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Drug addict jailed for killing BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer drug addict who strangled a Potter’s Hands resident to death in 2013 has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. “It’s difficult to imagine a more serious offence,” said Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Monica Bast while sentencing Mark William Bitterman on Monday. Bitterman admitted to strangling Curtis Leroy
Rangen, 43, in his Potter’s Hands apartment in Riverside Meadows in late April or early May 2013. Bitterman had gone to Rangen’s apartment to steal his TV to sell to settle a drug debt with someone else, said Crown prosecutor Ed Ring. When Rangen resisted, he was strangled, bound with a belt and nylon cords and left in a bathtub. Bitterman returned to the apartment a short time later and found Rangen dead. He stripped and washed Rangen’s body and stuffed him into a deep freezer. It was the second time Bitterman had targeted
Rangen, who suffered from mental illness and was not associated with his attacker in any way. Bitterman stole Rangen’s wallet and keys in a previous confrontation but was stopped from taking the TV. Rangen’s care givers became concerned when they didn’t hear from him for several days. They notified his father, and mental health workers joined him at his son’s apartment, where the body was found on May 3. Please see BITTERMAN on Page A8
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RDC target of cyberattack BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College managed to fend off a malicious cyberattack and being forced to pay a ransom on Friday although its information technology system wasn’t fully returned to normal until Monday afternoon. Late Friday afternoon the college began posting on social media about a “technology threat” against its computer and Internet services. It was the first such “ransomware” attack the college has seen, Jim Brinkhurst, RDC Vice President, College Services and Chief Financial Officer, said Monday. Since there was no actual ransom request and no loss of data, they didn’t anticipate bringing in the RCMP, he said. “The world is changing each and every day and as much as we move forward with our types of virus protection and all that kind of thing, the ones that are doing the attacks are just stepping that up each and every day as well. “We play this constant game of trying to make sure that we’re ahead of that. It’s a huge task for us.” Earlier in June, the University of Calgary paid a $20,000 ransom after it suffered a similar cyber attack on its systems. The malicious attacks, which are becoming more and more common globally, involve computers or computer systems and their data being locked by ransomware and not released until a ransom is paid. Once the threat was realized at RDC, the college’s IT Services team was able to mitigate the situation before it reached the point of having to engage with any demands for money. Within 15 minutes, the IT department alerted all employees of the threat, and all RDC technology access was shut down to keep the threat from spreading. Red Deer College’s information system, including its computer network, email and wireless systems were affected.
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A couple hold hands while walking across Citadel Hill in Halifax during the summer solstice on Monday. Summer solstice, the longest day of the year, marks the official beginning of summer.
Arborists show off climbing expertise at championship BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Having an arborist for a father, who is also an arboriculture instructor at Olds College, put Toni-Marie Newsham on a career trajectory straight up a tree. On the weekend, Newsham was one of 38 competitors — nine women and 29 men — at the 2016 Prairie Chapter Tree Climbing Championship with the International Society of Arboriculture that was held in Olds.
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Last year there were five women and 24 men at 2015 prairie competition held in Winnipeg. Newsham said it may be a competition, but it’s a supportive and educational environment. “Competitors are cheering for each other. We really just want everyone to get better and do the best that they can,” said Newsham, of Innisfail, who competed two years ago in Saskatoon. “You get lots of experience and you get to meet lots of climbers who have been doing this for years and years. It’s a huge learning curve,” said Newsham, 23. Kali Alcorn, 29, of Olds, who won the prairie chap-
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High River still rebuilding BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HIGH RIVER — It’s been a busy three years for one of the southern Alberta communities hardest hit by extensive flooding three years ago. The mayor of High River south of Calgary says the town has come back stronger than ever, even though it hasn’t been easy. Craig Snodgrass says the first priority was to protect the town by building new berms and dykes on the Highwood River to handle a flood 50 per cent larger than in 2013. The river washed through much of the community and turned downtown streets into raging rivers. It took weeks to pump water from one neighbourhood called the Hamptons. All 13,000 residents of the town had to leave and scores had to be rescued from rooftops as water rose over the tops of cars. Snodgrass says the downtown area has seen some big changes that have made the town more walkable and more appealing to businesses. The province says the floods were the worst in Alberta’s history. More than 125,000 people were forced to flee and more than 30 communities were affected. Some residents are still dealing with flood-related issues. “There’s a lot of construction that we’re finishing up this year, a new provincial building being built with 100 and something employees in downtown High River,” Snodgrass explained. “That just feeds all the retail and the restaurants and the service industries.” Cities and towns stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the province’s west all the way east to Medicine Hat were damaged.
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Alberta BRIEFS Taxpayers group urges Calgary mayor, councillors to take pay cut to lower taxes
High River had 350 millimetres of water over a two-day period. Insurable losses were pegged at more than $5 billion. The town was to hold a service Monday night to acknowledge the change the flood has brought to the community. Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee said in a statement that the floods symbolize “a time that forever changed our province.”
“Three years ago, a provincial state of emergency was declared for the first time in Alberta history, alongside 30 states of local emergency,” she said. “As rain fell and flood waters raged, five lives were lost and approximately 100,000 Albertans were displaced from their homes. These floods destroyed about 14,500 homes and 1,600 businesses, as well as parks, highways and schools.” The province is committed to re-
building and has poured $145 million into the effort, she added. Officials are equally committed to learning what they can from the disaster to better support people in the future, she said. “In the past few years, we’ve seen other disasters damage our communities, such as the recent Fort McMurray wildfire. While these disasters test our communities, they are no match for the resilient spirit and tenacity of Albertans.”
over $116,313. The taxpayers group says city documents show salaries, wages, overtime and benefits account for 45 per cent of Calgary’s tax-supported expenditures. “Reducing pay and perks means reducing property taxes,” Alberta spokeswoman Paige MacPherson said in a release Monday. “Calgary workers and businesses are taking wage cuts and layoffs to stay afloat. Government employees should join reality and help take the burden off taxpayers.”
Calgary Stampede parties still expected despite downturn in oilpatch
The department has released a final report on the most recent flu season. It says the number of flu-related fatalities is down from 90 deaths during the previous season. Dr. Judy MacDonald says there were over 5,000 lab-confirmed cases of influenza A and B throughout Alberta. She says about 27 per cent of people got a flu shot this year, down slightly from 2015. MacDonald says the flu season came late and lasted longer than expected.
Police arrest wife after husband dies of injuries
CALGARY — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says Calgary’s civic leaders are getting paid too much at a time when other Calgarians are struggling due to a slowdown in the oilpatch. The taxpayers group suggests city councillors should take a five per cent pay cut and Mayor Naheed Nenshi should shave his salary by 10 per cent. It also recommends the city should push for a five per cent rollback for all municipal government employees in future contract negotiations. The taxpayers federation says the reductions would save $119 million next year, which could be used to lower property taxes by almost 2.6 per cent. A City of Calgary website says the mayor’s total salary is more than $218,000 a year, while councillors get
MEDICINE HAT — Police in Medicine Hat, Alta. are investigating what may be the city’s first homicide of the year. Officers say they were called Saturday to a home where they found a man with serious injuries. John Holmes, who was 51, later died in hospital. Insp. Brent Secondiak says the man’s wife was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He says investigators are waiting for autopsy results and the charge could be upgraded. Barbara Holmes, also 51, has been remanded in custody and is to appear in court Wednesday.
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CALGARY — Party planners say they are still expecting solid business during the Calgary Stampede despite a downturn in the energy industry. Oil and gas companies tend to put on less elaborate celebrations when profits are down, but Event Group owner David Howard says Calgary’s socalled “second economy” is filling the party void. Howard says his company saw a big decline in clients in 2015. But he says business is up 30 per cent this year due to high tech, human resources and transportation companies. Darren Kershaw owns Special Events Rentals and says companies are tending to book at the last minute because they first want to see their bottom lines. But he anticipates business will be at — or above — last year’s levels.
Flu linked to 62 deaths in province this year, down from last season: report CALGARY — Alberta Health Services says 62 deaths in the province this year have been linked to the flu.
Man gets jail time for hitand-run that killed Edmonton father two years ago EDMONTON — A man has been handed jail time for stealing a pickup truck and fatally running down its Edmonton owner. Jonathan Cardinal, originally charged with manslaughter, pleaded guilty to several charges including dangerous driving causing death and theft. A judge sentenced him to 4 ½ years but, with credit for time served, his sentence ended up being 18 months. Court heard 33-year-old Adam Groves, a father of two young children, had left his truck running in a parking lot in June 2014. When Cardinal jumped inside, Groves tried to stop him and was struck.
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‘A step in the right direction’ HEALTH CANADA REDUCES DEFERRAL PERIOD FOR SEXUALLY ACTIVE GAY MEN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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OTTAWA — Health Canada is making it easier for gay men to give blood, so long as they have been celibate for one year. Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec will now be allowed to accept blood from men who have had sex with men as recently as one year ago. “It’s certainly a step in the right direction,” Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday. “There is an incredible desire and certainly a commitment on the part of our government to work towards further decreasing that donor deferral period. We will be actually looking for mechanisms to be able to support that. “The desire is to be able to have those deferrals based on behaviour as opposed to sexual orientation.” Health Canada is also giving the blood donation agencies $3 million to support that potential goal, she added. “We will putting part of that towards research on behaviour-based donor deferral programs.” Health Canada said the change
comes after Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec provided scientific data that the change would not compromise safety. The move brings Canada in line with a number of other countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland and France. Canada lifted the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood in 2013, requiring instead that potential male donors not have had sex with other men for five years. Dr. Dana Devine, chief medical and scientific officer with Canadian Blood Services, said that gave them two years of data to study. “I think we were able to demonstrate that there was no negative effect of going to a shorter time period,” Devine said in an interview. There are those who want that time period lifted altogether. That includes the Canadian AIDS Society, which has long advocated for an end to across-the-board restrictions
on gay men donating blood. Spokeswoman Janne Charbonneau said the position has not changed, but noted the agency welcomes the announcement. “While we would prefer to have no deferral period whatsoever for MSM blood donors — that is, men who have sex with men — we consider Health Minister Philpott’s announcement to be certainly a step in the right direction, with a view to ultimately removing any barriers to MSM blood donations,” Charbonneau said. Devine said Canadian Blood Services is not ready to lift the restrictions completely. “It’s still 12 months because the testing is imperfect, because we are still on this incremental journey,” she said. “The 12 months was where we had data to be still in the comfort zone for the recipients to feel that we were not doing anything that made blood supply unsafe (and) that we also had data to reassure ourselves that we were main-
taining safety of the blood system.” She said the money from Health Canada will help Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec work do more research in this area, noting that much of the current literature in Canada has been focused on the relationship between HIV and high-risk behaviour in sexually active gay men. “That’s not the group that we want to study. We need to study the low-risk folks,” she said. Talks to change blood donation regulations in Canada have always taken place in the shadow of the tainted blood scandal, when hundreds of Canadians were infected with HIV, hepatitis C or both in the 1980s from blood and blood products donated through the Red Cross. The Red Cross lost responsibility for Canada’s blood supply in 1998 in the wake of the Krever inquiry, a royal commission that was struck to study the scandal. Canadian Blood Services and Hema-Quebec were established to take over the task.
Council debates creating public art commission BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Public art choices and locations in Red Deer may be decided by a commission. On Monday, council was set to vote to dissolve the Greater Downtown Action Plan, Heritage Preservation and the Municipal Features Naming committees in October 2016. The discussions lasted late into the evening. Elaine Vincent, director of Development Services, said the proposed changes are about creating empowerment committees and strengthening public participation in building Red Deer. The city launched its public participation review, which included its public advisory committees, in January 2015. Among other findings, the review concluded that some public advisory members felt frustrated about the clarity or purpose of their roles and expected to have more influence. “When you join a committee, you join to make a difference and change your community,” said Vincent. “The opportunity in our current committee structure didn’t allow for that to happen. People were getting frustrated about being able to create change . . . . we need to work with them to create the solutions together.” The biggest change will be in the area of public art.
‘WHEN YOU JOIN A COMMITTEE, YOU JOIN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND CHANGE YOUR COMMUNITY. THE OPPORTUNITY IN OUR CURRENT COMMITTEE STRUCTURE DIDN’T ALLOW FOR THAT TO HAPPEN. PEOPLE WERE GETTING FRUSTRATED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO CREATE CHANGE.’ — ELAINE VINCENT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
A new commission would have the delegated authority to make decisions around public art choices and locations, policies, acquisitions, donations and plans. The commission replaces the Public Art Jury, which was a council advisory committee. The commission will adjudicate all public arts projects and grant applications for the year. No members of council will sit on the commission. Vincent said there is no anticipated change to the public arts budget, which will remain with the public arts co-ordinator. The budget was not available on Monday. “Once they go through and develop their annual work plan, if there are budget requirements, it would follow that regular process and come to council to be considered at the operating budget debate,” said Vincent. The city has more than 75 public art pieces on display in city facilities, parks, downtown, on streets and on buildings.
The city will recruit members for the committees and the commission at the Oct. 24, 2016, organizational meeting.
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Senate’s future powers up for debate CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION
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n the end the Senate battle over medically assisted suicide ended not with a bang but with a whimper. On Friday, the upper house reluctantly deferred to the will of the House of Commons on the issue of medically assisted death by a margin of 44 to 28. The result was not even close. Canada’s MPs had had a number of opportunities to adopt a law along the less restrictive lines a majority of senators had suggested. They repeatedly declined to do so — each time a bit more forcefully than the last. In the circumstances, pursuing a rear-guard battle against Bill C-14 would have been a self-defeating act on the part of an institution that is still very much on probation in public opinion. It is hard to spend political capital that one does not have, especially in the face of a new government that is flush with it. The legislative discussion over Bill
C-14 is over but the debate over the role of a more independent Senate in the larger parliamentary scheme of things has only just begun. It is already eliciting some diametrically opposed views as to the way forward. At one extreme, there are those who would invest a more independent upper house with the mission of perfecting the work of their elected colleagues. In their book, a decrease in partisan attachment increases the moral authority of the senate, to the point that it should use the powers vested in it by the Constitution to the fullest — even when it means going against the will of the House of Commons. But power is intoxicating. Its fumes are addictive. Almost every governing party eventually succumbs to the delusion of believing itself infallible and invincible. The cure usually involves a voter-imposed spell in opposition rehab. If MPs, even as they are regularly reminded of their political mortality by public opinion polls and a ticking election clock, still manage to lose touch with the electorate, what of appointed senators who don’t even need fear being banished from the artificial paradise of Parliament for the rest of
their working lives? At the other extreme, there are those who feel that a still unelected but more independent Senate is ultimately even less accountable than its previous partisan version. No particular party is responsible for its actions. They argue such a Senate should be content to play the role of, if not silent at least always compliant, partner to the elected majority in the Commons. Except that under the current electoral system, a majority government does not de facto speak for a majority of voters, it just speaks for more of them than any other of its opposition rivals. The Senate is not the only parliamentary institution vested with powers that exceed its democratic legitimacy. On that score, the latitude of the upper house does not come to the shoulder of that enjoyed by a prime minister in command of a majority government. One of the few checks on the prime ministerial power to impose his or her will on the Commons is the capacity of the Senate to stand guard against legislative abuses. In fact, some of the same thinkers who promote a rubber-stamping Senate are among the first to lament the fact that the majority of most govern-
ments elected under the first-past-thepost regime is really the product of a systemic distortion of the will of the electorate. Faced with unilateral Liberal action to, say, change the voting system, would they still expect an independent Senate to defer to the government? A word in closing: Like their colleagues in the Commons, the senators were free to vote as their conscience dictated. Most Liberal MPs stuck with the government. All New Democrats opposed the bill. The Conservative breakdown was more intriguing. On Thursday, most Conservative MPs joined the Liberals to vote against the less restrictive assisted-death criteria that a majority of their colleagues in the Senate had supported. Having had a taste of independence, the latter are almost certainly going to crave more. Sooner rather than later, the next Conservative leader will have to determine whether to jump on the senatorial independence bandwagon or risk being left behind by the Conservatives in the upper house, for this train — for better or for worse — has left the station. Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.
