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Tax deadline extended YOU HAVE TWO EXTRA DAYS TO FILE YOUR RETURN BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Procrastinators rejoice! You have two extra days to put off filing your income tax. Normally due at midnight on April 30, payment for 2015 income taxes has been extended to midnight on Monday because this year’s deadline is on the weekend, say
tax preparers set up at Bower Place in Red Deer. While there are always a few people who put it off to the last minute, the reality in the last four years or so is that fewer people are waiting until the last minute to bring their taxes in, said Carolyn Fraser, a tax preparer working in the Personal Tax Services kiosk at the east side of the mall.
“We don’t do the instant refund. Ours are electronically filed and our clientele has stayed steady,” said Fraser. People who are comfortable with a computer and whose tax returns are fairly straight forward are finding it fairly easy to file their own returns, using free or relatively inexpensive software, said Fraser.
“So, in the last four or five years, we haven’t been getting as much of a panic at the end.” Those whose income is on someone else’s payroll should not necessarily expect a refund on the taxes they’ve paid out through the year, said Fraser.
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Growth revenue may dip BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City officials are bracing for tough times ahead as the number crunching begins in preparation for the 2017 budgets. At open house on Tuesday, City Manager Craig Curtis said the city is projecting a significant loss in growth revenue. It is also dealing with the uncertainty of the carbon tax levy. “We rely on assessment growth every year and that grows as the city grows,” said Curtis. “In a really good year we will have $2.5 million in revenue. We anticipate it will be $1 million or less in new revenue. That has a significant impact on our projections for next year.” Mayor Tara Veer said city administration and council will be faced with a balancing act.
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Jake, Jolt and Jinx were born at the at the RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre near Innisfail on March 4, 2016. Every year, the centre invites children from across the country to submit names for its new puppies, especially bred for duty with human members of the RCMP. Suggested names were to begin with the letter J, indicating that they were born in 2016. See related story on Page A2.
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No tax increase in 2016 in Red Deer County BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer County will hold the line on taxes. No tax rate increase is proposed in 2016, according to the numbers outlined in a tax bylaw given first reading by council on Tuesday. The move reflects council’s commitment to limit the tax burden at a time when Alberta’s economy is struggling, said Mayor Jim Wood. “To be able to make the statement, that it’s going to be zero, is really important in these economic times,” said Wood.
Some residents may still pay more in municipal taxes when they get their tax bills next month. If a property’s assessment increased in the year ending last summer, when calculations are made, taxes will go up. However, for most there is expected to be
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minimal impact given the assessment numbers the county has seen. “We’re not seeing a huge change in the assessment. We’re seeing localized ups and downs,” said Wood. Coun. Philip Massier was also pleased to see a tax rate freeze, jokingly suggesting councillors won’t be cornered by irate ratepayers. “It should be easy having coffee tomorrow when we can say our tax increase is zero,” he said. On residential properties, the county’s tax rate works out to $374.06 per $100,000 of assessment. The owner of a property assessed at $400,000 can expect to pay $1,496 on the municipal portion of their bill.
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Special levies to support community services, protective services and for environmental projects also remained unchanged. The county was able to keep its taxes in check by managing expenses. The $76-million budget is up only slightly over the year prior. As well, unlike some municipalities, the county was not hit by a steep increase in the amount of money it must collect for schools on behalf of the province. Red Deer County saw only a 2.56 per cent increase in the school requisition, compared with 10.2 per cent in Calgary, where the issue generated controversy and led to a total tax bill increase of over six per cent.
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Council takes wait-and-see stance on beat patrol proposal BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Setting up a beat patrol program in downtown Red Deer could cost an estimated $1.4 million or pull nine police officers from other duties. Council supported the intent of Coun. Buck Buchanan’s motion to improve downtown safety on Monday but it drew the line on a new unit without knowing the outcome on pending changes to the federal auxiliary program and further discussions with the RCMP. Buchanan’s motion suggested using auxiliary members along with RCMP officers as part of a dedicated patrol in SCOTT TOD downtown Red Deer. There are 14 auxiliary officers in Red Deer. The federal government is expected to make changes to the duties and responsibilities of auxiliary officers this year. “Council is prioritizing safety but because there are so many initiatives underway right now, it felt out of step with directions that council has given on the whole in other areas,” said Mayor Tara Veer. Veer added until the city gets an official sense one way or another of the direction the RCMP is going with the auxiliary program, it seemed premature for council to adopt a focus or direction. Concerns were also raised about pulling officers from other priority areas including organized crime and property and persons crimes for the focused unit. Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod told council that the RCMP uses an Enhanced Policing approach to downtown safety with foot and bike patrols at strategic times. He said there is “constant and regular enforcement downtown.” Tod said there are regular patrols and enhanced patrols on weekdays and weekends in the downtown. Tod said he did not put much thought into the beat patrol strategy because it was just presented to him. The RCMP have a crime reduction strategy based on targeted enforcement, criminal analysis, hot spots, problematic offenders and social offenders, he said. “The social offenders are probably the ones downtown causing not crime but visibility issues or complaints,” said Tod. “These are the issues we are dealing with. I think given your limited resources, the strategy we have embarked upon is probably more effective in using resources as opposed to a high visibility reassurance type of policing that this beat patrol refers to. I am not opposed to it but given your limited resources I think the most effective is what we have in place.” Buchanan said his intent is to get a focused presence in the downtown so that people feel they are safe. Later this year the Community Safety Ad Hoc Committee’s is expected to release its community safety strategy recommendations. Council will discuss Coun. Paul Harris and Buchanan’s notice of motion on an advocacy position to the federal government to maintain the auxiliary program at its next meeting. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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A woman walks a dog in Coronation Park just north of Ross Street in Red Deer Tuesday afternoon. Recent moisture in the form of snow and rain will undoubtedly lead to more scenes like this where the bloom on trees and flower beds will brighten up the city.
Condor girl among lucky Canadians to name RCMP puppies BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Future Const. Jude, your picture is on its way to Condor, home of the schoolgirl who named you. Lacey Eldridge, who lives in the rural community about 50 km west of Red Deer, is among 13 Canadian children announced as this year’s winners of the RCMP’s puppy naming contest — one from each of the country’s provinces and territories. Every year, the Innisfail-based Police Dog Service Training Centre invites children from throughout the country to submit names for its new puppies, especially bred for duty with human members of the RCMP. Suggested names were to begin with the letter J, indicating that they were born in 2016. This year, the centre received almost 16,000 entries, narrowing the list of puppy names to Jango, Jolt, Jade, Jorgia, Jix, Jett, Jax, Juno, Java, Jinx, Jazz, Jake and, of course, Jude. Where a suitable name was suggested in more than one entry, the winner was drawn from among those entries. Like her fellow winners, Eldridge receives a package of goodies from the Dog Centre, including a certificate, a laminated photo of the puppy she named,
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County gives first reading to bylaw changes to secondary suites Red Deer County wants to make it easier for Gasoline Alley homeowners to set up secondary suites. Council gave first reading to bylaw changes that would make secondary suites a permitted use in a residential-zoned area north of McKenzie Road and east of Hwy 2A. The area is known as Liberty Landing and is earmarked for single-family homes and multi-family developments, including row houses, duplexes and apartments. The proposed change was prompted by a request from developers, who point to the increasing popularity of the suites to help offset mortgage costs and provide a space for aging parents.
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Fundraiser for refugees ends with gala An arts and fine crafts fundraiser for Syrian refugees closes with a Friday night gala at The Frame-It Store and Makers’ Emporium in Red Deer. Names have been stuffed into draw boxes all month by people willing to buy original artworks to benefit Red Deer Empathy to Action. It’s a fund that sponsors the entry of some Syrian families. Winning names will be drawn during a closing gala from 7:30-10 p.m. Friday at the framing store and gallery at 5102-47th Ave., near the downtown Co-op store. “There will be lots of things to see and buy, for a good cause,” says an organizer, who hopes for a great turn out.
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Jury find couple guilty in son’s death BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LETHBRIDGE — The mother of a toddler who died of meningitis began weeping uncontrollably Tuesday after a jury found her and her husband guilty of failing to provide their ill son with the necessaries of life. David and Collet Stephan were charged after 19-month-old Ezekiel died in March 2012. The couple testified at their trial in Lethbridge that they believed their son had croup or flu, so they treated him for 2 ½ weeks with remedies that included smoothies with hot peppers, garlic, onions and horseradish. He eventually stopped breathing and died after being rushed to hospital. The four-man, eight-woman jury had been deliberating since Monday afternoon. There was a gasp in the courtroom as the decision from the jurors came down. The defence argued the couple were loving, responsible parents who simply didn’t realize how sick the little boy was. The Crown said the Stephans didn’t do enough to ensure Ezekiel received the medical help he needed. The prosecution noted that the Stephans had been warned by a friend who was a registered nurse that the boy probably had meningitis. The maximum penalty for failing to provide the necessaries of life is five years in prison. Justice Rodney Jerke did not set a sentencing date. That’s to be decided at a court appearance on
June 13. The Stephans were not taken into custody. “This case is not yet over, but a big chapter has come to a close,” Jerke said. He noted that you only had to look at the faces of the jurors to tell “this was a difficult case.” Crown prosecutor Lisa Weich said the charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life ensures that people who cannot care for themselves receive the minimal standard of care expected by society. “They definitely, definitely loved their son but as stated in our closing arguments, unfortunately sometimes love just isn’t enough,” Weich said outside court. “Parents still have to follow a standard of care as set by criminal law.” A Stephan family member swore at the media as she left the courthouse, saying she would not speak to reporters. The case has drawn international attention, due in part because of the societal divide between those who do and don’t believe in the natural medicine movement. Court documents entered at the trial said just days before Ezekiel was rushed to hospital his family was giving him fluids through an eyedropper because he wouldn’t eat or drink. The jury also heard that Collet Stephan researched treatments for viral meningitis online and picked up an echinacea mixture from a naturopath in Lethbridge. Court was told Ezekiel was too stiff to sit in his car seat and had to lie on a mattress on the way to a naturopath’s office the day before he stopped breathing. He is involved in community service through the cadets, and last summer, also through the cadets, he became a pilot when he learned to fly a Cessna 152. He wants to go to Royal Military College in Kingston and become a fighter pilot. Both Andersen and Paquet took about two years to achieve the silver award level and plan on now working towards the gold level.
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Man charged with accessory to murder appears in court A man charged with accessory to murder in connection with the stabbing death of a man at Red Deer’s Village Mall last November made a court appearance on Friday. Wayant Donald Chapin, 37, is accused of helping Daniel Boyd Sawyer, 31, escape following the alleged stabbing of Alan Beach in the parking lot of the mall on Nov. 18. Chapin appeared through a closed-circuit TV link to the Calgary Remand Centre. His next court appearance is May 4 in Red Deer provincial court. Sawyer is facing a second-degree murder charge. He turned himself into Red Deer RCMP on Nov. 27 and has been in custody since. A preliminary hearing for him has been set for Aug. 29 to 31.
Police seeking a stolen car have arrested the woman they allege was driving it. Members of the Red Deer City RCMP had been looking for a small car reported stolen from a location in Clearview Market since April 23. A member spotted the car being driven through
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Oriole Park shortly after the initial report. Police followed its travels throughout the northern area of the city, but did not attempt to pull it over out of concern for public safety, says Const. Derek Turner in a news release issued on Monday. A suspect recognized by police was arrested near the car while it was parked in the Normandeau subdivision. Police allege finding a number of documents inside the car, including papers stolen from two other vehicles. The documents included registrations, insurance cards, cheques and other personal papers that could be used for identity theft and fraud. A 24-year-old woman is charged with three counts of possessing stolen property, breach a recognizance, driving while unauthorized and driving an uninsured vehicle.
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Two Central Alberta air cadets have won the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award. Nolan Andersen of Red Deer and Joel Paquet of Lacombe were presented with the youth achievement Silver Award by Lois Mitchell, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, at a recent ceremony. Twenty-one other Alberta youth also received the award. To win the award, young people must put in hours of work in physical recreation, community service, skills and exploring the environment. Any youth age 14 to 24 can participate in the program regardless of physical or mental abilities, social, economic, religious, or ethnic backgrounds. Andersen, 16, is a flight sergeant with the Red Deer Royal Canadian Air Cadets. He also volunteers at Red Deer Regional Hospital and the Red Deer Hospice. He has been a cadet for five years and attends Notre Dame High School. One of the skills he worked on was marksmanship, which was more than just shooting because he can apply it to everyday life in terms of focusing on the task at hand. He’s thinking about joining the Canadian Armed Forces. Paquet, 17, who was home schooled and now attends the Lacombe Outreach school, has been a member of the Ponoka Royal Canadian Air Cadets for four years, currently reaching the level of Warrant Officer 2nd Class.
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Energy revolution already upon us GREG NEIMAN OPINION
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ince the proclamation of the Leap Manifesto at the recent NDP national convention in Edmonton, there’s been a lot of doom-saying on both sides of the economy-versus-energy industry debate. If we don’t radically reduce our use of fossil fuels, are we on a path to climate change catastrophe? Or is Leap the manifestation of a fevered mind, bent on destroying our way of life? A lot of these arguments remind me of two groups carrying on a heated online discussion on the colour of the sky. Is it the azure blue of day, or the rich dark of night? Actually, if you look outside, it’s raining. If you connect the dots to four significant articles in the good old Globe and Mail on Tuesday, it will put the Leap debate into sharper focus. First, there is the ongoing coverage of Alberta premier Rachel Notley pleading before the federal cabinet for stronger support for a pipeline project.
