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Fast action saved city ‘OCEAN OF FIRE’ DESTROYED ABOUT 10 PER CENT OF BUILDINGS IN FORT MCMURRAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachell Notley says the “ocean of fire” that hit Fort Mc-Murray burned about 10 per cent of the build-ings, but the hard work of firefighters saved the e bulk of the city so it can be rebuilt.

“The fast action and the hard work and the e dedication and the smarts of these first re-sponders has, it appears, saved almost 90 perr cent of the city of Fort McMurray,” she said d Monday after a ground tour of the devastation.

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A burnt out pick up truck is seen in the driveway of a burnt down home in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood in Fort McMurray on Monday.

PC AGM Public market prepared for move to Memorial Centre parking lot Conservatives ‘have

got to find a way to work together’

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Dennis Moffat admits he has been worried for months.

And come very early on the Saturday morning of the May long weekend, the manager of one of Red Deer’s biggest attractions — The Market at Red Deer — will know if the worry paid off in advance of its 46th season.

The public market, which attracts hundreds of vendors and thousands of shoppers every summer Saturday, is being relocated for the first time in decades from the old Arena parking lot downtown to the Memorial Centre at 4214 58 St. Moffat said Monday that he is prepared for the change, which will see the market located on about three-quarters of the space that the previous location offered.

“We’re good to go. Pretty well everything is in place. Garbage bins and barricades and signs are being delivered on Thursday.

“It’s all falling into place. It just seems to be a worrisome thing. I think I’m creating worries where there are none.

“Hopefully we can fit everybody in but it’s going to be very circus-like on that first day.” Vendors won’t know where they are going and will need to be taken to their spot, Moffat said. “This will be a learning process. … They just have to be patient.”

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Red Deer Market owner, manager Dennis Moffat said he will be canvassing the Waskasoo neighbourhood next week as organizers prepare for the opening of The Market at Red Deer, which is moving to the Memorial Centre parking lot while the Red Deer Arena is rebuilt ahead of the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF It’s going to take conservatives with centrist views coming together, as well as new blood, to defeat the current NDP government, a long-time Red Deer Tory said Monday.

Jim Foster, who served as a cabinet minister in two portfolios in the Peter Lougheed government, was one of about 1,000 Progressive Conservatives who attended the party’s annual general meeting at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on the weekend.

Foster, 76, served as a Queen’s Bench justice for 20 years. During that time he couldn’t be involved in politics, but since retiring has become active again.

At age 31 he was the youngest cabinet minister of the Lougheed government, first serving as Advanced Education minister and then later as Attorney General.

He said he is one of the people that thinks the “common sense people in the middle, in the PC and Wildrose parties, have to get their heads together somehow to form a government. … Somehow or other those two parties have got to find a way to work together.”

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Province chips in $3.24M for sewage line to Lacombe

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The Alberta government has come through with $3.24 million to kick start a regional sewage line from Red Deer to Lacombe.

Expected to cost about $60 million, the much-needed line will connect Lacombe and Blackfalds to Red Deer’s wastewater plant and take the treatment burden off the smaller communities.

So urgent was the need to get the project rolling, Blackfalds, Lacombe and Lacombe County joined forces to bankroll the detailed design and development work in case provincial funding failed to appear.

With the news that the province has stepped up to cover those costs, the communities can now look at other options to move the project forward, said Lacombe operations and planning director Matthew Goudy.

“The money that has been allocated from the municipalities’ own coffers would be used toward the project but, potentially, a different component of the project,” Goudy said on Monday.

Money set aside by the municipalities could be used to begin buying land for the pipeline right-ofway. The three municipal councils have yet to decide where to direct the money.

The provincial funding comes at a time when sewage treatment plants for both Lacombe and Blackfalds were almost “maxed out.” Communities are already looking at some temporary fixes to extend the life of their facilities but are reluctant to pump millions into stop-gap measures.

A recent cost-benefit analysis confirmed that a regional sewer line is the best option based on financial, environmental and sustainability factors.

Besides addressing a top priority for the communities, the project will provide jobs and an economic boost to the area, says Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie.

Blackfalds Mayor Melodie Stol says in a statement announcing the funding the sewer line is the number one infrastructure priority in her community.

“This crucial project will provide immense benefit for our growing community and the region; however it is one that can only be moved forward with the support of the province of Alberta.”

The first phase — on which construction could begin next year — features an eight-km link from Blackfalds to Red Deer along with a pumping station.

Phase 2 would create a 17-km link from Blackfalds to Lacombe with a pumping station at the north end.

An odour management facility in Red Deer and other measures to handle the smell at other points in the system are also envisioned.

First proposed about a decade ago, the sewage line was pitched as part of three-leg project.

The first leg, a 90-km line serving Olds, Bowden, Innisfail, Penhold, Mountain View County and Red Deer County was officially opened last fall. It transports wastewater to Red Deer, where it is treated before being released into the river. Costing about $132 million, the regional sewage line was funded 90 per cent by the province. Communities along the line covered the rest through their partnership in the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission.

A similar funding arrangement will be pursued by the North Red Deer Regional Wastewater Services Commission.

The third leg from Red Deer to Sylvan Lake and nearby summer villages remains on the back burner.

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About 400 participants were expected to participate in the third annual Tsurucon anime and multi-media convention in Red Deer on Saturday. Here from the left are Brett Lewis as Elecman, Taylor Nodrick as Kylo Ren and Fawad Hamidi as Sora from Kingdom Hearts outside Lindsay Thurber High School, where the event took place. The convention is held to provide an avenue for a wide variety of fans and enthusiasts to express themselves and their passion for anime, comics and other multimedia arts. A number of events through the day kept participants busy including Cosplay contests, table top games, gaming, a marketplace and a dance Saturday night.

Council approves planning tool to protect Red Deer’s water supply

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Plans are now in place to conserve and protect Red Deer’s water supply.

Council approved the Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity Plan as a planning tool on Monday.

The plan updates, revises and builds on the city’s 2007 water conservation strategy and updates the water targets in the Environmental Master Plan.

By 2035, the city has set a target to reduce residential water to 169 litres per capita per day (lpcp) from its existing 195 lpcp (2014 numbers).

The city has already reached its target of 195 lpcp by 2020, which was set out in the Environmental Master Plan.

Katina Tam, the city’s environmental program specialist, said this is a positive sign that the existing programs and strategies are effective. She said the new plan will help the city continue on that path and sets more aggressive targets.

Tam said while Red Deer is not facing a water shortage, it is critical to protect the long-term potable water supply as the population continues to grows and in anticipation climate change impacts

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Council passes 3.13% tax hike The average home owner will pay $85 more annually in property taxes this year.

Council passed the 2016 tax rate bylaw, which calls for a combined 3.13 per cent increase for residential, multi-family and non-residential property classes on Monday. It takes into account the municipal tax requirement and the requisitioned amounts

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Tam said she said as the population increases so will the demand for water. More than two thirds of the city’s corporate energy use is linked to the water and waster-water system, said Tam. The industry, chimerical and institutional sector uses 355 lpcd and the target is to get the number down to 95 by 2035.

A new set of targets around water losses such as leaks in the system, meter system inaccuracies and potential misuses was added to the plan. A total of 13 per cent of Red Deer’s water usage is attributed to water losses. The goal is bring the number down to 10 seven per cent.

Tam said the key to reach the targets is to have programs and initiatives in place.

There are 20 recommended initiatives such as exploring stormwater harvesting, grey water reuse and wastewater effluent reuse at city facilities and land and create an annual water efficiency excellence award.

The plan also includes an overview of the water and wastewater systems, water use trends, water conservation targets and conservation initiatives.

The plan will be reviewed every five years. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com from Alberta Education and the Piper Creek Foundation.

An owner of a residential home assessed at $325,000 will pay $7.05 per month more in total property tax. This brings the total annual tax bill to $2,789 from $2,704, an increase of $85 annually.

The City of Red Deer will collect more than $43.7 million in property taxes on behalf of the Government of Alberta to fund education in 2016.

Property tax notices will be mailed on May 20.

Taxes are due on June 30.

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Council opposes change to RCMP program

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer has taken a stand against proposed changes to the RCMP’s auxiliary constable program.

Council adopted an advocacy position asking Canada’s national police force to maintain the existing program following a joint-motion from Councillors Paul Harris and Buck Buchanan on Monday.

The federally-run program is currently under review and sweeping changes are expected, which will restrict the constables duties to non-enforcement duties and removing the Peace Officer status.

Harris said Red Deer would see an increased demand on the RCMP and on its budgets without the auxiliary constable program.

But he said it is not just about money.

Harris said the 14 auxiliary constables in Red Deer provide local wisdom to support police officers and safety initiatives.

Alberta BRIEFS Lacombe home sustains $215,000 in fire damage A Saturday house fire in Lacombe did about $215,000 in damage.

Lacombe Fire Department got the call about 11:50 p.m. of a fire on Mackenzie Crescent in the southeast corner of the city.

The fire was spotted by neighbours, who saw flames coming out of the house’s windows. Eighteen volunteer firefighters responded.

No one was home at the time of the fire and there were no injuries. Damage to the house is estimated at $200,000 with another $15,000 in damage to a neighbouring house.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Lacombe Police Service and fire investigators.

Father of quads says seeing one baby after another ‘like a magic show’ EDMONTON — An Alberta couple will mark their first wedding anniversary next month not as a couple but as a full family of six.

Bethani and Tim Webb of Hythe, 500 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, became the parents of four identical baby girls on Friday. Obstetric and neonatal specialists at an Edmonton hospital

“We have to take an advocacy stance,” said Harris. “We can’t lose our local wisdom. We can’t lose those officers. We can’t afford the budget. At every level, it makes no sense that we would cancel that program.”

Harris said these auxiliary officers, like police, know the risks when they sign up. He said many auxiliary constables have more experience than a recently graduated police officer.

Coun. Buck Buchanan said the auxiliary constables make a valuable contribution to public safety.

Coun. Tanya Handley said she hopes there will be increased safety protocols introduced while the program is maintained.

The city will now ask the RCMP to maintain the auxiliary program and Alberta Urban Municipalities Association to adopt a policy position and the Federation of the Canadian Municipalities to adopt as an emergent resolution in support of the auxiliary program. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com delivered the naturally conceived quadruplets by caesarean section.

A nurse told the Webbs during the pregnancy that the odds of having natural quads are one in 67 million.

The Webbs held a media availability on Monday at Royal Alexandra Hospital, where Bethani has been since St. Patrick’s Day. Emily, Grace, McKayla and Abigail were due June 29.

Three of the babies weighed right around four pounds. The tiniest was three pounds.

The four little ones are in the neonatal intensive care unit where they are expected to stay for at least another four weeks.

“Right now I’m glad they’re separated so we can tell them apart. But even just holding two side by side, I can’t tell them apart at all,” the new mom told CTV Edmonton.

Tim Webb likened the birth to a magic show with one baby appearing right after the other.

The Webbs say they an extensive support system back in Hythe, where everyone is waiting for the new family to get home.

Calgary police investigating fire deaths of five men CALGARY — Police in Calgary are trying to determine if a fire that killed five men on the weekend is suspicious.

Fire crews responded to the house fire in the city’s northeast early Saturday and quickly brought it under control.

The bodies of five adult men were recovered from the home.

Police say it’s standard procedure when someone dies in a fire to bring in officers to investigate.

Interviews with witnesses are continuing.

Autopsies are underway and are expected to be completed today or Tuesday.

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Woman who stole cart of groceries jailed

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A woman who stole a cart full of groceries and tussled with a clerk who tried to stop her was sentenced to 15 days in jail on Monday.

Karla Lynn Pittman, 31, of Red Deer, who had previously pleaded guilty to assault and a number of theft and shoplifting charges was also given twoyear’s probation by Red Deer provincial court Judge Jim Glass.

As part of her probation she must not drink, and continue to receive alcohol counselling and attend Alcoholics Anonymous. She has already been accepted to an addictions treatment program.

Pittman was arrested in March 2014 after she tried to wheel a cartload of groceries out of the Safeway at Parkland Mall. When staff tried to stop her she resisted.

The Crown prosecutor had asked for a sentence of eight to 10 months because of her lengthy criminal record. Pittman’s probation officer had recommended a short prison sentence to send her a message.

Defence lawyer Kevin Schollie was seeking a sentence without any time behind bars.

In sentencing, Glass said Pittman was being given a “chance.” With her criminal past, the Crown prosecutor’s penalty suggestion was “not outside the range” of suitable sentences, said the judge.

Pittman will be allowed to serve her 15 days on weekends. As part of her probation, she is barred from Save-On Foods, Canada Safeway and Winners stores.

She was released on bail on March 18, 2014 and had not been in custody since.

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THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, May 10, 2016

War against diversity in Alberta schools JOHN STEWART OPINION

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group of Albertans has launched a campaign to protect “parental rights” and, if you don’t look too carefully, it might make a bit of sense.

After all, what parent doesn’t want to know what their child is learning, to have conversations about what is happening socially and culturally in school, and to help guide children through the minefield of peer pressure?

The group, Parents for Choice in Education, wants educational funding to follow the child and a school curriculum full of choice and discovery. It also talks about the parent being the key to all educational experience. And all of that make sense.

But there is much more here than initially meets the eye.

In a pamphlet it is distributing in protest of Bill 10 — which stipulates that a school must create a gay-straight alliance if a student requests it and enshrines protections based on gender identity and sexual orientation — Parents for Choice in Education calls for a rally to be held at the legislature on

May 14 as part of an effort “to protect ALL children and the parent/child relationship.”

The pamphlet, subtitled “Parental Rights of Albertans Are Being Removed By The Alberta Government,” says: “Please do not believe that if you are against these guidelines that you are discriminating against the LGBTQ community.”

The group’s message, however, goes far beyond a modest effort to ensure parents know what children are learning.

It wants to mute the message of diversity and tolerance, and limit children’s exposure to 21st century Alberta. And it wants those children to believe that anything other than a traditional heterosexual existence is unnatural and unacceptable.