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Brexit: the long, loud silence of their leaders GWYNNE DYER OPINION
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ritish Parliament met in London Monday, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. But here’s the odd thing: up to that point, the Brexit leaders had said nothing about it. Nothing. Not a word, for more than three days. The political campaign for the referendum next Thursday on Britain’s continued membership in the European Union was immediately suspended for two days after Cox’s murder, but other politicians didn’t go to ground like Johnson, Gove and their friends. Prime Minister David Cameron, the leader of Johnson and Gove’s own Conservative Party, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and a host of their fellow members of parliament gathered in Parliament Square on Friday to light candles and lay flowers in tribute to the slain MP, but the Brexit leaders were conspicuous by their absence. Cameron, Corbyn and many other RED DEER
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senior politicians went on TV to condemn what had happened, but Johnson, Gove and their rather embarrassing ally Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), did not (and you may be sure that they were asked to — that’s what journalists do). They simply vanished from public view, without so much as a ritual statement that their “thoughts and prayers” were with Jo Cox’s family. There are only two possible explanations for this curious non-event. One is that space aliens abducted Johnson, Gove and Farage on Thursday for their usual nefarious purposes, and returned them to Earth on Sunday with their memories wiped clean of anal probes (for otherwise they would surely have mentioned it). The other is that their media advisers told them that the only safe course was to say nothing. The Brexiteers were in a difficult position, because Jo Cox was a high-profile campaigner for Remain, the campaign urging Britons to stay in the EU, and the man who killed her, Tommy Mair, was clearly of the opposite persuasion. As he shot and stabbed her, according to eyewitnesses, he was shouting “Britain first” or “Put Britain first.” His motive became even clearer on Saturday, when he was brought before a judge to be charged. Asked to state his name, he replied that it is “Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain.” The second half of this slogan is, of course, News News tips 403-314-4333 Sports line 403-343-2244 News fax 403-341-6560 Sports reporter 403-314-4338 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com
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at the heart of the “Leave” campaign’s argument for Brexit. Obviously Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage knew nothing about Mair’s intentions, nor approved of them in any way. But people could reasonably argue that the increasingly nasty tone of the “Leave” campaign may have served as a trigger for Mair’s crime. In the early stages of the campaign the debate was mostly about the relative economic advantages of leaving or staying in the EU, but the “Leave” side clearly lost that argument, and shifted the debate instead onto the hot-button topic of immigration. This involved a good deal of lying, like the ridiculous Leave claim that Turkey was shortly going to become an EU member, giving 70 million Turks the right to move to Britain. (Turkey has no realistic chance of becoming an EU member in the foreseeable future, and if it ever did fulfill the entrance requirements Britain could simply veto it.) The dog-whistle racism of Leave’s anti-immigration campaign was at its worst in a poster that UKIP’s Nigel Farage unveiled just two hours before Cox was murdered, showing an endless column of young men of Middle Eastern appearance marching into Europe and captioned “Breaking Point.” In other words, quit the EU or Britain too will be drowned in a sea of Muslim fake refugees. The poster was immediately con-
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demned even by Farage’s allies (Michael Gove said he “shuddered” when he saw it) — but Gove did NOT go on to say that Middle Eastern refugees who are let in by other EU countries do not gain the right to enter Britain. To admit that would undermine the whole anti-immigrant strategy of the Leave campaign. That’s something Gove didn’t want to be questioned on. All the more did he not want to be questioned on possible causal links between the Leave campaign’s general strategy of claiming that the British people are enslaved by faceless “EU bureaucrats in Brussels” and Mair’s cry of “Freedom for Britain.” Neither did any of his Leave colleagues. So the Brexit leaders took their media managers’ advice and hid themselves away after the assassination of Jo Cox. When Tommy Mair gave his name as “Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain” in court on Saturday, they hid for another day, fearing guilt by association. Now they are back out in the open, hoping nobody noticed their absence. And maybe they didn’t, because the British media certainly abstained from comment on it. But it is also possible that quite a few ordinary voters did notice it, and drew their own conclusions from it. We’ll find out on Friday. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Trudeau condemns killing of security guards in Kabul BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the bombing that killed 14 Nepalese security guards en route to the Canadian Embassy in Afghanistan “appalling and cowardly.” The Canadian Embassy in Kabul confirmed Monday that the guards were on their way there when the bombing happened, but said there had been no attack on its embassy premises. “Today’s attack on security workers in Kabul is appalling and cowardly,” Trudeau tweeted. “Our thoughts are with the victims as we stand with the Afghan people.” The Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed that all 14 killed were Nepalese citizens, describing Monday’s attack as the work of a “terrorist suicide bomber.” It said the explosion also wounded nine people, five Nepalese employees and four Afghan civilians. Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion also came forward Monday to condemn the attack. “Many of the victims have been part of our embassy family for years, and they will be remembered for their service in the protection of the men and women at the Embassy of Canada to Afghanistan,” Dion said in a statement. “Canada stands with the people of Afghanistan in their struggle against terrorism in all its forms.” The Associated Press reported from Afghanistan that there were conflicting claims of responsibility for the attack, and that they could not immediately be reconciled.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks at a hockey stick made in the Ukraine before he delivers remarks at the Canada-Ukraine Business Forum in Toronto on Monday. Trudeau announced he would make his first official visit to Ukraine next month. The prime minister said he would make the trip after attending the NATO summit in Poland in early July and travelling to the AuschwitzBirkenau concentration camp to honour the victims of the Holocaust. Trudeau said he would be meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to discuss “key issues facing our two economies” and reiterate Canada’s support for Ukraine.
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OTTAWA — Somewhere in North Korea, Canadian Sen. Yonah Martin may have a living, breathing cousin. Or she may not. That’s just one more secret of the world’s pariah state. Before she was born and before the Korean War VANCOUVER — A man who was found guilty of that split the country along the 38th parallel, Markilling a police officer in Delta, B.C., is back out on tin’s father fled southward, but he left behind a sisparole. ter unable to travel. She was nine months pregnant. Elery Long was granted full parole for the second “We don’t know what happened to them,” Martin time in March 2015 after spending years behind bars recalled Monday. “Because of the armistice and the for killing Staff Sgt. Ron McKay in 1974. war that technically continues to this day, I have Long claimed the sawed-off shotgun he was carryno way for knowing if my family survived.” That personal connection infused Martin’s work in preparing a Senate report, released Monday, that calls on the government to do more to help North Korea defectors, who are caught in an international legal limbo. The few defectors who actually escape are automatically granted South Korean citizenship. But that can block them from applying to third countries as refugees. Meanwhile, some languish in Thailand detention centres if they’re lucky enough to make it that far, or must go underground to avoid abuse and repatriation to North Korea when they cross the GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH border into China, the report says.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Liberals launch public consultations BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal government is slowly gearing up for an across-the-board review of environmental assessments, the National Energy Board and protections for fisheries and navigable waters. Six Liberal cabinet ministers announced a series of public consultations to begin later this year — but not before Canadians weigh in on the proposed mandate of two new expert panels. The target of the exercise appears to be controversial changes made by the former Conservative government in 2012 that were supposed to speed up major resource development approvals. The Liberal election platform last fall promised to immediately review the environmental assess-
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Norwegian politician wades into veteran care dispute BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Salim Alaradi is greeted by family as he arrives at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Monday. The Libyan-Canadian businessman returned to Canada after spending nearly two years in detention in the United Arab Emirates. ‘Ladies and gentleman, I’m overwhelmed to be home after the last two years,’ Alaradi told a news conference. ‘I am home today because thousands of people in Canada and from the world spoke out. I’m grateful to each of you.’
Woman found guilty of second-degree murder in death of stepdaughter TORONTO — A woman accused of killing her 17-year-old stepdaughter more than two decades ago was found guilty of second-degree murder on Monday after a trial which heard graphic evidence of the physical and emotional abuse suffered by the girl. Elaine Biddersingh, who had been charged with first-degree murder, had pleaded not guilty in the death of Melonie Biddersingh, whose charred, malnourished body was found in a burning suitcase in an industrial parking lot north of Toronto in 1994. The teen’s body went unidentified for years until 2011, when her stepmother told an Ontario pastor the girl had “died like a dog” after being confined and denied food and medication. “This was a very long and difficult trial,” Crown prosecutor Mary Humphrey said outside court after the verdict, which was reached following six days of deliberations. “Justice was delivered today.” The conviction carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 10 years. Elaine Biddersingh, who had been out on bail throughout the trial, shook her head slightly after a juror read out her verdict. She then picked up a bible she’d brought into court with her and began to read. When the judge presiding over the case ordered her into custody, Biddersingh smiled, embraced her youngest daughter, who had attended much of the trial, and then turned herself over to a court officer. Outside court, Biddersingh’s defence lawyers said their client was in shock. “I don’t believe she expected this verdict and I imagine she’s trying to digest it,” said Alana Page. “Probably what looked to be a smile was just a reflection of her being in shock.” Melonie’s father, Everton Biddersingh, was found guilty in January of first-degree murder in his
daughter’s death. Elaine Biddersingh’s defence lawyers — who did not put their client on the stand or call their own evidence — suggested Melonie’s father was to blame for her death, while his wife was a victim of domestic abuse. “While no one would ever suggest that it wasn’t terrible to live in that apartment, there was evidence as well that not only were the Biddersingh children victims, as I believe they were, but Elaine was a victim in her own right,” Page said. The defence team also noted Biddersingh’s role in helping the authorities identify Melonie’s remains years later.
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HALIFAX — A senior member of the Norwegian foreign affairs parliamentary committee says Ottawa’s refusal to admit a 94-year-old to a veteran’s hospital in Halifax is disrespectful to the sailors who fought for the allies in the Second World War. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, the defence spokesman for the Progress Party, says he plans to bring the case of Petter Blindheim forward to government ministers in the coalition government formed by the ruling Conservatives and his political party. Tybring-Gjedde says the media and political attention devoted to the Blindheim case has been light so far in Norway, but he expects that may change if the decorated veteran of Norway’s navy and merchant marine doesn’t receive a spot at the hospital. “This is a case where you shouldn’t hide behind formalities. … It should be solved immediately. The man is 94 years old. He doesn’t have many years to live. This has to be resolved now,” said the veteran parliamentarian from Oslo. “You should treat him with respect.” Blindheim was initially rejected for placement at the Camp Hill Veterans Memorial hospital because the Department of Veterans Affairs said he’d signed up with the Norwegian navy after his homeland was occupied, and was classified as being in the “resistance service” rather than an Allied veteran. Ottawa recanted that position, but then rejected Blindheim — who has fallen several times and has a broken arm — because it said he could be cared for at a provincial facility where Ottawa will still pay his daily costs. “We evaluate all veterans who require benefits on a case-by-case basis,” wrote Sarah McMaster. “While we always work to deliver the support a veteran and their family needs, it is not always possible to do so in a specific facility of a veteran’s choosing.” She said Veterans Affairs supports the long term care of any veteran who needs it in one of 1500 facilities across Canada, adding “we … will always ensure they are receiving the level of care they need based on evaluation by health care professionals.” The department has also said there are legislated rules, including the requirement that allied veterans demonstrate they require specialized care not available in other facilities, which the minister cannot ignore. McMaster said the beds at the specialized hospital have given priority access of to Second World War and Korean War veterans of Canada’s Armed Forces and this began when they were transferred to provincial jurisdictions. “It became imperative to secure priority access to long term care for these veterans in the transferred hospitals,” she wrote.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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You’re fired! TRUMP FORCES OUT HIS CAMPAIGN MANAGER IN DRAMATIC SHAKE-UP BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Donald Trump abruptly fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Monday in a dramatic shake-up designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and end an internal power struggle plaguing the billionaire businessman’s unconventional White House bid. In dismissing his longtime campaign chief — just a month before the party’s national convention — Trump signalled, at least for a day, a departure from the seat-of-the-pants style that has fueled his unlikely rise in Republican politics. Perhaps more than anyone else in Trump’s inner circle, the ousted aide has preached a simple mantra: “Let Trump be Trump.” “I have no regrets,” Lewandowski told CNN just hours after he was escorted out of Trump’s Manhattan campaign headquarters. Still, the former conservative activist seemed to acknowledge the limitations of his approach, which has sparked widespread concern among the GOP’s top donors, operatives, elected officials, and even some of Trump’s family members. “The campaign needs to continue to grow to be successful,” he said. Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, described Lewandowski as a “good man” who helped “a small, beautiful, well-unified campaign” during the primary season. “I think it’s time now for a different kind of a campaign,” Trump said on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” People close to Trump, including adult children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., had long-simmering concerns about Lewandowski, who had limited experience on the national scale before becoming Trump’s campaign leader. Like many Republican officials, Trump’s family urged the billionaire businessman to professionalize a barebones campaign that had previously resisted adding staff and paid advertising heading into the general elec-
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Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski listens at left as Trump speaks in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump has forced out his hard-charging campaign manager, Lewandowski, in a dramatic shakeup designed to calm panicked Republican leaders and reverse one of the most tumultuous stretches of Trump’s unconventional White House bid. tion. A person close to Trump said Lewandowski was forced out largely because of the campaign’s worsening relationship with the Republican National Committee, donors and GOP officials, who have increasingly criticized the candidate’s message and campaign infrastructure in recent weeks. That person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations.
While Trump dismissed his critics publicly, he has been privately concerned that so many party leaders — House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell among them — have been reluctant to support him, the person said. Trump at least partially blamed Lewandowski. Yet in his response Monday evening, Trump left little indication that he was prepared to abandon his divisive rhetoric. He repeatedly called Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Poca-
hontas” in the Fox interview. He also said “facts” suggest President Barack Obama sympathizes with Muslim terrorists. “Firing your campaign manager in June is never a good thing,” said veteran Republican operative Kevin Madden. “The campaign will have to show dramatic changes immediately on everything from fundraising and organizing to candidate performance and discipline in order to demonstrate there’s been a course correction. Otherwise it’s just cosmetics.”
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Six detained in Belgium in connection with foiled attack
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BRUSSELS — Six people were detained in connection with an attack last year on a Thalys express train to France that was foiled by three Americans, Belgian authorities said Monday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said six houses in the Brussels area were searched in the operation and an investigating judge was to decide later whether the people taken in for questioning should remain in custody. No arms or explosives were found and the prosecutor’s office said no further information would be made public about the people detained or the items seized in the police searches. In August 2015, a man on a Thalys train that had just crossed into France from Belgium tried to open fire with an assault rifle but was overpowered by three Americans, two of them off-duty members of the U.S. armed forces. French police termed it an Islamic extremist attack, but the alleged gunman, Ayoub El Khazzani, maintained he wanted to commit a robbery. French authorities have linked El Khazzani to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November and Brussels in March.
LONDON — Britain’s normally raucous House of Commons was given over to tears, roses and warm tributes Monday as legislators urged an end to angry and divisive politics in honour of their slain colleague Jo Cox, who Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was killed last week. Tributes lie placed in Parliament Square, London, for Jo Cox, the 41-year-old The British pound and global stock Member of Parliament fatally shot last week in northern England, after a service markets surged as shock at the death of the pro-Europe Cox seemed to sap of prayer and remembrance to commemorate her, Monday The mother of two momentum from campaigners fighting was shot to death Thursday afternoon in her constituency near Leeds. The man for the United Kingdom to leave the charged with her slaying made a brief appearance in court by video link from European Union. The market surge suggested grow- prison Monday. ing investor confidence that the uncerA red and a white rose were placed other than things that divide us.” tainty associated with a “leave” vote in Thursday’s referendum would be in Cox’s spot on the green Commons “An attack like this strikes not only avoided. Betting houses also shortened benches, and each lawmaker wore a at an individual but at our freedom,” the odds that Britain would remain in white rose, symbol of her home county said Speaker John Bercow. “That is of Yorkshire. the 28-nation bloc. why we assemble here, both to honour Several legislators choked back Jo and to redouble our dedication to Referendum campaigning has resumed with a more sombre tone after tears as they spoke, and many recalled democracy.” being suspended for three days fol- Cox’s words in her first Commons lowing the death Cox, who was shot speech: “We are far more united and and stabbed to death outside a library have far more in common with each in her northern England constituency last Thursday. Police have charged a suspect, Thomas Mair, Callie is an 8 year who gave his name during old, Domestic Short a weekend court appearance as “death to traitors, Hair ginger tabby. She Lacombe County wishes to hire a consulting firm to design freedom for Britain.” He came to the Red Deer & appeared in court for District SPCA in search and obtain approvals for a boat launch & inland marina on a brief hearing by video of her “fur ever home”! approximately twenty-one (21) acres of land, located on the link Monday from prison, and his lawyer did not She’s a sweet hearted east side of Gull Lake. The property, known as Anderson Park, is girl who gets along with seek bail. situated on Pt. NW 11-41-28-W4M, between the Wilson’s Beach Mair’s motivation is kids, dogs, and other and New Saratoga residential subdivisions. unknown, but the slaying cats. She could be the raised concerns about the As part of the development of these lands, the County is often vitriolic tone of the best companion if given chance! Please referendum campaign, the currently developing a formal recreation area that will benefit which has exposed bitter come meet her. You’ll fall local residents and the general public, as Gull Lake is a valuable divisions about immigrain love at first sight! natural resource for everyone. tion and national identity If you are interested in adopting Callie, please call in Britain. Please visit the County website to view the Request for Red Deer & District SPCA at Lawmakers called back from recess for a special Proposals: 403-342-7722 Ext. 201 www.reddeerspca.com session in Cox’s memory 2016 City of Red Deer Dog Licenses are available at SPCA! www.lacombecounty.com urged what Labour leader Support Red Deer & District SPCA at no additional cost: As a portion of all licenses Jeremy Corbyn called “a sold at our facility will support animals in care, please visit the team at the For more information, please contact: kinder, gentler politics” Red Deer SPCA Reception and they will be happy to process them at the time. in the wake of her death. Gasoline Alley South EastSide Red Deer Cajun Paradis, Planner/Development Officer “We all have a respon403-348-8882 Telephone: (403) 782-8389 sibility, in this House and Gaetz Ave. North Red Deer beyond, not to whip up Email: cparadis@lacombecounty.com 403-350-3000 hatred and sow division,” Alley South WestSide Red Deer VOLKSWAGEN Gasoline Corbyn said. 403-342-2923 Cox’s friends and colHwy 12 East in Lacombe leagues spoke of her 403-782-2277 Closing Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 warmth, energy and principles, as her husband Closing Time: 16:00 Hours MDT Brendan and children aged 5 and 3 watched from Visit www.garymoe.com the public gallery. “PROUD SPONSOR OF THE SPCA”
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Politicians stand firm on gun issue BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A divided Senate blocked rival election-year plans to curb guns Monday, eight days after the horror of Orlando’s mass shooting intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but knotted them in gridlock anyway — even over restricting firearms for terrorists. In largely party-line votes, senators rejected one proposal from each side to keep extremists from acquiring guns and a second shoring up the government’s system of required background checks for many firearms purchases. With the chamber’s visitors’ galleries unusually crowded for a Monday evening — including relatives of victims of past mass shootings and people wearing orange T-shirts saying .ENOUGH gun violence — each measure fell short of the 60 votes needed to progress. Democrats called the GOP proposals unacceptably weak while Republicans said the Democratic plans were too restrictive. The stalemate underscored the pressure on each party to stand firm on the emotional gun issue going into November’s presidential and congressional elections. It also highlighted the potency of the National Rifle Association, which urged its huge and fiercely loyal membership to lobby senators to oppose the Democratic bills. “Republicans say, ‘Hey look, we tried,”’ said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “And all the time, their cheerleaders, the bosses at the NRA, are cheering them.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Orlando shootings — in which the FBI says the American-born gunman swore allegiance to a Islamic State group leader — show the best way to prevent extremists’ attacks here is to defeat them overseas. “No one wants terrorists to be able to buy guns,” McConnell said. He suggested that Democrats used the day’s votes “to push a partisan agenda or craft the next 30-second campaign ad.” That Monday’s four rollcall votes occurred at all was testament to the political currents buffeting lawmakers after gunman Omar Mateen’s June 12 attack on a gay nightclub. The 49 victims who died made it the largest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, topping a string of such incidents that have punctuated recent years. The FBI said Mateen — a focus of two terror investigations that were dropped — described himself as an Islamic soldier in a 911 call during the shootings. That let gun control advocates add national security and the spectre of terrorism to their arguments for firearms curbs. After the votes, presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued a one-word statement, “Enough,” followed by the names and ages of Orlando’s victims.
