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Mason defends carbon tax

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The province stands firm on its decision to make municipalities pay the carbon levy.

“The purpose of the carbon levy is to encourage people to make choices and make better choices in terms of their energy use. We hope that municipalities will engage in that process.

Many of them are far ahead of BRIAN MASON the provincial government in terms of their plan to reducing energy use,” said Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Brian Mason at a Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday at the Radisson hotel.

The new carbon levy will be included in the price of all fuels that produce greenhouse gas emissions and include transportation and heating fuels such as diesel, gasoline, natural gas and propane. It will not apply directly to consumer purchases of electricity.

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City of Red Deer Coun. Buck Buchanan played ‘Amazing Grace ‘on the bag pipes outside City Hall on Thursday morning while people gathered to recognize a national day of mourning for workers.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A sombre crowd took time to remember those who lost their lives or were injured on the job on the National Day of Mourning at City Hall on Thursday.

No doubt the death of the worker

who was killed on the Nova Chemical’s Joffre site was foremost on everyone’s mind. It was the first workplace fatality at the petrochemical plant in nearly 40 years.

Ryan Hawley, Parkland Regional Safety Committee chairman, said it was incredibly unfortunate when you look at how safety is part of the culture at Joffre.

“It was their first accident in over 30 years,” said Hawley. “It’s incredibly sad. That’s the place where if there is a safety culture, they have it. Hopefully they can find out why it happened and stop it from ever happening again.”

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Notley walks Washington audience through climate-change measures

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Alberta’s new premier began her campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of her province’s oilsands in the United States, where it was battered by the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline.

Rachel Notley walked a Washington audience through the climate-change measures taken by her new NDP government she also described her province as home to nature-lovers who care about the environment and being good global citizens.

“I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about our province, especially the oilsands,”

Suncor has no plans for major growth projects Page D1 Notley told an audience from Johns Hopkins University on Thursday.

“Quite frankly, it is possible some of it might not have been very positive.

But I am proud to say that over the course of the last year, since my government has been in office, Alberta’s environmental reputation has started to change. And, I believe, change for the better.”

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CALGARY — A pair of forecasts released Thursday see little in the way of good news for Canada’s ailing oil and gas sector.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada predicts drilling activity will be 36 per cent lower than what it anticipated just six months ago, with only 3,315 wells drilled in

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2016. It’s the second time the forecast has been revised downward since November.

In 2014, before the oil price collapse hit full force, more than 11,000 wells were drilled.

PSAC CEO Mark Salkeld called the situation “dire” and said conditions are the worst he’s seen in his 35-year career.

“We’re sitting under a cloud right now,” he said.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Next week Sundre residents will likely see a plan that will solve its long-term care problems.

In March, Alberta Health Services announced it was closing the 15 long-term care beds at Sundre Hospital and Care Centre against the community’s wishes.

AHS said the beds ‘(HEALTH would be replaced with MINISTER 40 level-four supportive-living beds — the SARAH highest care level in supportive living — at Moun- HOFFMAN) WAS tain View Seniors’ HousVERY OPEN TO ing opening this summer.

Sundre hospital was to WORKING WITH US ON THAT remain open with its 15 acute-care beds.

PROPOSAL AND Rimbey-Rocky MounWE BELIEVE tain House-Sundre Wildrose MLA Jason Nixon WE’RE VERY said he could not yet reCLOSE TO veal the new plan developed by community GETTING IT stakeholders — not AHS DONE.’ — that involves keeping long-term care beds in — JASON NIXON the community and mainWILDROSE MLA taining a full hospital. “(Health Minister Sarah Hoffman) was very open to working with us on that proposal and we believe we’re very close to getting it done,” Nixon said on Thursday from Rocky Mountain House where he was visiting local school to talk to students.

“I believe at this point we’re going to keep longterm care and we’ll keep our whole hospital open.

The idea that they could shut 15 out of 30 beds in the hospital, that’s half of Sundre hospital, was ludicrous.”

Nixon is in process of arranging a community meeting to share the details of the plan that may be held next week.

“We want to be able to show the community the plan that the doctors and nurses and community leaders came up with and make sure this fits. We want to get broad approval for it and we believe that we were able to get the minister to come to an agreement. But we’ve got to make sure it’s the right agreement.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Local BRIEFS Lacombe County to build trail from City of Lacombe to Ponoka County border Central Alberta’s trail system will get a nice boost this summer.

Lacombe County is planning to begin building a 15.5-km stretch of trail from the City of Lacombe to the Ponoka County border. Lacombe will build a 1.9km link connecting to its trail system.

Lacombe County council got some good news on the trail-building front. The county went three-

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Teonna Hunter of the Sunchild First Nation reacts to being statically charged by a Van De Graff Generator at a Career Expo at Red Deer College on Thursday. Hundreds of high school and middle school students from Red Deer and Central Alberta attended the event, which brought together professionals from a wide diversity of occupations. The event was done in partnership with Red Deer College and the Government of Alberta.

Lacombe County abandons broadband initiative, returns $500K grant to province

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Technology has overtaken a Lacombe County initiative to ensure residents have good broadband service.

A recent meeting with internet service providers who serve the county showed great strides have been made in rural coverage. Improved wireless technology on broadcast towers and other equipment upgrades have significantly boosted download speeds for county residents.

Coverage — especially in areas not easily reached by the traditional line-of-sight tower signals — will soon be improved through satellite-based service.

Xplornet has announced it plans to launch two next-generation satellites offering high-speed service this year, says a report to council.

All of these changes means the problem of poor coverage in some county areas appears to be resolved.

The county sent out more than 500 letters to residents and businesses informing them of the latest news and asking for feedback on concerns. Only a for-three on grant applications to the TransCanada Trail, Alberta Trailnet and the province’s Alberta Community Partnership program.

In all, $800,000 in grants were lined up.

The county must match the $450,000 raised from the two trail group grants, which will almost cover the projected $910,000 cost of building the 15.5 kms.

The remaining $350,000 will be split 70/30 with the City of Lacombe, leaving the county $245,000 to work with. On Thursday, council voted to use the extra cash to begin paving a portion of its trail. About three kms can be paved this year.

RCMP hunting for suspect in spree of robberies Police are looking for a man who held up a convenience store with a tire wrench and tried to rob two others within a few hours on April 24.

RCMP were called to the East Hill FasGas after a man wearing a bandana over his face and carry-

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dozen inquiries came into the county, mostly from people asking how to contact an internet service provider.

The situation was much different in 2013 when the county commissioned a pilot project to evaluate high-speed coverage after residents complained of slow download speeds and spotty service, especially in the southeast corner of the county.

To remedy the problem, the county was considering building its own wireless towers for use by internet service providers.

A $500,000 grant was lined up through an Alberta government program to extend high-speed coverage into under-served areas of the province. Council had also set aside $250,000 in this year’s budget for the project.

It doesn’t look like the money will be needed, said county commissioner Terry Hager.

Even if the county was to build a tower, the existing providers might not use it.

“That would have been the worst of any possible outcome,” he said.

Council voted to abandon the broadband initiative and return the $500,000 grant to the province. ing a wrench demanded cash and cigarettes shortly after 2:30 a.m. The suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of cash and was seen walking west.

Earlier police were called to the Mac’s on Allan Street for a report of a suspicious male who was attempting to enter the store while wearing a bandana that covered most of his face at at 1:20 a.m.

The suspect failed to gain access as the doors were locked. He was seen walking east.

RCMP later received another report that a suspicious male had entered the FasGas in Westpark around the same time as the Allan Street incident and demanded cash. Staff refused to co-operate so the suspect fled.

RCMP believe the robbery and the two attempted robberies were committed by the same suspect. He is described as Caucasian, between 20 and 25-yearsold and 1.65 metres (five-foot-five) and 1.68 metres (five-foot-six) tall. He was wearing a bandana over his face, a light grey hoodie, dark pants and running shoes If you recognize this man or have information about any of these crimes, call 403-343-5575.

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Friday, April 29, 2016

DND paralyzed by indecision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A retired admiral is telling the Liberal’s defence review that National Defence is often paralyzed by timid bureaucrats and politicians who pass the buck on decisions.

Retired vice-admiral Bruce Donaldson, who until a few years ago was second-in-command of the military, says in a written brief that the system is set up to avoid risk and accountability.

“I suggest that there is a culture of risk intolerance that has infected the federal level — financial in the case of public servants, and political in the case of ministers — that has led government to prefer additional process, “third-party validation” of responsible officials’ work, and serial delay to achieving results,” Donaldson wrote.

He is referring to a trend that has developed since the political fiasco surrounding the F-35 stealth fighter purchase, which has seen government increasingly turn to outside experts and panels to assess and rubber-stamp its plans.

“Indeed, it appears that there is now a view that avoiding spending on intended outcomes is somehow a desirable ‘result’ for Canadians.”

Instead, Donaldson says the net result is costly delays and failure to deliver necessary equipment and support.

Donaldson, who retired in 2013, also says the public has little understanding of federal finances, and doesn’t

realize that less money is spent on defence than in servicing the country’s debt.

“Canadians lack any context for understanding the management of public funds at the federal level, and have been encouraged to view the expenditure of hundreds of millions — or billions — of dollars on military capability as inherently wasteful and unreasonable and has been encouraged to see spending on the military as wasteful.”

He suggests government has done a poor job of educating citizens on the necessary cost of doing business.

The Liberals held the first in a series of six public consultations this week in Vancouver as Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan attempts to craft an updated vision for the military.

It is the first time in over 20 years that citizens have been asked what role they believe the Canadian Armed Forces should be playing in the world and with what equipment.

The panel also heard from the country’s leading organization representing defence industry contractors, which encouraged the Liberals to talk about more than just capabilities and hardware lists.

Christyn Cianfarani, head of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, says the defence review should commit the federal government to crafting a vision of how the defence industry can address the country’s unique security and economic challenges.

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The threat of up to 10 years in prison has convinced an Eckville man to accept legal help.

Already before the court on older charges, Nelson Ryan Gomes, 29, was on bail when he was arrested in Red Deer on Feb. 3 by RCMP who had been tracking a stolen pickup truck.

Police allege that the suspect vehicle drew attention while speeding through the intersection of Gaetz Ave. and 67th Street. Rather than pursuing the truck, Mounties kept watch on its movements and moved in to arrest the driver when it pulled over and parked on Norquay Street.

Gomes was arrested on multiple charges, including breaching release conditions on charges laid in the spring of 2015, when he was the subject of a four-month investigation by the RCMP’s Southern Alberta auto theft unit.

Mounties involved in the earlier investigation allege seizing property stolen during break-ins throughout Central Alberta, including a travel trailer, a pickup truck, two motorcycles, parts, licence plates, cigarettes and firearms.

Charges laid on Feb. 3 brought the

Local BRIEFS County surplus nearly vanishes after discovery of accounting error Easy come, easy go.

The final year-end audit for Lacombe County uncovered an $855,717 accounting glitch that reduced the surplus to $97,283 from $931,771.

County commissioner Terry Hager said a budget line item that should have been recorded as a $417,262 negative was entered as a positive cash flow.

The change in fortunes meant council had to reconsider a motion from its last meeting to put aside $313,000 of the surplus as an allowance for uncollectable property taxes. Another $600,000 was to be put in a tax stabilization reserve, a pot of money that municipalities typically use to smooth out tax increases.

Normally, the accounting slip would have been caught by auditors before council made decisions on what to do with a surplus, when there is one.

However, this year administration wanted to give council the choice of where to put the surplus ahead of time so it could be reflected in the final financial audit.

Given the problem that arose, that won’t be done next year. Meanwhile, the $313,000 will be found elsewhere in the budget. The $600,000 simply won’t be added to the tax stabilization reserve, which sits at $1.5 million.

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total number of charges against Gomes to 79, ranging from dangerous driving and flight from police to robbery and trafficking stolen property along with one count of possessing methamphetamine.

Aided by duty counsel Murray Shack, Gomes attempted in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday to enter guilty pleas on the charges against him.

He told Judge Jim Hunter that he wanted to take responsibility for his actions, deal with the charges and move forward with his life.

Hunter changed the game plan, telling Shack that he was reluctant to accept Gomes’s guilty pleas because of the severe penalty of seven to 10 years being sought by Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald.

“I want to ensure that you feel confident in speaking to the sentence,” he said.

Gomes agreed to hold off on his pleas and meet again with duty counsel after Hunter warned him that he would not pass sentence on Thursday anyway, since he would need to review the information first. He has arranged with Shack to sit down and discuss options on the weekend.

Pleas and sentencing have been rescheduled to Monday afternoon. of the temporary river crossing on the Red Deer River as the project is nearing completion.

Cory Edinga, the city’s Capital Projects engineer, said the work to stabilize the Riverview Park bank is heading into its final stages but crews still need space to work.

The river crossing is complete and crews are working on the bank.

The project is expected to be finished by the end of June.

The stabilization will be based on protecting a flood that only happens once in 100 years.

The city stabilized the bank upstream to Oriole Park in a similar project in 2008.

Earlier this week council heard the project came in at about $3 million under the approved $8-million project.

The extra cash will help reduce the projected tax supported debt.

Suspect sought in Riverside Meadows robbery Police are looking for a man who attempted to rob the 7-Eleven with a stick in Riverside Meadows April 24.

RCMP were called to the 7-Eleven Store on 54 Avenue after a man carrying what witnesses believed to be a stick entered the store and demanded cash from the staff member at 5:15 a.m.

A customer surprised the suspect so he left empty-handed. He was last seen heading east then south behind the store.

The suspect is described as Caucasian, around 1.52 metres (five-feet) tall, in his late teens with dark hair. He was wearing a white and grey checkered hoodie with blue jeans RCMP continue to investigate. At this time, RCMP do not believe this attempted robbery is connected to the other three robbery and attempted robbery earlier the same morning.

If you recognize this man or have information about any of these crimes, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Criminal Code no substitute for good ethics CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION

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he ripples of the acquittal of Sen. Mike Duffy on 31 corruption-related charges should be felt well beyond the parliamentary pond.

The verdict is a stark reminder to all of Canada’s political class that the Criminal Code is no substitute for an ethical compass.

Public officials — be they elected or not — are held to a higher standard than just a clean rap sheet. Being found not guilty of a crime does not de facto make one an ethical person.

In the Duffy affair, for instance, the coverup engineered by Stephen Harper’s palace guard was a scandal of epic proportions even if none of its PMO proponents was charged with a criminal offence. In his ruling, Judge Charles Vaillancourt expended some of his harshest words on the manipulations Harper’s office undertook to avoid blame for the free-spending ways of a Conservative-dominated Senate.

The subtext of the verdict is an indictment of the practice of lowering the threshold for what is acceptable ethical behaviour at the partisan whim of an accountability-adverse government.

Harper was not the only or the first prime minister to conveniently determine that the responsibility for a major ethical malfunction lay with the offender(s) and the courts and not with his oversight or absence of it.

Jean Chrétien was a firm believer in shipping off files to the police that called into question the ethical culture of his government. The inference was that if no law had been broken, nothing really bad had actually happened. On that basis, he would not have set up a public inquiry into the sponsorship scandal.

Just this week, Trudeau’s Liberals argued there was nothing wrong with justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould attending a Liberal fundraiser hosted by a prominent law firm because she did not break Parliament’s narrow conflict-of-interest rules. And yet her participation in the event clearly contradicted the spirit of the current government’s self-imposed code of conduct.

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could have short political legs in the current Parliament. But the acquittal verdict does lend additional acuity to the unresolved issue of senatorial accountability.

It was the Duffy saga that led Trudeau to endeavour to make non-partisan appointments to the upper house. But absent a party affiliation, Trudeau’s senators will be not once but twice-removed from being held accountable by the electorate.

If Duffy had to win back his Senate seat in an election would he even run?

Had they had to face voters at regular intervals, would he or his Senate colleagues have been less profligate in their spending?

There is a factual answer to those rhetorical questions in the shape of the case of former Conservative minister Bev Oda. She resigned after spending habits surfaced that failed to pass the public opinion smell test. Had she been a senator, Oda’s expensing of a $16 dollar glass of fresh orange juice would not have been a career-killing move A word in closing on the bullying management style of the Prime Minister’s Office: Harper did not invent it.

He only perfected it. Over the years it is not just senators who have agreed

to act like pawns in the hands of PMO chess masters. From ministers on down, government MPs — with only too few exceptions — have had a long and not proud history of spineless compliance.

Just this week Conservative leadership candidate and former Harper minister Kelly Leitch told the CBC that she should not have accepted to front the announcement of a controversial “barbaric cultural practices” tip line in the last election. And yet this well-educated medical doctor did agree to sell a promise that — in the context of the niqab debate - could only come across as doubling down on a highly divisive issue.

Being elected under a party banner should not involve placing one’s intellectual honesty and good judgment in the hands of the high-level political operators who staff the PMO. If voters wanted to watch trained seals and clown acts they would buy tickets to the circus instead of electing MPs to the House of Commons and having their taxes fund the Senate. Looking at the latest sequel in the Duffy saga their pocketbooks would be the better for it.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

My wife went into LTC in February of 2012. I found the people working in these positions to be incredible and the level of care was exceptional. I had heard horror stories about care and I never witnessed anything less than extreme professionalism and compassion. The system doesn’t work at the speed of light but I do know it works.

The one shining light on my personal journey occurred when I initially made contact with the Alzheimer’s Society here in Red Deer. The incredible wealth of knowledge that their staff shared with me was unbelievable. There are programs out there that help both the loved one and the caregivers. They are the key that unlocks the door. Their Spousal Support Group — one of many different groups they have — literally saved my life. I believe so strongly in that group that I continue to mentor and attend their monthly meetings as part of my payback for what I received.

Fast forward to today and I am finding that the knowledge and services from when Doreen and I started her journey have improved immensely. Recently AHS held Alberta’s first Advancing Dementia Diagnosis and Management Collaboration Workshop, bringing 225 health care professionals together here in Red Deer from across the province. Five of us caregivers were invited to speak and my belief was firmly established that our province and medical professionals are on the right path to establish a strategy in dealing with the huge increase of dementia patients in the coming years. I am hoping that our Primary Care Network here in Red Deer will get on-

side with joining the other progressive PCN’s in our province.

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and traffic? Same with ice rinks, swimming pools, where all but one are in the south forcing long commutes, more emissions and more wear and tear on our infrastructure from the increased unnecessary traffic.

Building all industrial parks in the northwest while building and encouraging residential, recreational, cultural and educational aspects in the southeast. You can either commute to work or your children can commute to schools, swimming lessons, skating, hockey, extra-curricular activities, and the list goes on.

The city seems bent on extreme compartmentalizing, plus ensuring that all undesirable construction occurs north of the river, and ensuring that all desired projects like arenas, swimming pools, and high schools are built south of the river. Requiring long commutes unless you live and work on the south side of the river.

Perhaps this $810,000 will find it is industrial emissions that are polluting our air, then the idea of concentrating all industry in the northwest part of the city comes under question. Perhaps it may be all that concentrated industrial emissions hits the airstream and travels southeast into town and residential pockets? I am just throwing that out there as a possibility.

I am extremely impressed with our current government for taking action, not ignoring the facts, hoping it will disappear, as in previous governments.

I look forward to the final report and hope it does not get put on a shelf and ignored by other governments.

Garfield Marks Red Deer

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Care for Alzheimers’ patients improving My wife Doreen passed away three years ago from Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). Her journey started when she was 54 years of age and ended 12 years later at the age of 66. This type of dementia is called early onset dementia (EOD). While she was able to work at the Bay as “The Shoe Lady” until age 63, she entered long term care (LTC) at age 64. During her two years in LTC, I learned a lot about our health care system. When we started our journey 15 years ago there were no medical professionals willing to talk to us. Her symptoms were simply explained as “old age coming on.” We tried other doctors in Calgary where we had previously lived and while we had relationships with them, they were unwilling to accept my wife as a patient because we have enough patients to deal with that are over 65. They told us someday as your wife ages we might accept her.

We were patient and eventually an RN at the Red Deer Mental Health Centre gave us a lead to a compassionate local general physician who had lost his mother to AD. We began to see a light at the end of the tunnel with him getting us a referral to a local gerontologist who gave us the proper diagnosis of AD. To this part of our journey I attribute my belief there are not three stages — early, middle and late — but rather only the latter two. You are already though the early stage before you determine where you are on the journey.

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New government air study may shed light on pollution The ambient air quality in Red Deer has seen such high concentration of particulate matter (PM2.5) since 2009 that it was in the “Requires Immediate Attention” zone but was given little if any attention.

It took a new government to finally take a look and to take action. The province is putting $810,000 into air monitoring to finally locate the cause and effects of our poor air.

Consensus would have us believe that a major source is motor vehicles emission, but this funding will help prove or disprove that line of reasoning. It may well be industrial emissions, or a combination of natural and man-made sources.

If it is motor vehicles, we need to find ways to reduce the needs for long periods of driving within the city. Does it make sense to make a parent drive from Johnstone Park to the Collicutt Centre and then condemn them for idling?

The city has plans and built or is building five high schools along 30 ave. to service an estimated population of over 150,000 residents with 50,000 residents on the other side of the river.

Does it make sense to have 20,000 families worry about students commuting across town, increasing emissions

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dozens of people are facing hundreds of charges after a massive, provincewide investigation into child sexual abuse in Ontario.

Provincial police said the monthslong investigation netted 80 alleged offenders who are now facing a total of 274 charges, adding more arrests are expected.

The bulk of the charges relate to sexual assault, child pornography and exploitation, but police said several counts also concern drugs and weapons.

OPP Chief Supt. Don Bell said Thursday the investigation involved collaboration with the RCMP, Canada Border Services Agency, United States Homeland Security, and 26 municipal police forces across Ontario.

He said the wide range of ages and jurisdictions involved in the probe shines a light on how pervasive and devastating the problem is.

“The most fundamental responsibility of any society is to protect our children. Every child has the right to be nurtured and to be safe,” Bell told a news conference. “Every image of child pornography represents a child victim. Every trading or transmission of that image represents a revictimization of that child.”

From its inception in August 2006 to March 2016, Ontario’s Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet has completed 32,808 investigations and laid 11,408 charges against 3,310 people, police said.

During that period, 870 child victims were identified in Ontario, and another 173 internationally, OPP said.

The 80 people charged in latest investigation range in age from 74 to a youth who cannot be named under the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and span the province from Ottawa to Windsor.

Police said they identified 20 alleged victims over the course of the investigation who have been referred to community supports for help.

The child pornography probe also overlapped with incidents connected to human trafficking, allowing police to release nine minors who had been forced into the sex trade against their will.

