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Test driving Red Deer Transit

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The morning sun beams through a light haze of smoke from forest fires on Saturday morning as a few early risers gather at bus stops around the city to catch a ride on one of Red Deer’s fleet of transit buses.

Theirs are the anonymous faces of people barely seen by drivers of trucks and cars, whose chief interest in transit buses is to avoid being caught behind one when it makes its stop.

Forty years ago, when I first moved to Red Deer, there were only four buses during the week, and none on Sundays or holidays. As the saying goes, Red Deer Transit has come a long way, baby.

So this reporter, who has not relied on public transportation in more than 30 years, decided to take Red Deer Transit for a test drive.

Saturday, 8:04 a.m. — Buses from downtown are due to arrive at the Parkland Mall in 11 minutes. There is only one other rider at the stop, a young man who plans to take Route 11 as far west as possible, and then hitchhike to Rocky Mountain House for work. Route 11 pulls up, he misses his cue and will have to wait another 30 minutes for the next bus.

Next in line is the BOLT regional service, which runs to Blackfalds and Lacombe.

There are five passengers on the bus: Two middle-age women in the front seats, a teenage girl sitting sideways on the first seat of the upper deck and a teenage couple in the next seats.

Barb Y, who is a bit shy about seeing her full name in print, is on her way to work in Lacombe. She doesn’t normally talk to people on the bus, because she is a little worried about getting involved with strangers. But she knows all the drivers and all the regular riders; she knows who can be trusted and who to avoid.

She says sometimes there may be someone who kicks up a fuss on the bus, but she has confidence in the drivers and their ability to manage unruly riders.

For Barb, the regional bus is a lifeline. It allowed her to move to Red Deer without having to give up her job in Lacombe, where she has worked for the past three years.

Barb says the $90 she forks out for a BOLT pass provides her with reliable, safe and economical transportation.

She gives the service a 10 out of 10, saying the only way it could be better is if the hours were extended.

“It’s about a half an hour commute in the morning. There’s the express bus and then on Saturdays there’s a local bus. This one, you get on it, you go through Blackfalds on both sides.”

The express makes just one stop in Blackfalds and two in Red Deer.

Although the time seems to fly by, the local loop is a two-hour trip.

9:42 Bus driver Theo Klooster arrives back at the hospital, heading south after piloting his unit through the streets of Lacombe, dropping off the handful of passengers who had come from Red Deer.

The bus is empty now, so Klooster takes some time to talk about his job. He is new to the BOLT route, which he finds quite long and not very busy.

Back in Blackfalds, retiree Susan Massincaud is on her way into Red Deer to do some shopping. She gives

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Like clockwork, the Gasoline Alley and Springbrook buses meet Route 1 at Bennett Street every 30 minutes. All city buses are capable of kneeling to the curb and have an extendible ramp for wheelchairs and baby strollers. Buses also have racks on the front where cyclists can stow their bikes. the service an 8.5 out of 10, saying she wishes the service hours could be extended into the evenings. The last bus leaves Red Deer at 4:50 p.m. on weekdays and there’s nothing on Sunday, says Massincaud.

“So, it’s very, very tight to get around and do things in Red Deer. You really don’t have a lot of time.”

However, the savings are enormous.

Massincaud said a fellow rider had commented to her about the difference in costs between owning a car and riding the bus. She had worked it out to $5,000 a year. Those savings can be eaten up pretty quickly if a person has to get a taxi home, says Massincaud.

“The drivers are very nice, and when they don’t know their way, they generally ask us where they’re supposed to go and we’re happy to tell them where to go, because quite often, the first time they do the route, they get lost.”

It’s easy enough to understand the confusion in the new subdivisions in Blackfalds, which has expanded immensely from the tiny village that it used to be.

Besides the money they save, bus riders see other benefits that people in cars miss, says Massincaud, who is trained in photography. She loves to watch out her window and take in the scenery. People in cars and pickup trucks drive by, unaware of the watching eyes in the bus, like the boy playing video-games in the back seat of his SUV or the pickup truck with the big dog in the back that passes the bus as it enters the north side of the Red Deer — an infraction of city bylaws and a moral offence to people who love dogs.

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Transit system improving with the times

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A critical mass that will allow Red Deer Transit to run more buses more often is coming, but has not arrived yet, says its manager.

Like those who work with him, George Penny waxes proud about the city’s transit system, which has grown in immense leaps from the four basic routes that ran six days a week in the late 1970s.

Now serving a city of roughly 100,000 people with arms reaching into Springbrook, Gasoline Alley, Blackfalds and Lacombe, Red Deer Transit runs 64 buses on more than a dozen routes, including special services to Olymel and a regional system funded by neighbouring municipalities.

The system continues to expand and upgrade, and it’s set to upgrade again, says Penny.

Recent changes have included the introduction of electronic fare boxes and, on some buses, on-board libraries. There are only four of those right now, but more are coming, says Penny.

Also coming in the next couple of years is a real-time bus tracking system, now in the early stages of development.

Steven Parkin, transit operations superintendent, said on Friday that the system is still in its infancy and he doesn’t know yet what it will look

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like. He does know that it will be Internet-based and that it will offer two distinct advantages: One to riders and one to the system itself.

Once the system is operational, riders will be able to open a web site from their smart phones or computers and see exactly where their bus is and when it will arrive at their stop.

The system will include information about bus delays, such as traffic collisions or breakdowns, meaning riders can stay indoors, warm and dry, on those days when the weather turns nasty.

For the transit system, real-time tracking offers a more complete picture of the number of people using the buses, where they get on and where they get off.

That will allow the city to fine tune its service, beefing it up where necessary and making other adjustments as well, says Parkin.

Fares in Red Deer compare favourably with those in Alberta’s two largest cities.

In Edmonton, monthly passes run at $91.50 for adults, $83.50 for seniors and $69 for students.

Calgary passes run at $99 for adults and $65 for students.

Red Deer fares are $70 for adults (increasing by $3 in June) and $59 for youths and students.

The BOLT regional fare to Lacombe is currently set at $90 for adults and $25 for seniors and students.

Details on fares, including single-ride tickets, day passes and other packages, are available online at www.reddeer.ca/city-services/transit or by calling 403-342-8225.

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SMASHING GOOD TIME

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Although he comes in a pretty small package, Mathieu Corbiere, 4, of Red Deer was wielding a big hammer Saturday as he put a beating to a car in the parking lot of the Cross Roads Church.

The opportunity came during the Touch-A-Truck event hosted by the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre. Touch-A-Truck brought in large and small trucks from many aspects of industry including agriculture, automotive, construction, towing, transportation, fire fighting the military and some food trucks and their operators together for a fundraiser and a day of awareness. Funds raised will go towards funding crime prevention programs in Central Alberta.

Trial to begin for Calgary man charged in 2014 stabbing of five young people

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A man accused of stabbing five young people at an end-of-school house party is to go to trial Monday in what police have said is Calgary’s worst mass killing.

Matthew de Grood, 24, faces five counts of first-degree murder. He’s been in custody since shortly after the attack on April 15, 2014.

Police were called to a four-bedroom home on a tree-lined street in the city’s northwest after things went horribly wrong at the party, which was being held to mark the end of the university school year.

Three men were found dead at the scene. A fourth man found stabbed on the front lawn and a woman who was stabbed inside the home died in hospital.

Lawrence Hong, 27 Josh Hunter, 23 Kaitlin Perras, 23 Zackariah Rathwell, 21 and Jordan Segura, 22, were all killed.

Timeline of events since five people stabbed in Calgary CALGARY — A Calgary man accused of stabbing five young people to death at a house party is facing a trial on five counts of first-degree murder. Here’s a timeline of events in the case of Matthew de Grood.

April 15, 2014: Police respond to a home in northwest Calgary at 1:20 a.m. They find three young men dead. A woman found with stab wounds inside the home and a fourth man on the front lawn are rushed to hospital but die. Police Chief Rick Hanson later that day confirms a suspect has been arrested a few blocks away from the scene and has been taken to hospital with minor injuries. Matthew de Grood, an invited guest at the party, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

April 21, 2014: Funerals are held for three of the victims. Jordan Segura, 22, was a religious studies student at the University of Calgary. Kaitlin Perras, 23, is remembered as a dancer, sister and artist. Twenty-three-year old Josh Hunter, along with victim Zackariah Rathwell, was a member of the band Zackariah and the Prophets.

April 22, 2014: De Grood makes his first court appearance

Police have not said what they believe may have motivated the attack. They have revealed de Grood was invited to the party and mingled with guests before violence broke out.

The trial is scheduled for two weeks. It is being heard by an out-of-town judge at the request of both the prosecution and defence, because de Grood’s father is a high-ranking city police officer and could be called to testify.

A psychiatric review determined de Grood was fit to stand trial, because he understands the charges against him and is able to communicate with his lawyer.

He has been undergoing treatment at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre since his arrest.

Allan Fay, who represents de Grood, hasn’t ruled out a defence of not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder. via closed-circuit television. He’s ordered to undergo a 30-day assessment to determine whether he is mentally fit to stand trial.—April 30, 2014: The University of Calgary holds a public memorial for all five victims May 22, 2014: Following a 30-day psychiatric assessment, de Grood is found fit to stand trial.

July 22, 2014: De Grood makes his first court appearance in person and is ordered to undergo another psychiatric evaluation.

August 28, 2014: The defence requests another extension of de Grood’s mental-health review. He’s in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre.

March 2, 2015: Preliminary hearing begins to determine if de Grood should stand trial. The courtroom is packed with friends and family members of the victims.

March 6, 2015: De Grood is ordered to stand trial.

March 25, 2015: A judge upholds a publication ban on search warrant evidence in the stabbing deaths. Several media outlets had requested access to the warrants and to witness interviews done immediately after the attack. The move was opposed by family members, the Calgary Police Service and the Crown. The judge rules some of the material could jeopardize the fairness of the trial.

EDMONTON — On Monday evening, thousands of Fort McMurray evacuees will receive a phone call.

The voice they’ll hear will invite them to participate in a massive telephone town hall, where for an hour-and-a-half they’ll get to hear the latest information and ask questions about the wildfire that forced them from their homes, as well as the condition of their neighbourhoods, financial assistance and predictions for when they’ll be allowed to return to their city.

The Alberta government says over 15,000 took part in the first town hall session that was held last Monday night and the numbers have continued to remain high as more were held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

“We set up these telephone town halls in order to provide you with as much information as we can in an unfiltered way,” Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee said at the beginning of the first session a week ago.

There are other ways the province is helping evacuees to get a sense of what they’ll be coming home to.

The Alberta government has released an app with maps that are intended to provide a high-level satellite overview of the status of the city following the devastating fires, and daily updates are posted on the web.

In announcing the app, Larivee said that having been through a devastating fire and evacuation herself five years ago in Slave Lake, she knows how stressful it can be to wait for updates on which homes have been lost.

The town hall sessions have the feel of a news conference, but instead of reporters asking the questions, it’s the residents of Fort McMurray.

To get the invitation call for the town halls, evacuees must have registered their phone numbers with the Red Cross, but they can also participate by phoning in themselves or listening in online.

One caller on Thursday night said her home was very close to the fire line and worried that if it had water damage, it might cause more problems if officials turn the electricity back on.

Another caller said he’d heard reports on social media that there had been looting in Fort McMurray.

“I’m just curious about what steps you’re taking to secure everyone’s homes?” the caller, identified as Grant, asked.

There was even a poll during the town hall asking whether people had been to one of the province’s debit card distribution centres yet, and participants were able to respond on their phone keypads.

John Archer, a government spokesman, said the town halls were put together because even though there were numerous daily news conference and government updates, it didn’t seem to be enough.

“There would continue to be comments from the evacuees: ‘We just want more information. We want more information. We wish we had more information,”’ Archer said.

Archer said there may be more telephone town halls as the week continues.

The question that’s on every evacuees’ mind was submitted online by woman identified as Grace during Thursday’s town hall.

She wondered if evacuees will get to go home this month.

“No promises on that one,” Larivee answered.

“We will let you know as soon as possible.”

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The final phase of the new Highway 12 alignment at Bentley is anticipated to take 10-12 weeks beginning later this moth. The new alignment will take Highway 12 south of the town of Bentley.

Bentley bypass finally getting paved this summer

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A highway bypass around Bentley will finally be paved this summer.

Alberta Transportation completed the realignment of Hwy 12 around Bentley in 2012 but it remained closed and unpaved.

In the meantime, Hwy 12 underwent improvements in 2014.

Starting this month, the province plans to begin the final phase of the realignment by hauling in gravel for

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the road base, which will take about a month.

Paving will then begin and will include existing access roads at Range Road 282, Range Road 284, 52nd Street and on a new road on the east side of the town.

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Motorists are warned to expect some highway disruptions and to watch for construction signs and flag persons.

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Stop throwing public money at companies GWYN MORGAN OPINION

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anadian governments regularly fund corporate ventures, but it is invariably money poorly spent.

Bombardier Inc. received its first federal subsidy of $36.9 million back in 1966 from Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s governing Liberals. The Montreal-headquartered company has since received Industry Canada funding of more $1.1 billion, plus another $1.1 billion that the federal agency poured into airplane manufacturer de Havilland, which later became Bombardier’s airplane division. The company has also received nearly $300 million from provincial governments, bringing the total to $2.5 billion.

Now Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government faces intense pressure to match Quebec’s $1.3-billion bailout of Bombardier’s financially-strapped airplane division, more than doubling the taxpayer largesse received by the company in the past 50 years.

This latest aerospace subsidy saga is only a part of taxpayer support for the sector. Quebec-based Aero-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has received a whopping $3.3 billion and Ontario-based flight simulator CAE has

received $646 million.

Overall, Industry Canada doled out $22.4 billion of taxpayers’ money to private businesses from 1961 to 2013.

And that’s just part of Ottawa’s corporate welfare generosity. The $350-million Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the $250-million Western Diversification Program dispense direct handouts that tend to favour governing party constituencies. And then there are the tax-based subsidies including: labour-sponsored venture capital corporations ($120 million), flow-through shares ($100 million), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit ($200 million), the Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit ($100 million) and the Atlantic Investment Tax Credit ($250 million).

Among the provinces, Quebec is the champion corporate subsidizer, handing out billions per year. Besides the recent $1.3-billion bailout of Bombardier, there’s the $350-million handout to McInnis Cement for a plant under construction in the Gaspe region that, interestingly, is owned by the Bombardier-Beaudoin families.

Ontario is also a generous subsidizer. It gave U.S.-based technology giant Cisco $220 million to hire 1,700 people. There have been myriad other recent subsidies to business, including $120 million to software company Open Text, $87 million to Honda and a plethora of smaller handouts. The province has established a Jobs and Prosperity Fund that will dole out $2.7 billion in subsidies over a 10-year period.

Taken together, Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments hand out tens of billions annually to private businesses. Announcement of these handouts are great photo opportunities for politicians who extol the jobs to be created.

But do these pronouncements paint a true picture? For example, when Premier Kathleen Wynn arrived at Cisco’s Bay Street offices to announce that $220-million grant, she stated, “This is the largest job-creating investment that we’ve seen in the technology sector.” But University of Western Ontario economist Mike Moffatt points out that Cisco will be hiring people who would have been employed by other high tech firms. “They automatically assume the people that get hired wouldn’t have had jobs otherwise.”

Another perverse effect of selective subsidization is the tilting of the playing field against unsubsidized competitors.

And there are myriad examples of businesses that failed after being granted a subsidy, illustrating the truth of the adage, “Governments are terrible at picking winners but losers are great at picking governments.”

Australian professor Terry Buss, formerly with the World Bank and a foremost expert on business subsidies, authored a comprehensive analysis that found most job and economic benefit studies are “based on poor data, unsound social science methods and faulty economic reasoning.” He states that such reports “provide politicians

and practitioners with justification to award political favours without appearing to be political.”