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CYBERATTACK: In-depth scans on all servers The IT Services team had to perform in-depth scans of all RDC servers and data files throughout the weekend to ensure the threat had not spread. All staff who took devices home on the weekend had to have those devices scanned on Monday before turning them on. The downfalls of the college’s system being down include students not having access for their studies, a productivity loss particularly if it happens Monday to Friday, and the time and effort involved by the staff doing the recovery, Brinkhurst said. A report by the provincial Auditor General in February stated that Red Deer College needed to improve its general computer environment, something that had been recommended three years earlier. The report again recommended that RDC finalize its risk assessment process and implement a comprehensive IT control and governance framework for its key processes; manage changes to computer programs; and test and assess its disaster recovery plan. They have since fully met all those concerns, Brinkhurst said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Clinton’s VP search moves into more intense phase WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s search for a running mate is moving into a more intense phase, according to several Democrats, as aides contact a pared-down pool of candidates to ask for reams of personal information and set up interviews with the presumptive Democratic nominee’s vetting team. Those on the shortlist include Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Newsham has never had to rescue anyone in a tree, but said it can happen if someone, usually another climber, is injured, has trouble because of medical condition or just gets stuck. “Most first responders don’t have the education and experience to get a person out of a tree. We are the trained professionals in how to get the person out of there.” Tree-climbing arborists are usually sent into the tree tops when a bucket truck can’t get close enough to access a tree to check for disease or damage, for pruning or removal. But Newsham said some urban arborist companies in Calgary don’t have bucket trucks and always use climbers to get the job done. Her father Laurie Newsham, who was lead aerial rescue judge at the competition, said tree climbing is a dangerous job and that’s why competitions, which help train climbers, are so important. He said only severe weather will keep climbers on the ground. The championship is also a way to increase public awareness about arboriculture and get people thinking about how to protect trees, he said. His daughter said even young trees need help. “We kind of plant them and neglect them. But if we deal with issues and pruning at a young age than we don’t have to do it when they’re older and mature. Wounds heal less quickly on mature trees.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
a favourite of progressives who has emerged as a blistering critic of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a well-liked lawmaker from an important general election battleground state and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro of Texas, a rising star in the Democratic Party. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s toughest primary rival, is not on the shortlist of vice-presidential candidates, according to one Democrat. A small group of Clinton campaign confidants has been sifting through publicly available information about more than two dozen possible contenders for more than a month. But with Democratic primary voting wrapping up last week, the list has been culled significantly and the campaign has begun contacting those under consideration.
Iran says it disrupts major Sunni ‘terrorist’ plot TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Monday it broke up one of the “biggest terrorist plots” ever on its soil by Sunni extremists planning bombings in Tehran and elsewhere, emphasizing that the Shiite power could be facing threats at home for its military actions in Iraq and Syria. Iran faces several low-level insurgencies, but a major militant attack hasn’t struck Tehran since the years immediately following its 1979 Islamic Revolution. That fact, coupled with authorities’ suggestions the Sunni militants of the Islamic State group may be behind the plot, significantly raises the danger that Iran could face the same sectarian violence drowning Iraq and Syria, where its actions have earned the hatred of Sunni hard-liners. “I don’t think anyone should be surprised if anything like this were to happen in Iran,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Iran has made itself a number of enemies. But so far, what has been surprising in Iran is that they’ve managed to contain the threat.” An Intelligence Ministry statement read on state TV and carried by local news agencies offered few details of earlier this month, shortly before his trial was to begin. Before the judge rendered her decision, Bitterman expressed his remorse. “I know that I’m sorry. There’s no amount of words that I can say that can bring back anything that I’ve done.” Defence lawyer Kim Ross told the judge of Stettler-born Bitterman’s troubled upbringing. He and a younger brother, who were both physically abused, were taken from their parents by social services when the boys were young. Mark was adopted at age eight, but when his adopted father died a year later, he was taken to the U.S. by his mother. Mother and son moved frequently and social services was again involved. Bitterman was abusing drugs
Bahrain strips nationality from top Shiite cleric DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain’s government on Monday stripped the country’s leading Shiite cleric of his nationality in a move that brought thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to further ignite sectarian tensions across the region. The Bahrain News Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that Sheikh Isa Qassim had played a key role in creating an extremist sectarian atmosphere and had formed groups that “follow foreign religious ideologies and political entities,” an apparent reference to Shiite-majority Iran. The move was welcomed by Bahrain’s Sunni-led allies but condemned by Shiites, and could serve as another flashpoint for tensions stoked by the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Thousands line up to support recall of Venezuela president CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of Venezuelans across the country are once again standing in long lines, only this time it’s not to wait for food but to voice their anger with President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelans hoping to kick the socialist leader out of office turned out Monday for the beginning of a five-day process of validating signatures on a petition calling for a recall referendum. Opposition leaders have collected over 1 million signatures backing Maduro’s ouster, far more than the 200,000 required to move to the next step of the byzantine recall process. People waiting to have their fingerprints scanned and their signatures authenticated said say they were glad to do their part to throw out the unpopular president. However many were skeptical that the government will actually let the recall proceed. by the age of 10 or 11. Convicted of robbery as an 18-yearold, Bitterman was deported to Canada. For the next 12 years, he drifted around homeless and drug addicted while racking up 35 criminal convictions and supporting himself mostly through crime. In 2005, he was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated assault and sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison. As part of his latest sentence, the judge imposed a lifetime weapons prohibition and ordered Bitterman to provide a sample of his DNA to a national database. He was given credit for 53 months and 20 days in pre-trial custody, based on a formula of 1.5 days per day served.
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Ministers wrangle over CPP HOPE PERSISTS ONTARIO, QUEBEC CAN COME TO TERMS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The clock was ticking down Monday as the country’s finance ministers wrestled with how best to recalibrate the Canada Pension Plan for future generations — with Ontario pushing for a hasty agreement and Quebec pushing a go-slow approach. Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said a one-day deal was well within reach, but Quebec counterpart Carlos Leitao brought his own proposal, insisting that he would only support changes that are targeted, modest and gradual. So far, the proposals on the table are only twothirds of the way there, said Leitao, whose own proposal more selectively targets those Canadians less likely to save, to avoid putting an additional financial burden on low-income earners. Under the Quebec plan, increased pension premiums would only kick in for those who make more than about $27,000 per year, which is about half the yearly maximum pensionable earnings for 2017. The proposal argues that supplementing the in-
‘WE’VE HEARD FROM CANADIANS (ABOUT) THE IMPORTANCE OF RETIREMENT SECURITY. I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER WITH MY COLLEAGUES . . . TO IMPROVE THE LONG-TERM FUTURE FOR CANADIANS.’ — BILL MORNEAU, FINANCE MINISTER
come of Canada’s lowest earners is better achieved through other government policies, such as old age security and the guaranteed income supplement. With Ontario well on its way towards developing its own pension program, the pressure was on to reach a national agreement — something Sousa said would be his preference. “We want consensus,” Sousa said, insisting a deal “today” was well within reach. “We want everybody to participate. We want everybody involved.” Revamping the Canada Pension Plan is critical to ensuring that future generations of Canadians can retire in dignity, no matter the state of their finances, said federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.
“We’ve heard from Canadians (about) the importance of retirement security,” Morneau said before the meeting. “I’m looking forward to working together with my colleagues across the country to improve the longterm future for Canadians.” Reforming the pension system needs the support of at least seven provinces representing two thirds of the country’s population, which gives Ontario an unofficial veto over any decision. The legislation, as currently written, also states that any reforms can only be implemented three years after a federal-provincial agreement is reached. Coming into the meeting, Saskatchewan and B.C. have suggested economic conditions aren’t right for a change that’s likely to lead to an increase in the premiums that come off workers’ paycheques. That premium hike is why some critics of the expansion call it a payroll tax, a common refrain from the Opposition Conservatives who oppose an acrossthe-board expansion of the program. Federal research has suggested that workers who are the least likely to save for retirement tend to be under the age of 30, earn between $55,000 and $75,000 (although some estimates are higher), and either don’t save enough or lack access to a workplace pension plan.
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Vancouver joins No side BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver is the latest to launch a court challenge aiming to quash the National Energy Board’s recommendation that the federal government approve the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The Squamish Nation, the Living Oceans Society and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation filed their own applications for judicial review in the Federal Court of Appeal last week. The city said in its court application that the energy board’s recommendation to approve the expansion of the oil pipeline, subject to 157 conditions, is invalid and unlawful. It said that despite the city’s concerns throughout the two-year process, the board excluded oral cross-examination, provided inadequate information sharing and failed to properly consult communities along the pipeline and tanker route. Mayor Gregor Robertson said the board ignored key pieces of scientific evidence showing the potential for “real and catastrophic” damage to local waters in the event of an oil spill, and the impact of an expanded pipeline on greenhouse gas emissions both locally and abroad. “An expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline is not in Vancouver or Canada’s economic or environmental interest,” he said in a statement. The city has also asked the court to prevent the federal government from making a decision on the project until after the energy board conducts a lawful review. The National Energy Board said it could not comment specifically on the city’s application. The board heard from 73 indigenous participants and 400 interveners before issuing its report and conditional recommendation last month. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet is set to make a decision on the project in December. Trans Mountain, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada, wants to triple the capacity of its existing pipeline, which runs from oilsands near Edmonton to Metro Vancouver. The expansion would add nearly 1,000 kilometres of new pipe and increase tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet seven-fold. Ali Hounsell, a spokeswoman for Trans Mountain, said it is currently reviewing the court applications and will be responding more fully through the court process. Trudeau promised a “new, open process” for all pipelines on the campaign trail. On Monday, his government announced an across-the-board review of environmental assessments and the National Energy Board. A separate ministerial panel has already been announced to conduct further indigenous consultation on Trans Mountain. Environment and Climate Change Canada also conducted an assessment of the project’s upstream greenhouse gas emissions.
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A turbine for the Cape Sharp Tidal project is seen at the Pictou Shipyard in Pictou, N.S. Nova Scotia’s environment minister has cleared the way for the installation of two giant turbines in the Bay of Fundy for tidal power research.
Environment minister approves use of giant turbines in Bay of Fundy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s environment minister has cleared the way for the installation of two giant turbines in the Bay of Fundy for tidal power research, weeks after halting the project to gather more information about its environmental impact. Margaret Miller announced her approval Monday of the monitoring plan drawn up by the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) and Cape Sharp Tidal Venture. After consulting with concerned fishermen and her counterparts at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Miller said she is satisfied enough with the plan to test the waters of tidal power technology. “This is a demonstration project,” she told reporters on Monday. “There is no place like the Bay of Fundy, so putting these turbines in the water at this point we will be collecting data from now on.” Cape Sharp’s five-storey-high turbines, destined for the Minas Passage, are expected to generate enough electricity to power 1,000 homes. The company, a partnership of OpenHydro and Emera, is one of several who plan to test different turbine technology in the Bay of Fundy. The plan to install the mammoth turbines in the passage has faced strong opposition from the Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association, which contends that instream tidal turbines can’t be made safe for the ecosystem. Miller said her department has been consulting
with the fishermen as part of an ongoing data-gathering process since 2009 and their concerns have been “heard.” No one from the association could be reached for comment. Miller said the project’s environmental effects program will improve the understanding of the interaction between the turbines and marine life. An environmental assessment officer for the department said similar projects in Europe have proven to be “low risk,” but granted that Fundy’s unparalleled tides could present unique challenges. “Until devices are in the water and we have the opportunity to learn what these effects are … that’s largely unknown at this point in time,” Steve Sandford said. Despite the gaps in knowledge, Sandford does not anticipate the 1,000-tonne turbines will have a “food processor effect” on marine wildlife, assuring that the blades spin below sushi-making speeds. If it is determined there is a negative effect on the ecosystem, he said the response could be anything from improving mitigation plans to removal of the devices, depending on the extent of the problem. Sandford said the information collected from the turbine trial run will inform decisions about possible commercial expansions. In a statement, the province said FORCE must develop programs aimed at enhancing marine mammal monitoring and provide more details on contingency planning in the event of equipment failure before it gives the go ahead for more turbines to be deployed.
Banks could withstand effects of housing crisis: Moody’s BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ratings agency Moody’s says that despite soaring home prices and household debt levels, Canadian banks could weather the effects of a severe housing downturn. In its latest report, published Monday, Moody’s says it conducted stress tests to determine the impact on major Canadian banks in the event of a 25 per cent drop in home prices countrywide. The analysis also included an additional 10 per cent decline in Ontario and British Columbia, where prices have skyrocketed in recent years. The ratings agency says that under such a scenario total direct losses to the banking system would
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reach almost $18 billion. However, Moody’s says the banks would be able to generate internal capital to cover those losses within several quarters. A number of organizations, including the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, have raised concerns recently about red-hot real estate markets in the Toronto and Vancouver areas. In a report issued earlier this month, the OECD urged Ottawa to introduce legislation to cool those two markets, warning that a correction could threaten the country’s financial stability. The Bank of Canada has also recently commented on the topic, noting that the rapid price escalation in the Toronto and Vancouver real estate markets is likely unsustainable. Moody’s says rising household debt levels and
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rates if data shows the economy is strong enough to support such a move. Rumours about the likelihood of a “stay” vote, along with a weakened U.S. dollar also helped commodities as the August crude contract climbed $1.40 to US$49.96 a barrel. “The rise in oil is on the premise that if indeed the Brexit vote doesn’t end with the U.K. leaving, that can provide a little more global economic stability… that suggests that there is more support for oil prices,” said Fehr. In other commodities, July natural gas jumped 12 cents to US$2.75 per mmBTU while July copper rose four cents to US$2.09 a pound. Gold bullion, which is usually attractive to investors during downturns in equity markets, was lower, with the August gold contract falling $2.70 to US$1,292.10 a troy ounce. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,015.14, up 113.37 points Dow — 17,804.87, up 129.71 points S&P 500 — 2,083.25, up 12.03 points Nasdaq — 4,837.21, up 36.87 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.07 cents US, up 0.42 of a cent Pound — C$1.8811, up 3.16 cents Euro — C$1.4482, down 0.43 of a cent Euro — US$1.1306, up 0.27 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.96 per barrel, up
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$1.40 (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,292.10 per oz., down $2.70 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.336 oz., down sixtenths of a cent $750.25 kg., down 20 cents ICE FUTURES CLOSE WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $11.60 lower $498.90 Nov. ‘16 $10.70 lower $507.40 Jan. ‘17 $10.40 lower $512.70 March ‘17 $9.70 lower $515.00 May ‘17 $9.70 lower $516.80 July ‘17 $9.70 lower $518.30 Nov. ‘17 $6.70 lower 506.40 Jan. ‘18 $5.60 lower $505.80 March ‘18 $5.60 lower $505.80 May ‘18 $5.60 lower $505.80 July ‘18 $5.60 lower $505.80. Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $171.50 March ‘17 unchanged $173.50 May ‘17 unchanged $174.50 July ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.50 March ‘18 unchanged $174.50 May ‘18 unchanged $174.50 July ‘18 unchanged $174.50. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 663,560 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 663,560.
BRIEFS Price drop for live lobsters may come early this year PORTLAND, Maine — Live lobster prices are high in New England and beyond as fishermen eagerly await the summer arrival of the region’s beloved crustaceans, which could come slightly early and send prices down. Lobstermen in Maine and Massachusetts, who supply the U.S. with most of its domestic lobsters, are coming off several years of high catches for lobsters, a signature food item for the region. Prices for lobsters also have been somewhat high for most of the last two years, with the consumer price currently in the range of $8 to $12 per pound at most retail outlets in Maine, the country’s biggest lobster producer. That’s a couple dollars more than a year ago. Prices vary around the country, but the arrival of New England’s lobsters will likely lower prices nationwide. Prices tend to fall every year in the summer when many lobsters reach legal trapping size and catches increase. Scientists have warned the bigger catches can come early this year — a circumstance that can disrupt the lobster supply chain and depress prices.
Carmakers, Canadian governments tackling electric car range anxiety MONTREAL — Automakers are hoping to overcome the biggest roadblock to electric vehicles sales — range anxiety among consumers — with a little help from government. A spokesman for Ford Canada said Monday that government efforts to extend the network of recharging stations along highways and elsewhere is a big psychological boost in helping consumers overcome range anxiety, even though the typical Canadian urban commute is far shorter than the travelling range of many of today’s plug-in vehicles. “(With) both the federal government and provincial governments working together to develop the infrastructure you’ll see range anxiety eventually disappear,” Marc Vejgman, Ford’s product marketing manager, said in an interview at a global electric vehicle conference in Montreal. Meanwhile, new products from the automakers themselves are starting to bring more consumers around. Nissan says sales of its popular Leaf plug-in surged 50 per cent when it introduced a more powerful battery last November that boosted the car’s range by 27 per cent to 172 kilometres. Ford is planning to introduce a new battery this fall that will increase the
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TORONTO — A British Columbia company, Viking Air Ltd., has signed a deal to buy Bombardier’s amphibious aircraft program, which has been on hold since December. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal will see Viking acquire the manufacturing rights for all variants of Bombardier’s amphibious aircraft and assume responsibility for product support, parts and service. Among the planes is the Bombardier 415 — used as a water bomber for fighting forest fires. Victoria-based Viking manufactures the Twin Otter as well as spare parts for several planes originally made by de Havilland. It also has manufacturing rights for all out-of-production de Havilland aircraft, including the DASH-7 regional airliner, a predecessor to Bombardier’s Q400 turboprop. Viking employs just under 90 people in Calgary and more than 330 at its headquarters and facilities in Victoria. The company said it expects to add up to 40 people to its workforce in Victoria and Calgary with the new program. Bombardier said Monday it plans to transfer 50 employees from the amphibious aircraft program based in North Bay, Ont., to other parts of its business. The Montreal-based company hasn’t produced an amphibious plane since December 2015.
Caisse buys more Stingray Digital equity, Telesystem reduces its stake MONTREAL — A significant equity stake in Stingray Digital Group is changing hands. Telesystem Ltd. says it’s selling about 4.3 million subordinate voting shares (TSX:RAY.A) at $7.15 per share, for gross proceeds totalling $30.8 million. The stock closed Friday at $7.25. Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec announced separately that it’s purchasing two million of the shares for $14.3 million. Telesystems says it will continue to hold its 5.5 million multiple-voting shares (TSX:RAY.B) and 500,000 remaining A shares, representing 28.1 per cent of the voting rights for the company. It said the private placement through National Bank Financial and GMP Securities is being done for estate planning purposes. The announcements come a little more than a year since Stingray completed its initial public offering in June 2015.