Any project, as long as it carries Alberta bitumen to a saltwater port. The exercise is probably pointless, and we’ll get to that later. That’s because of the other three articles. First of those is an announcement that Saudi Aramco plans to go public — partially, very partially. The royal family-owned national energy giant says it plans to hive off five per cent of its holdings in a public offering. That’s roughly the market value of Alphabet, the company that owns Google. In fact, if you combined the values of all the shares of Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Exxon Mobil together, you would still not reach the approximately $2 trillion that Aramco is said to be worth. And the Saudis are selling. Why? To diversify their economy, according to the Globe article. They want the Saudi economy to contain 35 per cent of income generation from small and medium-sized businesses. A reasonable goal, I suppose. Would Aramco, with its 261 billion barrels of cheaply recoverable crude and condensate be a good buy? Hmm … perhaps not if the Saudis are starting to wean themselves off it. And why would that be? Perhaps an essay by Stephen Carlisle, president
and managing director of General Motors Canada can shed light on that. His article, published in the Report on Business opinion page, is as astounding as the news the Saudis are selling part of their national energy monopoly. The car of the future will be electric, says the General Motors head honcho. It will be self-driving. It will be shared. It will not burn gasoline. He likened this impending change to the revolution that saw the end of horse-drawn carriages, beginning in the early 1900s. It took 50 years, but millions of horses, harness makers and carriage factories were buried by that revolution. Carlisle wrote that Mary Barra, GM’s board chair and chief executive officer has made it her mission to “disrupt our business model and to own the customer relationship beyond the car.” What’s good for General Motors is good for us all, right? And General Motors does not see a car in every garage in our economy’s future. Electric, autonomous and shared — this is where General Motors plans to stake its future value for its shareholders. A fourth article appears in the Globe’s Drive section. It opens with
the assertion there is a sense of inevitability that cars will soon drive themselves. Electric cars, that is. No gasoline to burn, at least not in city centres, where the vast majority of car trips are taken. Why is premier Notley so obsessed with pipelines, when even the Saudis and General Motors see a future with less and less oil needed to run the economy? When crude oil stockpiles are already flooded? When everyone everywhere agrees the planet cannot withstand continued growth in the burning of fossil fuels? Just asking. It appears obvious that our debate over the Leap Manifesto should not be about its relevance or usefulness. It should be about the fact that an energy revolution is already upon us, and that we need to adapt to a new reality. We’ve still got time. A little, anyway. Carlisle said the horses-to-cars revolution took 50 years. According to the recently signed Paris Accord on climate change, we’ve got till 2030. We need to use that time to build toward the future that is coming, not to the one we wish we could keep. That’s not a leap, it’s practical reality. Follow Greg Neiman’s blog at Readersadvocate.blogspot.ca
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Rethinking the missile defence issue TIM HARPER OPINION
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t was barely a decade ago, but much of the emotional debate on both sides of the border over Canada’s participation in a North American missile-defence program seems already forgotten. It was an issue that pivoted on matters of Canadian sovereignty, bilateral relations and the weaponization of space, but for the prime minister of the day, Paul Martin, the decision to stay out of the American program was really about the toxicity of the U.S. president of the day, George W. Bush. Will things be different in 2017? The debate over continental ballistic missile defence is back for an encore. Almost from the moment Martin snubbed Bush’s overtures, defence officials in this country have been working to get the question back on the agenda. Now Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has tossed out ballistic missile defence as something he wants Canadians to pronounce on as part of a review of defence policy. A public consultation paper from the defence department says “Given
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the increase in the number of countries with access to ballistic-missile technology and their potential to reach North America, this threat is expected to endure and grow more sophisticated in the coming decades.” Is it time to revisit the 2005 decision, the paper asks, and would it provide greater Canadian security and better continental co-operation? This is not the Trudeau government blue-skying, although a spokesperson for Sajjan says the minister is merely open to a public discussion on the issue. Almost two years ago, a Senate committee recommended Canadian participation in a North American missile defence program. It had the unanimous backing of both Liberal and Conservative senators, but the Conservative government of Stephen Harper did not move on the recommendations. The U.S. has a long list of missile-defence partners, a list that includes the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Israel, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Italy. But this is an American program and it is operated by U.S. military personnel in its Pacific, Japanese and European command. Canada backs the NATO missile-defence program, but has resisted U.S. entreaties for continental co-operation. The Canadian concern is no differ-
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ent than Washington’s concern — it is the unstable and unsettling North Korean leadership and its military capabilities. But the political equation on this continent is much different than 2005. Then, Bush was neck-deep in a mess in Iraq. Martin had a minority. The two countries were dealing with the fallout of the Chrétien government’s decision to stay out of Iraq and Bush had already cancelled one trip to Canada after members of the Liberal caucus broke an unspoken agreement that if Ottawa stayed out of Bush’s coalition, they would at least keep their mouths shut about the American foray. When Bush finally visited Ottawa, the two sides had also agreed Bush would not publicly raise the question of missile defence. He promptly broke that agreement and he was accused of trying to bully Martin (denied by Ottawa) into joining the agreement. The atmosphere could not have been more poisonous and two months after bidding Bush adieu at Uplands Airport, Martin formally decided against Canadian participation. “There is hope that we could have a better debate and understanding of the issue this time around,” says David Perry, senior defence analyst at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. “The view of the Obama government is drastically different here than was the perception of the Bush administra-
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tion then.” There are practical questions — the cost, the lack of a credible threat against Canada, and questions over the efficiency of the American plan, which has cost Washington $100 billion over the past 10 years. There is also the overarching question of whether we should be allowing our security to be dictated out of Washington. But there is little or no prospect this could get done before Obama leaves office and, again, political considerations will weigh heavy. A Democrat in the White House will be much easier for Justin Trudeau to deal with on questions such as these, but a Republican — Donald Trump or Ted Cruz — will be a wild card. Both Cruz and Trump have said they would rein in the bloated Pentagon budget, but Cruz has also said he would acquire 12 ballistic missile-launching submarines. Trump’s views haven’t been clearly laid out. More crucially, Trudeau cannot be expected to embrace a military plan backed by either Republican. Anything that smacks of a surrender of Canadian sovereignty to Trump would not fly here. And the military advisers may find themselves again buffeted by the heavy weather of political reality. Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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GOLF BLOOMS WITH THIS YEAR’S WARM SPRING BY ADVOCATE STAFF
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warm spring has been a boon to Central Alberta golf courses, able to open for a longer season than other years. And with the 2016 season in full swing early, a couple of area courses have made some improvements. A new golf year and six new holes has rejuvenated the Olds Golf Course for years to come. Wade Bearchell, Olds Golf Course pro, said the new holes have made an already great golf course even better. “They’ve been modernized, the green complexes have been modernized,” said Bearchell. “We used Puddicombe Golf out of Edmonton. Over the last 10 years we’ve spent about $1-million renovating our tee complexes and this time we renovated the course with greens and some tees as well.” Hole 6 has changed from a par 5 to a par 4, Hole 7 is an entirely new par 3 with water features, Hole 8 has new tees and anew green, Hole 9 is now a par 5, Hole 16 has a changed green complex and Hole 17 has a new set of tees that Bearchell said changed the look of the hole. “A lot of the community-owned golf courses were
built in the 1970s and 1980s,” said Bearchell, adding the change was meant to keep things fresh and to provide playable surfaces and greens. “In our case, it was to make the golf course more user-friendly, more modern and more fun to play.” The Lakewood Golf Resort in Sylvan Lake didn’t change much on the course. But Scott Bergdahl, course pro for the last nine years, said they have hired on an assistant pro to help with the growth of business at the course. Kim Brozer played on the LPGA tour off-and-on from 1999 to 2007 and more recently was the assistant pro at the River Bend Golf Club in Red Deer. “She’s had plenty of teaching experience and playing experience and we wanted to bring her in as our assistant professional,” said Bergdahl. The warm weather has put the course into mid-season form by mid-April. It happened last year, but Bergdahl was appreciative of the good golfing season. The nine-hole regulation length course is located north east of Sylvan Lake on Township Road 391.
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No ransom for terrorists: PM BY THE CANADIAN PRESS KANANASKIS — Canada “does not and will not” pay ransom to terrorists, either directly or indirectly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. Trudeau found himself responding Tuesday to more questions about the death of Canadian John Ridsdel, who was killed by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines after seven months of captivity. “Obviously, this is a significant source of funds for terrorist organizations that then allow them to continue to perpetrate deadly acts of violence against innocents around the world,” Trudeau said. “Paying ransom for Canadians would endanger the lives of every single one of the millions of Canadians who live work and travel around the globe every single year.” Ridsdel, 68, of Calgary, was one of four tourists — including fellow Canadian Robert Hall, a Norwegian man and a Filipino woman — who were kidnapped last Sept. 21 by Abu Sayyaf militants from a marina on southern Samal Island. The Norwegian hostage is also a Canadian permanent resident, a government official — speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the details publicly — said Tuesday. Trudeau — whose news conference marked the end of a three-day Liberal cabinet retreat in the Alberta mountain retreat of Kananaskis, Alta. — also denied having had any direct hand in any negotiations. The militants had threatened to kill one of the three male hostages if a large ransom was not paid by 3 p.m. Monday local time — 3 a.m. ET. A plastic bag containing Ridsdel’s decapitated head was dumped in a street Monday night by two men on a motorcycle in Jolo, a town in Sulu province. Abu Sayyaf — the name means “bearer of the sword” in Arabic — sprang up in the early 1990s as an offshoot of another, larger Islamic insurgent group. The federal government, which considers Abu Sayyaf to be a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaida, says its ostensible goal is the establishment of an Islamic state governed by sharia law in the southern portion of the Philippines archipelago. Trudeau also described an exchange of condolences with British prime minister David Cameron — Ridsdel was a dual Canadian and British citizen — in which the two leaders agreed it’s time to establish some global ground rules on dealing with ransom demands. “The U.K. does have a firm position, like Canada, of not paying ransom,” Trudeau said. “We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure that we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world as we come to grips with the fact that the world is a dangerous place, and we need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence (by) taking innocents hostage.” Nonetheless, the issue of whether governments acquiesce to the demands of terror groups has long been murky, and is likely to remain an open question regardless of what Trudeau and his fellow leaders decide. An al-Qaida letter obtained by The Associated Press three years ago suggests about $1 million was paid for the release of Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler in Niger in 2009. Fowler, the highest-ranking United Nations official in the African country, and his colleague Louis Guay, were kidnapped and held for four months before being released. The news agency did not indicate who provided the $1 million for Fowler and Guay. In a published memoir, Fowler said he did not know if a ransom was paid. However, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported the deal — brokered by several Western nations working through African intermediaries — involved a prisoner swap and multimillion-dollar payment.
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A small group gathered for a vigil to honour executed Canadian John Ridsdel at City Hall in Calgary, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Ridsdel, a Canadian killed by hostage-takers in the Philippines, was remembered as a brilliant, compassionate man with a talent for friendship.
Philippine troops hunt extremists who beheaded Ridsdel BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military came under increased pressure Tuesday to rescue more than 20 foreign hostages after their Muslim extremist captors beheaded a Canadian man, but troops face a dilemma in how to succeed without endangering the remaining captives. Abu Sayyaf gunmen beheaded John Ridsdel on Monday in the southern province of Sulu, sparking condemnations and prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pledge to help the Philippines pursue the extremists behind the “heinous act.” “Canada condemns without reservation the brutality of the hostage takers and this unnecessary death,” Trudeau told reporters. “This was an act of cold-blooded murder and responsibility rests squarely with the terrorist group who took him hostage.” Trudeau said he spoke earlier with President Benigno Aquino III. “The discussions I had with President Aquino and are continuing to have with our allies in the Philippines is the need to bring these criminals to justice and to do whatever we can to express that we are very concerned about security of Canadians, but at the same time, we will not pay a ransom,” Trudeau said. Ridsdel’s head, which was placed in a plastic bag, was dumped by motorcycle-riding militants Monday night in Jolo town in impoverished Sulu, a densely forested province about 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Manila, where the Abu Sayyaf and allied gunmen are believed to be holding 22 foreign hostages from six Western and Asian countries. It’s a politically sensitive time for troops to carry out major offensives, at the height of campaigning in a closely fought race among four contenders in the May 9 presidential election.
Mountie denies tying up son during family vacation BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A boy at the centre of a horrific abuse case lied when he told investigators he had been tied up in a hotel room during a family vacation, his father testified Tuesday at his trial on charges including assault and forcible confinement. The father, an RCMP officer who is accused of chaining his 11-year-old in the basement of his home for month, told court the boy frequently made up outlandish stories. In a second day of testimony in his own defence, the officer detailed behavioural problems he said he experienced with his son, suggesting the boy was often out of control. “That type of behaviour was evilish,” he said. The man, whose name cannot be published in order to protect the boy’s identity, described in detail a Florida family vacation taken in 2012, a trip he said he thought his son enjoyed. Last fall, the boy testified that during the vacation he was left tied up in a hotel room, where he was forced to urinate on himself. “That never happened,” the officer said under questioning from his lawyer Robert Carew. He showed the court pictures from two vacations where he, his wife and three children appeared happy together. The Mountie, now 44 and suspended from the force without pay, and the boy’s stepmother were charged in February 2013 after the 11-year-old was found wandering in search of water. The court earlier heard testimony that the boy was fed two peanut butter pitas a day before escap-
ing his chains and weighed only 50 pounds when taken to hospital. The man said his son consistently made up stories and that it always frustrated him. He said his son told him that he wanted to be allowed to misbehave with no repercussions. His frustrations with the boy’s behaviour, combined with problems at work, led him to go on anti-depressants, said the officer. He also testified that he attempted suicide three times, the first time at age 19 and twice later when he felt helpless against his son’s problems. The boy finished the 2012 school year in June, but never returned after his parents decided to homeschool him the following September. That seemed to be a good decision, for about a month and a half, until the boy “suddenly decided he didn’t want to do homework anymore,” the father testified. And soon, the boy was acting out again, even defecating on his books, the man said. In a police interview after his arrest in 2013, the officer admitted he tied his son to a wall or a pole in the basement of his home, where the boy developed cuts on his wrists from the chains or plastic zip ties used to bind him. The man and his wife each face a charge of aggravated assault, forcible confinement and failing to provide the necessaries of life. The woman is also charged with assaulting the boy with a weapon, while the man faces other charges of sexual assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon. The current portion of the trial is scheduled to run until May 6.
Lawyer questions death-threats case BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A Cape Breton teen has been charged with making death threats entirely on the basis of sarcastic lyrics of a song he posted on Facebook, says his lawyer, who argues the case does not meet the test of a Criminal Code threat. Nelson Fletcher Rudderham, 18, of Inverness, was arrested March 22 after RCMP said they investigated a report of threats against students and staff of Inverness Education Centre Academy. Rudderham was later charged with uttering death
threats. Defence lawyer Kevin Patriquin maintains his client simply posted a song to a social media site, which police allege constitutes the threat. “It was a song,” Patriquin said. “It wasn’t intended to be taken seriously and that’s essentially it.” Patriquin said Rudderham even went so far as to indicate on the site that the song was meant to be sarcastic. “I don’t think it meets the test of a Criminal Code threat. Whether or not the school authorities should be concerned and take their own discipline, that’s another matter.”
ABU SAYYAF A look at the major attacks by the Abu Sayyaf: ● April 1995: Abu Sayyaf fighters storm the mostly Christian town of Ipil in the south, killing more than 50 people after robbing banks and stores. ● April 2000: Twenty-one people, including European tourists, are seized from Malaysia’s Sipadan diving resort and hauled across the sea border by speedboats to jungle camps in the southern Philippines. All of the hostages were freed in batches in exchange for millions of dollars in ransom reportedly paid by Libya. ● May 2001: Twenty tourists, including three Americans, are kidnapped from the Dos Palmas resort in southwestern Palawan province, starting a yearlong hostage saga that leaves a number of captives dead, including U.S. citizens Martin Burnham and Guillermo Sobero, who was beheaded. ● August 2001: Ten Christian villagers of the Balobo community on southern Basilan Island are beheaded by the militants to retaliate against a military offensive. ● October 2002: A nail-laden bomb detonates in Zamboanga city, killing four. ● February 2004: A bomb on a passenger ferry in Manila Bay kills 116 in the country’s worst militant attack. ● February 2005: Nearly simultaneous bombings in Manila and two southern cities kill eight and wound more than 100. ● November 2015: Militants in Sulu behead a Malaysian man while the APEC summit is underway in Manila, attended by President Obama and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. ● April 2016: Canadian John Ridsdel, 68, is beheaded in Sulu. Twenty-two other foreign hostages remain in Abu Sayyaf custody.
