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Finding hope in a tragedy MARYANNE MCGRATH GIVES PERSONAL REFLECTION ON FORT MCMURRAY FIRES

BY MARYANNE MCGRATH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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The hard-hitting documentary Unnatural Enemies: The War on Wolves recently captured the Genesis Award for International TV Documentary from the Humane Society of the United States.

New doc puts spotlight on wolf killings in Alberta

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The inhumane and indiscriminate poisoning, snaring and shooting of thousands of Alberta wolves could soon be judged by a global audience, says local conservationist Anna-Marie Ferguson.

A hard-hitting documentary about the cruel treatment of wolves in this province won a prestigious international award. Unnatural Enemies: The War on Wolves, directed by Geordie Day, received the Genesis Award for International TV Documentary from the Humane Society of the United States.

This elevates the 60-minute film made by Calgary’s Pyramid Productions Inc. for CTV into distinguished company. Other documentaries that won a Genesis Award include the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, about the Japanese dolphin hunt; the Oscar-nominated film Virunga, about efforts to protect a wildlife park in Congo; and Blackfish, which helped change the practice of aquariums keeping captive orcas.

Red Deer resident Ferguson hopes the award will draw the world’s attention to Unnatural Enemies and Alberta’s callous wolf killings. As author of the public awareness booklet, Alberta’s Wild Wolves: A Call from the Wild, Ferguson is interviewed in the documentary — along with hunters, trappers, rangers, environmentalists, biologist and animal activists.

Also interviewed is Dwight Rodtka, a retired provincial wildlife officer from Rocky Mountain House who spent 39 years as a problem animals specialist.

(The narrator is conservationist and author Kevin Van Tighem, a former Banff National Park superintendent.)

Both Ferguson and Rodtka express dismay in the film about how an unknown multitude of wolves are being killed in horrible ways, including slow suffocation in snares and spasmodic agony and asphyxiation by strychnine poisoning.

There’s very little difference between the way Alberta treats wolves and the way it treats rats, says Rodtka. “They can be shot 12 months of the year

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… It’s (incredible) how little respect we have for wolves.”

He believes part of the problem is a historic prejudice against a top carnivore that hunts in packs and tracks its prey. But studies indicate wolves are highly social beings, and much more intelligent than domestic dogs. A trapper recounts in the documentary how a tracked she-wolf, who studied his movements, crawled on her belly so as not to leave paw prints in the snow.

Wolves are attentive parents and make strong emotional bonds within family groupings, said Ferguson. Stories are recounted about wolves sticking around to support one of their number who’s caught in a snare. Wolves have also been known to mourn a dead pack member.

Many of Alberta’s wolf killings — including those shot from planes and poisoned by carcasses left in the forest — are linked to government efforts to keep a small caribou herd thriving in the Little Smoky area, near Valleyview.

More than 1,000 wolves were killed in the region over nine years. As well, 700 other animals died from eating the poisoned wolf bait. The killings continue, even though a government report concluded it’s not helping expand the caribou herd that’s lost habitat to energy activities in the area, and that new wolves are just moving in to fill the imbalance between predators and prey.

A government spokesman in the film restates that the caribou are endangered and must be protected.

But Ferguson is critical of the fact Alberta has no annual limit on how many wolves are killed. She discovered the death toll is mounting because of bounties set by groups that seek to preserve trophy animals, such as big-horned sheep, for hunters.

Rodtka said there’s no end to hunting season for wolves on private land. He knows of wolf pups that have been left to starve in their den after mother wolves are killed.

Some of the wolf slaughter is reportedly linked to livestock kills.

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When I was in elementary school, I distinctly remember getting excited whenever I saw the name “Fort McMurray “scroll across the ticker on the nightly news. I would cheer when the reporter on the Weather Network eventually got around to reporting on Fort McMurray’s weather conditions. It excited me to see somebody talk about my city, even if it was just for a 30-second weather update before moving to a much more interesting area, such as Edmonton or Calgary.

I would get even more excited when I saw my father on the news, as my childhood was littered with memories of being on the campaign trail MARYANNE MCGRATH with him; initially for a seat as a Fort McMurray Catholic School Board trustee, and eventually for a seat as a Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Councilor. I grew up knowing my dad was trying to dispel the notion that my town was viewed by others as insignificant, its citizens being seen as glutinous and materialistic, — the misconception that Fort McMurray was an oil town and nothing more.

Now, my hometown is everywhere. News outlets across the country, across the continent, and overseas are reporting on the city I spent the first 17 years of More Fort McMurray my life in. I heard my dad’s stories on Pages voice on the radio on TuesA2,A3,A5 day, as he welcomed his fellow citizens to one of the evacuation centers in Edmonton.

I’m finding it somewhat ironic that I now want nothing more than for the news coverage to stop; It would suit me just fine if the only media coverage we got was a 30 second clip on the local weather.

There is something utterly surreal in the constant barrage of footage I’ve seen over the past week.

It’s hard to explain to people why I choke up when strangers mention Fort McMurray in passing conversations, or explain why I hide from the stares I receive from strangers in waiting rooms as I tear up from seeing glimpses of my tarnished hometown displayed on TV screens.

At the same time, I can’t entirely criticize myself for being hesitant to speak up regarding my discomfort; how am I supposed to articulate the feeling I got when my sister called to say her summer workplace had caught fire? How could I expect to convey the pit in my stomach that grew on May 3rd, when the calls for evacuation were made, and the first images of my ravaged city were released? I have never felt the distinct terror that I felt upon realizing that my mother was driving down hwy 63, blocked on both sides by walls of fire. I will also never forget the helplessness I felt at seeing the efforts of the fire crews be devoured by the determination of the fire. As someone who had volunteered in relief efforts during the 2013 flooding, it was painful to be completely unable to do anything but watch the evacuation and the devastation unfold.

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McMurray hockey team welcomes distraction

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF PENHOLD - A group of 71 Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees had the opportunity to set aside their worries at Thrive Hockey Development’s 2016 Spring Challenge tournament at the Penhold Multiplex on the weekend.

Shannon Smith-Gagne, manager of Fort McMurray Mountaineers, said parents didn’t hesitate. Almost everyone was able to attend the all-star minor hockey spring tournament for 10-yearold boys.

The team also plays during the winter season so the parents, players and their siblings have merged into one big family that members can turn to for support.

Smith-Gagne said it was a quite a reunion on Friday after escaping the wildfire.

“It’s good to have everyone talk about it, share experiences with people who have gone through it, not just with people who want to know,” SmithGagne said.

The stay-at-home mom said she cried all day Wednesday when her family fled north with five other families to seek shelter at an oilfield camp. Her husband Peter Gagne stayed behind in Fort McMurray, but has since rejoined them.

She said even though friends and family were safe, the trauma of fleeing the wildfire and the uncertainty of what lies ahead continued to haunt them.

“It hits in waves. Looking at us, we look okay. But inside our heads we’re going a thousand miles an hour.”

She was just trying to “roll with the punches” and deal with the important stuff when she could.

Donations coming in for evacuees brought her to tears at times.

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Members of the Fort McMurray 360 Mountaineers take a knee after their game in Penhold Saturday. The 10 year old players taking part in the Thrive Hockey Development Spring Challenge were given gift certificates for Sport Chek from the Edmonton Junior Eagles after their game on Saturday. Despite being forced from their homes in Fort McMurray the families of the players decided it was best to take part in the tournament in Penhold over the weekend. The Mountaineers lost the game to the Junior Eagles 7-1.

“The overwhelming support, not just from Red Deer, but every team in this place has contacted me in some way or shape wanting to help. It’s amazing. I can’t even fit it into words.”

Hampton Inn and Suites in Gasoline Alley provided the families with accommodations and meals. Play It Again Sports loaned hockey gear. United Cycle gave the team jerseys. Proceeds from silent auctions and a 50-50 draw at the tournament was going to the Fort McMurray team.

“It’s hard to take what has been given. You have to put your pride in your back pocket and I don’t think any of us are used to doing that in any way.”

She refused to think about whether their home has survived the blaze or not. The emotional roller coaster would be too much. But she did wonder about the things she left behind like wedding pictures and family photos.

Born and raised in Fort McMurray, Smith-Gagne said even with all the wildfires that have happened in the

region through the years, she never thought it would happen to them.

“I feel like life will be completely different for all of us when we get home. I think we’ll always have that bag packed whether we’re in Fort Mac or somewhere else. We’re forever changed.”

But this weekend, the focus was getting the children back together to participate in a familiar activity in the midst of continuous news reports about the wildfire. “(Children) are hearing it. They’re aware. I just don’t think they understand what they may potentially be faced with in the near future.

“I would like to get my kids into school and get them back to normalcy because I feel that will help them deal with it. They could talk to a friend, or meet new people and build a relationship, and know that they’re not alone.”

Smith-Gagne was unsure where her family will end up, but wants her 10-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter to be part of a new community, even if it’s short-lived.

Fort McMurray evacuee Jody Seymour said she didn’t look forward to Sunday.

“It’s going to be a hard day for everyone, going their separate ways, not knowing when we’ll see each other again,” said Seymour who has lived in Fort McMurray for 20 years.

“We spend our lives together.”

Before each game, the team cheers, “Brothers, brothers, brothers, three, two, one — Mountaineers.”

And they are like brothers, she said.

“When we were evacuating, the first thing I packed were the three hockey bags. I don’t have socks. But I have their hockey equipment,” Seymour said about her three sons.

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Creating a place for bees to thrive

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Great gardens and healthy ecosystems need pollinators and creating small, backyard bee hotels are an easy way to attract hardworking native bees.

Kerry Wood Nature Centre is running a bee hotel workshop on May 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. Materials will be provided.

“It sounds a lot fancier than it is.

You can make bee hotels out of a lot of stuff you have hanging around,” said Kathryn Huedepohl, public programmer with Waskasoo Environmental Education Society.

She said the centre used chunks of two by fours, about 12 cm long, and some tubing stuffed with short hollow perennial stems.

“They are very natural-looking, inconspicuous things that do an amazing job.

“You can put it anywhere out of the way. If you want it front and centre, you can do that too. But it’s fine in a back corner.”

She said native bees could use some help with the rise in non-native bees and hotels provide more places for native bees to thrive.

Ken Lehman, the city’s parks, ecological and planning specialist, said if gardeners want pollination they should be inviting native bees into their yards.

“Our native pollinators are so important, so much better than the non-natives because our native bees come out earlier in colder temperatures. They forage in a way that is much more diverse,” Lehman said.

He said there’s over 300 kinds of native bees here.

“A lot of people have a fear of bees.

A lot of native bees don’t even sting.

And if they did it would be like a mosquito bite.”

Bee hotels provide cavity-nesting bees with another place to lay eggs spring and summer. Some will also overwinter in the hotels.

And he said hotels won’t attract wasps. “(Wasps) are not going to set up shop in your bee hotel because that’s not what they need for habitat. They are a social nester. They build their own nest.”

The city is trying to educate the public about the role of pollinators by installing pollinator hotels at Bower Ponds and has plans to put them into City Hall Park and Snell Gardens.

“One in every three bites of food is thanks to pollinators,” Lehman said.

Huedepohl said concern for native bees is starting to grow compared to last year at this time when the centre wasn’t getting any questions about bees.

“I think bees are one of those hidden things. People don’t realize how important they are,” Huedepohl said.

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Waskasoo Environmental Education Society special events coordinator Kathryn Huedepohl holds three Bee (pollinator) Hotels made with a variety of hollow stem perennial stalks. The bee hotels can be used to attract overwintering native bee species.

And it’s best to do something to help them succeed before problems develop, she said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Wildfires that levelled neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray slowed their rampage through tinder dry forest in northern Alberta on Sunday, allowing firefighters in the oilpatch city to focus on hotspots as plans were made for Premier Rachel Notley to survey the damage first-hand.

Notley said the fight against the fire has stabilized to the point where she can visit and begin the next phase of the government’s operation to determine what must be done to eventually allow people to return to the city.

Speaking at a media briefing, Notley had to pause to compose herself when she spoke about Mother’s Day and two evacuees who were killed in a traffic accident last week.

“Our hearts go out to their families. This is Mother’s Day. I am hoping, in all of this crisis, to spend a few minutes today with my own children,” Notley said, pausing as her voice cracked. “That not all of us can do that is definitely an awful tragedy. So today, Mother’s Day, all of us in Alberta are thinking of you who have suffered these loses.”

Emily Ryan, 15, and her stepmother’s nephew, Aaron Hodgson, died in the accident a day after the fire drove 80,000 people from the city.

Notley was scheduled to visit Fort McMurray on Monday. The premier warned residents to brace themselves for the images they will see, reminding them that counselling services are available.

“There will be some dramatic images coming from media over the next couple of days,” she said.

Chad Morrison with Alberta Wildfire said firefighters have held the line against the fire better than they expected in Fort McMurray.

The weather was also changing and below seasonal temperatures will help firefighters who have been battling the blaze since May 1, he said.

The wildfire did not grow to the size that was expected on Saturday, Morrison said. It covered an area of about 1,600 square kilometres on Sunday and was 30 to 40 kilometres from the Saskatchewan-Al-

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stopped by the Bold Centre to pick up supplies.

“As long as I’ve got my husband and three kids, that’s all that matters,” she said.

Lisa Applegarth fled the community of Janvier with her partner, nine children and twin, 17-day-old grandchildren.

Mother’s Day has been tough, said Applegarth, who sat outside the centre with a new, donated double-stroller for the twins.

“My kids were sad because they don’t have the things that they made for me and I was kind of like, ‘Well, it’s OK. All mommy needs is your love.’ “ Notley was also scheduled to meet leaders from the province’s oil industry on Tuesday to discuss the state of their operations and a timeline for restarting them.

Syncrude and Suncor facilities north of Fort McMurray were evacuated but Morrison said the fire did not reach them.

Flames flare up from hotspots along a highway to Fort McMurray, Sunday. berta boundary.

For the first time since the evacuation began, Morrison expressed a note of optimism in the battle.

“For us, this is great firefighting weather. We can really get in there and really get a handle on this fire and really get a death grip on it,” he said.

“For the wildfire stuff, out in the forested area, that’s going to take us a long time to clean up. But I feel very buoyed and happy that we are making great progress, especially in the community.”

Mother’s Day didn’t go unmarked at an event for evacuees in Lac la Biche, about three hours south of Fort McMurray.

Volunteers organized a Mother’s Day Tea complete with cupcakes, pastries and fruit, along with arts and craft supplies for kids. Girls belonging to a local dance troupe provided the entertainment and handed out fresh roses to all the women in the room.

Wanda Banfield said camping in Wandering River wasn’t how she pictured her Mother’s Day. She, her husband and three children — aged 9, 12 and 14 —

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“I’m a die-hard hockey mom. They need to be active. They need to be on the ice. They need to be in a field. They need to be with people their own age playing.”

Seymour, an administrator with Fort McMurray Catholic Schools, said the adults needed this tournament too.

“It was tough. We were altogether talking about our experiences. But it was good to be together. It really was,” she said blinking back tears.

Her family was one of the six families that went north with Smith-Gagne. But first they had to get out of Fort McMurray.

“There were people driving down the sidewalks and people on quads and people walking with their bags. Every scene in a movie you’ve ever seen about a disaster, that’s exactly what it’s like.”

Her husband Brad Seymour flew back to Suncor on

Saturday morning where he works and will operate equipment to build a fire line to protect the facilities.

“He’s been antsy ever since they left because he wants to be there. If anything happens to Suncor, there’s nothing,” she said about the major employer in the area.”

She also felt drawn back to the city to help, maybe clean schools.

“Everywhere I go and people are kind to me over the last couple of days, I start to cry. I’m not used to getting something for nothing. I’m not used to having to take a handout.”

She said it may also be a reminder of her family’s new reality or feeling overwhelmed by God working through others.

“Even though it’s scary, you just need to have faith he will provide, even though you feel like there’s nothing left. You have to find some good in it I guess.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Historic debate on death is silenced TIM HARPER OPINION

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ustice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was telling a Senate committee this past week that her government’s assisted-dying legislation was a “transformational shift” in this country. But she had to excuse herself.

She was needed down the hall in the House of Commons to explain why debate had to be cut off on this transformational shift.

There is a lot of role-playing in our Parliament. Memories are short and roles can quickly be reversed.

Majority governments are always accused of “ramming” through legislation and opposition members can reasonably be relied upon to rail about jackboot tactics.

While in opposition, the Liberals reliably joined with the New Democrats to accuse Stephen Harper’s government of doing this time and again. This week, it was the Conservatives who accused the Liberals of doing the same.

But on a matter of life-and-death, the red flags that have been raised about this legislation and the emotions

it engenders among Canadian voters made shutting down debate precipitously just plain wrong.

The Liberals say they had to cut debate to have it pass second reading and refer it to committee for potential amendments.

This may be procedurally correct, but there can be no higher moral debate than that dealing with life and death.

MPs had been debating Bill C-14 in good faith. They have heard the most personal stories from constituents about deaths of family members. They were opening themselves up in ways rarely — if ever — seen in the House of Commons.

