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Man dies in crane accident BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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A man was killed while taking apart a crane at the Nova Chemicals’ Joffre site just one day before the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. It was the first workplace fatality on the site since the early 1980s when a worker was killed during the construction of the Ethylene 2 facility.
Rick Van Hemmen, Joffre site team leader, said it was a tough day with certainly a lot of emotions at the site. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s an employee or a contractor or anybody on the site, we have to do our best to keep everybody safe,” said Van Hemmen. Alberta Labour spokesperson Lauren Welsh said
workers were taking apart a crane when a piece of a crane hit one worker around 9 a.m. Nova emergency personnel rescued the worker from the crane. The man died on his way to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. “OHS officers are on site right now and they will be investigating,” said Welsh. “A stop work order is in place for crane deconstruction.” Please see DEATH on Page A6
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‘Dumpster dining’ spotlights food waste BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Waste not, want not. The City of Red Deer will serve up 500 plates of food using ingredients that would have otherwise gone to the trash at a Feeding the 500 event on Sept. 22 at City Hall Park. It is Red Deer’s version of the international Feeding the 5000 campaign, which is a global celebratory feast that shines the light on edible food that is thrown away. Lauren Maris, the city’s Environmental Program specialist, said the idea is to create awareness and promote action on food that is tossed away every year. “Think imperfect fruits and vegetables or stuff that is close to an expiry date but still safe to eat,” said Maris. “This is about education about the potential solutions to food waste for individual consumers and the industrial section. There are so many meals going to waste when people are going hungry.” The first 500 people will be served. About 170,000 tonnes of good, edible food, equivalent to 300 million meals, wind up in Canadian landfills every year, according to the National Zero Waste Council. No statistics were available for Red Deer.
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A City of Red Deer firefighter opens the valve on a hydrant charging a line to a nearby engine at the corner of 32nd Street and 40th Avenue. A utility contractor hit a natural gas line causing a leak in an alley behind Anders Close around on Wednesday around 1 p.m. Eight homes were evacuated near 40th Avenue and 32nd Street. Residents were asked to stay away from the area. Traffic was rerouted at the intersection for several hours while crews repaired the line. The roads were reopened around 4 p.m.
Urgent remedy sought for pediatrician shortage BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The departure of two local pediatricians has seen Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre calling in pediatricians more often from Calgary and Edmonton to cover on-call duties at the hospital. Currently nine local pediatricians provide on-call duty at the hospital. Not all of them work full-time. In March, the shortage left one Red Deer family travelling to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Cal-
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Cash-forplasma costly, risky: Corney BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF While Canada’s first private for-profit company to compensate donors for blood plasma has no immediate plans to open shop in Alberta, concerns are being raised by opponents, including Friends of Medicare in Red Deer. Canadian Plasma Resources wants to have clinics in all four western provinces by 2020 however the company’s CEO indicated that Alberta isn’t at the top if its list. “We don’t have any plans in the near future, or even the mid-term, to be operational in Alberta,” Dr. Barzin Bahardoust said. “We never engaged the current government of Alberta. We never reached out to them. We don’t have any applications with them.” Canadian Plasma Resources has caused controversy since after opening its first plasma clinic in Canada in Saskatoon recently. Donors receive $25 gift cards each time they donate their plasma, which is the main component in human blood. Once collected it is then processed to make life-saving medical products used to treat people with illnesses such as hemophilia. Donors can give plasma once a week, whereas they can only make full blood donations about every three months. An online petition has been started by a lobby group called Bloodwatch (bloodwatch.org) calling on the federal government to prevent donor-paid blood product companies from operating in Canada. Individuals, groups such as Friends of Medicare, and even governments, are listed on Bloodwatch’s website as being opposed to paid plasma. Canadian Plasma Resources tried to open clinics in Toronto in 2014 but the Ontario government subsequently passed legislation preventing pay for plasma. One of the recommendations that came out of the inquiry into tainted blood after over 30,000 Canadians were infected with tainted blood in the 1980s was that donors not be paid. Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman has stated publicly she is not keen on the idea of pay for plasma and is concerned it would undermine the current voluntary program managed by Canadian Blood Services, a non-profit charity organization. “Once you start selling things … it increases the risks and the cost for the system,” said Brenda Corney, chair of the Red Deer chapter of Friends of Medicare. Measures have been taken to make the Canadian blood system safe so if there’s a profit component in it, it could attract people who wouldn’t tell the truth about their health, she said. Paying for plasma attracts people who need the money and attracts them away from the legitimate safe system, Corney said. “This is creeping. You have it in Saskatchewan and then you have it in B.C. and then pretty soon it creeps throughout your whole system and that’s how the privatization of medical care works.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Fire engulfs a Canadian National Railway bridge on the outskirts of Mayerthorpe in this image provide by the Town of Mayerthorpe on Tuesday. The fire started Tuesday afternoon and forced students at the nearby Mayerthorpe high school and residents of 38 mobile homes at the Kreek’s Krossing trailer park to leave.
Train trestle fire suspicious, say Mounties BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MAYERTHORPE — Mounties say a fire that destroyed a train trestle bridge northwest of Edmonton is suspicious. The fire at the Canadian National Railway bridge on the outskirts of
Suspect charged with shooting at RCMP building wants new lawyer An autistic man accused of shooting at the Red Deer RCMP building will languish in jail for at least another month after announcing that he wants a new lawyer. Police allege that someone armed with an imitation firearm, possibly a BB gun, shot
Mayerthorpe on Tuesday forced students at the nearby Mayerthorpe high school and residents of 38 mobile homes at the Kreek’s Krossing trailer park to evacuate. No one was injured. Thick, black smoke billowed from the burning railway bridge for hours until it collapsed later Tuesday.
Mayerthorpe RCMP say they, along with provincial fire investigators and CN officials, are investigating what may have caused the fire. Sgt. Scott McAuley says the fire was the fifth that police have been called to in the past 30 days. He says it’s a concern given the dry conditions this spring.
and damaged two windows in the detachment building. Cory Daniel Picard, 21, has been held in custody since his arrest on March 14 as the sole suspect in the incident. Picard has yet to enter his plea on charges of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, committing an offence with an imitation firearm, mischief causing less than $5,000 in damages and uttering threats. A ward of the Public Guardian, Picard has made numerous court appearances since his arrest, represented by Red Deer defence counsel Brad Mulder. During an appearance on April 13, Mulder said he and his client were working on bail conditions to be proposed to the court, anticipating that his release would be addressed this week. However, in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday, an agent representing Mulder asked that the hearing and plea be put off for another week because Picard had indicated he would like a new lawyer. Appearing from remand by closedcircuit TV, Picard said he wanted another month to find a new lawyer. He remains in remand pending his next court appearance, set for May 25.
charged in connection with a shooting in Sylvan Lake last fall. RCMP allege that someone fired a shotgun at Richard Hans Koehl, 33, on Sept. 17, 2015. The severity of his injuries has not been made public. Snow was arrested on other charges in Red Deer in October and released from custody, but then became the subject of a Canada-wide warrant in December, on charges including the attempted murder of Koehl. He was arrested again near Blackfalds in mid-January and returned to custody. Represented by defence counsel Maurice Collard, he asked in a court appearance on March 21 that the charge of attempted murder be heard by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing in provincial court to test the Crown’s case against him. Preliminary hearings are optional and may be requested by defence to test the strength of the Crown’s case against an accused person. In court on Wednesday, Collard asking for a bail hearing in front of a trial judge rather than by telephone with the justice of the peace. Collard advised Judge David Plosz that he intends to call witnesses, including a police officer who was involved in the investigation. The bail hearing has been set for Red Deer provincial court on May 17. Snow’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9.
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Weich recently entered a plea of not guilty and is scheduled to stand trial on June 9. Also charged in connection with the collision was a Vancouver Island man also alleged to have been a passenger in the pickup truck. Brady Shivak, 33, pleaded guilty earlier this year to simple possession of an illegal narcotic, in connection with a small quantity of methamphetamine found in a backpack. He was fined $1,000 plus a victim of crimes surcharge of $300.
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Habitat for Humanity to build two duplexes in Lacombe More Habitat for Humanity housing will be built in Lacombe thanks to a generous donation by that city. Two new duplexes in Shepherd Heights for lowincome working families, to be built by the Habitat for Humanity Red Deer Region Society, were approved by Lacombe city council earlier this week. The City of Lacombe donated a total of $480,000 to cover the cost of the land purchase from Ridgestone Homes and an additional amount per unit, which will cover about a third of the construction costs. The newest approvals will be located at 29/33 and 37/41 Sheep Close, and will be three-bedroom, two-storey units with attached single garages. Completion of the units will be in July 2017. The group is building two duplexes already at MacKenzie Ranch, also in partnership with the City of Lacombe, and these are to be completed this June. Those interested in applying for one of these four newest units in Shepherd Heights should contact Habitat for Humanity at info@habitatreddeer.ca or on 403-309-6080 ext. 2.
Seven local instructors among Excellence in Teaching semifinalists Seven teachers in Central Alberta were among 30 semifinalists for the 2016 Excellence in Teaching Awards. Local semifinalists come from Red Deer Public Schools, Red Deer Regional Catholic Schools and Chinook’s Edge School Division. Semifinalists include: ● Allan Baile, from Aspen Heights Elementary School in Red Deer. ● Colin Christensen, from Annie L. Gaetz School in Red Deer. ● Cody Huseby, from Father Henri Voisin School in Red Deer. ● Miriam Irons, from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in Red Deer. ● Amber Lansing, from St. Francis of Assisi Middle School in Red Deer. ● Rachel Peters, from St. Elizabeth Seton School in Red Deer. ● Angela Dezall, from Olds High School. The awards program recognizes outstanding teachers and honours creative, innovative and effective teaching. Semifinalists receive certificates of recognition and access to $1,500 for professional learning. Award recipients get certificates of recognition, commemorative pins and access to $4,000 for professional learning. Recipients will be honoured at an Alberta Education event in June.
A Trochu man charged after an incident with police in Stettler last fall will stand trial there in June. Christopher Victor Weich, 29, was arrested following an incident in which a stolen pickup truck crashed into an RCMP cruiser on Oct. 13, 2015. One Mountie was injured in the crash, but returned to work later in the day. Police allege that Weich was a passenger in the vehicle and that he was found in possession of narcotics and stolen property in the investigation that ensued following the collision.
Olds College students honoured at TEC VenturePrize Awards Fermenting a clever idea into a usable product has paid off with a $20,000 prize for an Olds College student. Alex Villeneuve took home top student entrepreneur honours at the TEC VenturePrize Awards in Edmonton last week. Villeneuve is a first-year Bremaster and Brewer Operations Management student and owner of Ceres Solutions Ltd. Working with Olds College Centre for Innovation instructor Paul Tiege, Villeneuve developed a system to re-use spent grains from beer production. Spent grains are usually considered a waste product of the beer process, but Villeneuve found a way to use it to grow mushroom crops. The process he developed involves pasteurizing and innoculating grains with mushroom mycelium, which helps break down unnecessary fibre in the grains. Enough nutritional content is created in the reaction to produce protein-rich mushrooms. Eight Alberta breweries have already shown interest in his process. Villeneuve is working out of a warehouse on the campus but plans to find business partners and expand. Besides the cash prize, Villeneuve will receive mentoring, business plan guidance and evaluation, and benefit from workshops and networking opportunities. This is the second year in a row that Olds College students have been named as the top student entrepreneurs in the TEC VenturePrize Awards. Tyler Rose and Peter Schill, of Alberta Craft Malting, were honoured last year for their work developing custom and specialty malts.
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Blackfalds conducting community social needs assessment Blackfalds plans to pick the brains of its residents for information on what social services are needed in the fastgrowing community. The town has contracted consultants to undertake a community social needs assessment. It follows up similar work done in 2012 and will include a review of how successfully previous needs were addressed in the town of 9,000. Consultants will also be creating a system to evaluate how well programs are meeting their goals. The town also wants to get information on community involvement in social service programs from recipients to volunteers. Given that new programs usually means more spending the town plans to look at what government funding is expected and how to determine community support for new programs. A key part of the new project is a survey that will be mailed out to each household next month. Residents will have about two weeks to complete the survey. In a statement, Mayor Melodie Stol asks residents to provide their feedback. “It is extremely important to hear from the residents, so we can understand the need for social services
A robbery suspect arrested east of Red Deer on Christmas Day will stand trial in October. Lyndon William Olsen, 33, was arrested on outstanding warrants by Blackfalds RCMP called to investigate a complaint of three men walking down the middle of Hwy 11 near Range Road 27-0. Police allege that investigators arrived on the scene to find one man was still on the road and two others were in the process of flagging down and entering a taxi a few metres away. One of the suspects is reported to have bolted from the taxi when police pulled it over. He was tracked down and arrested with the help of a police service dog. Olsen was arrested on a set of nine charges, including break and enter and uttering threats. Now in custody at Red Deer Remand Centre, Olsen has made numerous court appearances since his arrest, represented by a series of lawyers. He returned to court via closed-circuit TV on Wednesday, bearing a dark bruise around his right eye and represented by defence counsel Will Willms. Willms entered a plea of not guilty on his client’s behalf, setting a trial date for Red Deer provincial court on Oct. 3.
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Albertans must accept new normal JOHN STEWART OPINION
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lenty of Albertans push back from any suggestion of global warming as if they were being served a dish of raw bitumen, garnished with coal shavings. It is a conundrum that besets societies around the world — science is muted, discredited, disavowed or ignored by those who fear the loss of well-being, a shift in their belief system or some sort of social upheaval as a result of that science. In energy-driven economies such as Alberta’s, particularly during a nasty and enduring downturn, they astonishingly stay on the road built on quicksand. To veer onto stable ground, and embrace the inevitability of science, is to similarly accept the notion that change is imperative. And change might mean a loss of income, a shift of profession or other similarly cataclysmic U-turn of social circumstances. So too many Albertans — even some who grudgingly accept the science of climate change — can’t assent to the evolution of our social and economic foundation. When in doubt, bury your
head in the tarsands. But it’s increasingly difficult to ignore the signs in Alberta, little and large. The environment is under attack, and our reference points for quality of life and economic stability are fading. Red Deer, an idyll of parks surrounded by rich farmland (and mammoth petrochemical plants), has deplorable air quality, according to years of testing. The mysterious source (or sources) of particulates will finally be fully studied. The province has just invested $810,000 in a refined air monitoring project for the city. What happens next will depend on the study results (that’s good science — find the source, then act). Edmonton’s popular Gold Bar Park is, in the words of neuroscience professor and park user David Bennett, “sandwiched between a sewage treatment plant and … refineries.” Bennett recently told CBC News that he conducted his own air quality tests and discovered particulate levels two and a half times the accepted levels. Now Alberta Environment is involved in further testing. The City of Edmonton is working on a $2.4-billion project to protect vulnerable neighbourhoods from what were once known as one-in-100-year floods. The project is being driven by devastating flooding in 2012, and by the rising threat that climate change carries.
“These raging cloud bursts that we get all of a sudden dump a ton of water and our infrastructure just wasn’t built for that climate,” Heather Mack, Alberta director of government relations for the Insurance Bureau of Canada, told the Edmonton Journal. The people of Calgary, and High River, know all too well about the devastating impact of heavy rain and rising water levels. The damage from 2013’s catastrophic flooding is still being repaired. And the province is still scrapping with landowners about how to spend the billions necessary to prevent a repeat of one of the costliest disasters in the history of Alberta. When 350 mm of rain falls on mountain snowpack within two days, the downstream impact will always be astonishing unless new runoff reservoirs are established. And, based on climate change, another monstrous deluge is not 100 years away. But climate change isn’t just about devastating rainfall. It’s also about the long, unnatural dry periods in between the flooding. It’s a kind of environmental boom and bust. As many Alberta communities broke century-old warm weather records in March and April, the wildfire risk urgently pushed upward. Alberta’s winter precipitation was about 85 per cent below normal. That meant fire season began two months ahead of schedule. And with every blaze, valuable resources are de-
pleted, never mind the cost of fighting the fires. None of this means Albertans shouldn’t be concerned about the painful impact on this province from depressed world oil markets. The job losses are expected to continue — PetroLMI, a Calgary-based industry analyst, predicts another 16,000 Alberta jobs will be lost this year. Heavy equipment idled by the energy industry is being sold off at unprecedented rates, for bargain prices. The human devastation will be deep and enduring for many. So too will the impact on business. We have invested too much in this province, economically and socially, to quit now. But we need to accept the reality of climate change, and we need to do it quickly. We need to realize that ideas like carbon tax are not meant to penalize us; they are meant to change our habits and encourage new technology that will give renewed life to a cleaner version of our energy industries. The new normal in Alberta means accepting the global problems we have helped create and joining the movement to reverse the devastation. Now. Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.
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PM finds his voice in fight against terror TIM HARPER OPINION
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ometimes you’ve got to be pissed off. Justin Trudeau got there this week as his response to terrorism continues its remarkable evolution. The prime minister sounded legitimately angry over the horrible death of Canadian John Ridsdel at the hands of terrorists, and resolute in his statement that this country will not pay terrorist ransoms — directly or indirectly. This will not bring Ridsdel back and it will not safeguard the fate of another Canadian being held in the Philippines. Trudeau did not bow to the knee jerk reaction that some of his opponents urge, he did not send in the JTF2 or pledge to carpet bomb terrorist strongholds, but sometimes a country needs a leader to channel anger and surely there was anger — along with sympathy for Ridsdel’s family and friends — over the brutal and senseless killing of an innocent Canadian. Trudeau called it what it was, “cold-blooded murder,” a substantive change in tone from a man who, since
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becoming Liberal leader, has often appeared to be overshooting in his quest to provide perspective and undershooting on the question of outrage. This is, in fact, a major testing of a prime minister barely six months into his job. The fate of a second Canadian being held, 50-year-old Robert Hall, hangs in the balance. The no-ransom policy is noble and correct. And risky. Trudeau has downplayed the fear spread by terror attacks, but since becoming Liberal leader in 2013, he has taken on the role of amateur psychologist, appeared shaken, and seemed devoid of genuine outrage. Indeed, his response to a Burkina Faso terror attack that killed six Quebec humanitarian workers in January was deemed so bland, the husband of one of the victims hung up on the prime minister when Trudeau called to offer condolences. But there has been an unmistakable evolution. In his first substantive interview after winning the Liberal leadership three years ago, bombs had just killed three and maimed more than 200 at the finish line of the Boston massacre, and Trudeau spoke of “root causes” of terror with the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge. “There is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded, completely
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at war with innocents, at war with a society. And our approach has to be, OK, where do those tensions come from?” Trudeau said, leading Harper to accuse him of “rationalizing” terror attacks. Last November, the newly installed prime minister seemed shaken by the attacks in Paris. “These terrorist attacks are deeply worrying and obviously unsettling to people around the world,” he said, without specifically condemning them. A few months later, following the attacks in Brussels, he found his outrage. “This cannot and will not be tolerated. Canada strongly condemns these cowardly acts … those responsible for carrying out these senseless attacks must be brought to justice and we will do all we can to help make that happen.” Upon news of the senseless killing of Ridsdel, Trudeau said: “This was an act of cold-blooded murder and the responsibility rests squarely with the terrorist group who took him hostage.” He said Canada would work with the Philippines and international partners to bring the killers to justice. In many ways, Trudeau’s default position has been to rise above the fray, a mien much like that of his new-found friend, Barack Obama, who, as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote after the Brussels attacks, remains “too cool for school.”
