1 (Panarin) 1:04. Penalties — Upshall StL (tripping) 9:38. Third Period 4. St. Louis, Berglund 1 (Shattenkirk, Fabbri) 5:15. 5. St. Louis, Schwartz 1 (Backes, Tarasenko) 13:22 (pp). Penalties — Kane Chi (double high-sticking) 11:51. Shots on goal St. Louis 9 13 14 — 36 Chicago 10 24 12 — 46 Goal — St. Louis: Elliott (W, 2-1-0). Chicago: Crawford (L, 1-2-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 2-3 Chicago: 1-4.
Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Nashville leads series 1-0) Sunday’s result Nashville at Anaheim, late Friday’s result Nashville 3 Anaheim 2 Tuesday’s game Anaheim at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 21 Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m. Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result San Jose 2 Los Angeles 1 Thursday’s result San Jose 4 Los Angeles 3 Monday’s game Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 20 Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Apr. 22 x-San Jose at Los Angeles, TBA x — played only if necessary. Sunday’s summaries Islanders 4, Panthers 3 (1st OT) First Period 1. Florida, Smith 4 (Petrovic, Matheson) 2:25. Penalties — Clutterbuck NYI (high-sticking) 8:32 McKegg Fla (holding) 8:32 Hudler Fla (interference) 10:19 Martin NYI (roughing) 18:58. Second Period 2. Florida, Barkov 1 (Smith, Huberdeau) 1:11. 3. NY Islanders, Pulock 1 (Okposo, Tavares) 5:21 (pp). 4. Florida, Bjugstad 2 (Smith, Kulikov) 7:23. 5. NY Islanders, Prince 1 (Pulock, de Haan) 11:48. 6. NY Islanders, Nielsen 2 (Tavares, Okposo) 16:55 (pp).
Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay leads series 2-1) Sunday’s result Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 0 Friday’s result Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 2
NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders following Saturday’s games: G Tyler Johnson, TB 2 Reilly Smith, Fla 3 Nikita Kucherov, TB 3 Patric Hornqvist, Pgh 3 Joe Pavelski, SJ 3 John Tavares, NYI 2 Alex Killorn, TB 2 Jamie Benn, Dal 2 Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 1 Derick Brassard, NYR 1 Marcus Johansson, Wash 0 John Carlson, Wash 2 Phil Kessel, Pgh 2 Sidney Crosby, Pgh 1 Jussi Jokinen, Fla 1 Brent Burns, SJ 1 Nick Bjugstad, Fla 1 Kyle Okposo, NYI 1 Dmitry Kulikov, Fla 1 Nick Bonino, Pgh 0
A 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
Pts 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 8 3 .727 Boston 6 5 .545 Toronto 6 7 .462 New York 5 6 .455 Tampa Bay 5 7 .417 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 8 4 .667 Kansas City 8 4 .667 Detroit 7 4 .636 Cleveland 5 5 .500 Minnesota 3 9 .250 West Division W L Pct Texas 7 6 .538 Oakland 6 7 .462 Los Angeles 5 7 .417 Seattle 5 7 .417 Houston 5 8 .385
GB — 2 3 3 3 1/2 GB — — 1/2 2 5 GB — 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 2
Saturday’s Games Seattle 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Minnesota 6, L.A. Angels 4 Oakland 5, Kansas City 3 Boston 4, Toronto 2 Cleveland 7, N.Y. Mets 5 Tampa Bay 7, Chicago White Sox 2 Detroit 5, Houston 3 Texas 8, Baltimore 4 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 3 Tampa Bay 3, Chicago White Sox 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 0 Toronto 5, Boston 3 Houston 5, Detroit 4 Minnesota 3, L.A. Angels 2, 12 innings Baltimore at Texas, ppd., rain Oakland 3, Kansas City 2 Monday’s Games Toronto (Happ 1-0) at Boston (Buchholz 0-1), 9:05 a.