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Let police do their job RCMP APPRECIATE PUBLIC’S HELP BUT NOT WHEN IT IS A SAFETY RISK

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Bar patrons chased after the man who fired two rounds of shots into the ceiling of the Hybrid Lounge on June 26.

Five witnesses to a reckless driver who tried to flee the scene after colliding with several vehicles and a townhouse held down the man in a park until police arrived on Cornett Drive on June 22.

The man was carrying a shotgun in a gun case and ammunition while he tried to get away.

A similar scene unfolded on June 28 when bystanders held a motorist in Fairview who was seen speeding throughout the neighbourhood and tried to flee after rolling his jeep.

A sawed-off shotgun was found in his jeep.

Red Deer RCMP Const. Derek Turner said police rely on the public but they do not want anyone to put themselves in risky situations.

“We are the ones that get paid to put ourselves at risk,” said Turner.

“Help us do our jobs and let us do our jobs.”

The police want the public to help but not put themselves in harm’s way.

In all three recent incidents, the suspects had weapons, which aren’t always visible said Turner.

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Ryley Gilberson, of Lloydminster, bails off his horse named Reay Bay and gets a no score in the last go-round of the Ponoka Stampede Saturday before the finals were to take place on Sunday afternoon. See more photos on Page A6 and coverage of the finals on Page B1.

Ponoka residents clean up after tornado

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Shelley Dedio spent Canada Day cleaning up her backyard after a small twister touched down near Ponoka on Thursday.

Dedio’s home is one of the handful that were damaged by the severe summer storm.

Pictures of broken windows, tree branches and other storm debris scattered around her backyard made the rounds on social media for days.

Environment Canada investigation team surveyed the damage at her home and others around Ponoka before confirming the tornado on Friday.

It was rated as a zero on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF0), the lowest on the scale, with peak winds between 90 and 130 km/hr. In comparison, the 2000 Pine Lake tornado had winds up to 300 km/hr.

The scale measuring tornadoes has changed since 2000 in order to deter-

mine better storm indicators. The most severe on the scale is rated as a five with winds estimated to 315 km/hr.

Heather Rombough, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the survey team is still working on its final report, said Rombough.

“Based on what they found out there it is just an EF0,” said Rombough.

“But for example the Elie, Manitoba tornado (in 2007) was initially rated as a F4. At the time we were using the old scale. Then they ended up finding evidence a few months later that showed it was the first F5 tornado in Canada.

They ended up upgrading the rating quite a while later.”

Dedio and her two sons were not at home when the tornado hit. She had seen the funnels clouds from across the town but a tornado was not on her mind.

“We haven’t had that humidity,” said Dedio, who has lived in the northend home near Hwy 2A for about four years. “With all the thunderstorm

warnings that we had, the humidity was so different that day.”

She estimated that the storm caused thousands of dollars in damage to her sun room and backyard. There was no damage inside the home.

“I was so happy nobody was at home,” Dedio said on Saturday. “The force … it happened so fast.”

The single mother said she takes great pride in her backyard. With help from her sons, she cleaned up most of the mess on July 1.

“Guys don’t enter me in the pride in your property contest now,” said an emotional Dedio. “This is what I do in my spare time … I don’t care about the barbecue … It’s the little things like the (missing ball on her favourite) wind chime.”

A few other homes in Dedio’s cul de sac had suffered damage including one where a portion of the roof was lifted off the house. Others had broken fences, uprooted trees and broken tree branches.

While in other areas of the town,

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you would never know a tornado had touched down.

But it was a tense few minutes on Thursday where the funnel clouds hovered especially at the Ponoka Stampede.

The town had activated its Emergency Operations Centre on June 27 in conjunction with the annual rodeo.

Fortunately the twister was not a big one said Ponoka Mayor Rick Bonnett.

The town has 6,700 residents and swells to about 20,000 during the Ponoka Stampede.

Rombough said July is the typical time of year for tornadoes with the moisture at low levels the air and all the right ingredients coming together.

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Alberta BRIEFS Fatal collision near Blackfalds Two people are dead following a single vehicle collision east of Red Deer on Canada Day. Blackfalds RCMP released few details about the collision.

But it was determined that two occupants — an 18-year-old Penhold man and 16-year-old Springbrook girl — were ejected and died at the scene. There were five people in the vehicle at the time.

Two other occupants were treated on scene and transported to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with serious injuries. A fifth occupant was taken to Red Deer Hospital Centre and released a short time later. The identity of both deceased are not being released. Police say the cause of the collision is still under investigation and further details will be released when available.

Father mistakenly drove over, killed boy while camping Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Although the Canada Day Celebrations in Red Deer were cooled off a little due to some inclement weather Friday afternoon and into the evening the fireworks display went off and could be seen from across the city.

Taking place at Bower Ponds, the light show traditionally marks the end of the Canada Day celebrations in Red Deer and this year was no different. Although many people gather at the ponds and along the river for a close up of the display those gathered on the hill above 55th Street where this photo was taken had and excellent vantage point to take in the finale to the day.

PINCHER CREEK — Alberta RCMP say they are not considering criminal charges against a man who accidentally killed his young son on a camping trip.

Mounties say the man and his family had just set up their trailer at the Castle Falls campground near Pincher Creek, south of Calgary, on Thursday night.

The man was moving a vehicle when he mistakenly drove over the three-year-old.

Fort McMurray Firefighters now battling emotional demons

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — The man who led the battle against The Beast says many Fort McMurray firefighters are now wrestling a different set of demons.

Fire Chief Darby Allen says the emotional toll is hitting home for the crews who worked non-stop for days to beat back the ferocious wildfire that breached the northeastern Alberta city two months ago.

“They went through one of the most significant events that any firefighter could ever go through,” Allen said in a recent interview at Fire Hall No. 1 in downtown Fort McMurray.

Counselling services have been offered from the beginning, but Allen said it’s important that help is available for the long haul.

The blaze was so tough to subdue that Allen has likened it to a wild animal.

“It did seem to have a brain. It did seem to want to do things that we didn’t want it to do. And whatever plan that we came up with, it seemed to come up with its own plan and fight us at every level.”

In the end, about 10 per cent of the town was destroyed, with the majority of the Abasand, Beacon Hill and Waterways neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Now, one of the toughest emotions firefighters are battling is guilt, said Allen.

“You can’t put all of the fire out and sometimes you have to give up an area to go on to another area,” he said. “Sometimes you have to make decisions where you’re going to lose certain properties to save other properties.”

Many firefighters are beating themselves up because they feel like they could have done more.

Some watched their own homes burn, but went back to work.

“The reality is we couldn’t have done more,” said Allen. “My job has been to reassure them that they’ve done everything they could and I do truly believe that there were some incredible efforts to save as many properties as we did.”

In some cases, the call to pull firefighters out of some areas was a matter of life and death, Allen said.

“There were some areas — Abasand, Beacon Hill — where we were fighting the fire in those areas for long periods of time and in the end we had to pull

out of those areas because of the significance of the fire and the overwhelming nature of the fire,” he said.

“We had to pull our resources out of there because they were literally not going to survive if they stayed there.

“Guys feel guilty about that. They wanted to stay and they couldn’t stay.”

In the city generally, it’s a tough time emotionally for residents, said Mayor Melissa Blake.

“You have a bit of a honeymoon period off the getgo and that’s because of that incredible support and human compassion that came through loud and clear from everywhere we were in Alberta or Canada or beyond,” she said in a recent interview.

“The next stage, though, is that when you come

back into your community and you see the loss and destruction, you go into the valley of death almost, where you just go down into the depths of despair, depression, insomnia.”

Alberta Health Services did close to 13,000 counselling sessions between May 10 and June 28, said spokesman Kerry Williamson.

“I know that at times the numbers were upwards of sort of 300 a day and then other days were a little bit quieter,” he said. “But it’s been consistent that we’ve seen relatively high numbers throughout.”

Blake is expecting milestones and anniversaries to be fraught for residents, but eventually things won’t be so raw.

“I just don’t know how long it’s going to take to come out the other side.”

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Trudeau joins thousands at Toronto Pride

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s largest Pride parade marked another milestone Sunday as a sitting prime minister marched for the first time in a colourful celebration that was tempered by last month’s shooting massacre in Orlando, Fla. A river of multi-coloured floats and marchers came to a halt on Yonge Street and stood in silence along with the masses of onlookers to remember the shooting’s 49 victims, predominantly LGBTQ. Trudeau said the Florida tragedy is a reminder that “we can’t let hate go by.”

“We have to speak up anytime there is intolerance or discrimination,” he said as the 36th annual parade kicked off.

Prominent in the procession was a pair of marchers who held a large black banner that read “Orlando” and “We march for those who can’t.”

A group of several marchers, dressed in pastel-coloured robes, each carried signs with the name and age of an Orlando victim as they worked their way down the route.

Trudeau drew a boisterous reaction from those who lined the parade route — he has taken part in the parade before, including last summer, but this was his first as prime minister.

Members of the crowd, some decked out in rainbow gear and outlandish

costumes, posed for selfies with the prime minister while others chanted his name as he passed by.

Other politicians who marched in the parade included Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, Toronto Mayor John Tory, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and Rona Ambrose, interim leader of the federal Conservatives.

Before the festivities, Trudeau attended an outdoor church service in the heart of the city’s gay village where he sang along to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” He also told local news station CP24 that the federal government is exploring the possibility of gender-neutral identification. Ontario announced last week that it would allow the use of a third gender indicator, X, for driver’s licences and health cards.

“It’s something we’re looking at federally, we’re just trying to figure out the best way to get around to doing it,” he said.

Trudeau also downplayed his appearance at the parade as no big deal, noting he’d been attending Pride parades for years.

“It shouldn’t be a big thing that a prime minister’s walking a Pride parade, and from now on it won’t,” he said.