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Obama’s resistance to cheap emotion, Dowd wrote, “has led him, time after time, to respond belatedly or bloodlessly in moments when Americans are alarmed, wanting solace and solutions.” Obama reacted to the Brussels killings while watching a baseball game in Havana, but Dowd concluded he has kept his focus on the fight against terrorism. All leaders have been accused of being tone deaf in their response to terror attacks. George W. Bush channelled American defiance with his bullhorn moment in the wreckage of the World Trade Center after 9/11, but his Wild West hunt for Osama bin Laden and his bid to form a coalition for the wrong war became both caricature and foreign policy folly. In January 2015, Stephen Harper chose to attend 200th birthday celebrations in Kingston, Ont., for Sir John A. Macdonald rather than march in Paris with other world leaders condemning the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Trudeau is no longer above the fray and he has been forced to react with resolve he lacked in 2013. But the fate of Hall largely rests with him and there can be no tougher test of a prime minister’s resolve than that. Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
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‘Heaven help us all’ FATHER CONVICTED IN SON’S DEATH FEARS FOR OTHER PARENTS
Complaint against naturopath in toddler case being investigated
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NELSON, B.C. — A father found guilty of not providing his ailing toddler with medical care says he worries that others will be arrested if they don’t “fall in line with parenting as seen fit by the government.” David Stephan wrote a “dear jury” letter on his Facebook page Wednesday, one day after he and his wife were convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life to their son, Ezekiel, who died of meningitis. The letter said he deeply loves the jurors and appreciates their time — but they were wrong. “I only wish that you could’ve seen how you were being played by the Crown’s deception, drama and trickery that not only led to our key witnesses being muzzled, but has also now led to a dangerous precedent being set in Canada,” Stephan wrote Wednesday. “The floodgates have now been opened and if we do not fall in line with parenting as seen fit by the government, we all stand in risk of criminal prosecution. “May heaven help us all!” Stephan and his wife, Collet, were convicted by a jury in the death of their 19-month-old son in March 2012. The jury heard that the couple thought the boy had croup or flu and treated him for 2 ½ weeks with remedies that included hot peppers, garlic, onions and horseradish, even though a family friend who was a nurse told them she thought Ezekiel had meningitis. Court also heard that Collet Stephan drove the little boy from their rural home to a naturopathic clinic in Lethbridge, Alta., to pick up an echinacea mixture, although he was too stiff to sit in his car seat and had to lie on a mattress in the vehicle. The Crown argued during the trial that the couple loved their son but still had to follow a legal standard of care. The defence argued they were responsible parents who simply didn’t realize how sick their son was. David Stephan confirmed in an interview with The Canadian Press that he wrote the Facebook letter because he and his wife are disappointed with the court process. “It was just definitely heartwrenching to see the direction that it went,” he said. “There’s the Crown’s version of our story, then there’s our story of us
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David and Collett Stephan leave the courthouse in Lethbridge on Tuesday surrounded by family and supporters after being found guilty in failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of their 19-month-old Ezekiel 2012. who actually lived it.” He said they are considering an appeal. “Not so much for ourselves, but for the fact this sets a tremendous precedent for the Canadian populous. It would have been easier for us just to take a plea bargain a long time ago and just basically keep living our lives, but we didn’t want this precedent being set. That’s why we proceeded forward in the first place. “I don’t know yet whether we’re going to throw in the towel.” The maximum penalty for failing to provide the necessaries of life is five years in prison. A sentencing date is to be set in June. After Ezekiel died, the Stephans moved from Glenwood, Alta. to Nelson, B.C., and returned there after the verdict with their three other boys: eightyear-old Ezra, three-year-old Ephraim and one-year-old Enoch. Stephan said he and his wife are worried about going to prison because of their children. He said his mother died when he was 10, and he doesn’t
NDP to repeal despised First Nations consultation law
DEAR JURY ‘THE FLOODGATES HAVE NOW BEEN OPENED AND IF WE DO NOT FALL IN LINE WITH PARENTING AS SEEN FIT BY THE GOVERNMENT, WE ALL STAND IN RISK OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.’ — DAVID STEPHAN
want his children to be without a mother or father. “It is a heartwrenching thought and I don’t see how this is doing the public any good.” A spokeswoman for Alberta Justice says the department could not immediately comment on Stephan’s comments.
Labour minister to attend union day of mourning ceremony for first time BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta will repeal legislation concerning aboriginal consultation on resource projects that is widely despised among First Nations. Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan said Wednesday the government would withdraw Bill 22, which created a levy to fund the province’s Aboriginal Consultation Office. “Our process on this, with the blessing of the aboriginal communities, is to withdraw Bill 22, which will be happening next week in the legislature,” Feehan said. The bill, which has never been proclaimed into law, is being withdrawn as part of efforts to reform the consultation office, which is already led to at least two lawsuits. The most recent was filed Friday by the Fort McKay First Nation. It alleges Alberta’s way of weighing oilsands development against aboriginal concerns ties the hands of First Nations while projects on or near their lands proceed. “As long as they can keep you in negotiations or consultations, they can do that forever while they approve projects,” said Karin Buss, a lawyer representing the Fort McKay First Nation. The lawsuit seeks to overturn a ruling from the consultation office that said Calgary-based Prosper Petroleum had done enough consultation on a proposed $390-million in situ oilsands mine. The mine is on land former premier Jim Prentice agreed to protect in a pact signed last March. The Moose Lake area consists of traditional and reserve lands, north of Fort McMurray,
that the band considers sacred and central to its life. Prentice’s deal has never been implemented and exists mostly on paper. Fort McKay pointed that out to the consultation office and added the cumulative effects of development are destroying the band’s ability to practice its treaty rights. The office’s response was that it’s only allowed to consider narrow questions limited to the immediate impacts of the development. The consultation office will now sends the proposal to the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is specifically forbidden from considering treaty rights. That means Prosper’s proposal could go through the entire regulatory process without having to answer Fort McKay’s concerns. “The regulatory system and process of consultation created by the province of Alberta … is sharp practice,” the lawsuit alleges. The province, the regulator and the consultation office all declined to release Prosper’s report. The lawsuit claims Prosper’s Rigel project shouldn’t even go to a public hearing until plans and procedures exist to protect Moose Lake before development begins. “All we want is for the plan to precede development,” said Buss. “We can’t continue to have development before plans are in place.” The government faces another lawsuit over the consultation office filed by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Feehan said how the government assesses aboriginal consultation will be redesigned with input from First Nations.
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LETHBRIDGE — An Alberta regulatory group is investigating a complaint about a naturopathic doctor involved in the case of a toddler who died of meningitis. A jury in Lethbridge convicted David and Collet Stephan on Tuesday of failing to provide the necessaries of life for their 19-month-old son Ezekiel. Court heard the couple thought the boy had croup or flu and treated him for 2 ½ weeks with home remedies that included hot peppers, garlic, onions and horseradish, even though a family friend who was a nurse told them she thought Ezekiel had meningitis. Collet Stephan also took the boy to a naturopathic clinic and picked up an echinacea mixture for the child, although there was conflicting evidence about whether the naturopathic doctor talked to her. A letter of concern about the conduct of Tracey Tannis, with the names of 43 medical doctors attached, was sent to the College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta in March. “We are a group of Canadian physicians and surgeons who have been watching the trial of Collet and David Stephan over the past few weeks and, while we are moved by the senseless tragedy of Ezekiel’s death, we are also deeply concerned about the conduct of the registered naturopath involved in his care,” said the letter. The college responded in a letter that says Tannis is to be investigated under the province’s Health Professions Act. Kristen Tanaka with the college wrote in the letter that she will review the investigation, then “either dismiss the complaint or refer the matter to the hearings director for a hearing before the hearing tribunal.” The college said it can’t comment because all complaints and investigations are confidential unless they result in a hearing. Tannis did not respond to a phone message and declined an in-person request at her Lethbridge clinic for an interview.
EDMONTON — Alberta’s largest union is to have an unusual guest at its ceremony to honour workers killed or injured on the job. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says for the first time ever the province’s labour minister will attend its annual day of mourning service Thursday. Union president Guy Smith said having Minister Christina Gray speak at the event indicates the NDP wants to make meaningful improvements to workplace safety. Smith said the union hopes that will include making it easier for employees such as social workers, hospital emergency room staff and correctional officers to get help for post-traumatic stress disorder. “We are seeing many more members coming forward with these psychological issues. Really, what we need to see is changes to law and legislation that really supports and protects workers who are suffering from PTSD,” Smith said Wednesday. “By having it recognized formally in legislation — I think that might open the door to people coming for-
ward more. A lot of people suffer in silence.” In 2012, the Progressive Conservative government passed legislation to give first responders such as police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians coverage for PTSD without having to prove their condition is work-related. During debate on the bill then-opposition NDP member Rachel Notley proposed an amendment that called for including correctional officers, social workers and emergency health employees in the legislation. Notley’s amendment was voted down. Smith said the union has been lobbying the NDP to take action to broaden the legislation to cover more workers since it won the provincial election last May. He said the challenge is the government has so many other issues on its plate that change could take time. “The labour minister is well aware of our concerns,” Smith said. “We would like to see it sooner than later but we also want to make sure that they get it done right.”
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DEATH: About 700 working on project Van Hemmen said they are co-operating fully with Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and the Blackfalds RCMP’s investigation. At the time there were about 700 people working on the project. There were no other injuries. The Employee and Family Assistance Program services will be offered to employees and contractors, said Van Hemmen. The man’s name and age have not been released. The expansion project, which includes a polyethylene reactor, is expected to boost Nova’s polyethylene production capacity by 40 per cent. Work began in 2013 and the project is expected to be mechanically complete by the end of August and up and running by year’s end. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and co-workers of the worker,” said Bill Greene, Nova senior vice president. “As we recognize that during a difficult time like this, distractions can easily happen, we want to encourage employees to remain vigilant and look out for one another.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
FOOD: Still planning event The event is still in the early planning stage, said Maris. The city will ask local producers and retailers to contribute the food. It will also reach out to partners and agencies that deal with poverty and hunger to get the word out about the lunch. The city is teaming up with Red Deer College’s Cook Apprentice Program and the Recycling Council of Alberta on the project. More partners are expected to come on board. Vancouver has hosted a Feed the 5000 event where rescued food was on the menu for the homeless population and those down on their luck. Taking action on food waste aligns with the city’s Waste Management Master Plan and connects with the Green Cart Pilot (organics) project. Organic waste, largely food, produces three per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the National Zero Waste Council. Red Deer has a 812 kg per capita disposal rate compared to the Cana-
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dian average of 777 kg per capita, and the Alberta average of 1,122 kg per capita. Red Deer’s goal is to get its number to 500 kg per capita by 2023. Earlier this week, council endorsed the National Zero Waste Council’s lobbying efforts for federal tax incentives for food producers, suppliers and retailers to donate unsold edible food. The resolution will also be forwarded to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to urge the Canadian government to implement the tax proposal. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
SHORTAGE: 10 pediatric beds Red Deer hospital has about 10 pediatric beds and a 17-bed neonatal intensive care unit. He said with the help of Calgary and Edmonton, it was very doubtful Red Deer would be without an on-call pediatrician while the new recruits make their way to the city. Calgary and Edmonton have a vested interest in Red Deer succeeding. Young patients would otherwise travel to those cities for care, he said. Red Deer hospital delivers about 2,700 babies annually, including high-risk pregnancies, and sees almost 10,000 pediatric patients a year through the emergency department, but not all need a pediatrician. He said when it comes to pediatric patients, Red Deer hospital probably ranks third, behind Alberta’s two children’s hospitals, when it comes to acuity, or intensity of care required. The hospital also ranks fourth in acuity for adult patients and is the busiest of all the regional hospitals. He said Red Deer’s pediatric department has assessed and trained pediatricians for other hospitals. “We have a vibrant and active unit and now it’s our turn to be recipients of the graces of Edmonton and Calgary while we load up our staffing quotient again. “I’m very, very proud of the pediatric service that we’ve offered to the city for a long time,” Lundall said. Red Deer grandmother Andrea Dancause said her daughter chose to take her very sick son to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary in early March after a spending seven hours at the Red Deer emergency department and left without answers. She said a lab technician later notified the family that tests done at the ER showed her grandson Gage Stephanson had a serious blood infection streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia and needed immediate hospital care. They choose to go to Calgary where it took an hour to see a doctor and
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A man was killed at the Nova Chemicals’ site at Joffre. The incident took place about 9 a.m. Wednesday while workers were taking apart a crane on the site. put on intravenous antibiotics. When they returned to Red Deer hospital to continue his treatment it took another 12 hours to be admitted which caused him to miss his second dose of antibiotics. “You almost want to warn other parents. If you’ve got something other than a sore throat, you can go to Calgary
or Edmonton who have a children’s hospital. They know what to do,” Dancause said. She said the Red Deer hospital is overburdened. Dancause contacted AHS and was told her complaints would be investigated. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Brandon push Rebels to the brink BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Wheat Kings 4 Rebels 2 Outshot 43-36, outscored and now on the brink of elimination, the Red Deer Rebels have a long bus ride back to Brandon ahead of them. The Rebels will have to dig deep and do something they haven’t done since April 1, win on the road. A 4-2 loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings on Wednesday night has the Rebels down 3-1 in the best-of-seven Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final. Despite doubling up the Rebels on the scoreboard, the game was a goaltending duel between the Wheat Kings’ Jordan Papirny and the Rebels’ Rylan Toth who combined for 73 saves. “Tother was exceptional tonight with the amount of saves he had to make and the quality of the saves,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “He kept us in the game and gave us a chance going in to the third. We just weren’t good enough tonight.” Brandon scored twice in the first period, and twice more in the third. Tim McGauley and John Quenneville both had a goal and an assist while Jayce Hawryluk and Nolan Patrick each had two assists. Sutter said they had discussions with the team to expect the Wheat Kings to raise their game for Game 4, responding from the 6-2 loss in Game 3. “I don’t think we played well at all,” said Sutter. “It’s disappointing where it’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals and we didn’t have any push tonight. “We tied it up early in the third, but we made that mistake that killed us all night — turnovers. We didn’t play smart with the puck, we weren’t hard enough with pucks and it cost us.” In the third period, the Rebels poured on the pressure with 20 shots on Papirny, but only had DeBrusk’s power play goal to show for it. DeBrusk took a feed down low from Adam Helewka and walked in front of the net. He fired a wrist shot past Papriny to tie the game back up at 2-2, his seventh goal of the playoffs. The goal was
Preds take down Ducks to advance BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Predators 2 Ducks 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Colin Wilson and Paul Gaustad scored in the first period and the Nashville Predators hung on to win the franchise’s first Game 7, advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night. Pekka Rinne made 36 saves for the wild-card Predators, who rallied from a 3-2 series deficit and ousted the Pacific Division champion Ducks with a gritty road victory. Nashville earned just the third playoff series victory in team history — the first since 2012, and the second over Anaheim. Nashville will travel up the California coast to face the San Jose Sharks on Friday night. For the fourth consecutive season, the Ducks blew a 3-2 series lead and lost a Game 7 at home. Frederik Andersen made 18 saves and Ryan Kesler scored a power-play goal early in the third period for the Ducks. They had numerous late chances to tie it while largely dominating the final two periods, but a redirected shot clanked off Rinne’s post in the final minutes, and nothing went in during a frantic final minute.
CURLING SHERWOOD PARK — Stefanie Lawton scored one point in an extra end for a 5-4 victory over Allison Flaxey in the early draw Wednesday at the Champions Cup curling event. Lawton, from Saskatoon, pulled ahead with a deuce in the seventh end but Flaxey, from Caledon, Ont., tied it with a single in the eighth. Lawton threw at an 81 per cent clip while Flaxey struggled at just 67 per cent. Winnipeg’s Kerri Einarson defeated Scotland’s Eve Muirhead 7-3. In men’s play, Switzerland’s Peter De Cruz topped Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock 10-5, Scotland’s David Murdoch beat Saskatoon’s Shaun Meachem 7-2 and Sweden’s Niklas Edin defeated American John Shuster 7-5. Three more draws were scheduled for later Wednesday at the Sherwood Park Arena Sports Centre. Round-robin play continues through Friday at the $200,000 bonspiel. The finals are scheduled for Sunday. It’s the seventh and final event of the Grand Slam season.