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-1), 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Ch.Anderson 1-0) at Minnesota (Hughes 0-2), 6:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. Seattle at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 5:15 p.m. Houston at Texas, 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Trumbo Bal 11 44 10 17 .386 Machado Bal 11 47 11 18 .383 JMartinez Det 11 43 7 16 .372 Mauer Min 12 43 5 16 .372 Castellanos Det 11 42 7 15 .357 White Hou 13 42 4 15 .357 Eaton CWS 11 45 4 16 .356 Andrus Tex 11 37 6 13 .351 Calhoun LAA 12 43 4 15 .349 Beltran NYY 11 41 6 14 .341 Home Runs Cano, Seattle, 5 CDavis, Baltimore, 5 Donaldson, Toronto, 5 Trumbo, Baltimore, 5, 7 tied at 4. Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 13 Beltre, Texas, 11 Fielder, Texas, 11 Saltalamacchia, Detroit, 11 Trumbo, Baltimore, 11 White, Houston, 11 7 tied at 10. Pitching Sale, Chicago, 3-0 Price, Boston, 2-0 Brach, Baltimore, 2-0 Axford, Oakland, 2-0 Kennedy, Kansas City, 2-0 Volquez, Kansas City, 2-0 Porcello, Boston, 2-0.
Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Atlanta Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco Arizona San Diego
National League East Division W L Pct 9 2 .818 6 7 .462 5 6 .455 3 7 .300 3 9 .250 Central Division W L Pct 9 3 .750 7 5 .583 7 6 .538 6 6 .500 5 7 .417 West Division W L Pct 8 5 .615 7 5 .583 7 6 .538 5 8 .385 4 9 .308
GB — 4 4 5 1/2 6 1/2 GB — 2 2 1/2 3 4 GB — 1/2 1 3 4
Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 9, St. Louis 8 Chicago Cubs 6, Colorado 2 Cleveland 7, N.Y. Mets 5 Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 0 Washington 8, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 6, Miami 4 San Diego 5, Arizona 3, 14 innings San Francisco 4, L.A. Dodgers 3
N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 0 Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 3 Philadelphia 3, Washington 2, 10 innings St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 3 Colorado 2, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, San Diego 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 1 Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 1-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-1), 5:05 p.m. Colorado (Lyles 0-1) at Cincinnati (Straily 0-0), 5:10 p.m. Washington (Roark 1-1) at Miami (Fernandez 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lackey 2-0) at St. Louis (Leake 0-1), 6:09 p.m. Milwaukee (Ch.Anderson 1-0) at Minnesota (Hughes 0-2), 6:10 p.m. Arizona (Bradley 0-0) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-1), 8:15 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Colorado at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Washington at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DMurphy Was 11 37 7 16 .432 Hazelbaker StL 12 33 7 13 .394 WRamos Was 9 36 3 14 .389 Fowler ChC 12 40 9 15 .375 CGonzalez Col 12 49 10 18 .367 Harper Was 11 39 10 14 .359 Pagan SF 13 45 13 16 .356 Puig LAD 13 45 9 16 .356 Jaso Pit 12 48 6 17 .354 Yelich Mia 10 34 6 12 .353 Home Runs Story, Colorado, 7 Arenado, Colorado, 6 Harper, Washington, 6 CGonzalez, Colorado, 4 Howard, Philadelphia, 4 Kemp, San Diego, 4 Moss, St. Louis, 4 Suarez, Cincinnati, 4. Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 16 Harper, Washington, 15 Story, Colorado, 13 Bruce, Cincinnati, 12 Kemp, San Diego, 12 Markakis, Atlanta, 12 Carpenter, St. Louis, 11 Rizzo, Chicago, 11. Pitching Cueto, San Francisco, 3-0 Arrieta, Chicago, 3-0 Velasquez, Philadelphia, 2-0 Siegrist, St. Louis, 2-0 Niese, Pittsburgh, 2-0 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2-0 JRoss, Washington, 2-0.