The parade wraps up a month of Pride festivities in Toronto, which saw entertainment heavyweights like George Takei and Lindsay Lohan participate.

The Orlando shooting resulted in

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets splashed with water as he waves a flag while taking part in the annual Pride Parade in Toronto on Sunday. tighter security at the parade. Police officers, many wearing uniforms with the Pride rainbow on them, were visible even along streets adjacent to the parade route.

Many of the officers seemed to be enjoying the experience, posing for

pictures and tweeting them.

The parade briefly stalled when activists from the Black Lives Matter movement staged a sit-in on the parade route. But after talking to Pride officials, the sit-in ended peacefully and the parade continued.

Opinions divided over pride march in Manitoba’s Bible Belt

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS STEINBACH, Man. — Evan Wiens thought this day would never come.

Bullied as a gay teenager in Steinbach, Man., the heart of the province’s so-called Bible Belt, Wiens is now watching as others in the small city organize its first-ever pride march, set for July 9.

“I didn’t think I would ever hear the words ‘Steinbach pride’ in my life,” Wiens says. “Growing up in Steinbach, I experienced a lot of religious guilt … I can remember as early as Grade 3, being told that I was going to hell for liking Harry Potter.”

Steinbach is a prosperous, fast-growing community of 14,000, a 45-minute drive southeast of Winnipeg. It has the kind of recreational facilities, big-box stores and shiny infrastructure you would see in a new subdivision in the provincial capital.

It is also a community with a long small-c conservative, rural history and

a strong religious presence, having been founded by Mennonites in 1874.

Wiens stirred up controversy in 2013 when he set up a gay-straight alliance at the city’s high school. He was originally told he could have the support group but could not put up posters to promote its meetings.

The latest clash over gay rights flared up earlier this year when Michelle McHale’s child was bullied because McHale is in a same-sex relationship. McHale fought unsuccessfully to broaden the area school division’s policy on sensitive issues, which states that same-sex relationships, masturbation and other matters cannot be discussed in classrooms prior to high school, even if students ask questions on the topics.

She filed a human rights complaint and found herself as one of the organizers of the city’s first pride march.

“I was definitely expecting pushback,” McHale says. “Any time you change anything, that’s to be expected, particularly when it’s something like this in a community like this.”

Opinion in the city is sharply divided, although there is very little in the way of heated language. Historically, disagreements in the community are almost universally expressed politely and without raised voices.

“It’s wrong. The Bible forbids it,” area resident Jacob Peters says, calmly, of same-sex relationships as he walks along the city’s main street on a sunny afternoon.

Peters said he opposes the idea of having the pride march in the city, but has no plans to protest it.

“I think the town is changing slowly.

It’s small-town Manitoba so it’ll take time,” says Karen, a women who plans to attend the pride march and who did not want to provide her last name.

Change in the city is evident on some issues.

More than a decade after residents voted to allow liquor sales inside city limits, there is not only a sizable liquor store, but also a pub patio on main street doing brisk business on a recent Friday afternoon. The city council re-

cently released a polite, carefully written statement saying the pride march would neither be endorsed by council nor opposed.

“Council believes that all people, including those who identify as LGBTQ, deserve to be treated with love and respect at all times. Council also recognizes the importance of respecting the rights of individuals and organizations who hold different beliefs from those in the LGBTQ community.”

Opponents of same-sex relationships say they deserve the right to their beliefs, and the right to instruct their children about what they see as right and wrong.

“Homosexuality is a sin. The Bible is clear about that, but so is slander, backbiting, hetero- or homo- sexual lust … lying and on and on we could go,” one local pastor wrote on his church’s website last year.

The area’s member of Parliament, Ted Falk, has said he will not attend the pride march because of his “values of faith, family and community.”

Parks Canada officials say human contact putting wildlife, people at risk

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tourists are repeatedly warned about getting too close to wildlife they come across in the mountains, but Parks Canada officials say despite the advisories, it’s still happening. One recent incident near Lake Louise, involved a grizzly bear feeding near the road just inside one of the fence barriers. Dozens of excited visitors went over to take a look, some standing just steps from the large bear. Parks officials say at one point, a child reached through the wire toward the bear, an exceedingly dangerous thing to do. Kevin Van Tighem, a former superintendent at Banff National Park, says the gatherings of tourists that park officials call “bearjams” are filled with “stupid and irresponsible behaviour.” He says people are not only putting themselves at risk, they are creating problems for the animals by potentially building contact with humans that can later cost them their lives.

“Even though you might feel safe because there is a fence there or something, it doesn’t change the fact that somebody else might get hurt because of this situation,” Van Tighem said.

He said the bear could easily get over the fence if it wanted to.

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“The more you increase stressful interactions and stressful situations between bears and humans, there is more risk of an attack happening, if not at that event, then subsequently.”

The bear in the fence incident has had her fair share of contact with humans, but Van Tighem said it is especially concerning for her because she is at her prime breeding age.

“This six-year-old female knows how to live around people,” Van Tighem said. “I’ve met her personally in the backcountry of Banff. She’s coming into her prime productive years — she’s a very important bear — it would be terrible to lose this bear because of people’s behaviour.”

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Islamic State not just a ‘JV team’ JOSEPH MICALLEF OPINION

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n the pundit frenzy that followed Brexit, a significant anniversary passed by relatively unnoticed.

Two years ago, on June 30, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the existence of the Islamic State (ISIS) and its worldwide caliphate.

Dismissed initially by U.S. President Barack Obama as “the JV team,” ISIS has proven to be remarkably resilient. It has spread its organization to more than three dozen countries around the world and has successfully organized or inspired dozens of attacks against Western targets.

ISIS has lost considerable ground over the past year, and especially over the last six months. It has relinquished between one quarter and one third of its territory. More significantly, it has been ejected from Tikrit, Ramadi and now Fallujah, the principal towns that it held in Anbar province, the Sunni heartland of Iraq. In the meantime, Iraqi forces, in conjunction with Kurdish Peshmerga units, are slowly advancing on the Islamic State’s principal city of Mosul.

In Syria, ISIS has also steadily lost

ground. It has largely lost control of the region along the Syrian-Turkish border, a critical zone essential for its smuggling and resupply operations.

Syrian military forces in the southeast are within 30 miles of Raqqa, the Islamic State capital. On the opposite trajectory, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group comprised largely of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and a combination of Sunni, Assyrian and other ethnic militias, are also advancing on Raqqa, and are roughly equidistant.

As pressure on the Islamic State has mounted, it has adopted a dual strategy to avoid defeat. On the one hand it has avoided pitched battles, relying instead on a scorched earth policy of inflicting maximum casualties through an extended and prolonged urban warfare campaign. At the same time, it has returned to its insurgent roots, organizing bombings against civilian targets in both Syria and Iraq.

In addition, Islamic State has steadily expanded its ability to carry out terrorist attacks, either directly planned or inspired, throughout Western Europe and the United States.

Deadly Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels have left scores killed or injured. It’s estimated that ISIS has at least 200 trained jihadist operatives in Europe, and may have as many as 2,000 jihadists with some weapons and battlefield experience. ISIS itself claims

that the number of jihadists it has infiltrated into Europe exceeds 5,000.

In addition, ISIS militants have been implicated in a range of attacks against soft, tourist oriented, targets in Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey. On June 28, three IS suicide bombers detonated bombs at the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul killing, at last count, 41 people and injuring over 230.

It appears that one of the core strategies of al-Baghdadi is to disrupt the tourist industry in North Africa and Turkey. Interpol has already warned that Islamic State is looking for opportunities to stage such attacks on the European side of the Mediterranean as well.

ISIS has been heavily engaged in the Libyan Civil War. For most of the year it held control of the Libyan city of Sirte — the only urban centre it controlled outside of its core territory.

Indeed, there have been indications that ISIS was considering Libya as a fallback location should they be ousted from Syria and Iraq. Currently, it appears that it may have lost control over large portions of the city to other jihadist groups. The situation remains fluid.

In the United States, ISIS has inspired “lone wolf” attacks against “soft” civilian targets, most notably the attacks in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, and in Orlando on June 12. It is unclear how extensive an orga-

nization Islamic State has in the United States. According to the FBI, it is investigating more than 1,000 Americans believed to have ties to the Islamic State. An ISIS affiliate has been announced in the United States, but it has not formally been recognized by al-Baghdadi.

Most significantly, however, is mounting evidence that Islamic State has been expanding into criminal activities. According to Interpol sources, Islamic State is now involved in the smuggling of marijuana from the Balkans into Western Europe.

In short, despite its recent notable setbacks, the Islamic State continues to be resilient and adaptive. The campaign to retake Mosul will stretch out well into 2017. Despite the progress by both the Syrian military and the SDF, Raqqa is in no immediate danger of falling. In the meantime, Islamic State will continue to expand its international franchises. It is increasing both the scale and frequency of its attacks in Europe and North America, while it also expands its for-profit criminal activity. The “JV team” is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and it continues to show that it can handle anything the “pros” can throw at it.

rural municipalities have special understandable challenges and concerns, there are many benefits to rural residents.

Springbrook is a young, vibrant, active and mobile community of about 1,200 people that already heavily uses the existing trails. There is no doubt that linking those users to a wider network will reap huge benefits to the health, well-being and quality of life to that community.

Rural trails across Canada, including the Blackfalds-Lacombe trail, have demonstrated that the benefits far outweigh the challenges and perceived concerns. ● Trails are a safe alternative for active transportation that avoids the dangerous walk or bike along a busy high-speed highway or other roadway. ● Trails provide an affordable recreational means of improving health and wellness for all age groups. ● Trails encourage a sense of community and place by engaging

with one another and by sharing and exploring their environment. ● Trails improve the quality of life of residents by providing leisurely access to nature and heritage. ● Trails encourage tourism and economic development as local businesses serve trail users. ● And rural trails assist urban and semi-urban people to gain an appreciation of the rural and agricultural lifestyle.