The Parents for Choice in Education movement is disingenuous, misinformed and close-minded. Ultimately, it is likely dangerous to the children it purports to protect, denying them the opportunity all children deserve: to find whatever honest knowledge their inquisitive natures seeks. To discover who they are, not who their parents deem them to be.

To the rest of us, this group’s strident campaign is yet another barrier on the road to an open and welcoming society.

All parents should encourage their children to understand the value of

independent thought, the benefits of thorough analysis using all the facts and, in general, the payoff that a broad and inquiring perspective brings.

As a rule, parents should also help children gain enough perspective to realize that there are tired, exclusive and hurtful ways of life that are as damaging to them as they are to others.

So why is Parents for Choice in Education trying so desperately to cloister children and control their thoughts?

Why does this group want so emphatically to reject the kind of expansive, inclusive and progressive society that most Albertans want?

It’s not about homophobia, according to the group’s website, which goes to great lengths to concoct a pretzel logic to prove that its rejection of alternate sexuality is not a phobia.

The group says the term ‘homophobia’ unfairly demeans those who don’t accept that “homosexuality is normal, natural, healthy and worthy of full social, cultural and political acceptance,” or that gay marriage should be embraced.

So if they’re not homophobic, what does this group believe?

“Implementation of (Bill 10),” it maintains, “would invariably set in place policies which would condition children to accept as normal a life of impersonation of the opposite sex.”

It believes that you can treat gender orientation like you would treat any

other psychological condition, since it’s “an idea that exists in their mind.”

It maintains the medical community is “overwhelmingly in support of treating individuals with gender confusion by helping them accept their gender identity dictated by genetics.”

In its view, anyone who isn’t heterosexual can — and should be — cured.

God forbid that their children should ever be exposed to — let alone discover the true nature of themselves within – anything other than heterosexuality.

Certainly not on their watch, and not in the schools they send their children to.

There is a plenty of scare mongering on the subject of sex coming from Parents for Choice in Education. Bill 10, we are told, will result in perverts in school washrooms. And gay-straight alliances will result in unbridled sexual behaviour of all types.

It’s a short, perilous trip from fear of differences to intolerance, segregation and even hate.

And by putting blinkers on their children, and attempting to do so to all children, this flat-earth brigade does a massive disservice to those children and, ultimately, to society.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.

too large, or be too complicated and disenfranchise the electorate.

Would we be happy with the current system, if the politicians represented their constituents in the capital instead of being a representative of the party in their riding? Would we be happier if the Prime Minister, the Premiers, or the Mayor’s followed the wishes of their Members of Parliament, Members of the Legislatures, or the Members of Councils?

Now, it does look like our elected officials are sheep being herded by their masters, and there does need to be some discipline within party ranks, but it should not mean that they should cede all their powers, authority and responsibility to their leader.

Party members are also to blame.

They tend to accept being ordered about by party leaders and party brass and only getting fund raising communications. Party members should hold their leaders to account if they stray too far or implement policies that are not acceptable to the members.

The first-past-the-post is far from perfect but it has worked for this great country for nearly 150 years, and before we change it, we should ask ourselves; “Is it the system, or is it us?”

I just want my elected official to listen to me and not just talk at me.

If changing the system brings that to be, then go for it, but I doubt it. I think we the people just need stronger representatives.

So, Prime Minister, do not rush, take your time, and do the right thing, promises or no promises, do it right.

Garfield Marks Red Deer

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No guarantees electoral changes will be successful During the federal campaign in 2015 Justin Trudeau said that if elected this will be the last election using the firstpast-the-post election model. Should he keep that promise? Is it the system’s fault or is it the people we elect’s fault?

A respected scholar suggested it may be the docile nature of our elected representatives. If we had strong Members of Parliament representing their constituencies standing up to the Prime Minister’s Office, would the Prime Minister be so dictatorial? The same can be said with provincial and municipal politicians.

There are many criticisms of the first-past-the-post electoral model, but these same flaws that can elect a majority government with a minority vote, can just as easily change governments in the next election.

There are many options and they all have pros and cons.

The alternative or preferential ballot would likely see a third place candidate winning in a hotly contested election. Alberta’s former Premiers Stelmach and Redford come to mind, as they won the party leadership using the a form of preferential ballot.

Other ballots can be used, the electorate educated, and perhaps everyone will be happy, but I doubt it. Some options will give the party more control, make electoral ridings RED DEER

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Smokers need to think before their tossing cigarettes This is in regards to your “Think” cartoon on page A4 of the Advocate on Friday.

I was displaced from my job in Fort McMurray by the fires when I had to evacuate from site. We drove down to Red Deer, got some sleep and am now quite comfortable enjoying a coffee and reading your paper. Sadly, many are not so lucky.

One thing I saw that stuck with me was as we were starting our trip, just a few miles out of Anzac late that night in a line of vehicles, we saw a cigarette hit the ground thrown out of the vehicle ahead of us. Can you believe that? I am sure you have seen this before — it hits the road and immediately disintegrates into many small burning pieces. We are evacuating from a highly devastating fire, conditions are extreme, and we see this. Do they not see the connection or what? If you smoke, do us a favour — get an ashtray and use it.

Great cartooning and very timely.

Doug Brown Red Deer

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As I have a large bluebird trail I have been contacted by a number of birders that are not being successful in attracting bluebirds to their boxes.

Most of their box designs were taken off the internet. The hole sizes must be 1 9/16 inches no more no less for mountain bluebirds. Most internet plans are for eastern bluebirds that take a smaller entrance hole.

I hope this helps.

D. Murray Mackay Ponoka

Fort McMurray will be a boomtown again Fort McMurray will soon be a boomtown (provided the governments and insurance companies get it right) by providing thousands of construction jobs.

Pack your tools and get the camper ready. Then there is the supply of materials and goods that go along with the process. This will require shifting resources from building unneeded subdivisions in other parts of the province to the Fort McMurray area.

If you see the silver lining in every cloud, you would see this as another opportunity for economic recovery and employment.

Best wishes to ‘our 80,000 refugees’.

Jeff M. Hanson Delburne

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Canada BRIEFS Halifax military base locked down, reopened after report of person with gun HALIFAX — A military base in Halifax was locked down Monday for about an hour after receiving a report of a person with a gun.

The base was reopened at 3:15 p.m. local time after an investigation found “no evidence” to substantiate the report of the person.

Navy Lt. Len Hickey, a spokesman for the Shearwater base, says military police worked with the RCMP to deal with the perceived threat.

It’s the second time the base has been locked down in the past two weeks, with the base briefly being locked down on April 26 after a similar report.

Trudeau says mom, in-laws personally invited to state dinner by Obama OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is defending the size of the delegation that accompanied him during his first visit to Washington last March, revealing that at least three of them — his mother and his in-laws — were personally invited by U.S. President Barack Obama.

But Canadian taxpayers apparently still footed the bill for the prime minister’s family members.

A document tabled in the House of Commons last week disclosed that 44 people were part of the delegation, at a preliminary cost of just over $25,000, with some invoices and expense claims still to be tallied.

However, the Washington entourage pales by comparison to the enormous delegation that attended the two-week United Nations climate change summit in Paris last December.

According to a new document tabled in the Commons, 121 people attended some or all of the summit, including Trudeau who spent several days in Paris.

The total cost of transporting the delegation by government aircraft is estimated at $188,700. Accommodation, meals and other expenses are not included in the document, which was tabled in response to a written question from Conservative MP Ed Fast, who

was himself a member of the Paris delegation.

Canada to reposition itself on UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples OTTAWA — Canada is poised to embrace the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — even as the federal government remains under fire for the dire conditions facing the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said Monday that Canada will be changing its position on the declaration, removing its status as a permanent objector and becoming a full supporter of the document.

Bennett made the comments after Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould called on the United Nations to confront the legacies of colonialism around the world and to help rebuild communities for the world’s indigenous peoples.

The declaration and the work of the UN should be a “means to an end and not the end in itself,” Wilson-Raybould told delegates during a speech in the cavernous General Assembly.

“Let us make it a century where nation states and indigenous peoples work in partnership towards true reconciliation that supports strong and healthy indigenous peoples that are in charge of and in control of their own destinies.”

saw the deployed parachute rocket, and then the Canadian Coast Guard vessel, attended to provide rescue services,” says the document filed in B.C. Supreme Court.

It describes the Leviathan II as properly equipped and certified by Transport Canada, as well as complying with regulations regarding life-jackets and the distribution of passengers around the sightseeing craft.

“The capsize occurred through a combination of sea conditions, wind and waves generated naturally in such a manner as to be unforeseeable and not preventable by exercise of ordinary care, caution and maritime skill,” the document says.

“Injury, loss, damage or expense was caused by an act of God, was totally accidental and/or unforeseeable in nature, or was caused or contributed by the negligence of others not presently known.”

None of the allegations have been tested in court.

Chretien calls for decriminalization of marijuana possession HALIFAX — Former prime minister Jean Chretien says it’s time for Canada to decriminalize marijuana possession, saying the change is long overdue.

Chretien made the comment today after taking part in a ceremony to mark

Whale-watching company says fatal capsizing was ‘act of God’ VANCOUVER — The deadly capsizing of a whale-watching vessel off Vancouver Island last year was an “act of God” that could not have been reasonably predicted nor prevented, says the owner of a tour operator.

Jamie Bray of Jamie’s Whaling Station in Tofino, B.C., filed a court document responding to a proposed class-action lawsuit launched by brothers Christian and Dirk Barchfeld.

The German siblings were aboard the Leviathan II on Oct. 25, 2015, when the 20-metre vessel flipped, killing six people. They are accusing the company of negligence for allowing the Leviathan II out in treacherous ocean conditions.

The response to a civil claim praised Capt. Wayne Dolby, who is also named in the lawsuit, as well as other employees, for their life-saving actions.

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the official opening of a public policy think-tank at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

The former prime minister says it is unacceptable for anyone to be saddled with a criminal record for simply smoking marijuana.

When Chretien was prime minister, his government tried in 2003 to pass a law decriminalizing simple possession of small amounts of marijuana, but the bill died when Parliament was prorogued.

One of two men accused of killing Tim Bosma won’t take the stand in his defence HAMILTON — The accused killer of a Hamilton man who disappeared after taking two strangers on a test drive in a truck he was trying to sell will not testify in his own defence.

“The defence elects to call no evidence,” said Dellen Millard’s lawyer, Ravin Pillay, in court on Monday.

After a short recess, the lawyer for Millard’s co-accused, Mark Smich, said he will call evidence in the case, which means Smich could take the stand.

At that point, Millard looked over at Smich and shook his head.

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

Bosma vanished on May 6, 2013.

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Firefighters save homes but lose their own

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — When several firefighters learned their own homes had burned to the ground in Fort McMurray, they didn’t drop their hoses and take time to grieve.

Nick Waddington, president of the Fort McMurray firefighters union, says the crew members instead continued to face the scorching heat and licking flames that all but destroyed some neighbourhoods in the northern Alberta oilsands capital.

“It didn’t stop them. It didn’t slow them down,” Waddington said Monday.

“We had one guy stand at the end of his driveway, watch his house burn to the ground and then put in another 18 hours.”

Waddington couldn’t confirm the number of firefighters who lost their homes to the wildfire, but said an estimate circulating on social media of two dozen was “not off base.”

There are 179 crew in the department — 160 of them have worked tirelessly to battle the blaze since it spread into the city last Tuesday, he said.

More than 80,000 residents had to flee when the city issued a mandatory evacuation order. About 2,400 buildings were lost, but 25,000 were saved.

One firefighter did have a positive moment.

“After seeing the wreckage of our destroyed house, there was one thing to be happy about,” Scott Germain posted on Facebook.

Germain pulled a safe from the rubble, pried it open and pulled out a gun that was stored inside.

His wife had bought the gun for him, he said, and engraved a quote from their wedding on it, along with some quotes from his father and grandfather. He had wanted to keep it safe so he could pass it on to his own children someday.

“While this gun won’t be shooting anything, I am beyond words that we were able to get it,” Germain wrote.

Following a tour of devastated neighbourhoods Monday, fire chief Darby Allen spoke about a firefighter who showed “heroism” after failing to save his own home from the flames.

“He didn’t drop his nozzle,” Allen said. “He moved to his neighbour’s house and continued to fight that fire. And he fought that fire for a further 22 hours before he just couldn’t stand anymore.”

The deputy fire chief of a rural volunteer crew in the nearby hamlet of Saprae Creek suffered a different personal loss. His 15-year-old daughter and a nephew died last week when their SUV collided with a tractor trailer a day after the evacuation.

A relative said firefighters did all they could to save their home — and the girl’s treasured belongings inside — some sacrificing their own houses in the process.

Waddington said city firefighters barely slept during the first few days of the blaze and just recently started getting some days off to reunite with their families in other communities.

He was to travel Tuesday to see his wife and three children at a relative’s home in Legal, north of Edmonton. It will have been a week since he last saw them.

Other firefighters who posted photos and updates on social media also said they were happy to finally be seeing their loved ones.

“I’m going to see my family today and couldn’t be more stoked,” firefighter Nathanael Ouellette wrote on his Facebook page Monday.

“It’s been a hell of a week.”

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Wildfire will leave toxic legacy: experts EDMONTON — Danger from the Fort McMurray wildfire that has destroyed entire city blocks in the northern Alberta city won’t end when the flames stop.

Research from California fires that have burned through homes and communities suggests such blazes leave a threatening legacy of caustic ash and toxic heavy metals.

“There’s no doubt, it is hazardous,” said Scott Stephens, a fire scientist at the University of California Berkeley.

California has sad experience with wildfires raging through urban areas. Every summer, said Stephens, the state loses homes to marauding flames from the woods.

Wildfires big and bad enough to force their way into communities are generally hot enough to burn off hydrocarbons such as vinyl siding, nylon carpets or household chemicals.