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Da Mao eats bamboo at the Toronto Zoo. Times are tough in Alberta, but the government is going to spend $10-million dollars to build a new panda exhibit and expand the Calgary Zoo. Da Mao and Er Shun and their two cubs will arrive from the Toronto Zoo in 2018.

Law takes aim at criminals who profit from crimes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — British Columbia has introduced legislation to prevent serial killer Robert Pickton and other notorious criminals from profiting from their crimes through sales of books and other memorabilia.

Public Safety Minister Mike Morris said the proposed law will allow the government to take revenue earned from publications by criminals and distribute it to victims and their families.

The former Mountie vowed swift action last February when a book report-

sexual offences, child exploitation, kidnapping, drug trafficking and human trafficking.

He said criminals cannot be banned from telling their stories due to constitutional reasons, but the law would prevent them from gaining financially from their stories.

Pickton, 66, is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murders of six women and is being held at Kent maximum security prison near Agassiz, B.C., about 120 kilometres east of Vancouver.

The 144-page book titled Pickton: In His Own Words was removed from the Amazon site after a public uproar.

edly written by Pickton was briefly listed for sale on the Amazon website.

“This legislation is aimed at preventing criminals from profiting from recounting their crimes,” Morris said as he introduced the proposed law Thursday.

“As government we have a responsibility to protect victims and their families, and it’s unacceptable that murderers or others convicted of serious crimes could attempt to benefit from the pain and suffering they have caused others.”

Morris said the proposed law will apply to criminals convicted of serious or violent crimes including murder,

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Two boys kidnapped, forced to play Russian roulette, Toronto police say

Accused in Amanda Todd case heads to court VANCOUVER — The trial of a Dutch man facing dozens of child pornography and online extortion charges related to the suicide of a British Columbia teenager is slated to begin Friday morning in Amsterdam, despite Dutch media reports that his lawyer has quit on the eve of the hearing.

Aydin Coban is accused of using webcam video with sexual content to blackmail up to 39 victims from various countries, many of them underage.

The federal government has asked the Netherlands to extradite Coban to Canada, so he can stand trial on five separate charges linked to the 2012 death of 15-year-old Amanda Todd of Port Coquitlam.

Todd killed herself following relentless bullying that was sparked after an Internet harasser allegedly distributed nude photos of her online.

The Dutch court postponed the trial last month after Coban released his first lawyer. In the latest development, media reports from the Netherlands said Coban’s second lawyer, Robert Malewicz, quit Thursday after the court refused another extension.

A good defence is far more than just a file read fast, Malewicz is quoted in Dutch as saying in the news outlet Omroep Brabant.

A suspect has the right to a fair, adequate defence, he added.

The lawyer who preceded Malewicz, Christian van Dijk, said in an interview the case file contains 25,000 pages.

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Eight-year-old Shakira Koostachin plays on a swing in the northern Ontario First Nations reserve in Attawapiskat, Ont. The James Bay community of 2,000 is under a state of emergency due to a spike in youth suicide attempts.

Small town hums quietly along

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ATTAWAPISKAT, Ont. — Even at the height of so-called Goose Break and the depth of an ongoing attempted-suicide crisis in this remote James Bay First Nation, Mary’s is humming along.

A steady flow of patrons, greeted by a friendly young woman, order coffee, sandwiches and other basic diner offerings, paying by cash or debit.

Located in a nondescript trailer typical of many Attawapiskat buildings, only an easily missed “open” sign signals the kind of enterprise and normalcy so easily obscured by the headlines that have grabbed international attention and the very real issues facing the community.

On the wall behind the handful of tables and chairs on one end, a large flat-screen TV is carrying a slightly snowy version of a news channel — from Winnipeg.

In many ways, Attawapiskat — population 2,100 — has all the trappings of any small town, including older folk lamenting the changing of the times.

“Nobody goes to churches any more,” a semi-retired Mike Gull is telling a visitor.

“But when somebody dies, oh, yeah, they pack the church.”

A short distance from Mary’s, down a badly pock-marked road whose springtime surface, like all roads in the community, alternates between boot-squelching mud, mini-lakes and ice, a Northern store is doing a brisk business.

Part supermarket, part department store, Northern would not be out of place in any small town, although southerners might suffer serious sticker shock. A bag of milk goes for $7.99.

A case of small pop is on sale for $22.

Lines form at the two cash-dispensing machines and at the checkouts, even though this is a slow time with the annual exodus to the bush known as Goose Break.

“Right now, everybody is busy hunting,” says Jacklin Kleter Sr. “Most of the families are going out, taking their kids out hunting.”

A few blocks away, the lone Pizza Pizza offers a euphemistically titled “family-sized” pizza for $31. A couple of curious kids munch on fries. Outside, a bulldozer belonging to a local construction business growls away at clearing an over-full culvert.

Somewhat incongruously in a community that requires about an hour to walk its perimeter, Kleter drives a

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Teenage boys and girls walk around in the northern Ontario First Nations reserve in Attawapiskat, Ont. In many ways, Attawapiskat — population 2,100 — has all the trappings of any small town, including older folk lamenting the changing of the times. cab part-time. He arrived in 1981 from Moosonee, the nearest main centre about 225 kilometres to the southeast as the crow flies.

“I drive taxi for myself,” Kleter says. “It keeps me busy during the summer months.”

What you won’t find in Attawapiskat is a movie theatre, a busy community centre, or a town hall — the band office, closed for Goose Break, is in a temporary trailer because the old permanent office is condemned.

One recent afternoon, as the weather improves, couples thread their way around puddles that young children relish jumping in, while other kids ride bicycles and a plethora of scary-looking but totally docile dogs romp around, ignoring the ubiquitous trash that litters the place.

Her favourite pastime, eight-yearold Shakira Koostachin says, is going to the park near the river or riding a bike.

“We play hide and seek. Sometimes we go in the bushes,” Shakira says.

The one thing she really would like is to go swimming — especially in weeks like these when the modern brick elementary school is closed.

“Most kids are wishing for a YMCA,” she says.

Apart from tracks that run short distances from the reserve — say to James Bay or the nearby First World

dump — there’s nowhere to drive, except around and around Attawapiskat, which some folk like to do.

The isolation and acute housing shortage means almost everything — doctors, teachers and everyday supplies — has to be flown in, although an ice-road in winter and barges when waterways are open are also used. And most pregnant moms still have to be flown out to have their babies.

Many residents — small-town friendly if somewhat shy — are born and raised in the community. Others, like Norbert Witt, a semi-retired professor of indigenous studies originally from southern Germany, are from away.

Technically, he says, Attawapiskat has improved from when he first arrived in 1989. For one thing, there is indoor plumbing and tap water, which most people consider a health hazard.

On the downside, he says, people are losing their Cree language and the social cohesion has loosened, contributing, he says, to the current crisis.

Gull, however, scratches his head when asked about the rash of attempted suicides by young people that has again put Attawapiskat on the map.

“I wasn’t aware of what there was until I read it in the newspaper,” Gull says. “Nobody said anything to me how bad it was. Until I read it in the paper.”

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TORONTO — Two Toronto teenagers allegedly caught up in one of the city’s gang wars were kidnapped, beaten, forced to play Russian roulette and sexually assaulted over two harrowing days, police said Thursday.

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for two of the people alleged to be behind the violent abductions as police try to prevent the conflict from escalating.

Toronto police Staff Insp. Mike Earl said the kidnapping took place hours after members of one gang tried to crash a party held by one of their rivals.

“I wouldn’t call this an innocent stranger kidnapping. This is basically gang war kidnapping with one group or gang kidnapping another group’s members to make money, to send a message,” Earl told a news conference.

“As police officers we don’t pick our victims. We’re here to protect everybody, so we need to step up here and prevent retaliations by apprehending these individuals as soon as we can,” he said.

Earl said the event that led to the kidnappings was an April 18 party held by members of the Young Buck Killers in a downtown condo they rented through Airbnb.

Members of the Queen’s Drag Crips allegedly tried to crash the festivities, leading to an armed standoff in the hallway outside the condo. Earl estimated between eight and 10 shots were fired and one person sustained minor injuries, but police were never called to the scene.

The next day, Earl alleges two 17-year-old members of the Crips were summoned to a home by members of the Young Buck Killers.

What followed there was an ordeal for the teens that Earl said continued over the next 48 hours.

“The two 17-year-old youths were tied to a chair and beaten,” he said.

“During their beating they were forced to play Russian roulette with a loaded handgun. A shot was fired in the premises.”

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Trial hears of witness tampering

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON — The former girlfriend of a man accused of murder in the death of Tim Bosma says she was asked to tamper with evidence through secret letters he sent her from jail.

Christina Noudga told a Hamilton court she exchanged many letters with Dellen Millard while he was in jail awaiting trial.

Millard, 30, of Toronto, and Mark Smich, 28, of Oakville, Ont., have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Bosma’s death.

Bosma vanished on May 6, 2013, after taking two strangers for a test drive in the truck he was trying to sell.

The Crown alleges Bosma was shot at point-blank range in his truck and his body later burned in an animal incinerator known as “The Eliminator.”

In one letter, Millard, who admitted in court to being the author of the letters, asks Noudga to try to persuade one of his friends, Andrew Michalski, to change what he’d told police.

“He was obviously asking me to tamper with evidence and testimony in order to protect him,” Noudga told court, adding she thought about doing it, but never went to Michalski to get him to change his story.

Michalski previously testified to hearing Millard and Smich planning to steal a pickup truck.

“Andrew (Michalski) needs to say I showed him a picture of a truck and asked who’s I should BUY,” read a passage from one of Millard’s letters to Noudga. “That he changed it to steal because before the interrogation began, cops told him they wanted to hear about the planning of a truck robbery and he wasn’t going home until he told them what they wanted to hear.”

Millard wrote similar passages in several other letters to Noudga, trying to get her to talk to Michalski.

Police found the letters in Noudga’s room when she was arrested and charged with accessory after the fact

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Dellen Millard (left) and Mark Smich appear in court in front of Justice Andrew J. Goodman in Hamilton, Ont.. The trial of the two men accused of killing a Hamilton father has heard from a woman who says she was asked to tamper with evidence through secret letters sent to her from jail. to Bosma’s murder. She faces trial in November.

Millard also blamed his co-accused for Bosma’s death.

“It was Mark (Smich) who f—ked up a truck robbery, not me,” Millard wrote to Noudga. “And just because I helped clean up Mark’s mess, does not mean I should also pay for it.”

At the end of many of his letters, Millard wrote: “Destroy this letter now!!!!!”

Noudga said she didn’t destroy the letters because they were sentimental and she was in love with him.

“Now I realize that was a stupid thing to do,” Noudga said after tell-

ing the court she never thought about turning over the letters to police.

“I agree now it would have helped police.”

Millard also said he would help Michalski find a lawyer if he agreed to change his story.

“Most of the evidence points me towards me going to buy a pickup (truck).

This will result in an aquitall (sic) and I’m a free man. But there’s a problem and it’s the testimony of Andrew Michalski,” Millard wrote in another letter.

And in yet another passage, Millard thanks Noudga for remaining silent, something he said both Michalski and

Smich should have done.

“And treacherous Mark got himself charged by trying to put it on me.

These are the most lethal pieces currently played against me. Anyways, I’m absorbing it all learning. Strategizing, evolving. I’ve had a lot of time for self reflection … there are many things I would do differently.”

Earlier in the day, Noudga told court she wiped her fingerprints off a trailer she helped park at Millard’s mother’s home in Kleinburg, Ont., hours after finding out Millard had been arrested in the disappearance of the Hamilton father.

Canada lacks full picture of issues related to bail: Justice documents

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada lacks a full picture of the issues related to bail, says a recent note drafted to brief Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on the state of the criminal justice system.

The document, obtained by The Canadian Press, suggested half of those in provincial jails are on remand and have not been convicted of anything.

The bail question troubles many people.

Kim Pate, the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, said everyone should be aware of the problem, because there are human, social and financial costs to keeping people in custody when they have not been found guilty of a crime.

The most marginalized people end up in that position, Pate said.

“If you have resources and you have the ability to demonstrate that you have the resources to stay in the com-

munity, you are less likely to remanded in custody,” she said.

“It also puts pressure on those in custody to plead guilty in order to move on with their sentence or move through the process.”

The Liberal government, which is considering bail reform, got some advice on the issue recently, in a study

by University of Ottawa criminologist Cheryl Webster.

It said a “risk-averse mentality” has permeated the bail process. This leads to vigorous attempts to avoid releasing accused persons who might commit crimes while on bail.

Change would require federal legislation, Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers said Thursday.

A co-ordinated response is need for the system to have any coherence, he added.

“Jurisdictions have to be seen to work together so a co-ordinated response is absolutely required,” Sapers said.

“The federal government is still re-

sponsible for the creation of criminal law so much of the bail reform that has been discussed … would require criminal law amendment.”

As of 2013-2014, adults in remand made up 54 per cent of the jail population— with the largest proportions in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Manitoba.

The Statistics Canada data also show indigenous offenders accounted for 24 per cent of all admissions to re-

mand in that year, up from 19 per cent in 2005-2006.

Michael Spratt, an Ottawa-based criminal defence lawyer, said the bail issue is clearly a national problem.

“You can’t just look and see that Saskatchewan is dropping the ball or Ontario is dropping the ball,” Spratt said. “It is a problem across the country . . . .”

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MOURNING: Embrace safety culture As is a regional arm of the Alberta Construction Association, the committee provides education and training about safety throughout Central Alberta. It is made up of local volunteers from Central Alberta trade and construction associations and the Worker Compensation Board. It works with employers, workers and schools to promote health and safety.

Hawley said they are starting to see more companies embrace a safety culture where it is not just having a policy and procedures in place but having the attitude that if something is not right, it will be reported without fear of repercussions.

He said this starts at a young age where youth are taught about safety from a behaviour sense in the schools.

“We work with high school kids so that by the time they get into the apprenticeship programs safety is just normal,” said Hawley. “And when the boss is looking the other way, they don’t know anything else but to behave safely.”

The crowd heard that last year there were 125 fatalities in Alberta, according to the Workers’ Compensation Board. There were more than 900 workplace-related fatalities across Canada in 2014.

A representative of the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering Central Alberta chapter said it is a stark reminder of the fragility of life. He said the statistics continue to reinforce the needs to be vigilant and ensure all come home safely at the end of the work day.

Safety is becoming more of a priority with companies and people want to work for companies that do, said Dan MacLennan, executive director of the Alberta Construction Safety Association.

“This week we saw some tragic deaths and there is a ripple effect with everyone who is affected and it goes and goes,” said MacLennan. “People want to be safe at work. We talked to people today who are losing their jobs … There is no excuse for not having the highest safety standards … There is never an excuse to endanger others.”

Labour Minister Christina Gray said every worker has the right to a safe, fair workplace and to come home safely at the end of the day.

“I believe employers, workers, labour groups, industry organizations and government all have a responsibility to make that happen,” she said. “The Alberta government is working to improve health and safety on all job sites. We will continue to make sure employers are taking all necessary precautions to keep workers safe.”

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ENERGY: Tax applied across all sectors Carbon tax will be applied across all sectors, starting at $20 per tonne on Jan. 1, 2017 and moving to $30 per tonne on Jan.1, 2018.

Carbon rebates and small business tax cuts will help lower and middle-income households and busi-

nesses adjust to the new carbon levy.

“Large organizations have resources and they have other options to make changes,” Mason said.

The City of Red Deer continues to call for the levy to have a revenue neutral impact on municipalities.

“Municipalities should be exempt from the carbon levy in recognition of the fact that we are also a public sector providing services to our citizenry. Ultimately this will just mean an additional tax on our citizens,” Mayor Tara Veer said.

“We anticipate it could be between a $2 to 4 million hit in 2017, which is the equivalent of a two to four per cent property tax increase on our citizens without adding any additional services.”

The city is also looking for clarity around how the levy will be applied to municipalities and an update on the how $700 million from the federal government’s Building Canada Fund will be spent in the province.

Mason said the federal government wants to see $300 million going to municipal projects and the province is working on assembling that list.

“Our hope, of course, is for municipalities to have access to that within this construction season,” Veer said.

“Given that we’re in a deeper and a more protracted recession than we have been in historically, it’s imperative that those public infrastructure dollars get on the ground in order to not just get Red Deerians back to work, but Albertans as well.”

Guy Pelletier, board chair at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, asked Mason about funding for capital projects on the province’s sunshine list, which includes a $10-million project to modernize St. Patrick’s Community School.

Mason said the projects on the list will be added to the five-year capital plan as funding becomes available.

“Those are all projects that are very likely to be funded, but a little patience is required,” Mason said.

Pelletier said St. Patrick’s, which has a lot of English as a Second Language students, has been at the top of the division’s capital project for two years.

“The kindergarten kids are in what used to be a hallway. It’s just not an environment conducive to learning compared to other schools. You’ve got kids going through one classroom to get to another classroom. Breakout rooms are challenging when you have kids who are still learning English,” Pelletier said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

There’s one point she didn’t emphasize: that neither Alberta’s efforts, nor the federal government’s, would at this point help Canada meet its emissions targets.

Alberta’s emissions would not actually decline under her plan — just grow slower than previously projected.

The premier said she knows perceptions won’t change overnight.

She’s meeting on this trip with a White House environmental official the head of the Center for American Progress, a prominent progressive think-tank that opposed Keystone XL and the Republican head of the Senate energy committee.

“If I leave here with people going, ‘Oh, isn’t Alberta doing something that maybe we should take a look at, maybe even learn from, and they’re kind of doing the right stuff now,’ then that’s a win,” she said in an interview Thursday.

“I think we have an important, important story to tell. And it’s not just a story. That’s the new thing.

It’s real. We have significant action we’re taking on climate change.”

She stressed how important the oil industry to her province’s economy. She told the Johns Hopkins audience that it’s responsible for one-sixth of Alberta jobs.

Notley did not use her trip, however, to promote future oil pipelines.

OILPATCH: Membership down to 175 The PSAC had 265 members going into the Great Recession eight years ago and now it’s down to 175 as the tough times force companies to merge, gobble up smaller competitors or even close their doors.

The employee count across the PSAC’s membership has been slashed by about half, Salkeld said.

“We’re talking tens of thousands of people unemployed with no end in sight, no indicators that we’re going to come out of this any time soon.”

PSAC officials met with the federal environment and natural resources ministers earlier this week to push for pipeline approvals and for infrastructure money to speed the cleanup of inactive oil wells.

There were no promises, but Salkeld said the discussions were positive.

Meanwhile, a new report from the Conference Board of Canada says the country’s oil and gas industry is expected to be in the red for the second year in a row.

But the pre-tax losses for 2016 aren’t expected to be as severe as last year and the sector is on track to return to profitability in 2017.

The Ottawa-based economic think-tank predicts Canadian oil producers will collectively lose more than $3 billion this year, an improvement from last year’s record $7-billion loss.

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude, the key U.S. benchmark, is projected to rise from US$39 a barrel this year to around $65 a barrel in 2020.

The natural gas extraction industry is expected to incur losses of $1 billion this year, slightly better than the $1.1 billion hole last year.

In 2017, the Conference Board sees oil producers turning a profit of $809 million and gas producers eking out $172 million in earnings.

NOTLEY: Start changing perceptions Opposition to the oilsands grew during the yearslong Keystone debate, as it went from relative anonymity among the general U.S. public to becoming protesters’ preferred poster child for the high-carbon economy. Notley said previous Conservative governments in Ottawa and Edmonton didn’t help matters by foot-dragging on the climate file.

In an interview, she explained that the goal for her three-day U.S. visit was to start changing perceptions.

She told audiences about her NDP government’s $30-a-tonne carbon tax, her plan to phase out coal, and the 100 million-tonne cap on oilsands emissions that she said is one-third of some previous long-term emissions projections and said that will force the industry to innovate if it wants to grow.

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THE ADVOCATE Friday, April 29, 2016

Rebels have tough hole to climb out of

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Rebels know what they have to do.

“It’s pretty defined now, isn’t it,” said GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“Our backs are against the wall. We put ourselves in this spot to some degree, having leads in Brandon and not bearing down in the last seven to eight minutes of the games and blowing leads.”

Down 3-1 in the best-of-seven Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final to the Brandon Wheat Kings, the Rebels will have to win on the road tonight to stay alive.

They haven’t won on the road since April 1, in their opening round series against the Calgary Hitmen. Up until Wednesday night, the Rebels hadn’t lost on home ice since March 26, also against the Hitmen. But the loss on Wednesday at the Centrium, 4-2 to the Wheat Kings, stung the Rebels squad who had used home ice to lift them through a tough seven game series against the Regina Pats.

Now, the prospect of a long rest leading ‘WE HAVE TO WIN up to the 2016 MemoOR WE SIT AROUND rial Cup in Red Deer is sinking in. As hosts, FOR TWO-ANDthe Rebels will play A-HALF WEEKS in the tournament, DOING TWO-Abut Sutter was less than enthusiastic at DAYS (PRACTICES) the prospect of being AT 6:30 IN THE eliminated.

“We have to win or MORNING AND 3 IN we sit around for twoTHE AFTERNOON and-a-half weeks doing two-a-days (pracUNTIL THE tices) at 6:30 in the MEMORIAL CUP.’ morning and 3 in the afternoon until the — BRENT SUTTER Memorial Cup,” said REBELS GM/HEAD COACH Sutter. “The other teams are going to be in shape and you’re not going to be in shape by practicing from 3 to 4:30 every day, you’re going to have to do a hell of a lot extra.”

The Rebels have comeback from a 3-1 series deficit once in the team’s history. The 2001-02 Rebels were down to the Brandon Wheat Kings 3-1 in the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final when they rattled off three straight wins, including a double OT win.

With demons to exorcise on the road, the Rebels can take solace in the fact they competed with the Wheat Kings in both road games, even having leads late. But they haven’t been able to close out games on the road this series.

“We responded well in Game 3, but we didn’t respond in Game 4,” said Sutter. “Now we have to go there and we have to regroup. There’s only one way to play in this situation and that’s all-out. You have to treat it like it’s Game 7, it’s a do-or-die situation for us.”

Game 5 is scheduled for tonight FRIDAY in Brandon. Puck drop is at 6:30 p.m.

Notes: Rebels Goalie Rylan Toth has averaged 31.5 saves per game against the Wheat Kings, punctuated by a 39-save performance on Wednesday … Adam Helewka leads the Rebels with nine goals and nine assists, Jake DeBrusk is second with seven goals and nine assists. Luke Philp (four goals, nine assists) and Michael Spacek (three goals, ten assists) are tied for third in team scoring with 13 points each …

After struggling against the Pats, the Rebels penalty kill has clicked against the Wheat Kings. They have allowed only two goals on 13 power plays … Wheat Kings’ Centres John Quenneville (12 goals 10 assists), Tim McGauley (eight goals, 13 assists, Reid Duke (six goals, 14 assists) and Nolan Patrick (seven goals 12 assists) are second through fifth in WHL playoff scoring. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin goes up against Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby during Game 1 in an NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semifinals Thursday, in Washington.