Sunday’s Games Atlanta 6, Miami 5, 10 innings
Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled LHP Ryan O’Rourke from Rochester (IL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHPs Jake Barrett and Matt Buschmann to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHPs Archie Bradley and Evan Marshall from Reno. CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Keyvius Sampson to Louisville (IL). Reinstated RHP Jon Moscot from the 15-day DL. Sent LHP John Lamb to Louisville for a rehab assignment. MIAMI MARLINS — Designated RHP Dustin McGowan for assignment. Recalled RHP Kyle Barraclough from New Orleans (PCL). Sent LHP Raudel Lazo to Jupiter (FSL) for a rehab assignment. HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled D Mike Reilly from Iowa (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F Malte Stromwall. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled G Vitek Vanecek from South Carolina (ECHL) to Hershey (AHL). American Hockey League LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled G Brad Thiessen from Cincinnati (ECHL).
ington for one game as a consequence of a kneeing incident in a game at Binghamton on Apr. 15. CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Returned D Mike Cornell to Florida (ECHL). Assigned F Ethan Werek
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The benefits of eating bugs ONTARIO BROTHERS PUSH THE BENEFITS OF EATING CRICKETS AND MEALWORMS TO CANADIANS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Bugs might be a diet staple in many parts of the world, but the thought of munching on insects is probably enough to make most Canadians squirm. Yet three brothers think it’s time for people in this country to get over their squeamishness and eat the nutrient-rich creatures. “If you want your relationship with food to be one where the food you eat enhances your life, enhances your wellness and helps you live longer, then you should consider insects. And at the same time they help the planet,” says Jarrod Goldin, president of Entomo Farms, which raises crickets and mealworms for human consumption near Norwood, Ont., about two hours northeast of Toronto. “If you don’t care about living longer and your health and all you want to do is drink pop and eat Doritos, then God bless you, go right ahead. It’s not for us to preach or try to convince. “There is a massive, massive value to eating insects, massive value, for people, for their children, for their families.” Eating insects, known as entomophagy, is a nutritious alternative to other proteins like chicken, pork, beef and even fish. “As a source of protein, for example, weight for weight, it has twice as much protein as beef,” says Goldin. “It has all nine essential amino acids, again twice the amount of beef. It has about 30 times more B12 in it than beef does.” They emit fewer greenhouse gases and less ammonia than cattle or pigs and need significantly less land and water than cattle rearing, adds Goldin, also a chiropractor in the Toronto area specializing in health, fitness and nutrition. A 2013 report, “Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security” by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, proved inspirational to Goldin and his brothers Darren and Ryan. By 2050, the world will host nine billion people and current food production will need to almost double, according to the report. Yet land is scarce, oceans are overfished and climate change and related water shortages could have profound implications for food production. The FAO estimates insects form part of the diet of at least two billion people and thousands of species have reportedly been used as food. Darren and Ryan Goldin had been
5 things to know for the culinarily curious who want to start eating insects A 2013 report, “Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security” by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, estimates insects form part of the diet of at least two billion people around the world. While 1,900 species have reportedly been used as food, not many are being consumed by average Canadians — yet. WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMONLY EATEN INSECTS? The FAO says they include beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, cicadas, leaf and planthoppers, scale insects and true bugs, termites, dragonflies and flies. THEY’RE NUTRITIOUS The FAO says insects are healthy, nutritious alternatives to mainstream staples such as chicken, pork, beef and even fish. Many insects are rich in protein, good fats and high in calcium, iron and zinc. They’re also low in calories.