Liberal Arnold Chan (Scarborough-Agincourt) is dealing with cancer, but returned to the Commons to deal with the bill as a Parliamentarian.

“I may in fact be someone who may have to, potentially, depending on how treatment goes, avail myself of this option,” he said.

“It is not one I would like to contemplate, not one that I think is a choice I would like to make, but it is a practical reality of something I might have to face.”

Quebec New Democrat Robert Aubin spoke of the pain he saw in his parents, both of whom died of cancer.

Manitoba Conservative Candice Ber-

gen spoke of losing her daughter to cancer nine years ago.

And then along came a government that essentially said, all right, that was fine, but enough of that. We’re shutting you down after 2 ½ days of debate.

Nathan Cullen, a British Columbia New Democrat and former House leader, said there was no reason for the Liberals to shut down debate on such an emotional issue and such a move threatens to unleash a backlash against the government which halted what had been a model show of nonpartisanship.

Yes, the government is up against a June 6 deadline for legislation as deemed by the Supreme Court, but the Justin Trudeau government is acting as if the world will fall apart if that deadline lapses.

Would it? Sen. George Baker asked that very question in committee Thursday and was told by witness Dianne Pothier, a law professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, that it would be irresponsible of the government to let the deadline lapse and that all government safeguards would be lost.

Wilson-Raybould agrees that the safeguards the government badly wants would be forfeited if the deadline was not met and there would be a legal vacuum, but it would hardly turn Canada into a wild west on assisted suicide.

The law would be the Supreme Court ruling, not the more restrictive Liberal legislation. Provincial governments and regulatory bodies would fill the vacuum until federal legislation passed.

This was an issue that no legislator wanted to touch, but now that we are on deadline and there is legislation being considered, everyone wants to talk about it.

That we as a country are under such deadlines in the first place is the parliamentary torpor in the wake of the Feb. 6, 2015 court ruling and a subsequent election. Conservatives claiming now they didn’t have time to properly contemplate this bill shut down a Trudeau proposal in February 2015 to have the matter sent to committee.

There is a fear Liberals are racing toward passage of a bill that is simply going to be challenged in court, again putting those who are already suffering through further agony.

The Liberals may fear passing legislation after the June 6 deadline opens them up to court challenges.

Either way, this mushy-middle bill is vulnerable and two-thirds of opposition MPs have been denied the opportunity to be heard on a historic bill, and that means their constituents have been gagged.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

ily dominance whose members had all the jobs in the settlement. However the time may be right to try this again.

The people who are tasked with program delivery on site should receive the necessary funding to help to carry out such programs. I always found that the nursing station nurses had much valuable information about what was actually going on at the settlement.

As always, politicians looking for future votes, top bureaucrats and the media rush in when there is a crisis.

We who were at the delivery end of programs called them circus tours or dog and pony shows. Take photos, have talks, exchange gifts, throw tax payers’ money at the situation with no clear agenda or thought and leave. Politicians then say: “Problem solved.” Until a few years later the cycle repeats itself again with a new set of band aid solutions and catch phrases. If there is no established criteria or bench marks stated, how can we judge success of failure? Who will have responsibility and accountability of funded monies?

As Chris Salomons states in his article, Canadians carry a lot of guilt over our past treatment of indigenous peoples. I am not suggesting that what the

Canadian government and religious churches did years ago be forgotten.

But it is time to stop guilt-tripping successive Canadian generations regarding what happened years ago, and move forward.

Fred Gifford Red Deer

I can understand safety and theft issues can and do happen with some individuals in the homeless population, and I agree caution is a good practice.

However, when there are wait lists in treatment centres, shelters are full, and soup kitchens are doing the best they can with the resources they have, options do become very limited. What are these individuals supposed to do?

Desperate, scared, cold, hungry people can and will do desperate things such as steal, use, sell drugs and their bodies. I believe in a society where we try to respect and understand others, would a smile and “how are you?”

Hurt anything? Governments pay to house and feed people in over crowded prisons, are willing to spend money on wars continents away, would it hurt to use even some of that money for preventative measures such as treatment centres, low income housing and the education system? Just maybe if we all cared a little more, it may prevent the pain and negative consequences of violence, murder and death. After all, don’t we live in a world where there is way too much hate and violence as it is?

Tammy Fink Red Deer

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Government offering band-aid solutions on reserves Regarding the various published articles and reports in the Advocate outlining the plight of young aboriginal suicides on reserves, I note that little is said about the lack of employment on the reserves. Authors of articles or reports only guess about what the root causes are but have never spent a long time in the reserves. I worked over 10 years in the Arctic regions which also have similar problems as reserves such as young people’s suicides. I had many discussions with young people while monitoring training programs.

Young people would comment, “Like why I should I take this training when there are no jobs available back home?” When working in the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation I proposed that all settlement jobs become job sharing. As an example, work one month on and then one month off with supplemented EI benefits. I was unable to get the necessary support to try this approach. I could not overcome the pecking order of the one famRED DEER

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Animal lovers determined to rescue pets FORT MCMURRAY FIRES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A small but dedicated group of animal lovers is determined to continue rescuing pets from a potential “mass grave” in the abandoned homes of Fort McMurray, despite having been kicked out last week.

Members of the group said that by Sunday afternoon, they’d received thousands of emails from evacuees of the northern Alberta wildfire whose pets were left behind.

Sam Sansalone, who’s based out of southern Alberta but has taken on a leadership role in the Facebook group Fort Mac Fire - Pet Rescue, where many of the efforts are being co-ordinated, said group members rescued about 230 pets on Wednesday and Thursday.

But on Thursday, and again on Friday, police kicked them out, he said.

He said authorities told them that the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo was taking over pet rescue duties, and there was a risk that people working independently might loot houses under the guise of attempting to rescue pets.

Sansalone said he understands that concern, but that official resources are spread too thin, and civilians should be allowed to help.

Plus, Wood Buffalo’s rescue effort didn’t start until Saturday. Sansalone said he was worried that would be too late for many of the pets.

“This is a mass grave, in basements, in crates,” he said.

He said that now, his group will try to work with local authorities. He said

they’re hoping to speak with RCMP at the scene and get approval to join the official rescue efforts.

Tim McHaffie arrived at a road block outside of Fort McMurray after a two-hour drive Sunday. He was with a group of about 15 other prospective pet rescuers that came from the Facebook group.

McHaffie said there were still a few barriers to getting into the town, and into people’s houses, but he was hopeful that officials would eventually let them through.

Alberta premier Rachel Notley told a news conference that it was unsafe for people other than first responders to enter Fort McMurray, but emergency personnel were already helping rescue animals.

She said first responders were giving food and water to the pets left behind by evacuees, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was attempting to rescue what pets they could.

She said the SPCA was asking pet owners to register their pets online, to give permission for the official rescue team to enter their homes.

McHaffie said that if his group does get through, he said it was important that everyone understand what they might find.

“It’s been days now. How long have these animals been there without food and water? There’s a good chunk of them that’s probably not going to be living.”

“Once this is done, people are going to sit down and they’re going to have a big cry,” he added.

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A RCMP officers offers food to a cat in Fort McMurray on Friday. In this image provided by the Alberta RCMP. RCMP will do what they can to assist pets they may come across in carrying out search and rescue operations.

“But the job’s the job. You’ve got to

get it done.”

Russia offers to send water bombers to fight fire

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer

by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta.

The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov, the Russian minister of emergency measures.

A spokesman for Russia’s embassy in Ottawa, Kirill Kalinin, said Sunday that they continue to stand “ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta.”

The offer involves sending converted Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes — the kind occasionally leased by the Canadian military — that can dump as much as “42 tons of fire retardant into fire spots,” according to a statement on the web site of Russia’s Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters.

In addition, Moscow said it has “rescuers and specialists with necessary equipment” ready to help on the ground, if need be.

There has been a diplomatic chill between Canada and Russia since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, but since the election the Liberal government has said it wanted a constructive relationship with President Vladimir Putin’s government.

Speaking on CTV’s Question Period on Sunday, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the fire, which is

expected to cover up to 3,000 square kilometres by the end of the day, continues to grow.

But he made no mention of the Russian overture — or any other potential pitch of international assistance.

“It’s big. It’s out of control and the end is not in sight,” Goodale told the news program.

The Department of Global Affairs was asked about the Kremlin’s offer and whether other countries had extended similar proposals, but no one was immediately available to comment.

Canadian officials did tell Russian media that the proposal was being studied.

At least 27 air tankers and 15 helicopters are involved in fighting the wildfire that has driven over 88,000 people from their homes in the oil patch community.

Goodale was also not prepared Sunday to call out the army to join the over 600 firefighters from Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and New Brunswick who have been part of the effort to contain the blaze, the origins of which remain a mystery.

Troops were deployed last year to help contain a massive woodland blaze in Saskatchewan, but Goodale said Sunday it was best to leave the current disaster to full-time firefighters.

“This is a beast of a fire and it needs the most professional fighters to contend with it,” he said.

The air force, meanwhile, deployed one of its new heavy-lift battlefield

helicopters Sunday for the first time in support of the disaster relief operation.

The CH-147F Chinook took two loads of food, medicine and emergency supplies to a First Nations community 50 kilometres outside of Fort McMurray.

It bolsters the existing four CH-146 Griffons and the one C-130J Hercules, which have been involved since midway through last week.

The Chinook, with its 36,700 kilogram load capacity, is an important addition for moving relief supplies quickly into remote area, said Maj. Gord Gushue, the deputy commander of the air task force supporting the operation.

He said the skies around the wildfire are already pretty congested and military pilots have had to take care.

“You can appreciate that the (civilian pilots) might be running a bucket ops where they scoop up water and move it around, going up and down quite a ways. So, they have to be very careful to make sure no one is flying underneath them — or overhead,” Gushue said in an interview from Edmonton.

The pilots have faced some pretty severe smoke conditions that in one case saw a Griffon helicopter take off from Fort McMurray and fly out using instruments because the conditions were so bad.

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Spectac 2016 STORY AND PHOTOS BY JEFF STOKOE/ADVOCATE STAFF The all new Royal Canadian Circus SPECTAC 2016 set up their big top and performed at Westerner Park over the weekend.

SPECTAC 2016 showcased an internationally renowned cast including the famed flying Anthony Pages Flying Trapeze, The Wheel of Destiny with Joseph Bauer, the Chinese Pole Acrobats, the Kambarow Cossack Riders from Mongolia, the Russian Swing and Romanian Aerialists, Liberty Horses, clowns and much more.

Tjis year marks the 252nd Anniversary of the Zerbini Family Circus, since the humble start of the Zerbini Family Circus in Paris, France, in 1763 ten generations of Zerbini’s have travelled the world sharing their talents with circus audiences on three continents.

Over the course of the weekend the circus performed six shows in Red Deer and is planning to do shows in Olds this week with proceeds going to help fund relief efforts for the Fort McMurray fire evacuees.

Marcelo and Micaela Videla of Argentina perform their duo aerialist star act above the ring.

Ringmaster Joseph Dominick Bauer announces the acts during the noon hour show on Saturday.

Nathan Alajandro flies high above the circus ring during his performance suspended by straps.

The clowns are always a big hit at the circus.

LEFT: After more than 20 costume changes in their routine the Bilea Family of Romania finished their performance with a tribute to Canada.

RIGHT: Norah Wuhlar and Brooklyn Mourits of Red Deer got to the big top early and got themselves some illuminated swords and their faces painted for the show.

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Monday, May 9, 2016

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Canada BRIEFS Man killed in plane crash near Sylvan Lake A 70-year-old Saskatchewan man is dead following a plane crash near Sylvan Lake Saturday afternoon. Sylvan Lake RCMP and the Eckville Fire Department responded to a report of a plane crash in a rural area 13 km west of Sylvan Lake. A small single-engine plane was found in a field and the lone occupant — identified as Mike Paul Chysyk of Saskatoon — was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the crash is still unknown.

Five people dead after home burns in Calgary CALGARY — Five people have died in a house fire in Calgary.

Fire chief Steve Dongworth told reporters from the scene early Saturday that all five of the victims were believed to be adults but he didn’t have information on their identities.

Dongworth says the cause of the fire isn’t known.

He says flames and smoke were coming from the home when crews arrived and the flames had spread to the house next door.

Four victims were found right away and the fifth was located a short time after.

Dongworth says the residents next door were able to flee their home on their own and weren’t injured.

“When crews arrived, there’s actually a swing set in the front yard, and the first thing our crews were thinking was that there might have been children in there as well,” Dongworth said.

“In this case, we don’t believe there’s any children. In fact, it’s fairly certain these were all adults but that added some stress.”

Dongworth said he can’t recall the last time the city had so many fatalities in a fire.

Calgary fire crews also responded to a separate fire that happened about an hour earlier where two homes were burned, but no one was injured.

A number of Calgary firefighters are in northern Alberta battling the huge fire in Fort McMurray, but Dongworth said those firefighters are off-duty, and firefighting capability in Calgary hasn’t been compromised.

Blyth Mutch carries his two-year-old daughter through one of the water spray features at the Red Deer Spray Park on Saturday. The City of Red Deer turned on the water to the features at the park located near the Recreation Centre over the weekend.

Fire evacuees in B.C. allowed to return home, evacuation alert remains in effect

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Hundreds of people are allowed to return to their homes in northeastern British Columbia after encroaching wildfires forced them to pack up and leave several days ago.

Still, an evacuation alert remains in place for more than 17,000 residences in two regions north of Fort St. John, where crews continue to battle a pair of uncontained flareups.

Ryan Turcot of BC Wildfire Service said residents near the Siphon Creek and the Beatton Airport Road fires must be ready to leave at a moment’s notice should conditions deteriorate.

“We are taking the current situation very seriously,” Turcot told reporters on Sunday. “The BC Wildfire Service is certainly prepared for the worst and hoping for the best.”

Cooler temperatures and some rain and snow have provided welcome assistance to firefighting efforts, allowing crews to build additional control lines and put out flames where appropriate.

There are currently 78 fires burning across British Columbia, with 52 in the province’s northeast.

The vast majority were caused by people, said Turcot, adding that “even one human-caused wildfire is one too many.”

Well over 400 square kilometres of land in British Columbia has been burnt so far this season, which far surpasses the eight square kilometres consumed by this time last year, and the 10-year average of 14 square kilometres.

But an early and active start to the fire season doesn’t necessarily mean the rest of the summer will follow the same trend, Turcot said.

“The first half of the summer we may see warmer and drier conditions on average, but it’s really going to depend on the amount of precipitation we see in the late spring that’s going to be a better indicator of how active the core of our wildfire season is.”

The Siphon Creek fire, about 60 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John, jumped the border Thursday into disaster-stricken Alberta, which is already reeling from a catastrophic blaze that has so far displaced tens of thousands of residents around Fort McMurray and done billions of dollars in estimated damage.

Most of the 400-square-kilometre blaze remains in B.C. and it is expected to grow with a forecast return to hot and dry conditions this

coming week.

The 150-square-kilometre Beatton Airport Road fire is located about 45 kilometres north of Fort St. John.

Fire officials are reminding the public that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles near active wildfires is prohibited after drones were spotted on two separate occasions.

“Violating these rules can put the lives of air crews (and) those on the ground in jeopardy,” said fire information officer Emily Epp from the Prince George Fire Centre.

“When we have aircraft working on those fires it can ground our aircraft and that can severely hamper our progress on fire suppression.”

So far this season, crews have responded to 224 wildfires, compared to 105 last year and an average of 146 over the past 10 years.

P.E.I. Confederation museum to shut down permanently due to lack of interest CHARLOTTETOWN — A museum devoted to telling the story of Canada’s birth — built blocks away from the site of the Charlottetown Conference — has shut down permanently due to lack of interest.

Founders Hall in downtown Charlottetown opened in 2001 and explained Canada’s inception, beginning with the Charlottetown Conference in 1864. But Ron Waite, general manager of the Charlottetown Area Development Corporation, said attendance has been dwindling in recent years as the attraction struggled to keep people interested.

“It’s a beautiful facility and you hate to see it go, but the pragmatic elements of it are that it’s losing money and at some stage you have to make a decision,” said Waite, whose corporation owns the building where the exhibit is located.

Waite said when Founders Hall first opened, up to 40,000 people would visit the exhibit in a year. But only about 13,000 people walked through its doors last year, he said.

“Our costs keep going up just to keep it running as it is today,” said Waite in a recent phone interview.

“In order to realistically carry on, we were going to have to make a reinvestment, so the decision was made that there wasn’t funding available to do it.”

Waite said at least a million dollars would be needed to update the exhibit, which had cost $4 million to build in 2001.

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Feds to introduce border bill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The federal government is preparing to introduce legislation that will establish rules for a new border-crossing experiment that could change the way travellers enter the U.S. It will spell out the rights and responsibilities of U.S. customs agents working on Canadian soil, under the preclearance project recently announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama.

The project will expand a system already in place for air travel — where passengers at major airports clear customs before taking off, and skip potentially longer lines in the U.S. Announced during Trudeau’s first official visit to Washington, preclearance is being extended to land travel with the first pilot projects occurring at train stations in Vancouver and Montreal.