Red Deer County has a huge opportunity to get a significant amount of trail built at a bargain price. The Trans Canada Trail Foundation and Alberta TrailNet have approved 50 per cent funding to the county to a maximum of $1.5 million.

This funding, along with other financial or in-kind donations could be leveraged so that the actual cost to the county is relatively low.

County Council will be making a decision on the morning of Tuesday, July 5 on whether or not to proceed.

Support from county residents will go a long way in assuring that this legacy amenity for present and future generations will go ahead. Potential trail users, especially those living in the county, need to be at that council meeting to show their support for this vital link.

Paul Pettypiece President Central Alberta Regional Trails Society (CARTS)

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Trans Canada Trail will help connect us, improve quality of life Building the Trans Canada Trail in Central Alberta has had many successes in recent years as well as many challenges. Several communities north of Red Deer are now or about to be connected to the longest recreational trail in the world, a legacy project that will connect Canadian communities from coast-tocoast-to-coast. It is currently 86 per cent complete nationally and most of the trail will be on the ground by the fall of 2017 to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday.

Communities south of the city are eager to get connected.

Red Deer County is considering the 11-km section from Red Deer to Springbrook as the next connection to be made. Although RED DEER

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Five young fair-goers get a little weightless on the drop of one of the rides at the Stampede midway.

The Ponoka Stampede is just one great ride after another The Ponoka Stampede wrapped up another year of rodeo and fairground action Sunday, and Central Alberta’s top kickoff event for the summer season didn’t disappoint.

North America’s top rodeo talent and stock were on hand, and fans were treated to multi-day action.

For more coverage of the rodeo’s final day, please see Page B1.

Above: Hats were not mandatory, but when the sun came out, they were a very good idea. Taking in all the rodeo action from the stands Ava Dorohoy, Maddie Perrin and her sister Emily, all of Edmonton, enjoy their front row seats at the rodeo Saturday. Meanwhile, behind the chutes, right, it was all-denim, all the time.

LEFT: To get access to the south side of the rodeo infield seating and competition area, competitors, judges, officials and audience members all have to make their way under the horse racing track via a tunnel.

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115 KILLED IN CAR BOMBING IRAQ

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, security and medical officials said.

The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, was the deadliest in months in the Iraqi capital, and came despite a series of recent gains against the extremists, including the capture of Fallujah, which was believed to have been a source of such attacks.

The bomb went off shortly after midnight in a crowded shopping area in the central Karada district, killing at least 115 people and wounding 187, according to a police official. The dead included at least 15 children, 10 women and six policemen. At least twelve other people were still missing and feared dead.

Karada is a major commercial area lined with clothing and jewelry stores, restaurants and cafes, and was packed with shoppers ahead of Wednesday’s Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Most of the victims were inside a multi-story shopping and amusement mall, where dozens burned to death or suffocated, police said.

It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since July 2015 and among the worst single bombings in more than a decade of war and insurgency.

“It was like an earthquake,” said Karim Sami, a 35-year-old street vendor. “I wrapped up my goods and was heading home when I saw a fireball with a thunderous bombing,” the father of three said.

“I was so scared to go back and started to make phone calls to my friends, but none answered.” He said that one of his friends was killed, another was wounded and one was still missing.

As with many previous attacks, IS swiftly claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online, saying it had targeted Shiite Muslims.

The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the statement, but it was posted on a militant website commonly used by the extremists.

Canada BRIEFS Quebec man jumps into river to avoid breathalyzer after traffic stop: police SCOTT, Que. — A Quebec man who police say ran away and jumped in a river when officers tried to give him a breathalyzer test will face several charges.

Quebec provincial police Sgt. Claude Denis said the man was pulled over early Sunday morning after cutting off a patrol vehicle.

The 29-year-old suspect then jumped in the river near the town of Scott, about 45 kilometres south of Quebec City.

Denis added that authorities believed the man may have been inebriated at the time.

He said the suspect was arrested several hours later after he was spotted walking down the road wearing wet clothes that included a stolen pair of firefighter’s pants.

Investigators believe the man broke into the shed where the clothes were stored after he escaped from the river.

According to Denis, the man decided to don the pants “because he was cold.”

The suspect, who is known to police, will remain in custody pending a court appearance on Monday.

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Mourners carry the Iraqi flag-draped coffin of, Talib Hassan, 35, who was killed of bomb in Karada neighborhood, during a funeral procession at the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, 160 kilometres south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday. Dozens of people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, Iraqi officials said.

Firefighters and civilians could be seen carrying the dead away, their bodies wrapped in blankets and sheets. Smoke billowed from the shopping centre, which was surrounded by the twisted and burned wreckage of cars and market stalls. A group of women were sitting on the pavement, crying for their loved ones.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off in the mostly Shiite Shaab neighbourhood, killing five people and wounding 16, another police officer said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of IS militants.

The Sunni extremists frequently target the country’s Shiite majority and Shiite-led security forces, viewing

them as apostates deserving of death.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures from both attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

The attacks came just a little over a week after Iraqi forces declared Fallujah “fully liberated,” marking a major victory against IS. The city, less than an hour’s drive from Baghdad, had been the first Iraqi urban centre to fall to IS, in January 2014, and was its last major stronghold in the vast, Sunni Anbar province.

On Sunday, the Joint Military Operation Command announced that government forces retook seven villages south of the IS-held city of Mosul as

part of a small-scale operation started in March aimed at clearing areas outside the city to cut the supply lines and enable more troops to be deployed ahead of a major operation.

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to IS when the militants swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014. It is the largest city in the group’s self-styled caliphate.

Hours after the Baghdad bombing, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and lawmakers visited the blast site. Video footage uploaded to social media showed an angry crowd, with people calling al-Abadi a “thief” and shouting at his convoy. Eyewitnesses said the crowd pelted al-Abadi’s car with rocks, shoes and jerry cans.

He is expected to face a number of charges including obstructing police, refusing to undergo an approved screening device, break and enter, theft and mischief.

Mango from running away before bringing him into captivity.

Police say they were able to find the monkey’s owner. And while monkey ownership isn’t outlawed provincewide, there are bylaws against it in Innisfil, Ont., where the owner lives.

Sgt. James Buchanan of the South Simcoe police says the city will carry out a bylaw investigation this week.

And Mango isn’t the first loose monkey Ontario officials have had to capture.

In 2012, Darwin the macaque became an Internet sensation after he was spotted wearing a shearling coat in an Ikea parking lot.

And Buchanan says capturing Mango wasn’t easy.

“It was all over the place,” Buchanan said of Mango. “We didn’t know how to catch a monkey, so we called the Bear Creek Animal Sanctuary.”

But before officials from the sanctuary got to the scene, officers had to come up with a way to keep the monkey nearby.

“The police officers had some bananas in their lunch, so they were giving the monkey bananas so it wouldn’t take off,” Buchanan said. “So the monkey hung out, because it liked the bananas.”

loaded with frozen lobster.

Caraquet RCMP say video surveillance from a processing plant in Grand Anse shows a dark-coloured Volvo transport truck taking off with the tractor trailer Friday night. The unmarked trailer is 16 metres long and has Nova Scotia licence plates.

Cpl. Jayson Hansen is warning seafood lovers to steer clear of deals that seem too good to be true, saying possession of any stolen good is a crime.

He says police are not disclosing the value of the pilfered lobsters because it might encourage illegal sales, but that the amount is more than $5,000.

Homicide police arrest teen after injured baby dies in Saskatoon hospital Saskatoon police say a teenage girl is in custody after an infant died on the weekend.

Officers were called early Sunday to a home in the College Park neighbourhood, where they found the injured boy. The baby was taken to hospital, where he later died.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old girl, who is not a relative of the child.

Officers could not provide further details in the case, including what charges the girl might face.

They say the death marks the city’s ninth homicide of the year.

Monkey business: Ontario police use bananas to lure monkey to captivity INNISFIL, Ont. — Police in a small central Ontario town had to use bananas to lure a renegade monkey into captivity Sunday morning after it was spotted on the loose in a residential area.

Police say a passerby saw the spider monkey — whose name is Mango — at about 6 a.m.

Officers had to use bananas to keep

Police in New Brunswick searching for stolen trailer filled with frozen lobster CARAQUET, N.B. — Police in New Brunswick are asking the public to be on the lookout for a stolen trailer

Military identifies two soldiers as victims of small plane crash in Manitoba WINNIPEG — The names of the two victims killed in a fatal plane crash near Winnipeg have now been released by 1 Canadian Air Division and the Canadian NORAD Region headquarters in Winnipeg.

Capt. Bradley Ashcroft and Capt.

Zachary Cloutier-Gill were flying in a non-military aircraft and were not on duty at the time of the crash.

Ashcroft served in the Canadian Armed Forces for over nine years and was a member of the construction engineering branch.

Cloutier-Gill served for nearly 12 years and was an air combat systems officer.

Both men were stationed at the Winnipeg base.

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‘I think it matters’ KIM CAMPBELL ON BEING THE FIRST AND ONLY FEMALE PM IN CANADA

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The speech U.S. President Barack Obama delivered in Ottawa last week was rife with references to tropes of Canadian history and culture, including hockey rinks, cross-border shopping trips and the fact that Canada long ago beat the Americans to having a female head of government.

“Here in Canada, a woman has already risen to the highest office in the land,” Obama told the House of Commons.

That woman, of course, is Kim Campbell.

The former Progressive Conservative prime minister spoke to The Canadian Press earlier in the week about women in politics, including presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and what it is like to be the only woman whose portrait is hanging in the gallery of Canadian prime ministers.