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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — A new poll indicating that Britons will likely vote to stay in the European Union helped rally North American stock markets Monday, while the loonie rebounded sharply against the U.S. dollar for a second consecutive session. The Canadian dollar climbed 0.42 of a U.S. cent to 78.07 cents US after having risen half a cent on Friday. In Toronto, the country’s main stock exchange, the S&P/TSX composite, shot up 113.37 points to 14,015.14, with energy and mining stocks leading the way. The optimism carried over into New York where the Dow Jones industrial average soared 129.71 points to 17,804.87, while the broader S&P 500 composite index advanced 12.03 points to 2,083.25. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite ran up 36.87 points to 4,837.21. The latest opinion polls suggests that Britain is more likely to vote to remain in the EU than leave in Thursday’s referendum. Uncertainty over the economic consequences of a vote to leave the EU, commonly referred to as Brexit, had cast a cloud over global markets in the last two weeks. “This is more of a catch up to what we lost last week when the pessimism around the outcome really set in,” said Craig Fehr, a Canadian market strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. “I think the bigger conclusion here is that we are seeing global equity markets, trillions of dollars, tied to these small but certainly important swings in the polls. At the end of the day, it’s going to be the vote that matters.” Fehr said the markets are so focused on the pending Brexit vote that any new data can fuel volatility. “We will see the outcome of the Brexit vote and then the market will turn its sights to the next issue — back to speculating on what the Fed will do (about interest rates),” he said. Investors will also be watching to see what U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen will say before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. Most expect Yellen to echo Fed comments that the U.S. central bank will only raise interest
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range of its all-electric Focus by 31 per cent to 160 km. Nissan said it believes new technology can double the Leaf’s range in three years and add hundreds of kilometres over time.
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Eskimos repeat not going to be easy BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos won it all in 2015, but the odds of repeating that feat appear daunting in 2016. Edmonton’s Grey Cup winning coaching staff bolted, as did core members of its dominating defence. Only two other teams have backto-back Grey Cup wins in a generation, and this year every opponent will bring its A-game to make a statement or settle a score. In other words, says Eskimo quarterback Mike Reilly, situation normal. “Since the time that I’ve been here (in Edmonton) I feel like we’ve always kind of been the team in the league where they’re like ‘Well they got some talent but …”’ said Reilly. “I love that people are going to be gunning for us every single week.” The Eskimos begin and end with Reilly, the unquestioned leader who is now in his fourth year as the starting quarterback. The 31 year old from Kennewick, Wash., came back from a shredded left knee last season to lead the Eskimos to 10 straight wins, capped by the Grey Cup victory over the Ottawa Redblacks. Reilly is known for making plays with his arm, and extending plays with his feet. But under new head coach Jason Maas, things will change a bit. Maas is stressing an up-tempo offence and while Reilly will still run when necessary, he won’t be running very often as part of the playbook. Part of that is to keep Reilly healthy. He’s had serious injuries in each of the last three seasons: concussion, broken foot, and the knee. Reilly’s got some weapons to throw to, starting with receivers Adarius Bowman and Derel Walker. Bowman was second in receiving in the CFL last year, recording 93 catches for 1304 yards and seven TDs. Walker came off the practice roster after six games and lit the league on fire, making 89 catches and leading all receivers with a 92.5 yards per game average. He had six touchdowns and was named rookie of the year. Nate Coehoorn and Chris Getzlaf will also line up at the receiver spots. At running back, John White returns from a year off due to an Achilles injury and hopes to repeat his impressive numbers from 2014, when he carried the ball 123 times for 852 yards, averaging almost seven yards a carry. Calvin McCarty is back at fullback. The offensive line is solid with returning veterans Matt O’Donnell, D’Anthony Batiste, Simeon Rottier, Tony Washington and Justin Sorensen. Edmonton’s defence was downright dominating in 2015, allowing less than 19 points a game on average. That will be difficult to duplicate in 2016 as key members of the defence have left to try their fortunes in the NFL: defensive back Aaron Grymes (Philadelphia), linebacker Dexter McCoil (San Diego), and defensive end Willie Jefferson (Washington). Linebacker and nickelback Otha Foster has gone to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The front four is solid, featuring veterans Odell Willis, Eddie Steele, Marcus Howard and Almondo Sewell. Veteran JC Sherritt returns at middle linebacker flanked now by the versatile Deon Lacey and newcomer Kenny Ladler. The secondary is, well, yikes. The loss of Grymes was compounded in training camp when John Ojo, the team’s leader in interceptions last year with five, went down for the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon. Veterans Pat Watkins and Marcell Young missed time in training camp
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Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, right, and Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly embrace following the CFL West Division final in Edmonton. It is two different storylines heading into the CFL season for the Alberta teams as the Eskimos have no easy task repeating as CFL champions, while Calgary ushers in a new era with new head coach Dave Dickenson.
Dickenson era underway in Calgary BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders seem dramatically different heading into 2016 because of the team’s conservative pace of change for the better part of the last decade. Continuity still runs through the winningest team in the CFL for the past eight seasons. Coaching dynamics may have altered this year, but prominent personnel haven’t. Longtime coaches Dave Dickenson and DeVone Claybrooks have shifted into positions with more responsibility. General manager John Hufnagel handed his head-coaching reins to Dickenson, who will call Calgary’s offence for a sixth season. Claybrooks makes his debut as a CFL defensive co-ordinator after four years coaching the Stampeder defensive line. Corey Mace stepping out of the player ranks to replace Claybrooks and the addition of Ryan Dinwiddie to oversee the quarterbacks are the only coaching adjustments this season. Hufnagel may no longer be on the sidelines, but remains a presence as GM. “Our general is still Huff. Now we’ve got a different colonel,” Claybrooks says. “The message hasn’t changed and the people delivering it with injuries. The backfield shapes up with Watkins, Young, second-year man Deion Belue and free agent signings Neil King and Cord Parks. On special teams, Sean Whyte came in last year for an injured Grant Shaw and earned a new contract. Whyte hit 24 of 26 field goals and was perfect on converts. Shaw will handle punting and likely kickoffs.
hasn’t changed. “There’s no question it’s Dave’s team and not Huff’s, but our bottom-line message is still the same. We win football games the Stampeder way.” Dickenson’s relationship and communication with starting quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell is well established. Calgary is blessed with depth at that make-or-break position. Mitchell is considered one of the league’s elite QBs and Drew Tate is one of the most experienced backups in the CFL. But the Stampeder dressing room is in transition. Departed defensive backs Juwan Simpson, Keon Raymond and Karl McCartney, running back Jon Cornish and long snapper Randy Chevrier were long-serving veterans who set the tone for a team that made the playoffs every year and won two Grey Cups under Hufnagel. Who will form Calgary’s new leadership group is a question still to be answered, but Mitchell, linebacker Deron Mayo and safety Josh Bell are candidates. “I think it’s a little bit of a feelout period on that,” Dickenson said. “We’re not as ‘rah-rah’ of a team right now. “We’re in a bit of a youth movement, this team. We feel like we need to get younger and we have to build something, that’s the truth.” Fullback Rob Cote of Cochrane,
Alta., is now the longest-serving Stampeder in his 10th season. “We’re going to have to make our own identity,” Cote said. “That’s the evolution of things. You grow and grow and get to a certain point and you’re either going to slowly drop off or you’re going to have to mix it up or change something in order to keep growing. “I think that’s what we’re trying to do. New leaders will emerge and people will step up and fill those roles.” Calgary opens on the road Saturday against the B.C. Lions followed by their home-opener July 1 against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Stampeders and eventual Grey Cup champion Edmonton Eskimos posted the league’s best records in 2015 at 14-4. Calgary fell 45-31 to their Alberta rival in the West final. The experience and chemistry of Dickenson and Mitchell have Calgary dealing from a position of strength on offence. In order to be the league’s highest-scoring team again, however, the Stampeders need to replace the combined 2,067 receiving yards that left with NFL-bound receivers Eric Rogers and Jeff Fuller. Calgary is also depending on veteran running back Jerome Messam to stay healthy and maintain the ground game established by the now-retired Cornish.
The coaching staff is led by Maas, a former Eskimo quarterback and the offensive co-ordinator of the Redblacks last year. He took over after former coach Chris Jones and almost his entire coaching staffing took their Grey Cup rings and moved to Regina. Former BC head coach Mike Benevides is the defensive co-ordinator. Maas said the team is up for the challenge to show they are not one-cup
wonders. “There aren’t too many teams that repeat for whatever reason,” said Maas. “When we first stepped in as a coaching staff we talked about that … and we talked to the players that were here, the veteran guys. “And we don’t get the sense at all that the guys are not ready to roll and don’t want to win another one.”
Wales sends Russia home, finishes ahead of England in group BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Wales qualified for the knockout stages of the European Championship as a group winner after it overwhelmed Russia 3-0 on Monday and England could only grind out a 0-0 draw with Slovakia. In its first international tournament since the 1958 World Cup, Wales ended Group B with six points, one ahead of England, which also qualifies for the round of 16. With four points on the board, Slovakia still has a chance to make it to the knockout stages as one of the best third-place teams. Wales was dominant against a disappointing Russia side, producing an impressive counterattacking display that rested on more than just its talisman, Gareth Bale, the tournament’s top scorer after three goals in three matches. “As a nation geographically we are small, but if you judge us by passion you could say we were a continent tonight,” Wales coach Chris Coleman said. “These players keep delivering moments that I think they’re not going to top, and they’ve done it again tonight in all fairness.” Next up for Wales, once the other group matches have been completed, will be a team that finished its group
EURO 2016 in third-place. While Coleman will prepare for the last 16, Russia coach Leonid Slutsky gave a strong hint that he won’t be at the helm for much longer as the country readies to host the 2018 World Cup. “I think after a type of tournament like this, you need someone else to take charge of the national side for major competitions,” he said via a translator. For England, there was frustration about its failure to top the group especially after it had come from behind to beat Wales 2-1 in its previous game. Coach Roy Hodgson took a gamble in team selection by dropping six players from the victory over Wales, including captain Wayne Rooney. The gamble failed to pay off, even though his team kept the pressure up throughout the game and managed 30 shots. Slovakia, knowing a point could be enough to advance, rarely played in England’s final third. “Finishing second is a disappointment,” Hodgson conceded. “But we are still in the last 16 and who is to say the team we will play will be that much stronger? You just don’t know. The way we are playing, I am not fright-
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Wales’ Gareth Bale, left, scores his side’s third goal past Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between Russia and Wales at the Stadium municipal in Toulouse, France, Monday. ened of anybody.” The final round of group matches continues with four matches on Tuesday. In Group C, Ukraine, which has already been knocked out of Euro 2016, takes on Poland in Marseille, while Northern Ireland meets world cham-
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pion Germany at the Parc des Princes in Paris. In Group D, the Czech Republic meets Turkey in Lens while Croatia takes on two-time defending champion and already-qualified Spain in Bordeaux.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Leafs land Andersen in deal with Ducks AGREE TO TERMS ON 5-YEAR DEAL WITH HOPES TO FULFILL NO. 1 ROLE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs took a big swing at solving the future of their crease early Monday night. The Leafs dealt for Danish goaltender Frederik Andersen, landing the 26-year-old from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for the 30th overall selection in the upcoming NHL draft as well as a second round selection in 2017. Toronto has agreed to terms on a new contract with Andersen, due to be a restricted free agent on July 1, inking him to a five-year deal. “I think that he has to know that he’s our No. 1 goaltender and that the support is there, the confidence is there and the commitment’s there,” Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello said on a conference call. Splitting the Ducks goaltending duties with John Gibson this past season, Andersen went 22-9-7 during the regular season with a respectable .919 save percentage in 43 games. He also boasted a sterling .947 save percentage in five playoff starts this spring. Lamoriello said he loved the size and competitiveness of Andersen, who is six foot four and 225 pounds, also describing his athleticism as “exceptional.” He said the calibre of the goaltender made the cost worthwhile for the Leafs.
“The price was secondary,” said Lamoriello. Toronto used one piece of the return for Phil Kessel in the deal, swinging the 30th overall pick, once belonging to the Penguins, over to the Ducks in exchange for Andersen. The Leafs had a pile of draft picks to play with after dealing out numerous roster players over the past two seasons. The club still has 11 selections for this weekend’s draft, including the No. 1 overall pick. The Leafs are betting on Andersen to solve a long-term need at the goaltending position, one that was woefully thin internally. Jonathan Bernier was seen as the hopeful piece of that future as recently as last summer, when Toronto resigned him to a two-year deal, but he struggled mightily at times under head coach Mike Babcock last season and stands now as the backup option to Andersen. James Reimer, long a core component of the Toronto crease, was dealt to San Jose at the trade deadline, while 22-year-old Garret Sparks mostly stumbled through his first NHL test, posting an .893 save percentage in 17 starts. Whether Andersen can become the source of stability the Leafs desire is the long-term question. His first three NHL seasons suggest the upside is there. Just this past season Andersen owned a .928 evenstrength save percentage that was equal to Vezina trophy candidate Braden Holtby and the Kings Jonathan Quick. He still must show that he has the mental resolve and durability to thrive
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Anaheim Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen blocks a Boston Bruins shot during an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif. The Ducks have traded Andersen to the Toronto Maple Leafs for two draft picks. The teams announced the deal Monday. as a No. 1. A third round pick of the Ducks in 2012, Andersen has started more than 50 games just once in his first three NHL seasons. He battled with Gibson for ice time this past season, starting 37 games to 38 for his competitor, while also missing time at various points with injury. The two combined to win the Jennings Trophy for the NHL’s lowest goals-against average. The 22-year-old Gibson is seen as the Ducks long-term solution at the
position, allowing the Stanley Cup contender, which also recently rehired Randy Carlyle as head coach, to move Andersen, who was unable to come to terms with the club on a new deal. “We were too far apart, I think,” Andersen said. “At the end of the day it didn’t work out. Now I’m just happy about being in a spot, a big hockey market. It’s going to be a lot of fun developing with this young team that’s very hungry for success and it’s going to be a very good experience.”
Rangers trade rights to Sabres trade with Nashville to acquire rights to Vesey defenceman Yandle to Panthers BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Getting forward Jimmy Vesey under contract is now Tim Murray’s challenge after the Buffalo Sabres general manager acquired the rights to college hockey’s top player Monday in a trade with the Nashville Predators. The Sabres gave up their second of four third-round picks to essentially gain exclusive negotiating rights with Vesey before he’s eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on Aug. 15. The 23-year-old Vesey won the Hobey Baker Award in completing his senior year at Harvard last season. In March, Vesey informed the Predators he was opting to become a free agent rather than sign with Nashville, which selected him in the third round of the 2012 draft. “It’s a gamble,” Murray told The Associated Press by phone. “I don’t consider it to be a bold move because we’ve got four thirdround picks.” Murray said he has left phone messages, but has had no contact yet with Vesey or his representatives, which leaves him unsure of the chances of the Sabres signing the player. “He went this long so it’s like any-
body else that you’re trading for his rights,” Murray said. “We’ll have conversations with him and try to convince him to sign.” A message left with Vesey’s representatives was not returned. Trade talks took place over the weekend, with Predators GM David Poile telling the AP that most every NHL team contacted him about Vesey. “It was just time to move on,” Poile said, noting he wanted to have a trade completed before the draft opens in Buffalo on Friday. “We knew we weren’t going to be able to sign him and we wanted to get the best out of the deal.” Poile was particularly disappointed in March, when Vesey informed the Predators about his decision to pursue free agency. Poile called the decision a “shocker” and said it was “bizarre” how the team could not meet with Vesey, his family or the player’s representatives. The Sabres had the benefit of having a stockpile of 12 picks entering the draft. The Predators acquired the 76th selection, which Buffalo obtained from Minnesota. “I think any team would’ve done that deal,” Murray said. “We like Jimmy a lot and think he’s top six forward.”
Tarzwell, Herauf chosen for national U17 camp BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer Optimist Midget Chief and a Red Deer Rebels prospect are two of 111 players selected to Canada’s national under-17 development camp this summer. The Chiefs’ Josh Tarzwell, of Red Deer and Rebels’ Jacob Herauf were announced among those who will compete for a spot on one of Canada’s three national teams, Team Canada Red, Black and White. Those teams will compete in the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, scheduled for Oct. 30 to Nov. 5 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Herauf was the Rebels’ first round pick in the 2015 Western Hockey League Bantam draft, 16th overall. The 16-year-old defenceman plays with the Sherwood Park Kings in the Alberta AAA Midget Hockey League. He played in 32 games this past season, scoring one goal and eight assists. In
the playoffs he had one goal and three assists in six games. More recently, Herauf was invited to the Rebels’ prospect camp held in Penhold earlier in June. Tarwell, a forward and Lethbridge Hurricanes prospect, played in 32 games last seasons for the Chiefs. He scored nine goals and had nine assists. In the playoffs he had a goal and two assists in five games. He also dressed for two Hurricanes regular season games in the 2015-16 WHL season. Tarwell and Herauf will attend the camp in Calgary from July 26 to Aug. 1. Their selection was part of a large development camp announcement for Hocky Canada’s summer development and selection camps for the Under-17, Under-18 and National Junior Team rosters. No Red Deer Rebels were selected to the National Junior Team Summer Development Camp, which runs from July 30 to Aug. 2 in Toronto.
Buccaneers keep perfect record intact with rout of Vandals BY ADVOCATE STAFF Buccaneers 65, Vandals 3 Two undefeated teams clashed in Lloydmister on Saturday but it was the Central Alberta Buccaneers who held on to their perfect start to the Alberta Football League season. Scoring two plays into the game, the Bucs manhandled the Lloydminster Vandals 65-3, improving their record to 4-0. The win keeps them with the Calgary Gators (4-0) atop the AFL. “I thought we made a lot of big plays on the offensive side of the ball,” said Bucs quarterback Brandon Leyh. “We have a ton of playmakers; it seems like only a matter of time until one of them breaks loose.” The Bucs’ defence started slowly but managed to contain the Vandals
offence after the first quarter. A few drives deep into Bucs territory woke the defence up and they held the Vandals to a field goal. “Lloyd came out really hard. I think we were taken back by it to be honest,” said Leyh. “They hit hard throughout the game.” Heading into a lengthy break, the Bucs do not play against until July 9 against the Calgary Wolfpack. Leyh said they plan on using the time to fine tune parts of their game. “We need to clean up the little things,” he said. “Penalties are killing us; we have to be the more disciplined team going forward. We have the pieces, but we have a long way to go.” The Bucs next home game is on July 23 against the Airdrie Irish at M.E. Global Field in Lacombe.