Oshie leads Caps past Pens in series opener

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals 4 Penguins 3 (OT) WASHINGTON — T.J. Oshie raised his arms in celebration and looked at referee Dan O’Rourke.

Oshie was pretty sure he scored in overtime to complete a hat trick and one of the biggest games of his career.

Oshie’s third goal of the night stood up after video review and the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Thursday night in an overtime thriller that was a classic start to the highly anticipated second-round playoff series between Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby.

“That’s kind of the stuff you dream about when you’re a kid playing in the backyard by yourself is scoring the OT winner and getting a hat trick,” Oshie said. “It was awesome. Great way to win.”

Oshie’s wraparound just barely crossed the goal line against the right pad of Pittsburgh’s Matt Murray 9:33 into overtime. The call on the ice was a goal, and the NHL’s situation room said video replay confirmed that the puck was completely over the line.

Murray, who made 31 saves but was beaten three times by Oshie and once by Andre Burakovsky, wasn’t convinced.

“The ref called it a goal on the ice,” Murray said.

“I don’t know how he could have possibly seen it from his angle. But I thought I had it, to be honest. I knew it was close, but I thought it never fully crossed the line. I thought it was close enough that it would be inconclusive.”

To the Penguins, it was an inconclusive end to a fast game played at their blistering pace. Ben Lovejoy, Evgeni Malkin and Nick Bonino scored for Pittsburgh, which will try to even the best-of-seven series Saturday night in Game 2.

Both teams expect much of the same entertainment value that was on display in Game 1. Beyond Murray stoning Ovechkin and Braden Holtby turning aside 42 of 45 shots, there were goals off the rush, a knee-on-knee hit by Washington’s Tom Wilson on Conor Sheary and even Jay Beagle getting a stick

stuck between his helmet and visor.

“The momentum shifts, the big hits, the goals, overtime, the big saves: This is what the playoffs are all about,” Oshie said.

The spotlight was on Ovechkin and Crosby in their first meeting in the Stanley Cup playoffs since 2009.

Ovechkin assisted on Oshie’s second goal and was denied by Murray on two breakaways, while Crosby was on the ice for three goals against and won 68 per cent of his faceoffs.

“I just make stupid plays, stupid moves,” Ovechkin said about his failed breakaways. “Thanks God we won this game.”

The Capitals won a playoff game that Holtby allowed more than two goals for the first time since Game 5 against the Boston Bruins in 2012. The Vezina Trophy finalist was tested plenty but made a big stop on Phil Kessel in the final minutes of regulation.

Pittsburgh outshot Washington 45-35.

“I thought we did a pretty good job, generated some pretty good chances,” Crosby said. “I thought we had some good looks and it was a fast-paced game back and forth, a typical of a game this time of year.”

Wide-open hockey led to Burakovsky’s rush goal on a rebound 10:13 into the first period and to Lovejoy’s similar one 10:40 into the second. That started a run of three goals in 90 seconds, which ended with Oshie’s breakaway goal off a turnover by Olli Maatta.

After Oshie’s third-period goal, Bonino scored with 10:18 left to help send the game to overtime.

That’s where Oshie was the hero, much like he was for the United States in the shootout against Russia at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

“That was the Olympics wearing the USA jersey — I don’t know if I want to rate them, but it’s up there,” Oshie said. “The puck just went in. It usually doesn’t, I guess. I was getting some opportunities and throwing then puck there more than I usually did.”

Oshie, traded from the St. Louis Blues to the Capitals last off-season, won for the first time in the playoffs when scoring a goal. This was a huge stage for him to step up on, especially because Washington acquired him to win in the playoffs.

Red Deer minor baseball sees huge growth this season DANNY RODE LOCAL SPORT Dwayne Lalor has to laugh when discussing how long he’s been president of the Red Deer Minor Baseball Association.

“It’s been five or six years … I think this is six,” he said.

But one thing he’s certain about is that he’s seen a big increase in the number of players involved in the sport since he took over.

“This year we have 652 which is close to an increase of 100 over last year and that was the first time we had over 500 players in a long time,” said Lalor, who will also coach the Red Deer Carstar Braves midget AAA squad this season.

“It’s an amazing increase, about 20 per cent.”

Call it the Blue Jay Effect. Back in the early 1990s when the Jays were the talk of baseball, winning back-to-back World Series, minor baseball in Red Deer, in fact in Canada, thrived. Since then the numbers decreased, but as of late they’ve once again increased, led by this season, which again follows a successful season by the Blue Jays.

“They draw a lot of interest and there was a lot of excitement surrounding their team,” said Lalor.

“The younger players like their style they play and all the home runs.”

Even the controversy surrounding Jose Bautista’s bat flip in the playoff win over the Texas Rangers was exciting for Jays’ fans and for most of the coun-

try.

“That all generates interest,” added Lalor.

The interest in the game is seen at all levels with both the midget and bantam programs able to field a AAA team as well as two AA squads.

“Last year we were able to survive with 11 players on the midget AA team while this year we have two teams, with at least 12 players on both,” Lalor said.

One of the reasons for the growth at the midget level was the number of players graduating from the bantam programs last season.

“The majority of the kids on the AAA bantam team were second year and moved up while almost half the AA bantam team also moved up,” he said.

And the majority of the kids are from Red Deer as the Association allows only three imports on the bantam AAA team and five on the midget AAA squad.

The majority of the 16 players on the Carstar Braves are from the Red Deer system — even the imports — with only two players moving in this season.

“It’s a good situation,” said Lalor. “We’re certainly excited with the interest in the city. We’re excited to see the best players staying and playing at home.

That hasn’t always happened.”

There is also a lot of interest in the lowest level, the pre-rookie and rookie divisions, for kids as young as five.

“The majority of the kids at that level are six, seven, or eight, and just learning the game,” said Lalor.

“We have only six to eight kids per team as really we don’t need outfielders. This way the kids are all involved and it’s fun for them.”

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Hunter Leslie of the Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves hits the ball during Bantam AAA baseball action last season. The Red Deer Minor Baseball Association has seen their numbers jump to 652 players this season, the first time they have had over 500 players in a long time according to president Dwayne Lalor.

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Rams take Goff with first pick NFL DRAFT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Jared Goff is moving down the West Coast to Los Angeles.

Carson Wentz and his big right arm are moving from North Dakota to Philadelphia.

The quarterbacks jumped over Laremy Tunsil after a pair of blockbuster trades, and the Mississippi offensive tackle dropped down the board after a video showing him smoking marijuana was posted to his Twitter account.

Goff went No. 1 overall to the Rams on Thursday night for their first pick since they moved to Los Angeles in the off-season, and Wentz was the No. 2 selection by the Eagles after a successful career at North Dakota State in the second tier of college football.

“I’m taking it as an honour and something I’m going to have to prove them right, that they made the right decision,” Goff said.

There was little doubt about the position of the top picks after Los Angeles and Philadelphia each made a big trade to get into the draft’s top two slots. It’s the second straight year two QBs were the first names off the board and the seventh time in the modern era of the draft since 1967.

Once one of the leading candidates for the No. 1 pick before the trades, Tunsil slipped to Miami at No. 13 after the video of the lineman apparently smoking marijuana out of a bong-gas mask contraption was passed around online.

“Somebody hacked my account, man,” Tunsil said. “You know I made that mistake several years ago. Somehow, somebody got in my photos and hacked my Twitter account and somebody hacked my Instagram account, so it’s crazy. I can’t control that, man. I can control what I control.”

Tunsil also admitted to taking mon-

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California’s Jared Goff poses for photos with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after being selected by the Los Angeles Rams as the first pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL draft, Thursday, in Chicago. ey from coaches at Mississippi.

The Browns, who traded the No. 2 pick to the Eagles last week, moved down again in the first major deal of the night, swapping selections with Tennessee. Then Chicago acquired the No. 9 pick in a trade with Tampa Bay, prompting chants of “Let’s go Bears!

Let’s go Bears!”

The Titans selected Michigan State offensive tackle Jack Conklin at No. 8 before the Bears grabbed Leonard

Floyd, creating a bit of a lull in the proceedings with the Georgia linebacker not in attendance at the downtown Chicago theatre.

On the board again at No. 15, Cleveland stayed in place and drafted Baylor wide receiver Corey Coleman.

After the QBs got their hats and exchanged pleasantries with Commissioner Roger Goodell, it was an Ohio State parade to the podium. San Diego

grabbed defensive end Joey Bosa at No. 3 with the first real wild card of the night, and Dallas selected running back Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick.

Cornerback Eli Apple went to the New York Giants at No. 10, putting three Buckeyes in the top 10 for the first time in school history. Offensive tackle Taylor Decker was drafted by Detroit with the 16th pick, and speedy linebacker Darron Lee ran the Ohio State total to five when he went to the New York Jets at No. 20.

“That’s why we came to Ohio State — to play at the next level,” Bosa said.

Elliott, who rushed for 1,878 yards last season, made quite a fashion statement when he showed off his midsection while walking the red carpet before the draft. But his dress shirt under his blue suit was in place by the time he was drafted by the Cowboys.

“I was known as the ‘hero in the half-shirt,’ so I had to go with it,” said Elliott, who played with a bare midriff with the Buckeyes.

Jacksonville stayed close to home with Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey at No. 5, and Baltimore strengthened its offensive line when it took Notre Dame tackle Ronnie Stanley.

San Francisco, which took Oregon defensive lineman Arik Armstead in the first round a year ago, went back to the Ducks for DE DeForest Buckner.

As the draft barrelled past the middle of the first round, UCLA linebacker Myles Jack kept tumbling down the board. There is concern within the league about the health of Jack’s right knee.

The Buccaneers opted for cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III with the 11th pick. Hargreaves grew up in the Tampa area and played at Florida.

The 6-foot-4 Goff started every game during his three seasons at California and set school records with 977 completions, 12,220 yards passing and 96 touchdown passes. The Rams traded with Tennessee to get the pick.

Cold relations between Dumba part of trio to join Canada women’s leagues get icier at world hockey championships in trademark dispute

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BASEBALL: Steady growth “There’s been a steady growth at that level, which is great for the other levels,” added Lalor.

The mosquito program has teams at the A and AA level with pee wee the first level with a AAA team.

With the increase in players and teams one area that’s stretched thin is coaching.

“We have to keep recruiting coaches and hope they stay,” said Lalor.

“We look for guys who have played the game, have experience and their child is playing. I know several of the ex-Riggers are involved with their kids. Some sports try to get coaches who don’t have their children involved, but we

feel it’s a good way for them to be involved.”

Outside of the RDMBA and running the Braves, Lalor will also act as chairman for the Canadian senior women’s baseball championships to be held Aug. 25-28 at Great Chief Park.

The championships will have teams from B.C., Alberta, Quebec, Ontario and a prospects team which will include mainly players from the other provinces.

Red Deer’s Kelsey Lalor, who plays for the Carstar Braves, is expected to be on the Alberta team with possibly her sister Hayley, who plays midget AA. The coaching staff for the Canadian senior team will be on hand and will select a team to represent Canada at the World championships in Korea.

Kelsey Lalor has been on this team the last two years.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

SELKE TOPHY NOMINEES Boston Br]uins forward Patrice Bergeron has a chance to win his third straight and fourth total Frank J. Selke Trophy after the NHL announced its three finalists on Thursday.

Bergeron, along with Anaheim’s Ryan Kesler and Los Angeles’ Anze Kopitar were nominated by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association for the trophy that is awarded “to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game.”

The 30-year-old Bergeron led the league this season in faceoffs with 1,978 draws and wins with 1,130. He produced 32 goals and 68 points in 80 games while averaging 19:50 of ice time per contest, second among Bruins forwards.

Bergeron has been nominated for the Selke Trophy five seasons in a row and he won the award in 2012, 2014 and 2015 and finished second in voting in

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Kesler helped the Ducks record the lowest team goals-against average in the NHL (2.29) for the first time in franchise history. He led all players in both defensive-zone face-off wins (441) and short-handed faceoff wins (168) as the Ducks’ penalty killers posted the league’s top percentage (87.2 per cent).

He scored 21 goals and 53 points in 79 games. Kesler was a Selke Trophy finalist each season from 2009-11 with Vancouver.

Kopitar led all forwards in total ice time (1,690:12), an average of 20:52 per game, on the club that ranked third in the NHL in team defence, allowing an average of 2.34 goals a contest. He placed second in the NHL in plus-minus (+34) and had 25 goals and 74 points in 81 games — the most among the three finalists.

Kopitar is a Selke finalist for the third consecutive season, finishing second in voting in 2014 and third in 2015.

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CALGARY — Tensions are escalating between two rival women’s hockey organizations, as the Canadian Women’s Hockey League is challenging the National Women’s Hockey League’s rights to the trademark “NWHL” in Canada.

A CWHL spokesperson confirmed the challenge filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

The Ontario Women’s Hockey Association, which operated a different National Women’s Hockey League in Canada and the U.S. from 1999 to 2007, joined the CWHL’s challenge.

“The contestation of the NWHL trademark … are standard business procedures designed to protect the CWHL’s name and intellectual property rights within Canada,” Sasky Stewart told The Canadian Press in an email Wednesday.

A challenge to the trademark hasn’t been filed in the United States. The CWHL’s move may be to block potential NWHL expansion into Canada.

The current four-team NWHL, based in the United States, has played one season. That league has until June 13 to counterfile.

“We have been advised by counsel that the opposition proceedings in Canada are without merit,” NWHL commissioner Dani Rylan said.

The NWHL committed to pay its players with a salary cap of US$270,000 per team, which works out to an average of $15,000 per player.

The CWHL doesn’t pay its players, and now faces pressure to do so to prevent players defecting to the U.S. league.

The CWHL rose from the ashes of the previous National Women’s Hockey League which ceased operations in 2007. Now a five-team league with one in Boston, the Clarkson Cup championship trophy has been awarded for seven seasons.

While the two leagues managed to agree at the last minute to a women’s scrimmage at this year’s NHL all-star game, relations between the two circuits have been frosty.

The CWHL has teams in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Boston and Brampton, Ont. The NWHL operates teams in New York, Boston, Buffalo and Hartford, Conn. The Boston Pride won the inaugural Isobel Cup, which was played on the same weekend as the Clarkson Cup in March.

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Canada’s roster for the 2016 IIHF world championship has increased to 21 players with the additions of NHLers Corey Perry, Matt Dumba, and Derick Brassard.

All three players have earned medals while representing Canada in past international competition.

Perry is a two-time Olympic gold-medallist and Stanley Cup champion with the Anaheim Ducks. Both Dumba and Brassard represented Canada at the IIHF under-18 world championship, with Dumba bringing home bronze in 2012, and Brassard earning silver in 2005.

“Fans know these three players well for their success in the NHL, but it’s important to remember all three also bring international experience that will serve our team well as we

begin our quest to defend gold,” said head coach Bill Peters.

Team coaches and staff have arrived in Prague, Czech Republic, to prepare for the pre-competition camp that kicks off Matt Dumba on Friday following player arrivals. The camp will include an exhibition game against the Czech Republic on Tues., May 3.

Canada opens the world championship in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, against the United States on May 6, with preliminary-round games scheduled through May 17. The bronzeand gold-medal games will be hosted in Moscow on May 22.

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RUGBY SEASON KICKS OFF

Kings focus on depth RDC VOLLEYBALL

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE RDC Kings volleyball head coach Aaron Schulha knows depth plays a major role in his success.

Two years ago when star outside hitter Tim Finnigan went down at the national finals the Kings didn’t have that depth to carry them into the medals.

This past season the Kings had plenty of depth when left side hitter Matt Lofgren went down with an ankle injury. Kashtin De Souza stepped in and played a solid role in the Kings capturing their 12th overall national title.

“We didn’t have the luxury to have that depth when Tim went down,” said Schulha. “We were thin. The same thing in 2013 when we lost Chris Osborn. That sticks with me and I’ve learned to make sure we have the pieces so that when a key guy goes down we have someone who can step in.

“At the end of last year we had 10 guys who could have started for the bulk of teams in the country. Having that depth speaks for guys wanting to be here and be part of the program.”

The Kings will have that depth once again this season with nine returnees, including outstanding setter Luke Brisbane, who was the MVP at both the ACAC and CCAA championships. He was also named the RDC male athlete of the year for the second straight year and is the Advocate’s Red Deer male athlete of the year for 2015.

“Luke’s resume speaks for itself,” said Schulha. “He’s a talent for sure and developing into a leader. He’s not the most vocal of guys but to have him back as one of our captains and leaders is huge. He’s a 4.0 student, works hard in the weight room and leads by example. He’s the type of player guys like to follow.

“He’s a special player and to have him back for a third year speaks for what he thinks of the program and the school. He’s probably the best setter in the country and makes things so much easier for us.”

Fourth-year setter Ryan Beatson and outstanding libero Michael Sumner also return. The Kings lose Tom Lyon in the middle, but Ty Moorman and Adam Turlejski are back along with Ben Hankins and Daimyn Beiletsky, who worked out on the right side last season.

“Losing Tommy is tough, but he’s graduated and with Ty and Adam we’re fine. As well Ben is in his second year and deserves more playing time and Daimyn came in as a middle, has a fast arm and is athletic, which allows him to slide back into the middle.”

Lofgren and Regan Fathers return on the outside where Schulha added three players – Ben Holmes of Lindsay Thurber, Parker Biletsky of Notre Dame and Tristan Dexter, formerly of Bev Facey in Sherwood Park.

Schulha recruited the six-foot-five Dexter last season, but he attended Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. However, his program wasn’t what he wanted and decided to return to Red Deer, where he lived until moving to Sherwood Park in Grade 10.

“I’ve been interested in all three of them since Grade 10,” said Schulha. “Technically they’re all local guys.

Tristan moved but grew up here. So that’s what we’re looking for.”

Schulha has 12 players on his list and would love to add three or four more.

“We have a firm 12 guys, so we’re happy with what we have but it would be nice to put a few final pieces in place. We have a line on a couple of other guys and a couple of alumni have shown interest in returning.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Rimbey’s Shelby Fehr has the ball surrounded by Notre Dame Cougars during high school girl’s rugby action Wednesday in Rimbey. Central Alberta high school rugby season kicked off on Wednesday with games across the region including Rimbey taking down the Cougars 43-5. In other action the Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls team beat the Hunting Hills Lightning 25-5. and the Lacombe Rams beat the Olds Spartans 54-7.

Bantam AAA Braves looking for success with veteran lineup

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A team of bantam veterans dot the lineup of the Red Deer Bantam AAA Braves, as they prepare for the season.

Taking advantage of a few imports afforded to bantam AAA teams, the Braves are drawing a few players in from Innisfail and one player from Stettler.

Randy Gehring, team coach, said the team has mostly competed together for about four or five years in Red Deer.

“We hit the ball well,” said Gehring. “We should have decent pitching and our fielding should be fairly good, but in the AAA league you’re playing teams like Okotoks and St. Albert, who are very, very strong teams.

“We’ll have to feel things out and find our place, but I think if everybody puts their best foot forward and everybody is on the same page and works

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF It’s a big transition, but at the same time it was the natural next step for Trey Christiensen moving into the head coaching role of the Red Deer Rampage lacrosse team.

Christiensen was a player and assistant coach with the junior B team last season, but now at 22 he’s excited to step in to the new role.

He credited the Red Deer Rampage lacrosse program with giving him the skills and tools to be a coach at a young age.

“It shows well on the program that a young guy like myself can come in,” said Christiensen. “We have good leadership in our room. We have a lot of good high character guys.”

Heading up the Rampage, the team just went through tryouts and began practicing with its final roster on April 26. Christiensen sees speed and potential in the team.

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“All those different scenarios have to be running through your mind and you have to know what you’re going to do the minute that ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.”

Helping the program, which boasts a bantam AAA team and two bantam AA teams, is a glut of kids taking up baseball this year. Gehring said the “Blue Jays effect,” was partially responsible.

After Canada’s only Major League Baseball team had a successful season and a playoff run, Red Deer minor baseball saw their numbers swell.

Three years ago about 350 players were in the system, this year they have 656 players.

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Former player takes helm of Rampage they’re ready to step into the holes other guys have left. It’s a really solid core,” said Christiensen. “If everybody buys in, we’re looking at a potential province winning team this year.

“We could have the fastest team in the league this year, we’ll be utilizing that. I think we have a bunch of disciplined and intelligent guys, they’re all there for the team and there’s not a lot of selfishness.”

Two seasons ago, the Rampage won a provincial title and Christiensen was a part of that team. Last season, the Rampage finished first in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League Junior B Tier I north division with 15 wins, five losses and one tie. Christiensen said it was a transition year for the team.

“It’s a young group this year so you never know what could happen,” said Christiensen. “But the potential is definitely there for us to take it this year.”

Christiensen has coached in some capacity for a number of years with the Innisfail minor lacrosse program.

“All throughout playing I’ve done a lot of coaching and it got kind of exhausting,” said Christiensen. “I’ve done just playing, and I’ve done playing and coaching. I’m actually pretty excited to just do coaching for a year.

“Your perspective changes when you’re coaching, it’s a totally different outlook. It kind of helps you understand everything you’ve been taught a bit better.”

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together, I think we’ll be OK.” Last season, the players that are on the AAA Braves team were predominately on the AA bantam team, making them second years at the bantam level. Gehring said the team has 10 second-year bantam players and two first-years, one of which played AAA pee wee.

“They’re a good group, they work hard at practice and that’s one of the things we want to stress,” said Gehring.

“You play how you practice, so we’re making sure they don’t develop bad habits in practice that could transfer into games.”

It’s about at the bantam level where the cerebral side of the game starts to come in, Gehring said it exposes players to the truly competitive side of baseball.

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Hockey

Local Sports 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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Seattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2) (Seattle wins series 4-0) Wednesday’s result Seattle 5 Kelowna 4 (2OT) Tuesday’s result Seattle 3 Kelowna 1

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.

Saturday, May 7 Nashville at San Jose, TBA

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

WHL playoff scoring leaders G 7 12 8 6 7 8 5 9 2 8 7 7 7 6 6 11 9 6 6 4 7 5 4 3

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.

Saturday, May 7 St. Louis at Dallas, TBA Monday, May 9 Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2) (Washington wins series 4-2)

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.