Every once in a while, Campbell said, someone on Twitter decides to tell her she was only prime minister for about five minutes.

“My husband’s reaction to people who say that is: ‘I suppose your wife was busy that weekend!’ ” Campbell said by telephone from Edmonton.

It was actually four months, from June 25 to Nov. 3, 1993, and if anyone is really counting, she points out her 131-day term was neither the shortest nor the second-shortest as far as Canadian prime ministers go.

She was also the first female leader of the Progressive Conservatives, winning the leadership race after former prime minister Brian Mulroney resigned, the first female defence minister in any NATO country, the first woman to serve as attorney general in Canada and, before any of those accomplishments, the first girl to be president of her high school student council in Vancouver.

As the founding principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta, Campbell now spends a lot of time thinking about all the things that can get in the way of women and other “non-prototypical leaders” taking on those roles.

“We all carry around implicit attitudes based on how we have understood the way the world works as we grow up and if you never see a certain kind of person in a certain job, and all of a sudden somebody who looks or sounds like that shows up, you go ‘Oh, wait a minute. Who are you? You don’t belong here,’ ” she said.

She said she believes this is a factor in some of the criticism of Clinton, who was First Lady to former U.S. president Bill Clinton when Campbell first met her at the G7 Summit in Tokyo in 1993.

“Things that people hate about her … are kind of small potatoes, compared to other people who have run for public office,” said Campbell, who then men-

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell listens to a speaker at a meeting of the Canadian Club in downtown Vancouver. The speech U.S. President Barack Obama delivered in Ottawa last week was rife with references to tropes of Canadian history and culture, including hockey rinks, cross-border shopping trips and the fact that Canada long ago beat the Americans to having a female head of government. tioned the email scandal and the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi.

“You’re looking for the way to be able to say ‘Aha! You see? That’s why I’m not going to vote for her.’

But underlying it is really this sense of discomfort that ‘I’ve never voted for somebody like that for president.’ “ Campbell said that as someone from the same generation of feminists — they were both born in 1947 — she admires Clinton for always having advocated for “women’s issues” at a time when other women were worried doing so would lead to them being marginalized as leaders.

“We were kind of sucked into this notion that if we wanted to be powerful, we had to be powerful in the boys’ club, and she didn’t buy into that,” Campbell said of Clinton.

Campbell also said women have to reach a higher bar.

“The fact that somebody like Donald Trump could be taken seriously for a nanosecond,” said Campbell, referring to the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee.

“No woman like that could be taken seriously.”

Campbell said she had a hard time deciding whether she wanted to try and be the first prime minister in Canada, because she knew even then the odds of winning the 1993 election were slim to none.

“My concern was, knowing that was the case, would my being leader undermine credibility for women? And that was a hard decision,” she said.

Given Canada has not had a woman prime minister since, Campbell was asked to answer her own question.

“I don’t think so. I don’t think I’m saying that just to make myself feel better,” she said.

She said she often gets messages from elementary schoolchildren who have picked her for their project on prime ministers.

“I think for young people to think that this is something that a woman could do and should aspire to, I think it matters,” she said.

“Imagine if there still was not a woman there.

It’s 150 years and I’m the only woman who was ever there.”

Woman convicted of killing ex-lover’s nephew granted day parole

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An Ontario woman who started a family with another inmate and earned two degrees while serving a life sentence for killing a child has again been given a taste of freedom, though it may be short-lived.

Amina Chaudhary, 54, was granted day parole and released to a halfway house last month but ongoing efforts to have her deported may mean she’ll be detained by immigration authorities.

Chaudhary was convicted in 1984 of killing her former lover’s eight-yearold nephew but maintains her innocence to this day. She’s now seeking a ministerial review of her case after an unsuccessful appeal and judicial review.

She met her husband, Anees Chaudhary — also a convicted murderer — while in pre-trial custody. The couple’s three children, all of whom have autism or Asperger syndrome, were

raised by friends or the state and are now adults.

Chaudhary was previously granted day parole and her husband full parole but both were taken back into custody roughly five years ago over concerns about financial irregularities, though no charges were laid. Her husband has since been granted day parole.

Chaudhary was also released on day parole for six months in 2012 but spent that time in custody on a deportation order, which immigration officials have not been able to enforce because neither India nor the U.K. will issue her travel documents.

After going on several unescorted trips to visit her husband in the past year, she sought full parole in June, but a Parole Board of Canada panel instead gave her day parole, saying she needs to “establish a history of credibility” before being granted more freedom.

Several conditions have also been

imposed on Chaudhary, including that she refrain from contacting the victim’s family or associating with anyone who may be involved in criminal activity, and continue to undergo counselling for anger management.

“The severity of your criminal offending, your continued stance of innocence, your documented and demonstrated lack of transparency and your need of ongoing psychological intervention speak to the requirement of a very closely monitored and structured release environment inherent in a (halfway house),” the panel said in its written decision.

“You have developed a reputation over the years as being someone who attempts to manipulate the system, are described in psychological reporting as deceptive and evasive and by your own admission, you can be difficult to manage,” it said.

Chaudhary’s most recent psychological assessment, which was conducted in May, labelled her a low to moderate

risk of reoffending.

At her June hearing, she once again denied carrying out the killing but refused to name the person she believes is responsible.

Prosecutors maintained a thirst for revenge led Chaudhary to slay eightyear-old Rajesh Gupta, who was left in her care while his uncle, her ex-lover, travelled to India for an arranged marriage to another woman.

Gupta was strangled in February 1982 with the drawstring cord of his ski jacket hood, packed in a cardboard box and dumped in a remote section of east Toronto where the former couple used to meet.

Chaudhary has said she was pregnant and had an arm wound at the time and would not have been able to kill a struggling boy. At her trial, however, now-disgraced pathologist Charles Smith testified that autopsy photos showed damage to Gupta’s skull indicating the boy had been knocked out before he was murdered.

Nobel laureate Wiesel remembered at service NEW YORK — Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered at Fifth Avenue Synagogue and praised the endurance and eloquence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and mourned him as one of the last witnesses to the Nazis’ atrocities.

“This is really the double tragedy of it, not only the loss of someone who was so rare and unusual but the fact that those ranks are thinning out,” Rabbi Perry Berkowitz, president of the American Jewish Heritage Organization and a former assistant to Wiesel, said before the service at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. “At the same time anti-Semitism, Holocaust revisionism keeps rising. The fear is that when there are no more survivors left, will the world learn the lesson because those voices will be silenced?”

Millions first learned about the Holocaust through Wiesel, who began publishing in the 1950s, a time when memories of the Nazis’ atrocities were raw and repressed. He shared the harrowing story of his internment at Auschwitz as a teenager through his classic memoir Night, one of the most widely read and discussed books of the 20th century.

The Holocaust happened more than 70 years ago and few authors from that time remain. Another Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Hungary’s Imre Kertesz, died earlier this year. Like Wiesel, he was 87.

While Berkowitz and others worry that the Holocaust’s lessons will be forgotten, some note that Wiesel himself worked to make memories endure. Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said before the service that Wiesel had written dozens of books. Sara Bloomfield, director of the United

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RCMP: Unpredictable He said the suspects may respond in unpredictable ways and the situations could have been much worse.

No was injured in all three incidents.

“That’s something the general public doesn’t realize,” said Turner.

“You may not see it on them on their person. They may have something on them and they may be well versed on the use of those items too.”

States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., credited Wiesel with making organizations like hers possible.

“Night really put Elie Wiesel’s personal memories into our personal consciousness and it ended up spawning a global remembrance movement that is very vital today,” she said.

“He carried a message universally, he carried the Jewish pain, the message of Jewish tragedy to the world but he took it way beyond,” Foxman said. “He stood up for the people in Rwanda, he stood up for the Yugoslavians, he stood up for the Cambodians,” said Foxman, who has known Wiesel for decades.

On Sunday, mourners shared personal memories. Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, remembered visiting Auschwitz with Wiesel in the 1980s and was struck that Wiesel’s response was not one of hate, but of “great sadness.”

It may set the bystander up for a potential lawsuit or criminal charges depending on the situation, said Turner.

Turner said public safety and keeping everyone safe is our priority.

The public has a role to play as a good witness.

“What we want people to do is to be good witnesses,” he said.

“Get descriptions of people, what they are wearing, what they are driving and the licence’s plate.

Contact us right away so we can act on those things.”

In March Dawson Wegner Cramer, 23, was killed after trying to stop thieves from stealing his truck in Normandeau. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Riverlands Area Redevelopment Plan Update and Land Use Bylaw Amendments: Notice of Public Consultation The Riverlands Area is going to be home to a new residential neighbourhood in our downtown, and The City of Red Deer is updating the Riverlands Area Redevelopment Plan in preparation for these changes.

The ideas the community provided in the past are captured in the 2000 Riverlands Community Plan, the Culture Vision, the 2009 Greater Downtown Action Plan, the 2011 Area Redevelopment Plan and the 2015 Riverlands Urban Design Concept. Each plan was further re½ned to incorporate the ideas and new input from the community at each stage of the planning.

The City of Red Deer will host an Open House to share preliminary information regarding the Area Redevelopment Plan Update and the proposed three related Riverlands Land Use Districts. We welcome all interested landowners, tenants and members of the public to attend the open house to share their thoughts and ask questions.

If you want more information or cannot attend the open house, please visit www.reddeer.ca/riverlands for more details, which will be available July 11, 2016 or contact Planning Services at planning@reddeer.ca and 403-406-8700. Thank you for your interest and participation, we look forward to your feedback.