Legislation will soon establish rules for the new system.

“We’re going to be aiming for a spring introduction,” said Chrystia Freeland, the minister who runs the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations.

“We are hard at work on it — and we’re confident we’re going to get it done. There is strong support for it across the government — this is something that our government is really in favour of.”

Freeland was in Washington last week to prepare for the first North American Leaders’ Summit in two years. She promised a new emphasis on trilateral co-operation, as the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico visit Canada next month.

She said the new rules for land travel will be based on existing ones for airports. Preclearance is already the norm at eight airports and is being introduced in Quebec City and downtown Toronto.

Under the 2001 airport deal, American agents can detain travellers in Canada — but it would be up to domestic police services to make a formal arrest. Also, American officers can be present for a strip search, but not when it involves travellers of the opposite sex. Other provisions govern the ability of agents to carry firearms.

“This is not a newfangled thing. We have preclearance (at airports),” Free-

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FIRES: Burdened with guilt Truly, I am finding it difficult to process the danger, the fear, the loss.

Often, I tell people that this past week has been like watching a flight that you’ve missed go down; I am burdened with the guilt of being able to carry on with my normal routine, while also being acutely aware of (and thankful for) how lucky I am to not have decided to make one of my routine trips home over this past week.

When I check my Twitter feed each morning, I am hoping that I won’t be receiving notice that my childhood home is gone. With every passing hour, I am hoping that the streets where I learned to walk, where my mom taught me how to ride a bike, where my dad taught me to drive will still be standing. Nearly every text or phone call I’ve gotten in the past few days has been a question about the wellbeing of my family or the safety of my home.

Most importantly, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to truly communicate the fear I felt when I heard my mom sobbing on the other end of the phone when she called me during the evacuation. I will never forget how she described her drive through the darkness, fire and smoke; relying solely on the taillights of other vehicles to stay on the road in the chaos and confusion. As the oldest of three siblings, there’s something ingrained in me that tells me when I hear fear crack its way into my mother’s voice — it’s time to be worried.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) and U.S. President Barack Obama hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C. in March land said in an interview. “It works very well for Canadians, and that’s why we’re keen to extend it and formalize the structure a bit more.”

Preclearance could potentially become widespread with people clearing customs at major train stations, bus stations and even off the side of highways before they reach the border.

Freeland said the governments are approaching it one initiative at a time.

The land-preclearance agreement was first announced by the former Conservative government and the Obama administration, but implementing legislation had never been passed.

There was some uncertainty about whether the new Liberal government would remain committed to it Trudeau answered that question by announcing

the train-station pilot project during his White House visit.

A prominent business group welcomed news of the bill. It’s also awaiting a twin version of the bill in the U.S. Congress. Such legislation had been introduced this spring in Washington with bipartisan support, but got sidelined in an unrelated dispute over other provisions of an omnibus bill.

“That’s a really important step — introducing and passing the enabling legislation in Canada is really important,” said Maryscott Greenwood of the Canadian American Business Council.

“Preclearance is going slower than we would like right now, in both countries. From our point of view it’s moving. It’s moving a little slower than we would like. But it is moving — and

that’s really important.”

She said preclearance will make for the smoother movement of people and products, allowing people to deal with customs early — before bottlenecks happen the border.

The Canadian government has apparently concluded that the economic benefit warrants the cost. Canada will pay for U.S. customs infrastructure on Canadian soil.

“We’re ready to do that,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told reporters last month during a trip to Washington.

“We want to have the best possible flow of people, goods and services. So making an investment in that regard would make sense. Every one of these specific decisions will have to be taken on its specific merits.”

However, amidst the anguish, fear, and heartbreak, we are finding hope.

For every photo of the destroyed neighborhoods of my city shared on Facebook, I have seen others post messages of support; individuals and organizations collecting donations, convoys of supplies headed up 63, stories of families being reunited and friends declaring themselves as safe and well cared for. My family evacuated to an area north of Edmonton, with sporadic cell reception; when I connected with them, bringing a stack of printed pages of available resources for them, they were beyond overwhelmed.

Despite the heartbreak we have dealt with as a family since Tuesday afternoon, what has truly awed us has been the helping hand present at every turn. I almost want to scoff at my younger self for thinking that no one cared about my city; now, the care is evident from every citizen of this province and this nation. When I first moved to Red Deer in 2013, I would not have ever imagined that this city would rally in support of my home. The commitment and the dedication shown by Red Deerians to helping families like mine since the evacuation took place has truly taken us aback.

The story that needs to be told is not that of the fire, or the property damage, or the thousands of individuals removed from their homes. It is instead of the valiant attitude displayed by the citizens of Red Deer, the people of Alberta, and the compassion shown by Canadians from coast to coast to coast.

Within a day of the disaster’s start, the citizens of Red Deer and various agencies were already assembling to host fundraisers and assist evacuees in any way possible; from the Mayor, to the president of Red Deer College, to our MLAs, I have been witness to some of

the most humbling acts of genuine empathy.

There is something to be said for the stubborn Albertan spirit residing in all of us during this moment in time. Where else would you find people brave enough to bring hundreds of gallons of gas up a highway that was clearly on fire? Where else would you find people generous enough to stop and support complete strangers with no expectation of ever being repaid for their time and service? The “Keep on, keepin’ on” and “Alberta Strong” attitudes resounding through our communities right now make it easier for me to lean on others for support and remain optimistic for the eventual end of this disaster.

Though I am sure that I will carry this tragic loss with me for the rest of my life, the gratitude I have for Red Deer and my fellow Canadians as a whole will always outshine that darkness. I have no doubt that my family and I will return to a Fort McMurray that is drastically different from the city of my childhood, but I now know that my family and I will not be facing that hardship alone. While we are mourning the loss of our town as we know it, I am thankful that we are not mourning the loss of our spirit.

Every part of Fort McMurray holds a place in my childhood memories. It makes viewing the footage, reading the tweets, following the commentary incredibly difficult. However, my family and I are thankful that we are witnessing none of this alone. I am overwhelmed with the warm hugs, concerned phone calls, and encouraging conversations. If this experience has taught me anything, it is that the true nature of people shines in times like

these.

So while the next few weeks, months, hold a lot of uncertainty for myself and my family, I am confident in knowing that what I assumed about my city as a child is quite the opposite; we are appreciated, we are resilient, and we are strong. We will rise from the ashes and rebuild when the time comes. Until then, we will keep our loved ones near and know that we are not alone — we are in this together.

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Rodtka is adamantly against snares, “the No. 1 killer of wolves in Alberta.”

He said trapped animals can suffer for days or weeks.

The film shows graphic images of a dead wolf who’d worn a snare wire into his bloodied neck.

Unnatural Enemies has aired several times on CTV, and makers are hoping it can soon be seen on Netflix. In the meantime, a preview is available on YouTube.

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Foreign buyers crushing home dreams

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The Canadian and British Columbia governments are complicit in fuelling Vancouver’s housing crisis as foreign Chinese buyers continue to shut local residents out of the market, a new study says.

Josh Gordon, the study’s author and assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, said people whose dreams of owning a home are being crushed because they can’t compete with foreign investors no longer accept “distraction” excuses such as low interest rates for the state of the super-heated market.

“People recognize what’s going on, and they’re willing to call a spade a spade,” he said, stressing that such views are based on reality, not racism.

His report compiles a number of other studies, including data on home-buying trends, population density, the cancelled immigrant investor program, and American research on the same issue.

Gordon said his report blames Vancouver’s housing crisis on foreign buyers, particularly from China, because “this is where the evidence points, not because of some anti-Chinese animus.”

Chinese investors have also spiked home prices in the Toronto region, but Vancouver has seen the highest rise in real estate due to the influx of foreign money reaching an unprecedented level in the last year, he said.

Gordon noted that other countries, including Australia and Singapore, have created policies for foreign homebuyers to protect their own citizens but that hasn’t happened in Canada.

The average sale price of a single-detached home in Metro Vancouver was $1.4 million in April, a 30-percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

The report, titled “Vancouver’s Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Conclusions,” says political inaction has allowed the problem to grow.

“By linking the crisis unambiguously to foreign ownership and investment, documenting the major harms of the affordability crisis, and proposing a policy route out of the current mess, the report hopes to harness the city’s resentment and dispel its resignation.”

Mobilized and informed residents can ideally hold political leaders accountable, the report says.

Nazma Lee said she and her husband Lloyd have become increasingly frustrated because they can’t afford a home as they continue renting a two-bedroom condo with their two

FILE Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A sold home is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., a new study says Canadian and British Columbia governments are complicit in fuelling Vancouver’s housing crisis as foreign Chinese buyers continue to shut local residents out of the market. children.

Lee, a lawyer, and her husband, an engineer, were born and raised in the Vancouver area but fear that like other residents they may have to leave to buy a home elsewhere.

“I do think Vancouver is being affected by massive amounts of foreign investment,” she said.

Lee said it’s time for the B.C. and federal governments to take “drastic measures,” including tracking the source of money for real-estate investment to deal with possible money laundering.

“I feel like there’s a little bit of wilful blindness and people know what’s going on but nobody wants to look into it because so many people are making money off real estate in Vancouver,” she said.

In March, Premier Christy Clark said the province will impose regulations to end the “shady” practice of contract flipping, allowing real estate agents to flip a property multiple times at higher prices before a deal closes as they continue making commissions while buyers avoid paying property taxes.

This year’s federal budget allocated $500,000 over the next year for Statistics Canada to develop methods to track ownership of Canadian homes by foreign homebuyers.

The Opposition New Democrats have put forward two private member’s bills, one calling for a two-percent speculation tax and the other to close a loophole allowing investors to avoid paying property transfer tax.

NDP housing critic David Eby said the province’s commitment to reintroduce a requirement for homebuyers to disclose their citizenship on land title documents is unlikely to make any difference.

“The idea that if people are misrepresenting their residency on anti-money laundering forms are going to suddenly give you frank and honest information on land titles form is a bit silly.”

Eby said he has met with business owners who are struggling to recruit and retain professionals because the high cost of housing is deterring people from moving to the city.

“Housing is going to be a central issue for us,” he said of the matter that will potentially drive the NDP’s elec-

tion agenda before voters go to the polls in May 2017.

“It’s not just Metro Vancouver that’s facing this challenge,” he said. “There are rental vacancy rates across the province of less than one per cent.”

Eby said he supports a BC Affordability Housing Fund, proposed by the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C., to collect a 1.5-per-cent real estate surcharge from non-resident property owners, with the money generated to be distributed to residents.

Tom Davidoff, director of the Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate at Sauder, said that at a tax rate of $15,000 for a house worth $1 million, a minimum of $100 million a year would be raised in Vancouver alone.

He said 40 academics at the University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University have endorsed the fund, and the idea was presented to provincial government officials earlier this year.

“It’s very important that we see outside investment as an opportunity,” he said. “It can only be a bad thing if politicians are too stupid and lazy to not make sure everybody benefits.”

Questions persist as Sino-Forest case nears conclusion THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — As the Ontario Securities Commission’s case against Sino-Forest nears its end, questions remain about how enforceable any possible outcomes might be.

Lawyers have been delivering their closing remarks over the past few weeks in what has been one of the most complex cases in the OSC’s history, encompassing more than 170 days of hearings, 22 witnesses, over 22,000 pages of transcripts and thousands of exhibits.

If the securities watchdog wins the case, former CEO Allen Chan and four other former executives of the now-defunct forestry company could be permanently banned from Canada’s capital markets, or fined up to $1 million for each failure to comply with Ontario securities law.

But some observers question how consequential such actions would be because all five of the accused live in

China.

“Even if the securities commission is entirely successful, what purpose will it serve?” says Garth Myers, a lawyer at Koskie Minsky who is representing Sino-Forest shareholders in a class-action lawsuit against the former company and its underwriters.

“Sino-Forest as a company doesn’t exist anymore. The other individual defendants likely will never sit on boards or be officers of public companies again in any event, so it may be a pyrrhic victory.”

Established in 1994, Sino-Forest was an Ontario-based company that conducted most of its business in China.

It was once the most valuable forestry company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of $6 billion, before its collapse in 2012. The OSC has accused Chan and four other former executives — Albert Ip, Alfred Hung, George Ho and Simon Yeung — of defrauding investors by overstating the company’s assets and

revenue. Defence lawyers have argued that what the OSC is calling fraud were actually mistakes made by a rapidly-growing company, and that Canadian regulators have failed to understand Chinese business customs.

Regardless of who wins, Myers says collecting any fines that may be levied could pose a challenge. A memorandum of understanding between the OSC and the China Securities Regulatory Commission could help on that front, says Douglas Cumming, a finance professor at York University’s Schulich School of Business. However, the bankrupt entity may not have the cash to cover any possible fines.

“A tremendous amount of money was spent defending Sino-Forest and its officers and inside management in the OSC proceedings that could otherwise have gone to compensating Sino-Forest shareholders,” said Myers.

Sino-Forest has already burned through $60 million of the $62 million it had in insurance policies, and the

“SINO-FOREST AS A COMPANY DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE. THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS LIKELY WILL NEVER SIT ON BOARDS OR BE OFFICERS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES AGAIN IN ANY EVENT, SO IT MAY BE A PYRRHIC VICTORY.” — GARTH MYERS, LAWYER bulk of that money — all but $4.2 million, which went to shareholders — has gone to defending the company and its former executives in legal proceedings, said Myers.

Neil Gross, the executive director of investor rights group FAIR Canada, says the case highlights how risky it can be to allow emerging companies to use Canada’s capital markets to raise money.

Canadians borrowing to fund wanderlust TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE Summer is on the way and with the warmer weather and longer days comes the urge to take the family on a vacation, get a new boat or barbeque for the cottage or even buy that new convertible you’ve always dreamed of owning.

While there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the all-too-brief Canadian summer, the season can entice you to borrow and spend more than you can afford.

With interest rates holding steady at historic lows, recent surveys show that 46 per cent of Canadians appear to be comfortable with taking on additional debt for a car, 33 per cent for home renovations, 28 per cent for vacations and 22 per cent for entertainment.

Household debt is continuing to increase even while unemployment levels are rising.

According to Statistics Canada Canadian household debt has risen to 165.4 per cent (that means Canadians owe $165.40 for every $100 of dispos-

able income). The Parliamentary Budget Office puts the figure even higher at 171 per cent. At the same time as household debt is rising unemployment also has risen to 7.3 per cent, the highest level since 2013.

An IPSOS Reid study for BDO Canada last year found that 29 per cent of Canadians increased their debt load over the summer, with 22 per cent exceeding their summer spending budget. Thirty-two per cent of Canadians didn’t even have a summer budget.

“Clearly, Canadians want to enjoy the season but we are seeing more people seeking assistance, with increases in both consumer proposals and insolvencies,” says BDO licensed insolvency trustee Doug Jones. ”In this period of record household debt, record unemployment and economic uncertainty, people’s focus should be on paying down debt instead of satisfying their wanderlust. The statistics provide a backdrop to why budgeting is so important.”

Budgeting is a bit like going on a diet. People start off being disciplined but over time slowly back slide into their old habits and ways.

“What you really have to ask yourself is whether you are making your budget work?” says Jones. “People are maxing out their budgets because

they are not setting goals and analysing where their money is and should be going. It comes down to prioritizing between what you really need versus what you want. There’s a big difference.”

The first step in grabbing hold of your debt situation is to assess where you are. List what money is coming in and then list your debts and expenses and determine which are fixed, which are essential and which are not.

Then prepare a budget based on your short, medium and long-term goals. Define clearly what it is you want to accomplish and the steps you are going to take to get there. Perhaps you will stop going out for lunch each day and put the money you save into a fund to pay down your mortgage or pay off your credit card each month.

Some recent studies have shown that 29 per cent of Canadians would have trouble meeting their monthly financial obligations if their monthly costs rose by just $100, 46 per cent would have trouble if their costs rose by $200 a month and 62 per cent would be in trouble if their costs increased $300 a month.

The Canadian Payroll Association has found that 48 per cent of Canadians would have trouble paying their bills if their paycheque was delayed

by just one week and 76 per cent say they are saving less than one quarter of what they think they will need in retirement.

Jones says there are two main approaches to paying off debt.

The snowball method involves making a list of all the balances you owe and then tackling your smallest balance first. Once you eliminate the smallest balance, you tackle the next smallest balance, and then the next until you’ve paid everything off.

The avalanche method involves attacking your debt with the highest interest rate, paying it off and then moving on to the debt with the next highest interest and so on until everything is paid off.

“The low interest rates today offer people a really good opportunity to reduce their debt, get their budgets back on track and start building a more secure future,” says Jones. “People are a lot happier when they tackle their debt and no longer see it as a problem down the road.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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Monday, May 9, 2016

5 things to watch for in business this week

Saudi Arabia ousts longtime oil minister

TORONTO — Five things to watch this week in Canadian business:

than 70 per cent of the state’s revenue in 2015.

Among the changes planned by Mohammed bin Salman and announced last month was a plan to publicly list less than five per cent of Aramco to create a massive sovereign wealth fund to develop its cities.