Adam Brooks, Reg John Quenneville, Bdn Tim McGauley, Bdn Reid Duke, Bdn Nolan Patrick, Bdn Jack Walker, Vic Mathew Barzal, Sea Adam Helewka, RD Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn Jack Walker, Vic Dryden Hunt, MJ Cole Sanford, Reg Jake DeBrusk, RD Brayden Point, MJ Sam Steel, Reg Justin Kirkland, Kel Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ Tanner Jeannot, MJ Ethan Bear, Sea Brett Howden, MJ Rourke Chartier, Kel Kale Clague, Bdn Luke Philp, RD Michael Spacek, RD

Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1)

WHL 2016 Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

A 16 10 13 14 12 8 14 9 15 8 9 9 9 10 10 4 6 9 9 11 6 8 9 10

Pts 23 22 21 20 19 16 19 18 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 13 13 13 13

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)

Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3) (San Jose wins series 4-1)

Thursday’s Game Capitals 4, Penguins 3 (1st OT) First Period 1. Washington, Burakovsky 1 (Chimera, Carlson) 10:13.

Penalties — Cullen Pgh (tripping) 6:15 Burakovsky Wash (boarding) 14:54.

Second Period 2. Pittsburgh, Lovejoy 1 (Bonino, Hagelin) 10:40.

3. Pittsburgh, Malkin 3 (Kunitz, Letang) 11:37.

4. Washington, Oshie 2 (unassisted) 12:10.

Penalties — Letang Pgh (interference) 5:15 Malkin Pgh (embellishment) 13:00 Wilson Wash (cross-checking) 13:00.

Third Period 5. Washington, Oshie 3 (Ovechkin) 3:23.

6. Pittsburgh, Bonino 1 (Hagelin, Kessel) 8:42.

Penalties — Kuznetsov Wash (hooking) 5:33 Kessel Pgh (tripping) 5:47 Lovejoy Pgh (tripping) 10:53.

First Overtime 7. Washington, Oshie 4 (unassisted) 9:33.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 9 17 13 6 — 45 Washington 15 7 5 8 — 35 Goal — Pittsburgh: Murray (L, 3-1-0). Washington: Holtby (W, 5-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Pittsburgh: 0-2 Washington: 0-4.

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.

Sunday, May 8 N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Pittsburgh (2) (Washington leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Washington 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT) 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.

Saturday, May 7

Baseball Major League Baseball American League W L Pct Baltimore 13 8 .619 Boston 12 10 .545 Tampa Bay 10 11 .476 Toronto 10 13 .435 New York 8 12 .400 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 16 7 .696 Kansas City 12 9 .571 Cleveland 10 9 .526 Detroit 11 10 .524 Minnesota 7 15 .318 West Division W L Pct Texas 12 10 .545 Seattle 11 10 .524 Los Angeles 11 11 .500 Oakland 11 12 .478 Houston 7 15 .318

Kansas City at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

GB — 1 1/2 3 4 4 1/2 GB — 3 4 4 8 1/2 GB — 1/2 1 1 1/2 5

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 7, Seattle 4 Thursday’s Games Detroit 7, Oakland 3 Baltimore 10, Chicago White Sox 2 Atlanta 5, Boston 3 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 (Fulmer 0-0) 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.

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Trumbo Bal 21 82 13 29 .354 Kinsler Det 20 87 20 30 .345 Andrus Tex 20 70 8 24 .343 Pedroia Bos 21 95 18 32 .337 Machado Bal 21 87 19 29 .333 Hosmer KC 21 81 10 27 .333 Castellanos Det 20 72 9 24 .333 Altuve Hou 22 88 20 29 .330 Lowrie Oak 22 80 8 26 .325 Saunders Tor 17 66 11 21 .318 Home Runs Cano, Seattle, 8 CDavis, Baltimore, 7 Donaldson, Toronto, 7 Machado, Baltimore, 7 Moustakas, Kansas City, 7 ColRasmus, Houston, 7 Altuve, Houston, 6 Frazier, Chicago, 6 Saltalamacchia, Detroit, 6 Trumbo, Baltimore, 6.

Runs Batted In Cano, Seattle, 24 Donaldson, Toronto, 19 ColRasmus, Houston, 19 Trumbo, Baltimore, 18 Bautista, Toronto, 16 Machado, Baltimore, 16 Ortiz, Boston, 16.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 5-0 Zimmermann, Detroit, 4-0 Porcello, Boston, 4-0 Latos, Chicago, 4-0 ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 4-1 Griffin, Texas, 3-0 Price, Boston, 3-0.

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona Colorado San Diego

National League W L Pct 14 7 .667 13 7 .650 12 10 .545 9 11 .450 5 17 .227 Central Division W L Pct 16 5 .762 13 9 .591 12 10 .545 9 13 .409 8 13 .381 West Division W L Pct 12 10 .545 12 11 .522 12 12 .500 9 12 .429 7 15 .318

GB — 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2 9 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 4 1/2 7 1/2 8 GB — 1/2 1 2 1/2 5

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, NA Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 8, 12 innings St. Louis 11, Arizona 4 Miami 2, L.A. Dodgers 0

Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh at Colorado, postponed Philadelphia 3, Washington 0 Atlanta 5, Boston 3 Arizona 3, St. Louis 0 Miami at L.A. Dodgers, late Friday’s Games Atlanta (Blair 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 2-1), 12:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Straily 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Nicasio 2-2), 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 (Davies 0-2), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 3-0) at St. Louis (Leake 0-2), 6:15 p.m.

Colorado (Chatwood 2-2) 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.

Saturday’s Games Washington at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

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

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 4:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. ADiaz StL 20 65 18 29 .446 Yelich Mia 20 70 13 26 .371 DMurphy Was 20 73 10 27 .370 Prado Mia 16 58 6 21 .362 Fowler ChC 20 73 18 26 .356 Braun Mil 20 71 12 25 .352 Segura Ari 23 104 11 36 .346 Conforto NYM 19 65 11 22 .338 Harrison Pit 22 84 12 28 .333 Molina StL 22 78 8 26 .333 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 9 Harper, Washington, 9 Story, Colorado, 9 NWalker, New York, 9 Rizzo, Chicago, 8 WCastillo, Arizona, 6 Cespedes, New York, 6 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 6 Kemp, San Diego, 6 Stanton, Miami, 6.

Runs Batted In Harper, Washington, 24 Rizzo, Chicago, 23 Arenado, Colorado, 20 Markakis, Atlanta, 19 Braun, Milwaukee, 17 Cespedes, New York, 17 Stanton, Miami, 17.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 5-0 CMartinez, St. Louis, 4-0 Cueto, San Francisco, 4-1 Maeda, Los Angeles, 3-0 Strasburg, Washington, 3-0 Niese, Pittsburgh, 3-0 Hammel, Chicago, 3-0.

Thursday’s Games

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs First Round Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Detroit (8) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Toronto (2) vs. Indiana (7) (Toronto leads series 3-2) Tuesday’s result Toronto 102 Indiana 99 Friday’s game Toronto at Indiana, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Indiana at Toronto, 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, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s game Charlotte at Miami, TBA

Atlanta (4) vs. Boston (5) (Atlanta leads series 3-2) Thursday’s result Atlanta at Boston Tuesday’s result Atlanta 110 Boston 83 Saturday’s game Boston at Atlanta, TBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Houston (8) (Golden State WINs series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Golden State 114 Houston 81 San Antonio (2) vs. Memphis (7) (San Antonio wins series 4-0) Oklahoma City (3) vs. Dallas (6) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-1) L.A. Clippers (4) vs. Portland (5) (Portland leads series 3-2) Wednesday’s result Portland 108 L.A. Clippers 98 Friday’s game L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Portland at L.A. Clippers, 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.

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.

Sunday, May 8 San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Today

Warriors, 8:30 p.m., Edmonton

● 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 Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Red Deer Rampage at Edmonton Jr. B

Sunday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: St. Albert Crude at Red Deer Rampage, 2:30 p.m., Kinex arena ● WHL: Brandon Wheat Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 5 p.m., Centrium

Golf Tim Yelverton Miguel Angel Carballo

PGA-Zurich Classic Thursday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $7 million Yardage: 7,341 Par: 72 (36-36) Partial First Round Brian Stuard 31-33—64 Retief Goosen 30-35—65 J.J. Henry 34-33—67 Geoff Ogilvy 34-33—67 Derek Ernst 34-33—67 Charles Howell III 32-35—67 Patrick Rodgers 35-32—67 Seung-Yul Noh 32-36—68 Danny Lee 34-34—68 Rickie Fowler 34-34—68 Byeong-Hun An 34-34—68 Steve Wheatcroft 33-36—69 Freddie Jacobson 36-33—69 Angel Cabrera 34-35—69 Stuart Appleby 35-34—69 Jason Day 38-31—69 David Hearn 33-36—69 Andrew Loupe 34-35—69 Andres Gonzales 35-34—69 Hiroshi Iwata 33-36—69 Jonas Blixt 34-36—70 Jeff Overton 37-33—70 Nick Taylor 34-36—70 Ben Martin 35-35—70 John Senden 34-36—70 Steve Stricker 34-36—70 Marc Turnesa 35-35—70 Blayne Barber 38-32—70 Tyler Aldridge 34-36—70 Ryan Ruffels 37-33—70 Rob Oppenheim 35-35—70 Darron Stiles 35-36—71 Daniel Berger 34-37—71 Chesson Hadley 34-37—71 Robert Streb 37-34—71 Marc Leishman 36-35—71 Tom Gillis 36-35—71 Bryce Molder 35-36—71 Sung Kang 35-36—71 Brice Garnett 35-36—71 Dawie van der Walt 35-36—71 Rhein Gibson 36-35—71 Justin Hicks 36-36—72 Tyrone Van Aswegen 35-37—72 Robert Allenby 36-36—72 Gary Woodland 36-36—72 Vijay Singh 36-36—72 Ben Crane 36-36—72 Chad Collins 35-37—72 Richard H. Lee 34-38—72 Chris Stroud 36-36—72 Boo Weekley 36-36—72 Bronson Burgoon 36-36—72 Trevor Immelman 36-37—73 Brian Gay 36-37—73 Vaughn Taylor 36-37—73 Jason Bohn 35-38—73 Morgan Hoffmann 38-35—73 Erik Compton 34-39—73 Wes Roach 36-37—73

37-36—73 36-37—73

Leaderboard at time of suspended play SCORE THRU Brian Stuard -8 F Retief Goosen -7 F Geoff Ogilvy -5 F Charles Howell III -5 F Patrick Rodgers -5 F Derek Ernst -5 F J.J. Henry -5 F LPGA-Volunteers of America Texas Shootout Thursday At Las Colinas CC Irving, Texas Purse: $1.3 million Yardage:—6,462 Par:—71 (36-35) First Round Mi Jung Hur 35-31—66 Gerina Piller 33-34—67 Eun-Hee Ji 33-34—67 So Yeon Ryu 34-33—67 Catriona Matthew 33-35—68 Amy Yang 33-35—68 Sei Young Kim 34-34—68 Jenny Shin 33-35—68 Brooke Henderson 34-35—69 Jacqui Concolino 33-36—69 Ariya Jutanugarn 36-33—69 Alison Walshe 36-33—69 Casey Grice 35-34—69 Carlota Ciganda 37-32—69 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 36-33—69 In Gee Chun 35-34—69 Danielle Kang 33-36—69 Benyapa Niphatsophon 36-34—70 Belen Mozo 35-35—70 Giulia Molinaro 35-35—70 Ryann O’Toole 35-35—70 Angela Stanford 35-35—70 Megan Khang 37-33—70 Sun Young Yoo 34-36—70 Morgan Pressel 37-33—70 Lindy Duncan 36-34—70 Ayako Uehara 36-34—70 Mirim Lee 35-35—70 Caroline Masson 38-32—70 Min Se Kwak 35-35—70 Marina Alex 34-36—70 Annie Park 35-35—70 a-Cheyenne Knight 35-35—70 Nannette Hill 35-35—70 Lee Lopez 36-35—71 Haeji Kang 36-35—71 Wei-Ling Hsu 36-35—71 Ilhee Lee 36-35—71 Charley Hull 36-35—71 Candie Kung 37-34—71 Minjee Lee 36-35—71 Ashleigh Simon 37-34—71 Dani Holmqvist 37-34—71 Simin Feng 37-34—71 Alena Sharp 35-36—71 Sakura Yokomine 36-35—71 Laetitia Beck 35-36—71

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Montreal 8 4 3 1 11 Philadelphia 7 4 3 0 10 Toronto 7 3 2 2 8 Orlando 7 2 2 3 13 D.C. 8 2 3 3 10 New England 9 1 2 6 9 Columbus 7 2 3 2 7 New York City 8 1 3 4 10 Chicago 6 1 2 3 6 New York 8 2 6 0 8

GA 9 7 5 11 10 14 9 13 7 17

Pt 13 12 11 9 9 9 8 7 6 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Dallas 9 5 2 2 15 13 17 Colorado 8 5 2 1 10 6 16 Los Angeles 7 4 1 2 17 7 14 Salt Lake 7 4 1 2 12 11 14 San Jose 8 4 2 2 11 10 14 Kansas City 9 4 4 1 10 9 13 Vancouver 9 3 4 2 10 12 11 Seattle 7 2 4 1 7 10 9 Portland 8 2 3 3 12 15 9 Houston 7 1 4 2 13 14 5 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Wednesday’s results Kansas City 1 Vancouver 1 Montreal 1 New York City 1 Portland 1 New England 1

English Premier League GP W Leicester City 35 22 Tottenham 35 19 Man City 35 19 Arsenal 35 18 Man United 34 17 West Ham 34 14 Liverpool 34 15 Southampton 35 15 Chelsea 34 12 Stoke 35 13 Everton 34 9 Watford 34 11 West Brom 35 10 Bournemouth 35 11 Swansea 35 10 Crystal Palace 35 10 Sunderland 34 7 Norwich 34 8 Newcastle 35 7 r-Aston Villa 35 3 r-Relegated

D 10 12 7 10 8 14 10 9 11 8 14 8 11 8 10 9 10 7 9 7

L 3 4 9 7 9 6 9 11 11 14 11 15 14 16 15 16 17 19 19 25

GF 63 65 66 58 42 57 58 49 53 37 53 33 32 42 34 36 39 35 38 25

GA Pts 33 76 26 69 34 64 34 64 30 59 43 56 45 55 37 54 46 47 51 47 48 41 40 41 43 41 61 41 49 40 45 39 57 31 60 31 64 30 69 16

Saturday, April 30 Everton vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. Crystal Palace, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Watford vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT West Brom vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Arsenal vs. Norwich, 1630 GMT Sunday, May 1 Swansea vs. Liverpool, 1100 GMT Manchester United vs. Leicester City, 1305 GMT Southampton vs. Manchester City, 1530 GMT

Friday’s game Dallas at New York, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s games San Jose at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Colorado at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Columbus at Seattle, 2 p.m.

Vancouver at New York City, 2 p.m.

D.C. at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Orlando at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2 Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 1900 GMT England FA Cup SEMIFINAL Saturday, April 23 Everton 1, Manchester United 2 in London Sunday, April 24 Crystal Palace 2, Watford 1 in London FINAL Saturday, May 21 Manchester United vs. Crystal Palace in London

Sunday’s games Toronto at Portland, 1:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF x-Buffalo 17 12 5 .706 239 x-New England 16 10 6 .625 214 Georgia 17 7 10 .412 224 Rochester 16 6 10 .375 181 Toronto 17 5 12 .294 173 West Division GP W L Pct GF y-Saskatchewan 17 12 5 .706 220 x-Colorado 17 11 6 .647 192 Calgary 17 7 10 .412 198 Vancouver 16 5 11 .313 182

x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

GA GB 207 — 190 1.5 234 5 194 5.5 206 7 GA GB 181 — 192 1 199 5 220 6.5

WEEK 18 Friday’s game Vancouver at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Vancouver at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.

New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s game Rochester at New England, 4 p.m.

End of 2016 NLL Regular Season

ALBERTA CUP HOCKEY

Curling Champions Cup EDMONTON — Thursday’s results and schedule from the Humpty’s Champions Cup, a Grand Slam event through Sunday on the World Curling Tour: MEN Round Robin Thursday’s results Sixth Draw M.McEwen 8 J.Epping 4 B.Mouat 6 N.Edin 5 D.Murdoch 6 B.Clark 2 Seventh Draw R.Carruthers 7 J.Shuster 3 Eighth Draw P.Simmons 5 P.De Cruz 1 J.Epping 9 D.Murdoch 7 B.Clark 8 S.Meachem 5 Ninth Draw S.Laycock 6 K.Koe 4 N.Edin 4 B.Gushue 3

Friday’s games Draw, 10 8:30 a.m.

J.Shuster vs. B.Mouat.

Draw 11, 12:30 p.m.

M.McEwen vs. S.Meachem, N.Edin vs. R.Carruthers, K.Koe vs. P.Simmons.

Draw 12, 3:30 p.m.

J.Epping vs. B.Clark.

Draw 13, 7:30 p.m.

B.Gushue vs. R.Carruthers, P.De Cruz vs. M.Lizmore, S.Laycock vs. P.Simmons, M.McEwen vs.

D.Murdoch.

End of Round Robin WOMEN Round Robin Thursday’s results Sixth Draw K.Rocque 5 S.Tirinzoni 4 Seventh Draw

S.Lawton 5 J.Jones 4 K.Rocque 7 M.Fay 4` K.Einarson 7 A.Flaxey 5 J.Harrison 10 K.McCarville 0 Eighth Draw S.Tirinzoni 8 C.Carey 6 V.Sweeting 10 S.Fujisawa 0 Ninth Draw A.Ogasawara 6 M.Fay 5 R.Homan 7 K.McCarville 1 J.Jones 6 E.Muirhead 2 Friday’s games Draw 10, 8:30 a.m.

K.Einarson vs. S.Lawton, J.Harrison vs. V.Sweeting.

Draw 11, 12:30 p.m.

C.Carey vs. A.Ogasawara, E.Muirhead vs. A.Flaxey.

Draw 12, 3:30 p.m.

R.Homan vs. J.Harrison, S.Fujisawa vs. K.McCarville, S.Tirinzoni vs. M.Fay, J.Jones vs. K.Einarson.

Sweden’s Niklas Edin downs Canada’s Brad Gushue at Champions Cup

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Minnesota Twins OF Reynaldo Rodriguez (Rochester-IL) 80 games, without pay, following a positive test for metabolites of Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP David Robertson on the bereavement list. Recalled INF Carlos Sanchez from Charlotte (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Shane Greene on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed RHP Huston Street on the 15-day DL. National League

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed C Miguel Montero on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25. Selected the contract of C Tim Federowicz from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Layne Somsen to Louisville (IL). Activated RF Jay Bruce from the paternity list.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Selected the contract of INF Hernan Perez from Colorado Springs (PCL).

Transferred RHP Matt Garza from the 15- to the 60day DL. Placed 2B Scooter Gennett on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 25.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SACRAMENTO KINGS — Named Ken Catanella assistant general manager.

FOOTBALL National Football League MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived DB Damarr Aultman, WRs Tyler Davis and Robert Herron and DT Robert

CANMORE — The Central team opened up the Alberta Cup with a loss to Calgary South, 8-2 on Thursday.

The Central team is an all-star team comprised of the best bantam players from Central Alberta. They square off against the all-star teams from across the province.

Red Deer’s Tye Carriere led the Central team with a goal and an assist, Didsbury’s Kyle Crosbie had two assists and Ponoka’s Reagan Rabbit had a goal in the losing effort.

Goalie Bretton Park, from Red Deer, made the start but allowed eight goals on 25 shots. He was pulled after two periods and Jack Schneider, Provost, took over in net and made all five saves.

The Central team has two games today at 9:30 a.m. against Northeast and again at 5:30 p.m. against Edmonton Blue.

Thomas II. Released LB Terrell Manning.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DE Adrain Hubbard and DB Arthur Williams. Released DB Troy Stoudermire, WRs Jhomo Gordon and Spencer Davis and DLs Chase Vaughn and Leon Mackey.

HOCKEY National Hockey League TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Announced a six-year affiliation extension with Syracuse (AHL).

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Released Ds Ryan Rehill and Colton White and F Blake Speers from their ATOs. SAN DIEGO GULLS — Announced Ds Marcus Pettersson and Shea Theodore, RW Nick Sorensen and C Chris Wagner have been assigned to the team by Anaheim (NHL). Signed D Jacob Larsson to an ATO.

Sweden’s Niklas Edin scored a deuce in the final end to come from behind and defeat Canada’s Brad Gushue 4-3 on Thursday in evening play at the Champions Cup curling event.

Edin and Gushue, from St John’s, N.L., are both 2-1 through nine draws at the seventh and final event of the Grand Slam season. Calgary’s Kevin Koe also suffered his first loss of the tournament on Thursday night, falling to Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock 6-4. Koe and Laycock are also now 2-1.

In women’s evening play, Japan’s Ayumi Ogasawara downed Kristin Clarke of Chester, N.S., 6-5 to remain undefeated with a 3-0 record. Clarke’s squad is 1-2 after the loss. Also, Ottawa’s Rachel Homan beat Krista McCarville of Thunder Bay, Ont., 7-1 and Winnipeg’s Jennifer Jones handed Scotland’s Eve Muirhead a 6-2 defeat.

SPORTS

Friday, April 29, 2016

B5

DeLaet getting ready for busy summer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Graham DeLaet’s beard care routine is nearly as precise as his pre-shot routine these days, as the 34-year-old golfer’s facial hair has quickly become the talk of the PGA Tour.

“I trim it every day pretty much,” said DeLaet from his home in Arizona.

“I shampoo and condition, and I have oils and leave-in conditioner.”

Although the golf course isn’t exactly ideal conditions for DeLaet’s bristly beard — “It gets blown around a lot,” he said — there’s no chance he’s getting rid of it any time soon.

That could make Canada’s highest-ranked male golfer one of the more recognizable athletes at the upcoming Rio Olympics. DeLaet is in the midst of a two-week break before he gets ready for a “hectic” summer that includes a likely appearance representing Canada in Rio, where golf makes its Olympic return for the first time since 1904.

Although a handful of the world’s top golfers including major champions Adam Scott from Australia, Vijay Singh from Fiji, and Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel from South Africa have withdrawn their names from Olympic consideration, DeLaet said he would welcome the opportunity.

“All these guys are getting a lot of heat in the media, but when it comes down to it, they’re grown men and can make their own decisions,” he said.

“I don’t really understand it, because I think it would be an absolute thrill to play for your country. For me, it’s something I’m really looking forward to and hopefully have the opportunity to do.”