SUNRISE, Fla. — Keith Yandle was a risk the Florida Panthers believe is very much worth taking. The Panthers sent a sixth-round pick in Friday’s NHL draft to the New York Rangers for the rights to the veteran defenceman, whose contract expires on July 1. Florida was working on a contract Monday night with Yandle, who made $5.25 million this past season and was 15th among defencemen with 47 points. Yandle has had three 50-point seasons in his career the Panthers, in their entire history, have had two defencemen reach that total in a season. “We wouldn’t have made the trade if we weren’t confident that we could come to a conclusion and get him into our system,” Panthers general manager Tom Rowe said Monday night. The Rangers said they would also receive a fourth-round pick in the 2017 draft if Yandle signs with the Panthers, who won the Atlantic Division title this past season and are expected to be a big player in free agency. “I think it’s a sign to the fan base that we’re real serious about winning the Stanley Cup,” Rowe said. “We want to build off the momentum that started with last year and continue growing.
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Eckville’s Maxwell earns spot on Team Alberta with win A Central Alberta junior golfer earned his way onto the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour’s Team Alberta and several more local golfers had strong weekends at the tour’s stop on Saturday and Sunday. Brandon Maxwell, 17, of Eckville shot a 77-73 for a two-day total 150 to win the junior boys division of the MJT Series/Golf Alberta OOM Series at Links at Spruce Grove. He was one stroke ahead of Austin Koskiye, 151, and two ahead of Darin Bertschi, 152. “I didn’t give up and didn’t let it get to my head,” said Maxwell. “Darin and I were close and he came back at the end with a couple of birdies. It feels pretty solid to win and it’s my first win,
And we want the players to also know that we’re real serious about winning and we want to be a consistent playoff team.” New York acquired Yandle in March 2015 from Arizona along with another defenceman, Chris Summers, and a fourth-round selection. They gave up top prospect Anthony Duclair and a conditional first-round draft pick. Yandle had 58 points (seven goals, 51 assists) in 103 games with the Rangers over parts of two seasons. Yandle spent nearly nine seasons with the Coyotes before the trade to New York. The Panthers were looking to add a defenceman after trading Erik Gudbranson to the Vancouver Canucks last month. Florida is also in talks with defenceman Brian Campbell, who has been with the team for the last five seasons and is likely to become a free agent. “I believe that’s the avenue he’s going to take,” Rowe said. “We had to go with the next phase of our plan and we felt Keith was a real good target to go after.” Rowe was asked if Yandle may be Campbell’s replacement. “Yeah, possibly,” Rowe said. “We’re just looking to ice the best possible team that we can.” which is a good confidence booster.” With the win, Maxwell qualifies as a part of Team Alberta for the International Team Challenge, which will be held in Niagara Falls, Ont., this September. In the juvenile boys division, Jace Ouellette, 16, of Red Deer County shot a 76-80 for a 156 which was good enough for second. Cam Duffin, 16, of Red Deer was tied for third place with two other golfers, one stroke back of Oulette at 157. Both junior and juvenile boys played the links course, which was 6,410 yards in length. Jordan Cooke, 14, of Sylvan Lake led the bantam boys division shooting 81-83 for a two-day score of 164. He was eight strokes ahead of his nearest competitor. The bantam boys had a shorter course, 6,078 yards in length. “My putting helped me out a lot in today’s win,” said Cook. “The MJT are my favourite tournaments. I really didn’t feel like I deserved it, but I will take the victory.”
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LeBron brings title home to Cleveland BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — LeBron James stepped off the plane and into a blizzard of red-and-gold confetti before hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy. It gleamed in the bright summer sun, a symbol of hope and history. As promised, James brought home a championship, the one on hold the past 52 years. “This is for you, Cleveland,” James shouted into a microphone. The superstar, born and raised in nearby Akron, powered the Cavaliers to a never-seen-before comeback in the NBA Finals, bringing them back from a 3-1 deficit to stun the Golden State Warriors. On Monday, more than 10,000 fans gathered at Hopkins International Airport welcomed James and his teammates, who made a pit stop in Las Vegas for late-night partying before completing this unlikeliest June journey. The Cavs not only defied the odds to make history, but they ended Cleveland’s pro sports title drought stretching to 1964, when the Browns won an NFL title. It’s been a surreal ride for Clevelanders and shortly after showing fans the trophy from afar, James, the fourtime league MVP, paraded it around the perimeter of the parking lot so fans behind the chain-linked fences could see they weren’t dreaming. “I kept waking up during the night and saying, ‘Did we really win’?” said Diana Beetler of Oberlin, Ohio. “I couldn’t believe it. I’ve never had a championship since I was born. We’ve been waiting years and years for this.” She watched Sunday night’s game at home with family. “I cried,” said Beetler’s 18-year-old daughter, Zoe. “Everybody cried.” It seems the entire city choked up after James capped his MVP series with a sensational Game 7, a triple-double performance that will long be remembered for his chase-down block of Warriors forward Andre Iguodala in the final minutes — a rejection that seemed to erase so many bad
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LeBron James, center, holds up the NBA championship trophy alongside teammates Kyrie Irving, left, Kevin Love, rear right, J.R. Smith, right, and Tristan Thompson, front, as they arrive at the airport Monday, in Cleveland. memories in Cleveland. James’ emotional reaction following the game seemed to strike a chord with everyone. He broke down crying several times, overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he had accomplished and what he knew it meant to Northeast Ohio. “It was unbelievable,” said Indians manager Terry Francona, who helped the Boston Red Sox end their 86-year World Series dryspell. “I almost enjoy that part of it as much. Watching the genuine emotion come out. So often, when guys are talking, it’s saying the right thing. I get
it. I’m supposed to do it, too. It’s just part of the job. But to see the genuine emotion come out was pretty cool.” Even Golden State’s Draymond Green, who nearly shot the Warriors to a win in Game 7, was happy for Cleveland. “That’s huge for that city,” he said. “They wanted it bad, and they got it. It will be huge.” Many of the fans who arrived at the vast I-X Center adjacent to the airport on Monday morning were going on little or no sleep following Sunday night’s riveting victory. The crowd was entertained by music and dancers be-
fore cheering replays of the final, frenetic minutes of Game 7 as if they were living them for the first time. Cleveland’s furry mascot, Moondog, body surfed on the massive crowd, which continued to grow up until the moment the Cavs’ 757 jet pulled in about 12:40 p.m., welcomed under two crisscrossing water cannons and deafening cheers. Cavs coach Tyronn Lue, who took over the team in late January, and several other players paused at the top gangway to film and absorb the wild scene below as fans let loose and sang Queen’s We Are The Champions.
Canadian coach says there’s no room for error in Olympics WOMEN’S SOCCER BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — John Herdman talked up his players’ tactical flexibility, pace and guile in naming his Olympic roster Monday. But the Canadian soccer coach was also blunt about the task that awaits them in Rio. “The group stage is going to be challenge,” he told a media conference call. “There’s absolutely no room for error in any of the games.” Canada, ranked 10th in the world, is in a group with No. 2 Germany, No. 5 Australia and No. 95 Zimbabwe. Herdman will tackle those teams with an 18-woman roster that features a veteran core surrounded by a lot of youth. The average age of the squad will be 25.4 come the Games in August. Christine Sinclair, who captained
Canada to a memorable bronze in the 2012 Games on London, is one of five players 30 or over. Nine women are 23 or younger including 17-year-old Deanne Rose and 18-year-old Jessie Fleming. The Canadian team roster has a combined 1,295 caps with 978 of those belonging to Sinclair (243), Diana Matheson (183), Rhian Wilkinson (175), Melissa Tancredi (118), Sophie Schmidt (149) and Desiree Scott (110). Fifteen of the 16 outfield players named have scored for Canada with a combined total of 266 goals. The 33-year-old Sinclair alone accounts for 162 of those, with another 48 coming from the trio of Tancredi, Matheson and Schmidt. Canada is 5-2-0 since the CONCACAF Olympic qualifier in Houston in February but has only scored seven goals (while conceding five). Herdman acknowledges the offence is a work in progress. To succeed at the 12-country Olym-
pic tournament, teams will have to find “that bit of X-factor,” he said. “And some of that offence will come down to how these events are won, through transition and set pieces,” he said. “That’s a huge part of our preparation.” Janine Beckie may be a large part of that X-factor. The 21-year-old forward from the Houston Dash has nine goals in 18 appearances for Canada, including four of the seven goals since the qualifying tournament. Goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo makes the squad despite undergoing surgery to repair a fractured wrist. She is expected to return to action in mid-July. Teenager Gabrielle Carle, who has been out with a high ankle sprain of late, is one of four alternates along with goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan, Marie-Eve Nault and Kaylyn Kyle. It has not been decided yet whether they will travel to Rio.
In the absence of the injured Erin McLeod, Stephanie Labbe is the No. 1 goalkeeper with D’Angelo as her backup. Labbe has 14 clean sheets in 30 starts for Canada while D’Angelo has two caps and one clean sheet. The Canadian women have lost all 12 matches with Germany, are 5-7-3 against Australia and have never faced Zimbabwe. On the plus side, the top two teams from each of the three groups and the two best third-place finishers advance to the quarter-finals. Herdman’s team will assemble July 2 in Vancouver before heading to France to play China in a closed-door game July 20 and the French on July 23 in their final Olympic warmup. Canada will then head for Brazil where it opens play Aug. 3 against Australia, which he called arguably the most improved team in the field. The Canadians then face Zimbabwe on Aug. 6 in Sao Paulo and Germany on Aug. 9 in Brasilia.
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Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 40 29 .580 Boston 39 30 .565 Toronto 39 33 .542 New York 34 35 .493 Tampa Bay 31 37 .456 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 39 30 .565 Kansas City 38 31 .551 Detroit 35 35 .500 Chicago 34 36 .486 Minnesota 21 48 .304 West Division W L Pct Texas 46 25 .648 Seattle 36 34 .514 Houston 35 36 .493 Los Angeles 31 39 .443 Oakland 28 41 .406
Local Sports gaard 7-2), 5:10 p.m. Seattle (Paxton 1-2) at Detroit (Verlander 7-5), 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Snell 0-1) at Cleveland (Kluber 6-7), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-0) at Texas (Lewis 6-0), 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 4-4) at Houston (McHugh 5-5), 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 5-6) at Minnesota (Duffey 2-6), 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Nelson 5-6) at Oakland (Gray 3-6), 8:05 p.m.
GB — 1 2 1/2 6 8 1/2 GB — 1 4 1/2 5 1/2 18
Wednesday’s Games Colorado at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Kansas City at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. L.A. Angels at Houston, 12:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Oakland, 1:35 p.m. Arizona at Toronto, 2:07 p.m. San Diego at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Seattle at Detroit, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.
GB — 9 1/2 11 14 1/2 17
Sunday’s Games Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2, 10 innings San Francisco 5, Tampa Bay 1 Boston 2, Seattle 1 Baltimore 11, Toronto 6 Houston 6, Cincinnati 0 Minnesota 7, N.Y. Yankees 4 Kansas City 2, Detroit 1, 13 innings Texas 5, St. Louis 4 L.A. Angels 2, Oakland 0
Washington Miami New York Philadelphia Atlanta
Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 3, Boston 1, 10 innings Cleveland 7, Tampa Bay 4 Detroit 8, Seattle 7, 12 innings Texas 4, Baltimore 3 Houston 10, L.A. Angels 7
Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati
Today’s Games Colorado (Bettis 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-4), 5:05 p.m. San Diego (Perdomo 2-2) at Baltimore (Wilson 3-5), 5:05 p.m. Arizona (Corbin 3-6) at Toronto (Estrada 5-2), 5:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 11-2) at Boston (Buchholz 3-6), 5:10 p.m. Kansas City (Kennedy 5-5) at N.Y. Mets (Synder-
San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Diego
National League East Division W L Pct 43 27 .614 37 33 .529 36 32 .529 30 41 .423 23 46 .333 Central Division W L Pct 47 21 .691 36 33 .522 34 36 .486 31 39 .443 27 43 .386 West Division W L Pct 44 27 .620 38 33 .535 33 36 .478 33 39 .458 29 42 .408
GB — 6 6 13 1/2 19 1/2 GB — 11 1/2 14 17 21 GB — 6 10 11 1/2 15
Sunday’s Games Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 0
Miami 3, Colorado 0 San Francisco 5, Tampa Bay 1 Arizona 5, Philadelphia 1 Houston 6, Cincinnati 0 Texas 5, St. Louis 4 L.A. Dodgers 2, Milwaukee 1 San Diego 6, Washington 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Pittsburgh 5
Today ● Ladies Fastball: Bandits vs. Badgers and Stettler vs Panthers, 7 p.m. and Rage U16 vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Senior Men’s Baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Printing Place Padres, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park
Monday’s Games Arizona 3, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 1, San Francisco 0 Colorado 5, Miami 3 St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Washington at L.A. Dodgers, late
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Today’s Games Colorado (Bettis 5-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-4), 5:05 p.m. San Diego (Perdomo 2-2) at Baltimore (Wilson 3-5), 5:05 p.m. San Francisco (Cueto 10-1) at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Arizona (Corbin 3-6) at Toronto (Estrada 5-2), 5:07 p.m. Atlanta (Norris 2-7) at Miami (Fernandez 9-3), 5:10 p.m. Kansas City (Kennedy 5-5) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 7-2), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-0) at Texas (Lewis 6-0), 6:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 7-2), 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 5-6) at Minnesota (Duffey 2-6), 6:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Nelson 5-6) at Oakland (Gray 3-6), 8:05 p.m. Washington (Roark 6-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 5-3), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 10:10 a.m. Colorado at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m. Kansas City at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m. Milwaukee at Oakland, 1:35 p.m. Arizona at Toronto, 2:07 p.m. San Diego at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.
Soccer Wales 3 Russia 0
UEFA Euro 2016 At Sites in France Group Stage Group A W L T GF GA x-France 2 0 1 4 1 x-Switzerland 1 0 2 2 1 Albania 1 2 0 1 3 Romania 0 2 1 2 4 Group B MP W L T GF GA x-Wales 3 2 1 0 6 3 x-England 3 1 0 2 3 2 Slovakia 3 1 1 1 3 3 Russia 4 0 2 1 2 6 Group C MP W L T GF GA Germany 2 1 0 1 2 0 Poland 2 1 0 1 1 0 Northern Ireland 2 1 1 0 2 1 Ukraine 2 0 2 0 0 4 Group D MP W L T GF GA x-Spain 2 2 0 0 4 0 Croatia 2 1 0 1 3 2 Czech Republic 2 0 1 1 2 3 Turkey 2 0 2 0 0 4 Group E MP W L T GF GA x-Italy 2 2 0 0 3 0 Belgium 2 1 1 0 3 2 Sweden 2 0 1 1 1 2 Rep. of Ireland 2 0 1 1 1 4 Group F MP W L T GF GA Hungary 2 1 0 1 3 1 Iceland 2 0 0 2 2 2 Portugal 2 0 0 2 1 1 Austria 2 0 1 1 0 2 x — clinched berth in second round Note: Three points awarded for a win, one for a tie. MP 3 3 3 3
Pt 7 5 3 1 Pt 6 5 4 1 Pt 4 4 3 0 Pt 6 4 1 0 Pt 6 3 1 1 Pt 4 2 2 1
Monday’s results Group B At Saint-Etienne, France Slovakia 0 England 0 At Toulouse, France
Sunday’s results Group A At Lille, France Switzerland 0 France 0 At Lyon, France Albania 1 Romania 0 Tuesday’s matches Group C At Paris Northern Ireland vs. Germany, 10 a.m. At Marseille, France Ukraine vs. Poland, 10 a.m. Group D At Bordeaux, France Croatia vs. Spain, 1 p.m. At Lens, France Czech Republic vs. Turkey, 1 p.m. Wednesday’s matches Group E At Nice, France Sweden vs. Belgium, 1 p.m. At Lille, France Italy vs. Ireland, 1 p.m. Group F At Lyon, France Hungary vs. Portugal, 10 a.m. At Saint-Denis, France Iceland vs. Austria, 10 a.m. Conclusion of Group Stage AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINALS (two-game, total-goals series) Toronto def. Montreal on 4-2 aggregate Vancouver def. Ottawa on 3-2 aggregate CHAMPIONSHIP Toronto vs. Vancouver (two-game, total-goals series) Tuesday’s match First Leg Vancouver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 29 Second Leg Toronto at Vancouver, 8 p.m.
MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Philadelphia 15 6 4 5 23 New York 15 7 7 1 26 New York City 16 5 5 6 25 Montreal 14 5 4 5 22 Toronto 14 5 5 4 15 New England 15 4 4 7 21 Orlando 14 3 3 8 25 D.C. 15 4 6 5 14 Columbus 14 3 5 6 18 Chicago 13 2 6 5 11
GA 19 20 31 20 15 26 23 16 21 16
Pt 23 22 21 20 19 19 17 17 15 11
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Colorado 15 9 2 4 19 11 31 Dallas 17 8 5 4 24 24 28 Salt Lake 14 7 4 3 25 23 24 Los Angeles 14 5 3 6 27 17 21 San Jose 15 5 4 6 18 18 21 Vancouver 16 6 7 3 24 27 21 Kansas City 17 6 8 3 16 18 21 Portland 16 5 6 5 25 27 20 Seattle 14 5 8 1 13 17 16 Houston 15 3 7 5 20 22 14 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie. Sunday’s results Kansas City 2 Dallas 0 New York 2 Seattle 0 Wednesday’s games Chicago at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. New England at D.C., 6 p.m. New York at Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Colorado at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25 New York City at Seattle, 3 p.m. Vancouver at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Toronto at Orlando, 5:30 p.m. New York at Columbus, 5:30 p.m. Kansas City at Montreal, 5:30 p.m. Salt Lake at Dallas, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 8 p.m.