And then there’s the bees-to-honey effect of putting billions of dollars in the hands of politicians to dispense.

Montreal-based business columnist David Descoteaux points out that “The more governments hand out subsidies … the more corporate success is dependent on government assistance, forcing companies to hire lobbyists to get their share of the pie.”

But what about the argument that if we don’t do it, the investment will flow to a jurisdiction that will? In such situations, subsidies may be the only hope of attracting or retaining important employers. The U.S. think-tank Good Jobs First estimates that state and local governments shell out US$70 billion a year in business subsidies, sometimes funding half or more of a new investment. Trying to compete with such aggressive tactics is a losing game.

Descoteaux says that the only way to halt this race to the bottom is to strengthen international trade agreements to eliminate subsidies. Canada should be a big booster of such agreements, because the ten-fold larger economy to the south can win a subsidy competition any time they choose.

And as long as that imbalance exists, we tend to throw good money after bad.

Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.

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Parallels between Brazil, Thailand coups GWYNNE DYER OPINION

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: What’s the difference between the coup that overthrew the elected government in Thailand in 2014 and the coup that has now removed the elected government in Brazil?

A: The coup-makers in Thailand wore uniforms.

The Brazilian Senate has just voted 55 to 22 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. She will be suspended for the next 180 days while the same body tries her on the charge of understating the size of the budget deficit before the last election.

If two-thirds of the senators find her guilty, she will be permanently removed from office. Since they have just voted to impeach her by a bigger majority than that, we may take it for granted that she is a goner.

Two justifications have been offered for this unseating of an elected president, but both of them are pretty flimsy. The first is the legal justification, which is that Rousseff’s government tweaked the accounts a bit to make Brazil’s financial situation look less bad before the last election RED DEER

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She did, but which elected government anywhere does not try to put the best face on its figures? Anyway, nobody believes that this is the real reason for her removal from power.

The broader political justification is that she has made a mess of the economy. The economy certainly is in a terrible mess — in each of the last two years it has shrunk by four per cent, one-tenth of the population is unemployed, and inflation is exploding — but every big commodity-exporting country has been in the same mess since the global financial crash of 2008. The demand for their exports simply collapsed.

Rousseff didn’t create this crisis, but inevitably she gets the blame for it.

That, rather than some obscure legal issue, is why nearly two-thirds of Brazilians think she should be impeached.

But while she might have done better at managing the crisis, in a democracy political questions like this are normally settled by elections, not by impeachment.

The 55 senators who voted to impeach her all know that, but they couldn’t resist the temptation to take her down. Which brings us to the real motive behind all this, and the worrisome comparison with Thailand, where the generals took over in 2014.

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action. As is bound to happen in a democracy, both countries then developed powerful political movements that demanded a redistribution of wealth in favour of the impoverished half of the population. And in both countries the prosperous urban middle classes mobilized against this threat.

The hopes of the Thai poor were focussed on Thaksin Shinawatra (prime minister 2001-06) and later, after the military forced him into exile, his sister Yingluck Shinawatra (prime minister 2011-14). In Brazil the left-wing leader was Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers’ Party (president 200210), and subsequently his close ally Dilma Rousseff (president 2010-16).

In Thailand the struggle between the rural and urban poor (the ‘yellow shirts’) and the defenders of the economic status quo (the ‘red shirts’) descended into the streets early, and had got quite bloody by the time the generals seized power in 2014. They intervened in favour of the ‘red shirts,’ of course, but they seem determined to hold on to power themselves for the forseeable future.

Brazil’s politics have been less violent and the military have not intervened (yet), but it is just as much a class struggle — made more intractable by the fact that in Brazil social class is colour-coded. The white half of the population is mostly prosperous, the “pardo”(mixed-race) and black

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half mostly poor.

The most important single measure of the Workers’ Party government is the famous Bolsa Familial, a straight cash payment to those whose income is below the poverty line. To qualify, they must only ensure that their children attend school 85 per cent of the time and are fully vaccinated. It has lifted 45 million people, a quarter of the population. out of poverty.

Nobody will admit that this crisis is about ending government subsidies for the poor, but the crowds demonstrating against Rousseff’s government have been almost entirely white. So is the cabinet sworn in by the new interim president, Michel Temer. But Temer is going to have a very hard time running the country.

Outraged Workers’ Party supporters are already being radicalized by the “coup” that has driven Dilma Rousseff from power and the struggle is moving into the streets. Mass demonstrations and barricades are now a common sight, and the protesters will find it hard to resist disrupting the Olympic Games that start in Rio de Janeiro in early August.

Which may provide the excuse for the Brazilian right to welcome the military back into power.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent Canadian journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Monday, May 16, 2016

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NDP set to name Mulcair’s replacement in fall 2017

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal NDP has opted for an extended leadership race to replace Tom Mulcair, as it looks to name a new leader between September and October of 2017.

The decision comes after around 100 New Democrats from across Canada gathered at an Ottawa hotel Sunday to carve out the terms for the race — a pro- TOM MULCAIR cess launched after Mulcair was flatly rejected as the party’s long-term leader at a convention in Edmonton last month.

The NDP’s national director, Karl Belanger, said members of the party’s governing body agreed on Sunday that more time is needed to assess where the party is at and to allow for potential candidates to organize and set up campaigns.

“Councillors felt that by providing that longer window it would provide better opportunities for outreach and fundraising and for the party in general,” Belanger said.

In order to run, hopefuls will be required to provide a registration fee of $30,000 while the spending cap has been set at $1.5 million.

The nomination period will begin in July.

“Council has given potential candidates a time frame that will allow for a fair and competitive race, while giving enough time for the new leader to prepare for the general election,” said

NDP president Marit Stiles.

The party brass did not set a precise date for a leadership vote within the fall 2017 time frame.

Some New Democrats who have opened the door to a possible leadership bid include B.C. MP Nathan Cullen, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton and Quebec MPs Ruth Ellen Brosseau and Alexandre Boulerice.

Cullen and Ashton both ran in the 2012 race that resulted in Mulcair’s victory.

There are many challenges for the NDP as it looks to replace Mulcair, including the current debt load of around $5 million — a legacy of the marathon federal election that punted the party back to third party status in the Commons.

For his part, Mulcair has said it is unlikely he will run again in the 2019 federal election.

He has yet to weigh in on the timeline announced by the federal council.

As the NDP eyes its future and a lengthy leadership race, fundraising is sure to be a concern.

A letter from the party’s president, vice-presidents and treasurer distributed ahead of Sunday’s meeting noted council should consider the financial impact of the race and its effect on national and provincial fundraising efforts.

Belanger said these concerns were addressed by council, adding administrative fees have been increased to 25 per cent — up from 15 per cent in the 2012 race — meaning 25 cents will go to the party for every dollar a campaign pulls in.

Recent figures released by Elections Canada showed the party struggled in its first quarter and only collected $1.3 million.

McMaster political science professor Peter Graefe said the timing of the leadership race will have “significant impacts” on the party’s

“COUNCIL HAS GIVEN POTENTIAL CANDIDATES A TIME FRAME THAT WILL ALLOW FOR A FAIR AND COMPETITIVE RACE, WHILE GIVING ENOUGH TIME FOR THE NEW LEADER TO PREPARE FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION.” — NDP PRESIDENT MARIT STILES. money-making ability.

“Mulcair is going out the door and you’re mostly raising money on the … back of your leader so it is going to be a bit complicated from that point of view,” Graefe said.

The NDP can’t begin raising significant amounts of money until two years out from the next election, he added.

“I don’t think they are likely to go bankrupt if you like but … they’ll still be paying off these debts by the time a new leader is chosen so that’s going to make it difficult for them to be in a competitive position going into the next federal election.”

Graefe said the New Democrats were likely influenced by the timing of the Conservative leadership race, set to be held in May 2017.

“They want the Conservatives to choose their leader so that they can make their choice … in the context of

who the other two leaders are going to be,” he said.

In addition to weakened fundraising efforts following October’s disappointing election result, the NDP is also using resources to foot a legal bill over its satellite office saga now playing out in Federal Court.

The party launched this fight after the Commons board of internal economy ordered 68 NDP MPs — many of whom went down to defeat last October — to repay $2.7 million in parliamentary funds that went towards office operations in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City.

The NDP has long denied that it used parliamentary funds for nonparliamentary purposes.

Mulcair remains personally on the hook for a bill of more than $400,000.

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Go Girl PHOTOS BY JEFF STOKOE/ ADVOCATE STAFF Almost 700 Grade 5 elementary school girls got going at the annual Go Girl event at the Collicutt Centre last week coming together for a full day, packed with activities to keep them moving and getting them excited about fitness and lifelong activities.

“Our 13th Go Girl event and we have almost 700 Grade 5 girls here today participating in a lot of different activities.” Said Jackie Weddell, a teacher at Holy Family School and one of the organizers of the event.

“Initially there was some data showing that girls when they left from elementary school to move into middle school their activity levels significantly dropped off so it was just sort of a in motion grant initially that was put in place to encourage girls to be more active going into middle school.”

“What we are hoping to do is introduce them to lots of different activities that they might not have tried before and just that exposure hoping that they find something that they really love to do and continue on with it for a lifetime.”

“We have got a lot of events going on today” said Weddell. “So we’ve got 24 different events some of those being kick boxing, lacrosse, softball, yoga, swimming, synchronized swimming, field hockey, champion cheerleading, taekwondo a really wide variety of different activities.”

As the nearly 700 Grade 5 girls, along w i t h high school girls acting as mentors were getting busy at the Collicutt Centre, across town at the Dawe Centre an equal number of Grade 5 boys were taking part in their fourth annual Knights In Training program that has created an opportunity for pre-teen boys to explore the deeper meanings behind respect, understanding, relationships and responsibility.

ABOVE: Fitness on the ball during a circuit class.

BELOW: Addie Otto of Master Rims Taekwondo holds the pads as Julia Cunningham of Father Henri Voisin School hits with a round-house kick.

Kaitlyn Darou of Aspen Heights School makes contact wile hitting balls in the field house

Katie Sorensen, left, of Camile J. Lerouge and Shanelle Felipe, right, of St. Patricks school hold up Ava Kuzel of Mountview Elementary as Maddy Judson of G. W. Smith supports from behind as the girls try a cheer session.

Ella Tennant of Mountview School works her way up the climbing wall in the field house

A7 Monday, May 16, 2016 Work begins to reunite Fort McMurray residents with the vehicles they abandoned

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — As the planning inches forward to eventually get thousands of Fort McMurray evacuees back into their homes, the job has already begun to reunite many those forced to flee the flames with something else they need to get their lives moving again.

Their cars and trucks.

The blaze earlier this month effectively cut Fort McMurray in two, forcing about 25,000 people north to the safety of oilsands work camps, while the other 70,000 were sent streaming south in a bumper-to-bumper snake line of cars and trucks that stretched beyond the horizon down Highway 63.

There wasn’t time to fuel up and some vehicles had to be abandoned, the victims of engine trouble or a lack of gas. “There were lots of vehicles that were left on the side of the road, in medians between the different lanes of the highway,� said Graeme McElheran, director of communications for Alberta Transportation. “We are working on a strategy right now to reunite people with those vehicles.�

For 101 vehicles recovered on Highway 63 south of Fort McMurray over the past week, owners can now claim them now from a lot in Wandering River, approximately 230 km north of Edmonton. “It’s Saturday so everybody’s coming up,� said Derek Marsh, general manager of Double L Towing and Highway 63 Towing. “There’s everything from bikes to trucks.� “The phone lines have been flooded.�

Marsh said he and about a half-dozen other tow-truck drivers with his

company started retrieving vehicles on Sunday. Some were difficult to tow because after they ran out of gas, they were pushed into ditches to keep them from blocking the highway.

They’ve been releasing vehicles to their owners since Tuesday. The tanks are filled with gas, compliments of the province. The government is also covering the towing and storage fees.

Marsh said about 30 vehicles were claimed by Saturday.

Fort McMurray remains off limits to the public and there’s no date for when residents can return.

McElheran didn’t have an exact number on how many abandoned vehicles were being towed, but estimated it to be in the hundreds.

Towing is still in progress to lots inside Fort McMurray for vehicles that were left on Highway 881 and Highway 61 just south of the city, as well as inside the city and north up to the community of Fort McKay, according to McElheran.

Unlike the vehicles that have been towed to Wandering River, McElheran said there’s no way, yet, for the owners to call about whether their vehicles are waiting for them. But he said the province is working on it, including what to do if owners can’t provide the information they need to claim their rides. “Often people leave that information in the vehicle itself. Sometimes they have it at home, sometimes they may not be able to get back to their homes, say, in Fort Mac in order to get the insurance, to prove that they have it,� McElheran said. “If they can’t get an answer about the presence of their vehicle on one day they should try again the next day.

That’s our approach. I mean, It really is day-by-day as we develop this aspect of the emergency response,� he added.

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the regulation,� said Anna Pippus, a lawyer with Animal Justice, a legal group that fights for the rights of animals.

Rob McNabb of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association pointed out cattle are inspected during transportation for slaughter, and the final product is inspected at the meat packing plant.

Provincial SPCA officers inspect farms when they receive cruelty complaints. “There’s no need (for regular onfarm inspection by government),� said McNabb. “At the end of the day, nobody is questioning the value or the safety or the wholesomeness of Canadian beef.�

The association is set to unveil its own audit-enforced program called Verified Beef Production Plus in June.

The Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef is crafting standards for animal welfare, sustainability and biosecurity that will become part of the program. Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, said ethical meat is more important to millennials, who now outnumber boomers in the marketplace. “It’s way beyond just the calories.

It’s really about feeling good about what you’re buying and making a difference in the world.�

Earls has since apologized for its “mistake� and promised to source some of its beef from Alberta suppliers that meet its criteria. The chain made the switch after surveying customers and staff and finding a majority favoured “humane� beef.

VANCOUVER — When Ben Campbell heard Earls was switching to Certified Humane beef from the U.S., he had a different reaction than many Alberta ranchers.

The 32-year-old raises grass-fed cattle without added hormones at his ranch in Black Diamond, about 60 kilometres southwest of Calgary. He sells directly to customers, often inviting them to visit the rolling hills where his animals graze.

To Campbell, Earls’ decision was a response to a trend he had seen firsthand: growing consumer demand for ethical meat. And though Earls backtracked after a social media slaughtering, Campbell said the beef industry can learn from the controversy. “People care about where their food comes from and they should,� he said. “The average Alberta farmer is proud of the way he produces his beef or she produces her beef, and we want to showcase it. I think a lot of people will be happy to have a certification to show the high standard.�

Alberta ranchers say Canada is a leader in animal welfare standards.

But companies like Earls and McDonald’s are increasingly finding that customers, especially millennials, want proof that meat was raised humanely — forcing the industry to embrace certification programs it once resisted. “We’ve got to get more comfortable as an industry with those verifications and audits,� said Bob Lowe, chairman of Alberta Beef Producers. “We have been doing things very well and we’ve been adapting to the science as it comes along, but it’s just the independent nature of cattle proThis week and every week, working for you ducers. They just don’t want people snooping around.�

Certified Humane is a U.S.-based trademark with standards enforced through annual inspections. Some Canadian ranches have the desigAction Bus Dispatcher nation, but when Earls couldn’t find enough supply in Canada, it switched to buying exclusively in the United States.