Aramco boasts the world’s largest oil reserves and produces some 10 million barrels of crude a day, giving it outsized influence over world energy markets.

The deputy crown prince put the estimated value of Aramco at more than $2 trillion.

Oil industry watchers have for years speculated on when al-Naimi, who turns 81 this year, would step down. He was born in the kingdom’s eastern oil heartland and studied geology in the U.S. in the 1960s.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources was renamed the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources. In addition to having served as healt h minister, al-Falih had previously been the CEO of Aramco from 2009 until his appointment as board chairman in May 2015.

Al-Falih spent his entire career at Aramco. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

A number of other royal decrees announced Saturday as part of the government’s restructuring also saw several ministry names changed and the removal of six ministers, including alNaimi.

The other replacements include the ministers of hajj, commerce and industry, social affairs, health and transportation.

Former Hajj Minister Bandar alHajjar, who helped oversee last year’s tragic pilgrimage that saw more than 100 pilgrims killed by a crane collapse and more than 2,400 killed in a crush of crowds, was replaced by Mohammed Bintin.

Also, new Energy Minister al-Falih was replaced as Health Minister by former Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah. Former Social Affairs Minister Majed al-Qasabi was named Minister of Commerce and Investment, one of the newly named ministries.

The Social Affairs Ministry will be combined with the Labor Ministry under a new ministry called the Labor and Social Development Ministry.

Business

Panama Papers: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is planning another Panama Papers data dump on Monday.

The leak of financial records has outlined to some extent the degree of tax evasion through offshore bank accounts.

Home base: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. releases its April report on housing starts on Monday.

Last month, CMHC reported that seven of the 15 centres it monitors showed evidence of overbuilding and nine showed signs of overvaluation.

At the summit: The Energy Council

of Canada holds an annual gathering Monday and Tuesday for senior executives from corporate and government circles.

On the agenda: what to do about new government climate policies.

Profits and losses: Canadian financial reports continue to flow throughout the week.

On Tuesday, home improvement retailer Rona will issue its results.

Rona’s days of independence will end once Lowe’s completes its $3.2-billion friendly takeover.

Facing shareholders: Enbridge holds its annual meeting for shareholders on Thursday afternoon in Calgary.

Earlier in the day, the pipeline company releases first-quarter results and holds a conference call with analysts.

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A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by former Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman Khaled al-Falih.

Al-Naimi has long been a pillar of Saudi oil policy, leading the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources since 1995. Prior to that role he’d served as the president of oil giant Aramco.

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by King Salman, the king’s son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has largely been overseeing Saudi economic policy along with a handful of new ministers.

The changes announced Saturday come as the government plans wide-ranging reforms aimed at overhauling the Saudi economy amid lower oil prices that have eroded state revenues.

Saudi Arabia’s dominant market share and historical ability to influence prices by loosening or tightening its taps gave al-Naimi exceptional influence at meetings of the oil cartel OPEC, where the kingdom is by far the largest producer and de facto policy-maker.

His brief utterances on the sidelines of OPEC meetings often had the power to swing global oil prices.

He has presided over a controversial strategy of keeping production levels high despite the drop in prices over the past two years in an effort to drive more expensive producers in the U.S. and elsewhere out of the market. That has led to a glut of supply.

At a talk in February in Houston, he stood by that strategy, arguing that cuts by lower-cost producers like Saudi Arabia would simply subsidize higher-cost ones.

“The producers of these high-cost barrels must find a way to lower their costs, borrow cash or liquidate,” he said in Houston.

“It sounds harsh, and unfortunately it is, but it is the more efficient way to rebalance markets.”

Lower oil prices since mid-2014 pushed Saudi Arabia into a budget deficit of nearly $100 billion last year and a projected deficit this year of $87 billion.

Despite efforts to limit reliance on its main export, oil accounted for more

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Rebels Fancy top draft pick

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Rebels traded out of the first round of the Western Hockey League Bantam Draft, but landed a goalie on the upswing.

Byron Fancy, of Claresholm, played the 2015-16 season with the Lethbridge Golden Hawks. The Golden Hawks won the Alberta Minor Bantam Hockey League title and a bronze medal at the Western Canadian Championship.

A goalie since his days playing atom hockey, Fancy said he believed his progress turned a corner this season.

“In the second half of the season I got a lot better and I had a great playoff run,” said Fancy, 15. “I started almost every game in playoffs and had a good run at Western Canada Championship.”

The 24th overall player taken in the draft, Fancy played 18 games during the regular season and finished with a 1.49 goals against average, a 0.908 save percentage and two shutouts.

But it really was the playoffs where Fancy found a second gear. The sixfoot, 167 pounder started nine playoff games and had a 1.74 goals against average, a 0.921 save percentage and two

shutouts.

“I felt confident and I developed a routine,” said Fancy. “I feel the pregame routine I developed before the game, it helped me get focused and mentally prepared for every game.”

Fancy watched the draft live on a computer with his family.

“I was really excited,” said Fancy.

“We were all excited and we had a bit of a party.”

In a short conversation with Rebels staff, Fancy said the conversation was about June training camp and the excitement of his selection.

“Next year I want to stay consistent through the whole season,” said Fancy. “I don’t want to have any ups and downs and be focused for every game.”

He wasn’t the only Golden Hawk the Rebels took in the draft. In the third round, the Rebels went to the well again and chose Nicholas Draffin, a defenceman and teammate of Fancy.

“I was really excited about that,” said Fancy. “We’re good friends.”

Draffin had two goals and 26 assists in 36 games for the Golden Hawks this season. In playoffs, Draffin had a goal and eight assists.

At six-foot-two and weighing 192 pounds, Draffin turns 15 this August. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Goalie Byron Fancy patrols the crease for the Lethbridge Golden Hawks at the Rocky Mountain Classic AAA Bantam tournament. Fancy was the Red Deer Rebels first pick in the 2016 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft.

Lightning send Islanders to the links

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning 4 Islanders 0 TAMPA, Fla. — Victor Hedman and Ben Bishop lifted the Tampa Bay Lightning into the Eastern Conference final for the second straight year.

Hedman scored twice and Bishop stopped 28 shots Sunday, helping the defending conference champions beat the New York Islanders 4-0 and end their second-round playoff series in five games.

The Lightning advanced by winning four straight after dropping the series opener at home. They also eliminated Detroit in five games in the opening round, making them 2-0 in close-out situations this post-season.

“I think we learned last year we had a couple of series where we had chances to close (opponents) out at home and we kind of let them slip,” Bishop said. “We really wanted to take pride in closing teams out this year.”

Hedman scored an unassisted goal from the slot at 13:49 of the first period, then beat Islanders goaltender Thomas Greiss again on a second-period power play that gave Tampa Bay a three-goal lead.

“Brutal. It’s hard to believe it’s over,” Islanders captain John Tavares said. “You put a lot into this and we didn’t accomplish what we set out to do.”

Nikita Kucherov and Brian Boyle also scored for the Lightning, who will face either the Pittsburgh Penguins or Washington Capitals in the East final.

The Penguins lead that series 3-2, with Game 6 Tuesday night in Pittsburgh.

“Back to back, it’s pretty impressive what our guys have done,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “Once you get there, you want to get back. I’m really

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tampa Bay Lightning’s goalie Ben Bishop is congratulated by Jonathan Marchessault and Victor Hedman at the end of Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Islanders, Sunday, in Tampa, Fla. The Lightning defeated the Islanders 4-0, to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. impressed with our drive. We didn’t play perfect playoff games every time, but we’re getting contributions from everybody in the lineup. If you want to win, you need that.”

The 6-foot-7 Bishop earned his fifth career playoff shutout, fourth in the deciding game of a series. He blanked Detroit 1-0 in Game 5 to end that firstround matchup and won two Game 7s without allowing a goal to help Tampa Bay reach the Stanley Cup final last

year.

The loss ended New York’s deepest playoff run since 1993.

Tavares led the Islanders to a thrilling six-game victory over the Florida Panthers in the opening round. He had a goal and assist in New York’s only victory over Tampa Bay, but didn’t have a point in the last four games.

“It will sting for a long time, but you have to get over it,” said Greiss, who stopped 21 of 25 shots.

The series was much more competitive than the final result would suggest.

The Islanders let third-period leads slip away in Game 3 and 4 in Brooklyn. Kucherov had tying goals in both games before Boyle and Jason Garrison provided winning goals in overtime to thrust the Lightning into a 3-1 series lead.

“We obviously played some good hockey at times, but we just let those two games at home slip away. That put us behind the 8-ball for (Sunday),” Tavares said.

There was little drama in the clincher, with Hedman and Boyle scoring within a five-minute span of the opening period before Hedman’s second goal — fourth this post-season — made it 3-0.

Tampa Bay defeated the New York Rangers in last year’s conference final, earning its second trip to the Stanley Cup final.

Experience gained during that run has been invaluable this year, with the team advancing through the first two rounds without injured star Steven Stamkos and defenceman Anton Stralman.

They’ve done it with Bishop playing like a Vezina Trophy finalist and Kucherov, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn and young Jonathan Drouin, who had an assist on Hedman’s second goal, making timely contributions.

Kucherov’s breakaway early in the third period was his NHL-leading ninth goal of the playoffs.

“Last year was a good experience for me and the team. You know what to expect,” Hedman said. “You want to be at your best when you come to the playoffs. We battle for each other, and that’s paying off right now. We’ve got to keep that going.”

Canada doesn’t need Snickers to beat Hungary at worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 7 Hungary 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Four goals in the span of 5:33 midway through the second period fuelled a 7-1 win for Canada over a determined Hungarian squad on Sunday at the world hockey championships in Russia.

Returning to the top division for the first time in seven years, the Hungarians were enthusiastically supported by a loud, energetic crowd in Yubileiny Arena.

Early on, those fans had plenty of reason to cheer — Hungary was within one goal at the end of the first period and controlled play in the early stages of the middle frame.

“They’re crazy,” said Canadian captain Corey Perry of the raucous supporters in the arena. “They stayed with it the whole game. It’s a lot of fun to watch.”

Canada came out strong before Hungary pushed back. Mark Scheifele opened the scoring at 5:54 of the first period after taking a feed from Mark Stone in the slot on the power play.

Then Taylor Hall deked out Hungarian defenceman Bence Stipsicz and slid the puck past sprawling goaltender Zoltan Hetenyi, allowing Perry to make an the easy tap-in for his first goal of the tournament at 10:04.

Istvan Bartalis sent the Hungarian fans into a frenzy with 1:46 remaining in the first, narrowing the lead to 2-1 after firing a neat snap shot over the shoulder of Canadian netminder Calvin Pickard after Matt Dumba was stripped of the puck at the end of a power play.

The Hungarians came out pressing in the second, but Pickard held the fort until Canada’s offence took over on goals from Mark Stone, Brad Marchand, Derrick Brassard and Michael Matheson.

Hungarian starter Hetenyi was pulled in favour of Adam Vay after giving up six goals on 24 Canadian shots in 32:45 of action.

Taylor Hall rounded out the scoring at the 4:35 mark of the third period.

Matheson, a late addition to the team on defence, led all Canadian skaters with a goal and two assists and was a team-high plus-four in 11:20 of ice time.

“You don’t want to overthink anything or put too much pressure on yourself,” said the 2012 first-round draft pick of the Florida Panthers, who spent most of his first professional season with the AHL Portland Pirates, of his role so far. “Just whatever’s given, you try to take it and do as much as you can with it.”

Another defenceman, Chris Tanev of the Vancouver Canucks, recorded one assist and was named Canada’s player of the game.

“You can see the young guys leaning on him,” said coach Bill Peters of 26-year-old Tanev, who’s the veteran presence on a relatively inexperienced Canadian blue line.

“I think he’s been a stabilizing force for us and someone that we might be able to use in even more situations than we have up to this point in the tournament.”

Making his first start for Canada since the 2010 under-18 tournament, Calvin Pickard of the Colorado Avalanche stopped 21 of 22 Hungarian shots to record the win.

Murray Crawford, Sports Reporter, 403-314-4338 E-mail mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Canada’s Taylor Hall, right, fights for the puck with Hungary’s Istvan Mestyan during the Hockey World Championships Group B match in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday.

“He made a heck of a save on that two-on-one in the second period,” said Perry of Pickard’s effort. “He stood in there tall, made some big saves when he needed to.”

Canada is now 2-0 in St. Petersburg and riding a 12-game world championship winning streak. The team will get back to work on Monday against 0-2 Belarus.

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In other early action on Sunday, Kazakhstan came close to earning its first-ever win against the Russians in world championship play before losing 6-4 in Moscow. Norway will face Switzerland and Sweden meets Denmark in later games.

In Group B in St. Petersburg, Finland plays Germany and France takes on Slovakia.

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Dodgers down Blue Jays in series finale

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Dodgers 4 Blue Jays 2 TORONTO — At spring training, Toronto Blue Jays reliever Drew Storen was in the mix for taking over as team closer before settling for the setup role.

He could soon be in danger of losing his eighth-inning spot if he doesn’t overcome his inconsistent start to the season.

Storen struggled in his brief appearance Sunday at Rogers Centre, putting on the eventual tying and go-ahead runs in the eighth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers came back for a 4-2 win over Toronto.

“You’re going to have these stretches and it’s a matter of how you look at it,” Storen said. “You can get caught up in, ‘I’m not catching breaks’ or whatever. Just keep your head down and do your thing.

“There’s a reason why I’ve had the career I have.”

After starter Marco Estrada turned in a strong seven-inning performance, the Blue Jays scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to take a 2-1 lead.

But Chase Utley led off with a walk in the eighth and moved to third base on a ground-rule double by Corey Seager. That was it for Storen, as Blue Jays manager John Gibbons turned to closer Roberto Osuna earlier than he would have liked.

Osuna struck out Justin Turner before intentionally walking Adrian Gonzalez to load the bases. Yasmani Grandal hit a sacrifice fly to bring home the tying run and Howie Kendrick put the Dodgers ahead with an RBI single.

“I wasn’t really going to wait around to see his slider or anything like that,” Kendrick said. “He left a fastball out over the middle and I was able to put a good swing on it.”

Los Angeles (16-15) tacked on an insurance run in the ninth. Reliever Chris Hatcher (3-3) worked one inning for the win and Kenley Jansen earned his 11th save.

Storen, who was acquired in an off-season trade with Washington for outfielder Ben Revere, was charged with both runs and fell to 0-2 on the season.

“I’m just frustrated with today,” Storen said. “You don’t want to lose the ball game there. But tomorrow the sun comes up and you get right back after it.”

Storen’s earned-run average rose to 9.00 and opponents are hitting .367 against him. He had 29 saves and a 3.44 ERA in 58 appearances last season with the Nationals.

“We do need him, that’s just a fact. … we’re a month in,” Gibbons said. “We’re trying to build something, build some confidence and get something rolling. Could I have left him in there to see if he

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marco Estrada delivers to the Los Angeles Dodgers during first inning Interleague baseball action in Toronto on Sunday. could have worked his way out? Yeah, but we got Osuna waiting there.

“But yeah, we’re constantly looking at how things are run and trying to figure out what the best way to go is.”

Estrada — who allowed just three hits — was matched by Dodgers starter Ross Stripling, who gave up one hit and one earned run over six innings.

The Dodgers took two of three in the weekend interleague series to leave Toronto (16-17) with a 4-3 mark on their homestand.

After a pair of clean innings, Kevin Pillar put Toronto on the board in the third. He led off with a

Whiteside-Valanciunas matchup comes to an end after injuries TORONTO RAPTORS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Miami’s Hassan Whiteside and Toronto’s Jonas Valanciunas won’t square off anymore in this Heat-Raptors Eastern Conference semifinal series.

And as the games get bigger, the lineups will be smaller.

Whiteside is day-to-day with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, and Valanciunas will miss the rest of the series with a sprained right ankle. Both starting centres were injured in Game 3 of the series Saturday, and both got the news about their immediate futures in MRI exams that were performed Sunday.

“Hassan was thrilled with the news,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Neither one of us slept much last night.”

Miami listed Whiteside as questionable for Monday’s Game 4 of the series, which Toronto leads 2-1.

The results of his MRI came out not long before Toronto said Valanciunas would miss the rest of the series, with no firmer timetable offered should the Raptors advance.

“Big, big, big, big, big blow for us,” Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri said. “Big blow for JV. … But you know what? This is the life in the NBA and we carry on.”

Whiteside’s injury is similar to that of Golden

State Warriors star Stephen Curry. Typically, the recovery for a mild MCL sprain can be a couple of weeks — though there are examples where players returned within a day or two and others where it has dragged on for several weeks. The severity of Whiteside’s injury is not known. Curry’s was a Grade 1 sprain, which is defined as slight.

“It’s not always about who’s the best team. It’s always about who’s the healthiest team,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. “That being said, there’s nothing you can do. … It’ll be a different game for us with Hassan out, but we have to figure out a game that’s successful for us.”

Whiteside was hurt with 10:54 left in the second quarter Saturday, trying to position himself for a rebound.