Walsh. FOOTBALL National Football League SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed RB Kendall Gaskins to a two-year contract. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Named Jordan Babineaux and Jackie Montgomery digital media hosts. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Traded G Frederik Andersen to Toronto for the 30th pick in this year’s draft and a 2017 second-round draft pick. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Traded the rights to F Jimmy Vesey to Buffalo for a 2016 third-round draft pick. NEW YORK RANGERS — Traded the rights to D Keith Yandle to Florida for a 2016 sixth-round draft pick. The Rangers will also receive a 2017 fourthround pick if Yandle signs with Florida. SAN JOSE SHARKS — Traded F Maxim Letunov and a 2017 sixth-round draft pick to Arizona for 2016 fourth-round and 2017 third-round draft picks. American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed D Teddy Doherty to a one-year contract. SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Signed M Dilly Duka after acquiring right of first refusal from Montreal in exchange for general allocation money, targeted allocation money and a 2017 second-round draft pick. North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA — Signed F Alexander Andersson and M Nicklas Maripuu.
Tiger-Cats sign QB Zach Collaros to extension
Quarterback Zach Collaros has signed a contract extension with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats through the 2018 CFL season. the upcoming season. The six-foot, 222-pound native of SteuThe Winnipeg Jets benville, Ohio, won’t be starting the season host Carolina on Oct. 13, Calgary will host the for Hamilton. Collaros continues to recover from a knee injury suffered during the 2015 Oilers on Oct. 14 in the season. Flames’ home opener. Collaros, 27, joined the Ticats as a free Toronto welcomes Original Six rival Boston on agent prior to the 2014 season after spending two years with the Toronto Argonuats. ColOct. 15, while the Vanlaros led Hamilton to an 8-3 record last year couver Canucks host and was leading the CFL in passing yards Calgary on Oct. 15. (3,376), touchdowns (25) and passer rating The Montreal Can(113.7) with an impressive 70.2 completion adiens will have their first home game of percentage. the season on Oct. 18 But his promising season came to an against the Stanley Cup abrupt halt when he tore the anterior crucichampion Pittsburgh ate ligament in his right knee in a 25-18 home Penguins. loss in September to Edmonton.
NHL First-Round Draft Order June 24 At First Niagara Center Buffalo, N.Y. First Round 1. Toronto 2. Winnipeg 3. Columbus 4. Edmonton 5. Vancouver 6. Calgary 7. Arizona 8. Buffalo 9. Montreal 10. Colorado 11. New Jersey 12. Ottawa 13. Carolina 14. Boston 15. Minnesota 16. Detroit 17. Nashville 18. Philadelphia 19. N.Y. Islanders 20. Arizona (from N.Y. Rangers) 21. Carolina (from Los Angeles) 22. Winnipeg (from Chicago) 23. Florida 24. Anaheim 25. Dallas 26. Washington 27. Tampa Bay 28. St. Louis 29. Boston (from San Jose) 30. Anaheim (from Pittsburgh via Toronto) NHL 2015-16 Awards Nominees List Nominees for the 2015-16 National Hockey League awards, to be announced Wednesday night at a ceremony held in Las Vegas: Hart Memorial Trophy (player judged to be the most valuable to his team) Jamie Benn, LW, Dallas Sidney Crosby, C, Pittsburgh Patrick Kane, RW, Chicago. Vezina Trophy (top goaltender) Ben Bishop, Tampa Bay Braden Holtby, Washington Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles. James Norris Memorial Trophy (top defenceman) Brent Burns, San Jose Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Erik Karlsson, Ottawa. Calder Memorial Trophy (outstanding rookie) Shayne Gostisbehere, D, Philadelphia Connor McDavid, C, Edmonton Artemi Panarin, LW, Chicago. Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
PA 50 38 56 51
Pt 2 2 2 2
West Division W L T 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0
PA 24 31 47 44 53
Pt 4 2 2 2 0
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GP 2 2 2 2 2
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WEEK TWO Saturday’s result Edmonton 25 Saskatchewan 11 Friday’s results Hamilton 42 Ottawa 25 Montreal 22 Toronto 15
REGULAR SEASON WEEK ONE Bye: Saskatchewan Thursday’s game Hamilton at Toronto, 5:30 p.m. Friday’s game Montreal at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25 Ottawa at Edmonton, 5 p.m. Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m. WEEK TWO Bye: Edmonton Thursday, June 30 Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m. Toronto at Saskatchewan, 8 p.m. Friday, July 1 B.C. at Hamilton, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Basketball 2011 — Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas 2010 — Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers 2009 — Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers 2008 — Paul Pierce, Boston 2007 — Tony Parker, San Antonio 2006 — Dwyane Wade, Miami 2005 — Tim Duncan, San Antonio 2004 — Chauncey Billups, Detroit 2003 — Tim Duncan, San Antonio 2002 — Shaquille O’Neal, L.A. Lakers 2001 — Shaquille O’Neal, L.A. Lakers 2000 — Shaquille O’Neal, L.A. Lakers 1999 — Tim Duncan, San Antonio 1998 — Michael Jordan, Chicago 1997 — Michael Jordan, Chicago 1996 — Michael Jordan, Chicago 1995 — Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston 1994 — Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston 1993 — Michael Jordan, Chicago 1992 — Michael Jordan, Chicago
2016 NBA Playoffs Fourth Round THE FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) (Cleveland wins series 4-3) Sunday’s result Cleveland 93 Golden State 89 Game One — Thursday, June 2 Golden State 104 Cleveland 89 Game Two — Sunday, June 5 Golden State 110 Cleveland 77 Game Three — Wednesday, June 8 Cleveland 120 Golden State 90 Game Four — Friday, June 10 Golden State 108 Cleveland 97 Game Five — Monday, June 13 Cleveland 112 Golden State 97 Game Six — Thursday, June 16 Cleveland 115 Golden State 101
2016 NBA Draft Order June 23, Brooklyn, N.Y. FIRST ROUND 1. Philadelphia 2. LA Lakers 3. Boston (from Brooklyn) 4. Phoenix 5. Minnesota 6. New Orleans 7. Denver (from New York) 8. Sacramento 9. Toronto (from Denver via New York) 10. Milwaukee 11. Orlando 12. Utah 13. Phoenix (from Washington) 14. Chicago 15. Denver (from Houston) 16. Boston (from Dallas) 17. Memphis 18. Detroit 19. Denver (from Portland) 20. Indiana 21. Atlanta 22. Charlotte 23. Boston 24. Philadelphia (from Miami via Cleveland) 25. LA Clippers 26. Philadelphia (from Oklahoma City via Denver and Cleveland) 27. Toronto 28. Phoenix (from Cleveland via Boston) 29. San Antonio 30. Golden State
NBA Champions 2015-16 — Cleveland Cavaliers 2014-15 — Golden State Warriors 2013-14 — San Antonio Spurs 2012-13 — Miami Heat 2011-12 — Miami Heat 2010-11 — Dallas Mavericks 2009-10 — Los Angeles Lakers 2008-09 — Los Angeles Lakers 2007-08 — Boston Celtics 2006-07 — San Antonio Spurs 2005-06 — Miami Heat 2004-05 — San Antonio Spurs 2003-04 — Detroit Pistons 2002-03 — San Antonio Spurs 2001-02 — Los Angeles Lakers 2000-01 — Los Angeles Lakers 1999-00 — Los Angeles Lakers 1998-99 — San Antonio Spurs 1997-98 — Chicago Bulls 1996-97 — Chicago Bulls 1995-96 — Chicago Bulls 1994-95 — Houston Rockets 1993-94 — Houston Rockets 1992-93 — Chicago Bulls 1991-92 — Chicago Bulls NBA Finals Most Valuable Players 2016 — LeBron James, Cleveland 2015 — Andre Iguodala, Golden State 2014 — Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio 2013 — LeBron James, Miami 2012 — LeBron James, Miami
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(sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct with high standard of playing ability) Aleksander Barkov, C, Florida Loui Eriksson, RW, Boston Anze Kopitar, C, Los Angeles. Frank J. Selke Trophy (forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game) Patrice Bergeron, C, Boston Ryan Kesler, C, Anaheim Anze Kopitar, C, Los Angeles. Jack Adams Award (coach judged to have contributed the most to his team’s success) Gerard Gallant, Florida Lindy Ruff, Dallas Barry Trotz, Washington. Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey) Pascal Dupuis, RW, Pittsburgh Jaromir Jagr, RW, Florida Mats Zuccarello, RW, N.Y. Rangers. Ted Lindsay Award (MVP as voted by members of the National Hockey League Players’ Association) Jamie Benn, LW, Dallas Braden Holtby, G, Washington Patrick Kane, RW, Chicago. Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award (exemplifies great leadership qualities both on and off the ice) Alexander Ovechkin, RW, Washington John Tavares, C, N.Y. Islanders Shea Weber, D, Nashville. NHL Foundation Player Award (applies commitment, perseverance and teamwork to enrich his community) Mark Giordano, D, Calgary Matt Martin, LW, N.Y. Islanders P.K. Subban, D, Montreal. NHL General Manager of the Year Award (general manager judged to have contributed the most to his team’s success) Brian MacLellan, Washington Jim Nill, Dallas Jim Rutherford, Pittsburgh. King Clancy Memorial Trophy (exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community) Announced at the ceremony. PREVIOUSLY DETERMINED (based upon regular-season performance) Art Ross Trophy (top points scoring leader) Patrick Kane, RW, Chicago Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy (top goal scorer) Alexander Ovechkin, RW, Washington William M. Jennings Trophy (goaltender(s) playing a minimum of 25 games for the team with the fewest goals scored against it) Frederik Andersen & John Gibson, Anaheim
Calgary 31 B.C. 21 End of CFL Pre-season
CFL Pre-Season Standings East Division GP W L T PF 2 1 1 0 58 2 1 1 0 40 2 1 1 0 43 2 1 1 0 35
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The Edmonton Oilers will inaugurate their brand new Rogers Place arena on Oct. 12 when they host the rival Calgary Flames on the opening night of the 2016-17 NHL season. That’s not the only provincial rivalry on the ice that night as the Ottawa Senators will host the Toronto Maple Leafs. The NHL announced the two games on Monday, along with every other home opener of
Sunday ● Minor Baseball: Red Deer Midget Braves vs. Spruce Grove White Sox, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park
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RHP Shelby Miller from the 15-day DL. CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Dexter Fowler on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 19. Recalled RHP Carl Edwards Jr. from Iowa (PCL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Scott Oberg to Albuquerque (PCL). Recalled RHP Jordan Lyles fromi Albuquerque. MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Nefi Ogando to Jupiter (FSL) for a rehab assignment. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Returned RHP Zack Jones to Minnesota. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Claimed RHP Phil Klein off waivers from Texas and optioned him to Lehigh Valley (IL). Sent RHP Dalier Hinojosa to Clearwater (FSL) for a rehab assignment. Signed OF Mickey Moniak to a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with LHP Ogle Braeden, INF Tyler Leffler and LHP Jess Jordan on minor league contracts. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with 3B Sheldon Neuse 2B Jacob Noll 1B Conner Simonetti Cs Tres Barrera, Joseph Harris and CJ Picerni LHPs Jesus Luzardo, Ben Braymer, Jake Barnett, Jeremy McDonald and Jonathan Reid OFs Daniel Johnson and Jack Sundberg SSs Carter Kieboom, Paul Panaccione and Branden Boggetto RHPs A.J. Bogucki, Kyle Simonds, Phillip Morse, Jacob Howell, Sterling Sharp, Michael Rishwain and Joseph Baltrip on minor league contracts. American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed INF Bobby Webb. LAREDO LEMURS — Released OF Devin Harris. LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released RHP Tanner Kiest. ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released RHP Alex Crawford. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed LHP James
NHL season opens with Oilers hosting Flames in new arena
Thursday ● Senior Men’s Baseball: Phantoms at Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends, 6:30 p.m., Printing Place Padres at Play It Again Sports Athletics, 7 p.m., and Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at North Star
Saturday ● Minor Baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Spruce Grove White Sox, 12 p.m. and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. Red Deer AAA Bantam Braves vs. St. Albert Cardinals, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer Renegades, 2 p.m., Edgar Park
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Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned OF Rusney Castillo outright to Pawtucket (IL). Sent OF Brock Holt to Pawtucket for a rehab assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with OF Bryan Saucedo and RHP Evan Bell on minor league contracts. HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with INF Abraham Toro-Hernandez, RHP Chad Donato, INF Ryne Birk, RHP Kevin Hill and RHP Ian Hardman (36th) on minor league contracts. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with SSs Tyler Straub and Nicky Lopez 1B Chris DeVito OFs Kort Peterson, Logan Gray and Vance Vizcaino C Yordany Salva LHP Vance Tatum and RHPs Michael Silva, Walker Sheller, David McKay, Alex Massey, Anthony Kidston, Travis Eckert, Justin Camp and Geoffrey Bramblett on minor league contracts. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with 1B Brad Anderson 2B Richard Fecteau SS Keith Grieshaber RHPs Sean Issac, Johnny Morell and Chris Rodriguez OFs John Schuknecht, Tyler Bates, Derek Jenkins and Cameron Williams and LHPs J.D. Nielsen and Cory Geisler. SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded SS Chris Taylor to the L.A. Dodgers for RHP Zach Lee. Assigned RHP Steve Johnson outright to Tacoma (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with LHPs Neal Cotts and Kyle Roberts on minor league contracts. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned 1B Brandon Drury to Reno (PCL). Placed OF David Peralta on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday. Recalled OF Socrates Brito from Reno. Reinstated
● Minor Baseball: Red Deer AAA Bantam Braves vs. Okotoks Dawgs Red and Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Calgary Dino’s Black, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park
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Drake the big winner at MMVAs MUCH MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS
NICK JONAS DEDICATES AWARD TO ORLANDO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Shadows of last week’s shooting in Orlando hung heavy over the IHeartRadio Canada Much Music Video Awards as some of music’s biggest names took moments from the celebration to acknowledge the tragedy. As pop singer Nick Jonas stepped onto the Toronto stage to accept his award for international artist of the year he paused to recognize the 49 people shot dead, and 53 injured, at the Pulse night club just over a week ago. “To all the families and victims of the shootings recently, we love you, and we have not forgotten you,” Jonas said as he clutched the trophy. It was one of several moments during the otherwise boisterous event where superstars acknowledged the impact of the violence, particularly on the LGBT community. “Pretty Little Liars” actress Shay Mitchell, who was raised in Toronto, said she’s proud of Canada for its inclusiveness. “This is a place where you can be who you want to be and love who you want to love,” she said before handing out the award to Jonas. The biggest winner of the night was Drake who took home a record of five awards in one year, including video of the year and best hip hop video. The Toronto-raised performer was a no-show to accept his trophies. Other winners included Fifth Harmony for most buzzworthy international artist or group and Justin Bieber for fan fave artist or group. Standout performances of the night included rising Canadian pop singer Alessia Cara who performed “Wild Things” with a choir of backup singers. Hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were joined by model Amber Rose on stage for their feisty track “Dance Off.” On the red carpet Sara Quin, one half of Calgary sister duo Tegan and Sara, talked about how the Pulse night club shooting has impacted the LGBT community.
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Nick Jonas performs during the Much Music Video Awards in Toronto on Sunday. The singer said it hit even closer to home because her girlfriend is from Orlando. “It’s about legislating change,” she said. “(Florida) is a good state for this to start in because it’s one of the more difficult states to get things like gun legislation.” Halifax singer Ria Mae said she was hopeful her fellow members of the LGBT community will be the harbingers for change. “The queer community is so practised in coming together now,” she said. “Maybe that can help fuel the fire in gun safety and gun control.” Keeping with the spirit of the annual Much Music show there were plenty of fun moments to go around too. Actress-turned-singer Hailee Steinfeld was joined on piano by Nelson, B.C.’s Shawn Hook to perform a medley of her soaring new ballad “Rock Bottom”
and his song “Sound of Your Heart.” British singer James Bay wore his trademark wide-brimmed black hat while performing his sombre hit “Let it Go.” Sticking with tradition, some of pop music’s biggest names competed for attention on the red carpet by arriving in their flashiest modes of transportation. Jonas pulled up in style driving himself in a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible while “Work From Home” girl group Fifth Harmony took no prisoners on an Inkas Sentry APC assault vehicle. There were a few quirkier arrivals too, with Calgary natives Tegan and Sara pulling up in a double-decker London-style bus while pop rockers Marianas Trench rode through in a golf cart. The celebrity-drenched celebration of music was hosted by supermodel Gigi Hadid.
SUV THAT ROLLED, KILLED STAR TREK MacLean move ACTOR YELCHIN IS UNDER RECALL to HNIC host
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The SUV that rolled down a driveway and killed Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly, government records show. Yelchin, 27, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the rebooted series, died Sunday after his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee pinned him against a mailbox pillar and security fence at his home, Los Angeles police said. The 2015 model-year Grand Cherokees were part of a global recall of 1.1 million vehicles announced by automaker Fiat Chrysler in April, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration records show. The agency urged the recall because of complaints from drivers who had trouble telling if they had put the automatic transmissions in park. If they were not in park and a driver left the vehicle, it could roll away. Fiat Chrysler expected to send recall notification letters to owners on May 16, according to a memo to dealers, but it’s not known whether Yelchin received or saw his letter. The company was working on a fix and expected to have a final remedy in October or later, the letter said. Investigators were looking into the position of Yelchin’s gear shift at the time of the accident, Officer Jane Kim said. The actor had gotten out of the vehicle momentarily, but police didn’t say why he was behind it when it started rolling. Fiat Chrysler said Monday that it was investigating and it was premature to speculate on the cause of the crash. It offered sympathies to Yelchin’s friends and family. As of April, the company had reports of 212 crashes, 41 injuries and 308 property damage claims potentially caused by the shifters, it said in documents filed with the government.