Riverlands Open House Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch Lower Meeting Room Snell Auditorium, 4818 49th Street

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With his guitar case open to accept donations from passing shoppers, country and western performer Boots Graham of Red Deer belts out one of his songs at the Red Deer Market at the Memorial Centre on Saturday. Fine weather greeted shoppers to the weekly market, and that only helped market day for the Canada Day long weekend to promise some brisk business.

Canadian travel to Britain spikes with Brexit-led drop in the pound

BY DAN HEALING THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Travel companies say more Canadians are looking at vacations in the United Kingdom because of the dropping British pound in the wake of the country’s decision to leave the European Union.

Melisse Hinkle of Cheapflights.ca says the travel website experienced a 50 per cent spike in searches for flights from Canada to the U.K. on the weekend after the June 23 vote and interest has been strong since.

“Savvy travellers have realized that, while the long-term impact of the Brexit means big changes for travel to and within Europe, there is an immediate opportunity for more affordable

travel,” she said in an email.

Hinkle attributed the spike in interest to the drop in the pound’s value against the loonie, making everything from London flights to West End theatre tickets cheaper for Canadians.

Cheapflights.ca said in a blog post that average airfares on flights to London from Canada in August were already cheaper by about 11 per cent compared with last August. That’s consistent with a recent report from Montreal-based tour operator Transat AT, which said added service to London

by Air Canada and WestJet Airlines had forced it to lower its prices to sell seats.

The blog warned that Britain may be more crowded this summer, pointing out that searches for flights from the U.S. to the U.K. doubled in the

days after the vote while those from China jumped 61 per cent and searches from EU countries went up more than 30 per cent.

It said U.K. citizens are also more likely to vacation close to home.

The British pound rapidly fell to three-decade lows after the referendum, though it has since regained some ground.

Senior economist Royce Mendes of CIBC says he expects the pound to drop to C$1.70 over the next three months due to political uncertainty and predicted interest rate cuts from the Bank of England before reversing course and rising near the end of the year.

Before the Brexit vote, CIBC had forecast the pound’s value would rise to C$2.02 by Sept. 30.

Postal workers make new proposal, and hold off on strike notice UNION OPPOSES OFFER THAT WOULD SWITCH TO RRSP-STYLE PENSION PLAN FOR NEW WORKERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The union representing postal workers says it has presented Canada Post with new offers, and workers won’t be striking before Wednesday at the earliest.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers must give 72 hours notice of any job action by its 50,000 members and it hasn’t done so.

Canada Post is also allowed to lock out its workers but it also hasn’t served notice of a lockout.

The two sides both say the number one sticking point in negotiations involves changes to employee pension plans.

Canada Post made new contract proposals a week ago, and on Friday, the union came forward with a counter-offer.

The union is proposing wage hikes, and rejecting Canada Post’s suggestion that new employees get a pension plan that operates like an RRSP, called defined contribution That plan would replace the defined benefit plan for current employees, which guarantees a set level of retirement benefits.

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Post said in a written statement that the union’s newest proposed plan would add “at least $1 billion” in costs over the next three years.

The statement also says that two other unions representing Canada Post workers have agreed to the pension changes, and only CUPW is holding out.

The two sides were continuing to negotiate, the union said Saturday.

The last time Canada Post experienced a work stoppage was in 2011, which included 10 days of rotating strikes and a lockout before employees were eventuallu legislated back to work by the federal government..

“We’re looking at Q3 (the third quarter) to be the strongest point and after that the Canadian dollar will start to depreciate against sterling,” he said.

Spokeswoman Allison Wallace of Flight Centre Travel Group agreed that interest in U.K. is up but said bookings aren’t likely to follow.

“This is largely due to the fact that we’re already into high season for travelling to Europe so availability is low, keeping prices high,” she said in an email. “If we see an effect, it will be much more significant going into next summer.”

WestJet’s new flights to London’s Gatwick Airport began in May and have been very popular, said spokeswoman Lauren Stewart. She said it’s too early to say whether demand for the flights has increased.

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Lloydminster sets fee on businesses selling tobacco products

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LLOYDMINSTER, Sask. — The city of Lloydminster is Saskatchewan’s first community to impose an annual fee on businesses which choose to sell tobacco.

Businesses will have to pay $750 a year to sell tobacco products, and another $350 if they sell flavoured tobacco.

Donna Pasiechnik with the Canadian Cancer Society says the new licence will help identify just which businesses are actually selling tobacco.

Currently, pharmacies are not allowed to sell but any other retailer can.

Pasiechnik said she also believes the licence might force some retailers to think twice about selling tobacco.

Small businesses can go online for capital TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE One of the challenges that small businesses face — if not the greatest of them — is to raise money to help them get started, get established and grow.

Small businesses face unique challenges when looking for financing. According to recent data, borrowing by small businesses is on the rise.

In November of last year, the small business lending index (a measure of the volume of small business loans issued over the last 30 days based on data from PayNet’s largest commercial and industrial lenders) rose to 138.3 from 132.6, primarily due to demand from the manufacturing, agriculture and construction sectors.

Traditionally many small businesses approach their local bank for financing. A Canadian Federation of Independent Business handout on how to get a better deal at the bank gives advice on what to do when approaching the bank for money.

This includes asking for references from other businesses, being prepared with financial statements, business plans and/or inventory and asset information, identifying possible sources of collateral and maintaining a strong credit rating.

Then there’s the federal government’s small business financing program. It is designed to help new businesses get started and established firms make improvements, and help them expand and improve access to loans that might not otherwise be available to them.

Under the program, small businesses or start-ups operating for profit in Canada with gross annual revenues of $10 million or less are eligible for up to a maximum of $1 million from any one borrower, of which no more than $350,000 can be used to finance the purchase or improvement of leasehold equipment.

With advances in technology, however, small businesses today are going online in greater numbers to get financing more quickly and easily than through traditional sources “It’s always been difficult for small businesses to find capital and raise money, even in good times,” says Jeff Mittelman, CEO of on-line financing provider Thinking Capital. “With the technology available they can go online, provide their information and get an answer and financing within a day or two.”

Thinking Capital, for example, will provide financing from $5,000 to $300,000 to Canadian-owned businesses which have been in business for at least six months and have average monthly sales of at least $7,000.

Many of Thinking Capitals clients are small community businesses like hair salons, restaurants and dry cleaners – “local companies that form communities all across the country,” Mittelman says.

Clients can access their account online anytime, anywhere, get expert support and advice via phone, chat and email, get additional financing when they need it, and access regular tips and resources to help them grow their businesses.

Thinking Capital has developed strategic partnerships with major North American banks, payment processors, technology providers, web publishers and other groups to help small businesses secure financing — major brand names like CIBC, Scotia Bank and Staples.

Companies like Thinking Capital — often referred to as fintechs – are popping up all over the world. A study by Accenture found that global investment in fintech ventures was more than $12 billion in 2014.

The United States had the largest share of fintech investments, but the highest rate of growth now appears to be happening in Europe.

“This is a very exciting time for small businesses to change how and from where they borrow money,” says Mittelman. “Technology is being used in such a way that banking is moving away from the branch and going on line and to mobile phones. Even the local pizza guy has an on-line footprint. Online banking is making going to the local branch archaic.”

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

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Family fights to control key Canada-US link KEVIN WILLIAMS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Every year, $100 billion in trade passes back and forth between the United States and Canada here — roughly 16.5 percent of the total annual trade between the two countries. And it all trundles across the traffic-impaired and slowly declining 86-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

The Ambassador’s questionable condition — concrete chunks rained down upon the Canadian side last year — has trade experts concerned that a vital File photo by BLOOMBERG NEWS route could come to an unexpected halt. Truck V e h i c l e s c r o s s i n t o companies, meanwhile, W i n d s o r , Ontario, decry delays that can make crossing the less after passing over the than 3-km bridge a four- Ambassador Bridge from hour hassle.

Detroit, Michigan. The Canada promises to wealthy family that owns solve all of that with its $2.1 billion planned the bridge is fighting a Gordie Howe Interna- proposed new bridge. tional Bridge, which would begin construction within the year and open in 2020. It ranks as the country’s single biggest infrastructural priority. And it has the added emotional pull of being named after the beloved Howe, a Canadian ice hockey legend who played for the Detroit Red Wings for 25 seasons, and who just passed away last month at age 88.

But the new expanse would bring bitter defeat to the wealthy Michigan family that owns — and profits

heavily from — the Ambassador.

They are not giving up without a fight. The Moroun family—- led by 89-year-old patriarch Manuel “Matty” Moroun — has owned the Ambassador since 1978.

The family has been pulling every lever to stall the Gordie Howe, including litigation challenging the approval process and asserting its singular right to operate a bridge traversing the two countries. So far, the courts have dismissed these suits, including one two weeks ago, in which a federal judge found that contrary to the Moroun’s claims, “the crossing agreement was neither arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion nor unlawful.”

It’s clear why the Morouns are battling so hard: One study released in 2008 by the Detroit River International Border Crossing Group estimated the Ambassador would lose 75 per cent of its toll revenue with the opening of the Gordie Howe. It’s unclear precisely how much revenue that is, though that same study estimated that the Gordie Howe would generate $70 million annually for Canada.

The Ambassador Bridge, the only privately owned border-crossing bridge connecting the United States and Canada, is a relic of the heady days of the pre-Depression 1920s, when money could move mountains and, in this case, build bridges.

But the family that owns the Ambassador is having a difficult time defending it today.

“The Ambassador needs to be replaced,” said William P. Anderson, director of the Cross-Border Institute at the University of Windsor. He can watch the trucks crawl across the bridge from his warren of offices overlooking the Detroit River.