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Red Deer Rebel goaltender Rylan Toth covers the goal as Brandon Wheat King Tyler Coulter breaks around the net followed by Rebels Josh Mahura during Game 4 of the WHL Eastern Conference Final at the Centrium in Red Deer Wednesday. The Rebels lost the game 4-2 and face elimination as the Wheat Kings have a 3-1 series lead. scored in the dying minutes of a power play as Patrick was in the box for roughing to end the second period. Toth was on the bench with 1:30 to go in the game and the Rebels did get their chances, but Tanner Kaspick who sealed it for the Wheat Kings scoring the empty net goal. A sluggish first and second period for the Rebels, had them outshot 3116. Were it not for a tremendous effort from Toth, the game would have been a lot worse for the Rebels. “They were better than us in pretty much every area and it showed,” said Jake DeBrusk, Rebels forward. “With-
out Tother in the net it would have got out of hand pretty quick.” But on the other end of the ice, Jordan Papirny rebounded from a dismal Game 3 performance to shut the door time and time again on the Rebels. A night before, Papirny was pulled from the net in the first period after allowing four goals on nine shots. “As a goalie, things like that happen,” Papirny said. “People are going to forget about that and the only thing that people are going to remember is how you respond the next night. That was kind of what I was thinking about going into the game, to respond real-
ly well and be mentally strong back there. The boys did an awesome job tonight.” On Wednesday he made numerous key saves, including one when the Rebels had the extra attacker late looking to equalize, sealed the game. The series now returns to Brandon for Game 5 on Friday, puck drop is at 6:30 p.m. Notes: Akash Bains was a late scratch from the lineup leaving Taden Rattie to play in his 12th playoff game this post-season … 5,608 fans packed into the Enmax Centrium. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com
ISLANDERS STRIKE FIRST IN SERIES WITH LIGHTNING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Islanders 5 Lightning 3 TAMPA, Fla. — The New York Islanders know they’ve yet to see the best of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Vezina Trophy finalist Ben Bishop. Shane Prince scored twice during a three-goal first period and John Tavares had a goal and an assist Wednesday night to help the Islanders beat one of the NHL’s top goalies 5-3 in Game 1 of the second-round Stanley Cup playoff series. The defending Eastern Conference champions pulled Bishop midway through the second period after the Islanders scored four goals on their first 13 shots, one of them on a knuckler that fluttered through the 6-foot-7 goaltender’s legs. “He’d probably like to have one back, but at the end of the day he’s going to bounce back. He’s a great goaltender. It’s a long series,” New York coach Jack Capuano said. “It’s just one game. But whatever guy’s in there, we’ve just got to continue to do what we need to do and get pucks and bodies to the net. Some of our shots had eyes. Again, you need some puck luck in this game if you’re going to win, and we had that tonight.” Taking up where he left off in helping the Islanders advance beyond the first round for the first time in 23 years, Tavares assisted on Travis Hamonic’s goal that erased an early deficit and later scored his sixth post-season goal on a blistering shot from the left circle to give New York a 4-1 lead midway through the second. The Islanders needed overtime to get three of four victories against the Florida Panthers in the opening round. This one was never seriously in doubt after New York wiped out the 1-0 lead Tampa Bay took on Ondrel Palat’s goal just over three minutes into the game. “I think our group’s got a great mindset. A lot of confidence, obviously,” Tavares said. “We’re all very familiar with one another and just want to keep rolling.” Tampa Bay pulled to 4-3 on third-period goals by Nikita Kucherov and Valtteri Filppula before Cal Clutterbuck’s empty-netter sealed the victory in the final minute. “This is not how we wanted to start, but at the time same we’ve been in this situation before and we’ll bounce back from this,” Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman said. “In the third we played a lot better and had opportunities to tie it up, but we put ourselves in a big hole. ‘We al-
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Tampa Bay Lightning center Tyler Johnson defends New York Islanders’ Nikolay Kulemin during Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semifinals Wednesday, in Tampa, Fla. The Islanders won 5-3. most got there, but being down three goals is tough.” Thomas Greiss, who won one game in overtime and two in double overtime against Florida, finished with 33 saves for the Islanders. They were outshot 28-10 over the last two periods. Game 2 is Saturday in Tampa. Bishop was superb in allowing no more than two goals in any of Tampa Bay’s five games against Detroit in the opening round. He yielded four in 13 shots to the Islanders before replaced by Andrei Vasilevskiy. Tampa Bay entered the series following a six-day layoff, but the benefit of the extended rest was debatable after the Islanders overcame the early deficit to take a two-goal lead into the first intermission. Prince scored twice in the final 2:32 of the opening period, camping out alone in front of the net to deflect a pass from Ryan Strome through Bishop at 17:28 and beating the goalie with a wrist shot from the right circle with 2.1 seconds remaining .
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“What hurt us was giving up two goals in the last two and a half minutes,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “We were way too soft in those last few minutes.” New York built the 3-1 lead despite failing to take advantage of its first two power-play opportunities. Given a third chance with a man-advantage, the Islanders struck with Tavares to make it 4-1. That ended Bishop’s night. “One of those nights where nothing goes your way. You just have to move on from it,” the Lightning goalie said. “It’s not about the last game, it’s about the next one, so I need to focus on that.” Vasilevskiy stopped all eight shots the Islanders took at him, four in the last half of the second period and four more in the third. Meanwhile, the Lightning pushed and pushed offensively before finally breaking through against Griess, who stopped 221 of 234 shots in the first round.
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Hockey
Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Red Deer Rampage at Edmonton Jr. B
● Alberta Cup Hockey: Central vs. Calgary South, 11:30 a.m., Canmore
Warriors, 8:30 p.m., Edmonton
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● Alberta Cup Hockey: Central vs. Northeast, 9:30 a.m. and Central vs. Edmonton Blue, 5:30 p.m., Canmore ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Brandon Wheat Kings, 6:30 p.m., the Drive
Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 12 8 .600 Boston 12 9 .571 Tampa Bay 10 11 .476 Toronto 10 13 .435 New York 8 12 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 16 6 .727 Kansas City 12 9 .571 Cleveland 10 9 .526 Detroit 10 10 .500 Minnesota 7 15 .318 West Division W L Pct Seattle 11 9 .550 Texas 12 10 .545 Los Angeles 11 11 .500 Oakland 11 11 .500 Houston 6 15 .286
Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta
GB — 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2 .400 4
Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee
GB — 3 1/2 4 1/2 5 9
Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego
GB — — 1 1 5 1/2
W L Pct 14 6 .700 13 7 .650 11 10 .524 8 11 .421 4 17 .190 Central Division W L Pct 15 5 .750 12 9 .571 11 9 .550 9 13 .409 8 12 .400 West Division W L Pct 12 9 .571 12 11 .522 11 11 .500 9 11 .450 7 15 .318
GB — 1 3 1/2 5 1/2 10 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 4 7 7 GB — 1 1 1/2 2 1/2 5 1/2
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 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Francisco 1, San Diego 0
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 L.A. Angels 9, Kansas City 4 Seattle 11, Houston 1
Wednesday’s Games San Francisco 13, San Diego 9 Philadelphia 3, Washington 0 Boston 9, Atlanta 4 N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 2 Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, ppd., rain Pittsburgh at Colorado, late St. Louis at Arizona, late Miami at L.A. Dodgers, late
Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0 Baltimore 3, Tampa Bay 1 Boston 9, Atlanta 4 Detroit 9, Oakland 4 Texas 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Cleveland 6, Minnesota 5 L.A. Angels 4, Kansas City 2 Houston at Seattle, late Thursday’s Games Oakland (Bassitt 0-1) at Detroit (Sanchez 2-2), 11:10 a.m. Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-3) at Baltimore (Wilson 1-0), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (Chacin 0-1) at Boston (Buchholz 0-2), 5:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-2) at Baltimore (Wright 1-2), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 1-3) at Philadelphia (Morgan 0-0), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0) at Boston (Owens 0-0), 5:10 p.m. Toronto (Sanchez 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 1-2), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-0) at Texas (Lewis 1-0), 6:05 p.m. Detroit (Greene 1-2) at Minnesota (Hughes 1-3), 6:10 p.m. Houston (Fiers 2-1) at Oakland (Manaea 0-0), 8:05 p.m. Kansas City (Medlen 1-1) at Seattle (Hernandez 1-2), 8:10 p.m. National League East Division
Thursday’s Games Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-0), 12:20 p.m. Pittsburgh (Nicasio 2-2) at Colorado (Chatwood 2-2), 1:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 1-2) at Washington (Roark 2-2), 2:05 p.m. Atlanta (Chacin 0-1) at Boston (Buchholz 0-2), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 2-0) at Arizona (De La Rosa 2-3), 7:40 p.m. Miami (Fernandez 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 3-0), 8:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Atlanta (Blair 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 2-1), 12:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Straily 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-1), 5:05 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 1-3) at Philadelphia (Morgan 0-0), 5:05 p.m. San Francisco (Peavy 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Matz 2-1), 5:10 p.m. Miami (Conley 0-1) at Milwaukee (Anderson 1-2), 6:10 p.m. Washington (Strasburg 3-0) at St. Louis (Leake 0-2), 6:15 p.m. Colorado (Rusin 1-0) at Arizona (Ray 1-0), 7:40 p.m. San Diego (Vargas 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Wood 1-2), 8:10 p.m.
Basketball Sunday’s result Golden State 121 Houston 94 Friday’s game Golden State at Houston, TBA Sunday, May 1 Houston at Golden State, TBA
2016 NBA Playoffs First Round Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) (Cleveland wins series 4-0)
San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) (San Antonio wins series 4-0)
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
Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-1) Monday’s result Oklahoma City 118 Dallas 104 L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) (Portland leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Portland 108 L.A. Clippers 98 Monday’s result Portland 98 L.A. Clippers 84 Friday’s game L.A. Clippers at Portland, TBA Sunday, May 1 Portland at L.A. Clippers, TBA
Miami (3) vs. Charlotte (6) (Charlotte leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Charlotte 90 Miami 88 Monday’s result Charlotte 89 Miami 85 Friday’s game Miami at Charlotte, TBA Sunday’s game Charlotte at Miami, TBA
Second Round Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta-Boston winner Monday, May 2 Atlanta/Boston at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 Atlanta/Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Friday, May 6 Cleveland at Atlanta/Boston, 5 p.m.
Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) (Atlanta leads series 3-2) Tuesday’s result Atlanta 110 Boston 83 Sunday’s result Boston 104 Atlanta 95 (OT) Thursday’s game Atlanta at Boston, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game Boston at Atlanta, 5 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) Saturday’s game Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 2 Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 6 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7:30 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) (Golden State leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Houston at Golden State, late
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UFC replaces nixed McGregor fight with Jones-Cormier rematch NEW YORK — UFC is replacing its cancelled Conor McGregor fight for another rematch, Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier for the light heavyweight title at UFC 200. UFC officials announced the replacement main event on Wednesday, several days after Jones beat Ovince Saint Preux by decision in his first fight since he had his title stripped in 2015. The move solidifies the stance taken by the mixed martial arts giant and its president, Dana White, as McGregor tried to sidestep promotional commitments leading up to the event. McGregor — a colorful star known for spectacular knockouts, drawing power and trash talk — declined to attend a news conference last week in Las Vegas to promote his rematch with Nate Diaz. McGregor stirred fans with several tweets, first saying he was retired, then explaining his desire to focus on training, then saying he was back on to fight at UFC 200. White and the UFC officials debunked that with the Jones-Cormier announcement.
WHL 2016 Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Brandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2) (Brandon leads series 3-1) Wednesday’s result Brandon 4 Red Deer 2 Tuesday’s result Red Deer 6 Brandon 2 Friday’s game Red Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Sunday’s game Brandon at Red Deer, 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 Red Deer at Brandon, 7 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle leads series 3-0) Wednesday’s result Kelowna at Seattle, late Tuesday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 1 Friday’s game Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday’s game Kelowna at Seattle, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 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) Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-1) WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2) (Dallas wins series 4-2) St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis wins series 4-3) Monday’s result St. Louis 3 Chicago 2 Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1) (Nashville wins series 4-3) Wednesday’s result Nashville 2 Anaheim 1 Monday’s result Nashville 3 Anaheim 1 Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1)
Wednesday’s summary Wheat Kings 4, Rebels 2 First Period 1. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 3, 3:54. 2. Brandon, Erkamps 3 (Patrick, Hawryluk) 5:43. 3. Brandon, Quenneville 12 (Hawryluk, McGauley) 16:00. Penalty — Bobyk RD (tripping) 17:53. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Fleury RD (high-sticking) 11:20 Patrick Bdn (roughing, cross-checking), Musil RD (roughing) 18:48. Third Period 4. Red Deer, DeBrusk 7 (Helewka, Fleury) 0:17 (pp). 5. Brandon, McGauley 8 (Quenneville, Clague) 6:36. 6. Brandon, Kaspick 4 (Patrick) 19:05 (en). Penalty — Hagel RD (cross-checking) 8:20. Shots on goal Brandon 13 18 12 — 43 Red Deer 9 7 20 — 36 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (W, 11-4) Red Deer: Toth (L, 3-4-1). Power plays (goals-chances) — Brandon: 0-3 Red Deer: 1-1. 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round DIVISION SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Florida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders win series 4-2)
Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (N.Y. Islanders lead series 1-0) Wednesday’s result N.Y. Islanders 5 Tampa Bay 3 Saturday’s game N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 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’s game Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m. Saturday’s game Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m. Monday, May 2 Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. St. Louis (2) Friday’s game St. Louis at Dallas, 6 p.m. Sunday’s game St. Louis at Dallas, 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 5 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Pacific Division 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. Tuesday, May 3 San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5 San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m. Wednesday’s summaries Islanders 5, Lightning 3 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Palat 2 (Drouin, Namestnikov) 3:05. 2. NY Islanders, Hamonic 1 (Quine, Tavares) 5:44. 3. NY Islanders, Prince 2 (Strome, Nelson) 17:28. 4. NY Islanders, Prince 3 (Strome, Nelson) 19:57. Penalties — Johnson TB (hooking) 9:06 Killorn TB (kneeing) 11:53. Second Period 5. NY Islanders, Tavares 6 (Okposo, Nielsen) 8:59 (pp). Penalties — Zidlicky NYI (interference) 2:21 Marchessault TB (hooking) 8:12 Callahan TB (holding) 17:41. Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 6 (Carle, Hedman) 7:41. 7. Tampa Bay, Filppula 1 (Killorn, Garrison) 17:28. 8. NY Islanders, Clutterbuck 1 (Cizikas, de Haan) 19:05 (en). Penalties — Cizikas NYI (delay of game) 15:20. Shots on goal New York 12 5 5 — 22 Tampa Bay 8 11 17 — 36 Goal — NY Islanders: Greiss (W, 5-2-0). Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 4-2-0), Vasilevskiy (08:59 second period, 8 shots, 8 saves). Power plays (goals-chances) — NY Islanders: 1-4 Tampa Bay: 0-2. Predators 2, Ducks 1 First Period 1. Nashville, Wilson 2 (unassisted) 6:19. 2. Nashville, Gaustad 1 (Weber, Arvidsson) 15:53. Penalties — Vatanen Ana (interference) 11:24 Bieksa Ana (slashing) 12:54. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Josi Nash (cross-checking) 3:31 Neal Nash (elbowing) 14:35 Ellis Nash (holding) 19:55. Third Period 3. Anaheim, Kesler 4 (Silfverberg, Lindholm) 1:45 (pp). Penalties — Fisher Nash (high-sticking) 3:23 Weber Nash, Perron Ana (roughing) 12:41 Getzlaf Ana (tripping) 14:38. Shots on goal Nashville 10 6 4 — 20 Anaheim 9 13 15 — 37 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (W, 4-3-0). Anaheim: Andersen (L, 3-2-0). Power plays (goals-chances) — Nashville: 0-3 Anaheim: 1-4.
Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Miguel Gonzalez to Charlotte (IL). Recalled RHP Daniel Webb from Charlotte. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Cody Anderson to Columbus (IL). Recalled LHP Kyle Crockett from Columbus. DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Tyler Collins to Toledo (IL). Activated RHP Francisco Rodriguez from the family medical emergency list. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Selected the contract of C/OF Matt McBride from Nashville (PCL). Optioned RHP Andrew Triggs to Nashville. Transferred LHP Felix Doubront from the 15- to the 60-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled RHP Ryan Tepera from Buffalo (IL). Optioned LHP/RHP Pat Venditte to Buffalo. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled RHP John Gant from Gwinnett (IL). Optioned RHP Ryan Weber to Gwinnett. COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed LHP Jorge De La Rosa on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Eddie Butler from Albuquerque (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed RHP Matt
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Belisle on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Sammy Solis from Syracuse (IL). American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Released RHP Benji Waite. JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed INF Derrick Fox. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Traded C Matt M. Koch to Laredo for LHP Cody Forsythe. Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed LHP Jarret Martin. Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed OF Chris Breen. FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed INF Brent Gillespie, RHP Zach Isler and C Garrett Vail. GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Nate Carter, LHPs Jack Duffey and Corey Kimes and 2B Kyle Forsythe. JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed C Connor Andrus. LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed RHPs Richard Cruz-Sanchez and Brett Sullivan. RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Jordan DePonte, 3B Turner Gill, 1B Drew Morecraft, and LHP Vin Roth. SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed C John Murphy and INF Ino Patron.
TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed INF Jeremy Delgado and RHP Ashton Perritt. WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed LHP Jeff Conley and INF Grant Fink. WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed RHP Anthony Bazzani and C Ryan Gyrion. MOTOR SPORTS NASCAR — Suspended Nick Sandler, crew chief for Ricky Stenhouse Jr., from Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway and fined him $20,000 for a technical violation found last weekend and placed him on probation for the rest of the season. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Houston MF Alex Monteiro de Lima and San Jose D Andres Imperiale one game each and fined them for fouls that endangered the safety of an opponent during games on April 23 and April 24. Fined Columbus F Kei Kamara for instigating and Seattle D Brad Evans for using offensive, insulting and abusive language towards an official in games on April 23. Fined San Jose MF Anibal Godoy for violating league policy regarding hands to the face, head or neck in a game on April 24. All fines were undisclosed.
first year swimming together. Kia Risling and Moreau both received the Synchro Alberta Merit award. Risling missed out on recieving the Excellence Award by a fraction of a point, 0.6. The Excellence Award goes to athletes who receive a high standard score in their individual figure events at qualifiers and provincials.
three seasons in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, scoring 28 goals and registering 43 assists in the regular season. He followed it up with eight goals and 22 points in the post-season. “Austin is a foundation player to build your club around. He is a tremendous leader both on and off the ice,” said Saints coach Jason McKee. “Austin played in all situations for us and was an integral part of the Saints success for the past three seasons. I wish him the best of success as he moves forward to Red Deer College.” Joining Hunter is a five year AJHL veteran in Ferguson. Ferguson spent most of his AJHL career with the Camrose Kodiaks, but was acquired by the Saints at the league’s trade deadline. Ferguson scored 40 goals and 78 points in 199 regular season games during his time in the league. McKee said Ferguson is a speedy and tenacious forechecker.
Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club bring home hardware from RDC Kings get provincials commitment from pair LETHBRIDGE — The Red of Spruce Grove Saints
Deer Synchronized Swim Club brought home some hardware from provincials including two silver medals. The novice team of Rylee Melenychuk, Olivia Miller, Andi Tiechroeb and Taylor VanLagen took home the silver as did the novice duet of Tiechroeb and VanLangen. Among the top ten finishes were Olivia Moreau and Haley Poole who finished in sixth in the 13-15 duet age, it was their
Two Spruce Grove Saints have decided to lace up their skates next season with the Red Deer College Kings. Austin Hunter and Red Deer’s Scott Ferguson have committed to the Kings for the 2016-17 Alberta College Athletics Conference season. The Saints season came to an end with a loss in the finals to the Brooks Bandits. The forward Hunter played
Lightning’s Bishop, Capitals’ Holtby, Kings’ Quick named Vezina Trophy finalists BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Braden Holtby of the Washington Capitals and Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings are the three finalists for the 2015-16 Vezina Trophy awarded to the NHL’s best goaltender. The league announced the finalists on Wednesday. The general managers of all 30 NHL teams submitted ballots for the Vezina Trophy at the end of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists. The winner will be announced Wed., June 22, during the NHL Awards in Las Vegas.