Canada BRIEFS Father charged with murder in death of five-year-old girl recovered from home CARBONEAR, N.L. — A Newfoundland father has been charged with the first-degree murder of his five-year-old daughter after her body was found in a burned-out home. Trent Butt, 37, will also face an arson charge in a case that police say has proven difficult for the small communities of Carbonear and Harbour Grace. “It’s quite stressful for the fire officials, the paramedics and our officers,” said Harbour Grace RCMP Staff Sgt. Howard Gale. “They’re all being affected by it. Nearly everyone in our office has young kids.” Only a few hours before the fire, Butt had posted a photo of himself with the girl, Quinn, to Facebook, her arm draped around his neck and her head resting against his cheek. Butt was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the fire at about 5 a.m. Sunday in Carbonear, about an hour outside St. John’s. Gale said he is expected to survive though he couldn’t reveal anything more about his condition. He said an autopsy was done Monday on Quinn, but that he did not yet have the results. “We’ve been investigating and we’ve uncovered enough evidence to charge him with first-degree murder and arson,” he said.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Notley off to U.S. to extol climate-change plan BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she is going to Washington, D.C., this week to spread the word on her government’s climate-change plan. Notley says Alberta taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint is a story that needs to be emphasized with decision-makers and those with reach and influence. “This is simply about going to Washington to … improve Alberta’s reputation and educate people about the changes we are bringing about through the climate leadership plan,” Notley said Tuesday. “Alberta is not the Alberta that they
thought of a year ago, or two years ago, or three years ago. And the more we can (emphasize) that, the more that helps us (in) finding new markets around the world.” It’s a whirlwind trip. The premier is to fly out Wednesday for two days of meetings with elected representatives, administration officials and public policy think-tanks. She is also to meet with David MacNaughton, Canadian ambassador to the United States, as well as have a briefing with Gitane De Silva, Alberta’s representative in Washington. Her final appearance will be a speech at the Center for Canadian Studies at John Hopkins University. Alberta’s climate-change plan outlines steps to cap oilsands emissions,
eliminate coal-fired electricity and introduce a broad-based carbon tax. Notley has said when others see that Alberta is serious about environmental protection, it gives the province more credibility when it advocates for fossil-fuel infrastructure such as pipelines. The premier has been advocating for a pipeline to the coast so that Alberta oil can fetch a better price overseas rather than receiving a discounted price from the U.S. as its sole customer. Notley said the trip is not about the Keystone XL pipeline, which would take Alberta crude to Gulf coast ports and refineries in Texas. U.S. President Barack Obama rejected Keystone last November.
STD rates up dramatically across province BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Gonorrhea and syphilis rates dramatically spiked across Alberta last year mostly due to the use of social media, according to health officials. Gonorrhea cases were up 80 per cent in 2015 from 2014, and infectious syphilis doubled. Both have reached outbreak levels. “We believe one of the key drivers in this particular spike in STIs (sexually transmitted infections) is due to the use of social media to set up sexual encounters. In terms of transmission of STIs, new social media tools enable people to communicate quickly and anonymously,” said Dr. Karen Grimsrud, chief medical officer of health, at a press conference in Edmonton on Tuesday. She said when people don’t know their sexual partners it is also more difficult to track STIs and contact partners for testing and treatment. Rates for gonorrhea and syphilis were highest in the Edmonton area. But the rest of the province, including Central Alberta, also saw increases. Grimsrud said gonorrhea and syphilis cases have increased gradually since 2010. Alberta had over 3,400 gonorrhea cases in 2015 and 1,100 already in 2016. “The preliminary rate of gonorrhea in 2015 in the province was 82 cases per 100,000 population. That hasn’t been reported at that level since the
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late 1980s.” The female rate of infection for gonorrhea jumped 93 per cent from 2014. The rate has increased for young aboriginal women in particular. The overall gonorrhea rate for men increased 66 per cent. The estimated rate among men who have sex with men is 11 times higher than the provincial rate for all men. She said more than 350 cases of syphilis were reported in 2015 to surpass historic levels last seen in 2009. So far in 2016 there have been 123 cases. “The majority of cases have been seen in men who have sex with men, that’s about 86 per cent. And a quarter of all cases are infected with HIV,” Grimsrud said. Dr. Gerry Predy, medical officer of health for Alberta Health Services, said the rate of STI infection show no sign of levelling off. AHS is partnering with Alberta Health to increase awareness efforts so the public and atrisk groups know how to protect themselves and where to get treatment. AHS has expanded STI clinic hours in Edmonton and Calgary, increased outreach testing in Edmonton in collaboration with agencies serving aboriginal and the men who have sex with men populations. AHS has reached out to physicians to increase STI testing for sexually active clients. AHS will continue to promote www. sexgerms.com and its social media campaign to raise awareness and encourage STI testing.
Testing in Alberta is free and anonymous. “The good news is most STIs can be treated and cured, but only if you know you have them. Left untreated, many STIs can cause long term health issues. For example, chlamydia infections can result in infertility. Left untreated, syphilis can result in involvement of the central nervous system. And while HIV and AIDS treatment have made great advances in managing the disease, there is no cure for HIV or AIDS at this time,” Predy said. Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, Turning Point executive director, started hearing about an increase in gonorrhea and syphilis cases in February. She was cautious about whether AHS would be the best group to reach people through social media. “Sometimes the larger organizations have political problems putting out information that will catch people’s eyes,” Vanderschaeghe said. She said nimble non-profits can respond fast. Turning Point has a part-time employee focused on the men who have sex with men community. “A lot of his work is online on some of the websites and apps that people use to hook up so certainly we continue to have conversations about safer sex, but also STI testing.” She said tests can be ordered locally at doctors’ offices, the Sexual Health Clinic and the Street Clinic. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
were refused development permits last October because they didn’t comply with rules such as being too close to schools. Up to 100 of the businesses could still be operating when the six-month grace period ends Friday, she said. Dispensaries that did not meet regulations were given time to find other sites that are a minimum of 300 metres from schools, community centres and each other. Toma said inspectors will start issuing tickets on Saturday to businesses that continue to operate in unregulated locations and that haven’t been granted a business licence. Violators must pay $250 for every day they remain open and the city could also pursue court action, including a $10,000 fine or an injunction order to have stores closed down, she said. “Residents have told us they’re not
concerned with having a medical marijuana business in their community. What they have a concern with is having a plethora of them,” she said. Chuck Varabioff, who owns B.C. Pain Society, said one of his two stores was denied a permit but the city refused to hear an appeal in February. Varabioff said he will not close his store by Friday even though it is 93 metres from a school and does not meet the buffer zone requirement. “I will have a stack of post-dated cheques lined up on my desk and when the city comes in I’ll happily hand them 100 post-dated cheques.” The BC Compassion Club, which has operated in Vancouver for nearly 20 years, was granted permission last week to stay open despite the fact that it is closer to a school than Varabioff’s business.
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TAXES: Don’t suffer penalties A good payroll department will have tax deductions worked out so that employees in normal circumstances will finish their year with a very small balance coming back or a very small amount owing. That’s the way the income tax system is set up, said Fraser. “They didn’t set it up to take all this money from you and then give it back.” Refunds become more likely if there are deductible expenses, such as moving, RRSPs or tuition fees, she said. People are more likely to need help with their taxes if they have different sources of income, including self employment. The bottom line for everyone is that any monies left owing on their tax accounts has to be paid up by midnight on Monday or suffer the penalties. Farms and businesses have until June 30 to file their returns, but the tax payments are still due on May 2. Most farms and small businesses will have made quarterly or monthly installments to accommodate the deadline. For anyone who hasn’t filed their taxes yet, arriving at the mall at 8 p.m. on Monday will be too late to hit that deadline, said Marlena Bullee, a tax preparer at the H&R Block kiosk set up in the Hudson’s Bay store at the west side of the mall. Because of mall and store hours, the kiosk will shut down at 9 p.m. on Monday, said Bullee. Therefore, anyone who needs to hit that midnight deadline is going to have to come in well
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City of Red Deer resident Doug Taylor talks about traffic issues with RCMP Superintendent Scott Tod and operations support officer Heidi Wild during the Budget 2017 Open House at Festival Place on Tuesday. before closing hours so tax preparers will have time to review and complete their returns, she said. There was no sign of a last-minute panic at the mall kiosk, although the company’s Clearview Market office was quite busy, said Bullee. “I think that our location isn’t as well known,” she said. “The boss lady says she’s hoping that May 2nd is going to be crazy busy, so I guess we’ll see here.” H&R Block will maintain a full staff through to deadline, anticipating that there may be a last-minute rush, said Bullee.
The remittance can be paid online by anyone who has a Canada Revenue Agency account number, she said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com
BUDGET: Services may be reduced “We need to move the community forward because we are still growing but we need to do that in a very affordable way,” said Veer. “Sometimes you
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NDP vows to deal with repair backlog BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Minister of Seniors and Housing Lori Sigurdson says confronting deferred maintenance repairs of seniors lodges and housing is a priority for the province. Sigurdson said more than $238 million will be put towards addressing the $1 billion-backlog of maintenance and repairs inherited from the previous government. “Most housing units are at least 30 years old, and in the cases of senior lodges many are 40 or more years old,” said Sigurdson, who spoke to members of the Alberta Seniors Communities & Housing Association convention held at Sheraton Red Deer on Tuesday. The NDP government recently committed $1.2 billion over the next five years in affordable housing and seniors lodges as part of its new fiscal plan, but others want to turn back the clock and are calling for extreme and reckless cuts that will make a bad situation worse, she said. “They are proposing billions of dollars in cuts to front-line services, no new schools, no new hospitals, no new roads, no plan to open up new markets and no investments for housing or seniors. The government sees things differently. This government believes it’s time to invest and we’re doing just that.” She said the province is also investing $581 million into the major replacement and renewal of existing social housing and seniors lodges. “(Seniors’) contributions to our province was enormous. They worked hard and played by the rules to save up a little nest egg that they could retire on, carefully calculating every nickle and dime to make ends meet. But many of them can’t find an affordable, safe place to age in community, especially in these economic times.” Another $60 million has been allocated for fire and safety system upgrades for 6,600 senior lodges and continuing care units across the province, with $30 million of that money to be invested this year, she said. On Tuesday, Sigurdson announced the continuation of a $150,000 grant to the Alberta Seniors Communities & Housing Association (ASCHA) for its online seniors housing directory, regional collaboration, education, sharing best practices and to optimize utilization. ASCHA members provide housing to over 30,000 seniors that includes independent living, supportive living and designated supportive living offered by the voluntary, public and private sectors. Raymond Swonek, ASCHA president, said a two per cent increase to the lodge assistance program grant this year was another piece of good news in the new provincial budget. There hasn’t been an increase for about four years. And the government’s capital investment is huge, he said. “That’s going to really help our organizations improve the condition for seniors in their communities and build more capacity, more affordable housing for seniors in the communities,” Swonek said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com are faced with more difficult choices of what is a ‘yes’, what is a ‘no’ and what is a ‘not yet’.” The uncertain provincial climate and the carbon tax levy will come into play, said Veer. “It could shift the city’s budget one way or other,” she said. “Our preliminary estimates indicate between two and four per cent for the City of Red Deer alone on carbon levy. When you consider that council’s preliminary budget guideline for 2017 is 2.5 per cent, of which one per cent for capital savings, that only leaves 1.5 per cent for operational growth. If the carbon levy is applied we would not be in a position to even accommodate that preliminary guidelines.” But Veer said she is pleased that council took a position on the carbon levy, which is that it should be revenue neutral for municipalities. She is optimistic it will catch the province’s attention. “We want to know what the community values,” said Curtis. “We don’t have much capacity to add services. There may in fact be some services, which the community feels may be reduced.” The open house at Festival Hall was the first forum for the city to gather information from residents on how they would like to see the tax dollars spent. Early next month the city’s new budget bus will stop at specific locations to allow more to provide input into the budgets. Resident Dave Schurman attended the meeting to give positive feedback on last winter’s snow clearing campaign. Schurman, who is a regular at the budget open houses, wanted to find out more about the changes to the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection. He was also interested in learning more about the small bus pilot. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Lower rates the norm: Poloz PENSIONS SHOULD BRACE FOR NEW NORMAL OF LOWER NEUTRAL INTEREST RATES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is recommending pension funds get ready for a new normal: neutral interest rates lower than they were before the financial crisis. Poloz told a Wall Street audience Tuesday that the fate of neutral rates — the levels he said will prevail once the world economy recovers — remain unknown, but they will almost certainly be lower than previously thought. The central banker made the comment during a question-and-answer period that followed his speech on global trade growth. Among the reasons, Poloz pointed to the more-pessimistic outlook for potential long-term global growth. The forecast was lowered to 3.2 per cent from four per cent, he said. “That downgrade means the neutral rate of interest will be lower for sure — for a very long time,” said Poloz, who added it could go even lower if economic “headwinds” continue. “Those in the pension business need to get used to it. They need to adapt to it.” Since the 2008 global financial crisis, pension funds around the world have had to contend with market un-
certainty, feeble growth and record-low interest rates. P e n s i o n funds use longterm interest rates to calculate their liabilities. The lower the rates, the more money plans need to have to ensure STEPHEN POLOZ they will be able to pay future benefits. A December report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said the conditions have “cast doubts on the ability of defined-contribution systems and annuity schemes to deliver adequate pensions.” To cushion the Canadian economy from the shock of lower commodity prices, Poloz lowered the central bank’s key rate twice last year to 0.5 per cent — just above its historic low of 0.25. Poloz linked the higher neutral interest rates of the past to the baby boom, which he described as a 50-year
period of higher labour-force participation and better growth. “Well, that’s behind us,” Poloz told the meeting of the Investment Industry Association of Canada and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. “We don’t have numbers for all this, but you need to be scenario-testing those pension plans and the needs of your clients because the returns simply won’t be there.” But with all the unpredictability Poloz said it remains possible current headwinds could convert into positive forces that would push interest rates back to “more-normal levels” seen prior to the crisis. Earlier Tuesday, Poloz’s speech touched on another aspect of the post-crisis world. He told the crowd they shouldn’t expect to see a return of the “rapid pace of trade growth” the world saw for the two decades before the crisis. Poloz was optimistic, however, that the “striking weakness” in international trade wasn’t a sign of a looming global recession. He said the renewed slowdown in global exports is more likely a result of the fact that big opportunities to boost global trade have already been largely exploited.
As an example, he noted China could only join the World Trade Organization once. Poloz expressed confidence that most of the trade slump will be reversed as the global economy recovers — even if it’s a slow process. “The weakness in trade we’ve seen is not a warning of an impending recession,” said Poloz, a former president and CEO of Export Development Canada. “Rather, I see it as a sign that trade has reached a new balance point in the global economy — and one that we have the ability to nudge forward.” He said there’s still room to boost global trade through efficiency improvements to international supply chains, the signing of major treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the creation of brand new companies. Poloz’s speech came a day after Export Development Canada downgraded its outlook for the growth of exports. EDC chief economist Peter Hall predicted overall Canadian exports of goods and services to expand two per cent in 2016, down from a projection last fall of seven per cent.