“Fires really do incinerate most of that material,” Stephens said. “No doubt that has an impact on air quality, but the vinyls, the tires, the materials that you’d never think would burn … most of that stuff is gone.”

House fires can burn for more than an hour at temperatures reaching 1,500 C, he said.

“You’ll look and try and find your dishwasher or your refrigerator. You might find its motor, you might find a few things, but a lot of it has just disappeared.”

But the ash left behind poses real threats.

The U.S. Geological Survey found ash left after California’s home-destroying wildfires in 2007 and 2008 was far more alkaline than ash from wood fires.

Mixed with water, the ash was almost as caustic as oven cleaner.

It was also significantly contaminated with metals, some of them toxic. Arsenic, lead, antimony, copper, zinc and chromium were all found at levels exceeding Environmental Protection Agency guide-

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EVACUATION: News of return still weeks away All 80,000 residents ordered out last Tuesday will have to wait at least two weeks to hear when they might be allowed to return.

Regional fire Chief Darby Allen said the speed and rapid growth of last week’s wildfire was unprecedented.

“I truly believe nothing else could have been done that wasn’t done to protect the people and the structures within our city,” said Allen. “They’re rewriting their formulas on how fires behave based on this fire.”

Notley said 2,400 buildings were torched, but 25,000 were saved, including the hospital, municipal buildings and schools.

Much of the downtown and the water treatment plant are also intact.

“This city will emerge from this emergency with real structural resiliency with most of its critical infrastructure saved,” said Notley.

“This city was surrounded by an ocean of fire only a few days ago, but Fort McMurray and the surrounding communities have been saved and they will be rebuilt.”

But Notley reiterated that the community is not yet safe for people to return.

Hot spots remain and large sections of the city don’t have power, gas or water. She said a plan is to be developed over the next two weeks for the orderly and safe return of residents.

Evacuees have been out of their homes for a week under a mandatory evacuation order. They were forced to flee, some with just minutes notice, when a ravenous wildfire, pushed by shifting winds, overwhelmed several neighbourhoods in the south and southwest.

Darby said between 40 and 50 per cent of Fort McMurray could have been destroyed if firefighters hadn’t been able to hold back the flames at key points, especially the downtown.

Some of the hardest-hit areas are nothing more than acrid wastelands of soot, ash and concrete.

Reporters who were also given a tour saw scorched skeletal outlines of furniture, vehicles and buildings. A cracked birdbath. The metal outline of a shed. A front doorstep leading to nowhere. Kids’ bikes burned where they were chained up. Metal-topped barbecues with melted knobs on flamestreaked patios.

Homes that appear not to have been touched now face craters just across the street. Pristine bus stops and mailboxes remain ready for business next to charred ruins.

The dominant colours are blacks, greys, whites and ochre.

The hazy skyline is punctuated by towering light poles and the odd tree: Tall, black and twisted with stubby twig arms.

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Ash particles from urban-wildfire blazes tended to be smaller and more easily inhaled. Both arsenic and hexavalent chromium — a form of the metal known to cause lung cancer — were more readily taken up by lung fluids than they were in water.

Many counties treat ash from such fires as hazardous waste, said Geoff Plumlee, a geochemist who conducted much of the U.S. research.

“When large numbers of buildings burn, that does create a situation where there’s potential for much higher levels of metals to get out into the environment.”

California experts say anyone returning to a home burned in a wildfire should dress protectively — long sleeves and pants, gloves, boots, masks and goggles. People are urged to stir up the ash as little as possible.

Alberta’s last experience with a forest fire destroying homes came in Slave Lake, where more than 400 homes and other buildings were levelled in 2011 — about one-quarter as many as were burned in Fort McMurray. The ash from that fire was disposed of as hazardous waste.

Tests of the ash found lead, a powerful neurotoxin especially dangerous to children, was at three times the recommended levels for residential soils.

Dioxins and furans, some of which are highly potent carcinogens, were anywhere from 13 to 52 times the guideline levels.

Government officials argued the ash shouldn’t be held to the same standards as soil and said the ash was not a health risk. But scientists at the time questioned that assessment.

Plumlee emphasized that risks are manageable and fade over time. Ash quickly becomes less caustic when it mixes with small amounts of carbonic acid in rainfall.

But the risks are real.

“It’s not alarmist at all. We don’t really know if there are long-term effects,” he said. “(But) there are common-sense things people can do to minimize their exposure.”

The Super8 motel is gone. Only the signature redand-yellow sign remains.

Cars and trucks remain torched where they were abandoned, their paint jobs blistered and cracked.

Wheels are burned to blackened hubs, upholstery is consumed to the springs, windows are smashed and dashboards melted to hardened goo.

It’s a world of irregular shapes and fractured lines. Sections of jagged walls and brick rise from black-grey foundations like broken off sections of jigsaw puzzles.

Walls, beams and posts lie folded and twisted on top of one another. Utility meters bend to the left and right. Trees droop. Blown-out top floor windows are open to the sky in both directions. Blackened washers and dryers sit like lonely cubes. Over there is a bathtub.

There is wreckage everywhere.

But there are signs reconstruction has begun.

Teams work on power lines into the city, 435 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

The evacuees have been staying in hotels, campgrounds, with friends or at reception centres. The main one in Edmonton has had to deal with an added problem — about 50 people have fallen ill with a stomach bug.

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Duterte taps into discontent HARD-TALKING MAYOR FAVOURED TO BE NEXT PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — Millions of Filipinos lined up Monday in blazing heat to elect a new president in a race whose front-runner is a brash mayor known for his sex jokes, pledges to kill criminals and a promise to end corruption within six months.

Weary of poverty, crime, corruption and insurgencies in the hinterlands, voters are looking for a radical change at the top, and hope the man to lead it is Rodrigo Duterte, the 71-year-old mayor of the southern city of Davao who has held a lead over rivals in all opinion polls.

An ex-prosecutor, Duterte peppered his campaign speeches with boasts about his Viagra-fueled sexual prowess and jokes about rape. But he also successfully tapped into discontent, and voters appear willing to overlook his unashamedly crude language.

“All of you who are into drugs, you sons of bitches, I will really kill you,” Duterte told a huge cheering crowd Saturday in his final campaign rally in Manila. “I have no patience, I have no middle ground, either you kill me or I will kill you idiots.” Statements such as these have won him the nickname “Duterte Harry,” a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie character “Dirty Harry.”

On Monday, he arrived at a polling centre in a school in Davao where a throng of journalists and supporters awaited.

“I am a candidate for the presidency and almost all of them are my constituents. It is very natural for them to gravitate toward me,” he told reporters before entering the polling room.

Voting at most of the 92,509 precincts nationwide started at 6 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m. Voting was extended by an hour in precincts that had opened three or more hours late because of technical or other problems.

Election results were not expected for at least 24 hours, perhaps longer.

Duterte, who has been compared to U.S. Republican presumptive pres-

World BRIEFS Iran issues vague denial about reported missile test TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s defence minister issued a vague denial after a media outlet close to the elite Revolutionary Guard said Monday that it had test-fired a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres two weeks ago.

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Front-running presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gestures at photographers to move back prior to voting in a polling precinct at Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School at Matina district, his hometown in Davao city in southern Philippines Monday. Duterte was the last to vote among five presidential hopefuls. idential nominee Donald Trump, has threatened to close down Congress and form a revolutionary government if legislators stonewall his government.

This has alarmed the political establishment, which fears that Duterte will squander the hard-won economic progress under outgoing President Benigno Aquino III. Aquino has called Duterte a threat to democracy, and likened him to Adolf Hitler.

Besides Duterte, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, backed by Aquino, and three other candidates

are vying to lead one of Asia’s liveliest democracies. More than 45,000 candidates are contesting 18,000 national, congressional and local positions in elections that have traditionally been tainted by violence and accusations of cheating, especially in far-flung rural areas.

At least 15 people were killed in elections-related violence and more than 4,000 arrested for violating a gun ban, according to police.

“Let us show the world that despite our deep passion and support for our

candidates, we can hold elections that are peaceful and orderly and reflect the spirit of democracy,” said Aquino, who cast his ballot after standing in line for more than an hour with other voters in a Manila constituency.

About 55 million Filipinos registered to vote in 36,000 voting centres across the archipelago of more than 7,100 islands, including in a small fishing village in a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea.

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Putin’s short speech on Monday also warned against “unacceptable double standards that shortsightedly indulge those who are nurturing new criminal plans.” He made no specific accusations but both the reference to double standards and the call for a “non-bloc system of international security” echo Russia’s frequent criticism of the West and the NATO alliance.

The hour-long parade, in which military equipment including the advanced Armata tank and the Yars ICBM launcher lumbered across the square, concluded with a flyover by dozens of military aircraft from helicopters to long-range bombers.

In the afternoon, a huge of crowd estimated at more than 400,000 held a procession through central Moscow to Red Square honouring the Red Army

soldiers who fought in the Second World War and the civilians who suffered.

On Victory Day, Putin calls for non-bloc security MOSCOW — Russia wants to help build an international security system that transcends military blocs, President Vladimir Putin said Monday at the annual elaborate Victory Day military parade in Red Square on before,” Moffat said.

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He will have three commissionaires and also his family members working that day.

Moffat said he is dreading that he Foster said it will be a difficult task will have to turn vendors away and has because the province’s chief electoral even told some to wait for the second officer has announced the two parties week until they get people settled. cannot merge, and if they try to form Starting this week he will begin a new party they forfeit all of their canvassing everyone who lives in Wasassets to the government. But he is not kasoo, telling them that if they have sure the door is closed on that ruling. any problems they should contact him A provincial election won’t be won so they can be resolved. on the right, Foster said. “It’s won in There’s lots of parking for shopthe centre. I’m a centrist.” pers behind the Memorial Centre and After 44 years of continuous rule, across 58th street to the immediate south of the Memorial Centre parking lot, Moffat said.

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To make things a bit more complicated, on the season’s first day, 42A Avenue off 55th Street will be closed because of the Woody’s Marathon, which starts at Lindsey Thurber Comprehensive and Camille J. Lerouge high schools.

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“The next leader in my view simply must find some accommodation with Wildrose if that small-c centre conservative — who I think are the majority of Albertans — is ever going to get back into office, or the NDP will be here for awhile to come. That’s a challenge.”

Interim leader Ric McIver is not prevented from seeking the leadership because there wasn’t anything in the constitution preventing it. This was amended on the weekend going forward.

“In my view McIver’s not the person at all. He’s a fine interim leader … but not the kind of person that can unite this party,” said Foster. who believes the new leader needs to be some-

Extremist trial underway amid high security in Brussels BRUSSELS — Under heavy security, a trial began in Belgium on Monday of a suspected extremist cell linked to the now-dead ringleader of last year’s lethal attacks in Paris.

Sixteen defendants, including nine who are still at large, are accused of involvement in what Belgian authorities say was a terrorist plot being mounted in the eastern city of Verviers. Lawyers for some of the accused contend their clients did nothing illegal. one from outside the existing small nine-member caucus.

“I’m hoping that Rona Ambrose is interested,” Foster said. She is from Alberta and is interim leader of the federal Conservative Party.

He also said while it’s “a little far out,” the Tories and Wildrosers might come to an understanding before the next election that they won’t run in certain constituencies, and form a majority by way of a coalition government.

On the weekend the party decided to return to a delegate system where members from each constituency will choose delegates to send to the leadership convention. A date has yet to be set for the leadership meeting.

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Farmers buying more crop insurance

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Kelly McIntyre has tilled the soils of northwestern Alberta for more than 30 years, but only this spring did he conclude that he needed crop insurance.

“There just seems to be increased risk, more risk all the time,” says McIntyre, a wheat and canola farmer near Fairview in Alberta’s Peace Country.

He says the rising cost of machinery, land, seed and fertilizer means he’s putting more on the line every season, so he finally went for the extra security of the federal-provincial insurance.

“You’ve got to cover yourself so that you can grow a crop next year, if it happens to be a bad year.”

He’s one of the many Prairie farmers who have opted to start or increase their coverage this year as forecasts call for another arid growing season that is raising worries about the success of this year’s harvest.

The tinder-dry spring has already contributed to the devastating wildfires that have consumed large swaths of Fort McMurray. Alberta also issued a special heat advisory as century-old temperature records were broken.

McIntyre says he’s normally fighting the moisture at this time of year with muddy tires and wet fields, but that’s not the case now.

“We’re seeding in conditions that are probably the driest I’ve ever seen.”

Stephen Vandervalk also took a look at this year’s weather conditions and decided to bump up his crop insurance coverage to the highest level on offer — which covers up to 80 per cent of a farmer’s losses — something he hasn’t done in years.

The crucial store of moisture in the soil is gone this year, leaving crops much more vulnerable than usual, says Vandervalk, a grain farmer near Fort Macleod in southwestern Alberta.

“It doesn’t take much,” he says.

“You take a couple weeks of windy hot weather on your crop, and you’re in trouble.”

The El Nino weather pattern that caused drought conditions across the Prairies last year also made for a dry winter, and the trend is looking to con-

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A woman and two young girls ride horses through a canola field near Cremona, in 2013. Many prairie farmers are opting to start or increase their coverage this year as forecasts call for another dry growing season that puts the success of crops in doubt. tinue this summer, says Environment Canada meteorologist Brian Proctor.

“It’s likely going to be exacerbating the problem as opposed to helping the moisture deficit issues.”

The Calgary area received 12.1 millimetres of rain between January and March compared with 33 millimetres last year, while Grande Prairie, Alta., saw about half as much precipitation over the same stretch last year, Proctor says.

The head of operations at Agriculture Financial Services, an Alberta Crown corporation, says he’s seen a jump in the number of farmers opting for the highest level of crop insurance available.

For years, around 50 per cent of farmers took out that coverage, but that jumped to an all-time high of 57

per cent this year, Merle Jacobson says.

“There’s a trend of producers buying higher levels of coverage than in the past,” Jacobson says. “If you look at the long-term trend, it’s quite a bit.”