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White Sox finish off sweep of Blue Jays BY THE CANADIAN PRESS White Sox 4 Blue Jays 0 TORONTO — Catcher Dioner Navarro was an asset for the Toronto Blue Jays last season behind the plate. Now with the Chicago White Sox, he used that knowledge to pick apart his former team. Navarro, who was Blue Jays starter Marco Estrada’s battery partner for most of 2015, and Austin Jackson had back-to-back triples in a three-run seventh inning on Wednesday night as Chicago completed a three-game sweep in Toronto with a 4-0 victory. “Obviously he caught me last year, he did a really good job with me,” said Estrada after the loss. “I threw him a good change-up down and away and he hit it. Just tip your hat to that, there’s nothing else I could have done. “I threw the ball exactly where I wanted it and he put a good swing on it.” Navarro’s impact was also felt defensively as he guided White Sox starter Jose Quintana (3-1) through six innings of work, striking out 10 and allowing just four hits against a potent Toronto lineup. “Navarro knows us pretty well,” said Estrada. “That guy can call a pretty good game so if you make your pitches with that guy behind you, you’re probably going to be pretty successful and that’s what happened. “They made good pitches against a very good lineup.” Relievers Zach Duke, Nate Jones each pitched an inning for Chicago (166) before closer David Robertson came in for the ninth. The White Sox have
won six straight. Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson led Toronto’s (10-13) offence with two hits, including a double. Estrada (1-2) pitched 6 2/3 innings for the Blue Jays, striking out five and giving up three runs on three hits. Jesse Chavez and Ryan Tepera came out of the bullpen for the Blue Jays. Estrada, who finished the night with 118 pitches, was seen in the dugout rubbing his shoulder during the game. Afterwards, he was reluctant to discuss his arm. “I dunno. It didn’t feel very good. I don’t want to talk about it,” Estrada said before later adding that it wouldn’t be a long-term problem. Navarro broke a scoreless tie with two out in the seventh. The White Sox catcher hit a rare triple to right-centre field that almost bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double, but instead caromed off the lip of the fence and over the heads of Toronto outfielders Kevin Pillar and Jose Bautista. After the game Navarro insisted he wasn’t looking for Estrada’s change-up. “I never think,” said Navarro. “I just go out there and try to see the ball the best I can and just try to put the big part of the bat on the ball. That’s my approach all the time.” Navarro’s hit drove in Melky Cabrera and Brett Lawrie — both former Blue Jays themselves — to give Chicago a 2-0 lead. It was Navarro’s fifth triple in 13 seasons in Major League Baseball. “I filled up that zero. I always try to fill up a zero every year. I got the triple already,” said Navarro. “The next stat is a stolen base.”
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Chicago White Sox catcher Dioner Navarro (27) celebrates with third base coach Joe McEwing (47) after hitting a two RBI triple against the Toronto Blue Jays during seventh inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday. Estrada’s night ended after that, with the 28,759 in attendance at Rogers Centre giving him a standing ovation as he walked off the field and Chavez took the mound. Chavez gave up a triple to Jackson to almost the exact same spot in the outfield in the next at bat, cashing in Navarro and making it 3-0. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was ejected after the run scored. Al-
though Gibbons was tossed by home plate umpire John Tumpane, he said his issue was with Alan Porter at third base. “I said something to the third base umpire about the check swing, for me it looked like he was almost at full swing then the home plate umpire hopped in,” said Gibbons. “I think the guy at third can probably handle himself. That’s what that was.”
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Jason Maas says friends and family have asked him if he’s nervous going from a coach of an expansion team to head coach of the defending Grey Cup champions. “Talking to several people in my close-knit circle, that was the one question that came up,” Maas said Wednesday on a conference call. Maas was the offensive co-ordinator of the Ottawa Redblacks their first three seasons in the CFL. The Edmonton Eskimos, who beat the Redblacks to win the 2015 Grey Cup, gave Maas his first head-coaching gig in December when Chris Jones departed for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. “I knew it was the right job for me,”
Maas said. “When you take over the defending Grey Cup champion, that means you have some quality people here. I look forward to that challenge and building on that culture that they’ve established here and continuing winning. “I know what kind of organization we are here. I just want to be a part of that. There’s pressure every year in Edmonton to win. I know everyone’s goal is that, but it is true here.” The former quarterback has closed a football circle as he was an Eskimo for a combined nine seasons and a member of Edmonton’s Grey Cup teams in 2003 and 2005. “In my grand scheme of thinking,
it was always to get back to Edmonton at some point,” Maas said. “Obviously this was a dream job for me.” CFL main camps open May 28. The Eskimos kick off defence of the Grey Cup at home against the Redblacks on June 25. Maas says he’s already drawing on the vast experience of defensive co-ordinator and assistant coach Mike Benevides. The B.C. Lions were 33-21 and made the playoffs the three seasons Benevides was head coach from 2012 to 2014. “We talk daily. Sometimes a couple times a day,” Maas said. “He’s a world full of knowledge. “He’s got a bunch of it being in the
league for as long as he has and coaching as long as he has. He’s done everything — special teams, defensive co-ordinator, position coach to head coach. He’s been successful at every step. I definitely rely on him.” The 40-year-old from Beaver Dam, Wisc., heads into 2016 with continuity where it counts at quarterback. The Eskimos re-signed pivot Mike Reilly to a two-year contract earlier this month. After missing two months of 2015 with a knee injury suffered in the season-opener, Reilly went 10-0 upon his return as a starter to conclude the regular season. He was named the Grey Cup MVP completing 21-of-35 passes for 269 yards and two touchdowns. “We’re athletic, we’re a big team,” Maas said. “We’ve got the continuity back for the most part. They’re winners, they finish.”
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RCMP to probe hostage murder BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The RCMP is conducting a criminal investigation into the murder of hostage John Ridsdel in the Philippines. The Mounties are relying on the extraterritorial provisions of the Criminal Code in pursuing the overseas investigation, a senior official says. It means the perpetrators, if found and charged, could one day face justice under Canadian law. The official spoke with The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the ongoing hostage case.
Canada BRIEFS Canada breaking its own export control rules with Saudi deal, say opponents OTTAWA — The Liberal government must rethink its $15-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, given the deteriorating human rights situation there and in neighbouring countries, a group of peace and human rights organizations urged Wednesday. Opponents of the controversial sale of Canadian-made light armoured vehicles in the Middle East say it flies in the face of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise to reinvigorate Canada’s standing on human rights issues around the world. “This is not ‘sunny ways,”’ Rideau Institute president Peggy Mason told a news conference in Ottawa. In an open letter to Trudeau, the coalition of groups say the deal breaks both the spirit and the letter of international laws and Canada’s export controls. “We urge you to consider seriously whether our export controls have served their intended purpose with the authorization of this deal,” it reads. So far, Trudeau has insisted that cancelling the deal, brokered by the previous Conservative government, would give Canada a bad trading reputation. He has also pointed out that a lot of Canadian jobs are at stake. Drunk-Not-Driving, 1st Writethru
Drunk driving conviction stands for sleeping man found in parked truck TORONTO — A drunk man found sleeping behind the wheel of his idling parked truck has lost his bid to take his impaired driving conviction to Ontario’s top court. In a decision Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected plans by Hugh O’Neill to argue he had only started the engine to keep warm and had no intention of driving. O’Neill was found behind the wheel in the early hours of a December morning parked in a lot outside an industrial building in London, Ont. Court documents show a police officer had difficulty waking him. His blood-alcohol level was well in excess of the legal limit. He was convicted at trial. An initial appeal was dismissed. O’Neill argued at trial that friends had driven him back to his truck after a night of drinking and he climbed in with the aim of sleeping until he was sober. He testified he had woken during the night, got out to relieve himself, and then got back in.
Ridsdel, 68, of Calgary, was beheaded earlier this week after a large ransom demand from his captors, members of the Abu Sayyaf militant group, went unmet. Police forensic experts were trying Wednesday to determine if the headless body of a Caucasian man that was found by villagers in the southern Philippines was that of Ridsdel. Canadian Robert Hall, abducted with Ridsdel from a marina in September, is still being held along with several others. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week that the Canadian government will not pay a ransom — directly or indirectly — to a terrorist group.
The senior official reiterated Wednesday that there is “no sort of government negotiation” taking place. If there was a reasonable prospect of mounting a successful rescue mission, it would happen, added the source. “All of those things have been examined, weighed and fleshed out.” However, there are serious obstacles, not the least of which is the challenging island and jungle terrain where the hostages are said to be held. “The stark reality is that that’s some pretty impenetrable geography there.” In addition, unlike with previous hostage-takings in the Sahel and Afghanistan, there is little in the way of existing logistical support to bolster a
rescue effort, the official said. “It’s a very complicated and dangerous situation.” Retired Brig.-Gen. James Cox, who served around the world during a 35-year military career, doesn’t envision Canada’s special forces swooping in to attempt a rescue. “I don’t see that we have the ability to do that. I don’t know that we would want to do that in another sovereign state,” he said in an interview. “I don’t think there is anything that you’re able to do other than help the police and the forces of the sovereign state involved as best as you can, and as best as they have requested.”
Montreal woman identified as Jane Doe No. 59 SISTER OF WOMAN FOUND DEAD NEAR MANSON KILLINGS SITE HOPING FOR JUSTICE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — For decades, she was known simply as Jane Doe No. 59 — an unidentified body dumped with 150 stab wounds in Los Angeles in 1969 near the site of several killings perpetrated by the notorious Manson family. On Wednesday, a Canadian connection was confirmed in the 47-year-old cold case when the murdered woman was identified as Reet Silvia Jurvetson, a 19-year-old Montreal resident who’d gone to Los Angeles that year. “Jane Doe .59 now has a name,” Anne Jurvetson, Reet’s sister and the last living member of her immediate family, said in a statement. “She had one all along, but no one knew.” Jurvetson said she’s hopeful the news will help provide authorities with leads or fresh information. “Finally, after all these years, we are faced with hard facts,” the Quebec woman wrote in a four-page testimonial dated April 18 and released by authorities. “My little sister was savagely killed.” Anne, now 73, had been in contact with the LAPD since 2015, when Reet’s friends saw a post-mortem picture, noticed a resemblance and alerted her. A DNA match positively identified Jurvetson as Jane Doe No. 59, whose corpse was found Nov. 16, 1969, by a birdwatcher in dense brush off the iconic Mulholland Drive. She had been stabbed 150 times and didn’t have identification. But the location and timing of the killing just a few kilometres from the site of several Manson family murders long fuelled speculation that Jurvetson’s case was
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This undated photo provided by Anne Jurvetson shows her sister, Reet Jurvetson, of Montreal. Los Angeles police said Wednesday they’re investigating whether Reet Jurvetson, newly identified as the 19-year-old young woman found stabbed over 100 times in 1969, is connected to the Manson family killings. connected. Los Angeles police Det. Luis Rivera told People Magazine, which broke the story, investigators can’t rule out the Manson family’s involvement in the killing. Charles Manson achieved notoriety in 1969 as the leader of a “family” of young killers who terrified Los Angeles. He was convicted of killing seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski.
The Associated Press said investigators interviewed Manson a few months ago about Jurvetson but turned up no new information. Rivera told The Canadian Press there is nothing firm as of yet that would allow authorities to connect the slaying to the Manson clan. “There’s no link, there’s no evidence to it,” Rivera said. “Other than the same time period when the Manson murders were happening, we haven’t been able to find any links at all.”
B.C. introduces law to require universities to have sexual misconduct policies BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — British Columbia has introduced legislation requiring universities to have sexual misconduct policies in the wake of allegations that schools are failing survivors of campus violence. The province tabled a bill Wednesday to compel post-secondary institutions to write and maintain policies to
prevent and respond to sexual misconduct, including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism. “The thing about rape and sexual violence is that silence is the best friend of any rapist, and shame is their second-best friend,” Premier Christy Clark said outside the legislature. “Women need to know that we will always be safe when we report. We should never be discouraged from doing that. It’s especially important for
young people on campus who are starting their lives out of high school and into the adult world.” The Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act would come into effect one year after royal assent, giving institutions time to establish policies. The law would also compel universities to craft policies with input from students and review them at least once every three years.
Ex-girlfriend testifies she helped move key evidence BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BOSMA MURDER TRIAL
HAMILTON — The former girlfriend of a man facing a murder charge in the death of Tim Bosma says she helped her boyfriend move a key piece of evidence days after the Hamilton man disappeared. Christina Noudga told a Hamilton court she helped Dellen Millard move his animal incinerator, dubbed “The Eliminator,” from the barn on his property near Waterloo, Ont., to the middle of the bush on the sprawling property. She said she put on gloves, as did Millard, to help him move the huge piece of machinery. Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Bosma’s death. The Crown alleges Bosma was shot at point-blank range in his truck and his body later burned in that incinerator. Investigators later found two human bones and numerous bone fragments in the incinerator and blood, likely Bosma’s according to a DNA analysis, was found on the outside of the machine. Bosma vanished on May 6, 2013 after taking two strangers for a test drive in the truck he was trying to sell. Noudga, expected to be one of the prosecution’s star witnesses, often had
picked her up at her home in Toronto and gave her a digital video recorder. She said she hid it in her closet, where it remained for nearly a year until she was arrested in connection with the murder. She said she thought nothing of it even after her boyfriend was charged with the murder of Bosma in 2013. “Ever consider taking it to police?” Leitch asked. “Honestly, I didn’t think it was related,” Noudga said, adding she thought it was a stereo. Court has already seen video extracted from the device that showed a truck hauling what appears to be “The Eliminator” outside Millard’s hangar in Waterloo, Ont. The video also shows two men walking through the hangar early on May 7, hours after Bosma disappeared. Flares are seen coming from the incinerator. After she put the device in her closet, Noudga said she drove with Millard in his truck — hauling a large trailer — to his mother’s house in Kleinburg, Ont. She said she helped him park the trailer against the garage, so close the back doors couldn’t be opened. She said Millard’s mother came out and asked why he was leaving the trailer there, which he didn’t answer.
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Mark Smich, (left to right) Crown Anthony Leach, Dellen Millard, Justice Andrew Goodman and Millard’s former girlfriend Christine Noudga appear in court at the Tim Bosma murder trial in Hamilton, Ont., Wednesday. trouble recalling details under questioning by Crown attorney Tony Leitch. Court heard that Noudga has been charged as an accessory after the fact to the murder of Bosma and will have her own trial in November. When asked by Leitch why they moved the incinerator, she said Millard “said he wanted to move it be-
cause the floor boards (in the barn) were getting creaky, so we should move it.” She testified earlier Wednesday about wanting to see Millard that week, but he was tied up on a lengthy “mission” that began the night of May 6, 2013. On May 9, court heard, Millard
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Paris attacks suspect extradited BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The lone known surviving suspect in the Paris attacks was returned Wednesday to the city where Islamic State extremists unleashed a night of mayhem and charged with a host of terrorism offences, raising hopes that he may be able to help French investigators trace the pathways of IS fighters thought to be hiding out in Europe. Salah Abdeslam was whisked in secretly by helicopter after being transferred from the prison cell in Belgium where he had been held since his capture last month. His lawyer, Frank Berton, described a “muscular operation” that had caught even the attorney by surprise, causing him to rush to join his client at Paris’ Palace of Justice. The 26-year-old faces preliminary
charges of participating in a terrorist organization, terrorist murders and attempted murders, attempted terrorist murders of public officials, hostage-taking, and possessing weapons and explosives, French prosecutors said in a statement. Berton said Abdeslam was being sent to Fleury-Merogis, a massive, high-security prison about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Paris, where he will be held in isolation in a special camera-equipped cell until his next hearing on May 20. French Justice Minister Jean-Jacques Urvoas said earlier that Abdeslam would be placed in isolation, watched by guards specially trained to deal with “people reputed to be dangerous.” The return of the last known survivor of the team that carried out the Nov. 13 attacks may help investigators untangle some of the still-unresolved
questions about the assault, which claimed 130 lives at cafes, a music hall and a sports stadium. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the carnage. B e r t o n told reporters Wednesday that his client “volunteered that he would explain himself at some later date.” Abdeslam, a SALAH ABDESLAM French citizen of Moroccan origin, spent four months on the run following the attacks and a month in Belgian custody after being tackled
by heavily armed police outside his hideout in the Mollenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels. Abdeslam’s precise role in the attacks has never been clear. The Paris prosecutor said he was kitted out as a suicide bomber, but abandoned his plans and fled to Belgium. Abdeslam’s older brother blew himself up that night at a cafe. It was at the hideout near his childhood home in Molenbeek that Abdeslam was ultimately captured on March 18. His detention may have prompted other members of the Islamic State cell to rush attack plans already in motion. Four days later, suicide bombers detonated their explosives in the Brussels airport and metro, killing 32 people. Abdeslam had told interrogators nothing about a new plot.
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Fighting spells end to cease-fire BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
World BRIEFS Former speaker Hastert jailed in hush-money case CHICAGO — Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in a hushmoney case that revealed accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling. The case makes the former speaker one of the highest-ranking American politicians ever sentenced to prison. The visibly angry judge repeatedly rebuked the 74-year-old before issuing the 15-month sentence, telling him that his abuse devastated the lives of victims and would probably make it harder than ever for parents to trust other adults with their children. “‘If Denny Hastert could do it, anyone could do it,”’ U.S. District
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A man helps an injured man as others stand in rubble after airstrikes and shelling hit Aleppo, Syria. A military buildup in northern Syria coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought much needed relief to war-stricken Syrians, ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the country’s five-year-old conflict. opposition activists who spokes to The Associated Press. Government forces have been mobilizing soldiers, equipment and ammunition in preparation for a military action in Aleppo, said Maj. Jamil Saleh, leader of Tajammu Alezzah, a Free Syrian Army faction that has received U.S.-delivered TOW anti-tank missiles. He said his group, which operates primarily in Hama and Latakia, has sent troops to Aleppo to help the rebels ward off government advances. He described the airstrikes and artillery shelling in the former commercial capital for the last week as “preparatory”
work for a major campaign. Opposition activists also said a substantial redeployment of personnel has taken place recently, as contingents of the Syrian army and allied militias have moved from Palmyra to the vicinity of Aleppo. “The cease-fire was a cover, because the regime never committed to it since the start of the cease-fire,” Saleh said in a telephone interview from Syria. Nazeer al-Khatib, an activist who lives on the outskirts of Aleppo, said the city is being choked off by fighting. Government and allied forces are
moving in on the main highway to rebel-held areas, blocking the only access to the rest of the country, he said. Aleppo residents already are moving out of Syria’s largest city to rural areas to evade violence, but also out of fear of getting trapped amid shortages of food and rising prices. The city was the focus of government efforts that succeeded in almost completely choking off rebels holed up in some neighbourhoods before the U.S. and Russia engineered the ceasefire on Feb. 27.
Judge Thomas M. Durkin said. “Nothing is more stunning than to have the words ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.” As he did for much of the hearing, Hastert sat unmoving in a wheelchair, peering over the top of his glasses, his hands folded before him. Earlier this month, prosecutors went into graphic detail about the sexabuse allegations, even describing how Hastert would sit in a recliner in the locker room with a direct view of the showers. The victims, prosecutors said, were boys between 14 and 17. Hastert was in his 20s and 30s.
killings of 37-year-old Steven Moss, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon in central Georgia. Gerri Ann Moss, the victims’ wife and mother, found their bodies when she arrived at home. “I would like to say I’m sorry to Mrs. Moss and the family,” Lucas said when given a chance to make a final state-
ment. He added that he loves his friends and family and then said a short prayer: “All beings are basically good. All beings are basically kind. All beings are basically strong. All beings are basically wise.” The warden left the room at 9:38 p.m.