Kelly has been with the Transit Department since August The Canadian industry of 2007 and holds the position of Action Bus Dispatcher. balked, insisting that local ranchers already met Kelly is responsible for the scheduling and booking of similar standards under rides for the more than 1600 Action Bus clients presently national codes of pracregistered with The City of Red Deer. Kelly also works tice. However, the codes closely with the 25 operators who drive the Action of practice are guideBuses, dispatching daily changes to operators’ schedules lines that aren’t enforced via the Mobile Data Terminal scheduling system, or over through inspections. the two way radio. Kelly plays an integral part of the Ranchers have had to Dialysis Action Bus program working closely with the turn to third-party proRenal Dialysis Unit at the hospital to ensure that Red grams for verification, Deer Transit provides as many rides as possible to like Certified Humane or individuals requiring dialysis treatments in Red Deer. the made-in-Canada option SPCA Certified. AniIn her spare time, Kelly enjoys crocheting, cross stitching mal welfare advocates say and working with stained glass. She has four children it should be the job of govaged 8 to 23 and spends a great deal of time supporting ernment to inspect farms them in recreational activities such as hockey, soccer for humane treatment. and slow pitch. “What the Earls situaIn asking Kelly what she enjoys most about her position, tion really brings to the Kelly enjoys helping clients get to where they need to go forefront is that this inwhether it be for work, social or medical appointments. dustry isn’t being regulated, and consumers want

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Ex-staffer goes before appeal court

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The case of a former Conservative staffer convicted in the 2011 federal election robocalls scandal is going before Ontario’s highest court this week.

Michael Sona is asking Ontario’s Court of Appeal to impose a sentence less than the nine months in jail he received in November 2014.

But Crown prosecutors are simultaneously asking the court to send Sona to jail for 20 months, arguing his earlier sentence wasn’t harsh enough given the seriousness of his crime.

“This was both a sophisticated, large-scale fraud, and a concerted attempt to subvert a democratic election,” the Crown argued in a factum filed with the court. “The Crown appeals and asks this court to powerfully denounce and deter such direct assault on our most fundamental democratic institutions — the right to vote.”

Sona — now 26 and currently out on bail after spending 13 days behind bars — was the first person convicted of wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting under the Canada Elections Act. The trial judge who sentenced him said he believed Sona did not act alone in a scheme in which some 6,700 automated phone calls were placed on the morning of the 2011 federal election, largely to numbers in Guelph, Ont., wrongly telling people their polling station had been moved to a different location.

The calls were organized and paid for by Sona, who was the director of communications for the Tory candidate in Guelph, and targeted people believed to be “non-supporters of the

Canada BRIEFS Wildfire prompts evacuation order in northeastern British Columbia FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — An evacuation order has been issued for residents in the vicinity of a wildfire in northeastern British Columbia.

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

The fire flared up four weeks ago and is 45-per-cent contained, though a recent spate of hot and dry weather has led to more activity.

More than 100 firefighters are battling the blaze, along with 13 helicopters and 16 pieces of heavy equipment.

An evacuation alert is in effect for the region immediately east of the area that was ordered to evacuate.

The B.C. government is warning

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A man casts his vote for the 2011 federal election in Toronto in this photo. The trial of the lone junior Conservative campaign worker charged in the robocall scandal is set to begin Monday. Michael Sona, 25, is charged with wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting.

Conservative party,” the Crown noted.

Political staffers testified at Sona’s trial that the then 22-year-old had boasted about the scheme after the election.

“This was no momentary prank. It was a calculated conspiracy amongst politically sophisticated individuals to alter the outcome of a federal election by fraud,” the Crown argued. “Many of the victims also said that they will never again feel comfortable expressing their political views or allegiances

for fear of being targeted again in the same way.”

The Crown suggested the judge at Sona’s trial lost sight of two major components of the crime which call for a higher sentence — a large scale fraud on the public and the deliberate subversion of democracy and the rule of law.

“This crime was callous and profoundly harmful,” the Crown argued.

“The sentence failed to bring that home either to Sona or to others pos-

about smoky conditions in the Peace Region due in part to an increase in wildfire sizes, including the nearby Siphon Creek fire.

race.

Other Tories said to be contemplating a run for the leadership include Tony Clement and Lisa Raitt.

The Conservatives will vote for a new leader on May 27, 2017.

Bernier launches Tory leadership campaign in Quebec as race poised to heat up SAINTE MARIE DE BEAUCE, Que. — Quebec MP Maxime Bernier has officially launched his campaign to become the Conservative party’s next leader.

Bernier told a packed stadium in his home riding of Beauce this morning that he would run a small government if elected.

He also said he would lower taxes and make more efforts to pay down the debt.

While Bernier, 53, and Ontario MP Kellie Leitch are the only official candidates for the party’s top job, they likely won’t be alone.

Ontario MP Michael Chong has scheduled a news conference for Monday where he is expected to enter the

The province is installing running water and a flushing toilet at the homeless camp, where about 100 people have been living since last spring.

Victoria Mayor Lisa helps says the plumbing comes in response from neighbourhood concerns, such as the smell associated with the camp’s porta-potties.

Neighbours living near the site have called it an urban ghetto, saying they have picked up discarded needles, human waste and other garbage left in the area by campers.

Helps says the province is looking for other places to house the campers

MONT-SAINT-HILAIRE, Que. — A woman is dead after a school bus carrying 40 teenagers crashed with a car and overturned east of Montreal.

The 18-year-old victim was in the car when the accident happened at around 5 p.m. Friday The second occupant of the vehicle remains in hospital in critical condition.

About two dozen high school students were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Police say speed may have been a factor.

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because no one wants the tent city to stay on the courthouse lawn permanently.

Last month the B.C. Supreme Court refused to grant the government an interim injunction to dismantle the camp, but the province is expected to go back to court later this year seeking a permanent injunction.

Running water, flushing toilet coming to Victoria tent city One woman dead after school homeless camp bus crashes with car east of VICTORIA — Plumbing is being installed at a tent city set up on the lawn Montreal of Victoria’s court house.

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Governor General David Johnson inspects an honour guard during the Governor General and Commander-in-Chief’s Military Tattoo at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa on Saturday,

sibly eager to unleash their own creatively crafted dirty political tricks.”

Sona’s lawyer, however, argued that his client’s nine-month sentence exceeded what was necessary for denunciation and deterrence.

Howard Krongold suggested the trial judge made three errors in coming to his sentence — overemphasizing general deterrence, finding that there was no evidence of rehabilitation, and failing to consider the effect of any sentence of imprisonment on similarly situated individuals.

Describing Sona as a “good young man brought to his knees” by his conviction, Sona’s lawyer suggested a sentence of between 30-90 days or a longer conditional sentence — typically house arrest — would be appropriate.

“The conduct here was clearly very grave, but given his youth and the significant personal consequences Mr. Sona has endured, this was an ideal case for a conditional sentence or a short, sharp jail sentence,” Krongold wrote in a factum submitted to the appeal court.

Sona was driven by “partisan fervour and emotion, not greed” and “lost his moral bearings during a campaign that developed a ‘siege mentality,”’ Krongold argued.

The entire case has taken a significant toll on Sona, Krongold added, noting that his client has struggled with periods of stress and depression and even attempted suicide in 2012.

“Against the backdrop of what Mr. Sona has gone through, stepping into a jail cell for any duration is — both symbolically and practically — a profoundly harsh punishment for someone who has come from where Mr. Sona has come from and has fallen as far as he has,” Krongold wrote.

10:28 Klooster stops at Village Mall, where I depart and head across the road for a snack before hopping into my trusty rusty pickup truck to head to the south side of Red Deer.

11:30 Bennett Street — Route 12 departs to Gasoline Alley. The driver says it can be standing-room only when shifts change at local businesses. Right now, the only other riders are two young women and four young men. The two women have a brief chat, then each takes her own seat for the ride. The men disperse themselves at the back of the bus. They all stay on board as I slip out the door, heading to a well-known local restaurant for a flapper pie and ginger tea. I’m back at the stop in time for the next trip back to Bennett Street.

Sorensen Station is a ghost town

after the buses leave, it’s parking slots emptied of buses and not a soul in sight, until a slim man arrives and takes a seat at one of the empty benches.

Wilmar Buenafe moved to Red Deer from the Philippines about five years ago. Every day, he takes the Olymel route to work and back. The seats fill pretty quickly on work days, meaning Buenafe and other Olymel workers often have to stand up for their trip.

It’s quiet today, though. He plans to do a little shopping, maybe pick up some groceries.

Buenafe refuses to find fault with the transit system. Like Barb and Massincaud, it’s his lifeline, getting him to work and back or wherever else he wants to ride. The advantages of riding a bus versus buying a car are quite simple, says Buenafe.

“I’m not a rich man.”

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EASY PAY OPTIONS COULD MEAN PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T CONTROL SPENDING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Technology is making buying things easier, but credit counsellors want you to remember that paying for them is still as difficult as ever.

Jeff Schwartz, executive director of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, says the ease with which consumers can buy things these days could spell trouble for those who have difficulty controlling their spending.

“It is allowing many consumers to avoid the harsh reality of what is going on inside their bank account or even inside their wallet,” he said.

With the expansion of Apple Pay this week, Canadians added yet another way to quickly pay for their purchases without even opening their wallets.

The addition of the big Canadian banks to the service adds to the already numerous ways shoppers have, including Interac Flash, MasterCard Tap & Go, Visa payWave, and American Contactless Payments, to pay for things quickly.

Schwartz said the physical aspect of pulling out your wallet and taking the cash out to make a purchase is very different from using a phone.

“You really have to say that I am willing, ready and able and want to make this purchase,” he said.

“There is a real mental link between you actually going in and making that purchase versus just whipping open your phone, throwing it on the scanner and you’re done.”

The plethora of new ways for people to more easily spend their hardearned dollars comes amid concerns about household debt levels.

Statistics Canada has reported that for the fourth quarter of last year the ratio of household debt to disposable income climbed to a new peak of $1.65 in debt for every dollar earned after taxes and other fees paid to govern-

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A person tries a smartphone loaded with Google Wallet at the National Retail Federation in New York. ment.

Credit counsellor Pamela George says the new ways to pay for purchases are convenient.

“The problems happen where people are just putting it on a credit card and they don’t have a clue where or how they’re paying it,” said George, who works at the Credit Counselling Society in Ottawa.

She recommends clients withdraw the cash they’ve allocated in their budget and when it is spent, they’re done.

“The problem starts when you don’t track your spending and then you just keep swiping the card,” she said.

But technology can also be used to help.

While a smartphone can help make it easier to spend money, it can also help track spending if you use a budgeting app.

Schwartz’s says his agency offers a free app for Apple devices that allows users to keep a record of spending and download it to a spreadsheet.

“That is the upside to the technology. But the basis behind it is budgeting and understanding what money you have coming in, understanding what money you have going out and understanding what money you have potentially available,” he said.

George recommends her clients simply stick to cash if they really want to control their spending.

“It is harder to break a $20 bill for a $3 cup of coffee than it is to just tap a card,” she said.

Will big pension funds and Ottawa partner to build tomorrow’s infrastructure?

Audi veteran joins Tesla Motors to lead production

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PALO ALTO, Calif. — A veteran Audi executive is joining Tesla Motors to lead production.

Peter Hochholdinger will be responsible for increasing and improving production of Tesla’s Model S sedan and Model X SUV. He will also develop the production plan for the company’s lower-cost Model 3 sedan, which goes on sale next year.

Hochholdinger spent 22 years at Audi, the luxury arm of German automaker Volkswagen AG. He joins Palo Alto, Californiabased Tesla as it plans a major increase in production.

CEO Elon Musk said last week that Tesla wants to make 500,000 vehicles per year by 2018, approximately two years earlier than what was initially planned.

Tesla made 50,000 vehicles last year.

Tesla’s former production chief left earlier this month after the launch of the Model X was plagued by delays and parts shortages.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government’s newfound enthusiasm about a big Montreal transit proposal has given Canadians a glimpse at one way Ottawa could fund billions in public infrastructure, like roads, bridges and rail, over the long haul.

In recent days, senior Liberals have been talking up an unusual funding model for the $5.5-billion light-rail plan for Montreal, calling for a partnership that includes Ottawa and a public pension fund.

The idea was put forward by Quebec’s massive public pension fund manager, which recently announced its proposal to build a large electric rail network connecting Montreal to its suburbs.

The fund, the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, is prepared to pump $3 billion into the project — and it wants the provincial and federal governments to kick in the rest.

A subsidiary of the Caisse would operate the rail network and gradually recoup the pension plan’s investment through user fees. Eventual profits would be funnelled into Quebecers’ public nest egg — the Quebec Pen-

sion Plan — which is managed by the Caisse.

The idea was made public after the Liberal government signalled in its March budget that it would like to engage deep-pocketed pension funds and other “innovative sources of funding” to help raise much-needed cash for long-term infrastructure projects — when it’s in the public interest.

So far, this first example of a potential federal partnership with a major pension plan appears to have stoked excitement among senior Liberal cabinet ministers.

“I salute the innovative efforts of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, which, through its metropolitan electric network, is proposing a new business model to implement major infrastructure projects,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told a business crowd late last week in Montreal.

“We have the chance in Canada to count on pension funds that have developed an expertise in infrastructure that is recognized around the world.”

Morneau added that Ottawa is studying the Caisse’s plan with “lots of interest.”

His inaugural budget followed through on a Liberal election pledge to double infrastructure spending over

the next 10 years, raising the overall federal investment to $120 billion.

The party has argued boosting infrastructure spending will increase productivity, generate more long-term growth and create jobs.

The plan, however, comes at a cost.

Infrastructure spending is expected to contribute to a string of five-straight budgetary deficits that could add more than $110 billion to Canada’s public debt.

Seeking out other sources of cash for infrastructure could increase the number of new investments while helping prevent the country from sliding even deeper into the red.

The first phase of the Liberal plan calls for $11.9 billion of spending over five years. It’s focused on projects such as repairing aging water and public transit infrastructure as well as providing cash for smaller projects that can be completed by 2019.

There’s also money available for planning larger, more-ambitious projects that would be part of the program’s second phase, the details of which have yet to be unveiled.

That’s where the Caisse’s light-rail plan comes in — it features a type of funding model the government could increasingly tap into.

Consider dividends for returns, protection TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE In a period of historic low interest rates and high market volatility investors once again are turning to dividends for their yields and relative safety.

“In a market steeped in uncertainty, investors are clamouring for dividends,” Jack Ablin, chief investment officer with BMO Private Bank in the U.S, wrote in a current market update.

Consider the following. The Dow Jones Dividend Select Index is up more than 6.5 per cent in 2016 against a backdrop of negative returns of many equity markets. Within the S&P 500 the top 100 highest yielding stocks have gained three per cent this year while those with no dividends are off more than four per cent.

Dividends are popular for two primary reasons. They usually are paid by higher quality companies which have good cash flow, occupy a strong

position in their relative industries, and provide stable returns in times of volatility.

They also are attractive to long-term investors who are willing to ride out periods of volatility. Dividends reduce the pressure to sell during down turns.

As stock prices decline yields go up, making them more attractive to investors.

More than 200 companies on the TSX composite index pay dividends with an average weighted yield of 3.2 per cent.

“Over the last few years when interest rates have been low we have seen an uptick in investor interest in dividend-paying stocks,” says Lutz Zeitler, senior portfolio manager with BMO Global Asset Management in Canada.

“Dividend growth stocks generally outperform the market and other stocks and also provide some downside protection.”

Dividends are declared by a company’s Board of Directors. They are paid out of the company’s earnings and can be increased, decreased or eliminated at any time. Dividends are most often quoted in terms of the dollar amount each share receives (dividends per share) and also can be quoted in terms

of a per cent of the current market price, which is referred to as dividend yield.

Dividends are usually paid out in cash or stock. Most secure, stable companies offer dividends to their stockholders. Their share prices may not move much, but the dividends can compensate for this.

High-growth companies, on the other hand, rarely offer dividends because their profits are reinvested to help sustain higher than average growth.