INDUSTRIAL AUCTION
Hwy 2 and 42 envisioned as commercial hub Red Deer County has earmarked an area around Hwy 2 east of Penhold for commercial and industrial growth. A major area structure plan for 1,458 acres at Hwys 2 and 42 identifies 329 acres for future industrial growth and 96 acres for commercial. The county wants to get ahead of the curve by ensuring there are non-residential development options available before existing sites are built out. Most of the land is currently zoned agriculture but includes a few residential acreages. Not all residents are happy with the future proposed for the area. Several wrote letters to the county opposing the plan on the grounds industrial and commercial development would ruin their views and lower property values. Mayor Jim Wood said setting land aside for future growth is necessary to attract jobs and investment and to keep taxes at a good level. Losing valuable farmland is a necessary compromise. “I understand the good soil. I’m a farmer myself,” he said. But almost any development in the county means losing farmland and the intersection of the highways is an “ideal location” for commercial and industrial growth, he said. Council unanimously approved second reading of the bylaw to adopt the major area structure plan. Third reading will follow in a few weeks after Alberta Transportation feedback has been received. The zoning of the land doesn’t change until a development proposal comes forward
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People look at industrial equipment during the Ritchie Bros. auction in Nisku on Tuesday. Ritchie Bros. is holding what it says is the largest-ever Canadian industrial auction this week — a selloff of more than 10,000 items, including many pieces of idled equipment from the country’s battered energy sector.
CN Rail warns Ottawa not to impose or extend regulations on railways SAYS IT WOULD STIFLE INNOVATION BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
NEB introduces rules on treating whistleblower complaints OTTAWA — The National Energy Board is making it easier for whistleblowers to confidentially report issues at pipelines and facilities under the federal regulator’s watch. The board announced new procedures Tuesday aimed at revamping the tracking and handling of confidential tips on non-compliance for regulated companies — eventually allowing tipsters to do so online once the system is up and running. “Protecting the safety of workers, the public and the environment is the National Energy Board’s top priority and we need to know if and when people believe that regulations aren’t being followed,” Peter Watson, the board’s CEO said in a statement. The NEB dealt with 23 complaints between 2012 and 2015, with 17 of them coming in the latter two years. Spokesman Marc Drolet said workers can always turn to superiors, but if they don’t feel comfortable or they fear reprisals, they can also turn to the NEB.
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MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway is calling on Ottawa to refrain from imposing or extending service regulations on the country’s railways that it fears will stifle innovation and discourage investment. Chief executive Claude Mongeau says railway managers, not government agencies, are the best ones to decide on the trade-offs needed to ensure an efficient service. “The request of having every dimension of service regulated and arbitrated by the Canadian Transportation Agency is a slippery slope,” Mongeau said in an interview after the company’s annual meeting. Requiring the agency to become involved in the “minutiae” of railway operations would be a recipe for ending commercial solutions and natural rivalries between carriers that drive the best service, he said. He criticized customer proposals that would extend interswitching rights to 160 kilometres, saying it would allow U.S. railways to take traffic away from Canadian companies without any compensation or reciprocity. All customers would like to have the system designed for their particu-
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lar benefit, but only railways can make the decisions about what’s needed for the entire network, he said. “We should not listen to those who advocate without facts — those who are looking to swing the agenda their way to get regulatory leverage,” he told shareholders. Mongeau also rejected those who claim railways are monopolies that dictate service levels. He says CN Rail (TSX:CNR) faces growing competition from its Calgary-based rival Canadian Pacific, along with U.S. carriers, trucks and ships. However, he added that customer safeguards and proper regulations are legitimate in places with no customer choices. Meanwhile, Mongeau said he was confident the new Liberal government would ultimately take a “fact-based approach” in responding to changes to the Canada Transportation Act proposed in a report by former cabinet minister David Emerson that was tabled in February. Mongeau said he broadly agrees with Emerson’s findings and said he is willing to partner with CP Rail (TSX:CP) or other industry participants to press for changes that would help Canada’s transportation infrastructure. But he criticized the previous government’s intervention a couple of years ago that forced Canadian rail-
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ways to move a bumper grain crop by imposing minimum volume requirements. “Very late in the game they introduced a number of regulatory changes that were not well thought out frankly and not supported by the facts and will undermine innovation and investment in the rail industry if they are not repealed in due course.” Mongeau said he was disappointed that the Trudeau government had postponed for one year the repeal of those provisions while it reviews the Emerson report. Failure to rescind the regulations will discourage railway investment, the Montreal-based railway said. Canada’s largest railway transported record volumes of Western Canadian grain in the 2014-2015 crop year, some five per cent more than during the record 100-year crop a year earlier. Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s office didn’t immediately return requests for comment. David Montpetit, chairman of the Western Canadian Shippers Coalition, declined to comment on Mongeau’s assertions, saying the group is polling members by June before responding to the Emerson report. However, he said the coalition favours making interswitching changes permanent.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 108.38 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.31 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.91 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.08 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.990 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.00 Cdn. National Railway . . 78.57 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 180.79 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 34.64 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.53 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.38 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.67 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.49 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.70 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.70 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.19 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.57 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.20 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.23 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.22 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.25 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.46 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.95 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 137.25 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.95 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.51 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.34 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Canadian dollar rocketed to its highest close in nine months as the price of oil pushed a barrel of crude above the US$44 mark. The loonie climbed 0.40 of a U.S. cent to 79.23 cents US, its best finish since July 3 when the currency ended the trading day at 79.62 cents US. The dollar was supported by gains in oil, with the June contract for West Texas Intermediate crude shooting up $1.40 to US$44.04 a barrel, Elsewhere in commodities, June natural gas gave back three cents to US$2.16 per mmBtu, while July copper was off a penny at US$2.24 a pound and June gold gained $3.20 to US$1,243.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, stock markets were lacklustre with Toronto’s S&P/TSX composite index adding 13.45 points to 13,809.44, helped by gains in the metals, materials and energy sectors. South of the border, U.S. markets were also relatively flat, trading in a narrow range as investors await the outcome of the latest policy-rate decision of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Fed wraps up the two-day meeting on Wednesday.
Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.28 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.76 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.30 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.35 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.78 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.42 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.63 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.18 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.60 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.90 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.60 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.57 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.890 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.69 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.34 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.79 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.80 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.87 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.93 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.55 Canyon Services Group. . 4.58 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.87 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1600 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.65 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.690 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.63 The Dow Jones industrial average gained 13.08 points to 17,990.32, while the broader S&P 500 added 3.91 points to 2,091.70 and the Nasdaq composite shed 7.48 points to 4,888.31. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,809.44, up 13.45 points Dow — 17,990.32, up 13.08 points S&P 500 — 2,091.70, up 3.91 points Nasdaq — 4,888.31, down 7.48 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.23 cents US, up 0.40 of a cent Pound — C$1.8387, up 0.25 of a cent Euro — C$1.4246, down 0.37 of a cent Euro — US$1.1288, up 0.29 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.04 per barrel, up $1.40 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,243.40 per oz., up $3.20 (June contract)
Business BRIEFS Corporate Canada investments in top tax havens up 17 per cent OTTAWA — Corporate Canada increased spending in its ten favourite tax havens by 17 per cent in 2015, according to new figures on direct foreign investment released Tuesday by Statistics Canada. Canadians for Tax Fairness crunched the numbers and found that Canadian corporations invested almost $40 billion last year in the top 10 tax haven destinations for Canadian capital — taking investment totals since 1990 to $270.2 billion. Barbados has been the top desti-
Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.22 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.86 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.75 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.870 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.360 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.95 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.35 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.710 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.15 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.02 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2100 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.20 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.24 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.17 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.43 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.82 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.24 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.53 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.66 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.14 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.250 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.81 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.16 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.57
Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.620 oz., up 8.9 cents $727.23 kg., up $2.86 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $2.80 higher $499.10 July ‘16 $2.30 higher $501.00 Nov. ‘16 $0.10 lower $492.90 Jan. ‘17 $1.40 lower $496.50 March ‘17 $0.70 lower $498.40 May ‘17 $0.80 lower $497.00 July ‘17 $0.80 lower $496.70 Nov. ‘17 $0.80 lower $488.20 Jan. ‘18 $0.80 lower $488.20 March ‘18 $0.80 lower $488.20 May ‘18 $0.80 lower $488.20. Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 554,440 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 554,440.
nation, attracting $79.9 billion in total while seeing its numbers climb 14 per cent in 2015. Four other countries in Canada’s top 10 — Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Switzerland and Hong Kong — all saw year-over-year increases of at least 34 per cent last year. “The money doesn’t just stay there, it goes on to somewhere else,” Dennis Howlett, the CEO of the Tax Fairness advocacy group, said in an interview. “But (corporations) route it through tax havens usually because there are tax advantages for doing so. The returns on the investments get booked in the tax havens so then companies don’t have to report it as profits in Canada.” The direct foreign investment figures released Tuesday don’t include the billions of dollars that individual Canadians appear to have socked away offshore. The parliamentary budget office is currently in a battle with the Liberal government over access to tax information that would help it measure the “tax gap” — the amount of revenue lost to Ottawa through a variety of tax dodges.
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Jeremy Campbell along with his fiancee Holly Foran and dog Jake, right, shown in Delta, B.C., Monday, bought a house together with Ryan and Christina Ingham and their two-year-old Regan.
As house prices soar, people buy with a little help from their friends BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Jeremy Campbell purchased a house in Ladner, B.C., with his sister and her husband in 2010, it was meant to be a temporary arrangement until he could upgrade to a place of his own. “The initial plan was to do this short term just to get into the market, build some equity … get my foot in the door,” says Campbell, who covered one third of the down payment on a 2,000 square-foot home that’s split into two suites. But with home prices in the Lower Mainland’s red-hot real estate market soaring, Campbell says they’re thinking of staying put. “We’ll invest in the house to expand it versus selling and going our separate ways,” says Campbell, noting that a renovation is needed to accommodate the growing family, which now includes his fiancee, their new dog and his three-year-old niece. Experts say an increasing number of first-time homebuyers are contemplating arrangements like Campbell’s as sky-high prices in markets such as Toronto and Vancouver have eroded affordability. A recent RBC poll found that roughly one in four millennials would consider purchasing a home with a friend — up from only 11.7 per cent the previous year. The number of young buyers who would consider going in on the purchase with a family member was 24 per cent, up from 14.7 per cent in 2015, the survey said. “Particularly in some of the larger markets in Canada, affording that first home or condo is increasingly more challenging,” says Erica Nielsen, vice-president of home equity finance at RBC. In addition to higher prices, premi-
ums for mortgage default insurance have risen, presenting an additional obstacle for first-time buyers, Nielsen adds. The online survey of 2,000 Canadians was conducted by Ipsos on RBC’s behalf between Jan. 28 and Feb. 4. The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population. While many co-purchases involve both parties living together in the home, that isn’t always the case. When Richard Wiebe bought a $340,000 two-storey house in Toronto’s east end with a close friend in 2012, they each paid half of the down payment and agreed to split the cost of all of expenses and any capital gains when they sell. But only Wiebe lives in the home. For his friend, the transaction is purely an investment. “I consider him my platonic husband because we own a house together,” quips Wiebe. “It’s an awesome way to get into the market sooner without having to find ‘The One.”’ Experts caution that such arrangements come with risks. “When you purchase an asset together, it’s basically like starting a business together,” says Chantel Chapman, financial fitness coach at online lender Mogo Finance Technology. “There are going to be points in time where things might not be amazing, and you need to account for that.” Chapman recommends working with a lawyer and drafting up a written plan that outlines everything from what happens if one party wants to sell to how the cost of repairs will be split.
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Rebels mow down Wheaties BY MURRAY CRAWFORD BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 6 Wheat Kings 2 Responding was the order of the day for the Red Deer Rebels. After losing two games where they had the lead late, Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter had to have his team respond. On home ice Tuesday night, the Rebels did what they had to do and rebounded with a 6-2 win over the Brandon Wheat Kings. The win cut the Wheat Kings Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final lead in half to 2-1. “We’re still down 2-1 in this series and we needed to win this first one,” said Sutter. “Now this is over and we need to prepare for Game 4.” Sutter pointed to two key Rylan Toth saves and the work of the penalty killers, killing Evan Polei’s tripping penalty eight minutes into the first period. “They were great saves and obviously it kept the lead for us,” said Sutter. “You need goaltending, we’re playing a very good hockey team and our goaltending has to be good.” Toth stopped 25 of the 27 shots he faced. He stopped numerous Wheat Kings scoring chances, preserving the lead. “They didn’t go away and we knew they wouldn’t,” said Toth. “We wanted to go into the third taking it as if it were a 0-0 game and play like a normal period. Don’t play like we’re up, don’t play not to lose, just keep on our toes.” An offensive explosion in the first period from the Rebels put them up 4-0, including three goals in two minutes. Goals from Haydn Fleury, Austin Strand, Braden Purtill and Polei put the Wheat Kings on their heels early. Strand’s goal came 1:51 into the first period while Fleury and Purtill scored within seven seconds of each other. “We obviously had a good start to the game,” said Sutter. “We scored the early goal and I thought the key to that first period was killing off that penalty and we got a few goals after. “Our second and third period wasn’t great, we preserved the win I guess.” Polei was credited with his seventh
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Red Deer Rebels Brandon Hagel, Austin Strand and Adam Helewka celebrate the Rebels first goal of the game against the Brandon Wheat Kings at the Centrium Tuesday. Strand scored the opener in the first period during game three of the WHL Eastern Conference final. have to tie it up and go back to Brandon.” Adam Helewka led the Rebels with three assists, while Jeff De Witt had a goal and an assist. Game 4 is back at the Centrium tonight as the two teams resume hostilities for the second night in a row, puck drop is 7 p.m. Notes: Nikolishin, who had 31 goals in the regular season, returned to the
lineup after missing a month with an injury sustained during the first round against the Calgary Hitmen. He had one assist in his return, on the Purtill goal … The Rebels outshot the Wheat Kings 34-27, making it the second game this series the Rebels have outshot the Wheat Kings … 5,317 fans packed into the Centrium. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
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of the post-season and the fourth goal of the game when a pass from Brandon Hagel bounced off his leg and into the net, putting the Rebels up 4-0. Wheat Kings GM/head coach Kelly McCrimmon pulled Papirny after the fourth goal in favour Thompson. “Brent talked about tonight being a Game 7 and I think we did a good job approaching it that way,” said Toth. “It’s the same thing Wednesday, we
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 102 Pacers 99 TORONTO — Dwane Casey and the Toronto Raptors vowed to “ride or die” with DeMar DeRozan. On Tuesday, the Raptors rode the all-star to a thrilling come-from-behind Game 5 victory over the Indiana Pacers that put them within one win of clinching the series. And moments after the victory, with his tiny daughter Diar perched on his lap, DeRozan said he felt like his “normal self.” Finally. DeRozan, who’d struggled for three of the four previous games in the series, poured in 34 points to lift the Raptors 102-99 over the Pacers, giving Toronto a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven series. “Me and this guy (Kyle Lowry, seated beside him at the post-game podium) work extremely hard to not have them come,” DeRozan said. “It’s all about patience, you can’t get flustered, you can’t frustrated, you have to stay the course, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do, whatever it takes to win.” Lowry had 14 points, while Bismack Biyombo had 11 points and grabbed seven of his 16 rebounds in the fourth quarter. Jonas Valanciunas chipped in with 11 points, while Norman Powell had 10. Paul George led Indiana with 39 points. DeRozan was superb, hitting 10-for22 shots and 12-for-13 from the freethrow line, in a nailbiter that saw Toronto trail through three quarters, including an early 17-point deficit. “A confident player,” DeRozan said. “People made fun of me because I said we’re going to ride with the guys that brought us here, that won us 56 games in the regular-season. DeMar is an allstar for a reason, guys don’t forget how to score. I thought he played his game, within the rhythm of the offence.” Trailing 90-77 heading into the fourth, the Raptors — with the unusual lineup of Lowry, DeRozan, Joseph, Biyombo and Powell — buckled down on defence and finally found that rhythm on the offensive end. And when Powell pounced on a Pacers turnover and finished with a thunderous dunk to even it up at 92-92 with 6:31 to play, the Air Canada Centre crowd went nuts. The Raptors would outscore Indiana 25-9 in the fourth, prompting Magic Johnson to tweet: “That’s why I love the NBA Playoffs because anything can happen, like the Raptors miraculous comeback to beat the Pacers!” A Cory Joseph three-pointer put To-
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Toronto Raptors guard Norman Powell slam dunks the ball against the Indiana Pacers during second half round one NBA playoff action in Toronto on Tuesday. The Raptors won the game 102-99 to take a 3-2 series lead. ronto up by six with 3:26 to play, but the Pacers battled back and a Solomon Hill three with 16 seconds left made it just a one-point game. DeRozan’s two free throws with 12 seconds to play would seal Toronto’s victory after a Hill three-pointer at the buzzer left his hands just a split-second too late for Indiana. “We were playing free,” Joseph said of the fourth-quarter comeback. “When you’re down like that, you tend to play a little bit more free. There’s less on your mind. You just try to lock in and come back, playing fast. We were playing uptempo. We were playing good defence… .We were just fighting hard. It’s simple.” Casey also praised his fourth-quarter players, a lineup that had played together zero seconds in the regular-season. “That group that was in there had the toughness, the want-to, the inner ‘Okay, I’m tired of getting my butt kicked and we’re going to war,”’ Casey said. The Raptors shot 40 per cent on the night, while the Pacers shot 45. The
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Pacers hit 13 threes to the Raptors’ six. The teams were even on the boards, with 41 rebounds apiece. “I swear to you, I sat on the bench and said to myself from the beginning of the game, ‘I don’t know how, I know we’re going to come up with this win,”’ Biyombo said. “I don’t know how, but I know somehow we’re going to get back into this game.” The sold-out ACC crowd was a sea of red and white, and included Drake — who stood on his feet, hollering at opposing players for the final few minutes — plus Toronto FC players Jozy Altidore and Jonathan Osorio, and two-time Olympic bobslepd champ Kaillie Humphries. Game 6 goes Friday in Indianapolis. Toronto won Games 2 and 3, while Indy took Games 1 and 4. For all the pre-game talk about coming out aggressive, it was the Pacers who grabbed control, pouring in seven three-pointers to take an early 17-point lead, prompting boos from the crowd. Indiana led 35-20 heading into the second.