Georgia set to execute man convicted in triple killing JACKSON — Georgia executed a man Wednesday who was convicted in the 1998 killings of a central Georgia trucking company owner and his two children during a home burglary. Daniel Anthony Lucas became the fifth person the state has executed this year. He was put to death by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. Warden Bruce Chatman told witnesses the time of death was 9:54 p.m. The 37-year-old inmate was sentenced to death for the April 1998
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YEAR OF THE CROSSBILLS MYRNA PEARMAN OUTDOORS
2016 will long be remembered by bird watchers as the Year of the Red Crossbills. These colourful finches descended on Central Alberta by the hundreds of thousands last winter, delighting backyard bird enthusiasts with their engaging antics and rattling trills. I received many calls over the past few months about these birds, some from people who were confused because they had never seen them before, others from folks who said that they were welcoming these avian neighbours to their feeders for the first time. There are two species of crossbills in North America – the Red and the White-winged. Although some White-wingeds were recorded this past season, it was the Reds that were overwhelmingly abundant. Although most seem to have moved on, there are still reports of flocks coming to feeders and bird baths. Both crossbill species are so-named because their bills are actually crossed. They have evolved to take advantage of the physics of muscle structure: since biting muscles are stronger than those used to open the bill, crossbills can slip the tips of their beak under a cone scale and bite down. This motion pushes the scale up to expose the seed inside, which they then extract with their long and dexterous tongues. So dependent are these species on spruce and pine cones that they are never found far from coniferous forests. Since coniferous cone crops wax and wane according to weather and other conditions, the birds wander across the boreal forest regions of North America in search of areas where cone crops are abundant. Male crossbills are a distinctive reddish colour while the females and immature males are yellowish olive green. Young males show varying combinations of red and green. Since the species can breed throughout the year, members of a flock are of various ages and therefore exhibit many different colour variations and molt patterns. Amazingly, there are at least ten distinct “call types” of Red Crossbills in North America. These call types, which may turn out to be all separate species, each have their own ecological niche, songs/calls, beak shapes, preferred tree species, areas of core occurrence and patterns of movement. Generally speaking, the larger and stouter-beaked birds are able to access harder cones such as pines, while the smaller-billed types forage on softer cones such as spruce. Scientists are researching call types using sound recordings in an attempt to try to sort out the very complex puzzle of Red Crossbill genetics. At bird feeding stations, Red Crossbills will gobble up both shelled and unshelled sunflower seeds, as well as nyger and other small seeds. I remember Winnie Ellis telling me years ago that crossbills would sometimes come to peck at the whole sunflower heads that she set out on tray feeders. Like other finches, Red Crossbills will obtain grit and salt from road surfaces, and will also avail themselves of water at bird baths. If you have any crossbill observations or reports, please contact me. I am especially interested in knowing if any remain to nest in Central Alberta this season. Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdfarm.ca. Photos by Myrna Pearman
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Central Alberta Vintage Auto Club Swap Meet 2016 will be featured at Westerner Park on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. See vintageautoclub.ca/events/ swap-meet, or contact 403-3584404, or email cavacreddeer@ gmail.com.
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3RD ANNUAL NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY National Canadian Film Day is a day to stand together with Canadians from coast to coast and celebrate the great cinematic stories we tell one another in this cold, vast country. On Friday at 7 p.m., Red Deer College will be hosting a free event at the Welikoklad Event Centre Cinema geared for people 19 and up. Contact 403-755-6626 for more information.
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Early blossoming in Central Alberta BOB SCAMMELL OUTDOORS It was on a morning just like this, as I write, many years ago — gray, damp, cold — that one of Central Alberta’s Barley Barons strode into our law office grinning like a hoss eating thistles. After a deathly dry spring we were into a lull in a proverbial million dollar rain. Barley Baron was happy because he had finished seeding his crop the evening before, just as the rain, sleet and snow started. “Did you know the rain was on the way?” we asked. “Never bother with timing,” he said, “Get it in same time every year; if you don’t get ‘er in, you’ll never get ‘er out.” He went on to explain that Central Alberta has never lost a crop to drought in living memory, “but the Great White Combine (hail) gets a crop every few years.” As an avocational agriculturist I purely hate having to start watering as soon as we get the first of our “crops” in, so, in an all but unprecedented early, dry spring, I did my due diligence with several long range forecasts, including The Old Farmer`s Almanac, then gambled and got some stuff in on April 21st and, lol! For once we got slow rain, sleet and snow a day later. That was ideal for the small seed stuff we planted no more than a quarter inch deep in very dry soil: two varieties of Cipollini onions, two varieties of carrots mixed with radish as a ground breaker, four varieties of lettuce and our favorite spinach, after a six year absence, having finally found some Melody seed. The gentle precipitation is continuing, and will probably get down to the half row of Bolero peas we are trying because of their alleged resistance to root rot and 40 hills of spuds: 10 of Bintje for French fries and the first 30 of 70 Norlands planted progressively, for new potatoes nigh into September. Our wild plant garden is more interesting than usual this year. Generally everything is three weeks early at least. Our prairie crocuses are done and forming their fuzzy seed balls. The early blue violets are getting their earliest start ever on colonizing the whole neighborhood, if the seeds they can shoot so far are fertile. So much for a wild garden in the city, but out west where most of our more than a dozen wild species originated, the wild flowers are also bloom-
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Start of our wild garden 40 years ago, refugees from 24D: shooting stars and lady’s slippers. ing early: wild clematis, early blue violets, marsh marigolds, coltsfoot …. Dr. Elisabeth Beaubien, director of Alberta Plantwatch, has recently expressed the concern that the increasingly earlier blossoming of so many of our wild flora threatens them because they can be here and gone before the bees and other pollinators are out and about their business. We’ll do our bit by saving seeds from our crocuses, planting them this fall and seeing if we get any new plants next spring. Meanwhile, back in our wild garden, I notice that our clump of yellow lady’s slipper orchids are just nicely starting to come up, while, beside them, their companion clump of shooting stars is close to blooming. Forty years ago, give or take, these two started our wildflower gardening as refuges from the way our counties conducted their war on the wild in those days: by spraying roadside ditches with 24D. We had advance warning and went out
and dug our favorite clump of lady’s slippers and an unusually large – flowered shooting star plant. The yellow lady’s slipper was getting scarce in Alberta back then and even being sold by scavengers to greenhouses, even door to door. In 1917 the species was declared extinct in Britain, allegedly the victim of the mindless Victorian mania for orchid collecting. But then, almost a decade ago, stories started appearing in newspapers, such as “The Last Orchid” in The Globe and Mail of June 27, 2007, describing the discovery and of the last wild lady’s slipper plant in Britain and the efforts since to keep the location secret and under constant guard. Britain is a large place and I do not for a moment believe there are no other lady’s slippers in the remotest of its wild places. If I am wrong, there will be many taken from the wild and flourishing in gardens. I saw some myself, in 1987, growing in the gorgeous heri-
tage Victorian garden of The Crown, a pub and inn at Everleigh on the edge of the Salisbury Plain. I I was staying at The Crown and training on the Hampshire Avon as a member of the first Canadian team ever in the World Fly Fishing Championship. The garden was probably started in the late 1700s, about the time the “Hanging Judge,” George Jeffreys, was holding court in The Crown and watching from the second floor as his sentences were carried out on the gallows in the courtyard below. Already considerable efforts have been made in Britain to reintroduce lady’s slippers back to the wild from stock that was taken from the wild more than a century ago and has been flourishing in public and private wildflower gardens ever since. Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.
Making the front yard look more inviting LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING shovel when all the bricks are level. Interlocking bricks have been used for many years to make sidewalk and patios. This product is durable and will last for many year as long as it is weeded when necessary. The rubber blocks are have been on the market for a few years. They are easier to walk on and light to move. Like the bricks, weeds can creep between the blocks. Side walk blocks are heavy to move but one installed last for many years. Removing any grass and weeds that grow between the blocks make shoveling snow much easier. These blocks are much more economical that poured cement. Plants in the front yard add character and warmth. Be sure to locate the plants far enough from the house that they will not rub on the building or hang over the eves. Make sure the plants do not cover windows or block views. Grouping plants into beds as opposed to planting individual plants throughout the yard brings a cohesiveness to the overall plan. It also decreases maintenance as it is time consuming to cut and trim around a
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End of the line: Batman No. 51 marks the finale of the five-year collaboration between the dynamic duo of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.
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Regine (Kim Fields Freeman, second from left) accepts Dexter Knight’s (Donald Franklin, left) marriage proposal while her roommates, Khadijah (Queen Latifah, center) and Synclaire (Kim Coles, second from right), and her mother (Chip Hurd, right) share in a group hug in ‘Living Single.’
Missing in action WHY ARE SO MANY GREAT BLACK TV SHOWS UNAVAILABLE ON STREAMING SERVICES? COMMENT
When I graduated from college and got cable for the first time, I discovered the wonderful world of reruns. And so, long before binging TV shows became an actual sociological phenomenon, I regularly fell into happy fugue states with the Law & Order franchise, and with Living Single, Yvette Lee Bowser’s brilliant sitcom about a group of friends living in New York, starring Queen Latifah as magazine editor Khadijah James. But when I got a Living Single craving last week, I discovered something frustrating: the series isn’t streaming anywhere, and only the first of the show’s five seasons is available on a DVD release. Living Single is every bit as sprawling and funny as Friends or How I Met Your Mother, and its female characters beat Sex and the City to the spiky, complicated punch by five years. But if you wanted to watch the whole thing, start to finish, and to watch it in order, you’d have to DVR the TV One reruns and assemble the episodes in order yourself. It’s not exactly news that series built around black characters have been somewhat slow to move to streaming services, or that many of these shows never got complete DVD releases in the first place. But the list of shows that are not available is striking. After my Living Single realization, I went through and checked both Netflix and Where to Watch, a database run by the Motion Picture Association of America and its member studios, that tracks the availability of shows and movies on services such as Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, iTunes and Disney Movies Anywhere. (Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Among the black shows that aren’t available to stream on any of the services I checked? Girlfriends. Sanford and Son. Everybody Hates Chris. The Steve Harvey Show. Sister, Sister. What’s
Happening!! Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. Roc. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Classics such as The Jeffersons, Good Times and Diff’rent Strokes are locked up in DirecTV’s streaming service. And it’s not just black shows: Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl isn’t available to stream, either. So, what’s going on here? I talked to Tim Havens, a communications studies professor at the University of Iowa who studies the intersection of race, ethnicity and the media, who advanced two theories but cautioned that it’s been hard to pin down a definitive answer to this lingering question. The first is that the streaming rights to shows are often sold in big chunks, and it’s possible that the rights to some of these shows might be concentrated in studios such as Warner Brothers and Fox and haven’t been included in part of big package deals. The second might be that streaming services have decided that black shows just aren’t valuable to them, either because they believe that affluent white audiences won’t watch those shows or because they aren’t chasing African-American consumers’ money. Leaving aside the fact that it’s tragic that white audiences who loved Friends or How I Met Your Mother or Sex and the City would deny themselves the pleasures of Living Single because of the characters’ colour, it’s worth digging into the data to see what streaming services black Americans are already using, and what they say they want in their programming. Horowitz Research, in the company’s State of Cable & Digital Media: Multicultural Edition 2016, conducted 1,051 surveys online and 1,019 phone interviewers with television viewers in urban markets to find out what those audiences were watching, how they were watching it, and what they’d like to watch more of. Fifty-three per cent of black respondents told the researchers that they
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Punk mainstays NOFX add book to achievements NASHVILLE — Punk rock mainstays NOFX have been defying music industry trends for three decades. Now the band’s members can add a new achievement to their unlikely success story: best-selling authors. The collaborative autobiography Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories reached No. 9 on the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction this week, and the band is on a
tour that alternates shows with book signing events. Singer and bass player Mike Burkett, known universally as “Fat Mike,� credits the band’s longevity to the fact that none of the members ever thought they’d make any money, and because they remained independent. “Why did kids like listening to punk rock? Because it was secret music,� he said. “That’s why we never went to a major label. If everybody likes it, it’s no fun to like.� Burkett doesn’t apologize for his blunt descriptions in the books of his forays into bondage, bodily fluids and other fetishism. That’s in keeping with the overall approach of the band, he said.
had access to a subscription-based streaming video service, up against 56 percent of total respondents, 57 percent of white viewers, 58 per cent of Asian viewers and 64 per cent of Hispanic respondents. But those same black respondents were less likely to use the services where many classic TV shows and original new series are collected: 47 per cent of black respondents said they use Netflix, up against 49 per cent of the survey as a whole. Twenty-three per cent of African-American respondents said they used Hulu, which has the deepest penetration of white viewers. And just 22 per cent of black respondents said they have Amazon Prime Instant Video, well below the 34 per cent of whites, 36 per cent of Asians and 36 per cent of Hispanics who said they use the service. So what might turn African-Americans into more regular streaming service users? The answer, Horowitz found, was content that feels like it’s created for black audiences. Twenty-eight per cent of African-American respondents said they “regularly watch programming that keeps them connected to Black culture.� Thirty-six per cent regularly tune into channels that are aimed at black audiences. Sixty per cent of black respondents said that having a mainly multicultural cast was a big plus for them when it came to deciding what to watch; 58 per cent said that a mainly black cast was a significant draw; and 45 per cent of African-American respondents said that story lines that explicitly address race were appealing to them. In other words, if streaming services want black consumers’ money, they have a ready-made solution: Get the streaming rights to pre-existing shows about black characters, or greenlight more shows like them. At a certain point, if those services choose not to pursue this obvious means of developing new audiences, it’ll be hard not to conclude that they’re leaving money on the table because in some cases, they just don’t want it. “You’ve always got to push. You’ve got to do things different than what’s been done,� Burkett said. “Other bands don’t want to offend audiences. I love offending audiences.�
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As a swan song, you could call it Bruce Wayne’s Day Off. Wednesday, writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo bid farewell to Batman as collaborators with their 51st issue, capping a remarkable five-year run. And to mark the occasion, Snyder said that their final Batman issue shows “all the fun and toys, and leaves (Gotham) for someone else to save, if just for one day.� “I’ve never seen a story where (Batman) just had the night off,� Snyder told The Washington Post. “I thought it would be fun if we could pull off something where we said this is a thank-you to (Batman), a thank-you to the fans.� And as he reflects on the past years, Snyder remembers the run’s own origins, when he thought his debut on DC Comics’s main Bat-title might be the last Batman story he ever told. Snyder had no clue how fans would respond to The Court of Owls, his first Batman offering in the soon-to-be extinct New 52 era of DC Comics. So he turned in his scripts not knowing whether he’d be welcomed back for a second Bat-arc. “I wrote Court of Owls as a way of saying, ‘Well, if I get kicked off (Batman), at least I got to tell this one story that I’ve always wanted to do and means a lot to me,� Snyder said. “It was really just a matter of: ‘How do I do something here that’s special to me, because I might only get one shot at this?’ I never expected to be on (Batman) anywhere near this long.� Among Snyder’s contributions to the Dark Knight’s premier title were introducing Batman fans to the Court of Owls, a group of villains dating back to Gotham City’s origins; retelling a 21st-century origin for Batman’s New 52 beginnings in the yearlong Zero Year; telling one of the more complex Joker stories in recent memory with Death of the Family and Endgame; and saving his most controversial for last with the 10-issue Superheavy storyline, which gave Bruce Wayne a rebooted, less desirable crimefighting brain after a battle with the Joker (and which saw GCPD Commissioner Jim Gordon become the new, shaven and nonsmoking Batman of Gotham). Last month’s Batman No. 50 was a 55-page grand finale for Superheavy. The issue, which returned Bruce Wayne to being Batman, “was just so over-the-top bombastic and crazy and epic,� Snyder said, “and full of so much action and blockbuster moments.� During his run on the title, Snyder added new characters who could become part of the Batman universe for years, including young potential Bat-sidekicks Harper Row and Duke. “Getting to see your characters take on a life you didn’t expect in other writers’ and artists’ hands, and getting to use them myself, it’s just a huge honor,� Snyder said. “It’s like getting to walk these hallowed halls and then put something on the wall you never expected to touch.�
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Visitors view one of the Steller Sea Lions in its tank at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, during the official opening of the wildlife hospital and research center on the shores of Resurrection Bay. Since January 2016, the Alaska aquarium has replaced 98 percent of its fossil fuel heating requirements with a system that draws heat from seawater.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Thousands of people visit the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward for a look at Steller sea lions or harlequin ducks. What’s in the basement is almost as interesting. The SeaLife Center, which combines aquariums with research and wildlife rescue, announced Friday that 98 per cent of its heating and cooling requirements are no longer filled by fossil fuel. The centre is using alternative energy: heat extracted from ocean water in Resurrection Bay. The heat exchange system is saving money, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and fulfilling the centre’s mission of sharing scientific knowledge to promote stewardship of Alaska’s marine resources, said Darryl Schaefermeyer, special projects co-ordinator. It demonstrates that seawater is a potential heating source for Alaska, which has more coastline than the rest of the nation put together. “Simple payback is estimated to be 13 years at the estimated annual savings on electricity of $48,000,” he said. “Since starting the system, we have averaged just over $4,000 savings on electrical energy cost per month.” It’s used with a seawater system the SeaLife Center installed in 2012. The new system was designed by Andy Baker of YourCleanEnergy, an Anchorage consulting firm. It uses equipment manufactured by a Japanese firm, Mayekawa, and relies on a complex system of pipes to heat some parts of the building and cool others. “The trick is to getting all those loops to transfer heat at the correct rate,” Baker said. Resurrection Bay, at more than 900 feet deep, absorbs solar heat over summer months. The water warms through late October, and below the surface, retains enormous amounts of heat throughout winter.
Heat exchangers are devices that transfer heat from one loop of liquid to another without mixing the liquids. The centre’s new system draws seawater at 42 degrees or higher from 300 feet deep and pumps it into a heat exchanger with non-corrosive titanium plates, where it heats a loop of water and 10 per cent glycol, an antifreeze. The warmed water and glycol loop is passed alongside a loop of liquid carbon dioxide, causing the liquid CO2 to boil into a vapour. A compressor squeezes the vapour, increasing its pressure up to 2,000 psi, which raises the vapour temperature dramatically from 100 to 194 degrees. The heated CO2 vapour is exposed to yet another loop: the water that circulates through the SeaLife Center’s building. It can heat 100-degree water to 194 degrees. The system blends 194-degree water with cooler water to send 160-degree water circulating through conventional baseboard heaters in office and lab space. The system has been operating since Jan. 21. On Seward’s coldest nights, about 2 per cent of the time, the centre had to turn on an electrical boiler for more heat. The first seawater system, which cost about $1 million, came on line in December 2012. Instead of carbon dioxide, it uses a synthetic refrigerant that can be heated to about 130 degrees, Baker said. It’s used to heat the centre’s air-handling units and outdoor pavement and to preheat hot water. Grants helped pay for the new system, including a $537,640 emerging energy technology grant from the Alaska Energy Authority. The Rasmusson Foundation kicked in $50,000, and the centre spent $68,000 on in-house labour. Besides cutting its heating bill by more than half, the centre estimates it has reduced its annual carbon emissions by 1.24 million pounds.