The total number of crop insurance applications also rose by 1.6 per cent this year in Alberta, up 197 to 12,339 despite a general trend towards fewer, bigger farms.

Shawn Jaques, head of the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp., says about 40 per cent of farmers bought the highest level of coverage in that province this year, up from 38 per cent.

But he cautions there could be several reasons for the increase, including the highest ever potential payout per hectare, adding that the province had one of its best crop seasons last

year despite mid-season concerns about drought.

Alberta also came out of last year much better than expected after the province declared an agricultural disaster last August and predicted insurance payouts of between $700 million and $900 million. In the end, Jacobson says he expects total payouts to run between $510 million and $530 million after some fortunate late-season rains and delayed frost and snow.

For McIntyre, it confirms how unpredictable farming and weather are, and how much faith is needed as he puts hundreds of thousands of dollars more into his fields this year.

“Farmers are eternally optimistic,” he says.

“If we weren’t, we wouldn’t plant a crop every year.”

Workforce key to oilsands restart

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — When energy company executives meet Tuesday with Premier Rachel Notley, they should urge the Alberta government to do whatever it can to facilitate the return of their employees in the wake of the wildfire that has devastated Fort McMurray, observers say.

CEO Mark Ward of Syncrude Canada and Steve Laut, president of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., will be among those meeting Notley in Edmonton to discuss how to get the oilsands industry back on track following the evacuation of 80,000 people from the city.

Warren Mabee, director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, said he thinks the companies will be anxious to see people allowed back into Fort McMurray as soon as possible because a stable workforce is critical to their operations.

“I would be looking for a better update on what’s happening on the ground,” he said. “The oilsands can continue to operate — as we said, they haven’t really lost a lot of their critical infrastructure — but what they have lost, right now, is the support mechanism that the whole city represented and that is significant.

“Without that, their costs go through the roof. It’s essential to those companies that the city gets up and running even if all the neighbourhoods aren’t inhabited, even if all of it isn’t back where it was.”

Mabee said an extended period of downtime due to infrastructure or staffing issues could lead to the industry requesting financial help through bailouts or tax incentives.

Asked about the issue on Monday, Notley said the main issue is ensuring the safety of the employees and that there is logistical support for them.

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“That and other issues will be discussed with the key leaders (in the oilpatch) but we’re hopeful that we will be able to move in a relatively expedited way,” she said.

Rob Bedin, a 30-year engineer and director at Calgary-based consultancy RS Energy Group, said he doesn’t think the industry will ask for money but agreed that staffing is one of the biggest questions it is facing before the production of an estimated one million barrels per day of raw and upgraded bitumen can resume.

“The fact that it was an organized shutdown, that’s positive in regards to the speed at which it will come back,” Bedin said.

One concern for the sector is water quality. Oilsands mines that draw water from the Athabasca River or have open storage ponds could be exposed to ash contamination. Bedin said producers who have been able to keep their water heating systems warm will have an easier time getting their plants running again.

Jackie Forrest, vice-president of energy research at ARC Financial in Calgary, pointed out the oil sector was back in business within two weeks after wildfires that had closed thermal operations south of Fort McMurray were extinguished last spring.

“Although this is much more serious, once the fires were out, the operators were in there fairly quickly and getting their production back on line,” she said. “Assuming there’s no damage to the actual facilities, that will happen quite quickly.”

Earlier Monday, the Canadian subsidiary of Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA said it had closed its Leismer demonstration oil project, which had been producing about 20,000 barrels of bitumen a day. It was shut down after the precautionary closure of an Enbridge pipeline that supplies light oil to the Leismer site, Statoil ASA said.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Temple Hotels Inc. has reported a major first-quarter loss, mostly as a result of a huge asset impairment charge it blames on the continuing downturn in Alberta’s oilpatch.

The Ontario-based hotel operator said its net loss for the three months ended March 31 was $63.4 million, or 88 cents per diluted share, compared with a net loss of $4.8 million, or 11 cents per share, in the same yearearlier period.

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A crowd gathers around a number of items up for sale during the closing out auction at Don Laing Trailer Sales along Highway 2 just west of Ponoka on Tuesday.

Don Laing Trailers closed after 33 years After 33 years of business, Don Laing Trailers has closed up shop.

The business closing auction was held May 2 at the Don Laing Trailer shop at the Highway 53 and Highway 2 interchange.

Inger Laing started out with her husband, Don, as a farm equipment company in the area before eventually moving out to the highway in 1995.

Since the move, Laing and her husband, who died in 2009, helped develop the area into an industrial/commercial zone that now features several large businesses.

“We pioneered this whole area I guess,” said Laing.

Her focus before and during the

auction was to ensure that she crossed all the details were cover. Once the sale was all complete, Laing said she was pleased with the turnout and how the sale went.

Why did she close shop? The timing was right, responded Laing. She was already considering retirement and the downturn in the economy made the decision that much easier.

What she will remember most is the dedication of her customers, of which she is grateful for the many years of support. All that’s left to complete is the sale of the land. “We’ve got some good interest in it,” said Laing.

Once the land is sold, she intends to buy a nice motor coach to travel around and visit the many sites of Canada.

non-cash asset impairment of $43.9 million, and an increase in deferred tax expense of $18.4 million and a decrease in operating income of $4.4 million The 38.1 per cent decrease in operating income reflected a $2.9-million decrease in the Fort McMurray area and a $1.3-million decrease at other Alberta properties.

Net operating income elsewhere fell just 0.2 per cent.

Temple said it took a non-cash impairment charge of $43.9 million

to reflect the impact of the economic downturn on the carrying value of 10 hotel properties, eight in Alberta and two elsewhere in Canada.

“Evidence that the occupancy and room rate declines may be prolonged as well as the lower common share trading price mandated the completion of an impairment review and recoverability analysis in accordance with IFRS (accounting rules),” it said.

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Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 38.69 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.81 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.79 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.52 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 2.020 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.110 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.39 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.24 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.680 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.02 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.99 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2250

Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.70 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.47 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.56 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 24.58 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.83 Canyon Services Group. . 4.44 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.56 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.73 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.540 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.57

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 80.48 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.69 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.91 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.62 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.12 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.95 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.71 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.14 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 40.98 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.160 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.62 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.20 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.35

Canola: May ‘16 $5.60 higher $511.10 July ‘16 $5.60 higher $516.10 Nov. ‘16 $0.60 higher $507.10 Jan. ‘17 $0.90 lower $508.50 March ‘17 $1.20 lower $508.50 May ‘17 $1.10 lower $507.30 July ‘17 $1.10 lower $506.80 Nov. ‘17 $1.10 lower $498.30 Jan. ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.30 March ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.30 May ‘18 $1.10 lower $498.30.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16

unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 402,700 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 402,700.

Pace of Canadian housing starts falls in April

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The pace of Canadian housing starts slowed in April to the lowest level in three months, with Ontario and Quebec responsible for most of the pullback.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Monday that the seasonally adjusted rate for housing starts last month was 191,512 units — down from 202,375 in March and 217,320 units in February.

Most regions saw increases in starts in urban areas on seasonally adjusted basis.

But Ontario’s seasonally adjusted rate for urban starts fell to 62,672 in April from 85,518 in March, while Quebec also saw a decline, with urban starts falling to 27,423 from 29,696.

Economists at some of Canada’s biggest banks noted that one month does not make a trend.

“Keep in mind that new units in the province, or more specifically, the GTA, tend to come in waves,” BMO economist Robert Kavcic said of the huge Greater Toronto Area market.

“We saw a run-up in new construction in 2011 and 2012 that then got absorbed during a lull through 2014,” Kavcic said in a note. “Then anoth-

er burst of activity came through 2015 which might now be settling down while inventory gets sold.”

TD economist Diana Petramala said Ontario housing starts are coming off relatively strong levels in March.

“A number of factors, including changing weather patterns, the ins and outs of the permitting process and a high degree of volatility in multiunit construction creates a significant amount of volatility on a monthly basis,” Petramala said in a note to clients.

She added that wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alta., will likely create some volatility in housing starts data going forward.

“There will likely be a larger than normal decline in housing starts in Alberta next month as a significant amount of the province’s resources will be devoted to fighting the wildfires and supporting those that have lost their homes,” Petramala said.

“But, reconstruction efforts will likely temporarily boost starts in the following months.”

In terms of types of housing, urban multiple-dwelling starts fell by 4,945 to 117,851 and single-detached housing starts fell by 3,522 to 56,959. The seasonally adjusted rate also fell in rural areas to 16,702 from 19,098.

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,563.84, down 137.63 points Dow — 17,705.91, down 34.72 points S&P 500 — 2,058.69, up 1.55 points Nasdaq — 4,750.21, up 14.05 points Currencies: Cdn — 77.14 cents US, down 0.27 of a cent Pound — C$1.8674, up 0.34 of a cent Euro — C$1.4754, up 0.21 of a cent Euro — US$1.1382, down 0.22 of a cent Oil futures: US$43.44 per barrel, down $1.22 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,266.60 per oz., down $27.40 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.997 oz., down 62.4 cents $739.35 kg., down $20.07

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 22.52 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.02 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.98 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.65 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.78 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.75 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.13 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.24 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.840 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 11.98

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 140.71 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.82 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.46 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.02

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.17 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.83 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.95 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.15

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.62 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.01 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.15 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.51 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.990 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.51 Cdn. National Railway . . 75.91 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 177.18 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.13 Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.79 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.04 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.84 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 49.93 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.99 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.06 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.78 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.26 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.21 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 49.96 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.59 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.96 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.78 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.15

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BRAVES’ GOAL TO CHALLENGE TOP TIER MIDGET AAA BASEBALL

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Five runs in three games isn’t enough to win ball games and the Red Deer AAA Carstar Midget Braves lost two of three games over the weekend to start their season.

The weekend start‘WE WANT TO ed with a 2-0 loss in the MOVE UP AND opener over the Sherwood Park Athletics.

CHALLENGE After that, the Braves IN THE TIER 1 rebounded with a 4-2, but came up short in the RANKS. THAT’S third game losing 5-1.

OUR BIG GOAL. First-year midget head WE JUST HAVE coach Dwayne Lalor said the team pitched TO KEEP GETTING and played defence A LITTLE BIT well, but couldn’t hit well.

BETTER EVERY “We played the game DAY.’ pretty well,” said Lalor.

“We didn’t hit well — DWAYNE LALOR enough to win the weekMIDGET AAA BRAVES HEAD COACH end. Our defence was solid, our pitching was good and we’re not quite ready to hit yet.

“We want to move up and challenge in the tier 1 ranks. That’s our big goal. We just have to keep getting a little bit better every day.”

The Braves closed out the three game set against the Athletics with a 1-2 record. It was the Braves first games against Norwest League opponents.

Lalor spoke highly of the defence that played well in the first three games.

“We have some pretty good starting pitching and as long as we stay healthy,” said Lalor. “Now its a matter of getting the whole game together and playing how it has to be played.”

In the early part of the season, Lalor thinks the team is in the middle-of-the-pack. But as the season progresses there is the opportunity for the team to move into the top quarter of the league and challenge for provincials.

“We have five new players to the midget AAA level,” he said.

“A third of our roster is new to this level of baseball so it’s going to take a little time to adjust for the guys coming up. They’re playing on a larger field and playing against older players. The adjustment will take a bit of time but we have some pretty good athletes so hopefully it won’t take an extended amount of time.”

Last season the Braves were in tier 2, but Lalor said this time they’re aiming to compete in the tier 1 provincial championship in August. He’s even hoping for a run at “post-provincial play.” More players than in years past have stayed on to play at the midget level and the Red Deer system has one AAA team and two AA teams this season.

As with all of Red Deer Minor Baseball, the midget group has benefited from a boost from the success of the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Braves home opener is scheduled for Wednesday against the Okotoks Dawgs Red At Great Chief Park at 6:30 p.m.

“We’ll get a good look at our second team of the year,” said Lalor. “Okotoks usually has a pretty solid team so it should be a good test. We just have to continue to develop and spend more time in the batting cage.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Canada’s Taylor Hall, left, attacks the net of goalkeeper Dmitri Milchakov of Belarus during the Hockey World Championships Group B match in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday.

Canada blows past Belarus to stay unbeaten at worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 8 Belarus 0 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Matt Duchene says opponents always bring their best when they face Canada at the world hockey championship.

So far the defending champions have been able to respond to the challenge, even if it takes them a while to get going.

Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan O’Reilly scored twice Monday as Canada improved to 3-0 at this year’s championship with an 8-0 rout of Belarus.

Playing their third game in four days, the Canadians followed a similar pattern to previous wins over the United States and Hungary. Canada allowed Belarus to keep the score close through 20 minutes before breaking the game open with four second-period goals.

“We’re going to get every team’s best game,” said Duchene, who had a goal and two assists against Belarus and is tied for the team lead with five points.

“The kid yesterday on Hungary that scored picked up the puck. That kind of tells you what it means to score against us and what it means to play against us.

So we’re going to get everybody’s top game right off the bat and it’s all about just staying patient, weathering the storm, and then once we get one or two, we’re going from there.”

The Canadians once again deployed a balanced attack, with seven different players scored in all situations.

O’Reilly’s first goal of the tournament came from a second-period short-handed marker that was ruled to have deflected into the net off his skate following a pass from Boone Jenner. The second was an own goal off the skate of a Belarusian defender at 1:26 of the third.

Corey Perry, Taylor Hall and Mark Stone contributed at even strength while Derick Brassard,

Duchene and Michael Matheson all scored with the man advantage as the Canadian power play went 3-for-5, rewarding coach Bill Peters for showing patience with his special teams.

“We talked about making some adjustments,” said Peters of a power play that had gone 1-for-10 in Canada’s first two games. “We talked about possibly changing our power-play units. We felt we gained a little bit of momentum in the last game, we left them together and I think that familiarity paid off.”

Kevin Lalande, a 29-year-old native of Kingston, Ont., was lifted from the Belarusian net at the 11:39 mark of the second period after giving up five goals on 18 shots. Dmitri Milchakov stopped 19 of 22 shots the rest of the way.