Mutual funds pay out interest and dividend income received from the portfolio holdings as dividends to fund shareholders.

In addition, realized capital gains from the portfolio’s trading activities generally are paid out as a year-end dividend.

Investors often will look at the dividend yield when deciding to buy a stock. That’s important because it tells you how much income you can expect to receive. But the growth of dividends is an equally important consideration, particularly if you are near or in retirement.

Everyday living expenses such as groceries and gasoline rise over time

and it’s important for retirees to have investments than can provide a rising income to help them keep pace with or exceed the rate of inflation.

“Dividends make all the sense in the world for retirees, particularly when rates are at the level where they are now,” says Zeitler. “A long-term diversified portfolio made up of dividend-growth stocks often will outperform other portfolios and is great for meeting the income needs of retirees, but they also can be a core strategy for anyone between the ages of 25 and 65 as well.”

Another benefit is that eligible dividends from Canadian resident corporations are taxed more favourably than most other types of income.

Investors can go to the financial pages of most major newspapers and to the investor relations sections of individual company web sites to get relevant dividend information such as payment dates and yields.

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

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Will robot cars drive traffic congestion off a cliff? manager of sustainable transportation at WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, that envisions either utopia or a nightmare.

In the best case, congestion is reduced because driverless cars and trucks are safer and can travel faster with reduced space between them.

Highway lanes can be narrower because vehicles won’t need as much margin for error.

There will be fewer accidents to tie up traffic. But those advantages will be limited as long as driverless cars share roads with conventional cars, likely for decades.

But that scenario depends on a societal shift from private vehicle ownership to commercial fleets of driverless cars that can be quickly summoned with a phone app. Driverless fleets would have to become super-efficient carpools, picking up and dropping off multiple passengers travelling in the same direction.

The congestion nightmare would result if a large share of people can’t be persuaded to effectively share robot cars with strangers and to continue using mass transit, Isaac said.

A study last year by the International Transport Forum, a transportation policy think-tank , simulated the impact on traffic in Lisbon, Portugal, if conventional cars were replaced with driverless cars that take either a single passenger at a time or several passengers together.

It found that as long as half of travel is still carried out by conventional cars, total vehicle miles travelled will increase from 30 to 90 per cent, suggesting that even widespread sharing of driverless cars would mean greater congestion for a long time.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dozens arrested in anti-oil protest

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Authorities cleared the railroad tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in Washington state, after a two-day shutdown.

About 150 people spent the night in tents and sleeping bags on the tracks near two refineries in northwest Washington, according to BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas.

They were asked to leave at about 5 a.m. and most gathered their belongings and left the area near Anacortes, Melonas said.

“It was peaceful,” he said. “Eighty per cent removed their belongings and cleared out.”

The 52 people arrested were cited for trespassing, according to the Skagit County Department of Emergency Management. One person was also cited for resisting arrest.

Skagit County Sheriff Will Reichardt said that before anyone was arrested, officers advised protesters that they could move to another designated location and demonstrate.

A spokeswoman for the protesters said she expected everyone arrested would be processed and released from police custody.

Emily Johnston said protests would continue around Anacortes on Sunday, but she didn’t expect people to return to the railroad tracks.

Johnston, who had participated in a blockade of the Seattle harbour to protest Shell Oil’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, said the success of protests like the one in Anacortes can mostly be seen in the way they inspire people to speak out about climate change.

“People power matters,” Johnston said.

She also spoke about the contrast between arresting people for protesting about saving the planet and the lack of government action against the fossil fuel industry.

“We really need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable,” Johnston said.

The rail line has been closed since Friday because of the protests, and trains will begin running again Sunday afternoon after a cleanup and safety sweep of the tracks, he said.

Protesters in kayaks, canoes, on bikes and on foot also took place in demonstrations near Anacortes, about

70 miles north of Seattle, to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal.

Hundreds marched to the refineries Saturday and a smaller group blocked the railroad, all demanding energy policy changes. The railroad knew about the protest in advance and rerouted rail traffic to avoid the area.

The railroad spur provides rail transportation for the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries, as well as animal feed and other products.

The protests are part of a series of global actions calling on people to “break free” from dependence on fossil fuels. Similar demonstrations were held around the country during the weekend.

In upstate New York, climate activists gathered Saturday at a crude-oil shipment hub on the Hudson River in an action targeting crude-by-rail trains and oil barges at the Port of Albany.

A group of activists sat on tracks used by crude oil trains headed to the port.

Albany is a key hub for crude-by-rail shipments from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale region.

In Washington state, organizers targeted two refineries that are among the top sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the state. Tesoro has started shipping Bakken crude oil to its refinery, and Shell is proposing an expansion project that would similarly bring in Bakken crude oil by train.

Officials with Shell and Tesoro said in earlier statements that they respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully, and that safety is their highest priority.

Crowd estimates of Saturday’s march ranged from several hundred to about 1,000 people, Skagit County spokeswoman Bronlea Mishler said.

Bud Ullman, 67, who lives on Guemes Island, participated in the march, which he described as good-spirited, peaceful.

“The scientists are right. We have to get away from our dependence on fossil fuels, and it has to be done in a way that takes into serious consideration the impact on workers, families and communities,” he said.

Many of the nearly 40 groups involved in organizing the event also participated in large on-water kayak protests against Shell’s Arctic oil drilling rig when it parked last year at a Seattle port.

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Protestors march near oil refineries in Anacortes, Wash., on Saturday. The protests are part of a series of global actions calling on people to “break free” from dependence on fossil fuels.

WASHINGTON — Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience. The problem, say transportation researchers, is that people will use them too much.

Experts foresee robot cars chauffeuring children to school, dance class and baseball practice. The disabled and elderly will have new mobility.

Commuters will be able to work, sleep, eat or watch movies on the way to the office. People may stay home more because they can send their cars to do things like pick up groceries they’ve ordered online.

Researchers believe the number of miles driven will skyrocket. It’s less certain whether that will mean a corresponding surge in traffic congestion, but it’s a clear possibility.

Gary Silberg, an auto industry expert at accounting firm KPMG, compares it to the introduction of smartphones.

“It will be indispensable to your life,” he said. “It will be all sorts of things we can’t even think of today.”

Cars that can drive themselves under limited conditions are expected to be available within five to 10 years.

Versions able to navigate under most conditions may take 10 to 20 years.

Based on focus groups in Atlanta, Denver and Chicago, KPMG predicts autonomous “mobility-on-demand” services — think Uber and Lyft without a driver — will result in double-digit increases in travel by people in two age groups: those over 65, and those 16 to 24.

Vehicles travelled a record 3.1 trillion miles in the U.S. last year. Increased trips in autonomous cars by those two Powered by age groups would boost Central Alberta’s miles travelled by an adcareer site ditional 2 trillion miles annually by 2050, KPMG of choice. calculated. If self-driving cars without passengers start running errands, the increase could be double that.

And if people in their middle years, when driving is at its peak, also increase their travel, that The Red Deer Advocate, Central Alberta’s yearly total could reach 8 only daily newspaper, is seeking an trillion miles.

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, May 16, 2016

RAPTORS STOMP OUT HEAT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raptors 116 Heat 89 TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors had waited two decades for this moment.

And as the clocked ticked down on a historic victory that launched the Raptors into the NBA Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 21 years, Kyle Lowry sat on the bench, his head bowed and draped in a towel.

The Raptors’ star on the day was lost in thought.

“Just the things that we’d been through this year, and how hard we’ve worked,” Lowry said of the moment.

“Just an emotional time, just being able to sit there and relax, and kind of breathe.

“Playing against a team like Miami, it pushed us to the limit, and so it was just a time to relax and just think about the things that we’ve done.”

The Raptors head into uncharted territory against the Cleveland Cavaliers after a thorough 116-89 dismantling of Miami in Sunday’s thrilling do-or-die Game 7.

Lowry had 35 points while DeMar DeRozan chipped in with 28, playing with the heart and hustle Raptors fans had seen so many times in Toronto’s record-breaking 56-win regular season. And they got plenty of help, as Bismack Biyombo had 16 rebounds to go with 17 points, DeMarre Carroll chipped in with 14 points, and Patrick Patterson had 11 points and 11 boards.

Dwane Casey called the series victory a “very important” step for the franchise, but added: “We’re not done yet.”

“I know what it’s like to win a championship,” the Raptors coach said.

“I’m not saying we can do that, but I think this group is hungry and never say never. I know one thing: our guys will compete.”

They competed from the opening tip-off, moments after Patterson’s powerful pre-game speech.

“I had one question for everybody: ‘Are we satisfied with what we’ve done individually and what we’ve done collectively as a team? How far we’ve come. Do we want more, do we want to go even further, do we want to make history? Do we want to keep playing or

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross, centre, drives to the net between Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, left, and Josh Richardson during first half Eastern Conference semifinal NBA playoff game in Toronto on Sunday. The Raptors won 116-89 to advance to the Eastern Conference final for the first time in team history. do we want to go home?”’

Then, in a fierce back-and-forth series that featured three overtime games, and a slew of injuries, the thrilling finale saw the Raptors lead most of the way. They battled hard on both ends of the floor with a ferocity they hadn’t shown in this series, and opened up a 17-point lead in a solid third quarter.

They went into the fourth ahead 8678, and when Biyombo muscled his way in for a monstrous dunk — and Usain Bolt celebration — and then Carroll drilled a three, the delirious Air Canada Centre crowd went nuts.

“We came out and told them we weren’t going to take no more,” Car-

roll said on Toronto’s dominant second half. “We kept running it down their throat, and doing it on the defensive end.”

Toronto could do little wrong down the stretch, and by the time Patterson followed up a basket with a pair of free throws with 7:30 to play, the Raptors led by 20, and anxious Toronto fans could finally take a collective deep breath.

“It’s great to hear the home crowd, and this organization deserves it, and this country deserves it,” said DeRozan, his young daughter Diar perched on his lap in the post-game press conference.

“And to see them get to the next

step somewhere they haven’t been… but we’re not done yet.”

Lowry hit a three with 3:23 to play that followed up a basket by DeRozan, and the Raptors went up by a whopping 25 points. And when the Raptors’ all-stars left the game a minute later, the crowd ushered them off the court with a standing ovation.

Hard to believe it was the same Lowry that stayed on the court until the early hours of the morning only 12 days earlier, unable to find his shot.

“That’s just what he do,” DeRozan said on Lowry’s explosion. “He’s been doing it all year, he won us countless games. And he doing it now. I don’t expect nothing else.”

Blues double up Sharks to open conference final STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista (19) gets hit by Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor (12) after Bautista slid into second in the eighth inning at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, Sunday.

Bad blood boils over in finale between Jays and Rangers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rangers 7 Blue Jays 6 ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Bautista slid hard into second base, stood up and found himself face-to-face with Texas’ Rougned Odor.

Next thing the Toronto slugger knew, he was rattled by a punch to the jaw that sent his batting helmet and sunglasses flying.

A feud simmering since Bautista’s bat flip in last year’s AL Division Series boiled over into a wild brawl that ultimately triggered six of the eight ejections in the Blue Jays’ 7-6 loss on Sunday.

“I was pretty surprised,” Bautista said. “I mean, obviously, that’s the only reason that he got me and he got me pretty good, so I have to give him that.

It takes a little bit bigger man to knock me down.”

Perhaps it’s a good thing the Rangers and Blue Jays have played for the final time this season. As for the playoffs, well, that would be interesting.

Texas is headed to Oakland, and the Blue Jays back home to Toronto, the site of last year’s emotional meeting in the playoffs. That’s when Bautista capped a wild seventh inning with a clutch three-run homer and the monumental bat flip that angered Texas.

This time, Bautista was upset by getting hit by an eighth-inning pitch from 30-year-old Texas rookie Matt Bush (1-0), who got his first major league win two days after his debut — and 12

years after he was the No. 1 overall pick in the draft.

Toronto manager John Gibbons, who was ejected in the third inning over an argument about balls and strikes, came back to the field for the brawl.

He suggested the Rangers were finally retaliating for Bautista’s bat flip in the eighth inning of the last of seven games between the teams this season.

Texas beat Toronto in a series for the first time since 2012, but the Blue Jays had a 4-3 edge for the season.

“It was ugly and unfortunate,” Gibbons said. “To me, it was gutless. The other 29 teams, they come at you right away, but to wait until the end, it just sort of tells you something. Everybody is going to say, ‘Oh, it was a one-run game. The ball got away.’ That ain’t going to fly.”

Crew chief Dale Scott told a pool reporter that Gibbons’ return “will be in the report and Major League Baseball will take care of it.”

“I didn’t want to sit here and drink too much wine,” Gibbons said.

“Ya got to go out there. I’m sure the league will say something about that but it’s kind of the manager’s responsibility.”

Bautista, who was kept out of most of the melee by a bear hug from Texas veteran Adrian Beltre, was ejected as a result of the brawl. Same for Odor — who shoved Bautista before punching him — along with Toronto’s Josh Donaldson and Texas bench coach Steve Buechele.

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Blues 2 Sharks 1 ST. LOUIS — Once again, Brian Elliott was the star of the show. His latest performance gave his St. Louis Blues teammates plenty of comfort knowing he had their back.

“When your goalie is your best player, it gives you a great chance of winning, and that was the case,” captain David Backes said after the Blues opened their first Western Conference final in 15 years with a tense 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

“It was that way for the first two rounds,” Backes added, “and nothing’s changed in Game 1 of the third round.”

Backes opened the scoring and Jori Lehtera had the go-ahead goal in the second period on a spinning shot that Martin Jones could not handle.

“I just got the puck and closed my eyes and shot it, that’s about it,” Lehtera said. “Just keep it simple.”

Said Jones: “Not much to it, just found a hole. I’ll make that save next time.”

Tomas Hertl scored on a first-period deflection for the Sharks, who outshot St. Louis 32-23 but couldn’t quite solve Elliott.

Among those he frustrated was captain Joe Pavelski, who had seven shots and had perhaps the best chance in the third period on a one-timer near the midway mark. Pavelski and Elliott were roommates at Wisconsin.

“I’m going to blame that one on the stick,” Pavelski said. “No, I have to find a way to put that in regardless of what goes on. I thought it was going in.”

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock thought his team was fortunate to survive the last 2:29 after the Sharks pulled Jones.

“I thought we did a great job. We kept it in the zone,” Hitchcock said sarcastically. “Are you kidding me?

We couldn’t get it out.”

The Sharks were the best road team in the NHL in the regular season at 28-10-3, but have dropped four in a row on the road in these playoffs, including all three in the second round against Nashville. They had seven goals in three road losses to the Predators and were 0 for 5 on the power play, which had been a major plus. San Jose had been converting on 33 per cent of its power plays in the post-season.

“They were hot in the last series,” Blues defenceman Alex Pietrange-

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‘WHEN YOUR GOALIE IS YOUR BEST PLAYER, IT GIVES YOU A GREAT CHANCE OF WINNING, AND THAT WAS THE CASE.’ — DAVID BACKES ST. LOUIS BLUES CAPTAIN

lo said. “We stepped up to the challenge.”’

The Blues made good on their first chance with home-ice advantage in the playoffs, although they’re just 4-4 at the Scottrade Center heading into Game 2 on Tuesday night.

Elliott was at his best — and got some luck — in the second period when the Blues were outshot 16-5, but got the lone goal when Lehtera scored unassisted. The goalie benefited from a quick whistle with 1:14 left when he unsuccessfully tried to smother the puck on a long dump-in by Melker Karlsson, and it slowly slid between his pads and off his stick into the net, just after play had been ruled dead.

“The puck was spinning a lot and it probably just spun out,” Elliott said.

“I haven’t really seen it yet, so I don’t know.”