Toronto’s Kyle Lowry was called for a loose-ball foul on the play, after he got caught pulling Whiteside’s arm. As Whiteside awkwardly fell backward, it appeared his right knee was inadvertently hit from the side by the Raptors’ Cory Joseph and from the back by Heat teammate Luol Deng.

If Whiteside can’t play, the Heat will have 14 feet of key players sidelined. All-Star forward Chris Bosh hasn’t played since he was diagnosed with another blood clot in February, and he and the Heat announced last week that his season is over.

Whiteside led the NBA in blocked shots this season, averaging 3.7 on his way to finishing third in the voting for defensive player of the year. He averaged 14.2 points and 11.8 rebounds in the regular season on 61 per cent shooting, then 12 points and 10.9 rebounds in the playoffs on 68 per cent shooting.

double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on a Ryan Goins grounder to the right side.

The Dodgers put their first runner on in the fourth inning when Utley drew a walk. After a Seager strikeout, Turner reached on a Troy Tulowitzki error.

Estrada responded by catching Gonzalez looking before fanning Grandal. The Toronto right-hander finished with two walks and eight strikeouts.

Pillar, who leads the team with 12 multi-hit games, nearly had another hit in the fifth inning but Joc Pederson robbed him with a nice diving catch in shallow centre field.

NHL BRIEFS

Crosby, Benn and Kane named Hart Trophy finalists Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, Dallas’s Jamie Benn and Chicago’s Patrick Kane were named the finalists for the Hart Memorial Trophy on Saturday, awarded to the NHL’s most valuable player.

Crosby finished third in the NHL with 36 goals and 49 assists in 80 games, including a League-best 27-31-58 during the calendar year (44 GP), to guide the Penguins to their 10th consecutive post-season.

Benn ranked second in the NHL with 89 points and third with 41 goals — both career highs — in 82 games to lift the Stars to their first division title since 2005-06 as well as their first conference crown since 2002-03.

Kane posted career highs in goals (46), assists (60) and points (106) to capture the Art Ross Trophy and power the Blackhawks to their eighth straight playoff appearance.

The winner will be announced June 22, during the 2016 NHL Awards in Las Vegas.

Guy Boucher named new head coach of the Ottawa Senators Guy Boucher is the new head coach of the Ottawa Senators.

The 44-year-old Boucher was announced as the 12th head coach in Senators franchise history on Sunday, replacing Dave Cameron, who was fired on April 12. Boucher has spent parts of the last three seasons as the head coach of SC Bern of the National League A in Switzerland, posting a 44-29-5 record.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The racing world wondered if there was a worthy successor to last year’s Triple Crown champion American Pharoah.

Enter Nyquist.

The bay colt who lacks any distinctive markings won the Kentucky Derby by 1 ¼ lengths on Saturday, improving to 8-0 in his career as the fourth consecutive favourite to win the race.

Ridden by Mario Gutierrez, Nyquist ran 1 ¼ miles in 2:01.31. The 3-yearold colt became the eighth unbeaten winner in the race’s 142-year history, and the first since Big Brown in 2008.

He paid $6.60, $4.80 and $3.60 as the 2-1 favourite in the full field of 20 horses.

“We got a beautiful trip from the start to the end,” Gutierrez said.

Nyquist delivered a second Derby win for Gutierrez, trainer Doug O’Neill and Canadian owner J. Paul Reddam, of Windsor, Ont. The Southern California-based team was behind 2012 Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another.

“This is such a special horse,” O’Neill said. “You can see it in his eye on a daily basis and he’s such a professional. Any human sport, he’d be the top-notch athlete. He’s just first class.”

Nyquist enjoyed a perfect trip over the Churchill Downs dirt in front of 167,227, the second-largest crowd in Derby history. The colt broke well out of the 13th post and showed some early speed getting away from the gate. Gutierrez eased Nyquist back to let speedster Danzing Candy take the lead going into the chaotic first turn.

“His run was awesome,” Reddam said. “Obviously, we were going to take it to ‘em. I love the way that we fired out of there and he sat behind Danzing Candy. This horse, he’s really something. We’re just really lucky to be a part of that.”

Nyquist stayed just off the lead and Gutierrez kept him in the clear, steering him to the outside on the final turn.

Nyquist and Gun Runner overtook tiring leader Danzing Candy at the top of the stretch.

“I thought I had it for a minute,” said Florent Geroux, aboard Gun Runner. “He started pricking his ears back

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Mario Gutierrez celebrates after riding Nyquist to victory during the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, in Louisville, Ky. and forth at the top of the stretch.”

But Gun Runner was only in front briefly before Nyquist showed a strong finishing kick. He put away his closest rival and sped to the finish line, with Exaggerator closing but never threatening after coming from well back.

Exaggerator fell to 0-4 against Nyquist, including two runner-up finishes under the brother team of trainer Keith and jockey Kent Desormeaux.

“What a horse,” marvelled Keith Desormeaux. “I can’t respect that horse enough.”

All week long, optimism had filled the air in O’Neill’s barn. The humans took their cues from the horse. Nyquist settled right in, showing an obvious liking for his surroundings.

“You just felt there was no way you could be nervous because you just felt like you were going in the gym with Kobe Bryant,” O’Neill said. “You just knew he was going to figure out a way to pull it out at the end and he did. Mario gets a lot of credit, too. What a ride, what a ride.”

Nyquist began Derby day with a vis-

it from the Stanley Cup, which he playfully took a nibble at. Fitting, since he’s named for Detroit Red Wings player Gustav Nyquist. Reddam is a fan of the NHL team and O’Neill was born in Michigan.

The bay colt is from the first crop of sire Uncle Mo, who never got the chance to run in the Derby after being the early favourite for the 2011 race.

He was scratched the day before with a stomach illness. Uncle Mo had two other offspring in this year’s race: Mo Tom and Outwork.

Hahn beats Castro in playoff Ariya Jutanugarn becomes LPGA Tour’s first Thai winner to win at Quail Hollow

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — James Hahn beat Roberto Castro with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday in the Wells Fargo Championship to snap a three-month slump.

Hahn, who failed to make the cut in his previous eight tournaments and hadn’t shot a round in the 60s since February, made a 4-foot putt on the par-4 18th to win his second career PGA Tour title.

Castro’s tee shot on the playoff hole found the creek on the left side of the fairway and his third shot landed in a spectator’s shoe on the side of the green, leading to a bogey.

Hahn bogeyed the 18th in regulation for a 2-under 70, and Castro had a 71 to finish at 9 under, one shot ahead of Justin Rose (71). Hahn also won the 2015 Northern Trust Open at Riviera.

Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson both shot 66 to tie for fourth at 7 under with third-round leader Rickie Fowler (74) and Andrew Loupe (71).

Both Castro and Hahn had chances to win in regulation.

Castro broke a tie when he rolled in a birdie putt from 6 feet on the 15th hole to get to 11 under. But he quickly gave the lead up with bogeys at 16 and 17 on the “Green Mile,” the toughest closing holes on the PGA Tour.

That gave Hahn a one-shot lead and a chance to put pressure on Castro on the 18th hole if he made par. But Hahn rolled a 7-foot putt past the hole and took a bogey.

Castro, playing with Fowler in the group behind Hahn, got up-and-down from the rough on right side of the fairway on 18 and went on to make a 6-foot par putt to force the playoff.

Like Castro, the 18th hole ultimately proved to be the undoing for McIlroy and Mickelson, too.

PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Ariya Jutanugarn was shaking over her final 5-foot putt, with personal, Thailand and LPGA Tour history on the line.

She made it anyway, becoming the first Thai winner in LPGA Tour history Sunday in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic.

“Last putt my hand shake, my leg shake,” Jutanugarn said. “I’ve had that before but I have not had it this bad before. My putter’s shaking, and I’m like, OK just go out from here.”

The 20-year-old Jutanugarn shot a 1-under 71 to beat Stacy Lewis, Amy Yang and Morgan Pressel by a stroke after losing two shots off her thirdround lead. Her mom, Narumon, and sister Moriya, a tour player who tied for 63rd in the event, were on hand to celebrate on Mother’s Day. Jutanugarn had four birdies and three bogeys a day after tying the tournament record with a 63, but didn’t repeat two previous failed attempts to keep a Sunday lead. The long-hitter gave cheering fans a wave and smile as she approached the final green, chipping to 5 feet to set up a par putt. Jutanugarn finished at 14-under 273 on the Senator Course at Capitol Hill.

Yang bogeyed the 17th in a 67. Lewis shot her third straight 68. Pressel

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James Hahn poses with the trophy after winning the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday.

McIlroy played the 493-yard hole in 4-over par for the week, including a bogey Sunday when his approach shot landed behind a rock on the other the side of the creek that runs along the left side of the hole. Lefty was left to ponder what could have been had it not been for a quadruple-bogey 8 on the hole Saturday.

“I hit a lot of good shots over the weekend, but unfortunately, one bad hole yesterday kind of cost me,” Mickelson said.

McIlroy had seven birdies in between his bogeys the first and last holes.

“Anytime you walk off the golf course and shoot 66, you can’t be too disappointed,” McIlroy said. “But I think in the circumstances having a feeling like I had a chance on the back nine to post a number for the guys to at least think about it and I didn’t.”

Adam Hadwin finished 4 over and tied for 61st while fellow Canadian Graham DeLaet shot a 6 over in his final round and was 8 over.

also had a 68. Lewis had her 10th runner-up finish in a 49-event drought.

The 11-time tour winner has 23 career second-place finishes.

“This week helped a lot because I was able to see shots come off the way I wanted to,” Lewis said. “The way I got the ball up and down on the last hole. There’s so many good things that came out of this week and so excited to get playing again next week. We have a busy stretch coming up and it’s a good time to start to play some good golf.”

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp was the top Canadian, finishing the tournament tied for 22nd with a 5-under 283.

Brooke Henderson, of Smiths Falls, Ont., was 4 under and tied for 29th while Samatha Richdale of Kelowna, B.C., was 1 under.

Jutanugarn two-putted from about 8 feet on 17, dropping a stroke from her lead with Lewis and Pressel on the final hole and Yang waiting and hoping to make a playoff.

Jutanugarn’s drive on the final hole went into the left rough and her second shot didn’t make the green but landed above the bunker.

There was plenty of drama but no ending collapse this time. Last month in the ANA Inspiration, she had a two-stroke lead with three holes left and closed with three bogeys to finish fourth — two strokes behind winner Lydia Ko in the major championship.

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Local Sports Tuesday ● Ladies Fastball: Bandits vs Badgets and Panthers vs. Stettler, 7 p.m.; Panthers vs.

Rage U16, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: Parkland White Sox at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Badgers, 7 p.m., Stettler; Rage U18 vs.

Bandits, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Thursday ● Ladies Fastball: Rage U18 vs Rage U16, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Stettler vs

Friday

Saturday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Junior B tier 2 Lethbridge Barracudas at Red Deer Renegades, 5 p.m., Kinex ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Junior B tier 1 Rockyview Silvertips at Red Deer Rampage, 7:30 p.m., Kinex

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs Second Round CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7)

Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3) (Toronto leads series 2-1) Saturday’s result Toronto 95 Miami 91 Thursday’s result Toronto 96 Miami 92 (OT) Monday’s game Toronto at Miami, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Miami at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Friday’s game Toronto at Miami, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 15 Miami at Toronto, TBA

GA 15 7 8 15 14 18 13 20 14 8

Pt 15 14 13 13 11 10 10 10 9 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Colorado 10 6 2 2 13 8 20 Los Angeles 9 5 1 3 22 10 18 Salt Lake 9 5 2 2 14 13 17 Dallas 11 5 4 2 15 18 17 Seattle 9 4 4 1 10 10 15 San Jose 10 4 3 3 12 13 15 Kansas City 11 4 5 2 11 12 14 Vancouver 11 4 5 2 14 16 14 Portland 10 3 4 3 15 18 12 Houston 9 2 5 2 16 16 8 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Sunday’s results Los Angeles 4 New England 2 New York City 2 D.C. 0

Liverpool 36 16 10 Chelsea 36 12 12 Stoke 37 13 9 Swansea 37 12 10 Everton 36 10 14 Watford 36 12 9 Crystal Palace 37 11 9 West Brom 37 10 12 Bournemouth 37 11 9 Sunderland 36 8 11 r-Newcastle 37 8 10 r-Norwich City 36 8 7 r-Aston Villa 37 3 8 ch-clinched championship r-relegated cl-clinched Champions League el-clinched Europa League

10 12 15 15 12 15 17 15 17 17 19 21 26

61 57 39 41 56 36 38 33 34 43 39 35 27

48 51 54 51 52 44 47 47 64 60 64 62 72

58 48 48 46 44 44 42 42 42 35 34 31 17

Sunday, May 8 Southampton 2, Spurs 1 Liverpool 2, Watford 0 Manchester City 2, Arsenal 2 Tuesday, May 10 West Ham vs. Manchester United, 19:45 GMT Wednesday, May 11 Norwhich vs. Watford, 19:45 GMT Sunderland vs. Everton, 19:45 GMT Liverpool vs. Chelsea, 20:00 GMT Sunday, May 15 Arsenal vs. Aston Villa, 15:00 GMT Swansea City vs. Manchester City, 15:00 GMT Everton vs. Norwich City, 15:00 GMT Manchester United vs. Bournemouth, 15:00 GMT Newcastle vs. Tottenham, 15:00 GMT Southampton vs. Crystal Palace, 15:00 GMT Watford vs. Sunderland, 15:00 GMT Stoke vs. West Ham, 15:00 GMT West Brom vs. Liverpool, 15:00 GMT Chelsea vs. Leicester City, 15:00 GMT

Saturday’s results Vancouver 2 Portland 1 Toronto 1 Dallas 0 Montreal 4 Columbus 4 Houston 2 Kansas City 0 Colorado 1 Salt Lake 0 Seattle 2 San Jose 0 Friday’s result New York 1 Orlando 1 Wednesday, May 11 Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Houston at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, May 13 New York at D.C., 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 14 Philadelphia at Montreal, 3 p.m.

Colorado at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 15 Orlando at Kansas City, 1:30 p.m.

New York City at Portland, 5:30 p.m.

English Premier League GP W ch-Leicester City 37 23 cl-Tottenham 37 19 cl-Arsenal 37 19 cl-Man City 37 19 Man United 36 18 Southampton 37 17 West Ham 36 15

D 11 13 11 8 14 9 14

L GF GA Pts 3 67 35 80 5 68 30 70 7 61 36 68 10 68 40 65 7 44 31 63 11 55 40 60 7 61 47 59

England Championship GP W D p-Burnley 46 26 15 p-Middlesbrough 46 26 11 pp-B&Hove Albion 46 24 17 pp-Hull City 46 24 11 pp-Derby 46 21 15 pp-Sheff Wed 46 19 17 Ipswich Town 46 18 15 Cardiff City 46 17 17 Brentford 46 19 8 Birmingham City 46 16 15 Preston 46 15 17 QPR 46 14 18 Leeds 46 14 17 Wolverhampton 46 14 16 Blackburn 46 13 16 Nott Forest 46 13 19 Reading 46 13 13 Bristol City 46 13 13 Huddersfield 46 13 12 Fulham 46 12 15 Rotherham 46 13 10 r-Chartlon 46 9 13 r-Milton Keynes 46 9 12 r-Bolton 46 5 15 ch-clinched championship r-relegated p-clinched promotion pp-clinched promotion playoff

L GF GA Pts 5 72 35 93 9 63 31 89 5 72 42 89 11 69 35 83 10 66 43 78 10 66 45 74 13 53 51 69 12 56 51 68 19 72 67 65 15 53 49 63 14 45 45 62 14 54 54 60 15 50 58 59 16 53 58 58 17 46 46 55 17 43 47 55 20 52 59 52 20 54 71 52 21 59 70 51 19 66 79 51 23 53 71 49 24 40 80 40 25 39 69 39 26 41 81 30

Lacrosse NLL Playoffs First Round Division Semifinals East Division Friday’s result New England (2) 14 Georgia (3) 13 (OT) West Division Saturday’s result Calgary (3) 11 Colorado 10 (OT) Second Round Division Finals (two-game series, followed by 10 minute tiebreaker, if necessary) East Division

Jamie Benn, Dal Logan Couture, SJ Tyler Johnson, TB Brent Burns, SJ Nikita Kucherov, TB Joe Pavelski, SJ Colin Wilson, Nash Jason Spezza, Dal Vladimir Tarasenko, StL John Tavares, NYI John Carlson, Wash Alex Ovechkin, Wash Jaden Schwartz, StL Sidney Crosby, Pgh Robby Fabbri, StL David Backes, StL T.J. Oshie, Wash Victor Hedman, TB Phil Kessel, Pgh Alex Killorn, TB Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Nick Bonino, Pgh Jonathan Drouin, TB

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Second Round DIVISION FINALS (Best-of-7)

Buffalo (1) vs. New England (2) Monday, May 16 Buffalo at New England, 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

West Division Saskatchewan (1) vs. Calgary (3) Saturday, May 14 Saskatchewan at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

Third Round Champion’s Cup (Best-of-3) East vs. West Champions, TBD

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Lakers 8 Blazers 1 A four goal performance from Dagan Slimmon was more than enough to lift the H.J. Cody Lakers over the Bowden Blazers 8-1.