Cam Talbot was perfect in goal for Canada, making 13 saves for his first shutout of the tournament.

Duchene was a member of Canada’s gold-medal winning squad in Prague in 2015, and says this year’s team is similarly focused on keeping good habits.

“We only allowed 13 shots so I think we’re as pleased with that as with the goals we’re scoring.”

He also sees the team improving as it goes along in the tournament. “We didn’t love parts of our game against Hungary. It was a tough game to play in-they worked really hard-but so do these guys (from Belarus). We were more structured today and played a much better game today.”

Canada has now outscored its opponents 20-2 in three games and sits at the top of the Group B standings with nine points along with Finland, which beat the Americans 3-2 Monday. Slovakia, at 2-0, will face Germany on Tuesday.

In Group A action in Moscow, Russia beat Latvia 4-0 to move to 2-1 in the tournament, while the Czech Republic remained undefeated (two regulation wins, one overtime win) with a 4-2 victory over Sweden.

Canada will enjoy a day off on Tuesday, then practice on Wednesday before facing Germany in its next game on Thursday.

Wade leads Heat over Raptors to even series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Heat 94 Raptors 87 MIAMI — With no Jonas Valanciunas and virtually no DeMar DeRozan, the last thing the Toronto Raptors needed was to lose Kyle Lowry.

But Lowry had to watch from the bench after fouling out as the Raptors dropped a 94-87 decision to the Miami Heat in overtime on Monday, that evened the Eastern Conference semifinals at two wins apiece.

And moments after the loss, the Raptors point guard took the blame squarely on himself.

“I can’t be in foul trouble, I think I let my team down tonight,” Lowry said. “I take the loss for us, because me not being out there on the floor hurt our team.”

Dwyane Wade poured in 30 points, including an emphatic dunk to end overtime, to lead the Heat.

Terrence Ross and Cory Joseph had 14 points apiece for Toronto, which is without starting centre Valanciunas for the remainder of this series. Bismack Biyombo had 13 points and 13 rebounds, while DeMarre Carroll chipped in with 13 points.

As big a blow as the loss of Valanciunas is, DeRozan’s thumb injury led to one of his worst games as a Raptor. He shot just 4-for-17 for nine points, and he and Lowry, who had 10 points before fouling out with 1:58 to play, shot a combined 6-for-28 on the night.

“It’s the feeling of being uncomfortable, and not doing the things that you normally do with gripping the ball and everything,” said DeRozan, who jammed his right thumb late in Game 1. “I think the missed layup (in the first quarter) showed me how much I have to deal with it, but it’s nothing I’ll ever make an excuse about.”

For the third time in this roller-coaster series, that has felt more like a heavyweight fight at times,

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Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic (7) attempts to score as Toronto Raptors forward DeMarre Carroll (5) defends, in overtime during Game 4 of an NBA second-round playoff series, Monday, in Miami. The Heat defeated the Raptors 94-87 in overtime. the game needed overtime to decide a winner.

And it was an ugly one. With a mish-mash of lineups, the Raptors looked headed for a blowout loss with their 29 per cent scoring in the first half. But they opened the third quarter with a 17-4 run and took a 62-60 lead into the fourth quarter. Ross drilled two threes to put Toronto up by nine points with six-

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and-a-half minutes on the clock.

Wade promptly led a comeback that would pull the Heat within two points with just over a minute to play. Then with 12.6 seconds on the clock, the Heat star drove to the hoop, and his basket sent the game into extra time.

“You have two competitive teams that are going and close to equal talent-wise,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey.

“These are two tough-minded teams.”

With Lowry on the bench, the Raptors could do nothing right in OT. Joseph and DeRozan scored the team’s only baskets, and Wade swiped a Raptors turnover in the final seconds for a dunk that sealed the Heat’s victory. “i don’t think there was any doubt that this game was going to go into overtime,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “It’s just one heck of a series. Both teams, players are going after it. This series is complex, it’s changing fast.”

The Raptors shot just 40 per cent on the night, while the Heat weren’t much better at 44 per cent.

Each team grabbed 27 rebounds.

Now the series heads back to Toronto for Game 5 on Wednesday, and returns to Miami for Game 6.

Asked if stealing one of the two games in Miami was any consolation, Lowry answered with a definitive “no.”

“Personally I’m pissed,” he said. “I think we wanted to come down here and get two, and we had the opportunity. But we’re going to look at the positives, we’re 2-2, best of three and we’ve got two at home.”

With Valanciunas out for the series with a sprained ankle from Game 3, the Raptors have to hope DeRozan and Lowry can rediscover their shooting touch.

“When our two top players don’t shoot the ball as well, and we had some turnovers down the stretch, I felt like we let the game slip away,” Casey said.

“That is on all of us.”

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Stars survive to force Game 7 with Blues

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stars 3 Blues 2 ST. LOUIS — This time it was Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen’s turn to shine.

Lehtonen made 35 saves to bring the series home to Dallas for Game 7 with a 3-2 victory over St. Louis on Monday night.

Brian Elliott, a standout throughout the post-season, was pulled in the first period.

“We can just flip the script and say how well Elliott played, and just change the name to Lehtonen now,” Stars coach Lindy Ruff said.

Rookie Mattias Janmark ignited a three-goal first period and Lehtonen made key saves the rest of the way, the biggest on Jaden Schwartz with about 20 seconds left.

“I just try to stay as relaxed as I can and just follow the puck and not try to play it any other way than I’ve done last 59 and a half minutes,” Lehtonen said. “It’s easy to say but today it worked.”

Vernon Fiddler and Jason Spezza also scored for Dallas, which reclaimed home ice for the deciding game.

“We still have to win two in a row, which we have not been able to do in this series,” Lehtonen said. “It’s still alive, so we just need to relax now and get ready for the next one.”

Alexander Steen and Patrik Berglund scored for St. Louis.

Home ice has meant little, given the road team has won three in a row and four of six in the series.

“We’ve won twice in their building already,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock

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St. Louis Blues’ Jaden Schwartz falls while reaching for a puck as Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, Jason Demers and Kris Russell, right, watch during the second period of Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinals, Monday, in St. Louis. said. “I don’t think it matters where you play a Game 7. I know one thing: We’re going to come after them, bigtime.”

Elliott entered with a 1.92 goalsagainst average in the series, but was replaced with the Stars leading 3-0 on just seven shots at 16:49 of the first.

Teammates accepted responsibility for the deficit.

“I just think we weren’t ready to

play somehow,” Berglund said. “We were sloppy and obviously they took advantage of it.”

Hitchcock wouldn’t commit to Elliott for Game 7, however.

“I want to sleep on what I’m going to do,” Hitchcock said. “I’ll let you know on game day.”

Jake Allen finished in his first appearance of this post-season, facing just seven more shots in the final two-

plus periods.

St. Louis will be seeking its first trip to the Western Conference final since 2001 and Dallas, which finished first overall in the West, previously made it that far in 2008.

“We were playing for our lives,” Spezza said. “We were assertive. We didn’t want to go home today.”

The Stars were ahead 3-0 after the first, their first two- and three-goal leads of the series. That early show of strength muzzled another standing room crowd of 19,808 at the Scottrade Center with the first two goals coming in a span of 20 seconds.

Janmark blocked Colton Parayko’s dump-in from just inside the blue line and skated in alone on Elliott, scoring on a high shot. Fiddler made it 2-0 on a deflection at 5:13 not long after Elliott couldn’t clear the puck.

Elliott was pulled after the Stars made it three goals on seven shots, with Spezza scoring on a power play from the slot at 16:49. Blues defenceman Jay Bouwmeester fell down seconds before Spezza’s first of the series and fifth of the playoffs.

The Blues had several good chances in the first, but often missed the net.

Steen’s goal on a rebound of Robert Bortuzzo’s shot gave the Blues life in the second period. The Blues had a 14-5 shots advantage in the period, including another good opportunity for Steen on a one-timer off Lehtonen’s pads in the final minute.

Berglund cut the deficit to one at 8:59 of the third, tapping it in from close range off a nice setup from Jori Lehtera. Lehtonen stopped Schwartz on a one-timer with about 20 seconds left.

Predators down Sharks in overtime to send series to Game 7

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Predators 4 Sharks 3 (OT) NASHVILLE — Viktor Arvidsson scored 2:03 into overtime, and the Nashville Predators forced a deciding seventh game for their second straight series by beating the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Monday night.

Arvidsson jumped the puck between three Sharks and skated up the left side before throwing a backhander past goaltender Martin Jones.

No road team has won yet in this second-round series, and the franchise that had never forced a Game 7 until this post-season will play in its second straight with a berth in the Western Conference finals on the line.

The Predators and Sharks get the next two days off before meeting again on

Thursday night in San Jose.

Colin Wilson, Ryan Johansen and Roman Josi also scored for Nashville, which now has won consecutive overtime games on home ice.

Logan Couture scored a power-play goal in the third for San Jose, and Chris Tierney had two goals in the first period. Jones finished with 28 saves, giving the Sharks a chance to reach overtime after Nashville outshot San Jose 27-10 after the first period.

Nashville coach Peter Laviolette had just moved Arvidsson to the top line with Johansen and Filip Forsberg for this game, and the Swede responded by scoring his first goal this post-season. Fans celebrated by tossing a bunch of the hats given away for this game onto the ice.

The Predators forced the first Game 7 in franchise history two weeks ago by

beating Anaheim in Game 6, and they have travelled approximately 15,000 miles already this post-season.

San Jose routed Nashville 5-1 to push the Predators to the brink of elimination, and the Sharks appeared ready to advance when they jumped to a 2-0 lead thanks to Tierney.

He redirected a shot from MarcEdouard Vlasic past Pekka Rinne at 9:55, a goal upheld on review to ensure Tierney’s stick was below the crossbar. Then he scored again at 11:51 with a backhander for his third goal this post-season.

Josi, who had more shots (38) without a goal this post-season than any other player, finally ended his drought all on his own, skating up the slot and bouncing the puck past Jones at 15:27.

That finally gave Nashville fans a reason to cheer and the Predators some

life.

Johansen, acquired in a January trade that cost Nashville promising defenceman Seth Jones, tied it 1:25 into the second. With the teams playing 4-on-4, he skated around Sharks defenceman Justin Braun and beat Jones with a backhander.

Couture scored his sixth goal this post-season on the Sharks’ first man advantage of the game after Predators forward Miikka Salomaki caught Jones in the head with his stick. Couture’s wrist shot from the left circle easily beat Rinne, who stumbled as he went backward in the crease midway through the third.

Wilson tied it up off an assist from James Neal at 12:44. Only Jones making save after save forced the game to the second straight overtime in Nashville.

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SPORTS

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

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Roughriders listening to offers for first pick

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Chris Jones has a decision to make.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach/GM said Monday he’s fielded numerous offers for the top pick in Tuesday night’s CFL draft. The Riders’ have the first selection after last season’s league-worst 3-15 record.

Usually the first selection would be coveted by a GM like Jones, hired this off-season to rebuild the Riders after leading Edmonton to last year’s Grey Cup as its head coach. The draft pool features many top offensive linemen but no consensus No. 1 player, making it tough for Jones to reap the rewards of a bidding war for the pick.

“We’re still in the process of fielding phone calls from numerous teams in the league to determine exactly what our course of action will be,” Jones said Monday. “We’re going to look at the best offer and then we’ll make the right decision for us.”

Montreal goes second, followed by B.C., Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton in the first round.

Winnipeg opens the second round at No. 9, forfeiting its first-round selection — which would’ve been second overall — to take Dartmouth linebacker/defensive back Garrett Waggoner in last year’s supplemental draft.

This year’s CFL draft goes eight rounds, up from seven last year.

Oklahoma tackle Josiah St. John is

the top available prospect, ranked fifth by the CFL’s central scouting bureau.

Other highly regarded offensive linemen include the Laval trio of Charles Vaillancourt (ranked sixth), Philippe Gagnon (No. 9) and Jason Lauzon-Seguin (No. 17), Buffalo’s Dillon Guy (No. 14) and Simon Fraser’s Michael Couture (No. 16).

Grand Valley State offensive lineman Brandon Ravenberg is also garnering interest after not cracking the final top-20 prospects list.

Ravenberg was one of six prospects brought in by Saskatchewan for final pre-draft workouts. The others were St. John, Guy, Calgary running back Mercer Timmis, Northern Illinois receiver Juwan Brescacin and Virginia defensive lineman Trent Corney.

Saskatchewan isn’t scheduled to pick again until the third round, long after all the top-ranked offensive linemen are expected to be taken. That further complicates what to do with the top pick.

“That has been kind of a stumbling block for us … but I feel like we’ve got some pretty good names there in the third,” Jones said. “We’ve got numerous spots we feel like on our football team that we need to always look for, offensive line, receiver.

“Defensively, you’ve got to have people who can cover kicks. There’s numerous people who are interesting for us.”

But the tough decisions don’t stop there for Jones, who says he spoke to former NFL coach Bill Parcells about the CFL draft. If he keeps the first pick, Jones figures he’ll have to choose between four players.

The new head coach and general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders Chris Jones has a decision to make.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach/GM said Monday he’s fielded numerous offers for the first pick in the CFL draft Tuesday evening. The Riders’ have the first selection after posting a league-worst 3-15 record last season.

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Don’t expect Manitoba defensive lineman David Onyemata to be that player. The CFL draft’s top-ranked prospect was a fourth-round pick by New Orleans in last month’s NFL draft.

Ditto for Iowa receiver Tevaun Smith, Boston College defensive lineman Mehdi Abdesmad and Michigan State cornerback Arjen Colquhoun — the second-, third- and fourth-ranked CFL draft prospects have signed NFL deals with Indianapolis, Tennessee and Dallas, respectively.

Toronto GM Jim Barker said the sheer depth of this year’s draft pool lessens the sense of urgency to make a deal to move up in the first round.