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The driveway to the home of Anton Yelchin, a rising actor, best known for playing Chekov in the new ‘Star Trek’ films, is seen in the Studio City area of Los Angeles, on Sunday. Yelchin was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday, police and his publicist said. The car pinned Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Los Angeles, Officer Jenny Hosier said. The recalled vehicles, including nearly 812,000 in the U.S., have an electronic shift lever that toggles forward or backward to let the driver select the gear instead of moving along a track like a conventional shifter. A light shows which gear is selected, but to get from drive to park, drivers must push the lever forward three times. The recalled vehicles sound a chime and issue a dashboard warning if the driver’s door is opened while they are not in park. But the push-button ignition won’t shut off the engine if not in park, increasing the risk of the vehicles rolling away after drivers have gotten out. The Grand Cherokee gear shifters were changed in the 2016 model year so that it works like those in older cars. Coroner’s officials ruled Yelchin’s death an accident after an autopsy. The results of any tox-
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icology tests would not be known for months, coroner spokesman Ed Winter said. Yelchin’s friends found him dead after he failed to show up for an audition early Sunday. His death tragically cut short the promising career of an actor whom audiences were still getting to know and who had great artistic ambition. Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the series, comes out in July. Director J.J. Abrams, who cast Yelchin in the franchise, wrote in a statement that he was “brilliant … kind … funny as hell, and supremely talented.” Jodie Foster, who co-starred with Yelchin in the 2011 film “The Beaver,” called the actor “a rare and beautiful soul with his unstoppable passion for life. He was equal parts serious thinker and the most fun little brother you could ever dream of.”
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The annual Mayor’s Garden Party will be celebrated Wednesday from 2 until 3:30 p.m. in City Hall Park. All senior citizens are invited to join Mayor Tara Veer for an afternoon of entertainment and refreshments. Limited parking will be available along Ross Street, between 48 and 49 Avenues. For further details, contact Culture Services at 403-3094091.
Ron MacLean says “nothing’s official” following a Toronto Star report he is poised to replace George Stroumboulopoulos as host of Hockey Night in Canada next season. The longtime broadcaster says “there’s a few balls in the air and things like that” but until Sportsnet executives Scott Moore or Rob Corte “says it’s official, it’s not official.” Citing industry sources, the Star reported Sunday that MacLean would return to the main host’s chair, a spot he occupied for nearly 30 years. A Sportsnet spokeswoman declined comment on the report. Stroumboulopoulos became the host of Hockey Night in Canada in 2014 after Rogers acquired the NHL rights in a 12-year, $5.2-billion deal. MacLean saw his role reduced to being Don Cherry’s sidekick on Coach’s Corner and hosting the Sunday night show Hometown Hockey. In an interview Sunday night, MacLean said he remains focused on those roles for now. “I love Rogers Hometown Hockey and Coach’s Corner. I’ve got those jobs as it is now,” he said. “I’m kind of focused on that and I think there’s this feeling that we may do more or that I may do more going forward but I can guarantee that it’s not solid yet until Scott Moore says it is.” Moore, the president of Sportsnet and NHL properties, hinted earlier this month that there could be changes coming following a low-rated playoff run. “We’re all kind of just looking at next year and trying to figure out what’s happening,” said MacLean. Audience levels fell below the million mark for many early-round playoff games, which didn’t feature a single Canadian team. While ratings improved for the Stanley Cup final, they were down on average from last season. Rogers has revamped hockey coverage since taking the reins from CBC. The move to replace MacLean with Stroumboulopoulos has been controversial with Stroumboulopoulos seen by some fans as an outsider. Stroumboulopoulos is on a five-year deal while MacLean is in the middle of a four-year contract. Sportsnet announced earlier this month that Cherry had signed a new multi-year deal.
MINI-MAG WRAPS UP SEASON WITH BUBBLE PAINTING Mini-MAG drop-in program at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery offers bubble painting on Wednesday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. for children ages five and under and their caregivers. This will be the final Mini-MAG until September. Cost is $3 per child for non-members, and $2 per child for members. Caregiver or parent free. See reddeermuseum.com, or contact museum@reddeer.ca.
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SUNNYBROOK FARM MUSEUM PRESENTS LUNCH AT THE FARM The Ladies of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum present Lunch at the Farm between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesdays, June 22, July 6 and 20, Aug. 10 and 31, and Sept. 14. Relax in the 1889 Hanna Log House and enjoy lunch including home-made pie with ice cream and entertainment, followed by a guided wagon ride tour. The cost is $12 per person. Drop-ins welcome, larger groups should reserve a table by calling 403-340-511 or email sbfs@shaw.ca.
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HALDANE On Monday, June 13, 2016, Mrs. Gerry Haldane passed away peacefully at Mariposa Gardens in Osoyoos, BC at the age of 90 years. She was predeceased by her siblings Alf, Dick, Roy and Stan Swainson and Helen Mogenson; husband Bill and child Gary Haldane Gerry will be fondly remembered by her loving family including daughter Sandy; sons Don (Kathy), Bob (Cheryl) and Bill (Lauralynn); grandchildren Mandi (Trevor) Bollinger, Justin (Jess) Haldane, Tyler (Paige) Haldane, Kristi (Kyle) Rookes, Marty (Jody) Haldane, Brett (Jenny) Haldane and Alex Haldane; great-grandchildren Durim Bollinger, Jack and Hartley Haldane and Nalia and Kenna Haldane as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family. Gerry enjoyed playing golf, bridge, painting (water colours), dancing, travelling, having fun, a good laugh and a great glass of wine. A private family service will take place at a later date. Condolences and tributes may be directed to the family by visiting www.nunes-pottinger.com
GAALAAS Carol Carol Joan Ann Gaalaas passed away in red Deer on June 19, 2016 at the age of 71 years. Carol will be sadly missed by her son, Shane. She was predeceased by her husband, Dale. Carol worked as a social worker in Red Deer. She made an impact on many of those whose life she touched. She will be dearly missed. A Gathering of Remembrance will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319.
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COLLINS Dorothy 1926 - 2016 Mrs. Dorothy Eileen Collins passed away suddenly in her home on Friday, June 17, 2016 at the age of 89. The world lost a beautiful soul that day. She was born on October 10, 1926 at Haynes Alberta. She loved watching sports with her husband, traveling and knitting, especially blankets and afghans for all her family and friends. She was famous for her butter tarts and her unconditional love of the Edmonton Oilers. She genuinely cared for and about everyone she met. Dorothy is survived by her loving husband Joe; her children, Steven (Monica), Leonard (Joanne), Ralph, Janis (Keith), Wanda (Robert) Debbie; her sisters, Joyce and Donna and brother Robert, as well as numerous grand and great grandchildren. Special thanks to Stacey, Cindy and Trish from CBI Home Care. A Memorial Tea will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 35 in Red Deer from 1 - 4 pm on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. In lieu of flowers donations can be made in her name to the Royal Canadian Legion.
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KINDOPP Jerry 1938 - 2016 Mr. D. Jerry Kindopp of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his devoted wife, Linda LockhartKindopp, and his loving family, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Friday, June 17, 2016 at the age of 77 years. Dewain ‘Jerry’ Kindopp was born on September 17, 1938 at Calgary, Alberta. He lived in many communities around Alberta, but spent the majority of his life in Red Deer. Jerry retired from a forty year career in the Life Insurance Industry in 2009. He was a people person and he cherished time spent with family and friends. Jerry will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Linda LockhartKindopp; daughters, Angela Ostermayer and her husband Gordon, Darla Russell and her husband Darwin, and Kelly Blackmore and her partner Dwayne. Jerry was predeceased by his daughter’s mother, Ruth. He will also be sadly missed by sons, David Kindopp and his wife, Lori, Daniel Kindopp and his wife, Krysta; and their mother, Janet; stepsons, Darrell Lockhart and his wife, Colleen, and Dennis Lockhart and his wife, Diana. Jerry will also be lovingly remembered by his grandchildren, Ashton (Nicolette), Tyler (Alexis), Landon (Janelle), Melanie, Kerstyn, Tamara, Corey, Shera, Korina, Chad, Kayla, Marley, Aaron, Cael, Jasmine, Jewel, Kailey and Shyne; and great grandchildren, Lucas, Everly, Hunter, Teegan, Violet, Emma, Emery and Caleb; as well as many other family and friends. A Celebration of Jerry’s Life will be held at the Red Deer Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 37370 Range Road 274, Red Deer County, Alberta on Friday, June 24, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Jerry’s honor may be made directly to Youth Unlimited Edmonton, Youth Centre: The Cellar at www.edmontonyouthunlimited.com Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421.
STALWICK 1960 - 2016 Paul Stalwick of Red Deer passed away suddenly on Thursday, June 16, 2016 at the age of 56 years. Paul is lovingly remembered by his wife of 37 years Kellie, children Cristofer, Ashley, Chenairy, Jonathon; 17 grandchildren; parents; siblings and numerous other family and friends. A Funeral Service will be held at the Living Stones Church, 2020 40 Avenue, Red Deer, AB on Friday, June 24, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so between 12:00 pm and 12:50 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made, in Paul’s name, to Rural Alberta Ride For Dad at www.ridefordad.ca Condolences to Paul’s family may be emailed to: meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944
HANDLEY Clinton It is with great sadness that the family of Gordon Clinton Handley (Clint) announces his passing on June 13, 2016, at the age of 61. Clint will be lovingly remembered by his daughter, Kara; Sister, Joyce; Brother Jack (Rhonda) and his niece and nephew Krystal and Tanner. Clint was predeceased by his mother and father of Clive, Gordon and Dorothy Handley. A celebration of Clint’s life will be held at Clive United Church on Wednesday, June 22 at 2 p.m. Donations may be made to The Heart & Stroke Foundation.
Card Of Thanks JENKINS Betty and family would like to thank all our relatives, friends and neighbours for the many kind thoughts, flowers, food and cards. Grateful thanks to everyone who attended Gary’s Memorial Service and Shealagh McClelland for officiating. Special thanks to Dr. Grabe for his care and kindness over the years. Gary was a dearly loved husband, dad and grandpa, who will be deeply missed and he leaves an imprint on our hearts forever. Betty, Kari (Randy), Kelly (Joe) and David.
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BLUE and grey backpack belonging to deaf 4-yearold child taken from car in parking lot at Las Palmeras restaurant on June 14. Backpack contained items which he needs to help him hear via his cochlear implants. Extremely valuable to him - no one else. Reward offered. If found please call 403-342-6590. MOUNTAIN BIKE, black with white strip on seat. Lost at North Walmart. Bike is for Special Needs Person - Only Means of Transportation! If found call 403-314-1608 Ask for Brent REWARD RING, Gold with blue stone, LOST south Red Deer. If found please call 403-307-3880
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Caregivers/ Aides
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FULL-TIME live-in caregiver needed for elderly lady. Please call 403-392-0711 LOOKING for 2 Live-In caregiver willing to do split shifts. High school graduate 1-2 yrs exp. In caring for person with high medical needs 44 hrs/wk at 11.50/hr. karenmeeres@yahoo.ca
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Oilfield
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FRAC Water management company looking to hire experienced water personnel. Must have knowledge of pumps, running hoses, lay out of jobs, supervising crews. Rapidly growing company with year round work. Competitive wages and benefits. Hiring immediately. Work in Alberta in BC area. Please forward resumes to info@ whitewatermanagement.ca
Restaurant/ Hotel
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. both full and part time. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Tammy at 403-314-4306
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Dos and don’ts of shopping at farmers markets BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Farmers markets might be intimidating for those used to whipping around large supermarkets with a list in hand. But most shoppers become hooked by the array of the freshest food available and the chance to discuss with the actual producers where it came from. “It’s just different than going to a grocery store. People may not really get that realization of how different it really is if you’ve never been before,” says Eileen Kotowich, farmers market specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, which recently launched a smartphone app with information on just over 130 markets around the province. Here are some dos and don’ts of visiting farmers markets from Kotowich and Matt Gomez, founder of Soil Mate, an online tool that connects consumers in Canada and the U.S. with local food and drink growers, raisers, producers and supporters. RISE AND SHINE For best selection, shop early. On the other hand, latecomers might score bargains from farmers who don’t want to pack up leftovers. Don’t expect to get everything on your grocery list. “You may be somebody who always eats carrots every week. Well, they’re only in season at a certain point so if you’re going to a farmers market right now in the middle of June you won’t be finding carrots or new potatoes,” Kotowich says from Vermilion, Alta. “You’ve got to really learn what’s the seasonality of these vegetables and when they’re available so you’re eating them at the peak.” THE PRICE IS RIGHT Haggling for the best price is acceptable in many parts of the world, but the practice is generally frowned upon at farmers markets in Canada. “You have to think of a farmer’s total business, how weather dependent it is. Every year their income will vary greatly on factors that are outside their control,” Gomez says from Kelowna, B.C. Kotowich says labour and costs are typically higher because they’re operating on a small scale and doing tasks by hand. Take a loop of the market before you start buying as costs can vary. DON’T TOUCH … UNLESS YOU’RE INVITED If vendors want you to taste things they’ll offer samples such as pieces of fruit or hot food cut into bite-sized pieces. “That for me is probably one of the best things because if I come across a food I’ve never seen before I may be reluctant to take home a whole package of it, but if I get the chance to try it and they tell me how to cook it to make it be exactly how they’ve done it, that’s just the best way to shop,” Kotowich says. Boxes of berries are often sold by weight, so if
Sales & Distributors
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Marketing reps needed $500+/week to start 8 Full time entry level positions open in Red Deer this week! No experience necessary! Must be available to start asap. Raise/promotion available in 30 days.
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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.
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BENCH Grinder, 1/3 HP, $25.; Metal Folding table, $15. 403-346-6539
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Firewood
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Building Supplies
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METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100. 403-343-6044
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people take samples someone else can get shortchanged. “It shouldn’t be treated as a buffet line or a sample station unless they’re providing samples,” says Gomez. “An organic farmer is less likely to have toxic sprays on them so they would also be more inclined to let you taste without it being washed.” The benefit of going to a market is that you can questions. “They generally prefer it rather than people manhandling their product because the difference from a store is typically a store product has been transported and in some cases artificially ripened or picked when not quite ripe whereas farmers market product is typically picked ripe and sold ripe because it’s more fragile,” says Gomez. TRY SOMETHING NEW Farmers markets offer a wealth of knowledge about unusual vegetables and alternative livestock like elk, bison and goat and how to prepare and store them. “Getting the chance to talk to these guys, how do you raise your animal and how do you feel about
METAL STORAGE shelves, (2) metal 3’ x 6’. $30. Wind speed Indicator, $15.; CB Radios (2), w/accessories. $25. 403-346-6539
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Customers shop at the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market in Halifax. The market features locally grown foods, a wide variety of beverages and a range of crafts.
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FIREWOOD seasoned & split $50.00 1/2 ton load. 403-728-3485
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Health & Beauty
(15) 14’, 2x4’s, new but not straight. $35. for all 403-346-2859
INVERSION Table, $200. 403-343-6044
LUMBER, pressure treated 2x6 10’ and 12’. 10 of each. $165 or offers. 403-346-7103
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120 ELY CLOSE, MOVING - Tues. to Sat., June 21 - 25, 9 - 4 Includes woodworking tools, compressor, etc.
21 WOODSWORTH Cl, June 22 & 23, Wed. & Thurs. 12 - 7, Multi-Family sports, toys, household, furniture, misc.
Household Furnishings
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GLASS TOP metal end tables (2) and coffee table w/glass. $50. each. 403-341-9050 KITCHEN Chairs, (4), $40; ChesterÀeld & Chair, French Provincial, Beige Satin $150.; 403-309-3045
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100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 COLEMAN propane stoves, $40 each, Coleman propane heater, $20, 3 small coolers, $5 each, and 3 lrg. coolers, $20 each. 403-877-0825 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20. 403-885-5020 50 - BRAND NEW turn buckles, hook and eye, 9-3/8” $1.00 each call 403-728-3485 CAMPING dishes, unbreakable, Durawere Set. $35. Coleman Propane lantern, $50. Coleman Propane Camp Stove, $100. 403-343-6044 COFFEE Maker, under counter, $30. 403-343-6044 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40. 403-343-6044 Electric Bar-B-que $50. 403-309-3045 FAN, Áoor model, Àts in doorway, 22”x22”. $25. 403-347-3849 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds SPIDERMAN Àgures, (4), single sheets, hat, toque and gloves. $25. 403-347-3849 VIDEO Photo Tripod, extended height, 143 cm. $40. 403-346-6539 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020
Travel Packages
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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
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SMALL TABLE with two chairs for indoor use wanted. Call 403-358-3597.
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Houses/ Duplexes
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4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1595/mo. in Red Deer. 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 SYLVAN: fully furn. rentals incld’s all utils. & cable. $550 - $1300. By the week or month. 403-880-0210
Condos/ Townhouses
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2 BDRM. 1400 SQ. FT. 2009 condo w/att. single garage, Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d. Avail. now. Rent neg. 403-728-3688 RED DEER - 3 bed, 2 bath town home for rent. $1200 monthly. July 1st. Call 403-352-2642
SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT
6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545
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Accounting
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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
Contractors
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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550
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Cleaning
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CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Avail. to start cleaning houses on July 2. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 leave msg
We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
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Entertainment Construction
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HICKORY DICKORY DECKS For all your decking needs. Wood or low maint. composite. Warranty. mmurphy@decks.ca (403) 348-1285
DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606
Flooring
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NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more. Over 20 yrs. exp. Call Jon 403-848-0393
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Moving & Storage
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BOOK NOW! MOVING? Boxes? Appls. For help on your home removal. 403-986-1315 projects such as bathroom, main Áoor, and bsmt. Painters/ renovations. Also painting Decorators and Áooring. Call James 403-341-0617 JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888
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Massage Therapy
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FANTASY SPA
Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.