Backes opened the scoring with a deflection and is tied with sharpshooter Vladimir Tarasenko for the team lead with seven goals in the playoffs, mostly because he’s fearless in front of the net waiting to pounce on rebounds.

The team captain had 21 goals in the regular season. Defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk started the play from the point and thought this goal was particularly impressive because it had been deflected before it got to Backes.

“One thing I never have to worry about is him being in front of the net when I shoot it,” Shattenkirk said.

“There’s where he’s so valuable.”

Lehtera’s second goal of the playoffs came off an errant clearing attempt by Brent Burns for a 2-1 lead.

He powered through on his shot after Chris Tierney got a piece of the stick.

Just 34 seconds elapsed between the opening goal by Backes and Hertl’s answering goal redirected a shot by Pavelski with the puck bouncing past Elliott.

The Blues had just enough despite a third disallowed goal in the playoffs. Patrik Berglund’s deflection was waved off because of incidental contact with Jones, a call confirmed after video review.

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Day goes wire-to-wire to win Players

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jason Day wanted to win The Players Championship so badly that he wasn’t going to let anything stop him.

Not the super slick greens that nearly derailed him Saturday. Not the three muffed chips that turned a potential birdie into a unsettling bogey as he made the turn Sunday. And certainly not the best field in golf.

With another command performance, Day put his stamp on No. 1 in the world by never letting anyone closer than two shots in the final round, playing bogey-free on the back nine of the TPC Sawgrass for the fourth straight day and closing with a 1-under 71 for a wire-to-wire victory.

It was his seventh title in the last 10 months.

And the 28-year-old Australian wants to win a lot more.

“I want to be to be able to be looked back on and know that ‘he was one of the greats in the game.’ If I have the opportunity to do that, I’m going to try my best,” Day said after his four-shot victory. “And I have the opportunity to do that right now, try and work has hard as I can to really leave my footprint in this game. I’m very motivated to win as much as I can right now.”

He stomped his way all over everyone at The Players Championship, even though he had a few nervous moments.

Day made bogey on No. 6, had to make a 15-foot par putt on the next hole and really looked out of sorts from just 40 feet right of the green on the par-5 ninth. He muffed three straight chips and had to make a 6-foot putt just to escape with bogey, dropping his lead to two shots.

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Jason Day of Australia, tips his hat as he walks off the 18th green with his family after winning The Players Championship golf tournament Sunday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Day is holding his son Dash as his wife Ellie holds Lucy.

“If I walk away with a double bogey there, I let everyone (back) in the field,” he said. “I was right there next to the green in two and felt like an amateur chopping my way to the pin.

That putt was probably the most crucial putt of this tournament for me.”

Two 15-foot birdies over the next three holes restored his margin and sent him on his way. The last hurdle

was finding land on the island-green 17th, and he cleared the water with about 10 feet to spare.

Day’s seven victories dating to the Canadian Open include the PGA Championship, The Players, a World Golf Championship and a pair of FedEx Cup events, all some of the strongest fields in golf. He became the first wire-to-wire winner in 16 years at

Sawgrass, and he joined Tiger Woods, Johnny Miller and Tom Watson as the only players to go wire-to-wire twice in the same season dating to 1970.

Day finished at 15-under 273 and earned $1.89 million, the richest payoff in golf.

Kevin Chappell, who finished one shot behind Day at Bay Hill, was 5 under over his final 10 holes for a 69.

He picked up a consolation check of $1,134,000 and moves just outside the top 30 in the world, giving him a spot in the next two majors.

“That’s getting a little old,” Chappell said of his two runner-up finishes to Day. “I’m not sure what Jason’s scrambling stats were, but they were much better than mine on the week.”

Day now has won 10 times on the PGA Tour — only Rory McIlroy with 11 has won more among players in their 20s.

“It’s no coincidence he’s No. 1 in the world,” Justin Thomas said after closing with a Sunday-best 65 to tie for third. “He drives it extremely far, extremely straight. He hits it to the moon, so he can access pins that most people can’t. His short game is ridiculous. I think I’ve pretty much covered it all there when it comes to the golf.”

Day is the third No. 1 player to win The Players Championship, joining Greg Norman (1994) and Woods (2001 and 2013).

Thomas, who started 11 shots behind, stuck around Sawgrass to see if 10-under 278 would have a chance.

He wound up tied for third with Matt Kuchar (68), Colt Knost (69) and Ken Duke (72).

Canada’s David Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., shot a 71 on Sunday to finish tied for 28th at 3 under for the tournament. Adam Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., tied for 39th at 1 under.

U.S. takes hit to playoff chances with loss to Germany

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Germany beat the United States 3-2 on a last-minute goal by Korbinian Holzer at the world ice hockey championship on Sunday, putting American qualification for the quarterfinals in doubt.

However, Finland’s 5-0 rout of Slovakia later in the day relaxed the pressure on the U.S., which will now qualify if it does not lose in regulation to Slovakia on Tuesday, and France does not beat Canada on Monday.

The third defeat in six games leaves the U.S. fourth in Group B, one place behind Germany with one game re-

maining against fifth-placed Slovakia.

The top four advance to the quarterfinals.

Anaheim Ducks defenceman Holzer hasn’t scored for the last two seasons in the NHL, but he made no mistake with a perfectly positioned shot from the blue line to beat U.S. goaltender Mike Condon.

It was a bitter ending for a U.S. team which had dominated puck possession, recording 33 shots against 14 for the Germans.

Germany took the lead on Patrick Hager’s power-play goal in the first before Jake McCabe tied the game for the U.S., but Germany responded almost immediately with a goal for Christian

Ehrhoff.

Auston Matthews’ power-play goal early in the second made it 2-2, before Holzer won the game for Germany with half a minute remaining in the third.

Finland, which is top of Group B, outshot Slovakia 35-14 but could not score until the latter half of the second period.

Florida Panthers centre Aleksander Barkov finished with a goal and two assists, while goaltender Juuse Saros earned his second shutout of the tournament.

In Moscow, Denmark beat the previously unbeaten Czech Republic 2-1 in a shootout. The Czechs remain top of Group A and are sure of a spot in the

quarterfinals, but a win in regulation would have guaranteed a first-place finish and top seeding for the quarterfinals.

The Czech loss means that Group A leaders Canada and Finland are now the only unbeaten teams in the world championship.

Sweden overtook Russia for second place in Group A with a 3-2 win over Switzerland, with Washington Capitals wing Andre Burakovsky winning the shootout for the Swedes.

Defeat leaves Switzerland fifth, needing a win over Russia on Tuesday to take the final quarterfinal place from Denmark.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Ben Bishop’s mind raced as the Tampa Bay Lightning goalie writhed in pain on the ice after awkwardly twisting his left leg in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night.

The internal “what ifs” ran the gamut. What if the leg was broken? What if his season over?

“It’s funny how much you can think about in such a short amount of time,” Bishop said Sunday.

The one thought that didn’t even occur to Bishop was whether backup Andrei Vasilevskiy could step in and do the job.

“I think the guys in the room, I know myself, we have full confidence in him,” Bishop said. “He’s a great young goalie. He’s got a future.”

And, it seems, a present too. While Bishop’s initial fears were allayed when tests came back negative, it’s still uncertain when he’ll return or if he’ll be back at all during the playoffs. Having him in the lineup for Game 2 on Monday night seems like a long shot at best even if Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper did not rule it out as the Lightning try to take a 2-0 lead with them back to Florida.

“He’s getting better with each day, and it’s encouraging to say,” Cooper said.

The fact it’s even up for discussion is remark-

able considering Bishop’s obvious distress after he twisted the leg while trying to scramble back into position 12:25 into the first period of Tampa Bay’s eventual 3-1 victory in Game 1. The pain was so acute Bishop figured he’d been slashed even though there wasn’t a Penguin within a stick length of him at the time. He left the game on a stretcher and when doctors removed his pads to get a closer look, Bishop was half expecting to see bone sticking out.

The damage turned out to be far less serious. The leg is structurally intact and Bishop managed to spend a little informal time on the ice before Sunday’s practice, though he was long gone by the time the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy and the rest of the Lightning went to work.

Pressed into his first extended playing time in more than a month, Vasilevskiy turned aside 25 of the 26 shots he faced, aided by a defence that did an excellent job of pushing Pittsburgh’s potent offence to the perimeter and keeping Sidney Crosby and company from generating consistent pressure in front of the net.

Filling in capably has kind of become a thing for Vasilevskiy, who stepped in for an injured Bishop in Game 2 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals and became the first goaltender to earn a win in relief during a Cup Final in more than 80 years. Vasilevskiy started Game 4 of the series and played solidly in a 2-1 loss.

While the Russian is quick to point out those impromptu performances were nearly 12 months ago, Cooper point out Vasilevskiy has only matured in the interim.

“He was called on in the biggest moments last year,” Cooper said. “Talk about pushing somebody a little bit down the learning curve a little faster than we wanted to. But there’s cliches thrown around all the time, guys who are first in the rink and last to leave and all those types of things, but with that kid, it’s actually true.”

The Penguins hope they can do a better job of testing how far Vasilevskiy has come better in Game 2 than they did in the occasionally choppy opener.

Pittsburgh generated 35 shots overall but most of them came from well outside the crease. The Lightning controlled play long enough after Bishop went down for Vasilevskiy to get comfortable. Once he did, Tampa Bay’s lead was never in danger.

“You have to get better as the series goes along, you have to adjust a little bit,” said Crosby, who assisted on Pittsburgh’s only goal in Game 1 but hasn’t put the puck in himself since the first round against the New York Rangers.

“You can’t focus on another team or necessarily a goaltender … from game to game you have to trust and believe in what you do out there, regardless of who is in the net.”

A struggle to pick puck stoppers

Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen deflects a shot during Game 1 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs against the St. Louis Blues. The Atlanta Thrashers liked a lot about Kari Lehtonen when they picked him second overall in 2002.

Now playing (and often struggling) for the Dallas Stars, Lehtonen is one of the few goaltenders in recent history to have been picked in the first round. Goaltending is thought to be the most difficult projection to make at the draft, the one NHL teams still haven’t figured out.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Atlanta Thrashers liked a lot about Kari Lehtonen when they picked him second overall in 2002.

They liked his winning credentials in the Finnish league, loved his six foot four frame and judged him to be a quality goaltender.

Now playing (and often struggling) for the Dallas Stars, Lehtonen is one of the few goaltenders in recent history to have been picked in the first round.

Goaltending is thought to be the most difficult projection to make at the draft, the one NHL teams still haven’t figured out.

Most of today’s top goalies were plucked deep in the draft or missed entirely.

“If you don’t have a goalie you can trust you can’t win,” said David Conte, the former New Jersey Devils director of amateur scouting. “Getting a guy who can play doesn’t mean squat. Getting a guy who can contribute means everything.”

Conte was with the Devils when they selected Martin Brodeur 20th overall in 1990. Now the NHL’s all-time leader in wins and shutouts, Brodeur wasn’t the slam-dunk top goaltending candidate that year.

That was Trevor Kidd, who went 11th overall to Calgary.

Kidd had a respectable career, but nothing like Brodeur, who guided the Devils to multiple Stanley Cups.

Brodeur didn’t have great numbers in his draft year, but New Jersey brass liked his poise, athleticism and love for the game.

Did they know they had a future hall of famer on their hands? Hardly. The Devils picked two other goaltenders, Mike Dunham and Corey Schwab, that same year.

The majority of the best goaltenders today were not high picks. The three recently-named Vezina trophy candidates were all picked outside the first round: Ben Bishop in the third, Jonathan Quick in the third and Braden Holtby in the fourth.

Quick and Bishop were the eight and ninth goalies selected in 2005 four of the seven picked ahead played one game collectively in the NHL. The first two off the board, Carey Price and Tuukka Rask, are the last two Vezina trophy winners.

It had been 14 years since a first-rounder won the award before Rask, the 21st overall pick, won it in 2014.

Dan Marr, now the NHL’s director of central scouting and former head of amateur scouting for the Thrashers, said projecting goaltenders is challenging for two primary reasons.

First, goaltenders drafted at age 17 or 18 have yet to fill out physically. NHL teams covet size at the po-

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sition, but they’re essentially guessing at how much net the goalie will take up down the road.

Second, Marr said the position is difficult to master both technically and mentally.

“It’s the experience that develops that mental toughness and allows you to handle the adversity that they face and gives you confidence,” Marr said.

To pick a goaltender in the first round means being sure of his potential as a future No. 1. Only 10 have gone in the first round since 2006, none at all in five of those seasons.

One went last year to the Washington Capitals, an organization that’s stockpiled quality prospects at the position over the years.

The Capitals picked Russian goalie Ilya Samsanov despite already having Holtby as well as intriguing 24-year-old Philip Grubauer. The organization also drafted potential Flyers No. 1 Michal Neuvirth and Avalanche No. 1 Semyon Varlamov in 2006.

Their acumen in scouting goaltenders has proven helpful, notably in the case of Varlamov, which netted the club a first- and second-round pick from Colorado.

Marr said Atlanta was prepared to take Holtby, who matched Brodeur’s record with 48 wins this regular season, with the 94th overall pick in 2008. He liked Holtby’s “cool, stony composure” among other things.

“As I’m saying that to him Washington makes their pick. Don hits me and he goes ‘Isn’t that your guy?”’

Marr recalled.

Most teams avoid using premium picks on goaltenders, finding them instead via trade, free agency or late in the draft as Nashville and New York did.

Pekka Rinne was the 30th goalie picked in 2004, Henrik Lundqvist the 22nd in 2004.

“But if you want the guy and you believe in him, take him, because it’s the most important position you have,” Conte says. “If you’re going to hide behind the logistics of only so many turn out, you’re not going to get anywhere.” with a 16-10 victory over the Calgary Roughnecks on Saturday in Game 1 of the Western Conference final.

The Rush, who moved to Saskatchewan in the off-season, lead the best-of-three series 1-0 with Game 2 taking place on May 21. Nik Bilic, Mark Matthews, Robert Church and Chris Corbeil all had two goals apiece for the Rush, who got a bye through the first round of the playoffs. Brett Mydske, Jeff Cornwall, Jarrett Davis and Jeremy Thompson supplied the rest of the offence.

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Hockey

● Ladies Fastball: Panthers vs. Bandits, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1; Badgers vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 and Stettler vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1 ● Sunburst Baseball League: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Thursday ● Ladies Fastball: U16 Rage vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Great Chief 1; Bandits vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., Great Chief 2 and Badgers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief 1

Saturday ● Memorial Cup: Brandon Wheat Kings vs. Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, 5 p.m., Centrium

Sunday

WHL 2016 playoff scoring leaders G Nolan Patrick, Bdn 13 Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn 7 John Quenneville, Bdn 16 Tim McGauley, Bdn 8 Mathew Barzal, Sea 5 Reid Duke, Bdn 8 Adam Brooks, Reg 7 Ethan Bear, Sea 8 Adam Helewka, RD 9 Jake DeBrusk, RD 8 Jack Walker, Vic 8 Dryden Hunt, MJ 7 Cole Sanford, Reg 7 Brayden Point, MJ 6 Sam Steel, Reg 6 Justin Kirkland, Kel 11 Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ 9 Keegan Kolesar, Sea 7 Tanner Jeannot, MJ 6 Kale Clague, Bdn 6 Brett Howden, MJ 4 Tyler Coulter, Bdn 6 Macoy Erkamps, Bdn 4 Rourke Chartier, Kel 7 Scott Eansor, Sea 7 Luke Philp, RD 4 Michael Spacek, RD 3 Ivan Provorov, Bdn 3

Monday ● Memorial Cup: Brandon Wheat Kings vs. London Knights, 6 p.m., Centrium

Friday ● Memorial Cup: London Knights vs. Red

Basketball Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 19 Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May 23 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, May 27 Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 29 Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

2016 NBA Playoffs Second Round CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4) (Cleveland wins series 4-0) Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3) (Toronto wins series 4-3) Sunday’s result Toronto 116 Miami 89 Friday’s result Miami 103 Toronto 91

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) Monday’s game Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 28 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 30 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Portland (5) (Golden State wins series 4-1) San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-2) Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2) Tuesday’s game

GA 16 11 11 15 13 20 16 15 20 12

Pt 16 15 14 13 13 13 11 10 10 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Colorado 12 7 2 3 15 9 24 Dallas 13 7 4 2 19 19 23 Vancouver 13 6 5 2 20 20 20 Los Angeles 10 5 1 4 24 12 19 San Jose 11 5 3 3 15 14 18 Salt Lake 10 5 3 2 14 14 17 Kansas City 13 5 6 2 13 14 17 Seattle 10 4 5 1 10 12 13 Portland 11 3 5 3 16 20 12 Houston 11 3 6 2 18 19 11 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Sunday’s results Houston 1 Salt Lake 0 Kansas City 2 Orlando 1 New York City at Portland, late Saturday’s results Vancouver 4 Toronto 3 Philadelphia 1 Montreal 1 Colorado 1 Columbus 1 New England 2 Chicago 0 Dallas 2 Seattle 0 Salt Lake at Houston (postponed) Friday’s result D.C. 2 New York 0 Wednesday’s games New York City at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Friday’s game Philadelphia at D.C., 5 p.m.