farming insects and worms for the reptile trade and fishing for about 10 years, so it was relatively easy to make the switch to human food. At any given time, Entomo Farms houses about 90 million crickets in various stages of development, says Darren Goldin, who runs the farm. A blast of heat greets visitors to the industrial-style barns, where the temperature in the dim insect rooms is kept at a humid 32 C to encourage breeding and incubation. The noise level is high, with male crickets chirping to attract females. Eggs and hatchlings are housed in plastic bins in a separate area until they’re large enough to join the adults. At maturity — age six weeks — the crickets are ready to be processed. “Being cold-blooded they don’t re-
HOW DOES THE AMOUNT OF PROTEIN STACK UP? One hundred grams of cricket flour contains 65 grams of protein, while 100 grams of steak contains less than 30 grams of protein. HOW DO YOU EAT THEM? Grinding or milling is a common method for processing insects. Cricket powder (cricket flour), which is just ground roasted crickets, adds a subtle nutty or earthy flavour to whatever you bake or cook, including cake, cookies, muffins, protein shakes, soup and chili. If you only add a small amount, you won’t even taste it. Flavoured whole crickets and mealworms taste and feel a lot like a potato chip. Whole crickets can be coated in chocolate, while crickets and mealworms can also be used as a garnish like croutons in salads or soups. ARE THERE ANY DANGERS? People with seafood allergies should be cautious as there are distant relations between some insects and shellfish. If you have an allergy to insect bites or stings you should also proceed with caution. Insects like crickets are gluten-free, but the grain they are typically raised on is not, so some companies have designed a special feed to accommodate individuals with celiac disease. Insects should always be cooked. Though they may be tempting, don’t eat those brightly coloured raw insects you find in your backyard.
ally feel the pain…. They just freeze and fall asleep, then they’re out. Then we wash them and roast them,” Jarrod Goldin explains. Afterward they’re left whole or ground into a very fine powder, or flour, which can be used in a variety of foods, like energy bars, chips, cookies, pasta, bread and smoothies — “all kinds of products that you already eat that just have this ingredient in it that really enhances the nutritional value,” says Jarrod Goldin. Besides being sold in Canada, product is shipped to the U.S., South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Mexico. “People also buy the whole roasted crickets and instead of munching on a bag of chips at night they munch on some flavoured roasted crickets or
flavoured roasted mealworms — and again they’re much healthier,” says Jarrod Goldin. Roasted crickets or mealworms can be sprinkled on salad like croutons, he adds. Crik Nutrition of Winnipeg uses cricket powder from Entomo Farms in its protein powder, and Summerhill Markets in Toronto began stocking the company’s crickets and mealworms earlier this year. “We do a lot of research about food trends and one that kept popping up was about insect protein and they’re talking about the sustainability of it, and that there’s more protein and more bang for your buck, so to speak, so it was something we thought we’d consider and bring into our store,” says manager Christy McMullen. “I’m not going to say that it’s flying off the shelves, but it’s doing OK so we’re going to keep it on the shelves.” When they introduced the products, staff set out samples and concocted several items to sell, such as a peanut butter protein ball enhanced with insect powder, and chocolate-covered crickets. They made minty-green grasshopper pie, putting cricket powder in the crust and garnishing it with chocolate-covered crickets. There are also packages of whole crickets flavoured with sea salt and pepper, Moroccan, barbecue and honey mustard flavours. “It’s kind of like a potato chip. It takes the flavour of whatever is on it,” McMullen says. “I say the texture is kind of like toast or maybe like a Rice Krispie sort of. They’re a little crunchy,” she adds. “Once you get over the insect factor it tastes OK and that’s sort of what I find. Everyone is like, ‘Oh, that’s better than I thought it was going to be.”’
Getting comfortable with carrots ATCO BLUE FLAME KITCHEN Soup and carrots are a match made in heaven. If you’re only familiar with stew-style chunks of fork-tender carrot, this Coriander Carrot Soup’s smooth pureed texture will be a revelation. Combining both sweet and savoury in a single side dish, our Carrots Glazed with Balsamic Vinegar cuts time and effort by using pre-peeled baby carrots. The sweet and sour punch of the balsamic mingles with the caramel notes of brown sugar, both of which pair perfectly with the natural sweetness of the cooked carrots.
medium heat. Add carrots, potatoes and onion; saute for 5 minutes. Add coriander, ginger and salt; cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Stir in broth. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 - 25 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Puree mixture in batches in a blender, filling blender no more than half full for each batch. May be prepared to this point and refrigerated for up to 24 hours. Reheat over low heat. Stir in cilantro. Serves 8 as a starter.