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TORONTO — Mike (Pinball) Clemons came to Canada in 1989 expecting to stay a couple of years and get football out of his system. Some 27 years later, he’s a Canadian citizen and will soon be a member of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. Clemons, 51, was among six athletes named for induction Tuesday. The others were Hockey Hall of Famer Bryan Trottier, world champion curler Colleen Jones, Paralympian Stephanie Dixon, cross-country skier/kayaker Sue Holloway and short-track speedskater Annie Perreault. Dr. Frank Hayden, who created the Special Olympics, will enter as a builder. The formal induction ceremony is set for Nov. 1. Clemons joined the Toronto Argonauts after one season with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. The five-foot-seven 170-pound running back wasn’t expecting to stay long. “I played one year in the NFL and had a job with Honeywell, and they were going to pay for me to get my MBA and so I had life figured out,” Clemons said. “But I couldn’t get this football thing out of me so I said, ‘I’m going to come up here and play a couple of years and get it out of my system.’ “So, this is a couple of years later right?” Clemons played 12 seasons in Toronto, winning three Grey Cups (1991, ‘96 and ‘97). The two-time CFL all-star was the league’s outstanding player in 1990 after accumulating a league-record 3,300 all-purpose yards. Former Argos coach Bob O’Billovich gave Clemons his nickname because of his shifty running style and ability to bounce off tackles. Clemons retired in 2000 as the CFL’s all-time leader in combined yards (25,438). However, he wasn’t finished with football as Clemons later assumed Toronto’s head-coaching duties. He became the CFL’s first black head coach to win a Grey Cup (2004) and left the sidelines three years later with a 68-551 record — the second-most victories in club history behind O’Billovich (89) — and remains with the Argos as vicechair. See HALL on Page B2
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Jays can’t buy runs against Sale BY THE CANADIAN PRESS White Sox 10 Blue Jays 1 TORONTO — R.A. Dickey has experienced his fair share of struggles early in the season. After another demonstration of that Tuesday night, the 41-year-old knuckleballer is just happy to put his final start of the month behind him. “I’m thankful April’s over, let’s put it that way,” Dickey said following a 10-1 loss to the visiting Chicago White Sox. Dickey (1-3) started strong but unravelled as the game wore on. He allowed six runs on eights hits, including two homers, through six-plus innings while walking one and striking out three as Toronto fell to 10-12 on the year. Dickey is 5-12 through 20 April starts since joining the Blue Jays in 2013. He’s given up 16 home runs over that span. “It feels very familiar from the past years that I’ve been here, for myself and for the team,” said Dickey. “We’ve always been pretty much of a slow-starting team. It takes us a bit to find our rhythm and that’s the same for me in particular. “Nobody in here is panicking at all and we’ve got the players in here to do it. It’s just a matter of being consistent and I’m speaking about me more than anybody.” While Dickey struggled to find his rhythm, Chicago ace Chris Sale danced easily through the night. The left-hander pitched eight stellar innings, allowing one run and four hits while walking two and striking out six to improve to 5-0. “He used both sides of the plate and has that sweeping breaking ball,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said.
“He did a good job changing speeds, reaching back for a little extra when he needed it. He attacks. “You know going in you couldn’t afford to give up too many.” Former Blue Jay Dioner Navarro hit a two-run homer while Avisail Garcia and Adam Eaton each hit solo blasts to power the White Sox to their fifth straight win. Austin Jackson had a two-run double and Zach Putnam got three strikeouts in the ninth. Edwin Encarnacion supplied all the offence with his 200th career home run in a Toronto uniform. Garcia put the White Sox on the board with a mammoth lead-off blast in the third inning. The Chicago DH launched a 3-1 offering from Dickey that hit the second deck’s facade in centre field for a 1-0 lead. The home run was only the second allowed by Dickey this season. He gave up his third, the two-run job to Navarro, in the seventh inning to end his night. “That was a Toronto home run, that’s just the way the park is,” Dickey said of Navarro’s shot. “(Navarro) even put his head down four steps into the trot and yelled an obscenity because he knew he missed it but it carried out. “I thought I made some really good pitches tonight and it just seems like this month I’m getting every bad break. I need that one ball to be hit right at somebody or that third strike to be called on that 3-2 count, but it’ll turn. It’ll turn. It’s not time to pout. It’s a long season.” Dickey ran into most of his trouble in the fifth, loading the bases with nobody out before giving up a two-run double to Jackson. Eaton followed with a sacrifice fly to extend Chicago’s lead to 4-0. An RBI single from Jose Abreu off Toronto reliever Joe Biagini, in to re-
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Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale throws against the Toronto Blue Jays during an American League MLB action in Toronto, Tuesday. Sale pitched eight innings while striking out six batters to lead the White Sox to a 10-1 win over the Blue Jays. place Dickey, made it 7-0 in the seventh. Encarnacion responded in the bottom of the inning by sending a 92 mileper-hour fastball from Sale into the centre-field seats.
Eaton’s solo homer and an RBI single from Todd Frazier, both off Drew Storen in the ninth, gave Chicago a 9-1 lead. The White Sox added another run on a sac fly from Garcia off Pat Venditte.
New champion guaranteed for first time since 2011 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS PICKS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Stanley Cup champion won’t come from either Chicago or Los Angeles for the first time since 2011 after both were dispatched in the opening round of the NHL playoffs. The second round could see a regular-season juggernaut fall, with old playoff disappointments Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Jose finally rising again. Washington Capitals vs. Pittsburgh Penguins Pick: Penguins in six. There’s very little to dislike about the Penguins right now. After rolling over the New York Rangers in five games, outscoring them 21-10 with eight power-play goals, Pittsburgh has won 18 of its last 21 games dating back to the conclusion of the regular season. Sidney Crosby (eight points) continues to surge after a dominant second half, buoyed by the play of youngsters like Connor Sheary and Tom Kuhnhackl, as well as the return of Evgeni Malkin (seven points) and the ongoing resurgence of Phil Kessel. Offering the Penguins a third-tier scoring threat, Kessel scored three goals and six points in five games against the Rangers and now has 16 goals and 27 points in 27 career playoff games. Uncertain goaltending questions have also been answered with 21-yearold Matt Murray stonewalling the Rangers (.955 save percentage in three starts) in his return from injury. Pittsburgh has been a force since Mike Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston behind the bench, scoring and holding the puck in bunches. They also won the season series against Washington, holding Alex Ovechkin pointless in five games. The Capitals got by the feisty Philadelphia Flyers and remain a deep and potent contender, but the Penguins look too good in every area right now and are poised to return to the conference finals for the first time since 2013. Tampa Bay Lightning vs. New York Islanders Pick: Lightning in six. On the shoulders of John Tavares (five goals and nine points) and an unlikely performance in goal from Thomas Greiss (88 stops on 90 shots in Games 5 and 6), the Islanders knocked out their higher-seeded foes from Florida in close fashion, winning three games in overtime. It would be unwise to expect a repeat performance against the Lightning. Tampa is the deeper team here, even with Steven Stamkos and Anton Stralman both sidelined, and boast
FROM B1: Hall Trottier, 59, won four Stanley Cups with a New York Islanders team that dominated the NHL in the early 1980s. He added two more with the Pittsburgh Penguins and was an assistant coach with the Cup-winning Colorado Avalanche in 2001. The nine-time all-star was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997 but called Tuesday’s induction “probably my highest honour as an individual and athlete.” “It’s wonderful to be recognized by your home country,” said the native of Val Marie, Sask. “I was born here, I was raised here, Canada will always
arguably the best goalie in the world this season in Ben Bishop. Bishop had a .950 save percentage a five-game win over Detroit in the first round, including a 34-save shutout in the clincher. The Lightning are also sporting one of the top-producing lines in the playoffs so far with Nikita Kucherov, Alex Killorn and Tyler Johnson combining for 10 of the team’s 12 goals against the Red Wings. Jonathan Drouin, too, is emerging after a turbulent regular season. Tavares will be difficult to contain in his current state, especially with Matt Carle struggling in place of Stralman on the Lightning top pair, but there’s just too much skillful talent along with elite goaltending for the Lightning to stumble here. Dallas Stars vs. St. Louis Blues Pick: Blues in six. The Blues are arguably the team to beat in the West now that they’ve dispatched the defending Stanley Cup champs. St. Louis just hung on to beat the Blackhawks in seven games, but they should have an easier, if still troublesome time, with the high-powered Stars. Dallas scratched by Minnesota in six games, but remains troubled by highly questionable goaltending. Antti Niemi and Kari Lehtonen both struggled against the Wild (.897 save percentage). The Stars also seem unlikely to have Tyler Seguin, who briefly returned from an Achilles injury only to exit again with no certain return date. Those goaltending questions as well the Blues’ superiority defensively and on special teams, not to mention game-breaking young talents in Vladimir Tarasenko and Robby Fabbri, that make St. Louis a strong bet to advance to the conference finals for the first time since 2001. San Jose Sharks vs. Anaheim Ducks/ Nashville Predators. Pick: Sharks in six. Like the Blues, the Sharks leaped a large hurdle in the first round, slaying playoff demons in topping the L.A. Kings in only five games. San Jose has been rolling for months now, buoyed by 36-year-old Joe Thornton’s incredible ageless season, Joe Pavelski’s Ovechkin-like scoring ways and the game-changing efforts of the eccentric Brent Burns from the back-end. The Sharks have decent depth (especially down the middle with Thornton, Logan Couture and Patrick Marleau), quality goaltending and an outstanding power-play that should catapult them into the conference final regardless of their opponent. Anaheim looks to be the tougher matchup given their size, strength and superb special be home.” Jones, 56, led Canada to world women’s curling titles in 2001 and 2004 and skipped her Halifax rink to six Canadian women’s championships. She earned an unprecedented four straight national titles (2001-‘04) and a record 138 wins as a skip. Dixon, of Brampton, Ont., was born without her right hip and leg but the three-time Paralympian captured 19 Paralympic medals and seven Parapan American medals. Perreault, 44, a three-time Olympian from Rock Forest, Que., won four world championships with the Canadian women’s 3,000-metre relay team. She captured Olympic gold at the 1992 Albertville Games (3,000-metre relay) and ‘98 Nagano Games (500 metres).
teams, but the Predators would pose a threat too with their stable defence and newfound offensive weapons. Pekka Rinne’s ongoing struggles would give pause if Nashville were to advance though. Both teams beat the Sharks in their regular-season series, but this San Jose squad appears to have found another level under head coach Pete De-
Boer this spring, surely finding an added bounce of confidence after the disposal of Los Angeles, a long-time foe. A Western Conference final of two former playoff disappointments awaits. First round picks: Florida, Tampa, Washington, Pittsburgh, Dallas, St. Louis, San Jose, and Anaheim First round record: 6-1..
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Uncertainty surrounds top of CFL draft BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Josiah St. John could still go first overall in next month’s CFL draft. St. John dropped down to fifth on the final top-20 prospects list released Tuesday. But the four prospects ranked ahead of him by the CFL’s scouting bureau — Manitoba defensive tackle David Onyemata, Iowa receiver Tevaun Smith, Boston College Mehdi Abdesmad and Michigan State defensive back Arjen Colquhoun — are all garnering serious interest south of the border. The NFL draft begins Thursday in Chicago and should the quartet sign NFL deals either as draftees or priority free agents, that would leave St. John as the highest remaining prospect for the CFL draft May 10. The six-foot-six, 308-pound Oklahoma Sooners offensive tackle admits he’s thought of being taken No. 1 in the CFL draft. “I actually have,” he said Tuesday during a CFL conference call. “But until it happens, it’s really an unknown thing. “But if I was No. 1, I’d be very happy and very proud. My family would enjoy it also and I’d get to go to Saskatchewan and contribute to the team.” The Saskatchewan Roughriders, who posted a league-worst 3-15 record last year, have the first overall selection but head coach/GM Chris Jones has said he’ll listen to offers for the top pick. The six-foot-four, 300-pound Onyemata topped the final rankings after standing second behind Smith in December. Smith was No. 2 on Tuesday’s list. Abdesmad is third ahead of Colquhoun. Abdesmad, of Montreal, was fourth in December behind Colquhoun, a native of Windsor, Ont.