On top of Slimmon’s performance, Jonny Payne had a hat trick and Tristen Killer got one goal.

For the Blazers, Dylan Sparks supplied the teams’ lone goal.

Cougars 2 Rams 0 The Notre Dame Cougars held the Lacombe Rams off the score sheet in Central Alberta High School soccer on Friday.

Jazzy Brown and Ashley Thompson supplied the goals for the 2-0 victory for the Cougars.

G 5 5 4 4 9 8 4 4 6 6 4 5 3 3 2 5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

A 9 8 9 9 3 4 8 8 5 5 7 5 7 7 8 4 4 5 6 6 6 7 7 8 8

Pt 14 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Sweden 2 1 1 0 0 7 3 5 Czech Rep. 2 1 1 0 0 7 3 5 Denmark 2 1 0 0 1 5 5 3 Russia 2 0 0 0 1 6 7 3 Kazakhstan 2 0 1 0 1 7 8 2 Norway 2 0 1 0 1 4 6 2 Switzerland 2 0 0 2 0 5 7 2 Latvia 2 0 0 2 0 4 6 2

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. St. Louis (2) (St. Louis leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result St. Louis 4 Dallas 1 Thursday’s result Dallas 3 St. Louis 2 (OT) Monday’s game Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s game St. Louis at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Soccer

Czech Republic 4 Latvia 3 (SO) Denmark 3 Norway 0 Kazakhstan 3 Switzerland 2 (SO) At St. Petersburg, Russia France 3 Germany 2 (SO) Slovakia 4 Hungary 1 United States 6 Belarus 3 Monday’s games At Moscow Latvia vs. Russia, 7:15 a.m.

Sweden vs. Czech Republic, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Belarus vs. Canada, 7:15 a.m.

Finland vs. United States, 11:15 a.m.

NHL playoff scoring leaders

Metropolitan Division Washington (1) vs. Pittsburgh (2) (Pittsburgh leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result Washington 3 Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday’s result Pittsburgh 3 Washington 2 (OT) Tuesday’s game Washington at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s game Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA

San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Series tied 2-2) Sunday’s result Oklahoma City 111 San Antonio 97 Friday’s result San Antonio 100 Oklahoma City 96 Tuesday’s game Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s game San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 15 Oklahoma City at San Antonio, TBA

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Montreal 10 4 3 3 17 Toronto 9 4 3 2 10 Philadelphia 8 4 3 1 11 New York City 10 3 3 4 15 Orlando 9 2 2 5 16 New York 10 3 6 1 13 D.C. 10 2 4 4 11 New England 11 1 3 7 13 Columbus 9 2 4 3 11 Chicago 7 1 2 4 7

Brandon (E1) vs. Seattle (US1) (Brandon leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Friday’s result Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Tuesday’s game Brandon at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Brandon at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s game Brandon at Seattle, 7:35 p.m.

Sunday, May 15 Seattle at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 16 Seattle at Brandon, 7 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-1) Sunday’s result Tampa Bay 4 N.Y. Islanders 0 Friday’s result Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Islanders 1 (OT)

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Portland (5) (Golden State leads series 2-1) Saturday’s result Portland 120 Golden State 108 Monday’s game Golden State at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Portland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Golden State at Portland, 7 or 8:30 p.m.

Monday, May 16 Portland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result Cleveland 100 Atlanta 99 Friday’s result Cleveland 121 Atlanta 108

ing) 15:38 Martin NYI (interference) 19:09 Paquette TB (delay of game) 19:09.

Third Period 4. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 9 (Killorn) 4:40.

Penalties — Paquette TB (boarding) 1:57 Boychuk NYI (cross-checking) 6:17 Hickey NYI (slashing) 12:18.

Shots on goal New York 6 10 12 — 28 Tampa Bay 9 9 7 — 25 Goal — NY Islanders: Greiss (L, 5-6-0). Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 8-2-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — NY Islanders: 0-2 Tampa Bay: 1-5.

WHL 2016 Playoffs Fourth Round ED CHYNOWETH CUP League Championship (Best-of-7)

● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Senior Ladies Calgary Cougars at Red Deer Rage, 8:30 p.m., Kinex

Wednesday ● Midget Baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Red at Red Deer AAA Braves, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Hockey

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Canada 2 2 0 0 0 12 2 6 Finland 2 2 0 0 0 11 3 6 Slovakia 2 2 0 0 0 9 6 6 U.S. 2 1 0 0 1 7 8 3 France 2 0 1 0 1 4 7 2 Germany 2 0 0 1 1 3 8 1 Belarus 2 0 0 0 2 5 12 0 Hungary 2 0 0 0 2 2 11 0 Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Pacific Division (San Jose leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result San Jose 5 Nashville 1 Thursday’s result Nashville 4 San Jose 3 (3OT) Monday’s game San Jose at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s game Nashville at San Jose, TBA Sunday’s summary Lightning 4, Islanders 0 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Hedman 3 (unassisted) 13:49.

2. Tampa Bay, Boyle 3 (Carle, Paquette) 18:41.

Penalties — Paquette TB (high-sticking) :10 Quine NYI (high-sticking) 10:37.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Hedman 4 (Drouin, Johnson) 4:22 (pp).

Penalties — Hamonic NYI (roughing) 3:40 Tavares NYI, Sustr TB (roughing) 15:38 Tavares NYI (slash-

Sunday’s results At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada 7 Hungary 1 Finland 5 Germany 1 Slovakia 5 France 1 At Moscow Norway 4 Switzerland 3 (OT) Russia 6 Kazakhstan 4 Sweden 5 Denmark 2 Saturday’s results At Moscow

Tuesday’s games At Moscow Switzerland vs. Denmark, 7:15 a.m.

Kazakhstan vs. Norway, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Slovakia vs. Germany, 7:15 a.m.

Hungary vs. France, 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday’s games At Moscow Switzerland vs. Latvia, 7:15 a.m.

Sweden vs. Kazakhstan, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Slovakia vs. Belarus, 7:15 a.m.

Finland vs. Hungary, 11:15 a.m.

2016 IIHF world men’s hockey championship scoring leaders through Sunday’s games: G A Pts Laine, Fin 4 2 6 Granlund, Fin 2 3 5 Belov, Rus 2 2 4 Jurco, Svk 1 3 4 Backlund, Swe 2 1 3 Hall, Cda 2 1 3 Jensen, Den 2 1 3 Matthews, US 2 1 3 Sekera, Svk 2 1 3 Starchenko, Kaz 2 1 3 Brassard, Cda 1 2 3 Cervenka, Cze 1 2 3 Dawes, Kaz 1 2 3 Ericsson, Swe 1 2 3 Koivu, Fin 1 2 3 Matheson, Cda 1 2 3 Olimb, Nor 1 2 3 Redlihs, Lat 1 2 3 Rymarev, Kaz 1 2 3 Diaz, Sui 0 3 3 Sunday’s summary Canada 7, Hungary 1 First Period 1. Canada, Scheifele 1 (Stone, McDavid) 5:54 (pp) 2. Canada, Perry 1 (Hall, Brassard) 10:04 3. Hungary, Bartalis 1, 18:14 Penalties — Wehrs Hun (hooking) 4:10, Erdely Hun (hooking) 16:11.

Second Period 4. Canada, Stone 1 (Ceci, Reinhart) 7:12 5. Canada, Marchand 2 (McDavid, Matheson) 9:05 6. Canada, Brassard 1 (Tanev, Rielly) 11:36 7. Canada, Matheson 1 (Hutton, Scheifele) 12:45 Penalties — Mestyan Hun (hooking) 15:46, Marchand Cda (interference) 16:11.

Third Period 8. Canada, Hall 2 (Matheson) 4:35 Penalties — Marchand Cda (interference) 5:06, Magosi Hun (holding) 12:18, Wehrs Hun (interference) 15:31, Dudas Hun, Domi Cda (roughing) 18:25.

Shots on goal Hungary 5 8 9 — 22 Canada 11 15 10 — 36 Goal (shots-saves) — Hungary: Hetenyi (L, 0-1-0) (15-9), Vay (12:45 second 21-20) Canada: Pickard (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Hungary: 0-2 Canada: 1-5.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 18 12 .600 Boston 18 13 .581 Tampa Bay 15 14 .517 Toronto 16 17 .485 New York 11 18 .379 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 22 10 .688 Cleveland 15 13 .536 Kansas City 15 15 .500 Detroit 14 16 .467 Minnesota 8 23 .258 West Division W L Pct Seattle 18 13 .581 Texas 18 14 .563 Oakland 14 18 .438 Los Angeles 13 18 .419 Houston 12 20 .375

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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

GB — 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2 6 1/2 GB — 5 6 7 13 1/2 GB — 1/2 4 1/2 5 6 1/2

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 8, Boston 2 Oakland 8, Baltimore 4 L.A. Dodgers 6, Toronto 2 Texas 10, Detroit 5 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 0 Baltimore 5, Oakland 2 Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 2 Seattle 3, Houston 2, 10 innings Tampa Bay 4, L.A. Angels 2 Sunday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 4, Toronto 2 Cleveland 5, Kansas City 4 Texas 8, Detroit 3 Baltimore 11, Oakland 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota 1 Houston 5, Seattle 1 Tampa Bay 3, L.A. Angels 1 Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 Monday’s Games Detroit (Sanchez 3-3) at Washington (Strasburg 5-0), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Young 1-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 1-1), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 3-3) at Boston (Buchholz 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-4) at Texas (Lewis 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Wilson 1-1) at Minnesota (Berrios 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 2-3) at Houston (Fiers 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Moore 1-3) at Seattle (Hernandez 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 2-1) at San Francisco (Peavy 1-3), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Castellanos Det 29 104 13 39 .375 Machado Bal 30 123 24 43 .350 Hosmer KC 30 113 15 38 .336 Altuve Hou 32 123 30 40 .325 Trumbo Bal 30 117 16 38 .325 Lindor Cle 28 108 19 35 .324 Mazara Tex 25 97 14 31 .320 Reddick Oak 31 116 13 37 .319 Trout LA 31 115 16 36 .313 Forsythe, TB 28 106 16 33 .311 Home Runs Cano, Seattle, 12; Altuve, Houston, 9; Donaldson, Toronto, 9; Machado, Baltimore, 9; Trumbo, Baltimore, 9; CDavis, Baltimore, 8; Semien, Oakland, 8; Frazier, Chicago, 8; Moustakas, Kansas City, 7; Ortiz, Boston, 7; Park, Minnesota, 7; CRasmus, Houston, 7; Trout, Los Angeles, 7.

Runs Batted In Cano, Seattle, 33; Ortiz, Boston, 27; CRasmus, Houston, 26; Castellanos, Detroit, 24; Encarnacion, Toronto, 24; Trumbo, Baltimore, 24; Trout, Los Angeles, 23; Bautista, Toronto, 22; Machado, Baltimore, 22; Abreu, Chicago, 21; Beltre, Texas, 21; Donaldson, Toronto, 21; Frazier, Chicago, 21.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 7-0; ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 6-1; Latos, Chicago, 5-0; Porcello, Boston, 5-1; Quintana, Chicago, 5-1; Tomlin, Cleveland, 5-0; Zimmermann, Detroit, 5-1; Hamels, Texas 4-0; Happ, Toronto, 4-0; Hill, Oakland 4-3; Kennedy, Kansas City, 4-2; McHigh, Houston, 4-3; Price, Boston, 4-1; Stroman, Toronto, 4-0; Tillman, Baltimore, 4-1.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 4, Toronto 2 Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 6, Miami 5 Arizona 5, Atlanta 3, 11 innings Pittsburgh 10, St. Louis 5 Chicago Cubs 4, Washington 3, 13 innings Colorado 2, San Francisco 0 N.Y. Mets 4, San Diego 3 Monday’s Games Detroit (Sanchez 3-3) at Washington (Strasburg 5-0), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Peralta 2-3) at Miami (Fernandez 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 3-1) at Cincinnati (Straily 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Vargas 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 3-1), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Bradley 0-0) at Colorado (Chatwood 4-2), 6:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matz 4-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 2-2), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 2-1) at San Francisco (Peavy 1-3), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 6, Toronto 2 St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 4 Chicago Cubs 8, Washington 5 San Francisco 2, Colorado 1, 13 innings Arizona 4, Atlanta 2 Milwaukee 13, Cincinnati 7, 10 innings Philadelphia 4, Miami 3 N.Y. Mets 6, San Diego 3

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. ADiaz StL 29 96 23 38 .396 Prado Mia 26 101 11 40 .396 DMurphy Was 30 114 20 45 .395 Braun Mil 29 109 19 40 .367 Fowler ChC 29 106 24 36 .340 Yelich Mia 30 106 20 36 .340 Segura Ari 30 130 16 44 .338 SMarte Pit 31 125 19 42 .336 Belt SF 33 107 18 35 .327 Lucroy Mil 28 101 17 33 .327 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 12 Cespedes, New York, 11 Story, Colorado, 11 Carter, Milwaukee, 10 Harper, Washington, 10 Rizzo, Chicago, 10 Stanton, Miami, 10 NWalker, New York, 9 Kemp, San Diego, 8 Braun, Milwaukee, 7 Castillo, Arizona, 7 Duda, New York, 7 Howard, Philadelphia, 7 Moss, St. Louis, 7.

Runs Batted In Cespedes, New York, 30 Arenado, Colorado, 29 Rizzo, Chicago, 28 Harper, Washington, 27 Zobrist, Chicago, 25 Braun, Milwaukee, 24 Pence, San Francisco, 24 Stanton, Miami, 24 Story, Colorado, 24 Kemp, San Diego, 23.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 6-0 Strasburg, Washington, 5-0 Bumgarner, 4-2 Chatwood, Colorado, 4-2 Cueto, San Francisco, 4-1 Hammel, Chicago, 4-0 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 4-1 Lackey, Chicago, 4-1 CMartinez, St. Louis, 4-2 Matz, New York, 4-1 Nelson, Milwaukee, 4-2 Samardzija, San Francisco, 4-2 Siegrist, St Louis, 4-0 Velasquez, Philadelphia, 4-1.

Tim Wilkinson, $167,900 Adam Hadwin, $15,695 Graham DeLaet, $13,505

Minjee Lee, $35,912 Alena Sharp, $12,614 Brooke Henderson, $10,147

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

National League East Division W L Pct 19 11 .633 19 12 .613 18 14 .563 16 14 .533 7 23 .233 Central Division W L Pct 24 6 .800 17 14 .548 16 16 .500 13 18 .419 13 19 .406 West Division W L Pct 16 15 .516 17 16 .515 15 16 .484 15 18 .455 13 19 .406

GB — 1/2 2 3 12 GB — 7 1/2 9 11 1/2 12 GB — — 1 2 3 1/2

Golf PGA-Wells Fargo Sunday At Quail Hollow Club Course Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $7.3 million Yardage: 7,575 Par: 72 Final Round (x-won on first playoff hole) x-James Hahn, $1,314,000 Roberto Castro, $788,400 Justin Rose, $496,400 Rickie Fowler, $287,438 Andrew Loupe, $287,438 Rory McIlroy, $287,438 Phil Mickelson, $287,438 Lucas Glover, $226,300 Fabian Gomez, $204,400 Danny Lee, $204,400 Chesson Hadley, $167,900 Hideki Matsuyama, $167,900

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68-73-70-73—284 71-74-73-74—292 71-71-76-78—296

67-70-68-72—277 73-67-71-72—283 72-73-68-71—284

LPGA Tour-Yokohama Tire Classic Sunday At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator Prattville, Ala. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,569 Par 72 Final Ariya Jutanugarn, $195,000 70-69-63-72—274 Amy Yang, $91,733 71-68-69-67—275 Stacy Lewis, $91,733 71-68-68-68—275 Morgan Pressel, $91,733 69-68-70-68—275 Caroline Hedwall, $54,362 75-65-68-68—276 Candie Kung, $35,912 69-72-70-66—277 Hee Young Park, $35,912 71-70-69-67—277 Ryann O’Toole, $35,912 70-67-68-72—277

Champions-Insperity Invitational Sunday At The Woodlands CC The Woodlands, Texas Purse: $2.1 million Yardage: 7,002 Par: 72 Final Jesper Parnevik, $315,000 David Frost, $153,650 Mike Goodes, $153,650 Jeff Maggert, $153,650 Billy Andrade, $91,875 Olin Browne, $91,875 Tommy Armour III, $64,050 Kevin Sutherland, $64,050 Stephen Ames, $40,320

Dodgers. Assigned LHP Tommy Milone outright to Rochester (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Brandon Kintzler from Rochester. Recalled LHP Pat Dean and INF Jorge Polanco from Rochester.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Drew Stubbs. Optioned LHP Alex Claudio to Round Rock (PCL). Transferred OF Josh Hamilton from the 15- to the 60-day DL. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP J.J. Hoover and OF Scott Schebler to Louisville (IL). Recalled RHP Drew Hayes from Louisville. Placed RHP Jon Moscot on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 3.