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¼ cup (50 mL) butter 1 bag (2 lb/1 kg) peeled baby carrots 1/3 cup (75 mL) balsamic vinegar 1/3 cup (75 mL) packed golden brown sugar ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt ¼ tsp (1 mL) freshly ground pepper ¼ cup (50 mL) thinly sliced green onion Melt butter in a heavy frypan over medium heat. Add carrots and saute for 2 minutes. Cover and cook, stirring
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occasionally, until carrots are tender crisp, about 7 - 10 minutes. Stir in vinegar, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Uncover and cook, stirring frequently, until carrots are tender and glazed, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with onion. Serves 8 - 10. ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen’s column on healthy eating for busy families runs
SYLVAN LAKE COMMUNITY SUPPER Head to Sylvan Lake’s Memorial Presbyterian Church on Wednesday for their community supper, made fresh by a strong contingent of volunteers. Come for the food and fellowship, quiet entertainment will be provided. Children are welcome. For more information contact Anna Olive at 403-358-6558.
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MAGSPARKS PAINT LIKE WHO? Join The Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery on Wednesday. This community visual art program is tailored to persons with developmental disabilities but is accessible to everyone. Drop in is $3/ participant, memberships available to persons with disabilities for $50/year. Kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Go to www.reddeermuseum. com/programs/magsparks/ for a complete listing of upcoming activities.
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MATT “CHEESE” RUSSELL 1983 - 2011 You can shed tears that he is gone, or you can smile because he has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that he’ll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all he’s left. Your heart can be empty because you can’t see him, or you can be full of love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember him only that he is gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what he’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on”.
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Obituaries 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. 403-887-2151.
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PHILLPOT Norman George Dec. 12, 1938 - Apr. 09, 2016 Norm skipped into the next dimension peacefully and unexpectedly at home. He leaves his wife and partner, Beulah, daughters Aimee (John Hawkins) and Darha (Rob Lok), five cherished grandchildren (Lucas, Kate, Jill, and Annika Hawkins and Marley Lok), a large extended family and many friends. Norm was a devoted and beloved husband, father, grandfather and gathered many friends both where he lived and where he traveled: around the world; on all seven continents; from Canada’s arctic to Cape Horn; and beyond. Norm’s request for a wake will be held at a later date.
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Edwards rolls to win at Bristol Speedway NASCAR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISTOL, Tenn. — Carl Edwards took his first celebratory back flip of the season and easily stuck the landing. “I considered not doing it,” he said. “I haven’t done one for a while.” He earned that acrobatic moment because his No. 19 Toyota gripped Bristol Motor Speedway much better than his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Sunday. Edwards avoided tire issues that plagued his teammates and took off on the final restart to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on the half-mile bullring. In fact, he made it look easy. Starting on the pole for the second straight week, Edwards’ Camry led eight times for 276 of 500 laps en route to his first victory since September at Darlington and fourth at Bristol. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was second, followed by Kurt Busch, Chase Elliott and Trevor Bayne. “We didn’t have any trouble, and that’s just a testament to everyone at the shop and whole team,” said Edwards, who now trails new points leader Kevin Harvick (seventh) by a point. “It’s really awesome to have a win so we can really have fun and focus on the championship.” Edwards’ flawless day contrasted the right-front tire problems endured by teammates Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Denny Hamlin after all of them started in the top five. Busch, the defending series champion and points leader coming in, had trouble throughout the race. He finally exited after his car smacked the wall on
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Carl Edwards makes his way down the back stretch with the checkered flag after winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, in Bristol, Tenn. Lap 259 and sustained heavy damage, failing to finish a race for the first time since June at Michigan. “I just kept getting tighter in the long run, not sure why that was,” said Busch, who had two other tire failures and was penalized for speeding off pit road. “I guess it wasn’t meant to be.” Kenseth led three times for 142 laps and seemed to be one of the few drivers capable of challenging Edwards before his day ended early after he cut a
right front tire a second time and hit the wall. Hamlin had problems too, enough to cause Goodyear to announce it would examine all of those tires from Busch and Kenseth to determine if the failures were due to the tire makeup or the aggressive setups drivers use at the high-banked track. “Because all of them had the same problem, we wanted to take a look,” Goodyear racing director Greg Stucker said.