DeLaet currently sits 119th in the official world golf ranking, 23 spots ahead of David Hearn. That pair will likely represent Canada in Rio, but the final standings aren’t confirmed until July 11.

DeLaet has earned just over US$756,000 in 13 events this year on the PGA Tour. His best finish was a tie for fifth in March at the Valspar Championship, when he entered the final round just one shot back of the lead.

A balky putter ended up being DeLaet’s demise.

“I played great but putted horribly, especially on Sunday. You can’t win golf tournaments like that,” said DeLaet. “But as poorly as I putted, I still finished fifth in the tournament. That

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Graham DeLaet tees off on the eighth hole during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C. on April 15. DeLaet’s beard care routine is nearly as precise as his pre-shot routine these days, as the 34-yearold golfer’s facial hair has quickly become the talk of the PGA Tour. spoke to how well I played otherwise.”

DeLaet said he recently took a putting lesson from celebrated golf instructor and analyst Peter Kostis at his home club in Arizona.

But he said caddy Julien Trudeau (a “very very distant relative” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to DeLaet) has been the go-to guy for his short game.

“He makes sure my lines are right and my hands are in the right positions. I had gotten a little sloppy with my set-up,” he said. “I got back to basics and squared everything up, and the roll coming off the putter has been a lot better.”

DeLaet will be in the field next

week at the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina before heading to The Players Championship in Florida and the AT&T Byron Nelson in Texas.

With so many tournaments in a row, DeLaet said the key is to stay mentally sharp.

“Physically I’ve been feeling really good this year, probably the best I have been while on the PGA Tour,” he said. “I’ve been able to practise more than I have been in the past. It’s more on the mental side that I need to stay ready.”

Although his life has changed dramatically after he and wife Ruby welcome twins Roscoe and Lyla in Novem-

ber, he said things have been “really fun” during his break.

“It’s a little extra work after golf, but it’s definitely better than being alone in the hotel room and having to FaceTime them,” he stated.

And do the kids like the beard?

“They tug on (it) every once and a while, but it actually hurts more when they tug on my chest hair versus the beard,” said DeLaet with a laugh.

“With the beard they usually just grab a big chunk and pull.

“Not everyone is going to like the beard, but if you don’t like it, that’s fine with me,” he continued. “I’m not insulted if you don’t like my beard, I can take it.”

Henderson sits three back of Stuard shoots 64 for early first round leader Mi Jung Hur Zurich Classic lead LPGA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas — Mi Jung Hur topped the South Korean-dominated leaderboard Thursday in the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, opening with a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions.

Hur made five straight birdies on the 15th to the first hole. The two-time LPGA Tour winner bogeyed the par-4 fifth and rebounded with a birdie on the par-4 eighth.

“My putting just was everything on the course today,” Hur said.

“My shot wasn’t that good and my address wasn’t that comfortable, but my putting did really well.”

She lives in the area in McKinney.

“I used to live in Orlando, Florida, for seven, eight years,” Hur said.

“Then we had a tournament here three years ago and I look around, it looks pretty nice to live. So I just asked my parents, ‘Can we move to Texas?’ We love it because there’s two big Korean towns nearby. We just moved right away.”

South Korean players held six of the top eight positions. So Yeon Ryu and Eun-Hee Ji were tied for second with American Gerina Piller at 67, and Sei Young Kim, Amy Yang, Jenny Shin and Scotland’s Catriona Matthew shot 68.

Piller, the U.S. Solheim Cup star who lives in nearby Plano, birdied four of her last seven holes.

“It’s a little tougher this week be-

ing a home game and having family in town and just staying at home,” Piller said. “It’s hard to go home and go to bed. You want to do the dishes or stuff like that. Definitely. have to be more conscious with your time and how you prepare just like any other week because you’re at home and it’s kind of pulling you opposite directions.”

She tied for third Sunday in California in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic for her third straight top-six finish.

“I know that I’m playing really well and I’ve had some really good finishes, so that’s golf, you’ve just kind of got to ride that and just keep pressing on,” Piller said.

The event features two cuts. The field will be trimmed to the low 70 and ties after 36 holes and the low 50 and ties after 54 holes.

Fifth-ranked Brooke Henderson had a 69. The 18-year-old of Smiths Falls, Ont., has eight straight top-10 finishes.

“Not as windy as some of the weeks we’ve been playing in, but it was windy out there today,” Henderson said.

“The course is in great shape, but as the day got going it got a little bit firmer and you kind of had to adjust your numbers a little bit.”

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp shot a 71.

Fourth-ranked Stacy Lewis opened with a 74, and third-ranked Lexi Thompson had a 75. Lewis, the 2014 winner in her home-state event, is winless in 47 events.

Michelle Wie shot a 76, four days after withdraw during the final round of the Swinging Skirts because of neck spasms. She’s winless since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open and hasn’t had a top-10 finish in 33 events.

PGA TOUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AVONDALE, La. — Brian Stuard shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to top the leaderboard in the suspended first round of the Zurich Classic.

The 33-year-old Stuard had only 21 putts in his bogey-free round at TPC Louisiana, finishing his final hole after a rain delay of nearly five hours.

“It was just one of those days where it seemed like I was really reading the putts well, and luckily they were going in,” Stuard said. “I picked this putter up last week in San Antonio and had a good feel for it. I putted well last week and it continued over to today.”

None of the afternoon starters were able to finish before darkness suspended play.

Top-ranked Jason Day bogeyed his final two holes after the delay for 69.

“It’s just the waiting part,” Day said. “Obviously, the weather hovering above us just wouldn’t go away.

It had just been a very long wait, and you just want to get in and finish. I had two holes left. Yeah, I mean, clearly a little frustrated, but looking forward to tomorrow.”

The Australian is the first No. 1 player to play in the event since David Duval in 1999.

“I’ve just got to manage myself out there,” Day said. “Obviously, this is going to be bit of a tough week with these double start rounds. Some guys are going out to play 27 holes tomorrow, or some guys have got to play 36.

With that said, I might be able to sneak

in nine holes and play 27 on Saturday, but I’ve just got to stay positive, keep moving forward, and see how it goes from there.”

Retief Goosen was second after a 65.

The 47-year-old South African is a twotime U.S. Open champion.

“I hit a couple of bad shots coming in, unfortunately, but I managed to save pars,” Goosen said. “It’ll be a long wait now until my next round.”

David Hearn is the top Canadian.

The Brantford, Ont., native shot a 3-under 69 to sit in 12th spot. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, Ont., is 2 under while Adam Hadwin and Mike Weir had play suspended.

J.J. Henry, Geoff Ogilvy, Derek Ernst, Charles Howell III and Patrick Rodgers shot 67, and Rickie Fowler topped the group at 68.

“A lot of just sitting around, hanging out,” Fowler said. “Boo (Weekley) was in there sleeping at one point.

There was people spread out all over, from player family dining to the locker room. There might have been some pictures posted on Snapchat. But no, it’s always fun to hang with the fellow players and families and just kind of relax.”

Stuard is winless on the PGA Tour.

He’s making only his seventh start of the season.

“I haven’t been able to get in too many tournaments,” Stuard said. “I played last week and then this week, obviously, so playing two in a row is kind of nice to get a little momentum going. ... It’s tough. I guess it’s just part of the deal. You’ve got to deal with it.

But it’s definitely tough, not sure what your schedule is going to be even next week.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Wolfpack, a fledgling franchise with big dreams and even bigger travel plans, took its first steps Wednesday.

Billing itself as the first major-league transatlantic pro sports team, the Wolfpack plans to play in the third tier of English rugby league come March 2017.

The Toronto club will be the 16th entry in the Kingstone Press League 1, which currently has 12 teams from England, two from Wales and one from France.

The challenge that awaits is both immense and intriguing.

“It’s a leap for faith for all concerned,” said Nigel Wood, chief executive officer of the Rugby Football League, the governing body for rugby league in the United Kingdom.

Can the third-tier of rugby’s lesser-known code succeed in what the NFL or NBA has yet to try?

“That’s a very legitimate question,” said Wood, a hulking former rugby league player. “To a large extent, this could spiral anywhere … I think there’s every chance (at success). I think there’s more reasons to celebrate than there is to be fearful.”

“The world is shrinking,” he added.

It helps that the Wolfpack will reportedly pay the travel costs of other teams to get here.

The new franchise will play a 22-game regular season, with 11 games at home on the artificial turf of the 9,600-seat Lamport Stadium. It will also take part in the knockout Challenge Cup. In truth, the team will be based in England. Head coach Paul Rowley, a former England hooker, says the team will share a training base with the Bradford Bulls, who play in the second-tier Kingstone Press Championship below the elite First Utility Super League.

The Wolfpack will play in three-week chunks, flying to Toronto to host visiting teams and then returning to train and play away games against the likes of the South Wales Scorpions, University of Gloucestershire All Golds, Barrow Raiders and Toulouse Olympique XIII. Rowley says while the bulk of his roster will be English, he expects to have some North Americans on his roster. The team will hold open tryouts in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver as well as U.S. cities beginning mid-August.

While most teams in the third tier are made up of part-timers, the Wolfpack says it will have full-time players.

Rugby league is a 13-man game, as opposed to 15-man rugby union, that is primarily played in England, Australia and New Zealand. Unlike rugby union, rugby league stops when a tackle is made and the team in possession launches a new attack. Possession changes on the sixth tackle.

Raptors treating Game 6 as a must-win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have played like two different teams at times in their first-round NBA playoff series against the Indiana Pacers.

There was the squad that looked bewildered in Games 1 and 4, and there was the team that resembled the side that won 56 regular-season games in Games 2 and 3. Game 5 had a bit of everything — a brutal start, flashes of brilliance, frequent lulls, a stirring comeback and a nailbiting finish as the Raptors barely hung on for the win.

Now armed with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series, head coach Dwane Casey will have his players treat Friday’s Game 6 as if it’s a must-win contest.

“We can’t go and get ambushed,” Casey said.

“We’ve got to go in with our high-beams on, laser-like focus from the start of the game to the end of the game.”

An Indiana win at Bankers Life Fieldhouse would put the pressure squarely on the Raptors, who do not exactly have a glowing playoff history. Toronto made its first post-season appearance in 2000 and has been eliminated in the first round on six of seven occasions.

The Raptors’ lone second-round appearance came in 2001 after they beat the New York Knicks in a best-of-five series. Toronto was swept out of the first round by the Washington Wizards last year and fell in seven games to the Brooklyn Nets in 2014.

“What happened two years ago is in the past. As well, what happened last year is in the past,” said Raptors forward Patrick Patterson. “So to think about it, to dwell on it, none of us really do that.

We’re focused on this opportunity that we have now with this new team, these new faces, this new coaching staff and this brand new opportunity.”

The players seemed loose and relaxed during a lunch-hour practice session at BioSteel Centre on Thursday afternoon before their flight to Indianapolis. Game 7, if necessary, would be played Sunday at Air Canada Centre.

Several Toronto players have taken a turn in the spotlight over the first five games.

Toronto centre Jonas Valanciunas posted strong numbers as the Raptors split the first two games at home. All-star guards DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry rebounded after slow starts to help Toronto take Game 3 while forward Bismack Biyombo was one of the few bright spots in a Game 4 loss.

Biyombo, DeRozan and rookie Norman Powell helped the Raptors complete a comeback win at home in Game 5 to regain control of the series.

“One night, one guy might not have it,” Casey said.

“But that doesn’t mean you give up on him and throw him in the waste bin. We’ve got to be consistent.”

Toronto was a solid favourite entering the series.

The second-seeded Raptors had 11 more regular-season wins than the Pacers.

However, Indiana has shown that it can hang with Toronto. The strong play of Paul George — who’s averaging 28.8 points a game in the series — has kept the Pacers in it.

“We know it’s not going to be easy,” said Lowry.

“We know how hard it’s going to be. But we’ve got to go in there and play and be the more assertive team and just go out there and be more physical and just fight for it. Just fight for every inch on the floor.”

With a 3-2 lead, Toronto has an 83 per cent chance of winning the series, according to basketball-reference.com.

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Eric Perez, the founder and CEO of the Toronto Wolfpack (left), Wolfpack head coach Paul Rowley and Toronto Mayor John Tory hold up jerseys of the new rugby league team in Toronto, Wednesday. The team will commence play in March 2017 in the Kingstone Press League 1, the third tier of English rugby league.

A try is worth four points with a conversion and penalty worth two points.

“I believe rugby league in itself is just the bestkept secret,” said Rowley.

“It’s out there in the corner shop, we need to put it in the supermarkets.”

The game is ultra-physical with big men gang tackling. But its influence has bled into rugby union in recent years, both on defence and attack.

“My teams entertain, we’re known for entertaining,” said Rowley, a former coach of the year in England’s second tier. “They’ll be bloodshed, there’ll be collisions.”

Off the field, sleep doctors and experts from Liverpool John Moores University will help the team fight jet lag.

“We’ll make sure no stone is left unturned,” said Rowley.

The 41-year-old Rowley, who makes his home in Manchester, resigned as coach of the Leigh Centurions in January. Leigh owner club owner Derek Beaumont subsequently accused him of trying to lure staff away from his club, a charge Rowley denied.

There are other leagues that span the globe.

Super Rugby, rugby union’s elite club circuit in the Southern Hemisphere, features teams from

Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa.

European soccer’s Champions League and Europa League cup competitions involve teams from Albania to Wales.

Wolfpack CEO Eric Perez, a longtime supporter of the sport in Canada, says the team ownership consists of 10 people, some Canadian and some not, who made their money in mining and resources. He would not detail the expansion fee other than to say it was “significant.”

Judging from Wednesday’s launch, which drew nine cameras, Toronto Mayor John Tory and an enthusiastic crowd to Real Sports Bar and Grill, the franchise knows how to put on a news conference.

The team has already laid down a social media foundation via Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat and has publicists on both sides of the pond.

Wood says in Rowley and director of rugby Brian Noble, a former Great Britain coach, the Wolfpack already has first-class rugby league credentials.

The Wolfpack also has some star power in club director Adam Fogerty, a jumbo-sized bullet-headed former pro boxer and rugby league player. The English-born Fogerty’s acting resume includes roles of Gorgeous George in Guy Richie’s “Snatch” and Big Pat in the Kray Twins movie “Legend.”

BEYOND OILERS, FIRST PICK HISTORICALLY RARE FOR MOST CANADIAN NHL TEAMS NHL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The two Canadian teams never to pick first overall will have their own special lucky charms for the upcoming NHL draft lottery.

“We’re sending hopefully what will be a lucky Irishman,” Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving said of team president Brian Burke. “We’re just banking on him.”

“Our lucky charm is Trevor,” Vancouver Canucks GM Jim Benning said of team president and former captain Trevor Linden. “We’re due for some good luck.”

Canadian teams have a 68.5 per cent chance of landing the top pick at Saturday’s lottery, led by the Toronto Maple Leafs at 20 per cent and Edmonton Oilers at 13.5 per cent.

Beyond the Oilers, who have secured the first overall pick four times in the past six years, Canadian NHL teams have rarely picked first historically.

The Flames and Canucks have never done so.

Calgary’s highest pick was fourth overall in 2014 (Sam Bennett) while Vancouver has picked as high as second, including in 1988 with the selection of Linden.

Two other teams, the Maple Leafs and Winnipeg Jets (as the Jets and not the Atlanta Thrashers), have picked first only once in their respective histories, but neither in more than 30 years.

Montreal and Ottawa have owned the top selection multiple times, but not since 1980 for the Canadiens and 1996 for the Senators.

The two GMs of the clubs never to pick first are approaching the lottery well aware that the odds are stacked firmly against them. Vancouver has only an 11.5 per cent chance of landing the top spot, Calgary a touch below that at 8.5 per cent.

“That translates into a 91 per cent chance you’re not going to be there,” Treliving said in an interview.

“And so I’ve tried to look at things in the realm of percentages and odds of things taking place. You’ve got to be prepared for the more likely scenario of not being there.”

Benning concurred, noting the possibility of the Canucks falling as low as the sixth overall pick and the preparation that comes with potentially picking lower.

The NHL will use the lottery system to draw the first three picks for the first time.

The Canucks GM has seen each of the top three projected prospects, Auston Matthews as well as Finnish wingers Patrick Laine and Jesse Puljujarvi, eight to 10 times in person and has a good handle on what each might bring.

“I know those guys very well,” he said, describing each as an immediate NHL contributor.

Matthews, an American centre who played this past season in Switzerland, is generally thought to be a foregone conclusion at No. 1.

“Would it surprise me if Auston went first? No, it wouldn’t,” Treliving said with a touch of sarcasm.

“He’s a wonderful player. He’s a talent. (But) he’s not the only talented player in this draft, there’s others.

So we’ll see how it all plays out.”

“For us, he’s going to be a No. 1 centre-ice man going forward,” Benning said. “That’s an attractive thing to us.

“But some teams maybe that are set up the middle, maybe they like the wingers better as the No. 1 pick. Some teams like the best player, other teams will pick the guy that’s the best fit. Like if you look at the Edmonton Oilers (at) centre ice with (Connor) McDavid, (Ryan) Nugent-Hopkins, (Leon) Draisaitl, they’re pretty set up the middle so maybe another piece is what they value more (than Matthews) because it’s a better fit for their group.”

Prior to 1995, the draft order was determined by the standings with the worst team from the regular season picking first. Periodical expansion from the late 1960’s onward as well as the implementation of the lottery in ‘95 meant that Canadian teams, even if mediocre, often weren’t mediocre enough to draw the first pick.

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‘Lucifer in the flesh’ FORMER SPEAKER BOEHNER LASHES OUT AT REPUBLICAN CRUZ

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Biden presses Iraq to not let political chaos upend gains

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Vice-President Joe Biden pressed Iraq on Thursday not to let its crippling political crisis upend hard-fought gains against the Islamic State group as he returned to the country that’s come to symbolize America’s relentless struggles in the Middle East.

Biden slipped into Baghdad on an unannounced trip, his first to Iraq in nearly five years. Officials said the stop was planned before Iraq’s political system descended into turmoil, hindering U.S.-led efforts to defeat extremists who control parts of both Iraq and Syria. Sitting down with Iraq’s beleaguered leaders, he praised them for working “very, very hard” to construct a new Cabinet and touted progress wresting back territory from IS. “It’s real, it’s serious, and it’s committed,” Biden said as he met with Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, a Sunni politician facing calls from his colleagues to resign.

Still, the anxious undertones of Biden’s brief visit were clear from the moment he stepped off a military transport plane into blistering heat after an overnight flight from Washington. White House staffers donned body armour and helmets as Biden was whisked by helicopter to the relative safety of the heavily fortified Green Zone, reminders of the dire security situation even in Iraq’s capital.

Biden’s roughly eight-hour visit came amid a wave of tense protests and demands for sweeping political reforms that have paralyzed a government already struggling to tackle a dire economic crisis and battle IS. The United States has deployed more troops and equipment in hopes of putting Iraq on a better path as President Barack Obama prepares to leave office in January.

Though there’s been progress in wresting back territory from IS and weakening its leadership, senior U.S. officials travelling with Biden said any lost momentum would likely be due to political unrest rather than military shortcomings. Chaotic politics are nothing new in Iraq, but the present infighting risks becoming a distraction, with politicians more focused on keeping their jobs than fighting IS, said the officials, who weren’t authorized to speak on the record.

While Obama and Biden came into office pledging to end the war - and did so in 2011 - U.S. troops returned here in 2014 amid the rise of IS violence.

Obama now acknowledges that his goal of defeating the militants won’t be realized during his presidency.

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Participants set the portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally denouncing North Korea’s nuclear test and missiles and North Korea’s female military human rights in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday. The rally is a part of an annual event called North Korea Freedom Week which held from April 24-30.

Suspected midrange North Korean missiles crash seconds after liftoff

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful intermediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean defence officials said, bringing the number of apparent failures in recent weeks to three.

The reported failures come ahead of a major North Korean ruling party meeting next week at which leader Kim Jong Un is believed to want to place his stamp more forcefully on a government he inherited after his dictator father’s death in late 2011.

The launches were believed to be the second and third attempted tests of a Musudan, a new intermediate-range missile that could one day be capable of reaching far-off U.S. military bases in Asia and the Pacific.

On Thursday morning, a projectile fired from a North Korean northeastern coastal town crashed a few seconds after liftoff, a South Korean Defence Ministry official said, requesting anonymity because of office rules. It wasn’t immediately known whether it crashed on land or into the sea. Then, in the evening, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North fired another Musudan missile near Wonsan but that launch also presumably failed. There were no other details.

The North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) confirmed that North Korea attempted two missile launches that did not pose a threat to North America. It did not provide details in a brief

statement.

The Pentagon said in a statement later Thursday that both launch attempts failed.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry called the launches a provocation and said it will try to increase international pressure on North Korea.

Japan’s UN Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa condemned what he called a “series of grave and very clear violations of Security Council resolutions.”

“This is a threat to Japan’s national security,” he said.

Yoshikawa said the U.N. Security Council is preparing a statement in response to the launches.

The launch attempts come amid North Korean anger over annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that it calls a rehearsal for an invasion. The North has fired many missiles and artillery shells into the sea in recent months in an apparent protest against the drills, which end Saturday.

Earlier this week, South Korean media reported that North Korea had placed a Musudan missile on standby for an impending launch. The reports said the missile was one of two Musudan missiles North Korea had earlier deployed in the northeast.

South Korean and U.S. officials said there was a North Korean missile launch on April 15, the birthday of the North’s late founder, but they have not officially confirmed it was a Musudan. U.S. officials said that launch ended in failure.

Musudan missiles have a potential range of about 3,500 kilometres (2,180 miles), which would put U.S. military bases in Guam within their striking distance.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Former House Speaker John Boehner unloaded on Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz during a talk to college students, calling the Texas senator “Lucifer in the flesh.”

Speaking at a town hall-style event at Stanford University Wednesday, Boehner called front-runner Donald Trump his “texting buddy,” but offered a more graphic response when asked about Cruz.

“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

His comments were first reported by Stanford’s student newspaper.

Cruz, campaigning in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday ahead of the state’s May 3 primary, responded by saying Boehner was letting his “inner Trump come out” with his remarks. He attempted to turn the criticism into a slam on Trump.

“John Boehner in his remarks described Donald Trump as his texting and golfing buddy,” Cruz said.

“So if you want someone that’s a texting and golfing buddy, if you’re happy with John Boehner as speaker of the House and you want a president like John Boehner, Donald Trump is your man.”

Both Cruz and Carly Fiorina, who was campaigning with him after he named her as his running mate Wednesday, referred to Boehner’s comments during the rally.