“This is a year that I think, No. 1 to No. 20 there’s not a huge disparity between them,” Barker said. “That doesn’t bode well for anybody to trade up and things like that.

“Obviously, as things happen in the draft, you may see more trading to get up into the second round as the offen-

sive linemen or the receivers that you think can play start to dwindle. I think the first round you don’t see as much but we’ll see.”

Predictably, Barker has been working the phones leading up to the draft.

In 2010, the Argos traded the first overall pick to Saskatchewan then made a deal with B.C. to take offensive lineman Joe Eppele and linebacker Cory Greenwood — two players then head coach Barker coveted — second and third overall.

The following year, as Toronto’s coach/GM, Barker moved up five spots to No. 7 to take offensive lineman Tyler Holmes.

“We’ve talked to just about every team about every different kind of scenario,” he said. “Are we happy at No. 4? Yeah, I think in the first round it’s the spot to be in.

“I think there’s four good rounds … this year’s draft, I think, is pretty solid.”

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CATALINA SWIM CLUB Two swim meets had the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club team busy as the team combined for numerous gold medals at the two events.

From May 5 to 8, swimmers attended the Edmonton Keyano International Swim Meet.

Among the medalists was Kyla Leibel, 15, won seven gold medals in the 50 metre butterfly, the 100 metre freestyle, the 100 metre backstroke, the 400 metre freestyle, the 200 metre individual medley, the 200 metre freestyle and the 50 metre freestyle. She also won a silver medal in the 100 metre butterfly.

Other medalists from the event were: Elizabeth Moore, 15, gold in 200 metre and 100 metre breaststroke, silver in the 50 metre butterfly and breaststroke and the 200 metre individual medley and bronze in the 200 metre butterfly; Daniel Stayer, 17, won gold in the 50 metre butterfly; Kristen Trepanier, 16, won gold in the 200 metre butterfly, 800 metre freestyle and 400 metre individual medley and bronze in the 100 metre butterfly; and Justin Valentine, 14, won silver in the 200 metre backstroke and bronze in the 1,500 metre freestyle.

Three competitors also qualified for national and provincial competition at the event.

Lauren Bettenson, 13,

had an age group national time in the 100 metre backstroke; Claire Halford, 15, had A provincial standard times in both the 50 and 100 metre butterfly; and Kyra McMurray, 14, had an A provincial standard time in the 200 metre breaststroke.

The second swim meet, held in Lethbridge on Saturday and Sunday, featured many podium finishes for young swimmers.

New qualifiers include: Logan Lopaschuk, 14, A time in the 100 metre butterfly; Ellen Couture, 11, A time in 100 metre butterfly and freestyle; Delaney Lehman, 11, A time in 50 metre freestyle; and Kalen Sabasch, 11 and under, meet qualifying time in 200 metre freestyle.

Top three finishes for competitors 10 and younger: Annika Erickson, bronze in 50 and 100 metre backstroke; Kaillen Sumang, gold in 100 metre butterfly; Noah Thomas, silver in 50 metre freestyle and backstroke and bronze in 50 metre butterfly and backstroke and 200 metre individual medley; and Cooper Waddle, gold in 50 metre backstroke, 50 metre butterfly, 100 metre freestyle, 100 metre breaststroke, 200 metre individual medley and 50 metre breaststroke and silver in the 200 metre freestyle.

Top three finishes for competitors 11 to 12: Elle Couture, silver in the 100

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metre butterfly and bronze in the 50 metre freestyle and butterfly; Ocean Roos, gold in the 200 metre freestyle and bronze in the 400 metre freestyle and the 100 metre butterfly; River Roose, gold in the 200 meter freestyle and the 400 metre freestyle and bronze in the 100 metre backstroke; and Brooklyn Wiens, bronze in the 50 metre backstroke.

Top three finishes for competitors 13 and 14: Lopaschuk, gold in 400 metre freestyle and 100 metre butterfly, silver in 200 metre freestyle and 50 metre butterfly and bronze in the 50 and 100 metre freestyle; Jayden Vale, gold in the 200 metre butterfly; and Jaleesa Zaparniuk, silver in the 200 metre breaststroke.

Top three finish for competitors 15 and over: Daniel Morrison, bronze in the 50 metre breaststroke.

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Local Sports Today ● 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

Hockey Friday

● 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

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

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) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Sunday’s result Cleveland 100 Atlanta 99 Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3) (Series tied 2-2) Monday’s result Miami 94 Toronto 87 (OT) Saturday’s result Toronto 95 Miami 91 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 WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State (1) vs. Portland (5) (Golden State leads series 2-1) Monday’s result Golden State at Portland, late Saturday’s result Portland 120 Golden State 108 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.

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

JUNIOR GOLF LETHBRIDGE — Red Deer’s Logan Hill couldn’t overcome a six stroke deficit and finished in a three-way tie for second at the season opening weekend of the Maple Leaf Junior Goft Tour in Alberta.

The two-day event was held at the Paradise Canyon Golf Club and featured 120 competitors in the junior, juvenile, bantam and pee wee categories.

Hill shot a 76-70 over the weekend in the MJT Junior Boys competition. He finished behind Brendan MacDougall of Calgary who had rounds of 70-70.

In Juvenile play, Carter Graf, 15, of Red Deer took the title shooting a 70-72 over the weekend. He edged out Chandler McDowell of Springbrook by one stroke. McDowell shot a 70-73.

“My putting made the difference all weekend,” said Graf. “I am very happy with this win — I battled back after a triple bogey and feel that this event gets my season off to a great start.”

Jordan Cooke, of Sylvan Lake, came in third place in the Bantam boys division shooting a 74-80 and Cole Bergheim, of Red Deer, shot an 84-87 in the pee wee boys to finish in third.

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING REGINA — More than 250 athletes from 23 synchronized swim clubs attended the Canadian Prairie Championship, and Red Deer’s contingent brought home some hardware.

Kia Risling won a gold in the 13-15 individual figures with a high score of 62.1680, as well as a gold for her solo routine and championship mark. Olivia Moreau, Haley Poole and Risling won a gold for the trio event. The three teamed with Piper Jackson and Hailey Oliver to finish seventh overall in the team event. Jackson and Oliver finished 12th in the duet.

Andi Tierchroeb and Taylor Van Lagen earned a silver for their champion mark in the novice duet. They joined with Rylee Melenychuk and Olivia Miller to finish fourth in the novice team event.

In the 11-12 year old team competition the team of Jolie Chavarris, Kaetlyn Fuller, Anna Gordon, Koda Reeleder, Sophie Schmidt, Chloe Vandenhurk and Mia Writght finished in seventh. In duets Chavarria and Wright took ninth place and in the solo Schmidt finished in 12th.

MINOR BASEBALL

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.

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

Stars 3, Blues 2 First Period 1. Dallas, Janmark 2 (Nichushkin) 4:53.

2. Dallas, Fiddler 1 (Sceviour, Russell) 5:13.

3. Dallas, Spezza 5 (Sceviour, Ja.Benn) 16:49 (pp).

Penalties — Demers Dal (high-sticking) 12:01 Brouwer StL (cross-checking) 16:14.

Second Period 4. St. Louis, Steen 4 (Bortuzzo, Tarasenko) 7:29.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 5. St. Louis, Berglund 3 (Lehtera, Backes) 8:59.

Penalties — Russell Dal (delay of game) 2:41.

Shots on goal Dallas 7 5 2 — 14 St. Louis 9 14 14 — 37 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 6-2-0). St. Louis: Elliott (L, 7-6-0), Allen (16:49 first period, 7 shots, 7 saves).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Dallas: 1-1 St. Louis: 0-2.

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) 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

2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Dallas (1) vs. St. Louis (2) (Series tied 3-3) Monday’s result Dallas 3 St. Louis 2 Saturday’s result St. Louis 4 Dallas 1 Wednesday’s game St. Louis at Dallas, 6 p.m.

PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF Czech Rep. 3 2 1 0 0 11 Russia 3 2 0 0 1 10 Sweden 3 1 1 0 1 9 Denmark 2 1 0 0 1 5 Kazakhstan 2 0 1 0 1 7 Norway 2 0 1 0 1 4 Switzerland 2 0 0 2 0 5 Latvia 3 0 0 2 1 4 Group B GP WO TW OTL L GF Canada 3 3 0 0 0 20 Finaland 3 3 0 0 0 14 Slovakia 2 2 0 0 0 9 U.S. 3 1 0 0 2 9 France 2 0 1 0 1 4

Pacific Division (San Jose leads series 3-2) Monday’s result San Jose at Nashville Saturday’s result San Jose 5 Nashville 1 Thursday’s game Nashville at San Jose, TBA Monday’s summaries

GA 5 7 7 5 8 6 7 10

Pt 8 6 5 3 2 2 2 2

GA 2 5 2 11 7

Pt 9 9 6 3 2

Germany 2 0 0 1 1 3 8 1 Hungary 2 0 0 0 2 2 11 0 Belarus 2 0 0 0 2 5 12 0 Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Monday’s results At Moscow Czech Republic 4 Sweden 2 Russia 4 Latvia 0 At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada 8 Belarus 0 Finland 3 United States 2 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 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.

Monday’s summary Canada 8, Belarus 0 First Period 1. Canada, Brassard 2 (Perry, Duchene) 16:17 (pp) Penalties — Perry Cda (boarding) 1:02, Khenkel Blr (holding) 15:17.

Second Period 2. Canada, Perry 2 (Murray) 1:03 3. Canada, O’Reilly 1 (Jenner, Ceci) 3:58 (sh) 4. Canada, Duchene 2 (Brassard, Ceci) 11:19 (pp) 5. Canada, Hall 3 (McDavid) 11:39 Penalties — Gallagher Cda (slashing) 3:23, Scheifele Cda (roughing) 8:22, Ustinenko Blr (elbowing) 10:30, Lisovets Blr (holding) 14:47, Dyukov Blr (slashing) 19:26.

Third Period 6. Canada, O’Reilly 2 (Duchene, Scheifele) 1:26 7. Canada, Stone 2 (Scheifele) 9:17 8. Canada, Matheson 2 (Gallagher, McDavid) 13:52 (pp) Penalty — Stas Blr (cross-checking) 12:24.

Shots on goal Belarus 5 5 3 — 13 Canada 11 16 13 — 40 Goal (shots-saves) — Belarus: Lelande (L, 0-1-0) (18-13), Milchakov (11:40 second 22-19) Canada: Talbot (W, 2-0-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Belarus: 0-3 Canada: 3-5.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 18 12 .600 Boston 19 13 .594 Tampa Bay 15 14 .517 Toronto 16 17 .485 New York 12 18 .400 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 22 10 .688 Cleveland 15 14 .517 Kansas City 15 16 .484 Detroit 14 17 .452 Minnesota 8 23 .258 West Division W L Pct Seattle 18 13 .581 Texas 18 14 .563 Oakland 14 19 .424 Los Angeles 13 18 .419 Houston 13 20 .394

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

Monday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 6, Kansas City 3 Washington 5, Detroit 4 Boston 14, Oakland 7 Chicago White Sox at Texas, late Baltimore at Minnesota, ppd.

Houston 7, Cleveland 1 Tampa Bay at Seattle, late Toronto at San Francisco, late Tuesday’s Games Detroit (Fulmer 1-1) at Washington (Ross 3-1), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Medlen 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

Oakland (Manaea 0-0) at Boston (O’Sullivan 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-4) at Texas (Holland 3-2), 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Gausman 0-1) at Minnesota (Berrios 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 2-0) at Houston (Devenski 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Leake 0-3) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

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

Toronto (Happ 4-0) at San Francisco (Cain 0-4), 8:15 p.m.

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Wednesday’s Games Baltimore at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Texas, 12:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 1:40 p.m.

Toronto at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

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

Oakland at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games Detroit (Fulmer 1-1) at Washington (Ross 3-1), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Davies 0-3) at Miami (Conley 2-1), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Morgan 0-0) at Atlanta (Wisler 1-2), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Nicasio 3-3) at Cincinnati (Simon 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 3-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-2), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (De La Rosa 3-4) at Colorado (Rusin 1-0), 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis (Leake 0-3) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-1), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Wood 1-3), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 4-0) at San Francisco (Cain 0-4), 8:15 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct New York 19 11 Washington 20 12 .625 Philadelphia 18 14 .563 Miami 17 14 .548 Atlanta 7 23 .233 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 24 6 .800 Pittsburgh 17 15 .531 St. Louis 16 16 .500 Cincinnati 14 19 .424 Milwaukee 13 19 .406 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 16 15 .516 San Francisco 17 16 .515 Arizona 16 18 .471 Colorado 15 17 .469

Pair of Optimist Chiefs players given AMHL awards Two of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs were honoured by the Alberta AAA Midget Hockey League, including late season addition to the Red Deer Rebels.

The AMHL awards and all star teams were announced Sunday with Lloydminster Bobcats goalie Austin McGrath stealing the show winning both the top goaltender and MVP. Chiefs defenceman Tanner Zentner won the

with the Wetaskiwin Nationals. Daven Comfort, Noah Nakonechny and Dixon pitched the tie game. Bettesworth, Coumont and Dixon all scored two runs each.

The Lock N Safe Braves closed out the weekend with a 16-6 loss to the Red Deer Mosquito AA1 Dick’s Auto Braves.

Luke Schmitt, Coumont and Kieran Peterson pitched in the losing effort and Comfort scored two runs.

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Monday’s Games Washington 5, Detroit 4 Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2 Miami 4, Milwaukee 1 San Diego at Chicago Cubs, ppd.

Arizona 10, Colorado 5 N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, late Toronto at San Francisco, late

Wednesday’s Games San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 11:05 a.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

Toronto at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

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.

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

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

Brian Sutter award for top defensive forward.

He had seven goals and 12 assists in 32 regular season games for the Chiefs. He followed it up with two goals and three assists in six playoff games.

Dawson Weatherill, Chiefs goalie, was named to the second team all star. Weatherill played in 20 games for the Chiefs and finished with a 0.932 save percentage and a 2.33 goals against average. He was called up to the Rebels and played in five games, registering a 3.69 goals against average and a 0.881 save percentage.