Dubai pushing pedal on driverless cars analyst in autonomous driving at research firm IHS. Dubai’s top-down government also will help push through such an effort, he said. “By and large, technology is not going to be the bottleneck for bringing this to market,” Carlson said. But as drivers vanish, so do jobs. Dubai has a number of taxi companies, driven by a large labour force from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and other mostly Asian countries. Bahrozyan, the Dubai transportation official, acknowledged their jobs could be at risk farther down the driverless road, although not immediately. “I think it is very many years away, but what’s exciting for people … is obviously the safety factor, because not just in Dubai, but all around the world taxi drivers are on the road for many hours and are prone for making mistakes or their driving behaviours may not be the best,” he said. “The other factor is the economic factor because the biggest cost of operating a taxi service … is the driver.”
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Already home to the world’s biggest skyscraper, Dubai has another tall order to fill: By 2030, its leader wants 25 per cent of all trips on its roads to be done by driverless vehicles. Monday’s announcement by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum came without warning and with few details, as is sometimes the case with the many aspirations of the leadership of the United Arab Emirates. In this car-crazed city-state of over 1.5 million registered vehicles, it’s not unusual to see Ferraris idling alongside Lamborghinis at traffic lights. And Dubai already is home to a driverless Metro rail system, which carried 178 million riders in 2015. Smart-car technology is being used in some of the world’s luxury vehicles, and it is advancing rapidly enough for the plan to become a reality — or a nightmare for the thousands of taxi drivers who now plying the streets among the sleek skyscrapers in the UAE’s commercial capital. In a statement carried by the state-run WAM news agency, Sheikh Mohammed said the plan would cut down on costs and traffic accidents. The project would be a joint venture by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority and the Dubai Future Foundation, he said, without offering how it would be funded in the oil-rich nation. “Today, we lay down a clear strategy with specific goals for smart transportation to form one of the key drivers for achieving sustainable economy in the UAE,” said Sheikh Mohammed, who can be seen driving himself around Dubai in his white Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV, license plate No. 1. Dubai boasts the world’s tallest building with the 2,717-foot (828-meter) Burj Khalifa, which opened in 2010. In 2020, it will host the World Expo, a world’s fair that is held every five years. Mattar al-Tayer, the director-general and chairman of the Roads and Transport Authority, said his agency has contacted a number of driverless vehicle sellers and “plans to conduct live test-runs for these vehicles in Dubai.” His agency already has signed a deal with Toulouse, France-based driverless vehicle manufacturer EasyMile to conduct tests on their box-shaped EZ10, which carries up to 10 passengers, according to a statement from al-Tayer. EasyMile referred questions to its Emirati partner Omnix, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. For now, Dubai and EasyMile haven’t made any financial commitment to each other, said Ahmed Bahrozyan, the CEO of the Roads and Transport Authority’s licensing agency. Instead, EasyMile is using the opportunity to test its battery life and air conditioners against Dubai’s summertime heat, which goes easily beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), he said. “Our strategy is not only looking at private cars,
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An Emirati visitors gets off a ten-seater driverless car after a test run during the second Middle East and North Africa, MENA, Transport Congress Exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday. Yesterday Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced plans to have 25 percent of all trips in the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates be by driverless vehicles by 2030. but looking at taxis, looking at buses, looking at … cable car systems,” Bahrozyan told The Associated Press. While still a nascent field, many big names are looking at entering the driverless market. Google began developing driverless cars in 2010. Traditional automakers such as Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Toyota are working to gradually automate functions until vehicles potentially become fully capable of driving themselves. Dubai may prove to be a good test site. It sees little rainfall and has a nearly new road system crowned by the E11 highway known as Sheikh Zayed Road, the country’s longest thoroughfare that is a dozen lanes at its widest. But there are also highspeed traffic crashes and massive collisions caused by seasonal fog in Dubai and the rest of the Emirates. Bahrozyan said Dubai has contacted Mountain View, California-based Google about its self-driving car, which he added had artificial intelligence far beyond the EZ10. Google said in a statement that it has seen a lot of interest for self-driving cars and has talked to organizations and communities all over the world, without specifically addressing questions about Dubai. The goal of 2030 is a “realistic timeline” for such an effort like Dubai’s, said Jeremy Carlson, a senior
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The end of dirty coal LORNE OJA ENERGY High carbon emissions, high levels of cadmium, lead, mercury, nitrogen oxides, and sulphur dioxide are the downfall of one of Alberta’s most abundant sources of energy for the generation of electricity. Coal, a hard black and relatively plentiful material, is very familiar to the older generation. Currently coal is being discussed among environmentalist around the world as one particular commodity, which causes polluted air and is a major contributor to global warming and carbon emissions. Data for total global consumption states eight billion short tons of coal, (7.2 billion tonnes) consumed yearly; this indicates it is one energy source that is not going to disappear in the near future. Although 2015 is recorded as having the “biggest decline in coal usage around the world” it will likely remain in wide use for a number of years to come. Current methods of converting coal into electrical energy are approximately 30% efficient; it is paramount that this rating improves to facilitate carbon reduction. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT has recognized the issue and propose the utilization of existing technologies which can increase the energy conversion efficiency of this material into the 55 to 60% range. This would halve the amount of CO2 currently being released by existing coal usage. Researchers, Professor Ahmed Ghoniem, and Doctoral student Katherine Ong, suggest using coal gasification in combination with fuel cells that split the carbon monoxide and hydrogen from oxygen atoms to produce electricity. This is done in a process where coal is crushed, and then superheated steam is injected to release the gas for the fuel cells. The by-product of the new process, carbon dioxide, is easily captured to be sequestered or utilized in emergent technologies which address carbon dioxide utilization. With nothing actually burned in the process, “less ash and pollutants” will be produced. These two separate technologies are not new, as they currently exist in industrial processes around the world. Additionally, if coupled with yet another process, created in South Africa at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, which produces “burnable
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Coal is being discussed among environmentalist around the world as one particular commodity, which causes polluted air and is a major contributor to global warming and carbon emissions. bricks,” from algae and coal dust, an even cleaner conversion of coal to electricity is possible. Although, as of yet, the combining of the two processes has yet to be deployed as an actual “hybrid” coal generation station, computer modelling and simulations show MIT’s hybrid adaptation, added to existing coal fired electrical plants, would significantly decrease pollution and carbon emissions. Added to existing operations, it would be cost effective, and allow for the capture of the carbon it produces. It will take time, and an enormous expenditure of the world capital to transition to a fossil fuel “free” infrastructure. By taking consistent steps, and concentrating on
strategies that capture, and either sequester, or utilize carbon, then the transition will come to fruition sooner. However to meet goals set by the Paris climate accord, we are going to have to use every trick in the book while keeping our economies moving. We have to capture the carbon, before we can eliminate the production. Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Thursday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.
Hubble finds tiny moon orbiting dwarf planet CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Chalk up a moon for the icy dwarf planet Makemake. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected a tiny, dark moon circling the dwarf planet on the frozen fringes of our solar system. On Tuesday, scientists announced the discovery by some members of the team that spotted Pluto’s smaller moons years ago. Makemake itself is just 870 miles wide. Its moon — dubbed MK2 — is a mere 100 miles across and more than 1,300 times fainter with its black surface. Make-
make is named after the creation deity in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island. Hubble’s wide-field camera made the observations last April, spotting MK2 13,000 miles from Makemake. Previous searches were unsuccessful because of the glare from Makemake. Further observations will be needed to determine if MK2’s orbit is circular or oval. Scientists said the discovery is further evidence that most dwarf planets way out in the Kuiper Belt — well beyond the orbit of Neptune — do, indeed, seem to have moons. MK2 will allow researchers to study
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Makemake in even greater detail, said Alex Parker of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the image analyses. “It is a very exciting discovery!” Parker said in an email. “It means that Makemake is no longer the oddone-out in the moon-hosting Kuiper Belt dwarf planet club, and it means that we can do detailed studies of the mass and density of Makemake that would have been impossible without the moon.” Makemake is second to Pluto in brightness among the dwarf planets known to inhabit the Kuiper Belt.
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A healthy biosphere means healthier humans DAVID SUZUKI SCIENCE MATTERS
Imagine if scientists came up with an inexpensive, easily administered way to decrease the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and obesity by 25 to 35 per cent. It would create a sensation and, if patented, would be worth billions. But there’s already a free and simple way to achieve this: exercise. The human body evolved over millions of years, long before cars, escalators, laptops and remote controls. It’s built to expend effort. Gas-powered vehicles enabled us to move over long distances or get somewhere quickly, but they’re bad medicine when they’re used to go two or three blocks. Our lives are easier but not necessarily healthier. It’s time we put more thought into keeping our bodies active and well, minimizing sickness. Fitness increases your chances of staying well, but it’s not a guarantee. We still have much to learn about the ways in which genetics and environ-
mental conditions affect health. After the first human genome survey was completed in 2003, we thought DNA sequences would reveal the secrets of disease and speed development of treatments. But despite trillions of dollars spent on research, many cancers are still unsolved and we’ve learned that only a few diseases — such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s chorea and sickle cell anemia — are the result of only one gene. Most conditions result from the interplay of heredity and environment. And because many genes each add a small bit to defects like cancer, heart disease and dementia, magic bullet cures are elusive. Meanwhile, health care costs show little sign of stabilizing, and increasing obesity and an aging population will drive them higher. Health is about risk management. We can’t choose our parents, so there’s little we can do about the hereditary component of disease unless you subscribe to the promise of technological engineering like gene splicing and editing. But we can influence external factors, like diet, exercise, habits and environment. Consider air, water and food. We need air every minute of our lives to ignite the fuel in our body to
give us energy. We suck two to three litres deep into the warm, moist recesses of our lungs. Our alveoli are smeared with surfactants that reduce surface tension and enable air to stick so oxygen and whatever else is in that breath can enter our bloodstream. Carbon dioxide leaves our body when we exhale. Lungs filter whatever’s in the air. Deprived of air for three minutes, we die. Forced to live in polluted air, we sicken. We are 60 to 70 per cent water by weight. Every cell in our body is inflated by water. Water allows metabolic reactions to occur and enables molecules to move within and between cells and, when we drink it, we also take in whatever’s in it, from molecules like DDT and PCBs to viruses, bacteria and parasites. All the cells and structures of our body are molecules assembled from the debris of plants and animals we consume. If we spray or inject food plants and animals with toxic chemicals, and then consume them, we incorporate those chemicals into our very being, sometimes passing them on to our offspring before they’re even born. We put effort and money into searching for disease causes. But
screening toxic effects of thousands of new molecules every year is painstaking and expensive, so most are never tested. Often, mirroring genetic effects, different molecules, each harmless on its own, may collectively create a problem. Research is beginning to show that even diseases with genetic components, like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, can be triggered by pesticide exposure. When we consider the vast array of chemicals spewed into air, water and soil, predicting those that may interact with each other and our genetic makeup to create health problems is difficult if not impossible. Our health is tied to air, water and food from the soil. That means we should keep them clean, and stop dumping toxic wastes into them. Our health is also improved by exercise, which should be part of the way we live. Outdoor exercise is especially good. As the David Suzuki Foundation’s 30x30 May Nature Challenge demonstrates, connecting with nature is beneficial for physical and mental health. Caring for ourselves and the biosphere would pay many times over in improved health and happiness. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.
As Canada probes Haida Gwaii ocean fertilizing, new project proposed in Chile BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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This artist rendering provided by Science, K. Curry Rogers, M. Whitney, M. D’Emic, and B. Bagley, shows a titanosaur, a silhouette representing the size of a hatchling titanosaur, relationship to a human at birth, tiny titanosaur babies weigh about as much as average human babies, 6 to 8 pounds. But in just a few weeks, they’re shedding the tiny descriptor and are at least the size of golden retrievers, weighing 70 pounds, knee-high to a person. And by age 20 or so, they’re bigger than school buses.
From tiny to titan: Baby dinosaur fossils reveal megagrowth
VANCOUVER — The federal government is still investigating an experiment off the West Coast almost four years ago aimed at boosting salmon stocks that sparked an international outcry. Now a former director and operations officer of Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. says he wants to carry out another ocean-fertilizing exercise, this time off South America. Jason McNamee says the company Oceaneos, where he serves as chief operations officer, has been in talks about fertilizing the ocean with iron with the Chilean government, which could not be reached for comment. In July 2012, the now-inactive Haida Salmon Restoration travelled to international waters near the islands of Haida Gwaii where it dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the water in an effort to restore waning salmon stocks. Critics said the practice was largely untested. But proponents of ocean fertilization contend the process stimulates biological productivity in the marine environment, triggering a phytoplankton bloom that travels up the food chain and ultimately bolsters salmon populations. Environment Canada’s enforcement branch launched an investigation in August 2012, though the agency recently declined to answer any questions about the case. “As the matter is under investigation, it would be inappropriate to provide further information at this time,” spokeswoman Natalie Huneault wrote in an email. McNamee predicts this year’s British Columbia return should be “one of the largest chinook fisheries ever.” “The research is clear. If you put the right sort of iron in the right place at the right time that you will stimulate a plankton bloom. And if you do it in the right place at the right time you may stimulate fisheries.” But biologist Bruce Patten of Fisheries and Oceans Canada said the possibility of a sizable 2016 salmon return can’t necessarily be attributed to the 2012 iron fertilization. Sea-surface temperatures and a
particular fish stock’s history are two factors considered when estimating salmon returns, though in recent years these indicators have strayed into unprecedented levels, which Patten said throws off a model’s predictive ability. Tim Parsons, a retired oceanography professor at the University of British Columbia, met early on with proponents of the Haida Gwaii experiment and recommended against the project because of what he saw as a lack of scientific supervision. In an email, Parsons said he strongly supports iron fertilization, though he attributed part of what he considers the 2012 project’s success to luck: being in the right place at the right time. Some experts have also raised concerns over the relative absence of enforceable regulation surrounding the practice. “There are a lot of scientists who think it’s dangerous to go around dumping things like iron in the open ocean and have spent quite a lot of time trying to find ways to regulate this so it’s not just a free for all,” said Prof. Ken Denman of the University of Victoria, who also serves as a senior researcher with Fisheries and Oceans. Data from the Haida Gwaii experiment is of questionable value, he added. “Anybody who says it was a rigorous scientific experiment is either misleading or is being misled.” McNamee said the proposed Chilean project is still in an early phase, with no agreement in place. In Canada, the iron dust was also dumped in ocean in the belief that the phytoplankton bloom would act as a natural sponge to capture carbon from the atmosphere. The project in Chile won’t investigate that prospect as part of a cap-and-trade credit system, said McNamee. “That’s where most of the controversy was (in 2012). Everyone thought we were out there being cowboys hoping to make a gazillion dollars.” New projects would aim for a 50-per-cent split in funding between government and industry, would have to secure the support of the scientific community and abide by local and international laws, McNamee said.
TITANOSAUR
WASHINGTON — Think your kids grow fast? Scientists say one dinosaur baby went from tiny to a true titan in the blink of a prehistoric eye. At birth, titanosaur babies weighed about as much as average human babies, 6 to 8 pounds. But in just a few weeks, they were at least the size of golden retrievers, weighing 70 pounds. And by age 20 or so, they were bigger than school buses. That jump from something that you could hold in your hands to one of the largest creatures to ever roam Earth beats anything scientists have seen before in terms of growth, said paleontologist Kristi Curry Rogers of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is lead author of a new study on the baby dino fossils published Thursday in the journal Science. By comparison, modern giants like whales, elephants and hippos are born much bigger than titanosaurs (TieTAN-O-SORES). Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan who wasn’t part of the study said this is the paradox of this class of dinosaurs: They started out as tiny eggs and ended up as the largest animals on the planet. Titanosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs which lived about 67 million years ago, grew to be 15 feet tall, not including
their necks and heads. They could stretch out to be 50 feet long. Looking through old bones stored in a museum after a dig in Madagascar, Rogers found enough small bone fossils to reconstruct a soon-after-hatching rapetosaurus (Ruh-PAY-too-SOREus), a type of titanosaur. The baby dinosaur died of starvation during a drought that killed many others in the region, she said. And yes, you could call it cute. “There is no doubt that these baby titanosaurs would have had some of the features we would normally associate with cuteness or baby-ness: short snout, large eyes, big head for a body — like a puppy,” said Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, who wasn’t part of the research but praised it. The fossils confirmed that these creatures were precocious, Rogers said: They hatched from the egg pretty much ready to walk and live on their own. It would have been hard for the giant parents to care for their babies. They had 20 to 30 softball size eggs in a nest and when they hatched, it would have been hard for the adults “to keep track of all the babies around their feet,” Rogers said. “It was just a free-for-all.”
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Pipelines good for Canada: CAODC CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF OILWELL DRILLING CONTRACTORS BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta’s energy minister was urged this week to keep her foot on the gas in pushing for an Eastern pipeline. The Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors sat down with Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd in Calgary on Wednesday to discuss the industry. In on the chat was association board member and the owner of Red Deer’s Roll’n Oilfield Industries Ltd. Brad Rowbotham. Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley
has made federal approval of an Energy East pipeline a priority and lobbied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet for their support in Kananaskis last weekend. Rowbotham said the association is working to get the message out that the pipeline isn’t only good for Alberta, it’s good for the whole country. “It’s our biggest gross domestic product by far. It’s double what the auto industry is. This is important to Canada.” The NDP has an opportunity to make history, he believes. “I said (to McCuaig-Boyd) that the
NDP has a chance here to do something that no other government in Alberta has ever done. We’ve never been able to get a pipeline out East before.” Getting a pipeline built would be a success Albertans would not forget, he predicted. Much of the pipeline is already in place, said Rowbotham. Only about 1,600 km needs to be built. Besides the economic benefits to Canada, the project is being pitched to the Liberal government as a means — literally — to tie the country together. “It could really help the Liberal Party in the West. But overall, the
main point is, it’s really going to help Canada.” In support of the pipeline case, the association began the Oil Respect campaign earlier this year to get the message of its benefits out to the public and government decision makers. On a more Alberta-focused issue, the association raised concerns with the minister about the plan to boost the minimum wage to $15. The oilpatch believes raising the minimum wage could draw off workers willing to trade higher salaries for more consistent employment less affected by world oil prices. A higher minimum wage has also been shown to boost wages overall and make it tougher for the province’s oilpatch to remain competitive.