Traffic going into Windsor gets funneled onto busy Huron Church Road, which frequently clogs with trucks. The road is hemmed in by motels, strip malls, the occasional Tim Horton’s and other gulps of Canadian culture for 3 crawling kilometers until, mercifully, all that traffic merges onto the King’s Highway 401, Ontario’s busiest freeway. Westbound truckers have to endure the same gauntlet in reverse. The Moroun family contends that the Blue Water Bridge, connecting Ontario with Port Huron, Mich., and more than an hour away, provides plenty

of backup for the Ambassador. They also point to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, which connects under the Detroit River, though that doesn’t allow trucks.

The Morouns have been seeking permits and approval to build their own alternative for the Ambassador: a new bridge that would run parallel to it, and would allow the Ambassador to close for a time for repairs and improvements.

The second, as-yet unnamed Moroun bridge, did receive approval by the U.S. Coast Guard, but still faces scrutiny by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and U.S. National Park Service. It would also need the support of Canadian authorities, who have already raised numerous concerns.

The Gordie Howe, meanwhile, offers other upsides, aside from a faster alternative route.

The bridge would connect Windsor to the Detroit neighborhood of Delray, a decaying shell dotted with abandoned warehouses, vacant lots and boarded-up homes. But advocates believe the bridge could transform the neighborhood through 150 acres of green spaces, bikeways, shops and customs facilities, all funded by Canada. The tug-of-war over who can build the better bridge has brought the blight that pockmarks Detroit across the river to Windsor.

Neighborhoods of tidy residential homes near the University of Windsor sit abandoned and boarded up. The Morouns have purchased dozens of homes at the base of the bridge in hopes of using the land for a planned plaza area around the bridge.

Those homes have been allowed to decay, and residents blame the Morouns for creating a blight and lowering property values.

“They are lot-busting,” says Mary Ann Cuderman, an outspoken critic of the Morouns, referring to their pr actice of buying up and boarding up.

The city won’t allow the Morouns to destroy the buildings for fear it would end up slowly driving everyone else from the entire neighborhood. So a standoff continues. Even the National Park Service finds itself entrained in the morass. They own a prime piece of riverfront land in Detroit that the Marouns need. The Morouns would like to trade an adjacent piece of land with the Park Service, but the agency has not given final approval for this.

Fatigue cracks on rail cars slows Philly transit system

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — The transit agency serving Philadelphia and its suburbs is warning regional rail riders of possible major disruptions in the days and weeks ahead after the company had to take about one-third of regional rail cars out of service due to a structural problem.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said all its 120 Silverliner V cars were taken out of service after workers noticed a “slight lean” on one of the cars and found a fractured beam in the suspension system. SEPTA immediately put a speed restriction on the cars and took them out of service Friday night. Only five of 100 cars inspected so far don’t have cracks, officials said.

“We are good through the July 4th holiday,” SEPTA General Manager Jeffrey Knueppel told reporters Sunday. “With one-third of our fleet out of service, however, Tuesday is the challenge — and, unfortunately, it will be

rough on our railroad customers.”

Knueppel said officials plan to run Tuesday’s regional rail lines on a modified Saturday schedule developed for weather emergencies and adding additional service during rush hours, approximately every 30 minutes. The company is looking at equipment leases and service arrangements with New Jersey Transit and Amtrak, and increasing bus service.

“We ask for our riders’ patience during this difficult time,” Knueppel said. “The first days and weeks of this adjustment time should prove to be the hardest.”

Knueppel said the cars are still under warranty, and manufacturer Hyundai-Rotem Corp. in South Korea is helping to locate and expedite materials for repair and replacement. The company is assembling engineers to determine whether welding can fix the problem or whether the beams will have to be replaced. The company eventually plans a full replacement program with a new design.

“Given the high number of cracked

equalizer beams, even an interim fix will take considerable time,” Knueppel said. “It is likely that car shortages will persist on the railroad at least through July and August.”

SEPTA also plans to bolster service on the Market-Frankford, Broad Street, Norristown High-Speed line and Media-Sharon Hill trolley lines, and is working with the city and school district to increase parking along those lines, for example at nearby schools where students are out for the summer.

“It is likely that the trains at interior railroad stations — those closest to Center City — will prove difficult to get on due to overcrowding conditions in the morning,” he said. “These service options may be especially appropriate

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for those regular railroad riders.”

Knueppel said service related to the Democratic National Convention at the end of the month is expected to involve the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines more than regional rail lines.

No such problems have occurred in 40-plus years on Silverliner IV cars, Knueppel said.

The Silverliner V cars were purchased for $274 million from Hyundai-Rotem Corp. in South Korea arrived between 2010 and 2013 after being shipped to South Philadelphia for final assembly. Their implementation was delayed several times, with the company in 2010 attributing the delays to late shipments, poor workmanship and management problems.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s finance minister says the oil-exporting country has posted a budget deficit of $18.2 billion for the most recent fiscal year as lower crude prices slash into government revenue.

Anas al-Saleh, who is also the acting oil minister, was quoted in the staterun Kuwait News Agency on Sunday as saying the deficit was nearly $9 billion less than budgeted for.

The new fiscal year in Kuwait began

April 1.

Kuwait’s budget deficit reflects the impact lower oil prices have had on crude exporters, particularly Gulf Arab monarchies that rely on oil revenues to support generous subsidies, welfare benefits and public sector wages.

Al-Saleh was quoted as saying Kuwait is “facing serious challenges” that require trimming spending, diversifying the economy, creating more jobs for Kuwaitis and attracting greater foreign investment.

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, July 4, 2016

Hanchey gets big win in Ponoka DIANNE FINSTAD RODEO It’s something on every pro cowboy’s wish list – win the Ponoka Stampede. Shane Hanchey has been coming all the way from Sulphur, Louisiana for half a dozen years in pursuit of that goal. Sunday night at the 80th annual event, he finally made it happen, and it only took 7.5 seconds.

With a hot rope, his favorite horse and the right calf, Hanchey scooped up the big prize for the tie-down roping in the Showdown round, wrapping up a total payout from Ponoka of $14,354.

“I’ve been to the Showdown a few times, and it somehow eluded me,” said the 2013 World Champion. “Just today felt like one of those days that was going to be good.”

“Curtis Cassidy had that calf on Friday and broke the barrier on him. Curtis, luckily, was here, and I talked to him about it. He told me it was one you want, and it’s one that will work for you and your horse for sure. It worked out.”

“Honestly, I didn’t expect to go that fast. It just kind of happened. It felt like everything was in slow motion, and that’s what happens when we practice and prepare so much, and it comes second nature to us.”

Hanchey finished second in the average, after catching a calf in 8.7 seconds in the afternoon Finals behind leader Chad Johnson. Johnson looked

fast in the Showdown at 8.7 second but he broke the barrier and got the ten second penalty. Eckville’s Clayton Smith made the Showdown round, and ended up third for a $6572 injection into his pro season.

Caleb Bennett also picked up his first Ponoka Stampede bareback championship. The Utah cowboy was matched with the C5 horse Virgil in a star studded Showdown pen of horses.

That’s the same horse that bucked him off at last year’s Ponoka Finals. This time he wound up with 89 points on the grey outlaw, claiming the buckle, the jacket, and a whopping $16,079.

“It’s been a huge goal for me,” grinned Bennett. “I’ve been coming here for the last four years, and ever since I set foot in this arena, it’s been on the bucket list to win. What a better way to do it than a rematch with Virgil. He bucked, a little bit stronger than I was expecting. When he came around there, he about got me in the dirt again, but I was bound and determined to make it work.”

In the Sunday afternoon bareback Finals at Ponoka, Jake Vold had the highest mark with 90.75 points on the same horse that cost him the Ponoka title last year, Calgary’s Special Delivery. But the horse got his revenge on the Ponoka-raised cowboy, who injured his ribs on the ride and wasn’t able to get on in the Showdown round.

The Showdown round of saddle bronc riding was marred by a premature presentation. Initially the awards were given to Nanton’s Clay Elliot for an 84.75 point ride on the Outlaw Buckers horse Lunatic Party. But a dou-

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Steer wrestler Stephen Culling of Fort St. John; B.C. manages to hold on for a Ponoka Stampede Rodeo Showdown win despite breaking the barrier July 3. ble check of the judge’s cards showed Texan Jacobs Crawley actually had the same mark on Timely Delivery, so they loaded the chutes with two more horses for a ride-off. There, Crawley was 87 points on Black Hills, while Elliott was just 84 on Xpress Delivery. So Crawley wound up with the second Ponoka championship of his career, plus $9831. He also took home the buckle and the jacket, but Elliott split the Showdown bonus money with him and earned $13,452 altogether.

In a challenging week of steer wrestling, it seemed only fitting that the Showdown Round didn’t quite go as expected, including a missed steer, an ornery one that wouldn’t cooperate, and two missed barriers. Stephen Culling of Fort St. John, BC managed to win the title with his time of 13.9 seconds, which included the barrier penalty.

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Jays rout Indians

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 17 Indians 1 TORONTO — With the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen still reeling from a Canada Day marathon, the club needed another deep outing on Sunday from their starter.

J.A. Happ delivered by pitching seven innings of one-run ball while allowing five hits and striking out a season-high 11 in a 17-1 thumping of the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre.

The 33-year-old retired 11 straight after allowing a first inning double to Cleveland’s Jason Kipnis.

“Today, a crucial game, we needed a good outing,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “We were pretty banged up, didn’t have a whole lot in the bullpen.”

“He’s grown into a little more of a power pitcher, made some adjustments and now he’s a really, really good pitcher.”

The win improved Happ’s season record to 11-3 — the most wins by a Toronto pitcher before the all-star break since Roy Halladay had 11 in 2008.

Happ credited his ability to locate secondary pitches on his solid performance.

“I think it was a combination: locating the fastball, it’s always where you start and throwing off-speed, off of that,” he said. “Russ (Martin) did a great job, we had some good combinations I felt like.”