Pagenaud wins Long Beach for 1st victory driving for Penske BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG BEACH, Calif. — Simon Pagenaud raced to his first victory for Team Penske by holding off Scott Dixon in the caution-free Grand Prix of Long Beach. It was a controversial win, though, as Dixon and his Chip Ganassi Racing team believed Pagenaud should have been penalized for crossing a blend line as he returned to the track following a pit stop. The Dixon camp interpreted the rule as a clear violation, but IndyCar only gave Pagenaud a warning. “They told us with the steward system this year there would be no warnings,” Ganassi team manager Mike Hull said during the race. “What we were told in the driver meeting that if anyone did that, there would be a penalty. They didn’t tell us what the penalty was, but he shouldn’t be leading the race.” Dixon wanted to see a clearer replay of Pagenaud’s move, but also disagreed on him being issued a warning. “There’s meant to be no warnings, so I don’t know what that’s all about,” said Dixon, winner of last year’s race. “From what I am told, he was definitely over with all four tires, which is a drive through or
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Frenchman said: “I don’t care.” Indeed, it didn’t matter to him in victory lane for the first time since he joined the Penske group last year. He failed to win a race in 2015, his worst season in IndyCar. But he’s off to a strong start to 2015 with a pair of second-place finishes to start the season and put him atop the points standings headed into Long Beach. He said on the first day of track activity that he knew his first win for Penske was coming, and he was correct. He was also pleased to have earned his win by holding off Dixon, the reigning series champion. “When you have Scott Dixon behind you, you always need to push it. You push it as hard as you can,” Pagenaud said. “He was really, really pushing.” Dixon was second, while Penske drivers Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya finished third and fourth in a sweep for Chevrolet. The manufacturer has won all three races this season and the Honda camp has been complaining that they are at a disadvantage. Takuma Sato was the highest-finishing Honda driver in fifth.
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Jungle Book roars with $103.6 million debut BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Walt Disney Co.’s The Jungle Book opened with $103.6 million in North America, making it one of the biggest April debuts ever at the box office and continuing the studio’s streak of unearthing live-action riches buried in its animated classics. Jon Favreau’s update of Disney’s 1967 animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s book tells the tale of Mowgli with computer-generated imagery and bigscreen bombast. A sizable 42 per cent of the film’s domestic sales came from 3-D and premium-format screens. The Jungle Book is just the latest of Disney’s string of live-action remakes of classic cartoons (Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent), most of which have fared well at the box office. More plundering of the Disney library is in the works: Cruella De Ville and Peter Pan are in development Beauty and the Beast is scheduled for next March. “There’s some consistency that’s happened here in the last few years as we’ve really made this a priority and a strategy from a company perspective,” said Disney distribution head Dave Hollis, who credited production president Sean Bailey with overseeing the live-action adaptations. “He’s been able to do it in a way that really makes them contemporary and, certainly in this case, fully utilizes available technology. “We’ve got a lot more of these stories to tell.” The Jungle Book, made for about $175 million, was propelled by glowing reviews from critics. It ranks as the second biggest April opening ever, behind only Furious 7’s $147.2 million debut. It also took in an estimated $136.1 million overseas that includes $20.1 million so far in India where it’s the third-highest grossing Hollywood release after 10 days. Ahead of the film’s big opening, Warner Bros. — sensing stiff competition — pushed the release of its own Jungle Book a year to October 2018. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak, says that the live-action remakes are proving to be another substantial engine for Disney, along with its franchise-building assets in Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm. “To have this incredible vault of content that they can go back to and reimagine, retool and recreate for today’s audiences just gives them a depth and breadth of films that is almost unparalleled,” Der-