In 2013, Cruz joined forces with tea party conservatives in the House in triggering a partial, 16-day government shutdown over demands to undo President Barack Obama’s health care law. There was no chance Obama would agree to such a step, and Republican leaders like Boehner saw the move as a fruitless effort that only hurt the GOP politically.

Two years later, the same House conservatives challenged Boehner’s leadership, and the speaker decided to step down rather than allow a very public fight.

Boehner’s successor, House Speaker Paul Ryan, said at his weekly news conference Thursday that he has “a much better relationship than that with Sen. Cruz.”

“My job is to help unify our party,” Ryan said, when reporters pressed him on Boehner’s comments. “I have a very good relationship with both of these men, and I’m going to keep it that way.”

Cruz told reporters Thursday that he had never worked with Boehner.

“The truth of the matter is I don’t know the man,” Cruz said. “I’ve met John Boehner two or three times in my life. If I have said 50 words in my life to John Boehner, I would be surprised. And every one of them has consisted of pleasantries, ‘Good to see you, Mr. Speaker.’ I’ve never had any substantive conversation with John Boehner in any respect.”

Cruz said he was rebuffed by Boehner when he asked to meet with him during the government shutdown.

Cruz said Boehner’s comments reflect his frustration with Americans who stand with Republicans who want to hold members of Congress accountable for their campaign promises to repeal Obama’s health care law and pursue other conservative goals.

“When John Boehner calls me Lucifer, he’s not directing that at me,” Cruz said. “He’s directing that at you.”

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Casualties mount in Aleppo

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Airstrikes and artillery killed more than 60 people in the past 24 hours in Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital in a rebel-held neighbourhood, as Syria’s largest city was turned once again into a major battleground in the civil war, officials said Thursday.

Aid agencies warn that Aleppo is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster with the collapse of a two-month ceasefire and stalled peace talks.

The intensified violence — by far the worst since the partial cease-fire began — coincides with reports of a military buildup outside Aleppo that many fear is a prelude for a government attempt to force a complete siege of the city’s neighbourhoods.

Battle-hardened residents were shocked by the bloodshed. Opposition activists accused the government of carpet-bombing rebel-controlled areas, while Syrian state media said more than 1,000 mortar rounds and rockets were fired at government-held districts, killing 22 people.

Video posted online by opposition activists showed rescuers pulling bodies from shattered buildings in the rebel neighbourhoods of Sukkari, Kallasa and Bustan al-Qasr.

In one scene, a building’s staircase hung sideways and old men were sobbing.

“The walls, cupboards, everything fell on top of them,” cried one man. In another, a clearly terrified small girl with pigtails wept silently while held by a man.

A blond girl walked from the rubble behind her mother, questioning why they were bombed. “What have we done?” she cried.

In the rebel-held Sukkari neighbourhood, 27 people died as a wellknown field hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee for the Red Cross was hit overnight, along with nearby buildings, according to opposi-

UN critical of European curbs on migrants VIENNA — Warning of “growing xenophobia,” UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon on Thursday criticized increasing restrictions on safe haven for refugees in Europe, saying they tarnish commitments to international law.

Ban did not name any country in his speech to Austria’s lower house of parliament. But considering the venue, his comments appeared to allude at least in part to ongoing Austrian moves to tighten and reduce the entry of migrants.

The upper house is scheduled later in the day to vote into effect a law that would allow authorities to stop accepting asylum requests at borders if they decide such a move is necessary to “maintain public order and …

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image made from video and posted online from Validated UGC, a man carries a child after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, Thursday. A Syrian monitoring group and a first-responders team say new airstrikes on the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo have killed over a dozen people and brought down at least one residential building. The new violence on Thursday brings the death toll in the past 24-hours in the deeply divided city to at least 61 killed. tion activists and rescue workers.

U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura appealed to the U.S. and Russia to help revive the peace talks and cease-fire, which he said “hangs by a thread.”

However, the violence only escalated.

Chief opposition negotiator Mohammed Alloush blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for the violence, saying it shows “the environment is not conducive to any political action.”

“What is happening is a crime of

ethnic and sectarian cleansing by all means,” Alloush told The Associated Press, adding it was an attempt by Assad’s government to drive residents from Aleppo.

But a citizen journalist said there was little sign of people fleeing the city.

“Where can they go?” said Bahaa al-Halaby.

A Damascus-based Syrian military official denied the government had hit the hospital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov also denied bombing any hospitals in Aleppo, saying its aircraft have not flown any missions in the region for several days.

Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman for the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State group, said fighter jets from the international coalition have not carried out any airstrikes in Aleppo in the past 24 hours.

About 200 civilians have been killed in the past week in Syria, nearly half of them around Aleppo.

protect internal security.” Asylumseekers would instead be turned back.

The draft law also mandates “temporary asylum” for all migrants who have applied for such status since Nov.15. They would have to leave Austria after three years if authorities determine that their home country is once again safe. If not, their status would be indefinitely extended.

The proposed legislation also makes it more difficult for family members to join those granted asylum.

Expressing concern “that European countries are now adopting increasingly restrictive immigration and refugee policies,” Ban said these “negatively affect” their human rights commitments under international and European laws.

“We have a moral and legal … obligation to help those fleeing war, human rights abuses and persecution,” Ban told the legislators. “I’m alarmed … about growing xenophobia here and beyond.”

as illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

The families of many members of the minority have lived in Myanmar for generations.

Myanmar does not officially recognize the Rohingya as an ethnic group, and denies most of them citizenship and basic rights. Conflict over land and resources in the western state of Rakhine, where most of the estimated 1 million Rohingya live, caused deadly violence between Buddhists and Muslims which later spread to other parts of the country. More than 100,000 Rohingya were forced to flee their homes and now live in poor conditions in decrepit camps.

The U.S. Embassy used the term “Rohingya” this month in a statement of concern about their situation after dozens died when a boat they were on capsized.

did not provide further details.

Egyptian state-run newspaper el-Ahram el-Arabi quoted eyewitnesses as saying a dispute broke out between the Egyptian migrants and the Libyan smugglers, leading to the killing of three smugglers. The witnesses said relatives of the slain smugglers opened fire on the Egyptian migrants, killing 16 of them.

Protest targets US Embassy use of term ‘Rohingya’ YANGON, Myanmar — Buddhist monks joined several hundred protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar on Thursday to demand it stop using the term “Rohingya” to refer to a Muslim ethnic minority group.

The protesters insisted the group be called “Bengali” and be regarded

Several Egyptians killed in clashes with smugglers CAIRO — At least a dozen Egyptians have been killed in clashes with smugglers in central Libya, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Spokesman Ahmed Abu-Zeid said in a statement that 12 to 16 Egyptian illegal migrants were killed in clashes in the town of Beni Walid. He said Egyptian officials are communicating with Libyan authorities in the area to identify those who were killed and repatriate their bodies. The statement

Four Germans on trial accused of plan to attack migrant shelter BERLIN — Four people have appeared in a German court accused of “forming a terrorist organization” and planning to attack a refugee shelter.

The three men and one woman were arrested last May in raids across Germany.

Prosecutors accuse them of creating a group that called itself “Oldschool Society” and planning to use improvised explosives packed with nails that could have caused deaths.

The trial at the Munich regional court is scheduled to last until October.

Germany has seen a sharp rise in far-right attacks against foreigners over the past year amid an unprecedented influx of migrants seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty.

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On the rocks, with ice

Photo by ELIZABETH ZACK/The Washington Post

UTAH PARKS IN OFFSEASON JUST AS GRAND

ABOVE: Winter tourists photograph Delicate Arch, an iconic rock structure at Arches National Park, in eastern Utah.

LEFT: In Canyonlands National Park, the author and her boyfriend came across this icy curtain formed around the base of a small waterfall.

BY ELIZABETH ZACH ADVOCATE NEW SERVICES Among the many photos I have from a recent vacation to Utah, one shows me at Canyonlands National Park, cupping my hands around my eyes and peering into the Island in the Sky Visitor Center. It was closed for the winter, and I was forlorn that I could not get a stamp in my National Parks passbook, an obsession of mine born this year as the park service marks its centennial.

I say I was forlorn, and I was, but only partly: a winter visit to the dreamy deep-red caverns and arches that stretch across eastern Utah had been something of a gamble. My boyfriend, Reed, and I love hiking, but we knew that rough weather could easily ruin the vacation. What we found, however, is what travelers often do when they head someplace offseason: smaller crowds and cheaper airfare and accommodations. We flew into Salt Lake City, rented a car and drove to Moab, where we had rented a room for four days. Yet even in this popular town, within spitting distance of two national parks, we found mostly silence and, luckily, an intense blue sky that made the outsize and precipitous boulders and ravines even more mind-blowing.

Driving on from the shuttered visitor center, we debated which trail to hike, knowing we wanted to be at Grand View Point Overlook to watch the sun set. Rather spontaneously, we parked at the Shafer Canyon Overlook, crossed the road to the west with our hiking gear and descended amid the brush along the nine km Neck Spring Loop, which one of my guidebooks designates as the most secret trail in the park. We had prepared for chilly weather, with jackets, gloves, caps and heavy socks, so we were delighted to find sunny skies and temperatures hovering around 10 C, a perfect day to be out there. With our gear, we were warm enough to take breaks along the

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trail to admire the views.

We had the place to ourselves as we skirted lush carpets of cryptobiotic soil and clusters of cedar and pinyon-juniper, along with patches of snow and even an abandoned hitching post, a reminder that cattle and horses had once grazed here. Then, as we approached a canyon, I saw a meager waterfall. We walked toward it, but came to an abrupt halt as we glimpsed an icy curtain woven around the base, giving off the surreal appearance of an earthen amphitheater. We carefully trod away from the trail, sidestepping the marsh and mud until we reached the icicles, and then we slipped behind them, looking out of our private cove toward the rest of the sunny ravine, a stellar view. After we had our fill, we turned back for the trailhead and then continued by car to Grand View.

It was shortly before sundown when we pulled up to the overlook, where, save for a friendly tourist from Montreal lugging around his enormous telephoto lens, we were alone, the solitude emphasized by the vast canyon below

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us. Driving back to the interstate, we watched the heavens morph into a warm rosy hue and could see silhouetted buttes off in the distance.

Back in Moab, we settled into the Hacienda restaurant on Main Street for a generous veggie burrito and an exceptionally tasty taco salad with ahi tuna. Afterward, back at the Gonzo Inn up the road, we performed what had, on this vacation, become our evening ritual, racing from our room through the frigid night air in our bathing suits for the Jacuzzi and gazing up at the stars. And, like every evening at the inn, we had the tub to ourselves.

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ABOVE: Arches National Park, near Moab, a city in eastern Utah, has more than 2,000 natural arches — the greatest concentration in the world.

INSET: Along the trail to Delicate Arch, visitors can see petroglyphs dating to when the Ute tribe — for which Utah is named — roamed the region.

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UTAH: Collection of sculpted rock I thought it was at Canyonlands and looked for it when we drove to Grand View the previous evening, but afterward I realized that the image was from Dead Horse. I was eager to find it — and did.

The viewing platform and surrounding pathways were empty when we reached them and looked out onto parts of the canyons still flecked with snow. The Colorado resembled day-old coffee with cream. With the air hazy, the view to the bottom was striking, well worth the search for it.

Across the parking lot on the other edge of the canyon, we prepared our picnic while perched on rocks overlooking the La Sal Mountains. At the base of the canyons, we could see a glimmering series of ponds with what appeared to be railroads encircling them: the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project, a U.S. Department of Energy effort to move 16 million tons of uranium tailings from the banks of the Colorado River to a permanent disposal site near Crescent Junction. But the project site appeared eerily still, almost

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Where to stay Gonzo Inn 100 West/200 South St., Moab 800-791-4044 gonzoinn.com Located off Moab’s main drag, the inn offers standard rooms with king beds to suites, from $174 per night. Rooms are brightly but tastefully painted with variations of purple and green. There’s also a pool, Jacuzzi and appealing gift shop.

Where to eat La Hacienda 574 N. Main St., Moab 435-355-0529 With colorful, inviting decor and friendly staff, La Hacienda serves tasty and generous Mexican dishes. Entrees are $10-$15, and the portions are large.

Moonflower Community Cooperative 39 East/100 North St., Moab 435-259-5712 moonflower.coop This extensively stocked health-food store, open daily, is ideal for packing snacks and picnics before heading into the nearby parks. There’s a good selection of produce and also a small soup bar.

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abandoned, from where we sat.

Another day, we visited Arches National Park, which we found to be much busier than Canyonlands. American writer Edward Abbey was a park ranger here, and his journals from that time would become the book Desert Solitaire, published in 1968 and eventually adopted as a bible for adventure travel to the area. It’s hard to imagine that the collection of sculpted rock at Arches, which was designated a national monument in 1929 and elevated to park status in 1971, was initially promoted as a destination for tourists who didn’t want to exit their automobiles.

In fact, it’s possible to glimpse the more than 2,000 catalogued arches — the greatest concentration in the world — doing just that.

But nowadays people get out in nature, and we still had fair weather.

Before hiking, we stopped at the visitor center to see which trails were traversable. None were closed, but the rangers did point to ice and snow advisories. Reed, who had toured Arches before, especially wanted to see the iconic Delicate Arch, which he’d missed on his last visit. The rangers displayed photos of a seemingly treacherous path toward the end of the trail, but we were still game.

And it turned out that once we got to the parking lot there, so were plenty of other tourists. When we joined them, we encountered a veritable Tower of Babel — we could pick out French, Ukrainian and Cantonese. Because about half the trail goes over broad,

the canyon’s edge. It has been photographed so often and yet is no less arresting when you actually see it in person. We first stood on the distant ledge, taking in the spacious vista, and then slowly approached, posing for photos along the way.

Later, I looked up Abbey and his work and realized I was visiting Arches exactly 60 years since he had described this incandescent landscape. Abbey was deeply critical of what he called “industrial tourism” and was conflicted over our liaison with nature and specifically the desert and its indifference to humans. In this sense, my photos from eastern Utah now feel particularly valuable, for the grand views and solitude we were allowed — and despite the missing stamp in my passbook.

Zach writes about the rural American West and is a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

open rock faces, it didn’t feel crowded until we reached the very narrow and icy stretch that rounds a bend and leads to the ridge where Delicate Arch is.

At one point along the trail, we took a slight detour to see petroglyphs depicting bighorn sheep and horseback riders, dating to when the Ute tribe — for which Utah is named — roamed the region. These aren’t especially old; a sign said they were created between 1650 and 1850. However, they are well-preserved and protected and remain sacred to Native Americans in the area.

The trail from the petroglyphs onto Delicate Arch eventually winds through narrow rocky passages and over creeks, until the final cautious steps along a precipice that then opens onto a ridge. There, with the La Sal Mountains, pinnacles and balancing rocks off in the distance, the solo and soaring arch appears to teeter on

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Canyonlands National Park Island in the Sky Visitor Center, 33 miles from Moab on Utah State Route 313 435-719-2313 nps.gov/cany The park offers hiking, biking, horseback riding, whitewater rafting and stargazing, among other activities. A separate entrance and visitor center to the south serves the Needles section of the park.

Open year-round, $25 per car.

Arches National Park Five miles north of Moab on U.S. Route 191 435-719-2299 nps.gov/arch Many visitors drive the entire length of the park to see all the arches, but the mountain biking, hiking, canyoneering and rock climbing are top-notch, too. The hike to Delicate Arch is three miles round-trip and well marked. Open year-round, $25 per car.

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Off the grid on Alaska’s remote Dalton Highway The Dalton Highway snakes its way up to Atigun Pass in northern Alaska, with the 800mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline following at left. The remote Alaskan highway, named after the early Arctic engineer James B. Dalton, is known for its stunning mountain views, brilliant northern lights, and miles and miles of tundra.

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BY JULIA DUIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES DALTON HIGHWAY, Alaska - Although it was early June, snowflakes were drifting down the unforgiving slopes of the slate-gray canyon. The only way up the Chandalar Shelf was a muddy, washboard-like gravel road with sheer drop-offs on our right. Our driver checked the CB radio. No one was heading down the hill, so at 15 mph, our van crept up the narrow S-curve into a cloud.

A golden plover flew in front of us and posed on a snow-covered rock.

We were 4,738 feet up and, had Atigun Pass not been fogged in, the view over the Brooks Range would have been spectacular. Everything about Alaska is big, including the supersize mountain ranges and a wilderness so vast that many of its peaks have no names.

We were driving the Dalton Highway, last frontier of the Last Frontier, on a 414-mile road trip across northern Alaska. Alongside it is the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a major feat of engineering that was built in just over three years, from 1974 to 1977, and at its height was pumping 2 million barrels of oil a day.

In the months before this trip, I had been teaching journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and had heard stories of an industrial highway that wound through the top third of the state. People told me of its sweeping mountain ranges, brilliant northern lights, millions of acres of tundra and caribou herds, all ending at the Arctic Ocean.

Ever hear of the boreal forest that circles the northern third of the globe?

This road goes through it.

And so I signed up for a tour of one of the most remote highways in the world. The James B. Dalton Highway is named after an early Arctic engineer and referred to as “the Dalton.� It has a reputation for blowing out tires, not to mention the avalanches, steep grades and speeding trucks that throw up enough gravel to crack your windshield.

I picked the Northern Alaska Tour Co., which was advertising 2½-day trips up the road. They would do the driving, put us up for two nights, then fly us back from Deadhorse, a commercial settlement a few miles from the Arctic Ocean. We met our guide, Robert Weeden, on a cloudy June morning at the company’s offices near the Fairbanks airport. It was 56 degrees out, the warmest we’d be for the entire trip.

Our Ford Escape van was equipped with snacks, bug repellent, a satellite phone and a CB radio. Six passengers

clambered in to head 73 miles up the Elliott Highway, the feeder road to the Dalton. Within a few miles, we were off the power grid and bereft of any decent Internet connections. Following us the whole way was the pipeline, snaking up and down mountains like a silver ribbon.

There are no ATMs, hospitals, banks or grocery stores in this wilderness of taiga, deciduous and muskeg forest. Once on the Dalton, we pulled aside briefly at Milepost 76 to touch one of the 78,000 supports for the pipeline, which is 10 feet above the ground.

Designed to last 30 years, it has lasted for almost 40. Oil companies have agreed to remove the pipe when oil runs out, but the Haul Road will stay.

Then we drove over the only bridge in the United States that spans the Yukon, the third largest river on the continent but one that most people never see. I walked down its stony bank and found the water silty and frigid to the touch. Squatted next to the river was the Yukon River Camp, where there’s gas and rooms in what looked like a bunch of beige freight containers.

For such an isolated piece of real estate, there were a fair number of public restrooms along the way, plus exhibits explaining the wildlife, botany or history of the pipeline. I noticed how Weeden never went over 50 mph and often drove much slower than that to avoid getting a flat tire.

We pulled up to the official marker for the Arctic Circle, the point at 66.33 degrees latitude where the sun stays above the horizon the whole day during the summer solstice (June 21) and stays below the horizon on the winter solstice (Dec. 21). From there we could see the first peaks of the Brooks Range glinting in the sunlight, a fantastical sight like some ancient Tolkienesque tableau.

We entered its gentle U-shaped emerald and brown valleys shaped by glaciers. These were once the bottoms of ancient oceans. We began to climb.

The peaks swept up in graceful waves, and the early-evening sun glinted on far-off peaks. We were at 67.15 degrees latitude three weeks before the solstice, so it was quite light out. We pulled into Coldfoot, population 10, which is so named because of the gold miners who showed up a century ago and then got cold feet at the thought of wintering there. Our lodgings were old pipeline-construction housing at a spot at Milepost 175 called the Coldfoot Camp. At the no-frills Trucker’s Cafe across the driveway, a large bowl of chili was only $4.95.

After dinner, we all crowded into the modern visitor center across the street to hear a presentation from a

local ranger. “Life is hanging on the edge here,�

Heidi Schoppenhorst told us. “The climate is changing. The last few years, we’ve gotten a lot of precipitation in June, which causes things to grow more. It’s making a big difference to have less snow here.�

Temps were in the 40s the next morning, so off went the light raincoat and on went the ski jacket and scarf.

An ominous sign, “Next services 240 miles,� warned us as we set out that we were on our own. “There’s only 34 mammals here because of the severe climate,� he told us. All students in this part of the state are home-schooled, he added, as 10 kids are required for a school.

Reakoff boasted that Wiseman has the most intense aurora displays in the state and that the spring equinox is the best time for it.

By Milepost 204, we were approaching Sukakpak Mountain, a massive rock wall rising 4,459 feet. The road had reverted to packed mud. Bright-violet lupine bloomed everywhere, and more peaks came into view, though at odd angles.

We were following the Dietrich River at this point, and as we climbed, the snow line crept down like confection-

ers’ sugar on dark-green and brown hills.

Then came the climb up the Chandalar Shelf, a 10 percent incline up a cliff. From there, we headed over Atigun Pass and across a plateau, halting at Galbraith Lake. White Dall sheep stared down at us from a high ridge.

The region was covered by warm, shallow seas back in the Precambrian and Paleozoic eras, which is why we found plenty of fossils in the creek bed.

At this point of the Dalton, the eastern edges of Gates of the Arctic National Park are only a few miles from the western edge of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

We next headed through the tundra.

When we walked around, it was like treading on sponges. The North Slope, which undulated in graceful green and brown curves to the north, would take us six hours to cross. Clumped around the silver pipeline were musk oxen, one of the hardiest mammals on Earth in terms of their ability to withstand cold climates. We found a herd of 17 near a stop known as Happy Valley.

The Dalton was now a huge gravel-and-asphalt trail through an Arctic swamp.

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Many highlights from Bridal Fashion Week

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — From fairytale princess gowns to feathery mini-dresses, bold skinny trouser looks and showgirl sequins, Bridal Fashion Week had something for brides of every size, shape and style inclination.

White reigned, as did classic silhouettes to please the most traditional bride. For everybody else, there were splashes of colour, plenty of fluttery floral applique and sparkle, sparkle, sparkle.

Highlights from the Spring 2017 collections: CHRISTIAN SIRIANO FOR KLEINFELD After a smaller, capsule collection for the famed bridal shop, Siriano teamed with Kleinfeld again on a broader range.

His show stopper was a pricey pink ombre ball gown with a sweetheart neckline and skinny straps. As an evening wear designer, Siriano said bridal was a natural fit. He created in a range of sizes up to 24 or 26 — and a range of price points from about $3,500 to about $19,000.

Noting most dresses can be modified, he showed a lot of sleeves. There were long lacy ones on a column gown and a structured, off-the-shoulder pair in satin, embellished with tulle and strings of pearl.