English Premier League GP W ch-Leicester City 38 23 cl-Arsenal 38 20 cl-Tottenham 38 19 cl-Man City 38 19 Southampton 38 18 Man United 37 18 West Ham 38 16 Liverpool 38 16 Stoke 38 14 Chelsea 38 12 Everton 38 11 Swansea 38 12 Watford 38 12 West Brom 38 10 Crystal Palace 38 11

D 12 11 13 9 9 9 14 12 9 14 14 11 9 13 9

L GF GA Pts 3 68 36 81 7 65 36 71 6 69 35 70 10 71 41 66 11 59 41 63 10 46 34 63 8 65 51 62 10 63 50 60 15 41 55 51 12 59 53 50 13 59 55 47 15 42 52 47 17 40 50 45 15 34 48 43 18 39 51 42

Bournemouth 37 11 9 Sunderland 38 9 12 r-Newcastle 38 9 10 r-Norwich City 38 9 7 r-Aston Villa 38 3 8 ch-clinched championship r-relegated cl-clinched Champions League el-clinched Europa League

17 17 19 22 27

44 48 44 39 27

64 62 65 67 76

42 39 37 34 17

Sunday, May 15 Arsenal 4, Aston Villa 0 Swansea City 1, Manchester City 1 Everton 3, Norwich City 0 Manchester United vs. Bournemouth, ppd.

Newcastle 5, Tottenham 1 Southampton 4, Crystal Palace 1 Watford 2, Sunderland 2 Stoke 2, West Ham 1 West Brom 1, Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1, Leicester City 1 Tuesday, May 17th Manchester United vs. Bournemouth, 19:00 GMT England Championship GP W D p-Burnley 46 26 15 p-Middlesbrough 46 26 11 pp-B&Hove Albion 46 24 17 pp-Hull City 46 24 11 pp-Derby County 46 21 15 pp-SheffWed 46 19 17 Ipswich Town 46 18 15 Cardiff City 46 17 17 Brentford 46 19 8 Birmingham 46 16 15 Preston 46 15 17 QPR 46 14 18 Leeds 46 14 17 Wolverhampton 46 14 16 Blackburn 46 13 16 Nott Forest 46 13 16 Reading 46 13 13 Bristol City 46 13 13 Huddersfield 46 13 12 Fulham 46 12 15 Rotherham 46 13 10 r-Chartlon 46 9 13 r-Milton Keynes 46 9 12 r-Bolton 46 5 15 ch-clinched championship r-relegated p-clinched promotion pp-clinched promotion playoff

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

Semifinal Friday, May 13 Sheffield Wed 2, Brighton 0 Saturday May 14 Derby County 0, Hull City 3 Monday, May 16 Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Sheffield Wed, 19:45 GMT Tuesday, May 17 Hull City vs. Derby County, 19:45 GMT

Golf PGA-The Players Championship At TPC Sawgrass Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $10.5 million Yardage: 7,215 Par: 72 Final Jason Day, $1,890,000 63-66-73-71—273 Kevin Chappell, $1,134,000 71-67-70-69—277 Ken Duke, $504,000 74-67-65-72—278 Colt Knost, $504,000 72-63-74-69—278 Matt Kuchar, $504,000 71-67-72-68—278 Justin Thomas, $504,000 70-68-75-65—278 Hideki Matsuyama, $338,625 68-71-67-73—279 Francesco Molinari, $338,625 66-69-72-72—279 Daniel Berger, $283,500 66-72-73-69—280 Alex Cejka, $283,500 67-67-72-74—280 Graeme McDowell, $283,500 72-70-69-69—280 Retief Goosen, $212,625 70-68-70-73—281 Rory McIlroy, $212,625 72-64-75-70—281 Bryce Molder, $212,625 70-68-72-71—281 Adam Scott, $212,625 73-65-75-68—281 Shane Lowry, $168,000 65-68-78-71—282 Cameron Tringale, $168,000 65-69-75-73—282 Boo Weekley, $168,000 66-69-78-69—282 Jonas Blixt, $131,775 67-67-75-74—283 Jerry Kelly, $131,775 67-68-77-71—283 Russell Knox, $131,775 68-67-80-68—283 Justin Rose, $131,775 65-74-78-66—283 Paul Casey, $93,450 68-72-76-68—284 Si Woo Kim, $93,450 68-70-72-74—284 Ryan Palmer, $93,450 67-70-75-72—284 Scott Piercy, $93,450 70-68-75-71—284 Daniel Summerhays, $93,450 69-71-71-73—284 David Hearn, $68,325 71-71-72-71—285 J.J. Henry, $68,325 70-69-74-72—285 Billy Horschel, $68,325 68-70-75-72—285 Dustin Johnson, $68,325 70-70-77-68—285 Louis Oosthuizen, $68,325 72-67-74-72—285

Vijay Singh, $68,325 Gary Woodland, $68,325 Keegan Bradley, $52,894 Jim Furyk, $52,894 Brooks Koepka, $52,894 Danny Lee, $52,894 Chad Campbell, $44,100 Jon Curran, $44,100 Adam Hadwin, $44,100 Martin Kaymer, $44,100 Webcom-Rex Hospital Open Sunday At TPC Wakefield Plantation Raleigh, N.C. Purse: $650,000 Yardage: 7,257 Par: 71 Final Trey Mullinax, $117,000 Brady Schnell, $70,200 JT Poston, $44,200 Dominic Bozzelli, $28,600 Cameron Percy, $28,600 Miguel Angel Carballo, $21,044 Julian Etulain, $21,044 Jack Maguire, $21,044 Ollie Schniederjans, $21,044 Albin Choi, $14,408 Tag Ridings, $14,408 Greyson Murray, $14,408 Jim Renner, $14,408 J.J. Spaun, $14,408 Marc Turnesa, $14,408 Andrew Putnam, $10,400 Xander Schauffele, $10,400 Chris Wilson, $10,400 Jason Millard, $8,158 Chas Narramore, $8,158

70-70-73-72—285 67-68-76-74—285 72-67-76-71—286 71-70-75-70—286 66-70-77-73—286 67-71-72-76—286 68-71-78-70—287 70-71-79-67—287 70-70-74-73—287 68-72-76-71—287

68-67-67-68—270 66-67-67-72—272 69-69-66-69—273 68-66-67-73—274 72-65-70-67—274 72-67-68-69—276 68-66-73-69—276 70-72-63-71—276 72-66-70-68—276 68-70-69-70—277 69-67-72-69—277 66-71-69-71—277 69-68-69-71—277 63-70-68-76—277 67-74-65-71—277 71-71-66-70—278 69-67-70-72—278 64-70-70-74—278 66-68-71-74—279 72-68-67-72—279

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 23 13 .639 Boston 24 14 .632 Toronto 19 20 .487 Tampa Bay 16 19 .457 New York 16 20 .444 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 24 14 .632 Cleveland 17 17 .500 Kansas City 18 19 .486 Detroit 16 21 .432 Minnesota 10 26 .278 West Division W L Pct Texas 22 16 .579 Seattle 21 16 .568 Los Angeles 16 21 .432 Oakland 16 22 .421 Houston 15 24 .385

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PLAYOFFS Thursday, May 26 Tiebreaker (if necessary) Third vs. Fourth Places, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 27 Semifinal Second vs. Third Places, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 29 Final First Place vs. Semifinal Winner, TBA

Sunday’s results At Moscow Denmark 2 Czech Republic 1 (SO) Sweden 3 Switzerland 2 (SO) At St. Petersburg, Russia Finland 5 Slovakia 0 Germany 3 United States 2

PARTICIPATING TEAMS Host — Red Deer Rebels (WHL) OHL Champion — London Knights QMJHL Champion — Rouyn-Noranda Huskies WHL Champion — Brandon Wheat Kings 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

Saturday’s results At Moscow Sweden 3 Norway 2 Russia 5 Switzerland 1 Latvia 2 Kazakhstan 1 At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada 5 Slovakia 0 Finland 3 France 1 Hungary 5 Belarus 2

EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh (M2) vs. Tampa Bay (A2) (Tampa Bay leads series 1-0) Friday’s result Tampa Bay 3 Pittsburgh 1 Monday’s game Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday’s game Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Monday’s games At Moscow Russia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.

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

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

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

Tuesday’s games At Moscow Czech Republic vs. Switzerland, 3:15 a.m.

Latvia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.

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

At St. Petersburg, Russia United States vs. Slovakia, 3:15 a.m.

Belarus vs. France, 7:15 a.m.

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

Conclusion of Preliminary Round

Sunday’s summary Blues 2, Sharks 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Backes 7 (Shattenkirk, Schwartz) 15:04 (pp).

2. San Jose, Hertl 3 (Pavelski, Burns) 15:38.

Penalties — Lehtera StL (holding) 3:56 Couture SJ (tripping) 13:56 Ott StL (slashing) 17:18.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Lehtera 2 (unassisted) 9:15.

Penalties — None.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Stastny StL (hooking) 8:44 Hertl SJ

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

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1 Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 6 Detroit 6, Baltimore 5 Boston 10, Houston 9 Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 innings Texas 7, Toronto 6 L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 0

World Hockey Championship Scoring Leaders G A Pts 6 4 10 3 7 10 3 6 9 3 6 9 3 6 9 7 1 8 3 5 8 2 6 8 1 7 8 6 1 7 4 3 7 3 4 7 3 4 7 2 5 7 2 5 7 2 5 7 1 6 7 4 2 6 3 3 6 3 3 6 3 3 6

Patrik Laine, Fin Vadim Shipachyov, Rus Derick Brassard, Cda Artemi Panarin, Rus Aleksander Barkov, Fin Gustav Nyquist, Swe Yevgeni Dadonov, Rus Mikael Granlund, Fin Jussi Jokinen, Fin Taylor, Hall, Cda Mikko Koivu, Fin Matt Duchene, Cda Nigel Dawes, Kaz Roman Cervenka, Cze Philip Gogulla, Ger Fekluix Schutz, Ger Alexander Wennberg, Swe Nicklas Jensen, Den Michal Birner, Cze Nino Niederreiter, Sui Corey Perry, Cda

Colorado 7, N.Y. Mets 4 San Francisco 5, Arizona 3 L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3

Boston at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. VMartinez Det 37 128 17 45 .352 Castellanos Det 35 128 15 44 .344 Altuve Hou 39 153 37 52 .340 Bogaerts, Bos 37 157 31 53 .338 Hosmer KC 37 140 19 47 .336 Machado Bal 36 150 30 50 .333 Bradley Bos 37 136 20 45 .331 Saunders, Tor 32 122 17 40 .328 Ortiz, Bos 34 128 20 41 .320 HRamirez Bos 36 144 25 46 .319 Home Runs Cano, Seattle, 12 Frazier, Chicago, 12 Machado, Baltimore, 11 Trumbo, Baltimore, 11 Ortiz, Boston, 10 Altuve, Houston, 9 CDavis, Baltimore, 9 Donaldson, Toronto, 9 Park, Minnesota, 9 Semien, Oakland, 9 Springer, Houston, 9.

Runs Batted In Cano, Seattle, 34 Ortiz, Boston, 33 Frazier, Chicago, 32 Bradley, Boston 30 CRasmus, Houston, 29 Castellanos, Detroit, 28 Encarnacion, Toronto, 28 Trumbo, Baltimore, 28 Betts, Boston, 27 Shaw, Boston, 26.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 8-0 Porcello, Boston, 6-1 ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 6-1 Happ, Toronto, 5-0 Hill, Oakland, 5-3 Latos, Chicago, 5-0 Price, Boston, 5-1 Quintana, Chicago, 5-2 Tillman, Baltimore, 5-1 Tomlin, Cleveland, 5-0 Zimmermann, Detroit, 5-2.

Washington Philadelphia New York Miami Atlanta

Monday’s Games Cincinnati (Lamb 0-0) at Cleveland (Anderson 0-3), 4:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 6-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 1-4) at Toronto (Happ 5-0), 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota (Berrios 1-1) at Detroit (Zimmermann 5-2), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-4) at Arizona (Ray 1-2), 7:40 p.m.

Texas (Holland 3-2) at Oakland (Manaea 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 3-2), 8:10 p.m.

Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

National League East Division W L Pct 23 15 .605 22 16 .579 21 16 .568 20 17 .541 9 27 .250 Central Division W L Pct 27 9 .750 19 17 .528 20 18 .526 16 22 .421 15 22 .405 West Division W L Pct 22 18 .550 20 18 .526 19 18 .514 17 22 .436 17 23 .425

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 1/2 13 GB — 8 8 12 12 1/2 GB — 1 1 1/2 4 1/2 5

Saturday’s Games Washington 6, Miami 4 Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 2 Miami 7, Washington 1 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3 San Diego 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 innings Atlanta 5, Kansas City 0

Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 9, Philadelphia 4 Miami 5, Washington 1 Milwaukee 3, San Diego 2 Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 innings Pittsburgh 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Colorado 4, N.Y. Mets 3 San Francisco 2, Arizona 1 St. Louis 5, L.A. Dodgers 2 Monday’s Games Cincinnati (Lamb 0-0) at Cleveland (Anderson 0-3), 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Perez 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Niese 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Conley 2-2) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-5), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Green 0-0) at Arizona (Ray 1-2), 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 3-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DMurphy Was 37 140 22 56 .400 ADiaz StL 35 117 25 44 .376 Prado Mia 33 131 12 49 .374 Braun Mil 34 128 20 47 .367 Herrera Phi 38 135 24 45 .333 Molina StL 37 132 14 44 .333 Fowler ChC 35 127 27 42 .331 Segura Ari 37 163 19 54 .331 SMarte Pit 36 144 21 47 .326 Cozart Cin 29 109 20 35 .321 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 13 Cespedes, New York, 12 Carter, Milwaukee, 11 Harper, Washington, 11 Rizzo, Chicago, 10 Stanton, Miami, 11 Story, Colorado, 11 NWalker, New York, 10 Kemp, San Diego, 9 Howard, Philadelphia, 8 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 8.

Runs Batted In Rizzo, Chicago, 34 Arenado, Colorado, 32 Cespedes, New York, 32 Harper, Washington, 29 Pence, San Francisco, 29 Kemp, San Diego, 28 Story, Colorado, 28 Zobrist, Chicago, 28 Braun, Milwaukee, 27 Russell, Chicago, 27.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 7-0 Strasburg, Washington, 6-0 Cueto, San Francisco 5-1 Fernandez, Miami, 5-2 Hammel, Chicago, 5-0 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 5-1 Matz, New York, 5-1 Samardzija, San Francisco.

Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned INF Luis Sardinas to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled OF Shawn O’Malley from Tacoma.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated RHP Danny

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PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Czech Rep. 6 4 1 1 0 22 8 15 Sweden 6 3 2 0 1 22 14 13 Russia 5 4 0 0 1 25 9 12 Switzerland 6 1 1 3 1 16 21 8 Denmark 6 1 2 1 2 13 21 8 Latvia 6 1 0 3 2 12 19 6 Norway 5 1 1 0 3 10 18 5 Kazakhstan 6 0 1 0 5 14 24 2 Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Finland 6 6 0 0 0 25 6 18 Canada 5 5 0 0 0 30 4 15 Germany 6 3 0 1 2 18 18 10 U.S. 6 3 0 0 3 20 15 9 Slovakia 6 2 0 0 4 12 21 6 France 5 1 1 0 3 11 16 5 Hungary 6 1 0 0 5 10 27 3 Belarus 6 1 0 0 5 13 32 3 Note: Three points awarded for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Friday, May 20 London vs. Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Brandon vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Red Deer vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 23 London vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Rouyn-Noranda vs. London, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 Red Deer vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.

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TEXAS RANGERS — Sent OF Shin-Soo Choo to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed LHP Brett Cecil on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP

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National League CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Alex Sanabia on a minor league contract.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (C2) vs. San Jose (P3) (St, Louis leads series 1-0) Sunday’s result St. Louis 2 San Jose 1 Tuesday’s game San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Thursday’s game St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 St. Louis at San Jose, 5:15 p.m.

Monday, May 23 San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25 St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 27 San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston 6, Houston 5, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Minnesota 6, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay 6, Oakland 0 Baltimore 9, Detroit 3 Atlanta 5, Kansas City 0 Texas 6, Toronto 5, 10 innings L.A. Angels 9, Seattle 7

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Shots on goal San Jose 8 16 8 — 32 St. Louis 11 5 7 — 23 Goal — San Jose: Jones (L, 8-5-0). St. Louis: Elliott (W, 9-6-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 0-3 St. Louis: 1-2.

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2016 Memorial Cup Standings ROUND ROBIN GP W Brandon (WHL) 0 0 London (OHL) 0 0 Red Deer (host) 0 0 Rouyn-Nor. (QMJHL) 0 0

Brandon (E1) vs. Seattle (US1) (Brandon wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Brandon 8 Seattle 4 PREVIOUS RESULTS Game One — Friday, May 6 Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Game Two — Saturday, May 7 Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Game Three — Tuesday, May 10 Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Game Four — Wednesday, May 11 Seattle 6 Brandon 1

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VEGANS FIND WAYS TO INDULGE IN LOOKALIKE JUNK FOOD LIKE BURGERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Just because you follow a vegan diet doesn’t mean you don’t want to indulge in a burger.

“People don’t just go vegan to be healthy. For a lot of people it’s an animal issue, but they still want burgers and bacon and everything else so they’re looking for those really satisfying substitutes for that,” says Candice Hutchings, who shows viewers how to repurpose traditional food offerings on her Edgy Veg YouTube channel.

Her most popular recipes include a vegan take on the McDonald’s Big Mac and Buffalo “chicken” wings — with the meat being a dough made of vital wheat gluten, nutritional yeast and spices.

Hutchings started making vegan recipe and lifestyle videos several years ago and then quit her advertising job last October to devote herself full time to the project.

“When I went vegan six years ago my biggest issue and what was making me fall off the wagon constantly was there wasn’t food I wanted to eat. Everything was brown and oatmealy. The comfort food was really missing and I couldn’t find it anywhere at the time,” says Hutchings, who first abstained from dairy products to clear up skin problems.

“There weren’t any restaurants that served it.

There weren’t really any online recipes that I could find. I started kind of experimenting because there was such a void in that market.”

Vegans and vegetarians don’t eat meat. But while vegetarians will eat dairy products and eggs, vegans generally won’t and also avoid honey or any food derived from animals.

“Once you get into a lifestyle you tend to learn a bit more about animal agriculture and kind of what’s going on in the industry and all the horrible things that are happening and after seeing that I couldn’t look back. You can never unsee,” Hutchings says.

Restaurants specializing in plant-based foods have been springing up the last few years, but one that’s attracted a lot of social media attention in the last few weeks is Doomie’s Toronto, a partnership between the owners of the popular Hollywood restaurant and Ecorazzi, an online vegan magazine that hosted last year’s Toronto Vegan Food and Drink Festival.

“Doomie’s is trying to break a number of vegan stereotypes that exist out there today, one of which is all vegans are just super health conscious and only eat grain and rice bowls and kind of steer away from eating anything unhealthy. And I guess we’re just trying to showcase the fact that vegans are just like anyone else,” says Cara Galloway, communications and event manager for Doomie’s Toronto.

“They sometimes have cravings for things and they don’t necessarily only eat salads and fruits and veggies.”

The Queen Street West restaurant has seen people lining up to try vegan burgers and pulled pork sandwiches and fries prepared a dozen different ways, including toppings of vegan cheese, bacon and

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ABOVE; The Vegan Mac Daddy, as served att Doomie’s Toronto. It is a secret item that is not on n the menu. Guests must ask their server for it. It’s $16 6 with fries. The mock Big Mac features house-made e toppings of vegan mayo for the special sauce and a soy-based “cheese.”

RIGHT; When Candice Hutchings adopted a vegan n diet about six years ago, she found herself falling offf the wagon because she couldn’t find restaurants thatt served the kind of comfort food she wanted to eatt or recipes she could make at home. chili, pesto, Sriracha, mushrooms, jalapenos or gar-lic.

Patrons must ask their server for the “secret” $16 6 Vegan Mac Daddy. The mock Big Mac comes with h fries and features house-made toppings of vegan n mayo for the special sauce and a soy-based “cheese.” ” Hutchings waited for two hours last week to get a table at Doomie’s and said it was worth it. She found d the food resembles what she makes on Edgy Veg. “There’s Hogtown Vegan in Toronto, but they’re more on the comfort food side whereas I found this was like junk food. It gets that junk food craving out of your system.”

Much of the food at Doomie’s is based on soy- and wheat-based products.

Hutchings thinks one reason people fail when creating vegan lookalikes is they try to adapt other vegan recipes.

“I look up the original recipe so if I’m trying to make, let’s say a Philly cheesesteak sandwich or chicken wings, I look to see what spices they’re actually using in the wings and what they’re using in the

batter and then I use vegan substitutes.”

For meat, she may use mushrooms, which have a meaty taste and texture. Or she prepares seitan — also called wheat meat — from vital wheat gluten. She uses soy or almond milk instead of cows milk.

A favourite indulgence is cauliflower “wings,” which she coats with a spiced breaded mixture, then double deep-fries and tosses in hot sauce.

“I think that is the closest thing to wings I’ve had yet. It’s the same kind of texture. The cauliflower doesn’t have a real cauliflower flavour. It has that meaty pulled pork flavour…. It was satisfying and anyone I’ve served it to, it blows their mind.”

Tips for a budget-friendly veggie garden START WITH TOMATOES AND SWISS CHARD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Victoria Day long weekend marks the start of gardening season for many, and for those on a budget, it’s a chance to plant vegetable seeds or plants that can help with grocery bills for years to come.

Gardening/weather expert Frank Ferragine, a.k.a. Frankie Flowers of “Breakfast Television Toronto,” says his No. 1 recommendation for veggies that will produce a big bounty for a good price is the tomato.

“The best one to do for that is called the Early Girl and I would recommend the Early Girl bush variety, so then it won’t take up a lot of space,” he says.

“Then swiss chard. It’s super cheap, easy to grow from seed or you can buy it as a plant every time you cut it, it’s going to sprout back again, so you don’t have to do multiple plantings.”

Ferragine provides a wealth of gardening advice in his new book, Food to Grow: A simple, nofail guide to growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs.

His other budget-friendly veggie recommendations include kale, which can be harvested well into December and sweetens in flavour as it gets colder.

“The side shoots are really easy to harvest and you can do long durations of harvest,” he says.

“Word of warning is, after it gets real cold and if we go through a warm spell, there’s nothing worse than the smell of rotting kale. So if it’s at the front entrance of your home … you just pull it.”

For something quick to harvest, try radishes or spinach.

“Those are an early crop, so you can even group those together,” says Ferragine, who also

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appears on CityLine and CityNews and has written for various publications.

“Even if you don’t have a lot of space — and let’s say you have a perennial garden — you could sow some spinach and radishes in a perennial garden and then harvest them before the perennials grow into that space.”

He also recommends herbs, which provide multiple harvests. Parsley in particular is easy to grow and can be used for many dishes like taboules.

“The No. 1 failure is that people put them in too small of a pot,” says Ferragine.

For apartment/condo dwellers, he recommends grouping four or five herbs used most often into at least a 10-inch pot with ample drainage.

“The No. 1 thing is the sun,” he says. “The more sun you have, the better it’s going to be.”

Spinach, lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, bush beans and scarlet runner beans are also great for balconies.

As for cauliflower, which soared in price a few months ago, it’s not difficult to grow but it does take up space and requires summer maintenance.

“In order for the cauliflower to remain white, you have to take the leaves, bunch them together and tie them with an elastic and that’s what keeps them white,” he says.

The one item he doesn’t recommend growing in a city is corn, which restricts light, attracts raccoons and is often locally grown and readily available at an affordable cost anyway.

Ferragine says the key is taking the time to figure out: “What do I eat and what do I eat a lot of?”

Then it’s drafting a plan with the hard-fixed costs.

“A lot of people want to save their own money by growing a vegetable garden and you can, but I say it’s kind of like an RRSP where it’s kind of a long-haul,” he says.

“So the first year when you go and you build that garden, there’s going to be some upfront costs…. The second and third year is where you really start saving money.”

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Art in the AM is a new facilitated program for people with memory issues and their care partners on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. It is a Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery program developed in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories — Red Deer Office and sponsored by Rotary Club of Red Deer. Cost is $5 per pair. For more info call 403-309-8405.

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Warm Ginger Orange scones Ginger Orange Scones are made using crystallized ginger and freshly grated orange peel, giving them a warm, spicy flavour that pairs well with a bit of butter and some nice marmalade. Slather on our homemade Maple Butter to up the decadence level.

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2 1/2 cups (625 mL) flour 1/2 cup (125 mL) packed golden brown sugar 2 1/2 tsp (12 mL) baking powder 1 1/2 tsp (7 mL) ground ginger 1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda 3/4 cup (175 mL) butter, chilled and cubed 1/4 cup (50 mL) finely chopped crystallized ginger 2 tsp (10 mL) grated orange peel 1 cup (250 mL) buttermilk Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, ground ginger and baking soda in a bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Stir in crystallized ginger and orange peel. Add buttermilk to flour mixture and stir just until combined. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead dough gently 10 times, adding additional flour if dough is sticky.

Divide dough in half. Pat each half into a round 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick. Cut each round into 8 wedges. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 400ºF (200ºC) for 15 - 20 minutes or until browned. Makes 16.

Maple Butter 1/2 cup (125 mL) butter, softened 2 tbsp (25 mL) maple syrup 2 tbsp (25 mL) finely chopped toasted pecans Beat together butter and syrup until fluffy. Stir in pecans.

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RED DEER MUSEUM + ART GALLERY AGM The Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery annual general meeting is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the museum. After the meeting, Guest Presenter Rueben Tschetter, CACHE Productions, will make a presentation about the work that his company is doing to document contemporary life in Central Alberta and will screen the trailer for ’To Canada With Love. The meeting is open and free to attend.

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GIVE TAI CHI A TRY FOR A RELAXING EXERCISE PROGRAM Come and join Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi for a relaxing exercise program that improves strength, balance and flexibility while reducing stress on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at 4419 50 Ave. in Red Deer. If you are dealing with health issues, we have Health Recovery Tai Chi on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m..

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In Memoriam SHAW Terence (Terry) William It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of Terry on May 11, 2016 in Red Deer, Alberta.

Terry waited for the sunrise and took his final breath surrounded by his family at the age of 65 years. Terry was a vibrant great man who was the rock of our family, a friend to so many people. His friends and family meant everything to him. Terry leaves such a void in so many lives that will be impossible to fill. Terry is survived by the love of his life Janice, three sons Brandon (Melissa) of Rimbey, Dallas (Stacey) of Sylvan Lake, Colin (Mallary) of Sylvan Lake, grandchildren Taryn, Hunter, Allie, Ashley, Kyndal, Kaje, Karson, Braun, Tanner and Logan. Terry also leaves to mourn four brothers, three sisters and their families.

Terry was predeceased by his parents Fred and Lil Shaw as well as two brothers. A celebration of Terry’s life will be held from the Peter Lougheed Community Center in Rimbey, Alberta on Wednesday May 18, 2016 at 2 p.m. If friends so desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Firefighters Burn Treatment Unit, University of Alberta, 8440 - 112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2B7.

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MORRIS POOR Apr. 16, 1956 - May 16, 2007 His charming ways and smiling face Are a pleasure to recall; He had a kindly word for each And passed away beloved by all.

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1720

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1830

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for free. 403-887-3649

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1370

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1372

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2 BDRM., 1 bath, Condo for rent Sunnybrook. $1200/mo. Avail: July 1.

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Manufactured Homes

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ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337

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LEFT FROM POLICE TRAINING EXERCISE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANCHESTER, England — A fake bomb left behind during a security exercise led police to evacuate Manchester United’s home stadium on Sunday, disrupting the final day of the English Premier League season and bringing embarrassment to one of the world’s best-known sports teams.

Police initially described the device as “incredibly lifelike” as United’s planned match with Bournemouth was cancelled, to boos from some fans, and a controlled explosion was carried out.

But hours later, bomb technicians reported it was a fake. And a later statement by police said the device had been inadvertently left in a toilet during an earlier training exercise involving sniffer dogs.

The series of events Sunday came amid tightened security at Premier League stadiums following last year’s Paris attacks that targeted the Stade de France sports stadium as well as cafes, bars and a concert hall. It also followed the British government’s announcement Wednesday that it was raising the nation’s threat level due to intelligence indicating the “strong possibility” of attacks in Britain by factions of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.

The Premier League has rescheduled the match for Tuesday. United said it was investigating the incident.

“It is outrageous this situation arose and a full inquiry is required to urgently find out how this happened, why it happened and who will be held accountable,” said Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester’s mayor as well as the district’s police and crime commissioner.

Sunday’s match was the first Premier League game to be postponed because of a bomb threat.

An exhibition soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled in November after police said they received a bomb threat. No explosives were found.

Sunday’s scare was set off after Manchester United staff found a suspicious device in a toilet in the northwest corner of one of the stands, police said. Fans sitting in other stands initially were allowed to stay inside the stadium, but about a half hour before the scheduled 3 p.m.

(1400 GMT) kickoff, they were escorted out by security personnel, and a sweep of the 75,635-seat venue was carried out.

Players from both teams were taken off the pitch during the warm-up and kept in the changing rooms. Some fans booed as a stadium announcer instructed them to exit the building.

Hours later, Greater Manchester Police announced that the suspect item was not a “viable

device.”

“We have since found out that the item was a training device which had accidentally been left by a private company following a training exercise involving explosive search dogs,” John O’Hare, assistant chief constable from Greater Manchester Police.

Earlier in the day, police had maintained a strong presence outside Old Trafford as fire engines attended the scene. Sniffer dogs were also seen inside the stadium.