10 - 2am Private back entry
403-341-4445
Misc. Services
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5* JUNK REMOVAL
Property clean up 505-4777
TUSCANY PAINTING 403-598-2434
Roofing
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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured. 403-896-4869
Condos/ Townhouses
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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca
Manufactured Homes
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WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl. 403-348-6594
4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes
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1 & 2 Bdrm renovated apts in quiet adult only building in the South Hill. Rents range from $875 to $1050. No pets. For more information please call 403-340-1222 (no txts please). ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1. 403-304-5337
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2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $925. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or July 1. 403-304-5337
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Seniors’ Services
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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
Yard Care
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MARSHALL MAN LAWN CARE: Lawn mowing & trimming, deck & fence painting & staining, Reasonable rates. Odd Jobs. 403-896-9851
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Suites
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For Rent
BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614
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Mobile Lot
PADS $450/mo. Brand new park in Lacombe. Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820
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TWO WEEKS FREE CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, no pets, . 403-391-1780
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Realtors & Services
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2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700. Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 DOWNTOWN well-managed, quiet adult bldg., avail. now, 1 & 2 bdrm. with balcony, $850 and $895/mo. Heat and water incld. 2 wks. free with 6 mo. lease. No pets. 403-348-1262 or 403-347-3213
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For Sale
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1/2 DUPLEX, 2 storey 1600 sq. ft. 3 bdrms., 2 1/2 baths, main Ár. laundry, att. dble. garage, close to playgrounds, schools & shopping. Serious buyers only, no realtors. 403-342-0813
Condos/ Townhouses
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MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 NEW 4th Ár. corner suite, 1096 sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. w/storage, recreational SUITES. 25+, adults only amenities, extended care n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 centre attached, deck. 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 anytime. Pics avail. on Kijji.
MORRISROE MANOR
SECOND 2 NONE, reg. and res. grass cutting/yard QUALITY work at an clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ affordable price. Joe’s rock and sod jobs/eaves. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 RooÀng. Re-rooÀng Free est. 403-302-7778 bdrm. apartments, rent specialist. Fully insured. $750, last month of lease Insurance claims welcome. free, immed. occupancy. YARD CARE 10 yr. warranty on all work. 403-596-6000 Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459 403-350-7602
CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300
Antique & Classic Autos
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BRADFORD Exchange Plates, 4 complete sets (32 plates), with certiÀcates. $5. per plate. 403-885-5720
Boats & Marine
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Boat Slips Available For Sale or Rent Sylvan Lake, AB 403.318.2442 info@watersedgesylvan.com www.watersedgesylvan.com
GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., $800/mo., D.D. $850, N/S, no pets, no partiers. 403-346-1458
Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444
wheels
WatersEdge Marina
Call GORD ING at 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult RE/MAX real estate bldg, free laundry, very central alberta 403-341-9995 clean, quiet, Avail. now or JULY 1. $900/mo., S.D. Houses $650. 403-304-5337
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WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1 403-304-5337
Suites
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THE NORDIC
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June 21 1996 — First National Aboriginal Day celebrated across Canada. June 21 was chosen because of the summer solstice, the first day of summer and longest day of the year. Many aboriginal groups mark the date as a time to celebrate their heritage. 1984 — Royal Assent given to bill establishing the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service (CSIS); civilian agency to replace RCMP Security Service in dealing with foreign espionage, terrorism and subversion. 1957 — John Diefenbaker sworn in as Canada’s first Conservative Prime Minister in 22 years, replacing Louis St. Laurent; serves until April 22, 1963. 1899 — Treaty 8 signed at Lesser Slave Lake by representatives of the Crown and the Chipewayan, Cree, Beaver and Athapascan (Slavey) first nations. Receives support and reserves in return for aboriginal title to much of northern Alberta.
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Perceptions change with time MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM “We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.” – Anais Nin, French essayist and memoirist “This is it?” asked Vince. “Doesn’t look like much to me.” I had to admit, the old house didn’t seem as imposing as I had remembered it being. Over the years, I had entertained my buddy Vince with tales of the old two-storey “mansion” that stood alone near the river a few miles from our farm. I had told him in ominous tones how the family had suddenly departed — for reasons unknown — leaving behind many fascinating and disturbing possessions. Moreover how — left unattended for a few minutes — I had wandered into the dark and foreboding structure as a child, nearly falling into a water-filled cellar. Over the years, the old house had been the source of many ghost stories and the occasional nightmare, but now as I stood before it — a grown man — it seemed anything but imposing. In fact, it was a rather humble one-and-ahalf-storey farmhouse with a sagging, cedar-shake roof and broken windows. Once inside, we found the floor covered with leaves and rotting debris. As for possessions, we found a pot, a broken chair, a doll’s head and a rickety bed frame. A cast iron stove had fallen through the floor and into the cellar
which was, in fact, filled with water. It seemed evident that the family had left the farmhouse for a brighter future elsewhere. It always amazes me how the passage of time and a broader awareness can change so many of our perceptions. As our perceptions change, often our values shift along with them. William R. Miller, writing for Spirituality & Health Magazine, penned a fascinating article a few years back entitled The Moment that Turns Your Values Upside Down. Miller writes of a transition or shift in perception and awareness that moves us away from ambition and ceaseless striving toward a life of greater meaning. He called this transition a “quantum shift.” A quantum shift could be defined as a transition between two distinct states of thinking and being. The first state of mind could be defined as habitual, reactionary and unconscious, while the second state might be described as self-aware, expansive, and inquiring. A quantum shift typically happens later in life and is often (though not always) preceded by a traumatic or life-changing event — one that prompts a radical reassessment of life, values and perception. Miller writes of research conducted over a number of years with men and women from various walks of life. Participants were interviewed and asked to list the five most important values of life — the most important to the least important. Before this quantum shift, the first and most critical value for men was wealth — the accumulation of money and possessions. The second was a sense of adventure — to go out there and conquer the world. The third was achievement — tied to the of-
ten damaging perception that as men, we are what we do. The fourth was the pursuit of pleasure, and the fifth was to be respected by peers. After a quantum shift had occurred, the list changed dramatically. Same questions — same men. The top value went from making money to spirituality, which wasn’t even on the list ini-tially. The second was personal peace — less anxiety, less stress. The third was family. After the shift men began to ask the question, “What is important for me in my life?” The fourth value was purpose. In essence, why am I here? How can I make a positive difference in the lives of others? The fifth value was now honesty. Not just honesty as in not breaking laws but “How honest am I with my feelings?” For women, the change was even more astonishing. Before the shift, the highest value was family. Not surprising as women in our society and culture are often raised to be good mothers, good daughters — to support the family unit and care for children. Second was a sense of independence. The third was career. Understandable as women were once made to feel they had no right to a career as their obligation was to the family. The fourth was fitting in — the need to be liked by everyone. Fifth was attractiveness — not just “It is nice to look nice,” but value as a human being based on looks and approval by others. The top value for women after the shift was personal growth. It had moved from caring for others, doing the right thing and fitting in, to “How am I growing as a human being?” and “How do I feel about myself?” Next was self-esteem: “Am I worth anything?” “Do I have something of value
to contribute?” Third was spirituality — a sense of connectedness to something greater. The fourth was happiness — women having once believed their happiness was unimportant. Last was forgiveness — of others and of past perceived failings. Miller noted that most everything in a participant’s inner world shifted from extrinsic to intrinsic (more spiritual/less materialistic): emotions, values, self-esteem and personal growth, significant relationships and interpretations of the past, present and future. These dramatic shifts did not happen overnight. Though a triggering event may have initiated the change, the event was only the catalyst. It was not uncommon for participants to describe the experience of transition as still going on even a decade later. Notes Miller, shifts come even to those not seeking it, not even aware of a need or possibility for such profound renewal. Perhaps, he states, life enjoys taking us by surprise, tapping us on the shoulder and reminding us just how little we know about all that is possible. Sir John Lubbock, the English biologist and politician, wrote, “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” A shift in perception can provide us with a fresh set of eyes. Perhaps a willingness to revisit old perceptions — old haunts, if you will — creates the ideal state for a dramatic reassessment of what we once held as true, real and undeniable. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca
Don’t worry, be happy, easier said than done TREENA MIELKE FAMILY Don’t worry. Be happy. I have no idea who said that, and as much as it is true, sometimes it just seems a lot easier to worry than just be happy. Weird, but true. I hate to admit it, but I worried and fretted about a couple of things lately that I shouldn’t have wasted my time worrying and fretting about. My rock garden, for instance. It looked awesome. Every little plant and flower was placed with meticulous attention to detail. There was little impatiens, their delicate flower heads gracing the garden with colour. There were a few hardy begonias, filled with promise of luxurious blooms, rich in colour. There were day lilies and snapdragons, petunias and marigolds, alyssum and lobelia. Overall, it was a garden rich with promise. Even the rocks looked good, for crying out loud. My friend, the gardener and I, finished planting the rock garden, stood
up rather stiffly, which is what you do if you are a gardener of somewhat mature status, and brushed off our blue jeans. We were done. “It is lovely”, we said to each other, congratulating ourselves and being all happy with life itself. It was less than an hour later that the hail came. It came with a vengeance, pounding out the delicate little impatiens, pummeling the begonias to a limp, barely recognizable state and completing anilating the alyssum. After the hail, sheets of rain lashed down with relentless fury, crashing through the downspout by the corner of my house and into my basement. As I was on my hands and knees, moping up the basement floor, I was suddenly overcome with helpless laughter. Why do we disillusion ourselves into thinking we are boss, anyway? For days I had this illusion of perfection and how my little rock garden would blossom into some kind of rock garden miracle. I worried and fretted about the process of making that happen for days. Now I realize all my worrying and fretting was a total waste of time. Sadly enough, I still didn’t get it, though. I found something else to worry and fret about the very next day.
I am lucky enough to have a family tree that just keeps growing. On this tree are six delightful grandchildren, each unique and wonderful in their own way. One of these dear little people is an incredible, talented 13 going on 20 granddaughter. She is wisdom and innocence all wrapped up in a delightful package of perfection. Despite the obvious age difference, one thing I have in common with this beautiful child is a love of music. And on Monday we were to play in a piano recital together. I thought it would be so cool. I pictured it all in my mind. Emilie would play and then I would play and our piano teacher would say, “And this is Emilie’s grandma, they both take music lessons together. Isn’t it awesome.” And then I would walk up to the stage, looking all grandma like and confident. And I would play a slightly complicated piece on the keyboard and everyone would nod and clap and then we would all have cookies and juice and people and go home. Unfortunately, in my mind, I couldn’t get past the playing part. For days I was so nervous, my fingers would tremble when I thought of actually getting up there in front of all these parents, all of whom, no doubt, have at least Grade 8 in music.
And so I practiced. And practiced. But, mostly I worried because that was much easier. The day of the concert came and I got a text from Emilie’s mom. “Emilie is very sick. She won’t be playing tonight.” And so it came to be that I did not play either, because I really only wanted to do the grandmother/granddaughter thing. I probably should have played, but then what would I have to worry about. Of course, I probably would have figured out something before too long. If only I could remember the lesson to always be grateful for the moment, the day and the little joys hidden along the way. Joys like a really good golf shot or being all happy when a favourite song gets played on the radio. Joys like a sudden, unexpected hug from a friend or hearing the soft, sweet voice of a grandchild on the phone lisping the words, ‘Hi, grandma.’ Life’s a lot like school, it seems. It’s hard to remember the lesson and, if you don’t get it the first time, you have to take the class again. Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.
How much sleep do kids and teens really need? Anyone who has ever watched children get on a school bus before the sun is up in the morning or teens walk into their first class clutching a jug of coffee knows that too many young people aren’t getting enough sleep. In fact, experts say that more than a third of the U.S. population doesn’t. Now, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has just released, for the first time, its recommendations for how much sleep children and teens should get to avoid health risks. The academy also said that children and teens who do not sleep the recommended amount put themselves at risk for obesity, diabetes, depression, behavior and learning problems, hyper-
tension and more. For teens, there’s more: an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and selfharm, the panel said. The recommendations are: ● Infants 4 to 12 months should sleep 12 to 16 hours per 24 hours (including naps) on a regular basis to promote optimal health. ● Children 1 to 2 years of age should sleep 11 to 14 hours per 24 hours (including naps) on a regular basis to promote optimal health. ● Children 3 to 5 years of age should sleep 10 to 13 hours per 24 hours (including naps) on a regular basis to promote optimal health. ● Children 6 to 12 years of age should sleep nine to 12 hours per 24 hours on a regular basis to promote optimal health. ● Teenagers 13 to 18 years of age should sleep eight to 10 hours per 24 hours on a regular basis to promote optimal health.
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relationship between sleep and children’s health and evaluated the evidence. The new recommendations differ slightly from those released last year by the National Sleep Foundation: ● Newborns (0-3 months): Sleep range narrowed to 14-17 hours each day (previously it was 12-18) ● Infants (4-11 months): Sleep range widened two hours to 12-15 hours (previously it was 14-15) ● Toddlers (1-2 years): Sleep range widened by one hour to 11-14 hours (previously it was 12-14) ● Preschoolers (3-5): Sleep range widened by one hour to 10-13 hours (previously it was 11-13) ● School-age children (6-13): Sleep range widened by one hour to 9-11 hours (previously it was 10-11) ● Teenagers (14-17): Sleep range widened by one hour to 8-10 hours (previously it was 8.5-9.5) ● Younger adults (18-25): Sleep range is 7-9 hours (new age category) ● Adults (26-64): Sleep range did not change and remains 7-9 hours ● Older adults (65+): Sleep range is 7-8 hours (new age category)
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Dear Annie: My husband is in hospice care and I have a caregiver come once a week to give me a break. I truly appreciate her help and pay her an hourly rate. The problem is, the caregiver has dogs and smells like it. I am allergic to dogs, and her scent gives me a headache as soon as I return home, and it continues the following day. The dog scent is in my furniture, around my husband and all over the house. How do I approach this without hurting her feelings? I don’t think she is aware of her dog odor. — Sensitive Nose Dear Sensitive: You have to tell the caregiver that you can smell the dog in your house. Chances are, she is so accustomed to the odor that she doesn’t realize how potent it is. Say that you are very sensitive and ask whether she might consider showering and washing her hair on the days when she comes to your home, and also wearing freshly laundered clothing. (Or she could keep a set of clothes at your house that she can change into.) That
might make enough of a difference for you to tolerate it. If she objects, or if nothing changes, it may be time to find another caregiver. Someone who causes you to have a headache for an entire day is not giving you the kind of respite you need. We know you like her, but this is a paid position and you should find an employee who fits all of your requirements. Dear Annie: You printed a letter from “Better Safe than Sorry,” who said all the guys she meets at work are “creepy” and constantly inappropriate. You said she might want to reconsider her work environment. Feminists will not likely appreciate my comments. In addition to her work environment, I would also recommend that the writer look in the mirror and review her appearance, and then consider her words and mannerisms when engaging with these men. She may unintentionally be encouraging inappropriate behavior with the message she is sending these “creepy” men. I am 67 years old and female. I am continually amazed at how many women are offended by men who respond to the woman’s overtly sexual communication. I am not excusing inappropriate behavior on the part of any man, but I am reminding women that
messages are conveyed through what you say, how you say it and your body language. When you get an inappropriate response, review the message you are giving from the perspective of the recipient. — Watch Yourself Dear Watch: Obviously, if a woman is wearing a blouse cut down to her navel and touching a man provocatively while she coos in his ear, she is creating a sexually charged conversation and inviting a similar response. Women cannot do that and then blame the man for reacting. And by the way, this can happen to men, also. Some women misinterpret a guy’s friendliness as flirting, and think he’s more interested than is warranted. And if it happens a lot, those men may need to dial it back. A great many men and women don’t realize how they come across, and any unwanted attention that happens too frequently should be looked into. But let’s face it — too many men think all women are fair game regardless of the circumstances. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.
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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPE Tuesday, June 21 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Prince William, 34; Juliette Lewis, 43; Lana Del Rey, 31 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Aim to get the balance right between being creative and productive. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your motto for the coming year is from Prince William, who turns 34 today. “My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.” ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have fun fraternizing with family or friends today Rams, but avoid butting in and offering confusing advice. Sometimes loved ones have to make their own mistakes, in their own way. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you have a problem you’re facing, you’ll find a combination of head and heart works wonders today. When it comes to managing money matters and joint finances, don’t take short cuts. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Concentrate on a rickety relationship with a loved one, and get talking about current problems. Don’t worry if you’re going over old ground Gemini — that’s exactly what’s needed at the moment. CANCER (June 21-July 22): One half of you wants to be sociable and take on the world, while the other half longs for some peace and quiet and privacy. The solution? Be a well-balanced Crab and juggle both sides! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s a fortunate day for business, as prosperity planet Jupiter gives your finance zone a well-needed boost. But don’t take shortcuts Cats. The best recipe for long-term success is hard work. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgos thrive on being capable and self-sufficient but don’t let yourself become too isolated from those around you. Ask for help when you really need it — others are happy to lend a hand. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A personal or professional relationship may be somewhat strained today, as communication becomes stressful. If you walk in the other person’s shoes, then you’ll know just what to say. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The stars boost your artistic side, so find a creative project you can really get your teeth into. Don’t be a lazy Scorpio though. You’ll find the harder you work, the happier everyone will be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There may be a disagreement between you and a loved one today but don’t worry Sagittarius. You both require some space to sort through your feelings, then things will get back on track again. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ve got a choice today Capricorn! You can be super powerful and persuasive — or compulsive and controlling. So strive to use your energy in plenty of positive and proactive ways. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Has an old friendship finally run out of steam? Or is someone holding you back and criticizing your dreams? The best advice and guidance you’ll get today is from your own trusty intuition. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Getting up-to-speed with personal projects is a priority, as you put your head down and get organized. It’s also a fabulous time to review and reboot your goals and aspirations for the future. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
Electrical trick may lead to less fat in chocolate BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Get a charge out of chocolate? New research suggests candy companies may be able to make lower fat versions of the tasty treat with a little electrical trick. By running liquid chocolate through an electric field, researchers were able to make it flow more easily. And that means it doesn’t need so much fat, they say. Cutting the fat in chocolate has been a much-studied challenge in the industry. The new approach was described Monday by researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia. During production, chocolate is handled as a liquid that includes solids like cocoa suspended in melted fat and oil, they noted in a paper released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A certain level of fat is needed to let the chocolate flow easily enough to be processed, they said. But they found an electric field can encourage flow too. Using that strategy, they were able to reduce the amount of fat by about 10 per cent, said researcher Rongjia Tao. In theory, they could reduce it by twice that much, he said. The electric field makes the tiny balls of cocoa solids clump together into chains, which allows easier flow. The work was partially financed by the Mars chocolate company, and Temple holds patents on the technique. Tao said he could taste no difference in chocolate treated with his method, but that some others in his lab said it tasted better. Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine in Orono, who was not involved in the project, said the paper left some important questions unanswered. There was no scientific evaluation of how the treatment affects taste and texture, she said. Nor did the researchers test whether the treated chocolate would remain appealing after storage, she said.
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