St. John, a native of Ajax, Ont., went to No. 5 after standing third in December. Rounding out the top-10 are Laval offensive lineman Charles Vaillancourt, Montana State linebacker Alex Singleton (who was unranked in December), Virginia defensive lineman Trent Corney, Laval offensive lineman Philippe Gagnon and Acadia receiver Brian Jones, who was 18th four months ago. “It’s nice to see people acknowledge how well you did at combine and your name jump up a bit but again, at the end of the day it’s just a list,” a philosophical Jones said. “Teams pick their players in respects to their needs. “It’s not really the end all but at the same time it’s nice to see where stack up with other players across the country.” St. John agreed. “Obviously, it’s good to be ranked high, I’m proud about the ranking I have now,” he said. “But it really doesn’t matter. “It’s about how you take (advantage of) your opportunity once you get there.” St. John spent three seasons at Oklahoma, playing the last two after being redshirted. He appeared in seven contests last year, making four starts at right tackle after playing in eight of 13 games in 2014. St. John attended last month’s CFL combine in Toronto and spoke with all nine teams. But he didn’t work out after participating in Oklahoma’s pro day earlier in the week. Laval actually has three offensive linemen ranked in the top-20, with Jason Lauzon-Seguin at No. 17. Canadian offensive linemen are always a priority among CFL teams so all three Rouge et Or players could be first-round selections next month, with Vaillancourt
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Oklahoma offensive tackle Josiah St. John (55) stretches before the start of an NCAA football game against Akron in Norman, Okla. St. John could still go first overall in next month’s CFL draft despite a recent drop in the scouting bureau’s rankings. another potential first-overall pick. “For sure it would be great to see three O-linemen from Laval (go in first round),” Vaillancourt said. “I’d be so proud of these guys and these guys would be so proud. “If ever I could end up at No. 1 it would be great but you never know what could happen on this day. Right now there’s nothing I can control and we’ll just wait.”
And it’s for that reason Jones, a native of Enfield, N.S., isn’t worrying about what team might draft him and when. “The most important thing for me is just getting my body ready for camp and getting my mindset there,” he said. “The CFL draft … is so hard to (predict) where players are going to go so you just have to be ready when your name is called.”
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Edmonton Blue, 5:30 p.m., Canmore ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Brandon Wheat Kings, 6:30 p.m., the Drive Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Red Deer Rampage at Edmonton Jr. B
Today ● WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium
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Warriors, 8:30 p.m., Edmonton
● Alberta Cup Hockey: Central vs. Calgary South, 11:30 a.m., Canmore
Sunday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: St. Albert Crude at Red Deer Rampage, 2:30 p.m., Kinex arena ● WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 5 p.m., Centrium
Friday ● Alberta Cup Hockey: Central vs. Northeast, 9:30 a.m. and Central vs.
Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 11 8 .579 Boston 11 9 .550 Tampa Bay 10 10 .500 Toronto 10 12 .455 New York 8 11 .421 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 15 6 .714 Kansas City 12 7 .632 Cleveland 9 9 .500 Detroit 9 10 .474 Minnesota 7 14 .333 West Division W L Pct Seattle 10 9 .526 Oakland 11 10 .524 Texas 11 10 .524 Los Angeles 9 11 .450 Houston 6 14 .300
mann, Detroit, 4-0 Porcello, Boston, 4-0 ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 4-1 Griffin, Texas, 3-0. GB — 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 3
Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta
GB — 2 4 1/2 5 8
Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee
GB — — — 1 1/2 4 1/2
Los Angeles Arizona San Francisco Colorado San Diego
Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 5 Boston 1, Atlanta 0 Detroit 7, Oakland 3 Tampa Bay 2, Baltimore 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, Texas 1 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 3 L.A. Angels 6, Kansas City 1 Seattle 3, Houston 2
National League East Division W L Pct 14 5 .737 12 7 .632 10 10 .500 7 11 .389 4 16 .200 Central Division W L Pct 15 5 .750 12 9 .571 11 9 .550 9 12 .429 8 12 .400 West Division W L Pct 12 8 .600 11 11 .500 10 11 .476 9 11 .450 7 13 .350
GB — 2 4 1/2 6 1/2 10 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 4 6 1/2 7 GB — 2 2 1/2 3 5
Monday’s Games Boston 1, Atlanta 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 1 Arizona 12, St. Louis 7 Miami 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 San Francisco 5, San Diego 4
Tuesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 10, Toronto 1 Boston 11, Atlanta 4 Oakland 5, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Texas 10, N.Y. Yankees 1 Minnesota 6, Cleveland 5 Kansas City at L.A. Angels, late Houston at Seattle, late
Tuesday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Washington 3 Boston 11, Atlanta 4 N.Y. Mets 4, Cincinnati 3 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 3 Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 4 St. Louis 8, Arizona 2 Miami at L.A. Dodgers, late San Francisco 1, San Diego 0
Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-1) at Toronto (Estrada 1-1), 5:07 p.m. Atlanta (Norris 1-3) at Boston (Wright 1-2), 5:10 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Moore 1-1), 5:10 p.m. Oakland (Gray 3-1) at Detroit (Verlander 1-2), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-1) at Texas (Perez 0-2), 6:05 p.m. Cleveland (Tomlin 2-0) at Minnesota (Berrios 0-0), 6:10 p.m. Kansas City (Young 1-3) at L.A. Angels (Tropeano 1-0), 8:05 p.m. Houston (McHugh 1-3) at Seattle (Iwakuma 0-2), 8:10 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games San Diego (Cashner 1-1) at San Francisco (Samardzija 2-1), 1:45 p.m. Philadelphia (Hellickson 1-1) at Washington (Gonzalez 1-0), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (Norris 1-3) at Boston (Wright 1-2), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Moscot 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 1-3), 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-0), 6:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Niese 3-0) at Colorado (Gray 0-0), 6:40 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 0-3) at Arizona (Corbin 1-2), 7:40 p.m. Miami (Nicolino 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-1), 8:10 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Trumbo Bal 19 75 12 28 .373 Andrus Tex 19 67 8 23 .343 Kinsler Det 18 79 16 27 .342 Machado Bal 19 79 16 27 .342 Mauer Min 21 73 7 24 .329 TShaw Bos 20 71 9 23 .324 Castellanos Det 18 65 8 21 .323 Altuve Hou 20 81 17 26 .321 MeCabrera CWS 21 75 10 24 .320 Pedroia Bos 19 85 15 27 .318 Home Runs Donaldson, Toronto, 7 ColRasmus, Houston, 7 Cano, Seattle, 6 CDavis, Baltimore, 6 Machado, Baltimore, 6 Moustakas, Kansas City. Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 19 ColRasmus, Houston, 18 Trumbo, Baltimore, 17 Bautista, Toronto, 16 Cano, Seattle, 15 Encarnacion, Toronto, 15 Fielder, Texas, 15 Saltalamacchia, Detroit, 15. Pitching Sale, Chicago, 5-0 Latos, Chicago, 4-0 Zimmer-
NATIONAL LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. DMurphy Was 18 66 10 26 .394 Braun Mil 19 67 12 25 .373 Yelich Mia 18 62 11 23 .371 Fowler ChC 19 68 17 25 .368 Segura Ari 21 95 11 33 .347 AGonzalez LAD 20 75 9 26 .347 Conforto NYM 18 61 11 21 .344 Pagan SF 22 76 14 26 .342 Jaso Pit 18 68 8 23 .338 GPolanco Pit 21 75 15 25 .333 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 9 Arenado, Colorado, 8 Rizzo, Chicago, 8 Story, Colorado, 8 NWalker, New York, 8 WCastillo, Arizona, 6 Cespedes, New York, 6. Runs Batted In Harper, Washington, 24 Rizzo, Chicago, 22 Arenado, Colorado, 19 Braun, Milwaukee. Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 4-0 CMartinez, St. Louis, 4-0 Cueto, San Francisco, 4-1 Siegrist, St. Louis, 3-0 Hammel, Chicago, 3-0 Strasburg, Washington.
Sunday’s result Boston 104 Atlanta 95 (OT) Thursday’s game Atlanta at Boston, 6 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) (Golden State leads series 3-1) Sunday’s result Golden State 121 Houston 94 Thursday’s result Houston 97 Golden State 96 Wednesday’s game Houston at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Friday’s game Golden State at Houston, TBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result Cleveland 100 Detroit 98 Toronto (2) vs. Indiana (7) (Toronto leads series 3-2) Tuesday’s result Toronto 102 Indiana 99 Saturday’s result Indiana 100 Toronto 83 Friday’s game Toronto at Indiana, TBA Sunday, May 1 Indiana at Toronto, TBA
San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) (San Antonio wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result San Antonio 116 Memphis 95 Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-1) Monday’s result Oklahoma City 118 Dallas 104
Miami (3) vs. Charlotte (6) (Series tied 2-2) Monday’s result Charlotte 89 Miami 85 Saturday’s result Charlotte 96 Miami 80 Wednesday’s game Charlotte at Miami, 6 p.m. Friday’s game Miami at Charlotte, TBA
L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) (Series tied 2-2) Monday’s result Portland 98 L.A. Clippers 84 Saturday’s result Portland 96 L.A. Clippers 88 Wednesday’s game Portland at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m. Friday’s game L.A. Clippers at Portland, TBA
Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) (Atlanta leads series 3-2) Tuesday’s result Atlanta 110 Boston 83
Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed C Kevan Smith on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 24. Selected the contract of C Hector Sanchez from Charlotte (IL). DETOIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Jose Valdez to Toledo (IL). Recalled RHP Buck Farmer from Toledo. MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Kyle Gibson and RHP Ervin Santana on the 15-day DL Gibson retroactive to April 23 and Santana retroactive to April 20. Recalled INF Jorge Polanco from Rochester (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Jose Berrios from Rochester. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled 1B-3B Matt Dominguez from Buffalo (IL). Optioned RHP Drew Hutchison to Buffalo. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with OF-1B Kyle Parker on a minor league contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated OF Carl Crawford from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Zach Lee to Oklahoma City (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Placed C Travis d’Arnaud on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of C Rene Ri-
vera from Las Vegas (PCL). Transferred RHP Zack Wheeler to the 60-day DL. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Selected LHP Michael Kirkman from El Paso (PCL). Optioned INF/OF Jose Pirela to El Paso. Designated RHP Cory Mazzoni for assignment. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled C Pedro Severino from Syracuse (IL). Placed C Wilson Ramos on the bereavement list. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Named Scott Brooks coach. FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Terminated the contract of LB A.J. Hawk. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Philadelphia Flyers F Brayden Schenn for his first three games of the 2016-17 NHL regular season for charging Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie during Game 6 on Sunday, April 24. American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Fired coach Dean Chynoweth.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders win series 4-2) Sunday’s result N.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 1 (2OT)
EASTERN CONFERENCE Brandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2) (Brandon leads series 2-1) Tuesday’s result Red Deer 6 Brandon 2 Saturday’s result Brandon 6 Red Deer 4 Wednesday’s game Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Friday’s game Red Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1 x-Brandon at Red Deer, 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 x-Red Deer at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1) Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington wins series 4-2) Sunday’s result Washington 1 Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Pittsburgh 6 N.Y. Rangers 3
WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle leads series 3-0) Tuesday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 1 Saturday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 2 Wednesday’s game Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Friday’s game x-Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, May 1 x-Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — played only if necessary.
WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas wins series 4-2) Sunday’s result Dallas 5 Minnesota 4 St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis wins series 4-3) Monday’s result St. Louis 3 Chicago 2 Saturday’s result Chicago 6 St. Louis 3
Tuesday’s summary Rebels 6, Wheat Kings 2 First Period 1. Red Deer, Strand 2 (Helewka, Bobyk) 1:51. 2. Red Deer, Fleury 4 (Helewka, Spacek) 12:44. 3. Red Deer, Purtill 1 (Rattie, Nikolishin) 12:51. 4. Red Deer, Polei 7 (Musil, de Wit) 14:46. Penalties — Polei RD (tripping) 7:55 Helewka RD (tripping) 15:56. Second Period 5. Red Deer, de Wit 3 (Nogier) 11:06. 6. Brandon, Clague 6 (Mattheos) 12:39. Penalty — Kaspick Bdn (tripping) 7:56. Third Period 7. Brandon, Quenneville 11 (Clague, McGauley) 1:34 (pp). 8. Red Deer, Spacek 3 (Fleury, Helewka) 11:37 (pp). Penalties — Doetzel Rd (double high-sticking) 0:20 Hawryluk Bdn (hooking) 8:24 Kaspick Bdn (obstruction-tripping) 10:21 Quenneville Bdn (high-sticking) 16:53. Shots on goal Brandon 11 11 5 — 27 Red Deer 11 7 16 — 34 Goal (shots-saves) — Brandon: Papirny (L, 10-4)(95), Thompson (25-23) Red Deer: Toth (W, 3-4). Power plays (goals-chances) — Brandon: 1-4 Red Deer: 1-4. 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7)
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Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Series tied 3-3) Monday’s result Nashville 3 Anaheim 1 Saturday’s result Anaheim 5 Nashville 2 Wednesday’s game Nashville at Anaheim, 8 p.m. Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1) Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) Wednesday’s game N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Saturday’s game N.Y. Islanders at Tampa, 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Friday, May 6 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m. Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Pittsburgh (2) Thursday’sgame Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.
Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. San Jose (3) Friday’s game San Jose at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m. Sunday’s game San Jose at Anaheim, 6 p.m. OR San Jose (3) vs. Nashville (WC1) Friday’s game Nashville at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Sunday’s game Nashville at San Jose, 6 p.m. NHL playoff scoring leaders Jamie Benn, Dal John Tavares, NYI Jason Spezza, Dal Nikita Kucherov, TB Reilly Smith, Fla Sidney Crosby, Pgh Brent Burns, SJ Jason Pominville, Minn Jaden Schwartz, StL Artemi Panarin, Chi Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Tyler Johnson, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Patrick Kane, Chi Joe Pavelski, SJ Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Andrew Shaw, Chi John Carlson, Wash Phil Kessel, Pgh Alex Pietrangelo, StL Nino Niederreiter, Minn Kyle Okposo, NYI Marcus Johansson, Wash Logan Couture, SJ Jonathan Toews, Chi Marian Hossa, Chi Duncan Keith, Chi Mikko Koivu, Minn Alex Ovechkin, Wash Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Alex Killorn, TB Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Jared Spurgeon, Minn Patrick Eaves, Dal Robby Fabbri, StL Kris Letang, Pgh Jake Muzzin, LA Nick Bonino, Pgh
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS When Sean MacKinnon wheels to the start line of a stage race in Luxembourg next week, his bike will have been prepped by a mechanic. The 20-year-old from Hamilton doesn’t have to work on his own bike, he doesn’t have to figure out how to get to the cities he’s racing in, or arrange transportation for himself and his bike once he gets there. Having those logistics taken care of by someone else feels like a luxury to MacKinnon. He was an 18-year-old fending for himself on those fronts two years ago while racing in Belgium. “It’s just totally different,” MacKinnon said from Nice, France. “It’s a huge difference having support staff around more or less full time when you’re going from having nothing.” MacKinnon is part of Cycling Canada’s NextGen men’s track endurance program, which is for road and track prospects deemed medal contenders at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. “NextGen” has been popping up in Canadian high-performance sport of late and the term is about to become more prominent. The Liberal government is following through on a commitment by the Conservatives in the 2015 federal budget to funnel extra money towards athletes like MacKinnon. He won Pan Am Games bronze medals last year in both the road time trial and track team pursuit. It’s an investment of $5 million annually for four years starting in 2016, on the condition Own The Podium match that figure via its own fundraising. So it’s worth $40 million to Canada’s “next generation” of summer and winter Olympians, meaning those athletes five to eight years away from their peak. “As successful as we are today and as successful as we’ll be in Rio, the only way we can sustain that success is by investing in our athletes that are five to eight years out,” Minister of Sport Carla Qualtrough said. “We know that’s a tough period when you’re beyond
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Sean MacKinnon of Canada poses with his bronze medal in men’s individual time trial road cycling at the 2015 Pan Am Games. MacKinnon is part of Cycling Canada’s NexGen men’s track endurance program, which is for road and track prospects deemed medal contenders at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. the provincial level, but you haven’t quite made the carded-athlete, national-team status.” Canadians who finish fifth to eighth in Olympic Games are one indicator of future medal potential in the pipeline. The numbers in that category have been flat-lining in summer sport and dropping in winter sport. OTP doles out money, the majority of it from taxpayers, based on a sport federation’s ability to produce athletes with Olympic medal potential. OTP chief executive officer Anne Merklinger called it “one of the best days of my career” when NextGen funding made it into the 2015 federal budget. But an election and change in government cast uncertainty over whether that money would still be there in 2016. Her strategy was to deliver a unified message from sport organizations that Canada will slide off the podium if there wasn’t an investment beyond whatever Olympic Games are
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New prescription for health: walk the malls BY ANNA GORMAN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Flora Yang is small, spry and not afraid to tell you her age: “90-something.” She walks twice a week at the Mazza Gallerie mall in Northwest Washington and says mall walking keeps her young and fit. Health officials are starting to notice that effect too and say more malls should open their doors to walkers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put out a guide saying the mall is a perfect place for seniors to get in their steps. It’s no secret that getting up and moving makes people healthier and reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. But unpredictable weather and unsafe streets sometimes get in the way, especially for seniors. That’s where shopping malls come in. Mall walking began decades ago, when heart doctors began recommending it to their patients, said Basia Belza, a professor at the University of Washington’s nursing school. She estimates that hundreds of programs exist around the country, but they aren’t widely known. “They are the best-kept secret,” Belza said. The CDC’s resource guide, released last year, encourages malls to expand walking clubs and set up new ones. The guide, co-authored by Belza, said indoor shopping centers are ideal for walking because their level surfaces make seniors less likely to slip and fall. Malls are also well-lit and have water fountains, restrooms and places to rest. And seniors can walk in malls regardless of the weather. The U.S. Surgeon General cited mall walking last year in a national call to action to improve the nation’s walkability and to get more people moving. Mall walking clubs are often partnerships between a shopping center and providers, hospitals and community groups that serve seniors. They are typically free for walkers, and some include organized warm-up exercises, health screenings and lectures about healthy eating. Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington runs the walking club at Mazza Gallerie. In addition to helping seniors get exercise, participating in the club reduces their isolation, said Marti Bailey, director of the hospital’s senior association. “It’s so much more than walking,” Bailey said. “It’s walking, talking, sharing life together in a real way. It’s the beauty of the walking club.” Bailey said such clubs are more important now than ever, given the aging of the population and the number of seniors living with chronic diseases. Yang says she believes she was the first member of the Mazza Gallerie walking club. She said she started walking there in 1992, back when she could carry her granddaughter in her arms. Soon, she said, people started walking with her, and the numbers grew. She has benefited greatly, she said. “Still I can fight you,” she said, chuckling. Members of the club come and go. Ann Morales, the secretary of the group, pulled out a photo of its walkers from several years ago. “This is the doctor who used to be here,” she said. “He passed away… . Marlene, Flora are here. We haven’t seen this lady for a long time.” On the mornings that they gather, the seniors start with a blood pressure check by a retired doctor. “Let’s take a peek,” Aric Schichor said as he wrapped the cuff around Yang’s arm. “140 over 80.” Then Yang stood up and headed down the hall, holding hands with another longtime walker, Marlene Jordan. “My doctor says I need a cane,” Jordan said. “I don’t think I need it.” “I’m her cane,” Yang said, giving her a squeeze. The group strolled past a T.J. Maxx and a jewelry
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Mall walkers Ann Morales and Flora Yang walk together at Mazza Gallerie in Washington, D.C.; Yang walks twice a week at the mall and says mall walking keeps her young and fit. store and turned the corner at a Subway sandwich shop. Seven times around made a mile. Helga Fox, 87, has been walking with the group for a few years. She lives in a condo with a fitness center, but she prefers to come here. She likes the company. “It’s a nice way to start the day,” she said. Most of all, Fox said, she appreciates being able to visit with the doctor. She has hypertension and feels better after having her blood pressure checked. Walking groups also benefit the malls, which have
Going back to work after baby BY REGAN L. FORSYTH EAT PLAY SLEEP FAMILY WELLNESS Whether it’s only been a few months, or it has been a couple of years, going back to work after being at home with your little one is never easy. This is a reality that almost all families deal with at some point, unless one of the parents is able to be the daytime caregiver until the child is schoolaged. One of the most challenging things for parents returning to work, can often be the decision about what type of care suits their child and family’s needs best. Options can include family members, or friends who also have young children at home, nannies, daycares, dayhomes, and others. Aside from hours, availability and schedule there are many other things to look for in quality childcare. Is the caregiver, or are the caregivers: Stimulating and involved, in an age appropriate manner: For example, when playing outside do they communicate with the children, or simply supervise? Do they plan fun outdoor activities, or simply let the children play all the time? When changing diapers or feeding/eating with the children, do they engage? Conscious about the environment the child spends time in: Is the setting arranged in such a way that it is safe, sanitary, and inviting? Are toys and activities set up so that they are appealing and inviting, with easy access? Do they rotate toys occasionally to spark interest and new learning experiences? Knowledgeable and understanding of child development: Knowing the ages and stages of development, as well as understanding that young children are at an age where quality caregiving is crucial to their development, is a must. Patient and responsive: In other words, do they genuinely respond to inquisitive children and promote learning? Provide learning experiences that enhance all ar-
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Red Deer River Naturalists present Wildflowers of Banff Park — A multimedia presentation —with Ian Wilson and Jacinthe Lavoie on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Five themes are set to music from bold to diminutive gems, wild creatures enjoying flowers, majestic scenery and autumn colours. No charge.
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struggled to attract people as more consumers turn to online shopping. Nicole Schade, a spokeswoman for Mazza Gallerie, said the walkers there often visit the stores, see a movie or grab breakfast. “We have seen an uptick in business thanks to the mall walking program,” Schade said. Jagannathan Murli, for example, always heads to McDonald’s afterward. He and a friend always order the same thing: two coffees and two hash browns. “It’s not healthy, but it’s allowed,” Murli said. But, he added, only after walking.
Study: No suicide risk for anti-smoking pills Chantix, Zyban BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Seven years after U.S. regulators slapped their strictest warning on two popular smoking-cessation medicines citing risks of suicidal behaviour, a large international study found no such risk. Now Chantix maker Pfizer and Zyban maker GlaxoSmithKline hope the Food and Drug Administration, which ordered them to do the study, will remove the so-called “black box warnings” put on their prescription drugs due to anecdotal patient reports of serious psychiatric side effects. The warnings — about “changes in behaviour, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, and suicidal thoughts or actions” in some patients, all potential problems for people quitting without medication — scared off many doctors and smokers trying to quit. The black boxes also led to a U.S. ban against pilots and air traffic controllers using Chantix that’s still in effect, though the Federal Aviation Administration may reconsider it. Meanwhile, experts say both Chantix and Zyban are safe — far safer than smoking, which kills about 440,000 Americans each year. Zyban, approved in 1997, has been available as generic bupropion for a decade, so it’s no longer actively marketed by Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC. But Chantix, approved in 2006, has patent protection until 2020 in the U.S. and 2021 in Europe. Lifting the black box warning — and similar warnings in countries around the world — likely would boost Chantix sales until those patents expire and cheaper generic copycats arrive. Months ago, the companies sent the FDA detailed study results showing the risk of suicidal thoughts or behaviour for patients taking either drug is the same as for dummy pills.
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WILLIAMSON Margaret (Peggy) In loving memory of Margaret (Peggy) Williamson, age 93, who passed away peacefully on the 20th of April, 2016 at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta. She was born on the 23rd of July, 1922 in Londonderry, Ireland to Elizabeth and Patrick Edward Mullan and shortly thereafter her family immigrated to Canada settling in the Clandonald district, but she has been a long time resident of Central Alberta and an active parishioner of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. She was predeceased by her husband, Jim Williamson of the Delburne and Pine Lake districts, whom she married in 1972. She was the last surviving member of the Mullan family being predeceased by her siblings, Edward Jr., Frank, Agnes, Eileen, Charles, John and Gerald. She is survived by her sons and their spouses, Dr. Art Lysons (Elaine) and James Earl Lysons (Connie); grandchildren, Shawn Lysons, Jodi Nicole Lysons Claus and Kimberley Dawn Lysons; and great grandchildren Tessa Lysons Johnston and Eliza & Max Claus. She is survived also by her step family, the sons of Jim Williamson, Warren, Tom (deceased) and Harry Williamson and their families. Peggy was the only in-place grandmother known to most of the Williamson grandchildren, Pamela, JoAnn, Kevin, Mark, Grant, Michael and Craig. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, April 29, 2016 at 3:00 pm at St. Mary’s parish, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, with the Reverend Father Len Cadieux celebrant. A private interment service will be held sometime in the future at St. Andrew’s parish, near Clandonald, Alberta. Peggy will be placed adjacent to her loving mother, Elizabeth and father, Edward. A reception at St. Mary’s parish hall will immediately follow the funeral mass. Memorial donations in lieu of flowers may be given directly to the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, 3-48J Corbett Hall, 8205-114 Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G4 or to the Golden Circle, 4620-47A Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3R4, Tel (403) 343-6074 or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.
IZAT Helga Karin Oct. 9, 1941 - Apr. 23, 2016 With saddened hearts we announce the sudden passing of our beloved mother, oma and dear friend, Helga Karin Izat, on April 23, 2016. She leaves behind her son, Joe Izat and daughter, Jacqueline Izat. Also left behind are six grandsons; Sheldon and Shane Netrefa, Kevin Hughes, Bobby, Cody and Josh Izat and her sole granddaughter, Jennifer Netrefa. Helga was also the proud great-grandmother of nine greatgrandchildren. She’s in the sun, the wind, the rain. She’s in the air you breathe every breath you take. She sings a song of hope and cheer there’s no more pain, no more fear. You’ll see her in the clouds above Hear her whisper words of love You’ll be together, before long until then listen for her song. We would like to extend our thanks to the staff at the Red Deer Regional Hospital where Helga passed away. Jet and Andy Sanders from Blerick, Holland for their continued support and care. The funeral service will be held on Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Alliance Community Church, 4404 47 Avenue, Sylvan Lake, Alberta. Interment to follow in the Sylvan Lake Cemetery. A time of fellowship and remembrance will follow the service with a luncheon at the Alliance Community Church. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com. Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.
WEISENBURGER Carol Lynn 1955 - 2016 Mrs. Carol Lynn Weisenburger of Delburne, Alberta passed away peacefully and free of pain at the Red Deer Hospice, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, April 25, 2016 at the age of 60 years. Carol will be loving remembered by her husband of thirty-three years, Francis Weisenburger of Delburne, Alberta; her son Devon Murray and her daughter, Chantelle (Joshua) O’Docharty both of Red Deer, Alberta as well as her four beloved grandchildren, Jayden Nichols of Taber, Alberta, Eli, Oliver and Carolyn O’Docharty of Red Deer. She will also be sadly missed by her brother Douglas (Louise) Moench of Eckville, Alberta; her sister Shawna (Tom) Moore of Benalto, Alberta; her sistersin-law, Darlene Bates of Red Deer an Priscilla (Irv) Pratt of Vernon, British Columbia. In addition to Carol’s immediate family she leaves behind numerous extended family and a large community of friends who will cherish her kindness and remember her infectious smile. A Celebration of Carol’s Life will be held at the Delburne Community Hall, Delburne, Alberta on Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. If friends so desire memorial tributes may be made directly the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com or the Canadian Diabetes Association at www.diabetes.ca Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
Cuthill Odile 1921-2016 Odile Cuthill was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan on November 12, 1921 and passed away in Red Deer, Alberta on February 27, 2016. There will be a celebration of life for Odile at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers Mom has requested that if anyone wishes, they make a donation to the charity of their choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com
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RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 27, 2016 B7
Sales & Distributors
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WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747 67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm. Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume - retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca
B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FREE TRUCK LOADS OF BLACK POPLAR LOGS. You pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.
2 LAWNMOWERS, tuned up and ready to go. $75 and $95. 403-347-5873 or 403-350-1077
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Household Appliances
BUSY dealership now hiring.
MICROWAVE, Kenmore over the counter, black, clean, works perfectly. $100. 403 309-3475
Pike Wheaton Chevrolet is currently seeking an exp. licenced automotive technician. GM Dealership exp. would be considered an asset. This position offers a competitive wage with a bonus system. Pls. apply in person with resume to the Service Manager. No phone call pls.
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Household Furnishings
BEDSIDE stand, solid wood, 3 drawer, good solid table, 18x20x30. $30. 403-346-5423 GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $80. 403-877-0825
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Truckers/ Drivers
1680
Garden Supplies
850
Trades
1660
Firewood
WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
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Misc. for Sale
10’ x 12’ GAZEBO, material covered, good cond., $120. 403-782-5206 CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires
in AB. Super B exp. req’d. Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558
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LIKE to camp? Canyon Creek Golf & Camping, 14 km northeast of Rocky, is looking for a mature, responsible Campground Host. Pls. phone 1-403-845-5001 for details.
100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020
WANTED: Small dog (Bijon/Shitzu) cross for elderly couple. Dog found.
2 electric lamps, $20. 403-885-5020
Sporting Goods
30 Peacock feathers, $1/ea,, and assorted cookie cans to give away. 403-346-2231
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INVERSION Table, $200. 403-343-6044
Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT
RED DEER GUN SHOW April 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Westerner Agri Centre West Admission $ 5
CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100. Tire - Step, $23. 403-343-6044
Travel Packages
COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40. 403-343-6044
TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
DIE CAST models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons. Two stores to serve you better, Man Cave and Gold Eagle, entrance 2, Parkland Mall. DIE CAST models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns, tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons. Two stores to serve you better, Man Cave and Gold Eagle, entrance 2, Parkland Mall.