One of his mermaid gowns included cascading ruffles. He used four tiers of ruffle at the bottom of a white, tailored suit jacket with matching bootcut trousers.

Siriano also offered a range of hem lengths, from well above the knee in an appliqued mini to a fitted tea length with an ornate high neck and dramatic train.

In a backstage interview, Siriano said he’s enjoying his first full push into bridal with the 27 pieces for Kleinfeld after focusing most of the time on evening.

“But the customer is so different,” he said. “There’s not as many rules.

You can get away with trying new things, doing new things. It’s a little fantasy dream world.”

And what will Siriano wear when he weds his longtime boyfriend, Brad Walsh, at their Connecticut house this summer?

“I don’t know. Literally we’ve got nothing,” Siriano laughed.

INES DI SANTO This was a sexy runway dominated by sheers holding lots of floral creations in place. Romance meets sensuality is how the Toronto-based designer likes it.

While many of her looks were fit for royalty, complete with extra-long trains, she also ventured into over-thetop. An ultra-short hem with just one long lace sleeve had tulle skirting that skimmed the floor in back and leggings mismatched with floral embellishment, offering the appearance of one bare and one covered.

Spring itself was her inspiration this time around.

“The flowers, the garden, the beautiful trees, the sky, the sun,” Di Santo said in an interview.

There were other vibes, in a sleeveless illusion Palazzo romper, for instance, with an encrusted bodice and dramatic detachable bell sleeves.

“I went very soft, romantic. You can see through the layers of the lace, the legs, the tulle,” she said.

Like other designers, Di Santo included fit-and-flare looks along with sheaths, A-line silhouettes, halter necks and princess ball gowns.

Her backs and necklines were often illusion style, offering a barely there appearance. She included open bolero jackets for brides looking for a little cover, along with detachable skirt options for those who want to change up the outfit for the reception.

At the core of any bridal collection, Di Santo said, is how the dress speaks to budding love in marriage.

“It’s so important,” she said. “You can live without many things but you cannot live without love.”

OSCAR DE LA RENTA Designer Peter Copping is making his mark gradually at the storied Oscar de la Renta label, with a mind toward both preserving his predecessor’s leg-

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ABOVE and BELOW: The Oscar de la Renta Bridal Spring 2017 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York

acy and modernizing the label in his own way. In his bridal collection, Copping included some looser shapes — not everything was cinched tightly at the waist, princess-style — and even some short bridal gowns.

“I was thinking of the different women who are brides and the different ways women can get married,” Copping said in a post-show interview, “because it’s not always the same rules or traditions that people are looking for. So I think it’s important within the collection to have a good cross-section of dresses, some short, some big columns, a real mix of fabrics.”

Indeed, some of the gowns featured the sumptuous, extravagant embroidery for which the house is justly famous, and others featured much subtler embroidery for a more modern look.

“I think it was really just having a

complete range of dresses,” Copping said. The most striking were two short numbers, a nod to the popularity (and danceability) of shorter lengths, even if you can afford the big princess gown.

“Yes I think it’s popular,” Copping said of the shorter length, “and I also think it’s very relevant for rehearsal dinners, where a woman can still feel bridal the night before.”

A highlight of the de la Renta bridal show is always the impeccably attired little children modeling flower-girl designs. “Having children here reflects what a real wedding is,” said Copping.

And then there was Barbie.

Guests were sent home with the de la Renta Barbie doll, wearing a strapless white lacy column gown with a light blue tulle overskirt — something blue, of course. And in case you were wondering, under the skirt were some teetering white heels. No flats for this

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REEM ACRA For a bride looking to be just a bit daring, visible boning in corseting lent a uniqueness to some of Acra’s fitted bodices.

There was an abundance of drama in ultra-long trains and encrusted sheer overlays. And Acra, too, offered a variety of sleeve options, including a web design on a snug pair that ended just above the elbow.

The design, almost twig-like, was carried through to the rest of the full-skirted look.

Many of her dress tops were moulded at the chest, bustier style, while she played with the lower halves.

And some of her silhouettes fit tightly across the rear, sprouting trains where some brides may not feel entirely comfortable sporting one.

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Changing look pushes Calkins into running MP SAYS RUNNING HAS HELPED WITH SELF-CONFIDENCE CRYSTAL RHYNO RUNNING WITH RHYNO

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Member of Parliament for Red Deer-Lacombe, Blaine Calkins, began running after making a lifestyle change. With hard work through diet and exercise, he lost 30 lbs. and is more mentally alert with stamina to help his daily work schedule or for taking in activities with family and friends.

I don’t like to mix my politics with running.

My neurotic ramblings tend to get me into trouble when I delve into the thorny issues. I stick to the running basics – racing, training and eating.

Think separation of church and state.

But that didn’t stop me from asking Blaine Calkins, the MP for Red Deer-Lacombe, about his adventures in running.

I have noticed Blaine at the odd run over the last few years in Red Deer and Lacombe.

I was curious about how he got into running.

Blaine grew up on the family farm north of Lacombe. He was one of those natural athletes who played just about every sport in high school. Coaches had always tried to recruit him for the track teams or distance events.

But it wasn’t until decades later that he began running after making a lifestyle change.

It took a picture with colleagues to spur the change.

“I looked at the picture and I realized I was the fat guy in the picture,” said Blaine, 47. “I was 243 pounds. It was the heaviest I had been in my life. I thought I don’t like the way I look.”

That year Blaine gave up drinking pop and alcohol for Lent and went on a very calorie restricted diet. Around the same time, he was accepted to walk the Four Day Marches Nijmegen with the Canadian Forces in Holland in July 2011 as long as he met the conditioning requirements.

Promoting health and exercise, the event is four days of marching while wearing standard combat clothing and carrying a military rucksack weighing at least 10 kg. Walkers often cover the same terrain where many Canadians died during the Second World War. Blaine’s training schedule consisted of walking 15 to 20 km a day with a 13.6 kg (30-

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ALASKA: Permafrost Around us was wetland 8 to 10 inches deep, and underneath that, permafrost, some of it 2,000 feet thick. We could see loons, Canada geese and caribou.

As the Franklin Bluffs - slate-gray hills with snowy peaks - hove into view, Weeden told us the history of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.

Then, 20 miles out of Deadhorse, at Milepost 394, we saw a flagman overseeing the re-graveling of the road, which was closed for two weeks last May because of flooding. Sea gulls appeared in the marsh, and my iPhone buzzed. For the first time since Fairbanks, there was Internet.

We came into Deadhorse, which is built on a group of large gravel pads. On them were rows of dump trucks, cranes, buses, plows, drill rigs, derricks, forklifts and miles of pipeline and cable. All the cars in sight were a dirty brown, as water is expensive and dirty water, we were told, must be collected and taken to Fairbanks.

We pulled into our lodgings, a two-story building known as Deadhorse Camp that looks like a large container. (There are other hotels in town, such as the newly built Aurora, which get kudos on Yelp but fill up quickly with oil-field workers.) After we threw our bags into our rooms, we met in a small canteen serving meat-and-potatoes dishes, with few fruits and vegetables in sight. Here, “you take what you get,” the cook told us.

After dinner, we drove around to see a massive

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lb) pack on his back. Coupled with a clean diet, Blaine’s hard work eventually paid off.

He was down to 97 kg (215 lbs).

“I thought let’s see how far this can go,” said the father of three.

“I maintained the healthy diet and I made sure I wasn’t eating too many calories and I started running. It was easy. There were different times when I tried half-heartedly to get back in shape but you know how things go. I signed up for a new run and the rest is history.”

Today Blaine says he is not in “perfect” health nor is he a “champion runner by any stretch of the imagination” but he feels more mentally alert and has more stamina to work or play.

“I find on days when I don’t run I am not the same as on days that I do,” he said.

When asked if running has made him a better politician, Blaine said it has definitely helped with his self-confidence and he is much happier with the way he looks.

“In my kind of work confidence is very much an important thing,” he said.

Next month Blaine will run Woody’s half-marathon and likely will run a half-marathon in Barrie and Ottawa later this year.

“I find if you sign up for these things, you have a goal.” he said. “If you don’t sign up for these races, you don’t have a goal and it’s hard to stay motivated. I enjoy having these goals. They keep me motivated and I meet some new and interesting people.”

Blaine said he is not sure he will run a personal best (just over two hours) but he will push enough to see “what this old body” can do.

But don’t expect Blaine to be running any marathons anytime soon. He likes to stick to the 10K or the half-marathon distances.

“I am a jogger,” he laughed. “I am under no illusions that I am ever going to have the time to train and be a competitive runner.

The notion of some day of doing a little more and doing a marathon would be nice at some point but it’s going to take a little more discipline on my part.”

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The guide mentioned that grizzlies and polar bears show up in town in April and at the end of August. During our time there, we saw swans and king eider ducks, sandhill cranes, sandpipers, pintailed ducks, spectacled eider and gulls everywhere. In July, thousands of caribou wander through town.

People from Belgium and Germany joined us on the bus and told us they had camped their way up the Dalton. We pulled up to the driftwood-strewn beach.

The clear blue sky and the Beaufort Sea - with pack ice out some 30 feet from the shore - merged at the horizon near the top of the world.

One of the Germans donned a two-piece suit and jumped into the frigid water; she lasted maybe 30 seconds. We posed for group pictures, then headed for the tiny airport, where a nine-seater took two hours to fly us over the tundra and jagged peaks and past the undulating hills back to Fairbanks.

On the banks of the Yukon River, which runs through Canada’s Yukon territory and northern Alaska. hardware store that has to be one of the best-supplied outlets in the world. It’s open 24 hours for whatever needs come up on the oil patch. Deadhorse is the bedroom community for the area, and some 6,000 people work there in 12-hour shifts, two weeks on and two weeks off. We went to bed with the sun - well above the horizon - shining through our windows.

On our final day, we jumped into a shuttle van (which came with our tour but which other riders could pay $69 to join) for a trip to the Arctic coast, in closed-off Prudhoe Bay. When we asked the guide why access to the beach is limited, his response was “Because of 9/11.” America’s oil production facilities might be a sitting duck for someone determined to wreak destruction. Everyone had to present identification to be allowed in.

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Man contemplates divorce after being financially pushed around by wife ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I married my high school sweetheart 39 years ago.

She is the only woman I have ever slept with, although I am not her only man.

When our second daughter was born, her new employer paid the hospital bill. I never suspected anything then, but she started working late and going out for drinks while I stayed home and took care of the kids.

I became suspicious and one night found her embracing her boss in the parking lot of their office building.

I now regret staying with her. I wanted to honor my marriage vows and see that my children were raised with two parents.

It hasn’t been worth it. A year ago, my wife convinced me to sign a separate property agreement where she got all of the hard assets and the house, and I got to keep personal items along with my business.

She then took all of our joint funds and placed them in new accounts and purchased property with her boss. I now pay her $2,000 a month for household expenses.

I am now 60. I have worked hard, but am no longer motivated to support my wife in any way. I went to counseling because I was so angry.

She went for one session and wouldn’t talk about it. I will not cheat on her, but I truly believe that if I were to die, she would move into her boss’ house without hesitation.

I could get a divorce and move far away, but I could not leave my girls and grandchild.

I know my wife would spin the situation to make

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it seem that I am a failure and she is giving them everything. I don’t want to play her game anymore, but I’m stuck trying to figure out what to do next. — Finally See the Light, But It’s Not Brighter Dear Finally: Being a loving spouse does not mean being a doormat.

You have allowed your wife to walk all over you and that includes signing over property to someone you don’t trust.

Your children are grown, and we can assure you that they know more about your marriage than you think.

Talk to a lawyer, a good therapist and both of your daughters, and then get out of this mess. Your wife cannot “spin” the situation if you don’t permit it.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “A Mother,” who worried about her 36-year-old son’s violent Facebook posts.

Please suggest that she flag these posts on Facebook.

On the top right hand corner is a little arrow.

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The person who posted it will get a notification from Facebook that their post might be taken down.

The complaint is anonymous, the son will get the message and maybe stop posting these things, and Mom won’t be the bad guy. — Facebook Friend Dear Friend: Thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully, Mom (or her son’s wife) will report these posts to Facebook.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expect some communication chaos over the next three weeks, as Mercury reverses through your relationship zone. It’s also a time when unresolved issues may be dredged up all over again.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re keen to communicate about unconventional topics, as you share ideas with family, friends and acquaintances. But avoid blurting out something that’s totally inappropriate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some Capricorns will be preoccupied with work problems today. Others may encounter some confusion regarding a friend or a financial matter. Be patient with a stressed loved one.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Mercury now reversing through your home zone, expect some domestic dramas over the next three weeks. The more impatient and contrary you are, the more challenging the problems will be.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be very careful what you put on social media over the next three weeks, as it will be very easy for others to completely misinterpret your true meaning. So check and re-check before you post.

Friday, April 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jerry Seinfeld, 62; Uma Thurman, 46; Michelle Pfeiffer, 58 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect some communication problems today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a strong moral compass but need to learn to forgive and forget. 2016 is the year to connect more with your creative and playful inner child.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Mercury is now in retrograde mode, until May 22. So try processing information thoroughly — especially involving personal finances.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With Mercury reversing through your sign — until May 22 — expect communication confusion and chaos over the next three weeks. The best way to handle it? With plenty of Taurus aplomb.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Mercury is now in retrograde motion, so it’s not a good time to analyze, study or solve tricky problems. And expect some disruptions or delays involving cars, computers or mobile phones.

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NEW YORK — Like the indestructible Twinkie, Chicken McNuggets are practically a culinary punchline, a symbol of hyper-processed fast food with a list of ingredients that reads like a chemistry exam. But now McDonald’s wants to take at least some of the mystery substances out.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain says it is testing a version without artificial preservatives.

It’s the latest move by McDonald’s to try to catch up with changing tastes and turn around its business, which has lost customers in recent years.

The new McNugget recipe is “simpler,” and “parents can feel good” about it, the fast-food company said.

While McDonald’s did not give full details about what is or isn’t in the test recipe, it said the new McNuggets do not have sodium phosphates, widely used food additives that the company has said can keep chicken moist. Also, the McNuggets will not be fried in oil containing the artificial preservative TBHQ. Chicken McNuggets have become an often-mocked symbol of heavily processed fast food since they were introduced in the 1980s. The breaded and fried nuggets are made of ground-up chicken rather than intact chunks of meat and are delivered to stores frozen.

The company said it began testing the new recipe in about 140 stores in Oregon and Washington in March. The test was first reported by Crain’s Chicago Business.

As people pay closer attention to food labels, companies across the food and drink industry have adjusted recipes to remove ingredients that may sound unappetizing.

Last year, for instance, McDonald’s changed its grilled chicken recipe to replace sodium phosphates with vegetable starch and to remove maltodextrin, which was used to increase browning. The McNugget test reflects the sensitivities of parents of young children in particular. McDonald’s has long targeted families, with its Happy Meals and Ronald McDonald mascot. McDonald’s said it is getting feedback from customers with the McNugget test, and did not say when it might launch the new recipe nationally.

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Earls grilled over beef decision

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A decision by Earls restaurants to ditch Alberta beef in favour of hormone-free U.S. meat has prompted a swift backlash from cattle ranchers and online threats to boycott the Canadian chain.

The company announced this week that it would become the “first restaurant chain in North America” to serve only beef with the U.S.based Certified Humane designation, raised without the use of antibiotics, steroids or added hormones.

“Earls has been working toward this humane designation for some time as part of the company’s overall commitment to conscious sourcing,” the Vancouver-based chain said in a statement.

Certified Humane is run

by U.S. organization Humane Farm Animal Care and is not connected to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which has its own requirements for food labelling, humane handling and slaughter.

Earls said animals on Certified Humane ranches are “treated with care, respect and dignity from birth to pasture,” while Certified Humane abattoirs are designed by animal-behaviour expert Temple Grandin, who specializes in “calm, low-stress environments.”

The announcement incited anger on social media, with Opposition Wildrose party Leader Brian Jean and federal Conservative MP Jason Kenney jumping into the fray on Twitter. Scores of social media users threatened to boycott the chain.

Earls said on its website that it has always used Canadian beef for its hamburgers and steaks, two of its big-

Screenshot from Earls website promoting the switch to ‘Certified Humane’ beef. gest-selling items. But as its commitment to “conscious sourcing” grew, it started searching for a Canadian supplier of Certified Humane beef.

“However, after months of trying, we were unable to source a federally-inspected, Certified Humane producer that could consistently meet our large supply needs,” the chain said.

Dave Solverson of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association said there is no equivalent certification in Canada, but there are many humane producers of beef in Alberta and the restaurant’s implication that growth hormones are inhumane is “misleading mar-

keting.”

He said growth hormones allow ranchers to raise leaner cows and produce more sustainable beef. Fewer acres of land are required because cows convert food into muscle more efficiently and are ready to be slaughtered at a younger age.

There’s no trace of the synthetic hormone left in the beef after the animal has been slaughtered, Solverson added.

“It’s perfectly safe and I think there’s a humane reason to use it,” he said. “It’s so much better for the environment.”

Solverson said he only uses antibiotics on his ranch when animals get sick. Beef

cattle standards posted on the Certified Humane also allow antibiotics to be used to treat diseases at the direction of a veterinarian.

Solverson said he’s disappointed in the restaurant’s decision but doesn’t think it will impact the Alberta beef industry too badly because Canadian consumers trust local ranchers.

“There’s a high level of trust that we’re producing a wholesome product,” he said.

“I think (Earls’) sales might be negatively affected because people possibly will boycott them.”

The restaurant chain did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but

it has been replying to angry customers on Twitter with a promise to revisit the issue when a Canadian supplier can meet its criteria and large demand.

The chain’s website says Earls has 64 restaurants, most of them in Western Canada.

Kenney, the MP for Calgary Midnapore and former National Defence Minister, tweeted to Earls that Canadian beef is produced humanely.

“It’s locally sourced, and employs thousands of Canadians,” he wrote on Thursday.

Earls responded, “We aren’t saying it isn’t produced humanely, supply meeting our criteria in Canada just isn’t available at this time.”

Calfrac joins trend for variable pay

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Steve Williams, left, president and CEO of Suncor Energy, speaks to board chairman Jim Simpson before addressing the company’s annual meeting in Calgary, Thursday.

Suncor Energy CEO says hard to see more major growth projects on the horizon

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The head of Suncor Energy says it is difficult to see the company starting any new major growth projects given the current economic environment in the oilpatch.

Steve Williams, CEO of Canada’s largest oilsands company, told investors during a conference call Thursday that Suncor will not return to how it once operated.

Suncor is working towards finishing the $13.5-billion Fort Hills oilsands project that it half owns and the $14-billion Hebron East Coast offshore project in which it has a 21 per cent stake.

Together they should add about 123,000 barrels a day

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of oil production to the company. But after that, Suncor expects to take a step back.

“We’ve got two major growth projects coming to a conclusion, (but) it is difficult in the current economic environment to see how you would approve those types of projects,” said Williams.

“You will see us taking a breath around growth projects, because what the market is offering is cheaper alternatives in terms of buying capacity, so there isn’t a go back to how we were,” he said.

The company announced late Wednesday that it was buying a five per cent additional stake in the Syncrude oilsands project for $937 million from Murphy Oil Corp., bringing Suncor’s stake to 54 per cent and giving it majority control.

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However, Williams said Suncor is in no rush to use its majority to take over the operator’s role from Imperial Oil Resources.

He said Suncor will continue to focus on lowering costs as it ramps up daily production from roughly 691,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in the first quarter to in excess of 800,000 barrels in 2018 after Fort Hills and Hebron come online.

Overall Suncor says it is targeting $500 million in cost savings this year, on top of the $1 billion in cost savings it achieved last year.

The company is also considering selling off assets of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in the next year or so, with Williams saying selling its retail gas business is a possibility.

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CALGARY — Employees at Calfrac Well Services Ltd. are being forced to give up pay certainty as low commodity prices hammer the providers of well fracking services credited with creating the current North American oil and gas glut.

In a news release Thursday, the company confirmed that it has joined rivals who have abandoned the previous industry norm of paying a regular salary and moved to “variable pay” for its Canadian fracturing and coiled tubing field employees.

That means staff are paid only when they and their gear are working. Calfrac also said it has adjusted work schedules to save money.

Calgary-based Canyon Services Group Inc. broke with the tradition last year, increasing the number of its staff receiving variable pay to 74 per cent from just 10 per cent. The largest Canadian provider of so-called pressure pumping services, Trican Well Service Ltd., confirmed in early April that its field staff will go to variable pay on June 1.

On Thursday, Calfrac (TSX:CFW) reported first-quarter revenue of $216 million, down 64 per cent from the same period last year. It posted an operating loss of $11.6 million compared with a gain of $27.8 million in first quarter 2015.

“While this downturn has, perhaps, lasted longer than expected, there are many reasons … which lead me to believe that the market will improve in the coming 12 to 18 months,” Calfrac chief executive Fernando Aguilar said on a morning call, adding that low demand has prompted predatory pricing by some competitors.

He said variable pay will help Calfrac offset anticipated second-quarter losses due to lower demand in Canada.

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Mark Salkeld, president of the Petroleum Services Alliance of Canada, said his members want to both survive and retain key employees.

“They call that the mercenary style — just pay them when you need them,” he said. “There are companies out there that have no debt and they’re burning up cash keeping their payrolls full … so that when it does turn around, they’ve got the people. So there’s a whole blend of strategies.”

In March, Calfrac laid off 500 people for total staff cuts of 2,300 since early 2015, leaving it with 1,200 employees in its Canadian, U.S. and international operations.

In a note to investors, analyst Andrew Bradford of Raymond James said Calfrac’s adjusted earnings fell $4 million due to restructuring charges, but he praised the company for trying to get a handle on its net debt of $808 million.

Calfrac has 50 per cent of its Canadian fleet and 60 per cent of its U.S. equipment parked. The company plans to cut its capital budget in 2016 by a further $10 million to $40 million.

Trican (TSX:TCW) has cut its staff by 75 per cent in the past 16 months to 1,740 while selling pressure pumping operations in the United States and Russia to pare debt and retreating from positions in Australia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Colombia to save money. Meanwhile, family-owned Sanjel Corp., the largest private fracking firm in Canada, has entered court protection from creditors while breaking up and selling its Canadian and U.S. operations.

Only 12 per cent of the Canadian fleet of 677 drilling rigs were working in March, according to the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, and that fell this week to only six per cent due in part to spring road bans on heavy equipment.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 138.10 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.01 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.91 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Stock markets in New York finished solidly in the red amid the latest round of disappointing data that showed U.S. economic growth slowing to levels not seen in two years.