The Indians (49-32) finally got to Happ in the seventh when Yan Gomes broke up the shutout with an RBI single. It didn’t matter much as Toronto’s bats pounded the ball all afternoon.

The 17 runs scored were the most by the Jays since Aug. 7, 2010 when they routed the Tampa Bay Rays 17-11.

The win also gave Toronto (45-39) a four-game series split with the Indians.

Martin got the offence started in the first by taking Corey Kluber’s 2-1 pitch over the centre-field wall for a threerun home run, his seventh homer of the season.

Ezequiel Carrera scored on an Edwin Encarnacion sac-fly in the fourth while Michael Saunders followed it up with his team-leading 23rd double of the season that knocked Kluber from the game. Troy Tulowitzki gave the Blue Jays a 5-0 lead with Joba Chamberlain on in relief by scoring Carrera on a sac-fly. Kluber (8-8), who had won his previous two starts, went just 3 1/3 innings, allowing five earned runs on seven hits while walking four and striking out four.

Tulowitzki added to Toronto’s lead in the sixth, taking a Tom Gorzelanny pitch into the second deck for a three-run shot — his 14th long ball of the year. Tulowitzki finished 3 for 5 with four runs batted in and also had a special day off the field with the team handing out bobbleheads of the Blue Jays shortstop.

“It’s always special, you think about it, definitely, before you come to the field. You want to perform well on your bobblehead day,” he said. “(Kluber) fell behind, he probably didn’t have his best command. Overall, I think the lineup just kept putting good at-bats together, kind of got to him, kind of got his pitch count up real early.”

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Brooke Henderson, of Canada, hits from a sand trap on the 12th hole at the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic golf tournament Sunday, in Portland, Ore

Henderson repeats as winner of Portland Classic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. — The Cambia Portland Classic has had a little bit of just about everything as the LPGA’s longest-running non-major, but in its 45-year history hasn’t seen a teenage winner quite like Canada’s Brooke Henderson.

The 18-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., became Portland’s first back-toback champion in 13 years when Henderson shot a final round 1-under 71 to win by four strokes over American Stacy Lewis at Columbia Edgewater Country Club.

“To repeat and try to defend a championship for the first time and be able to do it is, I think, a really big deal.,” Henderson said. “Third win on the LPGA Tour is really cool.”

The second-ranked Henderson posted a 14-under 274 for 72 holes, though it was a far different grind than her performance in 2015, when she won the Portland Classic by a record-setting eight strokes.

Henderson’s final two rounds became a collection of par saves after hitting many wayward drives and approach shots.

“I didn’t really play my best today, but I hit good shots when I needed to, and I got some good breaks,” Henderson said. “A weird day of golf. I hit some really good shots and some really bad shots.”

Henderson became the first back-toback winner at Portland since Annika Sorenstam won consecutive tournaments in 2002 and 2003. The 18-yearold is the first wire-to-wire winner at Portland since the tournament went to a 72-hole event in 2013.

Henderson is the tour’s second wire-to-wire winner this year, joining Ha Na Jang, who won the Coates

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Championship in February.

It was Henderson’s third career win, all coming in the Northwest.

Aside from her two Portland victories, Henderson won the Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee in Sammamish, Washington, three weeks ago.

The three wins came in different fashion. Last year’s Portland win was a runaway, and at Sahalee, Henderson caught fire during the final round to rally past top-ranked Lydia Ko. “It’s cool to think I’ve won in three different ways,” Henderson said.

Henderson heads to this week’s U.S. Women’s Open at CordeValle in San Martin, California, having won two of her past four tournaments, including a major.

“Coming off a win here is really going to give me a lot of confidence,” Henderson said.

Lewis was 10-under after a final round 69, though she never genuinely threatened. Lewis is winless in 53 starts since taking the North Texas LPGA Shootout in June 2014 for her 11th tour victory. She has 11 runner-up finishes during the drought and 24 overall.

Norway’s Suzann Pettersen, the 2011 and 2013 Portland champion finished third at 9-under after a 72.

Austin Ernst, who won Portland in 2014, was 8-under after a 73. But Henderson’s main opponent was Mariajo Uribe, who was tied for the lead with seven holes remaining but finished with two double bogeys. Uribe was 8-under after a 75.

“The whole week I didn’t hit the ball great, and it I just couldn’t do it the last couple holes,” said Uribe, winless in six years on the LPGA Tour.

Sunday turned into a two-player race early on the back nine, when Uribe birdied the par-4, 337-yard 11th to tie Henderson for the lead at 14-un-

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But Henderson quickly resumed control at the par-5, 546-yard 12th.

Uribe hit a poor drive and made bogey, while Henderson dropped a threefoot birdie putt to take a two-shot lead.

The lead melted to one at 13, when Henderson’s tee shot at the 160-yard par-3 went into the bunker and she made bogey. Uribe fell two strokes back at the par-4, 372-yard 15th with a bogey.

The par-4, 397-yard 17th became the tournament’s decisive hole. Henderson and Uribe both drove into a bunker, then blasted their approach shots over the green. But Uribe hit her third shot 50 feet past the hole and made double bogey, while Henderson was able to get up and down to save par, making an eight-foot putt.

Henderson said it was advantage to have Uribe hit her chip shot first, as both players were over the green and facing testing downhill shots.

“I was lucky. She was in the same situation … I realized how fast it was and how delicate of a shot it needed to be,” Henderson said.

Lewis never got closer than three strokes, and might have put some pressure on Henderson but made bogeys at 16 and 18.

Christina Kim posted the low score of the day with a 66 to finish 7-under, as did Lee-Anne Pace, Lee Lopez and Cheyenne Woods. Pace shot 68, while Woods had a 72 for her first career top 10. Lopez, an LPGA rookie, shot 73.

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp was 2-over for the tournament and shot par on Sunday.

Lewis never got closer than three strokes, and might have put some pressure on Henderson but made bogeys at 16 and 18. Sakura Yokomine (69), Vicky Hurst (71) and Carlota Cignada (73) were eight shots back at 6-under.

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Monday, July 4, 2016

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Williams gets 300th Slam win at Wimbledon LONDON — Serena Williams has won so many Grand Slam matches that she’s lost count.

Then again, as she noted Sunday, it’s her losses that get a lot more attention nowadays.

Looking much more ready for Week 2 at Wimbledon than she did in her previous outing, Williams joined Martina Navratilova as the only women with 300 victories at major tournaments in the Open era by overwhelming Annika Beck 6-3, 6-0 in 51 minutes to get to the fourth round.

“Every time I step out on the court, if I don’t win, it’s major national news,” Williams said a day after her counterpart in the men’s draw, No. 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic, was ousted. “But if I do win, it’s just like a small tag in the corner.”

Pushed to three sets her last time out, Williams was about as dominant as can be against her 43rd-ranked German opponent. Nearly perfect, even.

Williams won the last 17 points she served. She won 24 of the last 28 points overall. She accumulated 25 winners to two for Beck.

Afterward, the six-time Wimbledon champion was asked whether she knew she had reached a milestone by getting her 300th Grand Slam match win, breaking a tie with Chris Evert for second place behind Navratilova’s total of 306.

“No. Was it? Cool. Oh, nice,” the 34-year-old American said with a laugh. “I had no idea. That’s awesome, right? That’s good, right?”

She’s now 300-42, an .877 winning percentage, and will go for No. 301 right away: All 16 men’s and women’s fourth-round matches are scheduled for Monday, when Williams faces two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Yes, thanks to sun on Sunday, the tournament is all caught up after persistent rain left a backlog of matches.

This was only the fourth time since The Championships, as they’re called around these parts, began 139 years ago that matches were played on the middle Sunday.

On the other three occasions — 1991, 1997, 2004 — fans lined up overnight to buy tickets that normally are so difficult, and expensive, to come by, creating a loud festival of flag-waving, face-painted folks thrilled to be on-site for once. This time, seats could only be purchased online, and there was a farless-vibrant vibe than in the past on what was known as “People’s Sunday.”

“I thought it would feel really different,” Williams said, asked to compare this day with an average one at the grass-court Grand Slam, “but it didn’t feel really different.”

If anything, this middle Sunday was oddly subdued. Silent, even. Arenas were filled with rows and rows of unclaimed green chairs. Spectators applauded politely, if at all. Walkways around the grounds were easy to traverse.

“Strange feeling, a little bit,” said No. 7 Richard Gasquet, who helped give France four men in the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the first time since 1929, “because … I don’t see many people around.”

His next opponent is another member of that rare quartet, No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who erased a two-set deficit, then saved a match point, en route to edging No. 18 John Isner of the United States 19-17 in a fifth set that lasted more than 2 hours all by itself.

“It’s good to be alive,” said Tsonga, now 6-0 in five-setters at the All England Club.

They played three sets before being halted because of darkness Saturday night and finished Sunday.

In other men’s matches, No. 32 Lucas Pouille of France got past 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6), 7-5, 6-1 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych defeated 19-year-old Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 No. 15 Nick Kyrgios eliminated No. 22 Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 to set up a showdown against his pal Andy Murray, who is seeded No. 2 and won the 2013 title and Jiri Vesely defeated No. 31 Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-2, 7-5.

The 13th-seeded Kuznetsova advanced with a 6-7 (1), 6-2, 8-6 victory over No. 18 Sloane Stephens. Other women’s winners included No. 21 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Elena Vesni-

RED DEER MARLINS SWIM CLUB Owen Halford of the Red Deer Marlins Swim Club turned in a strong performance at the Alberta Speedo Age Group and Senior provincials at the Cascade Club in Calgary during the long weekend.

Halford was one of four members of the Marlins to make an all-star team out of the Alberta Summer Swimming Association to compete in the long course event.