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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390
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UNIQUE black metal bathroom mirror, towel bar, Duplexes towel ring, and 2 hangers look like “gazelles”. All for 3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, $65. 403 309-3475 quiet adult, fully employed WATER HOSE REEL, preferred. $650 rent/dd, $35. 403-885-5020 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3
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Traditional Chinese Acupuncture & Therapeutic Massage ~ Acute or chronic pain, stress, Children's surgery problems. 4606 - 48 Items Ave., Red Deer. Walk-ins. Call or txt 403-350-8883 EXERCISE SAUCER, toys Wholistic Health Care for stress, all the way around, pets and smoke free home. anxiety, pain, insomnia: DrLyla.ca Acupuncture, TCM, TuiNa $25. 403-346-5423 Massage, QiGong Exercises for appts. or house calls contact Equipment403-597-4828/ docyip@me.com
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Contractors
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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550
CONCRETE??? We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197
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Contractors
1100
Misc. Services
1290
DAMON INTERIORS
5* JUNK REMOVAL
Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured. Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176
Property clean up 505-4777
Roofing
Repair or Renovate No job too small, full service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount. Call 587-377-0977 R.D. Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
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Entertainment
DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606
Handyman Services
1200
BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring. Call James 403-341-0617
Massage Therapy
1280
FANTASY SPA
1370
PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured. 403-896-4869
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Seniors’ Services
HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777
Yard Care
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SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates. Now booking 403-302-7778 SPRING cleanups, summer mowing. Irish Green Yard Care, experienced family business. 403 341 6620 SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call Ken 403-304-0678
DALE’S Home Reno’s Tools Free estimates for all your Elite Retreat, Finest reno needs. 403-506-4301 in VIP Treatment. METRIC Socket, plus tool RMD RENOVATIONS box. $100. Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. 10 - 2am Private back entry 403-341-4445 403-343-6044 Call Roger 403-348-1060
TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.
2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d. 403-346-1458
CITY VIEW APTS. 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700. Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679
SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
Manufactured Homes
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WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl. 403-348-6594
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LIMITED TIME OFFER: One free year of Telus internet & cable AND one month’s rent FREE on 2 bedrooms! Renovated suites in central location. Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)482-1711
MORRISROE MANOR Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy. 403-596-6000
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Offices
NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955
ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337
Opposite Hospital
CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975./mo. n/s, no pets, Avail. June 1. 403-391-1780
PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 4 appls, inclds. heat & water, no pets $760/mo., avail. June 1. 348-6594
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THE NORDIC
3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. May 1 403-304-5337
ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail. now or May 1st. 403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337
2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875. 403-346-5885
Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
Roommates Wanted
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BOWER area home, shared main floor & laundry, $550./mo. incld’s all utils. except internet. $300. dd. Ref’s req’d. 403-309-4464 after 6 pm
Open House 4310
April 28 & Apr. 29, 2 - 5 Apr.30 , 1 - 5 6325 61 AVE RED DEER
Excellent Condition
(403)318-4653
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Holiday Trailers
PASTURE North Red Deer. 10 cow/calf pairs, no bulls, no yearlings. 403-346-5885
Mobile Lot
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PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820
2014 19.6 NOMAD trailer, SUV towable, sleeps 4, Gently used. Asking $14,500. 403-347-5953 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
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PUBLIC NOTICES
CLASSIFICATIONS Realtors & Services
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Public Notices
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of Faye Irene Stephenson who died on August 20, 2015 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by May 27, 2016 with Andrew J. Luft at
HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995
Income Property
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RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780
Industrial Property
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QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000. 403-391-1780 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds
Cars
Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1
and provide details of your claim. If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of Jean Lamora Bickford who died on November 10, 2015 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by May 27, 2016 with Keith R. Lamb at
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$7600. o.b.o.
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2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC
Never laid down.
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A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!
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Large waiting room, 2 offices & storage room, 403-346-5885
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OPEN HOUSE SERGE’S HOMES
THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957
Rooms For Rent
SEIBEL PROPERTY LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. $500 OFF 25+, adults only Pasture 1ST MONTH’S RENT SUITES. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
3 BDRM., no pets, $975. mo. 403-343-6609
Acupuncture
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AVAIL. May 1, 3 & 4 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & schools.$975 - $1100 + util. + d.d. 403-506-0054
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Suites
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services
INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
1500 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter never used $425. 4 Ton log splitter with stand $225. 403-347-1637
Condos/ Townhouses
1 & 2 BDRM. apts avail. in a quiet, pet-free adult only building. Please phone 403-340-1222 for more information (no text msgs please).
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PARTLY furnished house 2 BDRM. bsmt suite. BLACKFALDS, $500, in Sylvan Lake avail. for Partially furnished. all inclusive. 403-358-1614 rent at $1800. Call 403-887-4610 $850/mo. 403-348-1304 FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent, Tired of Standing? 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult $500/mth - $250 DD. Find something to sit on bldg, free laundry, very Call 403-396-2468 in Classifieds clean, quiet, Avail. now or S.E. House, furn. room, MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. working M 403-396-5941 403-304-5337
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Houses/ Duplexes
6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545
Call Classifieds 403-309-3300
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Dogs
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RECYCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in Red Deer & Olds offices. Email resume with a min. of 2 references. to: canpak1212@gmail.com
Misc.
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CONTRACT DRIVERS
Misc. Help
Misc. for Sale
Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1
and provide details of your claim.
1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500. 403-598-4131
If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.
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Sol 1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500. 403-598-4131
2002 DURANGO, RT, AWD, Hi + low range 4x4. 7 pass. 124,000 kms.. $5000. obo 780-916-0221
2005 CROWN Vic, loaded, 94,000 kms. $6000. obo.
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Sol DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2009 Grand Caravan, exc. cond, extra set winter tires, DVD, extras $12,500 obo 403-505-5789
2006 CHRYSLER 300, LTD, low kms., sun roof, leather, new winter tires. $8000. obo
2007 YAMAHA 30,003 km V-star 1100, Silverado new tires, exc. cond. $5500. 403-318-4725
DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2013 HYUNDAI Tucson 35700 Kms. 2.0 L engine A/C, PW, PL, AM, FM, MP3, CD & more. 14,900.
DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.
2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800cc. All the bells and whistles. 44,600 kms. Exc. cond., never laid down. $7600. o.b.o. (403)318-4653.
2011 DODGE CALIBER, only 56,000 km, exc. cond., $8,900. 403-406-7600
2014 19.6’ NOMAD SUV towable, sleeps 4, Gently used. Asking $14,500. 403-347-5953
2013 HONDA PCX 150CC scooter, 1,700 km, $2,000.
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2004 FREESTAR Limited Edition $5600. 587-377-3547
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Sol 2001 WINDSTAR, lady driven 184,000 kms. Exc. cond. $3000. 403-598-1906
2004 LEXUS RX330, 155,000 mi., exc. cond. $7500.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016
Punk’s influence on this year’s most anticipated horror movie BY SCOTT TOBIAS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES If the experience of watching Green Room feels like getting knocked around the world’s nastiest mosh pit, that’s entirely by design. You don’t know what chaotic violence is coming next. The frontman of this bracing new horror-thriller, writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, strands a punk quartet in a backwoods club run by white supremacists. After witnessing a murder, the band is engulfed in a desperate fight to the death against machete-wielding skinheads who have them vastly outnumbered. “I know a lot of filmmakers who try to make quote-unquote ‘punk’ movies,” said Saulnier. “But most bog themselves down in ideology and punk references left and right. (Green Room) is about taking the energy, aesthetic and propulsive qualities of the music and using them in support of a genre siege thriller.” As an 8-year-old skateboarder growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Saulnier, now 39, remembers glomming onto the older kids who’d bring their boomboxes to the skate park, making punk and new wave music the background noise of his childhood. He was introduced to punk in 1985, via the Dead Kennedys’ seminal album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, and he would ask his mother to take him to the record store to buy the LPs. “Often I’d hate them,” Saulnier said. “It was about trying to be cool. But I’ve always associated punk and hard-core with physical expression. That was skateboarding.” When Saulnier reached his teens, in the early ’90s, the D.C. punk/hard-core scene was still flourishing under the influence of Dischord Records and its founder, Ian MacKaye, whose bands Minor Threat and Fugazi had established the city as a wellspring for the movement. Saulnier fondly recalls his time in the trenches (“I liked to get into the pit, but I wasn’t particularly tough”), and the motley assortment of attendees, from kids in letterman jackets to Nazi skinheads. Saulnier was also once a “yeller” (or lead singer) for the Alexandria hard-core band called No Turn on Fred — a reference to all the nearby “No Turn on Red” traffic signs that had Fs spray-painted in front of the
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“Red,” he remembers. “This tribute to local vandals became too hard to explain, so we later went by ‘N.T.O.F.” and called it a day.” Brooke and Will Blair — siblings of his childhood friend and closest collaborator, Macon Blair — have converted the noise of Saulnier’s youth into a more sophisticated ambient score. Other memories of the scene serve as genetic material for Green Room, which thrives on the dangerous chemistry between mismatched tribes. “Once in a while there would be some brawls,” Saulnier said. “But the Nazi punks would often be the victims of violence more than the aggressors, because they were not the majority. I remember as a teenager there was a stabbing outside the club, and they shut it down. I had to walk through the blood spatter on the way out of the venue. I wasn’t in any actual danger, but it stuck with me.” Saulnier lives in Brooklyn, where he has served as cinematographer to other indie borough-dwellers like Matt Porterfield (Putty Hill) and Michael Tully (Septien). Two years ago, Saulnier scored a minor hit with his directorial debut, Blue Ruin, a superb Coen brothers-inspired thriller about a hapless amateur (Macon Blair) on a quest for revenge. Saulnier gambled his career
and much of his own money on that film, and although Green Room doesn’t have the same personal stakes, it has no trouble summoning the same urgency and old-school genre chops. Green Room opens with the Ain’t Rights, a punk outfit, sputtering their way through the Pacific Northwest. After their latest gig nets them less than $10 each at the door, the band (Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole and Callum Turner) agrees to take a lucrative bill at a skinhead venue whose proprietor is played, in a minor casting coup, by Patrick Stewart. The Ain’t Rights are eager to bail as soon as the set is over, but after they stumble onto a murder, the skinheads will not let them leave. The nuts and bolts of Green Room could not be more basic: The Ain’t Rights, along with another witness (Imogen Poots), want to get out of the bar, but they have to run a gantlet of white-power goons to do it. While Saulnier hopes Green Room will succeed by channeling the immediacy of an ’80s D.C. punk show, his technique is more sophisticated than it seems. He may not be playing the audience like a piano, as Alfred Hitchcock famously claimed, but the discordant notes he does hit are calculated to similar effect.
MINNEAPOLIS — Prince’s sister says the superstar musician had no known will and filed paperwork Tuesday asking a Minneapolis court appoint a special administrator to oversee his estate. Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only surviving full sibling, said in the court filing that immediate action was necessary to manage Prince’s business interests following his death last week. The size of Prince’s fortune is unclear, though he made hundreds of millions of dollars for record companies, concert venues and others during his career and his estate included about $27 million in property. Nelson asked that Bremer Trust, a corporate trust company, be named administrator of the estate. The court documents say Breber Bank provided financial services to Price for many years. The filing comes less than a week after the pop star died Thursday at his home in suburban Minneapolis. The outpouring of grief and nostalgia prompted fans to buy 2.3 million of his songs in three days. Prince owned a dozen properties in and around his famous Paisley Park complex in suburban Minneapolis: mostly rural pieces of land and some houses for family members. Public records show those properties were worth about $27 million in 2016. Estimates of how much licensing his personal brand will bring in after death reach to the purple clouds. “He was as big as they get,” said Mark Roesler, chief executive of CMG Worldwide, which handles licensing for the estates of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other late stars. Roesler estimates Prince’s post-mortem earnings will match top-earning dead celebrities like Elvis Presley, whose estate made $55 million in 2015, according to Forbes magazine. If Prince filed a will or created a trust, heirs to his future fortune would be known. But no such documents have yet turned up.
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The family-friendly local show is being made with a $25,000 budget and guidance from some seasoned theatrical producers — drama director Peter Vanderwal, production manager Heather Oke-Hankins and choreographer Annette Bradley. The award-winning 1957 musical by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey is about what happens when con man Harold Hill poses as a boys’ band organizer and tries to pull a fast one on the naive folks of Iowa. Marian, the prim librarian, sees
right through him, but after Harold helps her younger brother, romance blooms — and the music man risks getting caught in a different kind of trap. The Broadway show won five Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award for best cast album, and prompted a 1962 movie starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. Tickets to the 7 p.m. local shows (also a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday) are $15 at the door, or by calling 403-3461839.
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Alia Shawkat and Anton Yelchin in ‘Green Room.’
Koinonia Christian School students present The Music Man Bring on the 76 trombones! Koinonia Christian School students will present The Music Man from Thursday to Saturday nights at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.
Pottery, art clubs holding joint Spring Show and Sale
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Bring home some original art for Mother’s Day. The Red Deer Pottery Club and Red Deer Art Club are jointly holding their Spring Show and Sale on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Recreation Centre. There will be plenty of hand-crafted ceramic vessels, paintings and sculptures to choose from — and refreshments will be served. This year’s show is held in memory of Jean Nichols, a long-time member of the pottery and art clubs, who organized the show and sales until she passed away in 2014. Everyone is invited to
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THE ADVOCATE B10
ADVICE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016
Woman needs more than makeup sex KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX
Dear Annie: What do you think about a married couple whose only intimacy is makeup sex? My husband says he loves me and I believe he is faithful, but he never initiates anything in the bedroom, and we have sex only if I pitch a fit because I feel neglected. I don’t do this often, so we’ve had sex only twice in the past 15 months. We are both healthy 42-year-olds. We have a 3-year-old child who requires a lot of attention, but even so, I can’t understand how he doesn’t desire intimacy. He is an awesome husband, who cooks, cleans, bathes our child, and doesn’t go out with the guys or do things I disapprove of. He just doesn’t seem to want me. I am attractive and still get looks from other men. A month ago, I came very close to an affair. I was not in love with the guy, but it sure was nice for a man to let me know he thinks I’m pretty. I told my husband about the encounter and guess what? We had sex. See what I mean? My husband is a good guy and I love him, so should I just get someone on the side to satisfy me physically? — Sexless Lady Dear Sexless: We’ll be frank with you. Here are the likeliest possibilities: Your husband’s testosterone levels are very low, he is having an affair, he is asexual, or he is gay. Please ask him to see his doctor for a complete checkup and specifically ask for his testosterone to be checked. We hope that’s all there is to it. Dear Annie: My unmarried 30-year-old daughter has a drinking and behavioral problem that has escalated over the past year. “Terrie” gets drunk at
family gatherings, insults people and starts arguments that often end with her throwing things and shoving people. A lot of her anger seems to be directed at me. We have encouraged Terrie to get alcohol counseling or attend AA. She tried it once and quit. I believe she is bipolar, but mental health counselors will not treat her until she quits drinking. After her last outburst, I sent her a text message and said we could no longer have a relationship unless she gets help. Shortly after, she left town and moved to Florida with a friend who also drinks. Should I keep the lines of communication open, or will my ultimatum help her reach bottom so she can start climbing back up? I tried Al-Anon, but the members only offer support and friendship to each other, which is nice, but it doesn’t change my daughter. She is an intelligent, beautiful woman who has thrown her life away and it breaks my heart. — Concerned Mom Dear Concerned: Al-Anon is not intended to change the alcoholic’s behavior, only your response to it. Choosing not to stay in touch would be for your mental health, not hers. No one can “fix” Terrie until she admits she has a problem, and she doesn’t seem ready. Many who are bipolar self-medicate with alcohol and drugs, and there are treatment programs that address both disorders. If Terrie wants help, she should contact a university medical center department of psychiatry for a referral. And you should contact NAMI (nami.org) about their Family-to-Family program. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.
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