The Dow Jones industrials plummeted 210.79 points to 17,830.76, while the broader S&P 500 fell 19.34 points to 2,075.81, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged 57.85 points to 4,805.29. Apple shares were a major weight, falling three per cent after billionaire investor Carl Icahn told CNBC he had sold his stake in the company.

Meanwhile, the S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto was flat, down 1.23 points at 13,886.43 after being propped up in early trading by energy, gold and material stocks.

The loonie continued its recent rise, adding 0.44 of a U.S. cent to 79.69 cents US after hitting an intraday high of 79.90 cents US. The last time the Canadian dollar closed above 80 cents was on June 30 when it finished at 80.06 cents US. The Canadian currency has gained new life from recent strength in oil prices as well as general U.S. dollar weakness in the wake of renewed indications from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it is in no hurry to raise inter-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.38 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.81 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.91 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.53 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.03 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.47 First Quantum Minerals . . 9.16 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.80 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.68 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.49 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.58 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.17 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 14.02 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.45 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 23.38 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 47.86 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.18 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 27.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.89 Canyon Services Group. . 4.86 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.56 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1600 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.58 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.710 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.03 est rates.

In commodities, the June contract for benchmark North American crude rose 70 cents to US$46.03 a barrel, while June natural gas plunged eight cents to US$2.08 per mmBtu. July copper edged up a penny to US$2.23 a pound, while June gold rose $16 to US$1,266.450 a troy ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,886.43, down 1.23 points Dow — 17,830.76, down 210.79 points S&P 500 — 2,075.81, down 19.34 points Nasdaq — 4,805.29, down 57.85 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.69 cents US, up 0.44 of a cent Pound — C$1.8335, down 0.03 of a cent Euro — C$1.4249, down 0.27 of a cent Euro — US$1.1355, up 0.42 of a cent Oil futures: US$46.03 per barrel, up 70 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,266.40

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.04 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.90 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 42.06 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.940 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.430 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.44 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.85 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.840 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.34 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.80 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.47 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.24 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.76 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.84 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.03 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.44 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.34 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.38 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.95 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.78 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.02 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.60 per oz., up $16.00 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.009 oz., up 35 cents $739.74 kg., up $11.25 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $1.80 lower $497.70 July ‘16 $1.00 lower $497.70 Nov. ‘16 $0.10 lower $490.70 Jan. ‘17 $0.60 lower $493.90 March ‘17 $0.70 lower $495.70 May ‘17 $1.80 lower $494.40 July ‘17 $1.80 lower $494.10 Nov. ‘17 $1.80 lower $485.60 Jan. ‘18 $1.80 lower $485.60 March ‘18 $1.80 lower $485.60 May ‘18 $1.80 lower $485.60.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 541,920 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 541,920.

BCE won’t set targets for number of women in management

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Telecommunications giant BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) rejected a shareholder motion to set targets to increase the number of women on its senior management team during the company’s annual general meeting Thursday.

The proposal came from a shareholder and member of Mouvement d’education et de defense des actionnaires (MEDAC) on behalf of the group, which aims to give shareholders better representation before corporate boards.

“We would like to think that it is no longer necessary to demonstrate that the skills and competencies of female directors and executives compare favourably to those of men, that there are sufficient female candidates to meet demand and that they are prepared to rise to the challenge if given the opportunity,” said the MEDAC member.

Another shareholder who said he was a former BCE employee questioned whether it had made any effort to increase female representation in the company.

“Don’t turn your back on women,” he told the meeting in Montreal.

In a preliminary count at the meeting, 86 per cent of the votes were

against the proposal.

The board of directors had advised shareholders to vote against the proposal in its 2016 proxy circular.

It argued that while it values diversity, such considerations shouldn’t override the promotion of people with the appropriate skills, experience and leadership abilities, and that not setting targets allows BCE to advance the most qualified candidates.

Women fill more than 26 per cent of the company’s leadership roles, said spokeswoman Jacqueline Michelis.

The company remains committed to having 25 per cent of its board of directors composed of women by 2017.

Currently, three out of the board’s 14 members are women.

BCE’s promise is in response to a proposal from Catalyst Accord, a non-profit organization that works to increase female inclusion in the workplace.

The group is calling on Canada’s FP500 companies to have a quarter of their boards be filled by women by next year.

BCE competitor Telus (TSX:T) has also promised to meet that goal. Currently, Telus has three women sitting on its 14-member board, according to its website.

Five women serve on the 15 board positions at Rogers (RCI.B), that company’s website says.

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Delta Airlines chief executive Ed Bastian speaks to the media as Bombardier’s chief executive Alain Bellemare, right, looks on at the company’s plant Thursday in Mirabel, Que. Delta has signed a deal to purchase 75 CS100 aircraft.

Bombardier scores big deal with Delta

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urged Ottawa to provide financial assistance.

Bombardier has also earned the wrath of Toronto’s public transit system, which has seen its order for more than 200 streetcars encounter numerous delays.

The CSeries is Bombardier’s new generation of aircraft for commercial airlines and has been in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller models of passenger jets built by rivals Boeing and Airbus, two companies that also receive hefty state support.

The aircraft is about two years behind schedule and at least US$2 billion over budget. The Delta order came as Bombardier, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, reported a first-quarter loss attributable to shareholders of US$161 million or seven cents per share. That compared with a profit attributable to shareholders of US$98 million or five cents per share a year ago. Revenue for the quarter fell to US$3.14 billion compared with nearly US$4.4 billion in the first three months of 2015.

MONTREAL — Bombardier received a major boost Thursday after Delta Air Lines agreed to buy up to 125 CSeries planes, a deal that would be the largest for the troubled passenger jet program.

But Alain Bellemare, CEO of the Montreal-based aerospace manufacturer, was quick to dismiss any suggestion that the agreement could diminish the need for federal assistance.

“We would welcome the participation of the federal government to add financial flexibility to what we’re doing in terms of the CSeries, but also our ability to keep investing in aerospace in the future, right here in Canada,” Bellemare said in an interview.

Delta has placed a firm order for 75 CS100 aircraft with options for an additional 50 more.

Based on the list price, the firm order is valued at approximately US$5.6 billion, Bombardier said. Delivery of the aircraft to Delta, one of the largest airlines in the world, is expected to begin in 2018.

“This is a big win,” Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare said earlier during a conference call with investors.

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Obituaries

RAYMOND It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Barry Douglas Raymond of Bentley, Alberta. Barry passed away on Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8:15 p.m. at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 70 years, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Barry was born on June 1, 1945 in Lacombe, Alberta to parents, Thelma (nee Cole) and Clinton ‘Pat’ Raymond. He lived on the family farm in the Forshee area throughout his childhood.

Barry later met the love of his life, Wendy Scott, and they were united in marriage in 1970. Barry worked a variety of jobs until he started his career with Northwestern Utilities (Atco Gas) in 1974 in Edson, Alberta. In 1975, he was transferred to Red Deer where he retired from the company in 2005 after 32 years of service. Barry had many passions in his life; such as his Edmonton Eskimos and Oilers, but none were as strong as his love of farming. In 1980, he moved his family back to the family homestead. Although Barry continued to work in Red Deer, he would always find the time to work after hours to help the neighbours with harvest, and always kept a close eye on their crops every year. Barry is survived by his loving wife of 46 years, Wendy; his son, Scott of Eckville; and his daughter, Teryl (Jason) McDonagh of Red Deer; as well as three cherished grandchildren: Tyson, Jared, and Jenna.

He is also survived by his brother, Lorne (Vicki) Raymond of Red Deer; in addition to other relatives and many treasured friends.

Barry was predeceased by his parents, Thelma and Pat. With respect for Barry’s wishes, no formal Funeral Service will be held.

Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Barry’s Memory may be made directly to the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre Administration, Box 440, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0.

Condolences to the Raymond Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_reflections@telusplanet.net Cremation Arrangements for the Late Barry Douglas Raymond entrusted to the care of OBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD.

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Obituaries

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.

MOSE Mr. David Robert Mose of Red Deer, Alberta passed away suddenly at the Lacombe Long Term Care Centre on April 24, 2016 at the age of 73. David was born on February 17, 1943 in Lousana, Alberta to parents Edwin and Margaret Mose.

David worked for Saputo Dairy (formerly Central Alberta Dairy Pool) as a cream/churn operator and pasteurizer for many years until Multiple Sclerosis made it too difficult to continue working. David was a quiet, kind, caring man with a great sense of humor, a passion for the outdoors and believed everything in life was a possibility. David is survived by his brothers Thomas Mose (Gloria) and Ian Mose (Betty); his sisters Anna Mose and Linda McGhie (Jack), as well as three nieces: Alicia McGhie, Selena McGhie, Melanie Mose and one nephew, Matthew McGhie. David was predeceased by his parents Edwin and Margaret Mose.

A private family gathering will be taking place on a later date. In memory of David, donations can be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or a charity of your choice.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Companions

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59 YR. old farmer near Sylvan Lake seeks his country, n/s, slim, honest, healthy, sweetheart, for lifetime relations. I am around 175 - 180 lbs, 5’ 9”.

Please enclose photo and phone number: Reply to Box 1118, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., R.D. , AB T4R 1M9

Does it Best!

309-3300

is a non-profit organization based in Red Deer governed by a volunteer community board of dedicated professionals who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience from various areas of the private sector and human services field. Our wide range of programs and services help youth, adults, and families to find a way through the challenging problems they face.

To find out more about Vantage Community Services, visit our website vantagecommunityservices.ca

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Please send your letter of interest and resume to REG. DENTAL Hygienist hr@vantagecommunityserMust be flexible with hours. vices.ca OR fax Apply to Healthy Smiles 403.346.3225 Fax resumes attn: Corinne or Chrissy Restaurant/ (403) 347-2133 or email: healthysmiles4life@ Hotel hotmail.com JJAM Management (1987) Classifieds Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Your place to SELL Requires to work at these Your place to BUY Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N Janitorial 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor ARAMARK at (Dow Req’d permanent shift Prentiss Plant) about weekend day and evening 20-25 minutes out of Red both full and part time.

Deer needs hardworking, 10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + reliable, honest person medical, dental, life and viw/drivers license, to work sion benefits. Start ASAP. 40/hrs. per week w/some Job description weekends, daytime hrs. www.timhortons.com $15/hr. Floor skills would Experience 1 yr. to less be an asset. Fax resume than 2 yrs. w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Apply in person or fax Attn: Val Black resume to: 403-314-1303

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VANTAGE Community Services

We are looking for Board members to join our organization and contribute ALCOHOLICS to our mission ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 “to build capacity in people COCAINE ANONYMOUS by creating opportunities and instilling hope and 403-396-8298 confidence.”

OVEREATERS Anonymous Contact Phyl @ 347-4188 Duties and responsibilities include: • Strong commitment to and demonstrated interest in Vantage Community Services • Reasonable time availability • Ability to work with and learn from others CLASSIFICATIONS • Strong interpersonal and communication skills 700-920 • Comfortable working with a policy governance model • Experience on or with Dental other boards is an asset • A strong social conscience and desire to contribute to a healthier community

Personals SCHAMBER Joe Arthur “Art” Nov. 16,1943 - Apr. 26, 2016 Art passed away peacefully following a bravely fought battle with cancer and Parkinson’s Disease. He is survived by his loving wife of 48 years Diane and sons Duncan and Jason, Brother Floyd (Nora) Schamber, Sister Lea Ann (Bruce) Mackenzie, Brothers In-Law Don Anderson and Laird (Susan) Knopp, as well as numerous Nieces and Nephews. Art was predeceased by his parents Ben and Urma Schamber, InLaws Roy and Eileen Anderson, Brother In-Law Doug Anderson, Sister InLaw Rita Anderson and Nephew Ron Anderson. A Celebration of Life will be held from the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Sylvan Lake, AB. on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Red Deer Hospice 99 Arnot Ave Red Deer.

AB, T4R 3S6.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families” For 40 years

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*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

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Deer Park 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!!!

Wonderful Things Come in Small Packages

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A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

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Announcements the informative choice!

Classifieds 309-3300

Rosedale

Eastview

Celebrations

85TH BIRTHDAY FOR ERNIE SURKAN Apr. 30, 2 - 5pm Antler Hill Hall 27471 Township Rd. 362 More Info? 403-318-2000

3982 - 35 AVE. Apr. 28, 29, 30 Thurs. & Fri. 4-8, Sat. 8-1 then 4 - 6 Something for Everyone!

#347, 300 RAMAGE CL. April 29, & 30 Fri. 4 - 7 & Sat. 9 - 4 Clothes, costume jewelry, two power lift recliners, variety of items.

Morrisroe

Sunnybrook

2 MOON CRES Apr. 29/30, Fri. & Sat. 10-4 Gas snow blower, books, bread machine, u shaped office desk, misc. etc....

15 SUTTON CLOSE Multi Family - Thurs., Fri., April 28 & 29, 2 - 8 pm., Sat., April 30, 10 - 5 pm, Sun., May 1, 11 - 3 pm

Riverside Meadows

Sylvan Lake

5862 58 A ST. Apr. 28, 29 & 30 Thurs. & Fri. 3-8 Sat., 10-4 HUGE yard sale - no junk Cash & credit accepted

4712 56 ST. ESTATE SALE Apr. 29 & 30 Fri. & Sat., 10-6 Something For Everyone!

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¯ ROUTES AVAILABLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

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Sylvan Lake Lacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email:

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For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 29, 2016 D5

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

Trades

850

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

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS in AB. Super B exp. req’d.

Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

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Help

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

BAR W/UFA

TRAINING CENTRE

Has an opening for a:

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

WAREHOUSE SHIPPER/ RECEIVER

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

The successful candidate will have warehouse experience, preferably with electrical and mechanical background as well as forklift experience. Strong computer skills are an asset.

Please send resumes to work@ufa.com

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.

NEW WEST GEOMATICS is seeking a field survey assistant or junior party chief to join our central Alberta team. Applicants must possess a valid driver’s license and preferably have current safety certification. If you are a motivated individual interested in developing a career in the survey industry, please send your resume to careers@ newwestgeomatics.com today.

RECYCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in Red Deer & Olds offices.

Email resume with a min. of 2 references. to: canpak1212@gmail.com

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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Antiques & Art

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Auctions

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CARSWELL’S th

27 Annual Red Deer MOTHER’S DAY

1550

Building Supplies

Bamboo Flooring Clearance Blowout!

Expires May 13 $1.99 sq. ft.

Reg. $5.99 More durable than hardwood and more affordable than you may think!

Many Colors available.

403-346-4877 Toll Free 1-800-226-1221 420, 7700 76 St. Close Red Deer, AB

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Children's Items

ANTIQUE

Find the right fit.

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

Electronics

1605

Wii 2 with 5 games, $70; SONY DVD surround system, $50; and VCR and DVD combo player, $30.

403-782-3847

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1640

METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

403-343-6044

Firewood

1660

FREE TRUCK LOADS OF BLACK POPLAR LOGS. You pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

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:

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Sylvan Lake Foundation / Sylvan Lake Lodge 100 – 4620 – 47 Avenue Sylvan Lake, Alberta, T4S 1N2 FAX – 403-887-6039

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

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2 LAWNMOWERS, tuned up and ready to go. $75 and $95. 403-347-5873 or 403-350-1077

THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

Household Furnishings

1720

BEDSIDE stand, solid wood, 3 drawer, good solid table, 18x20x30. $30. 403-346-5423 Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $80.

403-877-0825 LA-Z-BOY recliner chair, $600. 403-347-3496 eve.

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

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.

GRILL, Charcoal 180 sq. in. of cooking surface, temp. gauge on lid, used twice, like new.

Replacement $259.

Asking $110.

403-346-2859 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

PERMANENT PART TIME ACTIVITY COORDINATOR

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

Supplies

FREE GARDEN SPACE available, in exchange for you planting my flowers & rhubarb. 403-346-4090

EXERCISE SAUCER, toys all the way around, pets and smoke free home.

Furniture & Collectibles $25. 403-346-5423 Show & Sale Tired of Standing?

May 7 & 8 Sat. 10-5:30, Sun. 10-4:00 Find something to sit on Westerner Park in Classifieds Over 300 Tables Carswell’s 343-1614

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

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Help

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LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, See You at tamarack, poplar, birch.

The Red Deer Gun Show Price depends on location Apr. 30 & May 1, of delivery. Lil Mule Westerner Agri Centre Logging 403-318-4346 Premier Fire Arms Auction - Sat. Aug. 13, Looking for a new pet?

10 am in Edmonton.

Check out Classifieds to Consign - Contact Linda find the purrfect pet.

Red Deer 403-597-1095 Brad Ward 780-451-4549 www.budhaynesauctions.com Garden www.wardsauctions.com

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

Firewood

Bud Haynes & Ward’s

278950A5

830

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Sales & Distributors

Piano & Organs

1790

1840

WANTED: Small dog (Bijon/Shitzu) cross for elderly couple. Dog found.

Sporting Goods

1860

INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044

RED DEER GUN SHOW April 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm Westerner Agri Centre West Admission $ 5 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Acupuncture

CARRIERS NEEDED

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

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER

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 7119052tfn

Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

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and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

No job too small, full service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount.

Call 587-377-0977 R.D.

Massage Therapy

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

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Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Fencing

FENCE WAREHOUSE SUPPLY ONLY Chain link, Wood and Barbed Wire.

Buy Direct From the Manufacturer James @ 780-803-6491, Scott @ 780-668-8940.

1280

FANTASY SPA

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Yard Care

1430

Elite Retreat, Finest SECOND 2 NONE aerate, in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates.

403-341-4445 Now booking 403-302-7778

1169 Misc.

ACRE FENCING Supply & Install CHAIN LINK Residential, Industrial & Commercial.

42 years experience.

Located in Leduc Serving All of Alberta.

780-986-0267

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1200

Repair or Renovate

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

SPRING cleanups, summer mowing. Irish Green Yard Care, experienced family business. 403 341 6620

Property clean up 505-4777 SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call Ken 403-304-0678

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

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PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 4 appls, inclds. heat & water, no pets $760/mo., avail.

June 1. 348-6594

CLASSIFICATIONS

THE NORDIC

rentals FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3 PARTLY furnished house in Sylvan Lake avail. for rent at $1800. Call 403-887-4610

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

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

Acreages

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 3050

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 CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975./mo. n/s, no pets, Avail. June 1.

403-391-1780

GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337

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Suites

2 BDRM. bsmt suite.

Partially furnished. $850/mo. 403-348-1304 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

CITY VIEW APTS. 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

4050

FOUR acres, 10 min. from Red Deer, 1,450 sq. ft. home with 3 car garage, 40’ x 60’ heated shop, exc. water, very well kept yard.

403-357-7635

Income Property

4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

Industrial Property

4120

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000.

403-391-1780

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

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1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500.

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5070

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3090

2001 WINDSTAR, lady driven 184,000 kms. Exc. cond. $3000. 403-598-1906

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1870

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403-346-8121

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1010

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5080

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3190

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5120

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4010

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5160

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3030

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THE ADVOCATE D6

FOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016

Ready to break the rules on salade nicoise? Grab a tomato Salade nicoise was the first recipe I made when I lived in France, a country that later would become my second home as an adult.

But at the time I was 19, spending a semester abroad.

A week after my arrival, my French was barely sufficient to order a coffee, let alone get me through my first French cookbook.

Despite the language barrier, one thing that that book made clear was that a true salade nicoise never would include tomatoes because of the acid.

I stood at a turning point: Would I follow the cookbook’s stern direction (even I understood the author’s tone — the tomato thing was not an “optional” point), or would I include my personal favourite part of every salade nicoise I had ever eaten (dare I even call them that anymore?)?

I left out the tomatoes.

Nearly 30 years later, I make salade nicoise on a regular basis for my family. It’s what I call a “tray salad,” or a huge salad I make by layering ingredients on a large tray, perfect for serving a crowd.

We have a lot of family nearby, so if we have unexpected extra folks to feed, tray salads are easy to stretch.

Just bulk up the tray with whatever extra ingredients are available.

Toss on a couple extra hard-boiled eggs, for instance, and the salad can accommodate a few more guests no problem.

With several family members being vegetarian, I have created a tuna-free version that gets the salty-fishy-brininess from capers and nori seaweed, and the protein from creamy white navy beans.

Of course, there is no harm in opening a can of tuna on the side for fish-eaters, but honestly, I don’t even miss it with this filling recipe.

By the way, years after studying abroad, I moved back to Paris and married a man whose mom was born and raised in Nice.

Guess what?

She had never heard of a no-tomato rule, which just goes to show you that recipes, even if written with an authoritative tone, are mere suggestions.

WHITE AND GREEN BEAN VEGETARIAN “SALADE NICOISE”

Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 4 For the dressing: 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon herbes de Provence ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and ground black pepper For the salad: 15 ½-ounce can white navy beans, rinsed and blotted dry 2 tablespoons small capers ¼ cup briny olives, roughly chopped 2 teaspoons chopped fresh dill 5 ounces baby spinach or mixed greens 4 eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and quartered lengthwise 8 ounces thin green beans, steamed until crisp-tender, cooled 8 small red potatoes, cooked and halved 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved 2 scallions, finely chopped 1 sheet nori, toasted, cooled and crushed Lemon wedges, to garnish In a small bowl, whisk together the mustard, lemon juice, vinegar and herbs until smooth. Whisk in the olive oil, slowly, creating an emulsion.

Add a tablespoon of water if too thick.

Season with salt and pepper, then set aside.

In another small bowl, mix together the beans with the capers, olives, dill and 1 to 2 tablespoons of the dressing.

Set aside.

On a platter, spread out the greens.

Layer on the eggs, green beans, potatoes, tomatoes and white beans.

Sprinkle with the scallions, drizzle on the dressing and top with the crushed toasted nori. Serve with lemon wedges as garnish.

Nutrition information per serving: 530 calories 200 calories from fat (38 per cent of total calories) 22 g fat (3.5 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 185 mg cholesterol 780 mg sodium 63 g carbohydrate 12 g fiber 6 g sugar 21 g protein.

Food Network star Melissa d’Arabian is an expert on healthy eating on a budget.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo shows white and green bean vegetarian salade nicoise in Concord, N.H. This tuna-free version of the classic French salad gets a salty-fishy-brininess from capers and nori seaweed, and protein from creamy white navy beans.

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Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED!

Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Respite (part time) Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Respite Proprietors offer support and care, working one to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where Respite can be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Respite Proprietors are paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Proprietors are required to take.

Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in either children or adult Proprietorship to: HR Fax: (403) 986-2404 or e-mail: hr@pclass.org If you would like to inquire more information please contact Roxanne Rose, HR Coordinator at 403-986-2400

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