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Three games over the weekend for the Red Deer Mosquito AA2 Lock N Safe Braves had three different outcomes.

It started with an 11-10 win over the Camrose Cougars. Addison Giesbrecht, Austin Goruk and Avery Coumont all took the mound to deliver the victory for the team.

Avery Bettesworth and Owen Dixon both went 2/3 at the plate and the two combined with Coumont scored two runs each.

They followed it up with a 10-10 tie

Predators 4, Sharks 3 (1st OT) First Period 1. San Jose, Tierney 2 (Vlasic, Hertl) 9:55.

2. San Jose, Tierney 3 (Nieto, Burns) 11:51.

3. Nashville, Josi 1 (unassisted) 15:27.

Penalties — Smith Nash, Vlasic SJ (roughing) 19:45.

Second Period 4. Nashville, Johansen 4 (Ellis) 1:25.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 5. San Jose, Couture 6 (Burns, Thornton) 10:04 (pp).

6. Nashville, Wilson 5 (Neal, Ribeiro) 12:44.

Penalties — Pavelski SJ (hooking) 2:07 Salomaki Nash (high-sticking) 8:59.

First Overtime 7. Nashville, Arvidsson 1 (Salomaki, Rinne) 2:03.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal San Jose 8 4 5 1 — 18 Nashville 5 14 11 2 — 32 Goal — San Jose: Jones (L, 7-4-0). Nashville: Rinne (W, 7-6-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 1-1 Nashville: 0-1.

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George Clooney in a scene from ‘Money Monster.’

In a France darkened by fear, Cannes hopes to supply light

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The first time Jodie Foster came to the Cannes Film Festival, she did so as a co-star in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and as a wideeyed 13-year-old, soaking in the spectacle. Taxi Driver would go on to win the festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or. “It was kind of like Mr. Toad’s wild ride. It was very surreal,” says Foster, who returns this year with her hostage thriller Money Monster. “I remember the red-carpeted steps. I remember all the naked ladies on the beach with their breasts out. I remember an amazing dinner up in the mountains there with (Bernardo) Bertolucci and Gerard Depardieu. It’s a great place for this very exotic, spontaneous slumber party.”

The Cote d’Azur extravaganza of cinema and celebrity, which kicks off Wednesday, can be an eye-opening “slumber party” for newcomers and veterans alike. As the world’s pre-eminent film festival, it’s a seaside treasure trove of cinematic splendor — a chic French Riviera oasis that for a week and a half gathers a significant portion of the movies’ most revered filmmakers, biggest stars and striving dealmakers.

But for all its elevated regard, Cannes — first begun as a kind of United Nations for film in the wake of the Second World War — is also tethered to world events. This year’s festival, the 69th edition, comes six months after the November terror attacks in central Paris that killed 130. France remains in a state of emergency.

Last month, police staged a security exercise in which gunmen stormed the festival’s Palais, the hallowed heart of Cannes. The images from the drill

Underwood, Stapleton, Cam vie for CMT Music Awards

Road played at the festival last year, will lead the jury that chooses the Palme winner.

But there’s younger blood, too, including Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan and Jeff Nichols, both of whom have had films in competition before.

Possible Oscar contenders often announce themselves at Cannes, where films from Pulp Fiction to The Artist have debuted. This year, Nichols’ Loving, slated for release in November, may be the most likely future awards season contender.

Nichols, the 37-year-old Arkansas native whose films include Mud and Midnight Special, says his film is his most mature yet. It’s about Mildred and Richard Loving, who were sentenced to prison for their interracial marriage in 1950s Virginia.

“It’s an important film and I don’t say that lightly. I don’t think movies are very important a lot of the time,” says Nichols. “I felt in control of the process so much. We just had this control. It feels like the steadiest hand of a movie.”

Just how much Cannes, rigid in its formal traditions and red-carpet protocol, will bend to the times is one of this year’s biggest questions. It has drawn annual criticism for failing to celebrate female filmmakers more fully. This year, the 21 films in competition include three directed by women.

That’s a very slight increase from two last year. (The festival overall has a better percentage of female filmmakers, including Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. She will premiere Risk, her Julian Assange documentary.)

Change is elsewhere, too. Amazon Studios, in just its second year of original movie releases, has five films at the festival, including those by Allen, Jarmusch and Nicholas Winding Refn.

year. Underwood has won the award a record six times, including the last four years.

Underwood was also nominated for CMT performance of the year and female video of the year. Stapleton is also nominated for breakthrough video of the year and CMT performance of the year, and Cam is nominated for female video of the year and breakthrough video of the year.

Voting begins Monday at CMT.com.

A new category will be announced June 1. The awards show will air live from Nashville, Tennessee, on June 8.

Hill wrote on her Facebook page Sunday that she doesn’t show up to shows late because she doesn’t care, but because of the artistic process.

Lauryn Hill will ‘make it up’ to fans after short concert

NASHVILLE — Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton and Cam are tied with three nominations each for the 2016 CMT Music Awards.

CMT announced the nominees on Monday. Underwood, Stapleton and Cam are nominated for video of the

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sent shivers through cinephiles accustomed to seeing stars regally ascend the palace steps, not masked men. Festival president Pierre Lescure has said that this year “the maximum” has been done to balance security and ensure “that the festival remains a place of freedom.”

Though this year’s program is, as always, full of socially minded films, it opens on a light note with Woody Allen’s latest, Cafe Society, a comedy about 1930s Hollywood. Also providing welcome escapism will be the upcoming Ryan Gosling-Russell Crowe comedy The Nice Guys and Steven Spielberg’s Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG, starring Mark Rylance as the tale’s friendly giant.

The famed, 56-year-old stage actor will make his first trip to Cannes at a much different station in life than Foster did.

“I’ve always noted it on some of my favourite films, like Rashomon, on the little DVD box,” says Rylance, referring to the festival’s golden palm logo.

“The things that interest me out of the festival are not so much these big films that go there now. But they’ve often been the first sighting of someone like a Kurosawa or many, many others who have emerged from the obscurity into the light, so to speak.”

This year, new voices will have to be loud enough to rise above a battery of international heavyweights. Cannes’ main slate of “in competition” films vying for the Palme includes Asghar Farhadi (The Salesman), Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake), Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper), Pedro Almodovar (Julieta), Park Chan-Wook (The Handmaiden) and Jim Jarmusch (Patterson), who’ll also debut his documentary on Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Gimme Danger.

George Miller, whose Mad Max: Fury

LOS ANGELES — Musician Lauryn Hill says she will ‘make it up’ to fans angry that she arrived over two hours late to an Atlanta concert Friday night and performed for fewer than 40 minutes.

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Red Deer and District SPCA Garage Sale will be held June 3 to 5 at Pidherney Curling Centre. Drop off your clean, used goods from May 11 to 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. No electronics, large appliances, beds, clothing, shoes, tires, encyclopedias, food. Volunteers are needed to sort items beforehand, and during the sale. Sign up at volunteer@ reddeerspca.com.

William Schallert, actor and union activist, has died at 93 Actor William Schallert, who played Patty Duke’s father — and uncle — in her ’60s sitcom and led a long, contentious strike for actors, has died. He was 93.

He died at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, on Sunday, said his son, Edwin.

Schallert’s face was familiar to baby boomers. He played a frustrated high school English teacher in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in the late ’50s and early ’60s and then was the harried dad to a typical teen and uncle to her lookalike cousin in The Patty Duke Show.

DAYTIME DOCUMENTARIES PRESENT REVOLUTION Daytime Documentaries will run from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. “Revolution” will be shown on May 11, followed by a discussion. Rob Stewart learns that past revolutions can help solve some of our environmental problems. Free.

Those planning to bring groups, or for more information, phone Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100.

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NEW YORK — Would Peter Florrick, embattled governor of Illinois, get a guilty verdict and face prison?

Did his dutiful wife, Alicia, continue to stand by him — or finalize their pending divorce and stick with her current squeeze, private investigator Jason Crouse?

“Who do you want to come home to, every JULIANNA night?” Alicia’s MARGULIES law-firm colleague, Lucca, asked her. “Who do you want to see when you open your door?”

These were among the gnawing questions waiting to be answered when CBS’ The Good Wife concluded its seven-season run Sunday night.

Read no further if you’re not ready to find out.

The end of last week’s Good Wife found Gov. Florrick, despite professing he is innocent of corruption charges from his stint as state’s attorney, opting to take a deal: two year’s imprisonment instead of risking 10 years if found guilty.

“There’s no good answer, is there?” he told Alicia.

In the suspenseful finale he changed his mind. New evidence surfaced even as the jury deliberated Peter’s guilt. A breakneck effort was launched to have the jury consider it. Then it turned out the evidence would work against Peter. An aboutface effort was mounted to keep the evidence away from the jury.

By the end of the hour, Peter had accepted what appeared to be the best possible deal: a year’s probation and his resignation as governor.

Alicia stood beside him as he made the announcement that he was stepping down, his political career in ruins, but with Alicia (knowing nothing of it) already being teed up as a possible future candidate for governor.

Then, after having chosen to commit herself to Jason — the man she wanted to come home to every night — Alicia found he had flown the coop.

The series ended with nothing conclusive about her divorcing Peter or about the future of her career. In the final moments she was pointedly alone, yet painfully independent in a way she has never been before.

Walking down a deserted hallway stoic and in solitude, she seemed an indefinable blend of crushed and defiant, clearly a woman whose life would proceed in ways the audience will never be privy to, beyond the bounds of the series. Thus did it fire the viewer’s imagination while triggering a measure of frustration at the loose ends.

Starring Julianna Margulies as wife, mother and powerful Chicago lawyer Alicia Florrick, this complex drama has blended social issues, office politics and family turmoil in multistrand narratives populated with a robust supporting cast including Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming, Matt Czuchry, Cush Jumbo, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Jason, and Chris Noth as Peter — plus Alicia’s dead lover Will Gardner (departed cast member Josh Charles) returning for this finale, thanks to Alicia’s fantasies.

Since its premiere in 2009, The Good Wife has won devoted fans, critical acclaim and awards that include five Emmys and a Peabody.

Its husband-and-wife creators, Robert and Michelle King, played a vital role in bringing the series to its conclusion. Now they have opted to move on, with their next project BrainDead, a new drama series premiering on CBS this summer.

MAGSPARKS: PAINT LIKE WHO? AT THE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Join the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in their peaceful studio on Wednesday from 1-3 p.m. for MAGsparks: Paint Like Who? This community visual art program is tailored to persons with developmental disabilities but is accessible to everyone. Drop in is $3/participant, memberships available to persons with disabilities for $50/year.

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BOULTON (Page) Glenna May It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Glenna May Boulton (Page), beloved wife of Robert Boulton.

Glenna passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 7th, 2016, with family by her side. Glenna was born at the family home in Elnora on June 15, 1931 to Nelson and Martha Page.

She is predeceased by her three older sisters and her three older brothers. Glenna met Bob through 4-H and they were married on October 11, 1950. They raised their six children and farmed in the community of Trenville.

Glenna’s truest love was her family and friends. To know Glenna was to love Glenna.

There wasn’t a visit that didn’t accompany a warm hug, a full stomach, and great advice.

She had a great passion for gardening and cooking. Glenna and Bob created many memories travelling to their favorite place, Hawaii. With 4-H they travelled to every province across Canada, making friends at every stop along the way. Glenna graciously shared her talents for hosting large events with various community groups including 4-H, Elks Club and family reunions. Glenna is survived by her loving husband Bob of 65 years; children Jim (Marta), Gordon, Sandra (Barry), David (Betty), Cheryl. She is predeceased by her son, Bill. Glenna took great joy and pride in her 17 grandchildren and 19 greatgrandchildren.

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HOOVER George (Chris) George Christopher Hoover (Chris), age 82 passed away May 6, 2016 surrounded by his loving wife and family at the Bethany CollegeSide Care Centre in Red Deer.

He was born on June 15, 1933 in Westbend, Saskatchewan to Thomas and Violet (Williams) Hoover.

At the age of 5 Chris moved to Kelowna B.C and then again in 1945 to Enderby B.C where he enjoyed his childhood belonging to the Army Cadets and Scouts.

After completing grade 11 in 1950 he went to work for Bairds Texaco Garage. In 1955 he moved to Brownvale, Alberta to work in his fathers BA Service Station and Cockshutt Farm Supply until 1958 when he moved to Fairview, Alberta to buy the Cockshutt Farm Equipment which he owned and operated until October 1965. On December 29, 1962 he married Vera Whitley. Together they had three children. In the fall of 1965 he started work at Northwestern Utilities and remained in Fairview until October 1989 when he and Vera moved to Edson, Alberta. During his time in Fairview he was an active member of the community belonging to the Kinsmen Club and Lions Club. He also spent a few winters coaching his son Bradley’s hockey team.

He retired from Northwestern Utilities on September 1, 1992 and spent his retirement camping, golfing and fishing.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Vera and their children, Bradley (Tracey), Donna (John) Salmas and Robert (Karrie).

5 grandchildren, Adam, Kali, Michael, Nicolle and Jessica.

The Hoover family would like to extend our gratitude to the staff and nurses at the Bethany Care Centre for their loving care and to Kyle and Amanda Mills for their prayers and support. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Chris’s name to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada or to Parkinson Canada. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday May 11, 2016 at 1:30pm at First Church of the Nazarene. #2 McVicar Street, Red Deer, Alberta with the Rev. Kyle Mills officiating.

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The bad weather should settle in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys on Tuesday, forecasters said, while another storm system should bring bad weather to the area from north Texas to near St. Louis on Wednesday.

Monday’s series of violent thunderstorms dropped tornadoes near Oklahoma City and in the rolling hills south of the city, destroying some homes and barns. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed Interstate 35 near Wynnewood for 15 minutes Monday so the storm could pass, temporarily shutting down the primary route between Oklahoma City and Dallas.