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In this image, Shere Khan the tiger, voiced by Idris Elba, appears in a scene from, The Jungle Book. garabedian said. “Disney has this knack for taking something that’s very old and making it new again.” Opening in second place was Ice Cube’s Barbershop: The Next Cut with $20.2 million. The fourth film in the comedy series (which included the 2005 spinoff Beauty Shop) failed to match the $24.2 million debut of the previous Barber Shop 2: Back in Business in 2004, but it still supplied a solid opening for New Line and MGM. The Kevin Costner action thriller Criminal, however, opened with a mere $5.9 million for Lionsgate. It cost around $30 million to make. The Melissa McCarthy comedy The Boss, the number 1 film last weekend, dropped steeply. It slid 57 per cent with $10.2 million in its second week, landing in third place. Two well-reviewed films opened in limited release: the Weinstein Co.’s musical coming-of-age tale Sing Street ($69,000 in five theatres) and A24’s bloody thriller Green Room ($91,000 in three theatres).
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1. The Jungle Book, $103.6 million ($136.1 million international). 2. Barbershop: The Next Cut, $20.2 million. 3. The Boss, $10.2 million ($2.5 million international). 4. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, $9 million ($15.1 million international). 5. Zootopia, $8.2 million ($10.8 million international). 6. Criminal, $5.9 million ($2 million international). 7. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, $3.3 million. ($1.3 million international). 8. Miracles From Heaven, $1.9 million. 9. God’s Not Dead 2, $1.7 million. 10. Eye in the Sky, $1.6 million ($1.9 million international).
Chaplin’s World honours cinema legend with museum BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — As Charlie Chaplin finished out his long life on his bucolic Swiss manor, the former silent film star worried about drifting into oblivion, his connoisseurs say. Little chance of that. The legacy of the Hollywood legend behind The Dictator and Modern Times lives on today in the minds of stars like Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr., in Broadway plays and in the general cultural consciousness. But he never had bricks-and-mortar museum honouring his life and achievements. That changes Sunday with the public opening of Chaplin’s World, a multimillion-dollar project in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey. Its director-general says the museum is the first of its kind in the world to honour Chaplin, and has
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added value because it’s at a place he called home for years. The “Manoir de Ban” is where Chaplin lived his last 25 years raising children, writing music and movie scripts, and contemplating his legacy far from the glare of the Hollywood spotlight. Visitors can see his trademark bowler hat and cane, a replica studio, black-and-white photographs from his career, and the bedroom where he died at age 88 in 1977. Working with Paris’ Grevin museum, which is known for its wax figures, managers have displayed a number of figures of Chaplin as well as friends like Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill on the green 14-hectare (35-acre) grounds along Lake Geneva, said Jean-Pierre Pigeon, the Swiss-Canadian director of Chaplin’s World. “He was not just resting here, he was working. He was part of the region,” said Pigeon. “He was able to live a normal life here. He found
the right life-work balance here in Switzerland. In England, he was really poor, in the United States, he was really successful in his career and money-wise, but his real happiness was here for 25 years.” About two dozen of his children and grandchildren were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, which was Chaplin’s birthday. Organizers are hoping for more than 300,000 visits per year, Pigeon said, boosted by a nearby chocolate factory and a medieval castle. What would the famed English-born actor and director think about “Chaplin’s World?” “I think his first reaction would probably be ‘Oooh!”’ Pigeon said with a chuckle. “But there was one thing he was scared of: being forgotten. So this is a good way to broaden his notoriety.” “A place where people can laugh and get emotion: That’s what he would have wanted,” Pigeon said.