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Some markets overpriced: CMHC BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — There is mounting evidence that house prices in a number of Canadian cities — including Vancouver, Saskatoon and Hamilton — are out of whack with incomes and other economic fundamentals, according to the latest report from the federal housing agency. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it has found evidence of overvaluation in nine of the 15 real estate markets included in its quarterly report released Wednesday. Overbuilding was identified as a problem in seven of the markets tracked by the report. “Overvaluation and overbuilding remain the most prevalent problematic conditions observed across the 15 centres,” Bob Dugan, CMHC’s chief economist, said during a conference call. Overvaluation occurs when home prices are so high that they are not fully supported by economic fundamentals such as family incomes, mortgage rates and population growth, according to CMHC. The housing agency says overvaluation grew from moderate to strong in Vancouver and Saskatoon between January and April. In Saskatoon, it was a deterioration in the underlying economic conditions — and not prices — that was responsible for the elevated warning flag, whereas in Vancouver, red-hot prices were to blame. “Fundamentals are actually quite strong in Vancouver,” said Dugan. “There’s been a lot of employment and income growth and population growth, but prices are increasing by even more.” In Hamilton, overvaluation increased from weak to moderate over the same three-month period as prices of single-family homes climbed. “It’s one of the hottest markets in Ontario,” said Ted Tsiakopoulos, CMHC’s regional economist for Ontario, adding that migration from less affordable nearby cities, such as Toronto, has been one of the drivers of Hamilton’s price growth. In all the other markets, overvaluation remained stable compared to the previous quarter. Edmonton, Calgary, Regina and Montreal all continued to see moderate evidence of overvaluation, while in Toronto and Quebec City, evidence that house prices are overvalued remained strong. Strong evidence of overbuilding — a measure which suggests that the supply of new homes is outpacing demand for them — was found in Saskatoon and Regina. Meanwhile, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Moncton, N.B., and St. John’s, N.L., all demonstrated moderate levels of overbuilding. In Toronto, overbuilding in the overall market was weak, but CMHC warned about potentially problematic conditions in the condo sector. “We do have some concerns about the high inventory of completed and unsold condominium apartments,” Dugan said. Despite the fact that 10 of the 15 markets tracked displayed strong or moderate evidence of problematic conditions overall, the agency said that on a national level, signs of trouble are weak. Dugan says it’s not unusual for national statistics to mask the issues that are occurring on more regional levels. “Often the national picture looks fairly benign,” Dugan said. “It’s always when you drill down to more local levels of detail that you can uncover some issues or imbalances that warrant attention. I think that the message from this overall is that the national picture doesn’t represent the level of imbalance in individual markets.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the YWCA Trade Journey Program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic Saskatoon, Sask., Wednesday.
Trudeau pushes back on pipeline criticism while on trip to Saskatchewan SAYS CANADA MUST BE RESPONSIBLE WITH RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — The prime minister pushed back Wednesday at federal Conservatives critical of his position on pipelines as he visited Saskatchewan where he was to meet with one of his sharpest critics. Low energy prices are battering the province’s economy and have Premier Brad Wall’s government in the red, but Justin Trudeau opted to repeat his often-used line that the Conservatives had years to build a pipeline while in government and couldn’t get it done. Trudeau said getting resources to market is a key responsibility of the federal government and the best way to get a pipeline built is to co-operate with communities and First Nations along the route and to respect their concerns. “I have been crystal clear for years now on pipelines. One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister — and this goes back centuries, from grain on railroads to fish and fur — is to get Canadian resources to international markets,” Trudeau said. “But what the Conservatives still
refuse to understand is that in order to get our resources to market in the 21st century, we have to be responsible around the environment. We have to respect concerns that communities have and we have to build partnerships with indigenous peoples.” The Council of Canadians and other groups said in an open letter to Trudeau that any pipeline review must include true consultations with aboriginal communities. But the letter, while acknowledging that the economies and workforces of Alberta and Canada have been hit hard by a downturn in the energy sector, also cautioned Trudeau not to cave to pressure to build new pipelines. “Adding new pipelines will not solve economic woes caused by instability in world oil markets and a world that is rapidly — and necessarily — transitioning away from fossil fuels in order to safeguard our climate for future generations.” The letter, which was also signed by Greenpeace Canada, argued that pipeline projects “present significant risks not only to our shared climate, but to critical waterways along their paths.” Interim Conservative Leader Rona
Ambrose was also in Saskatchewan this week and accused Trudeau of waffling on support for pipelines since last year’s federal election. She said the pipeline approval process is vague and creates too much uncertainty in the oil industry, which translates into more job losses. Wall has been one of the prime minister’s loudest critics on pipelines and was to meet with Trudeau in Saskatoon later Wednesday. The premier said he wanted to talk about pipelines during the meeting as well as push for expanded employment insurance benefits. Wall has praised extensions to EI coverage in 12 areas hit hard by the resource downturn, including northern Saskatchewan. But he’s also said Ottawa made a mistake when it didn’t include workers in southern Saskatchewan’s oil-producing regions. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley met with Trudeau privately on Sunday and then addressed about half the federal cabinet at a retreat in Kananaskis, Alta. Notley also advocated for more pipeline support and for Ottawa to enrich employment insurance. She has expressed concern that workers in Edmonton were excluded.
Suncor snags majority control of Syncrude with $937M Murphy Oil deal BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Suncor Energy is buying another chunk of Syncrude in a $937-million deal that will give it majority control over the massive oilsands project. The Calgary-based energy giant said Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy Murphy Oil Corp.’s five per cent stake in the mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta. The deal will increase its interest in Syncrude from just under 49 per cent to nearly 54 per cent.
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Suncor completed its acquisition of another Syncrude partner, Canadian Oil Sands, last month following a bitter hostile takeover battle that came to a peaceful resolution in January. The $6.6-billion COS acquisition, which included the target company’s debt, increased Suncor’s Syncrude stake from 12 per cent to 49. Suncor, which has vast holdings elsewhere in the oilsands, has made no secret of its intention to scope out bargain deals during the prolonged downturn in oil prices. “This transaction is a strategic fit for our portfolio given the quality of
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the resource, our existing interest in Syncrude and the potential for value creation,” CEO Steve Williams said in a release. The deal increases Suncor’s oilsands production capacity by 17,500 barrels a day. “This growth gives us even more leverage to oil prices as they recover,” said Williams. The deal is expected to close by the end of June, provided it receives approval from the Competition Bureau, among other conditions.
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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 108.77 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.14 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.20 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.18 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 2.010 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.36 Cdn. National Railway . . 79.04 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 183.23 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.78 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.64 Cervus Equipment Corp 12.25 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.60 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.90 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.41 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.97 General Motors Co. . . . . 32.16 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.09 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.24 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.72 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.50 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.46 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.74 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.72 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 137.68 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.60 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets were mixed Wednesday following the latest rate announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve that failed to contain any real surprises. As expected, the central bank said it plans to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged following a two-day meeting. Fed officials pointed to continued weakness in the U.S. economy in areas such as consumer spending, business investment and exports for the decision, and once again, expressed concern about a slowing global economy. The Fed scaled back its strong language this time around, no longer mentioning international “risks,” like it did last month, and instead, said it plans to “closely monitor” global economic and financial developments. The toned down statement left investors continuing to wonder whether the central bank’s next rate hike will come at its next meeting in June. Although the Fed did not rule out the possibility, it also gave no hint to investors that was considering such action. “We need to see how the summer goes and determine if the economic data and market conditions are in line with the high level of volatility that we saw earlier this year or more in line with the stability and calm that we saw in the second half of 2015,” said Kash Pashootan, vice-president and portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa. “We’ve seen two extremes of market behaviour in a short period of time. Which one of those behaviours will prevail will determine where monetary policy
Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.31 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.49 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.79 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.42 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.93 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.98 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.97 First Quantum Minerals . . 9.32 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.60 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.80 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.95 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.60 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 23.09 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.880 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.25 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.71 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.45 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.94 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.01 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 27.30 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.70 Canyon Services Group. . 7.79 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.18 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1600 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.85 will go.” The Dow Jones industrial average gained 51.23 points at 18,041.55, while the broader S&P 500 was barely changed, up 3.45 points to 2,095.15. The Nasdaq composite shed 25.14 points to 4,863.14 as shares in Apple fell six per cent after the tech giant reported its first decline in quarterly revenue since 2003. In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite extended gains for a second day as the price of crude hit a high not seen since November. The index, which is weighted heavily in commodities, climbed 78.22 points to 13,887.66 after the June contract for West Texas Intermediate crude shot up $1.29 to US$45.33 a barrel. It’s the first time oil has closed above US$45 in five months. The Toronto marker was also helped by gains in the metals and mining, utilities and materials sectors. The Canadian dollar continued to benefit from the rise in oil, adding 0.02 of a U.S. cent to close at 79.25 cents US. In other commodities, June natural gas pulled back a penny to US$2.15 per mmBtu, while June gold gained $7 to US$1,250.40 a troy ounce. July copper slipped two cents to US$2.22 a pound. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,887.66, up 78.22 points Dow — 18,041.55, up 51.23 points S&P 500 — 2,095.15, up 3.45 points Nasdaq — 4,863.14, down
Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.720 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.46 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.91 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.90 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.83 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.910 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.500 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.35 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.25 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.820 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.21 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.91 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.47 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.43 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.37 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.05 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.94 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.75 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.12 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.69 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.25 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.96 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.40 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.72 25.14 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.25 cents US, up 0.02 of a cent Pound — C$1.8338, down 0.49 of a cent Euro — C$1.4276, up 0.30 of a cent Euro — US$1.1313, up 0.25 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.33 per barrel, up $1.29 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,250.40 per oz., up $7.00 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.659 oz., up 3.9 cents $728.49 kg., up $1.26 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $0.40 higher $499.50 July ‘16 $2.30 lower $498.70 Nov. ‘16 $2.10 lower $490.80 Jan. ‘17 $2.00 lower $494.50 March ‘17 $2.00 lower $496.40 May ‘17 $0.80 lower $496.20 July ‘17 $0.80 lower $495.90 Nov. ‘17 $0.80 lower $487.40 Jan. ‘18 $0.80 lower $487.40 March ‘18 $0.80 lower $487.40 May ‘18 $0.80 lower $487.40. Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 518,360 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 518,360.
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Dave Osborne of Osborne Solar Solutions installs a new solar panel in an array in Scugog, Ont. on Wednesday. Various renewable energy initiatives in Ontario are part of what has helped the province stop burning coal to produce electricity.
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Moose Knuckles rapped over alleged misleading made-in-Canada claims BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Competition Bureau is seeking a $4-million penalty against high-end clothing maker Moose Knuckles, which it accuses of misleading marketing over claims that its parkas are made in Canada. In an application to the Competition Tribunal, the regulator alleges the winter coats marketed as made-in-Canada and which typically retail from $595 to more than $1,000 are mostly made in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia. The bureau alleges that only the finishing touches to the jackets, such as adding the trim, zippers and snaps, are done in Canada. Moose Knuckles president Ayal Twik said in an emailed response that the Montreal-based company “vigorously rejects the allegations.” “Moose Knuckle’s core products are made in Canada and always have been,” Twik said. In a statement accompanying Twik’s email, the company said, “Moose Knuckles finds it most unfortunate that government officers are using costly litigation against a small and proud Canadian company to test their vague guidelines.” The Competition Bureau declined an interview request, but said in a statement Wednesday it is seeking an end to what it believes to be a false or misleading claim. Besides the $4-million administrative penalty, the bureau is also seeking restitution for consumers. “Consumers are willing to pay a premium for ‘Made in Canada’ products, and manufacturers know this,” said Matthew Boswell, senior deputy commissioner of competition. “The bureau has taken action in order to ensure that consumers — and retailers — have the correct informa-
tion to allow them to make informed purchases.” Under bureau guidelines, at least 51 per cent of total direct costs of producing or manufacturing should incur in Canada for products claiming to be “Made in Canada.” They should also be accompanied by a qualifying statement such as “Made in Canada with imported parts” or even more specific information such as “Made in Canada with 60 per cent Canadian content and 40 per cent imported content.” The Moose Knuckles brand recently received a publicity boost after Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, wore one of its red and black plaid jackets while stepping off a government plane last November in London. The statement from Moose Knuckles said its Canadian factories employ more than 100 skilled craftspeople, most of whom have decades of experience in Canada as sewing machine operators, cutters and production managers. The company said that overall, more than 400 workers are employed at three Canadian garment factories as well as in the design, production and distribution of its core coat collection, including producing premium materials with partners in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and elsewhere in Canada. “As a result of its Canadian manufacturing process, Moose Knuckles injects millions of dollars annually into the Canadian economy, while preserving a long tradition of Canadian manufacturing and craftsmanship,” it said. “Like virtually every other garment made in Canada, textiles and components from abroad are used in the Canadian manufacture of Moose Knuckles parkas,” it added, but it did not specifically address whether the parkas met the Competition Bureau’s 51 per cent Canadian content rule.
Valeant vows to look at price cuts BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Valeant Pharmaceuticals vowed to consider reducing dramatic price increases for some drugs during a grilling Wednesday by U.S. senators. Bill Ackman, a major Valeant shareholder who recently joined the drugmaker’s board, said price cuts on four drugs that prompted a congressional investigation will be discussed at a meeting on Thursday. “My recommendation is going to be that we reduce the prices of those drugs,” he testified in a hearing webcast from Washington, D.C. “I am committed to ensuring that Valeant implements best practices with respect to drug prices and maintains the company’s social contract with patients and doctors it serves.” Even with a 30 per cent discount for hospitals, prices on some life-saving drugs would still be thousands of per cent higher than before Valeant (TSX:VRX) acquired them, senators said. Some senators criticized the Quebec-based company’s business ethics for jacking up prices on drugs soon after acquiring them. “Valeant’s monopoly model operates at the expense of real people,” said Sen. Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Aging.
Berna Heyman, a patient with a rare genetic disorder called Wilson’s Disease, testified that the co-pay on her medication increased from $700 per year to more than $10,000. The 30-year-old drug, Syprine, was acquired by Valeant in 2010 and has seen its price increase more than 3,000 per cent. Collins said documents reviewed by her staff show Valeant already has recouped the purchase costs of four drugs subject to drastic price hikes, including Syprine. Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskell said executives with ties to Wall Street have driven the adoption of Valeant’s price-hiking business model. “The notion that we can sit idly by while smart people on Wall Street can do ledger entries to create another layer of profit in the health care sector to benefit multimillionaires on the backs of patients and ultimately taxpayers can’t continue,” McCaskill said. Skeptical about the company’s statements of regret, she called the company’s price hikes “immoral.” “It’s using patients as hostages,” she said during the three-hour hearing. Pearson repeatedly expressed regret for the company’s actions and his own personal failings for leaving the public with the impression that Valeant didn’t consider the impact of its decisions on patients.
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2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Circulation 403-314-4300
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announcements
Obituaries
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15 Sutton Close, Multifamily garage sale, Thurs., Fri., April 28 and 29, 2 to 8 pm.,Sat., April 30, 10 am 5 pm, Sun., May 1, 11 am - 3 pm
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298
SMITH Whitman David Aug 4, 1929 - Apr 19, 2016 Mr. Whitman David ‘Dave’ Smith of Pine Lake, Alberta, passed away after a brief illness, at the Red Deer General Hospital, at the age of 86 years. Dave was predeceased by Beth, his beloved wife of 61 years. Left to mourn his passing are four sons: David (Kerry) and Douglas (Susan) of Calgary, Daniel (Tami) of Red Deer and Duncan of Pine Lake. Survived by his grandchildren: Jay (Gillian), Brad (Kerri), Lauren, Haylie, Cole and Chase, and greatgrandchildren Charlotte and Spencer. Dave was born in Calgary, the youngest child of Alma and Whitman Smith. He grew up on both the family farm in the southern Alberta community of Blackie and the city home in the community of Roxboro in Calgary. Dave met Beth when he was 12 and she was 11, and knew she would be the love of his life; a story that we all heard many times over the years. Dave and Beth moved to Pine Lake in 1958, where they established their own family farm and raised their sons. Dave was a social fellow who enjoyed curling, volunteered as a Cub Scout leader when the boys were young and worked as a seed salesman for 25 years, which resulted in many connections throughout the community. Dave continued to live on the family farm until pneumonia forced him into the hospital. We will miss his funny and cynical outlook on life, death and taxes. A memorial will be held at the Pine Lake Hub on Monday, May 09, 2016 at 1 pm, where we can all come together to celebrate Dave’s life. The family would like to thank Dr. Daniel and the staff on Unit 31 for their attentive and compassionate care. 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.
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Trudy M. Perreault June 2, 1950 - April 28, 2013 You left us beautiful memories Your love is still our guide, Although we cannot see you, You’re always at our side. Damien, Marc, Michael & families
Funeral Directors & Services
jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920
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REG. DENTAL Hygienist Must be flexible with hours. Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resumes attn: Corinne or Chrissy (403) 347-2133 or email: healthysmiles4life@ hotmail.com
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Oilfield
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time. 10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303
Sales & Distributors
830
WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747 67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm. Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume - retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds
Trades
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BUSY dealership now hiring.
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.
Truckers/ Drivers
CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240
860
Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants
Births
ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?
Welcome Wagon
has a special package just for you & your little one! For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556
Celebrations
must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for. Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
Professionals
CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990
Children's Items
*CLIENT RELOCATIONS* Immed. P/T position for professional individual to provide tours and rental housing assistance in Red Deer. Need car! $200-275 per day. Email resume to: Lynn@whrelocations.com
Electronics
Misc. Help
880
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. RECYCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in Red Deer & Olds offices. Email resume with a min. of 2 references. to: canpak1212@gmail.com
Employment Training
900
SAFETY
OILFIELD TICKETS
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“Low Cost” Quality Training
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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)
Misc. Help
GINORMOUS SALE #2 92 DUSTON ST. Apr. 28, 29 & 30 Thurs. & Fri. 12-8 & Sat. 10-4 - Toys (Polly Pockets), Lego, jewelry, linens, porcelain dolls, X-mas decor, so much more!!!
5862 58 A ST. Apr. 28, 29 & 30 Thurs. & Fri. 3-8 Sat., 10-4 HUGE yard sale - no junk Cash & credit accepted
birth of first grandson 60th wedding anniversary
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METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100. 403-343-6044
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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.
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2 LAWNMOWERS, tuned up and ready to go. $75 and $95. 403-347-5873 or 403-350-1077 FREE GARDEN SPACE available, in exchange for you planting my flowers & rhubarb. 403-346-4090
Household Furnishings
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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 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
Misc. for Sale
3982 - 35 AVE. Apr. 28, 29, 30 Thurs. & Fri. 4-8, Sat. 8-1 then 4 - 6 Something for Everyone!
Morrisroe #347, 300 RAMAGE CL. April 29, & 30 Fri. 4 - 7 & Sat. 9 - 4 Clothes, costume jewelry, two power lift recliners, variety of items.