Selected the contract of RHP Steve Delabar from Louisville. Transferred C Devin Mesoraco from the 15- to the 60-day DL. American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released OF Kyle Robinson.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed RHP Tyler D. Wilson.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Fired coach Dave Joerger.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed OL Shabaz Ahmed, WR David Glidden and DE Brandon Williams. Waived DT Gerald Dixon, Jr., OL Alex Fifita, WR Malachi Jones and WR David Richards.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WR Cody Core.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Frankie Williams. Waived T Davante Harris.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DE Cameron Wake to a two-year contract extension through the 2017 season. Signed WR Jakeem Grant and CB Jordan Lucas.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Named Bruce Boudreau coach.

SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived D Zach Carroll. Lent D Karl Ouimette and G Kyle Reynish to the New York Red Bulls II.

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Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned LHP T.J. McFarland to Norfolk (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Tommy Kahnle to Charlotte (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHPs Andrew Triggs and Jesse Hahn to Nashville (PCL). Recalled RHP J.B. Wendelken from Nashville.

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed RHP A.L. Griffin on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Alex Claudio from Round Rock (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Enrique Burgos to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Archie Bradley from Reno.

CHICAGO CUBS — Activated RHP Neil Ramirez from the bereavement list. Optioned RHP Spencer Patton to Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled OF Kyle Waldrop from Louisville (IL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP David Goforth to Colorado Springs (PCL). Activated RHP

Wily Peralta from paternity leave.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled INF-OF Jose Pirela from El Paso (PCL). Placed INF Jemile Weeks on the 15-day DL. Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed OF Sebastien Boucher.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP Ray Hanson.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed OF Josh Henderson to a contract extension.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Released C Max Ayoub, OF Madison Beaird, INF Carter Burgess, RHP Jack Duffey, RHP Miguel Navarro and OF Richard Seigel.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released RHP Chris DeBoo and C Tyler Qualls.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Released INF Anthony DiMaio, LHP Joel Sharon, RHP Taylor Thurber and LHP Scot Ward.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Released INF Josh Gardnier, catcher Leonel Ledesma, OF Pete Leonello and OF Cody Semler.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Released INF Brett Balkan, C Brian McKenna and LHP Casey Rodriguez.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Signed OL Darius Johnson.

Waived T Tyrus Thompson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League OTTAWA SENATORS — Named Guy Boucher coach.

Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP Cody Anderson from Columbus (IL). Optioned OF Tyler Naquin to Columbus.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed 3B Mike Moustakas on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Cheslor Cuthbert from Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed SS Eduardo Escobar on the 15-day DL. Announced RHP Casey Fien was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, May 9, 2016

Camel: It’s the other other red meat

BY BONNIE S. BENWICK ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON - Without the might of an ad campaign or trade association behind it, camel meat is unlikely to become a widespread option for people who identify as health-conscious red-meat lovers.

Yet there are signs it is making headway.

One such sign is the filet-size starburst neon-cardboard cutout, outlined in black Sharpie, that’s affixed to the freezer case at Wagshal’s Market: “We have camel!!”

Butcher Pam Ginsberg carries ground camel and camel rib-eye steaks in the Washington shop known for catering to a well-heeled clientele. “I get them in and mention it, and they’re gone,” she says. “People are buying it because it’s so lean.”

The camel meat Wagshal’s sells is from Australia, farm-raised. Ginsberg finds it bland-tasting when unseasoned and compares it overall to ostrich and, somewhat less so, bison. Australia is a major importer of camel meat, due to circumstances linked to the animal’s introduction to that continent in the mid19th century, for purposes of carrying heavy loads across inhospitable expanses of territory.

Efforts to cull the 1-million-strong feral camel population there resulted in a national campaign urging Australians to eat more camel and kangaroo.

With no natural predators, camels have become a powerful and destructive force for farms and water supplies, damaging infrastructure.

Health claims tout camel meat’s relatively high percentage of protein, kangaroo-low levels (1 to 2 percent) of fat and the near-absence of saturated fat. It is said to be high in amino acids, iron and glycogen, a stored form of carbohydrate that supports nerve-cell growth.

As a novelty item, ground camel meat clocks in at less than $20 per pound - substantially more than the $4-and-change average price of ground beef in the United States but modest in comparison with other “exotics,” such as imported and domestic alligator loin, wild boar and python.

Ginsberg says ground camel is typically made up of what the butcher assesses as “good meat,” from only the leg and trimmings of the animal. Anshu Pathak, owner of Exotic Meat Market, a California distributor that provides game to the likes of Food Network, imports vacuum-packed muscle cuts of camel - and hump fat, when he can get it - and grinds his own.

Pathak could qualify as official camel meat spokesman should the need for one ever arise. With little prompting, he enthuses about the flavor of the meat, its fat and its sustainability. What he imports, also from Australia, is wild camel that’s harvested at age 2 or 3; “we are recycling,” he says. Pathak reports a 3,000 percent rise in sales over the past year, although he will not quantify those sales further.

“Basically, it’s ethnic food for Africans and for some Indians, like me. I love it,” he says. “The fat is clean-tasting, creamy, amazing. The meat is clean-tasting, too.” He cooks with rendered camel fat when he can and uses it in the camel sausage he produces.

Pathak says the meat must be eaten on its own, preferably raw, to appreciate its unique flavor and texture. (Because it’s inspected rigorously before it leaves Australia and upon arrival in America, he says he feels secure making such a recommendation.)

Camel burgers seemed to be the way to sample the ground meat we bought at Wagshal’s. Because the meat is so lean, cooking it properly is key. We tweaked a blog recipethat calls for a light touch

Camel Burgers

6 toasted, buttered hamburger buns (on the small side), for serving

6 servings Ground camel is one of the leanest red meats around, and these burgers taste extra meaty because of it.

It’s good to closely monitor their internal temperature with an instant-read thermometer, to avoid overcooking.

Ground camel meat is available via several online purveyors, including ExoticMeatsMarket.com.

Adapted from a recipe by Christopher James Clark, author of “Nutritional Grail: Ancestral Wisdom, Breakthrough Science and the Dawning Nutritional Renaissance” (Extropy Publishing, 2014).

Steps Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat.

Combine the camel meat, red onion, garlic, tamari, the cumin and coriander (to taste) and cilantro in a mixing bowl.

Gently blend with your clean hands until well incorporated, then shape the mixture into 6 patties of equal size that are about 1 inch thick.

Arrange them in the pan so they are not touching; cook for about 6 minutes or until nicely browned on the bottom, then turn them over. Transfer the skillet to the oven and cook for 6 to 8 minutes; after 5 minutes, begin spot-checking the internal temperature of the burgers with an instant-read thermometer. Pull them out at 140 degrees; let them rest (in the pan) for 5 minutes before serving on toasted, buttered buns.

Ingredients 2 pounds ground camel meat (see headnote) 1/2 medium red onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced or put through a garlic press 2 tablespoons wheat-free tamari (may substitute low-sodium soy sauce) 2 to 3 teaspoons ground cumin 2 to 3 teaspoons ground coriander 2 tablespoons finely chopped cilantro of seasonings, onion and cilantro. The raw meat is a rich, deep red and barely holds together when shaped into patties.

We started the burgers in a cast-iron skillet on the stove top and finished them in the oven, to 150 degrees and a pinkish medium-rare interior. Several dozen volunteer tasters who ranged from apprehensive to concert-line enthusiastic gave the burgers a thumbs up, deeming the meat chewy, somewhat crumbly, extra-meaty and “no mistaking it for beef.”

We found no trace of the tongue-coating mouth feel that an 80-20 (lean meat-to-fat ratio) burger can in-

Nutrition | Per serving (without buns): 160 calories, 34 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, 2 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 95 mg cholesterol, 420 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar duce.

Distributor Pathak suggests an alternative cooking method for ground camel: Shape two patties’ worth, eight ounces each, with no seasoning. Place them in a screaming-hot pan to cook for a minute or so, then flip them over and add a scant cup (15 tablespoons) of water to the pan. Cover and cook until the meat absorbs the water and reaches an internal temperature of no more than 145 degrees.

That way, he says, you’ll understand camel’s flavor, texture and taste - a novelty, perhaps, for those health-conscious lovers of red meat.

Pasta salad that will turn ramp haters into lovers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On the surface, ramps are a lovely harbinger of spring, wild leeks that are unable to be cultivated, hence part of their mystique (think truffles).

They also are one of the first vegetables to appear in farmers markets and on chefs’ menus after a winter of tubers and citrus.

They essentially taste like a very garlicky leek or scallion. But the attention they’ve had has put them firmly on a pedestal, seeming out of reach of mere home cooks.

At the moment, some people still think it’s cool to worship the mighty ramp, and others pronounce ramps “yesterday.” I think the very idea of fashion and a member of the onion family in one sentence is just weird. I also think the flavour is fantastic, and I love that you can use the whole thing, stem to stern.

But what I think is even better is the fact that I can drag my kids into a wooded area in Connecticut where we have discovered that ramps grow rampant (sorry, I had to).

So, I will let the foodies duke it out. I will just continue to prod my children into the trees and derive a perfect shiver of pleasure from cooking with something we pulled up from the ground and didn’t even plant.

PASTA SALAD WITH CHICKEN, GREEN OLIVES AND RAMP VINAIGRETTE Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 8 1 pound dried penne 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided About 40 ramps, cleaned, roots trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces (including leaves) 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar

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1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or more to taste 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, or more to taste 4 cups cubed cooked chicken 1 cup roughly chopped green olives 1/2 cup packed torn fresh basil Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook according to package directions. Drain, then rinse under cool water. Set aside.

Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Add the ramps and saute for 10 minutes, or until very ten-

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Once the ramps are cooked, in a food processor combine a little more than half of the ramps, the remaining 1/2 cup of olive oil, the vinegar, honey, Dijon, salt and pepper. Puree until smooth.

In a large bowl combine the cooked ramps, cooked and cooled pasta, vinaigrette, chicken, olives and basil. Toss well to combine thoroughly.

Nutrition information per serving: 550 calories 220 calories from fat (40 per cent of total calories) 24 g fat (3 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 50 mg cholesterol 1070 mg sodium 53 g carbohydrate 2 g fiber 5 g sugar 26 g protein.

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BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

1290

Property clean up 505-4777

Painters/ Decorators

1310

MIKE’S Refresh Painting Exterior/Interior, Prompt & Courteous Service 403-302-8027

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

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10 yr. warranty on all work.

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Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

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Yard Care

1900

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Wedding Supplies

1910

VINTAGE Wedding Dress XS, (approx. size 2), Ivory embossed, satin broquet, Full length. $200.

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3020

3050

GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

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ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

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Suites

3060

1630

Garden Supplies

1430

SECOND 2 NONE, reg. and res. grass cutting/yard clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ rock and sod jobs/eaves.

Free est. 403-302-7778 SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call Ken 403-304-0678 THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

1680

NEW Honda rototiller, $700, and new Honda trimmer, $475. Never been used. 403-350-0024

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

VCR, $20; DVD surround sound system, $40.

403-782-3847

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1760

3030

1 BDRM. + den with window, 6 appls., hardwood flrs, in suite laundry, incld’s all utils., amenities include gym, social room. $100 off rent for 1st two mos., Will consider DD in 2 payments. will consider furn. if req’d at additional rate. $1290./mo.

403-358-4582 2 BDRM. townhouse w/5 appls, avail. immed. rent $895. 403-314-0209 AVAIL. May 1, 3 & 4 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl., hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping & schools.$975 - $1100 + util. + d.d. 403-506-0054

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT 6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020 COFFEE Pot, Martello Espresso Machine, $50.

403-872-1014 COVERALLS, new size 42, $20; Blankets (4) $10. ea.; Flannelette Sheets (2) sets, dble., $10 pr.; cushions, (3) $10. ea., portable singer sewing machine $50; electric adding machine, new in box, $20; Willow baskets, (4) $10. ea.; gallon pails, with lids, (4), $1. ea.; Manufactured peanut butter jars (5), .75 Homes ea. 403-309-5494 GREAT MOTHER’S GIFT! WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm.

Makeup, from New York, mobile home close to Joffre red hot crocodile bag, 12 $810 inclds. water, 5 appl. eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 403-348-6594 nail polish, 1 lip gloss.

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May 1. 403-304-5337 587-876-2914 CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 UNIQUE black metal bathroom mirror, towel bar, bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, towel ring, and 2 hangers no pets, Avail. May 10 look like “gazelles”. All for and June 1. 403-391-1780 $65. 403 309-3475

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3050

Motorcycles

5080

PADS $450/mo.

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Motorhomes

5100

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 3 BDRM. 1,000 sq. ft. apt. for rent in Sylvan Lake.

Ref. req. No pets. $1,100/mo. Viewings avail.

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403-307-5505

CITY VIEW APTS. 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

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4100

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1976 DODGE motor home, new tires and brakes, sleeps 4, good cond., 85,000 kms, $2500. obo.

403-782-4504

Boats & Marine

5160

RARE OPPORTUNITY LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, SUITES. 25+, adults only $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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Condos/ Townhouses

3190

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3 BDRM., main flr. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, Rental incentives avail.

TRAILERS for sale or rent 1/2 util. *** RENTED*** 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

Job site, office, well site or NORTH RD, clean 3 bdrm. only, N/S, No pets. storage. Skidded or exc. cond., good storage, 5 403-596-2444 wheeled. Call 347-7721. appls., blinds, fenced yard, high berm behind unit. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent 403-347-6081 or 396-1269 $750, last month of lease Firewood SYLVAN: fully furn. rentals free, immed. occupancy. incld’s all utils. & cable.

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1210

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1830

Cats

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1760

WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020 WINDOW Air conditioner, 5000 BTU, Gen. Electric $80. 403-872-1014 WINEMAKING supplies.

Carboys, corker, filters, electric filter machine, thermometer, all equipment needed to start up. $200.

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4120

Industrial Property

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Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

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Roommates Wanted

3080

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Offices

3110

Downtown Office Large waiting room, 2 offices & storage room, 403-346-5885

Pasture

3180

PASTURE North Red Deer. 10 cow/calf pairs, no bulls, no yearlings. 403-346-5885

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NKorea ready to improve ties with world

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use its nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is invaded and announced a five-year economic plan at a milestone congress of North Korea’s ruling party, which entered its third day Sunday.

Kim said he is ready to improve ties with “hostile” nations, and called for more talks with rival South Korea to reduce misunderstanding and distrust.

He also urged the United States to stay away from inter-Korean issues.

“Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty,” Kim said in a roughly three-hour speech shown Sunday on the North’s Korean Central Television.

Kim is believed to have delivered the speech at Pyongyang’s April 25 House of Culture the day before, but its content wasn’t made public until early Sunday.

At the congress, Kim also announced a five-year plan starting this year to develop the North’s moribund economy, and identified improving the country’s power supply and increasing its agricultural and light-manufacturing production as critical parts of the program. He also said the country must secure more electricity through nuclear power.

It was first time North Korea has announced a five-year plan since the 1980s and detailing it in such a public way demonstrated that Kim is taking ownership of the country’s economic problems, something his father, Kim Jong Il, avoided as leader.

Kim stressed that the country needs to increase its international trade and engagement in the global economy, but didn’t announce any significant reforms or plans to adopt capitalist-style marketization.

Market-style business has become more common in North Korea, in large part because of its economic crisis and famine in the 1990s, which made it impossible for the government to provide its citizens with the necessities they had come to rely on and forced many to learn how to fend for themselves.

But while the realities on the ground

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A North Korean man reads a local newspaper with an image of leader Kim Jong Un Sunday, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during a critical ruling party congress that his country will not use its nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is invaded, state media reported. have shifted, officials have been reluctant to formally embrace significant reforms as state policy.

Kim said that North Korea “will sincerely fulfil its duties for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and work to realize the denuclearization of the world.”

The North is ready to improve and normalize ties with countries hostile to it if they respect its sovereignty and approach it in a friendly manner, he said.

Despite the talks about more diplomatic activity, Kim also made it clear that the North has no plans to discard its “byongjin” policy of simultaneously developing its nuclear weapons and its domestic economy.

In a speech published by the North’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper, Kim described the twin policy as a strategy the party must permanently hold on to for the “maximized interest of our revolution.”

Many outside analysts consider the policy unlikely to succeed because of the heavy price North Korea pays for its nuclear program in terms of international sanctions that keep its economy from growing.

North Korea carried out its fourth nuclear test in January and followed with a satellite launch in February that was seen by outside governments as a banned test for long-range missile technology and brought tougher U.N. sanctions.

The North responded to the punitive measures, and also the annual U.S.-South Korean military drills in March and April, by firing a series of missiles and artillery into the sea. It also claimed advancements in developing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, and combined them with threats of pre-emptive nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul.

South Korea has taken a hard-line approach to North Korea following its nuclear test and long-range rocket launch, shutting down a jointly run factory park in a North Korean border town that had been the last remaining symbol of co-operation between the rivals and slapping Pyongyang with its own economic sanctions.

Emma and Noah still tops $429M Powerball jackpot for baby names in U.S. sold in New Jersey

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — When it comes to baby names, Emma and Noah reign supreme.