About 3,000 Bournemouth fans are estimated to have made the trip to Old Trafford for the game. Bournemouth is a town on the south coast of England, and it is a round trip of about 500 miles (800 kilometres) to the northern city of Manchester.

The match was one of 10 taking place on the final day of the Premier League season. The other nine matches went ahead.

United was vying with Manchester City to finish in fourth place in the Premier League and qualify for the Champions League. City drew 1-1 at Swansea, effectively ending United’s top-four chances.

United has to beat Bournemouth by a 19-goal margin or more to climb above City.

In rescheduling the match, the Premier League had to take into account the FA Cup final between United and Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday.

Earlier, the Premier League apologized for the inconvenience that the postponement of the game caused to fans.

“We are sure, in the circumstances, they will appreciate the need to do so,” it said.

Sunday’s security scare rekindled memories of April 1997, when the dominant Provisional faction of the IRA used a telephoned bomb warning to force the evacuation of the Grand National horse race in Liverpool being attended by 60,000 fans, many of them Irish. That disrupted race eventually went ahead two days late in front of relatively few fans.

United also enjoys a huge following in Ireland.

The Provisional IRA has observed a ceasefire since July 1997 and renounced violence in 2005, but several rival factions continue to plot attacks in the British territory of Northern Ireland.

On Wednesday, Home Secretary Theresa May told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the domestic intelligence agency MI5 had decided to raise its threat level of an IRA attack in Britain to “substantial,” the third-highest level.

That means MI5 — responsible for monitoring IRA splinter groups in Northern Ireland — considers an IRA attack in Britain a “strong possibility.” whales returned to the beach after being led into deeper water. The statement speculated the mammals were disoriented, saying no signs of injuries were noted.

BRIEF Mexico City lifts year’s 4th smog alert after a day Mexico City authorities have lifted a smog alert one day after ozone levels rose above 150 per cent of acceptable limits.

A statement from the metropolitan area’s environmental commission said favourable weather conditions Sunday morning and rains in the afternoon led to a reduction. The alert had banned 20 per cent of the area’s motor vehicles from diving Sunday. It was the fourth time this year that Mexico’s capital has restricted the number of cars because of air pollution.

24 pilot whales die after beaching in Baja California Two dozen pilot whales died after beaching themselves on the Baja California Peninsula despite efforts to move them into deeper waters, Mexico’s navy say Sunday.

The statement said naval personnel worked along with soldiers, environmental ministry agents and local fishermen trying to save the whales on the western shore of the Gulf of California. Only three of the 27 whales that came ashore were saved, the statement said. Some

Woman taken to hospital with shark still attached to her arm BOCA RATON, Fla. — News reports say a 23-year-old woman was bitten by a small nurse shark in Boca Raton.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday with the shark still attached to her arm.

A spokesperson for the Boca Raton Ocean Rescue told the newspaper the woman remained calm and there was a little blood. A splint board was used to support the woman’s arm and the shark as she lay on the stretcher.

The Boca Raton Regional Hospital operator said the woman had been treated and was in the process of being released Sunday afternoon.

World’s biggest cruise ship sets sail from France Tens of thousands of French well-wishers waved goodbye to the largest cruise ship in the world as it set sail on its maiden voyage to the U.K. after 32 months in a French shipyard.

The $1 billion Harmony of the Seas cut a gargantuan silhouette Sunday as it left the western port town of Saint-Nazaire. At 362 metres long, the 16-deck ship is bigger than the Eiffel Tower and holds the record for being the widest cruise ship ever built — boasting a 6,360-passenger capacity.

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May 16 2013 — Toronto Star reports they had been offered a cellphone video that appeared to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.

1976 — Montréal Canadiens win their 19th Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory over Philadelphia Flyers, to sweep the series 4-0.

1961 — US President John F. Kennedy starts 3-day visit to Ottawa.

1879 — Tornado strikes near Saddle Lake, leaving one person dead.

1854 — Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the US takes effect; US agrees to admit most Canadian products duty free; US fishermen can catch within the three-mile limit, land to cure their fish, and navigate the St. Lawrence River freely.

1619 — Jens Munk sets sail to find North West Passage; commissioned by the King of Denmark, he will make the first European discovery of the Missinipi River or Churchill River, a gateway into northern Manitoba.

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Jamala takes 2016 Eurovision contest

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM — Ukrainian singer Jamala’s melancholic tune about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday, an unusual choice for the kitschy pop fest.

Susana Jamaladinova, a 32-yearold trained opera singer who uses the stage name Jamala, received the highest score of 534 points for her song “1944,” after votes from juries and TV viewers across Europe were tallied following performances Saturday night by the 26 finalists at Stockholm’s Globe Arena.

Australia’s Dami Im was second with 511 points, followed by Russia’s Sergey Lazarev in third with 491.

The show was broadcast live in Europe, China, Kazakhstan, Australia, New Zealand and, for the first time, the United States. Last year’s contest reached nearly 200 million viewers globally.

Amid entries about love and desire, Jamala’s song stood out. With sombre lyrics it recalls how Crimean Tatars, including her great-grandmother, were deported in 1944 by Soviet authorities during World War II. Many died during the deportations or starved to death on the barren steppes of central Asia.

Decades later some of the survivors were allowed to return to the Crimean Peninsula.

Jamala delivered an emotional performance, her voice soaring as the song built up force from a quiet start.

“I was sure that if you sing, if you talk about truth, it really can touch people,” she told reporters after the competition.

The focus on Crimea, whose annexation by Russia in 2014 was opposed by its Tatar minority, could be considered a swipe at Moscow, but Jamala insisted there was no political subtext, and contest officials agreed.

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Ukraine’s Jamala celebrates with the trophy after winning the Eurovision Song Contest final with the song ‘1944’ in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday.

The rules of the glitzy competition prohibit political statements.

Im, who was born in South Korea and is a former Australian “X Factor” talent show winner, was in the lead following a count of the jury votes, but her song “Sound of Silence” was bumped down to second place when the popular vote was added.

Though Australia is far from Europe, the Eurovision show is hugely popular Down Under where it has been broadcast for more than 30 years.

‘Captain America’ keeps rolling at the box office

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — It’s Captain America’s weekend at the box office once again by a large margin, but even with $72.6 million in earnings, the superhero pic left some room for other newcomers like Money Monster, The Darkness and The Lobster to play, according to comScore estimates Sunday.

Captain America: Civil War dropped 59 per cent in its second weekend in theatres, in line with the second weekend showings of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Iron Man 3. While it’s on the higher end of second weekend falls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney and Marvel film is still performing phenomenally well. In just two weeks, it has earned $295.9 million in North America, passing the total domestic grosses of Captain America: Winter Soldier film by over $35 million.

Disney’s The Jungle Book remained in second place with $17.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $311.8 million after five weekends in theatres.

Meanwhile, the R-rated George Clooney and Julia Roberts financial thriller Money Monster got off to a healthy third-place start with $15 million, beating expectations in its first weekend in theatres after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. The film cost only $27 million to produce.

“We felt like in the wake of Captain America, we could open to $10 million.

To open to $15 million in that time frame is really a great number for us and it bodes well for the playability of the movie,” Rory Bruer, Sony’s President of Worldwide Distribution, said.

“We’re very proud to be part of this genre. The adult thriller is not an easy code to crack.”

The Blumhouse release label BH Tilt also opened the micro budget horror film The Darkness for the Friday the 13th weekend. The film, which stars Kevin Bacon, brought in $5.2 million from only 1,755 screens to take

fourth place.

In limited release, distributor A24 also scored big with The Lobster, a dark comedy about relationships starring Colin Farrell from director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film scored the best specialty opening of the year with $188,195 from just four screens in New York and Los Angeles before its expands nationwide over the next two weekends.

It’s a good strategy to launch movies that don’t have massive budgets on the weekend after the summer movie season kick-off, ComScore Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“Traditionally this second weekend in May is not an enviable weekend to be releasing on, but it can be a land of opportunity for films that fill a particular niche, or bring in an audience who might not be interested in these big blockbusters,” Dergarabedian said.

“It’s not competing with all the noise.”

The summer movie slate only gets more crowded from here on out. Next weekend sees the opening of The Angry Birds Movie, The Nice Guys, and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, before the big Memorial Day release of Alice Through the Looking Glass and X-Men: Apocalypse.

“It was a big weekend, but not the most exciting weekend,” Dergarabedian said. “It’s mostly business as usual.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.Captain America: Civil War, $72.6 million.

2.The Jungle Book, $17.8 million.

3.Money Monster, $15 million.

4.The Darkness, $5.2 million.

5.Mother’s Day, $3.3 million.

6.Zootopia, $2.8 million.

7.The Huntsman: Winter’s War, $2.6 million.

8.Keanu, $1.9 million.

9.Barbershop: The Next Cut, $1.7 million 10.The Boss, $1.2 million.

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Australia was invited to compete for the second consecutive year.

The annual contest, which started in 1956, is known for its eclectic mix of rock ballads, techno-pop and occasional folkloric tunes. However, in recent years entries have moved away from ethnic influences toward more mainstream dance music.

All but one of the 26 entries in the final were performed entirely or partially in English.

The stage production is also getting

increasingly elaborate, with pyrotechnics and computer graphics compensating for bland tunes with cheesy lyrics.

Lazarev’s club anthem “You Are the Only One” had the most striking visual effects. At one point the blackclad Russian scaled a LED display and rode a virtual iceberg through space.

Some Russian fans accused the judges of political bias, noting that Lazarev got the highest score in the popular vote.

Canadian comic book artist Darwyn Cooke dies at age 53

BRIEF Chili Peppers cancel concert after singer hospitalized IRVINE, Calif. — A spokesman for the Red Hot Chili Peppers says the band cancelled an appearance at a California radio station’s annual concert after lead singer Anthony Kiedis was hospitalized with intestinal flu.

Brian Bumbery said Sunday that the 53-year-old Kiedis is expected to make a full recovery.

Bassist Flea told the crowd Saturday in Orange County that the Chili Peppers would be unable to perform.

The band was scheduled to headline KROQ’s Weenie Roast concert.

Also on the bill at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre were Weezer and Empire of the Sun. Peppers drummer Chad Smith tweeted: “No one’s more disappointed than us that we couldn’t perform tonight. Sending love and a speedy recovery to my brother Anthony.”

Bumbery says the Chili Peppers will postpone a concert for iHeart Radio scheduled for Tuesday in Burbank, California.

A Canadian called one of the “true innovators” in the world of comic books and animation has died. Darwyn Cooke was 53. A statement from Cooke’s family says he died Saturday morning in his Florida home after a battle with cancer. Cooke was born in Toronto and lived in Nova Scotia for many years. He published his first comic book work in 1985 but economic realities forced him to make a living working for Canadian magazines as an art director and graphic designer.

Drake pulls double duty as SNL host/musical guest Drake is now an honoured member of the “Saturday Night Live” two timers club. The Toronto-bred rapper made his return to the show last night, again pulling double duty as both host and musical guest, as he did in his first SNL gig in Jan. 2014.

There were, of course, references to Canada, including a monologue joke about Americans fleeing north, frightened by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency.

He added a couple of music video spoofs, including one where he raps plaintively about being the punchline of social media gags.

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Whinging co-worker dragging department down KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I have a co-worker who often shows up late, constantly complains about how he doesn’t want to be “here” (in this city, at this job, etc.), spends most of his time reading Facebook posts aloud or trying to chat with the rest of the people in our department and generally wastes his time when he’s supposed to be working.

Our department works on a very strict deadline, and he often finds himself in a time crunch at the end of the day and asks the rest of us to do his work for him. When we say no, he either calls our boss to complain that we “aren’t helping” or tries to scare us by saying that it’s “everyone’s fault if we miss deadline.”

Several co-workers have tried to ex-

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Monday, May 16 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Pierce Brosnan, 63; Janet Jackson, 50; Megan Fox, 30 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Strive to turn abstract ideas into concrete projects.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Outrageous Flair, you are colourful and hard to ignore. 2016 is the year to talk less, produce more, and finish what you start.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You want things done your way and you want them done now!

Slow down and be more patient and astute in your appraisal of people and situations. This will save heaps of time in the long run.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Single Bulls — don’t accept second best. Have the confidence to wait for your soul mate to arrive. Attached Taureans — it’s time to be much more romantic and attentive towards your partner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t jump to hasty conclusions and assume you know

plain this to our boss, but this guy always has some excuse that our boss is more than willing to believe. I am pretty sure it’s because they were friends before our boss was promoted. But this co-worker is making our boss look bad, along with the rest of us. I think our boss is truly blind to the fact that this guy barely does his job, and produces subpar work.

It bothers me that this whiner is dragging the rest of the department down. What should I do? — Confused and Frustrated Dear Confused: We think your boss overlooks this guy’s ineptitude because it’s easier than dealing with the situation and possibly losing a friend.

But it damages the company, not to mention morale.

If there is a human resources department or your boss has an immediate supervisor, this is where you should direct your complaints. Make it a group effort with others from your department. Don’t criticize your co-worker’s personality. Simply say

that you are concerned deadlines will be missed. If told to send your complaints to your boss, explain that you have already done so and it hasn’t made a difference. In the meantime, encourage this co-worker to look for another job, perhaps in another city where he will be happier. Try to do it with sincere concern for his well-being.

Dear Annie: This is in response to the letter from “Morose Mom,” whose adult children kept borrowing money and never paid it back.

As each of our children graduated college and went on to lead adult lives, we instituted a very strict rule: Your credit is only as good as your last loan.

They had to pay back one in order to borrow again. And guess what? It worked.

We’ve had every loan (we don’t charge interest) repaid and would not hesitate to let our children borrow again, especially if they found themselves in an emergency situation.

When my husband went back to col-

what loved ones are thinking — you may be way off the mark.

Some singles will become involved in a secret — and complicated — romance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Routine responsibilities may be getting you down, and leave you daydreaming about a heavenly holiday.

If you cooperate with others, then you’ll get essential tasks completed much more quickly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A business idea that started as a vague dream has definite potential. But it’s not the time to be an independent Lion — you will need the cooperation of other people to make it happen.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to review your goals for the future. Are they big and bold enough Virgo? Don’t be too safe and sensible.

The stars encourage you to be as imaginative and inspirational as possible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s a good time to pursue creative projects or spiritual endeavours.

But there’s more to a family situation than meets the eye so show extra compassion towards a loved one who needs your help.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Romantic, family and business relationships are favoured today Scorpio, so make the most of the positive astro-vibes. Socializing with loved

ones puts a spring in your step and a smile on your dial.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll feel restless today Sagittarius. Don’t be too hasty though!

The stars encourage you to help a work colleague, close friend or family member who needs some support and gentle guidance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When it comes to a child, teenager or close friend it may feel as if it’s one step forwards and two steps back.

Don’t lose heart Capricorn. The relationship will slowly improve if you give it a chance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): All forms of communication improve today, as the stars temporarily lessen the confusing effects of Mercury being retrograde. So say exactly what you’ve got to say, while you’ve got the chance!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s great satisfaction to be gained from working within your local community.

Don’t take on too much though Pisces!

State what you can and can’t do, and don’t be afraid to say no.

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

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In BRIEFS Italian woman, 116, seen as last living person born in 1800s VERBANIA, Italy — Surrounded by relatives and friends, Italy’s Emma Morano greeted with a smile the news that she, at 116, is now the oldest person in the world.

Not only that, but Morano is believed to be the last surviving person in the world born in the 1800s, with a birthdate of Nov. 29, 1899. That’s just 4 ½ months after Susannah Mushatt Jones, who died Thursday in New York, also at 116.

Journalists on Friday descended upon Morano’s home in Verbania, a northern Italian mountain town overlooking Lake Major, to document her achievement, but had to wait until she finished a nap to greet her.

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