880 Part Time (24 hrs/week)
JOB FUNCTIONS: The Activity Coordinator is responsible for providing opportunities for recreation activities for Lodge Residents of the Sylvan Lake Foundation. Ensuring a high quality of services is provided for resident safety, security, comfort and satisfaction. QUALIFICATIONS: • High School Diploma or its equivalencies • Activity Coordinator Certificate or Related experience will be considered • Emergency Aid Level A • Pro Serve Certificate • WHMIS • Class 4 Drivers License • Mandatory successful criminal record check • Good Health with no history of back problems, physically able to perform duties SALARY: According to Union Scale Only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Closes May 5, 2016 or until a suitable candidate is selected PLEASE APPLY WITH A CURRENT RESUME (QUOTING REFERENCE SLF152016) TO:
Sylvan Lake Foundation / Sylvan Lake Lodge 100 – 4620 – 47 Avenue Sylvan Lake, Alberta, T4S 1N2 FAX – 403-887-6039
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WANTED
Rosedale
PERMANENT PART TIME ACTIVITY COORDINATOR
403.309.3300
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
Garden Supplies
Riverside Meadows
85TH BIRTHDAY FOR ERNIE SURKAN Apr. 30, 2 - 5pm Antler Hill Hall 27471 Township Rd. 362 More Info? 403-318-2000
EquipmentHeavy
Firewood
TRAINING CENTRE
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Wii 2 with 5 games, $70; SONY DVD surround system, $50; and VCR and DVD combo player, $30. 403-782-3847
Tools
Deer Park
2 MOON CRES Apr. 29/30, Fri. & Sat. 10-4 Gas snow blower, books, bread machine, u shaped office desk, misc. etc....
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CENTRAL AB based EXERCISE SAUCER, toys trucking company requires all the way around, pets CONTRACT and smoke free home. $25. 403-346-5423 DRIVERS in AB. Super B exp. req’d. Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558
TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300
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SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking a FLOORHAND AND DERRICK HAND
birth of first child youngest son graduated from College
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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 1500 Watt Pure Sine Wave Inverter never used $425. 4 Ton log splitter with stand $225. 403-347-1637 2 electric lamps, $20. 403-885-5020 30 Peacock feathers, $1/ea,, and assorted cookie cans to give away. 403-346-2231 CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100. Tire - Step, $23. 403-343-6044 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40. 403-343-6044 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. WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020
Piano & Organs
1790
ANTIQUE Piano, Pull & Field, 1897. Ask for Connie. Best Offer Takes. 403-346-8121
Dogs
1840
WANTED: Small dog (Bijon/Shitzu) cross for elderly couple. Dog found.
Sporting Goods
1860
INVERSION Table, $200. 403-343-6044
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Tammy at 403-314-4306
CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303
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Sporting Goods
RED DEER GUN SHOW
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Suites
2 BDRM. bsmt suite. Partially furnished. $850/mo. 403-348-1304
April 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Westerner Agri Centre West 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult Admission $ 5 bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. Travel 403-304-5337
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2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700. Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679
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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390
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3 BDRM., main Ár. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY
3030
Condos/ Townhouses
2 BDRM. townhouse w/5 appls, avail. immed. rent $895. 403-314-0209 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
SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT
6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca TOWNHOUSE for RENT in Lacombe, 2 bdrm, 1.5 baths, 2 storey, small yard, $950.00/mo. + util + d.d. Available May 15 403-782-5107
Manufactured Homes
3040
WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl. 403-348-6594
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4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes
QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000. 403-391-1780
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). 3 BDRM., no pets, $975. mo. 403-343-6609 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
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
SERGE’S HOMES
Lots Available in Lacombe, Blackfalds, Springbrook Custom build your dream home on your lot or ours. For more info. call OfÀce - 403-343-6360 Bob - 403-505-8050
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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 PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 4 appls, inclds. heat & water, no pets $760/mo., avail. June 1. 348-6594
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1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500. 403-598-4131
Motorcycles
ORIOLE PARK
WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337
5080
THE NORDIC
Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
3080
Roommates Wanted
BOWER area home, shared main Áoor & laundry, $550./mo. incld’s all utils. except internet. $300. dd. Ref’s req’d. 403-309-4464 after 6 pm
3090
Rooms For Rent
2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC ALL the bells & whistles!! 44,600 kms.
Excellent Condition Never laid down.
$7600. o.b.o. (403)318-4653
Holiday Trailers
5120
BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 FULLY furn. bdrm. for rent, $500/mth - $250 DD. Call 403-396-2468 S.E. House, furn. room, working M 403-396-5941
3190
Mobile Lot
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
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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190
Realtors & Services
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2014 19.6 NOMAD trailer, SUV towable, sleeps 4, Gently used. Asking $14,500. 403-347-5953
Boats & Marine
Income Property
4100
5160
WatersEdge Marina
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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Acupuncture
1020
Traditional Chinese Acupuncture & Therapeutic Massage ~ Acute or chronic pain, stress, surgery problems. 4606 - 48 Ave., Red Deer. Walk-ins. Call or txt 403-350-8883
Contractors
1100
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 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
DAMON INTERIORS
Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured. Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176
Contractors
1100
Repair or Renovate No job too small, full service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount. Call 587-377-0977 R.D.
RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, Áooring, decks, etc. Call Roger 403-348-1060
1160
Entertainment
DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606
Handyman Services
1200
Misc. Services
1290
5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 505-4777
Roofing
1370
PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured. 403-896-4869
Seniors’ Services
1372
HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777
BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, Yard main Áoor, and bsmt. Care renovations. Also painting and Áooring. Call James 403-341-0617 SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates. Massage Now booking 403-302-7778
1430
Therapy
1280
FANTASY SPA
Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.
10 - 2am Private back entry
403-341-4445
INDIANAPOLIS — In need of momentum after a five-state shutout, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Wednesday tapped former technology executive Carly Fiorina — a woman who he said has repeatedly “shattered glass ceilings” — to serve as his running mate. The Texas senator announced his pick for vice-president at an Indianapolis rally, an unusual move for an underdog candidate that reflects the increasing urgency for the fiery conservative to reverse his downward trajectory. Cruz praised Fiorina’s path from secretary to CEO and her past willingness to challenge GOP front-runner Donald Trump. “Carly isn’t intimated by bullies,” he declared, adding, “Over and over again, Carly has shattered glass ceilings.” The 61-year-old Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has been a prominent Cruz ally since shortly after abandoning her own presidential bid earlier in the year. She was the only woman in the Republican Party’s crowded 2016 field. “Of all the people who didn’t make it far in the race, she was one of the best about laying out her plan, talking about who she is and her accomplishments,” said Doug De Groote, a fundraiser for Cruz based near Los Angeles. Fiorina’s selection marked another extraordinary development in the 2016 Republican campaign, particularly for a candidate who is far from becoming his party’s presumptive nominee. Cruz was soundly defeated by GOP front-runner Donald Trump in all five primaries contests on Tuesday, and he’s been mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination before his party’s national convention in July.
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Ted Cruz taps Carly Fiorina to serve as running mate Some Cruz allies praised Fiorina’s selection, but privately questioned if it would change the trajectory of the race. Trump has won 77 per cent of the delegates he needs to claim the nomination, and a win next week in Indiana will keep him on a firm path to do so. Cruz was to appear Wednesday afternoon with Fiorina in Indiana’s capital city, having staked his candidacy on a win in the state’s primary contest next Tuesday. Fiorina’s California ties could also prove valuable in that state’s highstakes primary on June 7. “Carly has incredible appeal to so many people, especially in California,” De Groote said. “She can really help him here.” Her first major foray into politics was in 2010, when she ran for Senate in California and lost to incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer by 10 percentage points. She has never held elected office. Trump criticized a Fiorina pick as “ridiculous” and “dumb” even before it was announced. “First of all, he shouldn’t be naming anybody because he doesn’t even have a chance,” the New York billionaire said in a Wednesday interview on Fox News. “Naming Carly’s dumb, because Carly didn’t do well. She had one good debate — not against me by the way, because I had an unblemished record of victories during debates — but she had one victory on the smaller stage and that was it,” Trump said. He added, “She’s a nice woman. I think that it’s not going to help him at all.” Throughout her presidential bid, Fiorina emphasized her meteoric rise in the business world. A Stanford University graduate, she started her career as a secretary, earned an MBA and worked her way up at AT&T to become a senior exec-
utive at the telecom leader. She was also dogged by questions about her record at Hewlett-Packard, where she was hired as CEO in 1999. She was fired six years later, after leading a major merger with Compaq and laying off 30,000 workers. Democrats quickly attacked the Cruz-Fiorina alliance. “The best way to describe that ticket is mean and meaner,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who beat Fiorina for Senate in 2010. “He wants to throw people out of the country and she threw thousands of jobs out of the country. Perfect match.” In an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted in December 2015, Republican voters were more likely to say they had a favourable than an unfavourable view of Fiorina by a 47 per cent to 20 per cent margin, with 32 per cent unable to give a rating. Among all Americans, 45 per cent didn’t know enough about Fiorina to rate her, while 22 per cent rated her favourably and 32 per centunfavourably. By contrast, both Cruz and Trump have high negative ratings even within their own party, according to an April AP-GfK poll. Among Republican voters, 52 per cent have a favourable and 41 per cent have an unfavourable opinion of Cruz, while 53 per cent have a favourable and 46 per cent have an unfavourable opinion of Trump. Among all Americans, 59 per cent had an unfavourable opinion of Cruz and 69 per cent said that of Trump. Cruz supporter Jim McAdams, who was wearing a homemade “Ted Cruz 16” shirt to the announcement event in Indianapolis, predicted the Fiorina pick would generate badly needed momentum. But the 74-year-old retired mechanical engineer conceded that Cruz is a longshot at this point.
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WASHINGTON — With the general election in his sights, Republican Donald Trump delivered a sober foreign policy address Wednesday aimed at easing fears about his temperament and readiness to be commander in chief. Rival Ted Cruz made a desperate attempt to jolt the GOP race by tapping Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Both moves underscored Trump’s commanding position in the GOP race. Though the businessman must keep winning primaries in order to clinch the nomination before this summer’s national convention — he needs 48 per cent of delegates still up for grabs — he has breathing room to start making overtures to general election voters. All Cruz can do is throw obstacles in his path. Trump mocked Cruz at a rally in Indianapolis Wednesday night, saying, “Cruz can’t win, what’s he doing picking vice-presidents?” “He is the first presidential candidate in the history of this country who’s mathematically eliminated from becoming president who chose a vice-presidential candidate,” Trump said. Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are trying to keep Trump from securing the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch, thereby pushing the Republican race toward a contested convention. But Trump strengthened his standing this week with a
sweep of five Northeast primaries, giving him 80 per cent of the delegates he needs. Trump headed to Indiana Wednesday as well, following his address in Washington. Before an audience of foreign policy experts in Washington, Trump outlined a doctrine that he said would put American interests first, leaving allies to fend for themselves if they don’t contribute financially to back up security agreements. He vowed to send U.S. troops into combat only as a last resort, a break from years of hawkish Republican foreign policy. “Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction,” he declared in the 38-minute address that was heavy on broad statements and light on specific policy details. Unlike his rambunctious, freewheeling rallies, Trump read prepared remarks in a measured tone off a teleprompter. He also used the address to target Clinton, his expected opponent in a general election. He assailed her handling of the deadly 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and said that during her tenure as secretary of state, the U.S. had a “reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy.” Clinton’s campaign sees foreign policy as an area ripe for a sharp general election contrast with Trump, given her years at the State Department and his lack of experience. In a campaign conference call Wednesday, Clinton supporter and for-
mer Secretary of State Madeline Albright called Trump’s views “incoherent.” “I’ve never seen such a combo of simplistic slogans and contradictions and misstatements in one speech,” Albright said. Like Trump, Clinton emerged from this week’s Northeastern primaries with a stronger claim on her party’s nomination. With four victories Tuesday, she now has 91 per cent of the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, campaigning in Indiana as well Wednesday, conceded that the delegate math was not in his favour. He said his campaign still aims to win the nomination but will also seek to assemble as many delegates as possible to influence the party’s platform and message. “Our job, whether we win or whether we do not win, is to transform not only our country but the Democratic Party, to open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and young people and senior citizens in a way that does not exist today,” Sanders said. Cruz hoped that adding Fiorina to his potential ticket would be a draw for Republicans desperate to keep Clinton out of the White House. Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, was frequently praised for her tough criticism of Clinton during her own presidential campaign and irritated Trump with her sharp retorts during GOP debates.
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Recognize the signs of someone struggling Dear Annie: Tragedy has struck our family. A cousin killed himself on Easter Sunday. I never thought my cousin would do this. He worked with troubled teens and their families. He was outgoing and strong, and helped others through their own tough spots. A few years ago, his son died by suicide. Since that time, my cousin struggled with depression and a host of other things. Apparently, the pressure and depression overcame him that Sunday. Yet in his everyday life, he was surrounded by people who might have noticed the signs of what was happening had they known what to look for. Sometimes we get so caught up with our own issues that we forget to pay attention to what’s going on around us. We need to take time to see the needs of those we love and care for — things that may lie beneath the surface. Please help your readers to recognize the signs of someone struggling, and to help that person before it’s too
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late. Suicide doesn’t solve the problem — it only creates devastation for those left behind. — One Left Behind Dear Behind: Not everyone who chooses suicide shows signs that others would pick up on. Chances are, your cousin never got over the suicide of his son, a horrible tragedy that undoubtedly contributed to this one, no matter what face he put on for everyone else. Here are some signs to watch for: Talking about wanting to die or to kill oneself; looking for a way to kill oneself; talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live; talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain; talking about being a burden to others; increasing the use of
alcohol or drugs; acting anxious or agitated; behaving recklessly; sleeping too little or too much; withdrawing or feeling isolated; showing rage or talking about seeking revenge; displaying extreme mood swings. If you or someone you know is in danger of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Trained crisis workers are available 24/7. If you think someone is in immediate danger, do not leave that person alone. Call 911 and stay until help arrives. Dear Annie: I am responding to “Stuck in Upstate NY,” whose wife wants her Greek parents to move in with them. You know nothing about Greek culture if you think your suggestion to move them into a nearby retirement community has any chance of success. First, the wife’s parents probably don’t speak English, and second, the idea of having space of their own is nonsense. I experienced the same thing with
my Greek husband and his mother many years ago. It doesn’t matter how small the house is. His wife’s parents will always come first. He needs to face up to the reality that his marriage is probably over. — American Daughter-in-Law Dear DIL: It isn’t only Greek culture that puts the parents ahead of the spouse. But these same cultures strongly disapprove of divorce. Perhaps once the parents acclimate themselves to their new country, they will be more willing to move into separate quarters — and preserve their daughter’s marriage. 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.
Cities becoming sweet spot for bee-keeping BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The usual summer buzz in cities, amplified by warm weather, backyard barbecues and busy patios, is somewhat louder this year as urban bee-keeping gains popularity. A Montreal-based company is renting out beehives to people who are interested in making their own honey and to learn more about bee-keeping. According to Alveole’s website, there are 15 beehive locations in Toronto, a couple in Quebec City and Maine, and more than 250 locations in Montreal, where the company started in 2012. Alveole says its hands are full with their existing locations, so they won’t be expanding to any more cities for the time being. Declan Rankin Jardin, one of the three founders of Alveole, says cities are actually a better place for bees than the countryside due to floral diversity, lack of other insect competition and a ban on pesticides. This June, the company is opening up a new honey house in Toronto and Quebec City, where they will educate people on bees and guide them through the bee-keeping process. Alveole says the number of hives being rented out this coming season isn’t final yet, since many people start don’t start the process until later in the spring. Montrealer Karen Hickey says she got into bee-keeping because she saw her neighbours doing it and thought it would be interesting to watch the bees in action, and that she was also concerned about the declining bee population. She got a hive from Alveole last summer and saw a prolific 30-kilogram honey payoff by fall. It’s been amazing “just watching them in the hive, because we take it apart, and see how they function,” she said in an interview. Once rented, the company places hives in either a backyard, a balcony or a flat roof. The renting period lasts one year, and costs $65 a month. Alveole staff does all the beehive maintenance. There’s just one fly in the ointment — keeping a hive in backyards can violate some city bylaws. According to the Ontario Bee Act, a hive in Toronto has to be 30 meters away from the road. The Quebec Bees Act says they have to be 15 meters from roadways. “It’s kind of an archaic rule that doesn’t really encourage urban bee-keeping,” says Rankin Jardin. “A lot of installations can be made that are within 30 meters that are totally
JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Thursday, April 28 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jay Leno, 66; Penelope Cruz, 42; Jessica Alba, 35 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Powerful Pluto intensifies emotional responses today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Steadfastness, once your mind’s made up, that’s it! The next 12 months is the time to look at an old problem from a totally fresh perspective. ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more intently you focus on a financial, business or work problem, the more likely you are to come up with a solution. Don’t shy away from challenges — it’s time to face them head-on! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you making the most of the Sun and Mercury moving through your sign? There’s never been a better time for buoyant Bulls to be smart and proactive about love, life, work and play. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Attached Twins — not sure where you partner is coming from? If you are patient — and intuitive — then you’ll know what to do next. Singles — are you finally ready for a serious commitment? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for stubbornly holding a fixed position. You’re probably not seeing the full picture Crabs. If you listen to friends and work colleagues, then you’ll gain a much wider perspective. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Whether you work at home or away, today’s stars favour finishing paperwork plus fine-tuning communication with colleagues. Full-time mums and
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Declan Rankin Jardin, one of the three founders of Alveole Montreal-based company renting out beehives, shows homeowner Karen Hickey how to take care of a hive in her backyard in Montreal. legitimate and wouldn’t harm bees or people.” But Rankin Jardin says the bylaws aren’t often enforced. In Montreal, where they have the highest number of hives, Alveole is on good terms with inspectors. “It works more by complaint basis,” he says. If a neighbour is unhappy and lodges a complaint, inspectors are obliged to come and ask them to change the hive’s location. But Rankin Jardin says that’s only happened twice so far, and is easily avoided if hives are set up and maindads — make time to put your feet up. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You love handing out advice to all and sundry. Today’s stars caution you to be more discriminating. As birthday great, author Harper Lee wrote, “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Communicating with family members will be very intense, but it will help take your relationships to a deeper and more satisfying level. Don’t waste the opportunity to get up-close-and-personal. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today’s powerful aspects amp up your intensity. Just make sure you focus on people and situations that are worthy of your attention, as you channel your energy into positive projects. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With Mercury and the Sun moving through your well being zone, strive to be mentally positive and physically active. Don’t just think about it — draw up a detailed exercise schedule and then stick to it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Under the influence of today’s stars you’ll be even more focused than usual. Draw on your inner reserves of strength and approach challenges and problems with plenty of Capricorn confidence. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Resist the urge to be super rebellious today Aquarius, as it will just stir others up. If you avoid controversial subjects — and provocative people — then the day will be less intense and stressful. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Group activities are highlighted as the Moon and Pluto help you zero in on what other people are thinking and feeling. It’s also a good time to nurture and cultivate your international contacts. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
tained properly. A single installed Alveole hive, about the size of a small laundry basket, can produce 10 to 15 kilograms of honey for the homeowners. The hives, usually made of pine, have 10 frames in them, initially accommodating 10,000 bees. The number can balloon to a colony of 80,000 bees by the end of the year the number grows exponentially since the queen bee in each colony lays 2,000 eggs a day. Rankin Jardin says bees are a good way to educate people in the city on
pollination, how hard bees work and the ways in which they get food. He’s hardly alone in his passion for urban bee-keeping. In 2008, the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto partnered with the Toronto Bee-keepers Co-operative to shed light on the decimating bee population by starting a bee-keeping program on its roof. Today, the hotel has more than 350,000 bees at peak season, while the hotel chain has apiaries on top of 20 Fairmount hotels worldwide.
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