And don’t name your daughter Isis.

For the second year in a row, Emma and Noah top the annual list of top baby names in the U.S., according to the Social Security Administration. That’s the third year on top for Noah and the second in a row for Emma, which was also No. 1 in 2008.

The administration released its annual list of top baby names Friday, and the top five names for girls and boys in 2015 remained unchanged from the previous year. Noah was followed by Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. Emma was followed by Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella.

One major change was the girls’ name Isis, which had remained steadily in the middle of the pack of the country’s top 1,000 names for the last 15 years. In 2015, after the name had emerged as an acronym for the extremist group Islamic State, it dropped completely off the list.

That’s a dramatic shift, says Laura Wattenberg, baby name expert and founder of BabynameWizard.com.

“It’s actually quite rare for a name

to be eliminated by issues in the news,” she says, noting that the name Adolph was still at No. 555 in the U.S. at the end of World War II when the Nazis and Adolf Hitler fell.

There’s another recent example, though: the name Hillary dropped off the list in 2009, a year after Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic presidential primary to Barack Obama. The name was No. 721 in 2008.

Hillary remained off the list this year, as did the name of her current Democratic primary opponent, Bernie, as in Sanders.

Barack has never appeared in the top 1,000 names, and the popularity of the name of Obama’s predecessor, President George W. Bush, dropped slightly during his eight-year presidency, from No. 130 to No. 163.

The first name of this year’s presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, also dropped in 2015, from No. 418 to No. 441.

Wattenberg said that unlike in the past, parents avoid politics in name choices today. But names of past presidents remain popular. The girls’ name Kennedy, for example, is No. 57.

“We want our presidents out of office or preferably dead before we name our babies after them,” Wattenberg said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Marcelo Chilel said the convenience store where he works in New Jersey’s capital city does a steady lottery business, with more people showing up when the jackpots get big.

One of the people that came this past week is now holding one of the largest winning tickets in the history of Powerball.

Only one ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing for a $429.6 million jackpot, said Powerball spokeswoman Kelly Cripe, and New Jersey lottery officials said Sunday it was sold at a 7-Eleven store in Trenton. The winning Powerball numbers were 5-25-26-44-66 and the Powerball number was 9.

“We have never had a winning ticket this big, not even close,” said Chilel, adding that his colleagues are amazed that it happened. “It’s great that they got it here.”

The ticket holder did not immediately come forward to claim the prize.

Chilel said that when he heard the ticket was sold in Mercer County, he thought it would be great if it was sold at the store where he works. And when he found out that was the case, he says

he felt very happy for the customer.

New Jersey lottery officials were also ecstatic about the news.

“Winning the Powerball jackpot is a life-changing event. Congratulations to the ticketholder(s) and to the retailer who sold it,” New Jersey Lottery executive director Carole Hedinger said in a statement. “We expect that the winner or winners will take their time before claiming the prize and consult with the appropriate professionals that can assist them in navigating these unchartered waters. Certainly though, we will be anxiously awaiting the phone call.”

Hedinger said the jackpot is the seventh-largest in Powerball jackpot history.

The jackpot Saturday was the largest since a record $1.6 billion payout in January. That jackpot was shared by three winning tickets.

Only one winning ticket will claim Saturday night’s prize, though it was not immediately known if that ticket was held by one person or multiple people. Cripe said a winner, or co-winners, electing a one-time cash payout will receive $284.1 million.

Several lottery players in New Jersey who don’t hold the winning ticket said Sunday that they wish the big winner well.

Snapchat accounts re-post debauchery for all to see

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — They are images of dormitory drug use, drunken debauchery and naked selfies — captured by self-destructing photo apps such as Snapchat.

But social media images intended to be fleeting, and for a limited group of friends, are taking on a longer life and a much larger audience through unsanctioned accounts that collect posts from students and repost them to anyone who subscribes.

The accounts raise questions about child pornography, revenge porn and invasions of privacy, because people in the background of photos and videos featured in these rogue accounts may not have consented to the post being shown to a wider audience. These accounts have cropped up at at least 26 universities and colleges across the country, according to an analysis by The Canadian Press.

“This is likely promoting all kinds of serious invasions of privacy,” said Wayne MacKay, who is a law professor at Dalhousie University and a cyberbullying expert.

“Unless they themselves are submitting it, and that’s probably not normally the case.”

Here’s how the accounts work: Users send in photos and videos of what appear to be students to a Snapchat account that chronicles life at a school. The account then re-posts the

information for all its followers to see — without identifying the users who submitted them.

The peer-to-peer messages are supposed to automatically delete after 10 seconds. Using unauthorized third-party applications to re-upload content to Snapchat, the accounts compile these pictures and videos into “stories,” short vignettes that can be viewed by thousands of followers within their daylong lifespan.

Each story cycles through crowdsourced clips, such as study-break selfies, keg parties, bongs, public slut-shaming and young people in various stages of undress.

MacKay voiced concerns about whether all the naked subjects of these photos were of age and had consented to their distribution.

“The law and policy has not kept pace with the development of technology and social media,” said MacKay, who chaired Nova Scotia’s cyberbullying task force.

Images on Snapchat expire after 24 hours, only to be replaced by a fresh supply of photos. These accounts often feature risque content.

“Look how big our mouths are,” one photo reads in pink letters, punctuated by a winky face. Two girls smile wide for the camera, jaws agape.

“Where are the (breasts)?” a user asks, and a few clips later, he had an answer.

Snapchat’s community guidelines dictate that the app is not to be used

“for any illegal shenanigans” including pornography, nudity involving minors, invasions of privacy, threats, harassment or impersonation.

“Snapchat is about sharing moments and having fun,” the company’s community guidelines read. “We will do our best to enforce (the rules) consistently and fairly, and ultimately we’ll try to do what we think is best in each situation, at our discretion.”

Snapchat has 100 million daily users with eight billion videos viewed on the app per day.

Snapchat did not initially respond to multiple requests for comment on how it monitors accounts for questionable content. After a version of this article appeared online, a Snapchat spokesperson said Monday the company has taken action against accounts violating its terms of service agreement.

The spokesperson said Snapchat has a trust and safety team that reviews reports of abuse and responds to violations.

The company said it cooperates with investigations from law enforcement and details these requests in a bi-annual transparency report.

Proprietors of these accounts set up multiple usernames, presumably to elude detection.

“This account WILL get banned,” an account featuring clips from University of Toronto students warns, suggesting followers add another account as backup for when it does.

This whack-a-mole has given rise to Snapchat knock-off mobile apps that offer many of the same services as Snapchat, with even less oversight.

Mojo - College Stories, formerly known as Fleek, is an iPhone app that lets users upload photos and videos to campus-wide accounts, based on their location. Submissions are anonymous, and anyone who downloads the app can see them.

“Your Unofficial Campus Story that WON’T GET BANNED,” the iTunes description reads. “You have all the power, not Snapchat.”

Unlike Snapchat, which is approved for children 12 and older, Mojo - College Stories recommends that its users be at least 17.

The app’s terms of service prohibits “unauthorized activities” including submissions that incite illegal activity, exploit minors or violate the legal rights of others, but the app also states that it does not necessarily police posts Neither Mojo - College Stories nor its developer, Squid’s Inc., could be reached for comment.

On Mojo - College Stories, The Canadian Press found channels about 26 universities and colleges, with a following of more than 25,000 total users.

This could be a fraction of the true audience.

The app is most popular in Halifax with nearly 6,000 users, and Dalhousie University topped the list of schools with more than 3,000 online.

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‘Civil War’ slays on opening weekend

Anthony Mackie as Falcon, from left, Paul Rudd as Ant Man, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Chris Evans as Captain America, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlett Witch and Sebastian Stan as Winter Soldier appear in a scene from ‘Captain America: Civil War.’ Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DISNEY/MARVEL’S ‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR’ NABS FIFTH BEST-OPENING EVER LOS ANGELES — What superhero fatigue? Disney and Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has strongarmed its way to becoming the fifth-highest domestic opening ever according to comScore estimates Sunday.

The film grossed a massive $181.8 million this weekend, bumping Iron Man 3 out of the top five all time debuts. Civil War now ranks right below Marvel’s The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, which hold the third and fourth place spots.

It’s nearly double the opening of the previous Captain America film, The Winter Soldier, which opened to $95 million in April 2014, but that is at least partially attributable to the fact that Civil War is basically an Avengers movie in disguise.

Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, Civil War sees an ideological showdown between Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) and is packed to the brim with Avengers old and new. It’s been very well-received by critics and, now, audiences, who gave the film a promising “A” CinemaScore, which should bode well for the film’s longevity.

Audiences were 59 per cent male and mostly adults.

Teens made up only 11 per cent of the audience.

After a $75 million first day, the opening was right in line with expectations, and according to comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, is well on its way to becoming a $1 billion movie.

“We’ve become so accustomed to these massive numbers, now we’re putting up single day numbers that would be very noteworthy opening weekends on their own,” Dergarabedian said.

Civil War cost a hefty $250 million to produce but has already far-surpassed that thanks to a healthy international debut last weekend and a big bump from China this weekend. In sum, the superhero

showdown has earned $678.4 million globally to date.

Great reviews and word of mouth will surely distinguish Civil War from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which, by comparison, opened to $166 million in late March but fell sharply over the subsequent weekends. That film has earned $327.3 domestically million to date and this weekend placed 10th with $1 million.

As is to be expected when there’s only one new wide release, the rest of films on the box office charts looked paltry in comparison. The only big change was that Civil War effectively ended the three week first-place run of Disney’s The Jungle Book which came in second with $21.9 million, bringing its domestic total to $285 million.

Aside from the flop of The Finest Hours in January, Disney is having a great 2016 and this weekend surpassed the $1 billion domestic mark in a record 128 days. It took 165 days to reach that threshold last year. The Marvel element is a key portion of that and one that other studios are trying to match.

“The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Studios team as led by Kevin Feige has really been a model for consistency in extraordinary storytelling,” said Dave Hollis, Disney’s executive vice-president of theatrical distribution. “Kevin has established this interlocking, interwoven cinematic universe that is not just unprecedented in terms of its size and scale, but also it’s really unparalleled in entertainment today, the $9 billion in business that they’ve done in 12 movies.”

Hollis credits the continued and growing success of the franchise to Feige’s commitment to quality and also the strategy of each year releasing one Marvel film that is familiar to audiences and one that is new. In 2015, that meant having an Avengers movie and Ant-Man, and in 2014, it was a Captain America movie and Guardians of the Galaxy. This year, the new element will be Doctor Strange, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and debuts in November.

James Taylor to give Alberta concert proceeds to Fort McMurray community

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON — James Taylor is leaning on his music to help Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees.

The “Carolina in My Mind” singer has made two Alberta concerts next month into benefits that will raise money for the wildfire rescue efforts.

He says proceeds from tickets to his shows in Calgary on June 7 and Edmonton on June 8 will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.

“To turn those couple of shows into benefits is just too good an opportunity to pass up,” Taylor said in a phone interview from his tour bus.

“It’s a major national catastrophe and it’s just impossible to ignore it.”

Taylor says the idea came from conversations with his Canadian manager Sam Feldman on Friday, as he rolled into Ottawa for the first of a 15-concert tour of Canadian cities over the next month.

“You just don’t want to think of profiting at a time like this,” Taylor says.

“It’s a time when something better can be done with the money.”

James Taylor

More than 80-thousand residents of Fort McMurray have been displaced by the fires which began last week.

Forest fire officials say it could be months before they’ve fully extinguished the massive blaze, which has already spread across two-thousand square kilometres of northern Alberta.

Taylor has frequently participated in fundraising events for social and political

causes.

“It’s a feeling … of community hat happens at a concert that is so compelling,” he says.

“It’s kind of a spiritual thing. It’s the closest I get to church.”

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“You couldn’t have a better lead in for the summer,” said Dergarabedian, who noted that Memorial Day weekend should also be quite significant with the release of Alice Through the Looking Glass and X-Men: Apocalypse.

“Even though on paper it might not look as strong as last year, the summer of 2016 shouldn’t be underestimated,” Dergarabedian said.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. Captain America: Civil War, $181.8 million ($220 million international).

2. The Jungle Book, $21.9 million ($24.1 million international).

3. Mother’s Day, 9 million ($3 million international).

4. The Huntsman: Winter’s War, $3.6 million ($4.2 million international).

5. Keanu, $3.1 million.

6. Barbershop: The Next Cut, $2.7 million.

7. Zootopia, $2.7 million ($5.7 million international).

8. The Boss, $1.7 million ($510,000 international).

9. Ratchet and Clank, $1.5 million ($500,000 international).

10. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, $1 million.

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Self-centered sister gives no support KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I have suffered with lymphoma for 17 years, but praise God, I am doing well now.

Ten years ago, my sister, “June,” was tested to see if she could be a bone marrow donor. She was a perfect genetic match and bragged that she had the “right stuff.” The donation wasn’t necessary at that time, but it was reassuring.

June began calling me weekly to tell me her troubles with her cheating husband, her finances, her dog, etc. I was supportive and helpful.

Last year, I was hospitalized with severe pneumonia, spent two weeks in intensive care, and was so weak I ended up in a wheelchair. June never

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPE Monday, May 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Glenda Jackson, 80; Billy Joel, 67; Candice Bergen, 70 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars are all about being creative and compassionate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Moral Courage, others admire your strong moral compass. The next 12 months is the time to develop your creative talents — especially at work.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams are feeling restless! Use your fiery energy in a range of different ways today, so you don’t end up getting bored. Set yourself a challenge as you take a dream and spin it into rock-solid reality.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stubbornly sticking to a set point of view will get you nowhere fast today Taurus — especially with loved ones. Whereas a flexible and fun attitude will make the day run a lot more smoothly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s a great day to do what Twins do best — talk, laugh and joke with family and friends. Just make sure you are gregarious rather than garrulous; and stimulating rather than superficial!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The more compassionate and creative you are Crabs, the better the day will be. The stars encourage you to dream big dreams, as you tap into exciting ideas from a stimulating new crowd.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Artistic inspiration is high but so is the inclination to delude yourself,

once called or visited, nor did she return any of my calls.

My oncologist informed me that I desperately needed the bone marrow transplant or I might die.

When I finally talked to June, she told me my illness was making her anxious. I asked if she could donate blood so that I could get ready for the bone marrow transplant.

She laughed and said, “I thought you were supposed to die last month.”

She then told me that donating blood didn’t fit into her schedule, and would I please stop telling her my troubles.

She insulted me for 20 minutes before hanging up. Shortly after, she sent me a letter, which I assumed would be an apology. Boy, was I wrong! She said I had made no effort to understand that she was frightened, and the rest of her letter was nothing but cruel words.

I realized then that she was never going to donate. I was fortunate to find a wonderful unrelated donor, had the

transplant, and spent five months in the hospital.

June just sent me a birthday gift.

I can’t bring myself to open it and I can’t seem to throw it away. Annie, I don’t want to deal with June’s self-pity again, but I often cry about losing a sister. How can I get over my hurt? — Disappointed in Texas Dear Texas: June’s fears and anxiety are no excuse for nastiness. The way to get over your hurt is to forgive her for being cowardly and self-centered, and decide whether you are willing to maintain the relationship on a more superficial level, expecting much less from her from now on.

If so, open the gift and send a thankyou note, the same way you would for a distant acquaintance.

Otherwise, return her gift unopened and look for supportive friends and family members elsewhere. You can start with support groups through the American Cancer Society (cancer.org).

or to be led astray by a smooth-talking operator. Don’t let flattery go to your head and take the place of common sense.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You think you’ve got the answers but a relationship problem is much more complicated than appears on the surface. It’s definitely not black and white — there are many shades of grey in between.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If a romantic relationship isn’t going well, it’s up to you to take steps to improve it — or be brave enough to walk away. Single Librans — if you’re looking for love, you’ll have to be proactive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you dealing with an ongoing difficult situation? Use your fertile imagination to come up with a fresh approach to an old problem. Plus pay close attention to the messages in your nightly dreams.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many Sagittarians will feel mighty restless today, so find challenging and creative ways to amuse and occupy yourself. Kindness and compassion will take you far, both at home and at work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Controlling Capricorns can easily get stuck in a rut. With the Moon shaking up your daily routine zone, itís the perfect time to turf your regular timetable and be more creative and spontaneous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re feeling inspired, as you come up with a creative way to fix an annoying old problem. Make sure you socialize with friends who celebrate your idiosyncrasies and encourage your dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Enthusiasm is high as you’re keen to show others what you are really capable of. But keep your feet on the ground today Pisces, and don’t promise more than you can realistically deliver.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Dear Annie: You had a letter from “Stressed Daughter,” who is the primary caregiver for her elderly mother.

Please suggest that she contact her local area agency on aging. She can search by ZIP code at www.n4a.org.

I work for the local Department of Aging and Long Term Care in my area, and we offer an extensive variety of support and information. — Trying to Help Dear Trying: Thank you for the additional, useful suggestion. We hope anyone in this position will check their local area agency on aging for assistance in finding resources.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

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