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Television images showed homes destroyed, multiple overturned vehicles and trees torn limb to limb. A roof lay near a hay barn after the first tornado reports.

Meteorologists said twisters with wind speeds above 111 mph were possible from eastern Oklahoma to central Arkansas. Hail 2 inches or more in diameter was possible from eastern Texas to southeastern Kansas.

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MEXICO CITY — A federal judge has ruled that the extradition of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the U.S. can move ahead, Mexico’s Judicial Council said Monday, but the Foreign Relations Department must still approve it and the defence can appeal.

The council, which oversees Mexico’s federal judges and tribunals, said the judge, who was not identified, had agreed that the legal requirements laid out in the extradition treaty between the two countries had been met.

The Foreign Relations Department has 20 days to decide whether to approve Guzman’s extradition.

Any extradition attempt can be delayed or stopped by a request to the court by attorneys for Guzman, the convicted leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at an unrelated news conference that she was looking forward to an “imminent” resolution, but did not have a specific timeline.

Guzman was moved Saturday from a prison outside Mexico City to one in Ciudad Juarez near the U.S. border. Questions have arisen on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate the drug lord to a region that is one of his cartel’s strongholds.

A Mexican security official acknowledged Sunday that the sudden transfer was to a less-secure prison.

The official said that in general the Cefereso No. 9 prison on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, is not as impregnable as the maximum-security Altiplano facility near Mexico City where Guzman had been held.

The official wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly and agreed to do so only if not quoted by name.

The official said, however, that Guzman is being held in a maximum-security wing where the same protocols are being enforced as in Altiplano, including 24-hour monitoring via a camera in his cell. Altiplano is considered the country’s

highest-security prison.

“El Chapo” first broke out of another prison in 2001 and spent more than a decade on the run, becoming one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives. He was recaptured in 2014, but slipped out of Altiplano, which many previously had thought was unescapable, in July 2015 by fleeing through a sophisticated, mile-long tunnel that went up into the shower in his cell.

Mexican marines re-arrested him in the western state of Sinaloa in January, after he fled a safe house through a storm drain.

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Some Mexican media have speculated that the weekend move was a prelude to imminent extradition to the U.S., where he faces drug charges in seven jurisdictions. But authorities denied that, and multiple analysts told The Associated Press that there was no sign of a link between the prison switch and extradition. .

A lawyer for the drug lord, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, told the AP that he would continue trying to block extradition. He said that if the Foreign Department approves extradition, the defence will have 30 working days to seek a court order blocking the transport of his client to the U.S. to be prosecuted on drug charges.

Rodriguez also said he would seek to have Guzman returned to Altiplano prison, arguing that his client’s defence will suffer because his attorneys are based far away from where he is now held.

Also Monday, actor Kate del Castillo who wants to make a movie about Guzman’s life and arranged for actor Sean Penn to interview the drug boss in October 2015, said she was pleased with the step toward extradition.

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FAMILY TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016

Could you please move!?

MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM

“Get out of your own way. Stop the paralysis by analysis.

Decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!”

– Steve Maraboli, bestselling American author and behavioral science academic “I hate having to wear progressive lenses,” I said. “Nothing is ever in focus.”

“You’ll get used to them,” replied my optometrist. “It just takes practice.”

It had been a few years since my optometrist first congratulated me. When I asked him why he said I had officially reached middle-age and presented me with a prescription for my first pair of bifocal lenses. I had gone to see my friendly neighbourhood optometrist because it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to see small words and details – small writing on labels, small fonts in books and in particular, small components on computer motherboards. On this visit, more congratulations were in store. I had graduated to my first pair of tri-focal lenses.

I had a small business on the side – building computers for a group of friends and business associates. Part of the challenge was inserting tiny wires onto even tinier contacts. I just couldn’t see it well enough to make the connections. I had always used a table lamp

for illumination but as of late had resorted to using a flashlight too. I had to get so close to the connectors that my head or hands were always in the way of the light – even when someone else held it. It was an incredibly frustrating experience; I was literally standing in my own way.

We often like to think that someone or something stands in the way of our success – that some external force impedes our best efforts. In more cases than not, our lack of success is an internal force initiated by the person who stares back at us from the mirror each morning. What prevents us from getting out of our own way is often a lack of awareness, a number of self-limiting belief systems, and fear. In particular, fear of failure and fear of success.

Let’s look first at the fear of failure.

Many of us have a misguided belief that should we at-tempt something great and fail we will be condemned by others around us. “Look, there’s that loser who tried to (insert dream) and had it blow up in his face.” I used to believe that, (and it was paralyzing) but I don’t any longer. Here’s the cold, hard truth: most people couldn’t care less.

They’re too busy with their own lives to be overly concerned about what you may or may not have attempted. Of course, there are those individuals who pump themselves up by putting others down, but most people are just living their lives – steeped in their own frustrations, fascinations, and concerns.

Here’s another truth: the greatest critic you’ll ever face is you.

I think the fear of success is even

more insidious. It was in my case. I actually believed at some deep level that I was fully capable of enjoying tremendous success in the career of my choosing. I could actually see myself speaking, writing, teaching – flourishing in all the things I claimed I wanted to accomplish. So what was the problem? I had spent most of my life building a “poor me” mentality and had gleefully shared the news with anyone who would listen.

When friends said, “Oh poor you,” I would nod and cast my eyes downward.

Secretly, I was enjoying the attention. I wanted people to feel sorry for me, to make allowances for me, to think they should be extra conciliatory and not hold me too accountable because I was such a damned poor/pitiful guy.

Truth be known, I was living in a place of fear, afraid to let go of my safety net of pity and co-dependency, reluctant to break contact with my fellow “poor me” affiliates. I was afraid to leave behind the old comfortable me – the worst affiliate of the bunch.

As the old song goes, “I’m hooked on a feeling.” In this case, the feeling of fear provides a firm foundation and “hooks” us into recurring thoughts of inadequacy, lack of deservability, victimization, and self-condemnation.

Here’s a tip: as you reflect on the fear and subsequent feelings each disempowering thought generates, investigate them, especially the ones that arise when you’re about to step outside your comfort zone. Take note of how those thoughts get in the way of your happiness and success. Ponder how each limits your experience and under-

mines your confidence. Consider how defining yourself in a limiting way constrains you and dampens your enthusiasm. Doing so will help lessen your chances of getting hooked again.

One of the best ways to get out of your own way is to admit you’ve been doing it – standing there blocking the view. The next step is to get introspective and do a little soul-searching. What is it that makes you suffer? Why have you chosen self-sabotage rather than self-realization? When we let go of the chaos, we’re better able to step out of the way and step into our power.

On the topic of getting out of your own way, American psychologist and author Gail Brenner Ph.D writes, “Unclouded by mental noise, you become crystal clear about what to do next. You tell the truth about what is and isn’t working. And you take practical steps to begin truly living. Really, it’s true.

When you get out of the way, your life will shine … endlessly.”

It was a friend who suggested to me that sometimes getting out of your own way requires approaching a task from a different perspective. A light came on for me. Instead of installing the motherboard first and then trying to attach the wiring, I attached the wiring first and then inserted the board. The light shines a lot brighter when you get out of your own way.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

Celebrating May and walking with Jacob TREENA MIELKE FAMILY We celebrated May 1 by having breakfast on the deck and feeling all happy and warm as brave rays of sunshine danced all over us and brightened up the faded baskets of little blue flowers painted on our dinner plates.

I found my husband out there, hiding; smoking and being all defiant the

way people get after a long winter.

“I’m just going to sit out here,” he said, already dressed in shorts and his ‘Bahamas’ T-shirt.

“Okay,” I said agreeably.

“I will just bring breakfast out.”

And so it came to be bacon and eggs and coffee became a celebratory meal of sorts, and we celebrated May Day and the fact the sun was warm on our faces and the grass was green and the leaves were green also with all visages of winter long gone.

Later, I wheeled my youngest grandson about in the stroller I have stored in the garden shed.

Pushing that stroller is like trying

to push a grocery cart with really bad wheels on a gravel road, but with perseverance and stubbornness, both of which I believe myself to be quite well endowed with, I finally got the wheels to go in the right direction.

Down the road, through the playground, out the other side and back across the road to where the roadside ditches were dotted with yellow dandelions, we went.

Jacob clutched an orange juice box, sucking the straw with vigor, just happy the way two-year-olds are happy on a sunny afternoon when their tummies are full, their mom isn’t too

far away and their grandma is at their beck and call.

As we strolled along, I showed him a dandelion, that marvelous weed that, aided and abetted by the older generation such as myself, totally passes itself off as a flower to unsuspecting children.

“Flower,” I said to the little boy, telling the innocent white lie to the child without even blinking at the telling of such an atrocity.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have strong intuition so make sure you are using it. The next 12 months is the time to be more proactive about maintaining friendships — and more understanding of the weaknesses of others.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you blurt out the first thing that comes into your head, it will just lead to unnecessary problems. So do something you don’t usually do Rams — think things through before you speak!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Venus is visiting your sign, so make sure you have fun with loved ones and appreciate the support they provide. It’s also a great time to enjoy working on a personal project or joint creative venture.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s true that your ruler Mercury is moving backwards — until May 22 — but don’t let that frustrate you Twins. It’s the perfect time to research, rehearse, reboot, reschedule, revisit and reload.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Under the positive influence of Jupiter, some forms of communication — like social media — will improve. But Mercury is still retro until May 22, so check and re-check before you post comments online.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t worry about what other people think of you. How do you feel about yourself? The combination of true self-esteem and inner confidence is the secret to future success, both personally and professionally.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With prosperity planet Jupiter visiting your sign until September 9, hurry up and make the most of the lucky opportunities that come your way. Reach out and grab them — no excuses Virgo!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your latent Libran love of the mysterious is awakened — whether you read a detective novel, watch a murder mystery movie, or uncover a secret of your own.

Study and research are also highlighted.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you nurture friends and support your peer group, the more love and assistance you’ll receive in return. Group activities and social networking are also favoured today Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With Jupiter moving forwards in your reputation zone, many Sadges will be in the public spotlight, either at work or within your circle of friends. Itís your time to shine so make the most of it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Contemplation will take you far today, as you examine a problem in a thorough and creative way. When communicating with a child, teenager or close friend, you may have to go over old ground.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Troubled family relationships have the potential to be transformed in positive ways, as long as you give them the energy and attention they deserve. Be patient though Aquarius — it will take time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With Jupiter jumping forwards through your love zone, find fun ways to improve your close relationships. The more generous and affectionate you are with others, the more your partnerships will improve.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

Owner should let rules be known if they don’t want guns in house Dear Annie: What is the polite thing to do with a guest who carries a gun?

I do not like guns in my house, but I have a friend who adamantly refuses to leave his gun at home when he comes here.

Do people who carry a concealed weapon have an obligation to notify the host before entering their residence? — Pennsylvania Dear Pennsylvania: Yes. More importantly, it’s your house.

You get to set the rules, and if you don’t want guns, say so. You can’t force him to be honest about having a concealed weapon, but you certainly can inform him of your preferences.

If your friend won’t leave home without his gun, you can ask him to put it in a drawer, cabinet or closet that you can lock. If he insists on wearing it in your house when you have asked him not to, we’d politely tell him to leave. If he says he won’t visit anymore unless he can bring his gun, regretfully say that you’ll miss him. People who are guests in your home should be respectful of their hosts.

Dear Annie: I would like to share some additional thoughts in regard to the letter from “Befuddled Grandma,” whose grandchild has a food allergy, and who was unable to buy treats for her other, allergy-free, grandchild.

MIELKE: Because it was a warm day in May We walked on, passing people with little white dogs on leashes and people with children in strollers and people just walking without children or dogs.

We smiled at each other, for no other reason than because it was a warm day in May and, once again, Mother Nature had gone crazy with the colour

We have a young grandchild with a life threatening milk allergy. According to Food Allergy Research and Education, 1 in 13 children has a food allergy. Unfortunately, many people do not know about or understand the seriousness of an allergic reaction.

It can be more than itchy hives or an upset stomach. In our case, my grandchild can go into anaphylactic shock, which can lead to death.

It is stressful for families. Reading food labels is a must, as allergens can crop up in unexpected places. There is often cross-contamination in processed foods, and in food preparation in homes and restaurants. It is not required by law for food companies to disclose if multiple foods are processed on shared equipment.

Sensitivity and understanding are tremendously appreciated by those dealing with a serious food allergy.

Inclusion is important so that children are not made to feel left out when so many activities involve food.

Perhaps schools (and others) will consider eliminating food treats al-

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We arrived in front of a yard where the grass was a little too long to effectively pull off the well-groomed look and to make matters worse, its surface was abundantly sprinkled with a fresh crop of yellow dandelions.

Home.

Home at last.

I eyed my lawn ruefully.

“I should mow that lawn,” I tell myself sternly.

“It’s disgusting.”

But then the other voice, the voice of experience and the one that is all about things you can’t see, only feel in your heart, cut in.

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together and choose some other “reward.” You often don’t know that a child has a food allergy until there is a first-time reaction, which can result in an unexpected life-threatening situation.

For more information, please tell your readers to look at foodallergy. org. The website covers such topics as food culprits, treatment of reactions, how to manage allergies, foods and their ingredients, and alerts. We can all help. — Concerned Food Allergy Advocate Dear Concerned: People often think food allergies are minor, or worse, optional. They think it’s silly to have to cater to all of these food issues, and we hope your letter will open their eyes.

We especially like your idea of nonfood prizes and treats, not only because it eliminates the danger of anaphylaxis, but also because it helps re-program kids to stop rewarding themselves with unhealthy, high-calorie edibles.

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.

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Your lawn will be here forever, grass is a perennial, it keeps coming back every year.

But, all too soon, little boys grow up and strollers, tucked away in the garden shed, grow rusty with age.

And so, spending a sunny afternoon pushing a stroller and sharing the wonder and beauty of the common dandelion with a small boy is a wise and wonderful thing to do.

And time well spent.

Very well spent!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

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