Lucas says a new potential lakefront site could help ensure a museum of Lucas’ art is built in Chicago. Mellody Hobson said Friday that the McCormick Place East convention centre site would provide “an excellent location” for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. A proposed plan would demolish a building and replace it with the 300,000-square-foot museum. Hobson tells the Chicago Tribune the plan would
create 12 additional acres of parkland. She’s hopeful that could avert a lengthy legal fight that could have led Lucas to locate the museum elsewhere. A parks advocacy group sued over a plan to build the museum near Soldier Field, saying it violated laws restricting development along Lake Michigan. The group says it’s reviewing the new proposal.
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Granddaughters need to clean up when visiting grandparents on holiday KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX
Dear Annie: My husband and I spend winters in a three-bedroom condo in Florida. A month ago, our daughter and her two teenage girls visited. We love having them. Here’s the problem: The girls share a bedroom with ample room for their clothes. But by end of the week, no clothes were in the drawers. Everything they had, dirty and clean, was on the floor, along with their used tissues. It was a mess. I thought this was disrespectful of our hospitality. When the older granddaughter was questioned about it, she said that she would have picked things up and put them away had she been at a friend’s house. So she knew better. Was I wrong to have expected them to have a reasonably clean room? I did keep their bedroom door closed most of the time, so I didn’t have to see it, but I thought the degree of mess was way beyond acceptable. Should I not have said anything? — Wondering Grandma Dear Grandma: It’s your house and these are your granddaughters.
JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Monday, April 18 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: James Woods, 69; David Tennant, 45; Kourtney Kardashian, 37 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to handle disruptions in a cool and controlled way. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are honourable and idealistic, but you can also be judgmental and unrealistic. The coming year is the time to bring your dreams down to earth — and support loved ones as they pursue theirs. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your ruling planet Mars is in retrograde motion, until June 30. So it’s time to slow down and reflect on
You not only get to say something, their mother should have spoken up, as well. The next time the girls visit, tell them you expect them to keep their room reasonably tidy, because it is unfair of them to make you work so hard. Put a basket in their room for dirty clothes, make sure there is a trash can for their used tissues and say that you’d appreciate it if everything else is put away before they go to sleep. They may not do everything perfectly, but they will likely get more done than they did last time. Don’t nag. Just remind them sweetly and with humor. And don’t worry. They will still love you, Grandma. Dear Annie: I read the letters you printed from “The Ones Left Behind,” who said she received no help from her ex-husband, but now the kids suddenly want a relationship with him, and “Been There,” who said it was important to re-establish a relationship with Dad, but Mom became angry. Please allow me to add a third side. My ex-wife was emotionally abusive and we divorced when my son was a year old. I dutifully paid child support and tried to be in my son’s life, but without warning, my ex moved away. For eight years, I couldn’t find them. One day, she called me out of the blue saying she couldn’t handle my son.
He stayed with me that summer, but she took him back and moved away again in the fall, because she didn’t like how well we got along. I could not track them down. I found my son on Facebook when he was 18. It made his mother extremely angry. He’s now 24, and we are still estranged because of the poison she fed him. Her hatred destroyed any possibility of a relationship with my child. Here’s what I say to all ex-wives: Make sure that the father supports your child, but also foster a good relationship between the child and the father. Your problems with your co-parent should not become your child’s problems. It only punishes the child. — Bitter But Still Hopeful Dear Bitter: Your ex sounds particularly unstable. But you are right that all divorced parents should put the kids first, and not use them to punish the ex-spouse.
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101-year-old Florida woman gets second chance at prom A 101-year-old Florida woman is getting a second chance at prom. Eleanor Bessin says she attended her prom on a boat in Boston with a man she had been planning to marry. However, he went off to serve in World War II, and when he returned, he developed cancer and died. She still carries his picture. Student government leaders from TERRA High School are setting up the dance for about 75 seniors at the Palace Nursing & Rehab. Nursing home staff will vote for a prom king and queen during Thursday’s prom.
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