The 11-year-old won the 50-metre breaststroke, recording the fastest time in the country this season. He also won the 100m breaststroke while finishing 12th in the 50m freestyle, 14th in the 100m freestyle and 50m backstroke and 16th in the 50m butterfly.

Erik Sveinson, 15, Cale Kooyman, 16, and Tyler Driesen, 17, also represented the Marlins.

Sveinson’s best finish was eighth in the 50m breaststroke while Kooyman had a 13th in the 50m breaststroke.

Meanwhile the other members of the Marlins were in Hanna and captured 10 aggregate medals at the Hanna Seals Invitational meet.

Sean Raivio, Emma Wrench, Matthew Purdy and Rhett Becher won gold Raivio won the 9-10 year-old boys’ 25 and 50ms breaststroke, the 200m freestyle and 50m butterfly while Wrench captured the 13-14 year-old girls’ 50 and 100m butterfly and 200m freestyle and was second in the 100m backstroke.

Purdy won the 15-17 year-old boys 50m butterfly, 100m Individual Medley and 200m freestyle while taking second

in the 50m backstroke.

Becher, competing in the 7-8 yearold boys’ division, won the 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and 25m freestyle and was third in the 25m butterfly.

Meanwhile Justin Squire (7-8) had first-place finishes in the 25m breaststroke and 00m I.M. and seconds in the 50m backstroke and 25m butterfly.

Georgia Grobb (7-8) won the 100m I.M. while taking second in the 50m breaststroke and third in the 50m freestyle while Corey Ovie (7-8) won the 25m butterfly and was second in the 100m I.M.. Sara Mateika (11-12) won the 100m I.M. and 200m freestyle to go with a third in the 50m breaststroke.

Makenna Vanmaarion (9-10) won the 100m I.M. to go with a second in the 25m butterfly while James Bellmore (sixand-under) won the 25m flutterboard and the 50m freestyle.

Hanna Mateika (9-10) won the 25m freestyle and was second in the 100m freestyle with Chloe Becher (11-12) taking first in the 200m freestyle and second in the 50m breaststroke.

Payden Vanmaarion (11-12) won the 50m breaststroke.

Other results were: Haven Pendle (9-10), second 50 back; Sarah Raivio (9-10) third 50 breast; Matthew Hansen (9-10), third 50 back 25 fly, 25 breast; Chad Cantz (15-and-over) third 100 back, 100 free; Darby Duncan (9-10) third 25 breast, 100 free; Alexis Squire (9-10) third 100m I.M., 200m free; Kayla Zankl (9-10) second 200 free; Cameron Ovie (11-12) second 200 free.

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Claiming the steer riding title at Ponoka this year was Dylan Connors of Bluffton, who made a 78.5 point ride. Another central Alberta cowboy, Tanner Young of Sylvan Lake was the novice bareback winner, with Dawson Dahm of Duffield take the novice saddle bronc riding honors.

In a highly anticipated $50,000.00 Tommy Dorchester Championship final heat at the Ponoka Stampede, Codey McCurrach, Colt Cosgrave, Cody Fraser and Rae Croteau Jr. survived the semi-final round to run for the championship at one of chuckwagon racing’s most prestigious events on the WPCA Pro Tour — the Ponoka Stampede. Colt Cosgrave — driving the High River Autoplex & RV outfit, and along with outriders Chance Flad and Chad Cosgrave collected the first place winner’s cheque, a new GMC Pickup Truck, and the 2016 Ponoka Stampede Championship.

In the championship final heat, Cosgrave captured his first career Ponoka Stampede crown with a penalty free run of 1:15.23 from barrel position number 2. Codey McCurrach placed second in the heat from barrel position number 3, 31 one-hundredths of a second behind champion Colt Cosgrave, followed by Rae Croteau Jr. from barrel position 4, while rookie driver Cody Fraser, who crossed the finish line first, but knocked over a barrel and had to settle for fourth place from barrel position 1.

In the All Pro Canadian Pony Chuckwagon Championship heat, it was Dale Young of Olds driving the Calgary Flames Ambassadors tarp who took the $10,000 Dash for Cash while Lee Adamson of Camrose was the Aggregate Champion.

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PONOKA: Fast “It went a little different than I was planning, but it worked out in the end,” said the 22-year-old. “I just got going a little too fast. With the four guys we had here tonight, no one would’ve thought that not one would’ve worked out. Crazy things happen at Ponoka, especially on Sunday.”

Culling took home $12,127 for his Ponoka efforts.

Rene Leclercq of Holden could hardly contain her excitement when she and her horse Flit raced to the Ponoka barrel racing title, after making a clean run in 17.796 seconds, worth $12,978. For the second year in a row, Kolton Schmidt of Barrhead took the team roping title. Only this time his partner was Shay Carroll of Texas, and they earned $7639 apiece for tying up their steer in 5.3 seconds in the Showdown round.

The bulls outmuscled the cowboys at Ponoka, with only Cody Teel of Texas making the whistle in the afternoon Finals. Then in the Showdown round, even he was bucked off the bull Red Mile. It was his first buckoff at Ponoka, so while it wasn’t the way he wanted to end his Stampede, he’ll take the $7212 to add to his race to another world title.

The All-Around honors this year at Ponoka went to Ky Marshall. That would soothe the disappointment for the Bowden bareback rider, who wasn’t able to take his horse in the Finals, after getting injured competing in tiedown roping at Williams Lake. Morgan Grant of Didsbury, who steer wrestles and ropes calves, was the High Point Champion.

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Serena Williams of the U.S returns to Annika Beck of Germany during their women’s singles match on day seven of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday. na and Ekaterina Makarova. The woman who ended Williams’ bid for a calendar-year Grand Slam in the U.S. Open semifinals last September, Roberta Vinci, failed to put up much of

Pospisil, Sock advance in Wimbledon men’s doubles with win over French team WIMBLEDON, United Kingdom — Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and American partner Jack Sock beat French duo Quentin Halys and Tristan Lamasine 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 on Sunday in the men’s doubles tournament at Wimbledon.

They will play Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and Jordan Thompson in the next round.

Sock won the match with an ace right down the middle, just catching

a challenge in a 6-3, 6-4 loss to No. 27 CoCo Vandeweghe. Vandeweghe won 24 of 28 first-serve points and 14 of 17 points when she went to the net, improving to 11-1 on grass this season. the centre line. Although the French pairing signalled they’d like to challenge, they shook hand with Pospisil and Sock before the ruling had come down that the ace was, in fact, in.

The eighth-seeded Pospisil and Sock won the Wimbledon doubles tournament two years ago.

Also Sunday, Ottawa’s Gaby Dabrowski and Spanish partner Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez topped Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., and her German partner Sabine Liscicki 6-4, 6-2.

In mixed doubles, Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Taiwan’s Chia-Jung Chuang lost to Scott Lipsky of the United States and Russia’s Alla Kurdryavtseva 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Peter Sagan claims Tour yellow jersey after Stage win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHERBOURG-EN-COTENTIN, France — Strangely, Peter Sagan did not celebrate his first Tour de France yellow jersey with his trademark wheelie.

He did not even pump his fist or raise his arms as he crossed the finish line on Sunday to end a three-year winless run at cycling’s showpiece race.

That wasn’t because of the misfortune endured by his teammate Alberto Contador, who fell off his bike for the second consecutive day and lost precious time in the battle among the race favourites.

The world champion simply didn’t know he had won the stage.

“I’m very surprised I won, because I was thinking there were still two guys in front,” said Sagan, who made the most of a steep, short climb in a frenzied finale to win the second stage of the Tour in Normandy.

It was Sagan’s fifth stage win on a Tour, and his first since 2013.

Having been criticized sometimes for poor tactics — he has been a runner-up in 16 Tour stages, Sagan used his raw power on the 1.9-kilometre Cote de la Glacerie leading to the finish line to claim the win.

He waited patiently in the wake of Julian Alaphilippe, who started the final sprint, before timing his acceleration to perfection to overtake the Frenchman and win by a bike’s length.

A debutant at the Tour, Alaphilippe was second in the 183-kilometre stage between Saint-Lo and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, with Spaniard Alejandro Valverde in third place.

Sagan, who already has four best sprinter’s green jerseys to his name and won the Tour of Flanders classic earlier this season, also claimed the lead in the points standings.

“In big races, experience counts,” he said. “I did a lot of sacrifices to come to the Tour de France in good form but it’s never easy to win, even if it looks easy sometimes.”

On a day of mixed fortunes for the Tinkoff team, Contador crashed again and was dropped in the final climb, losing 48 seconds.

“I’m physically hampered,” Contador said. “I cannot pedal as I would as the result of the crashes. The important thing is to keep my morale, not fall apart, which is sometimes complicated. Both legs are very roughed up.”

After just two days of racing, the Tour has already been marred by several crashes, a problem that Sagan likened to the all-risk approach in the peloton.

“Nobody cares, it looks like riders have lost their brains,” he said. “When I started in cycling in 2010, there was respect, and when somebody was doing something stupid we would throw bottles at him. Today nobody brakes.

So I’m in yellow, but tomorrow I can go home.”

Belgian Jasper Stuyven, who was part of an early breakaway group that formed after the start of the stage, almost thwarted Sagan’s plans when he tried to go for a solo win, but was reined in with 500 metres left.

Overnight leader Mark Cavendish finished just behind BMC co-leader Richie Porte, who was among the big losers of day, crossing the finish line 1 minute and 45 seconds behind Sagan after a puncture.

Cavendish started the day with a four-second lead over Marcel Kittel, with Sagan in third place, six seconds behind.

The Slovak rider now has an 8-second lead over Alaphilippe, with Valverde in third place 10 seconds back. Chris Froome, last year’s Tour winner, is fifth overall after Sunday’s stage, 14 seconds behind Sagan.

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France takes down Iceland SETS UP SEMIFINAL WITH GERMANY EURO 2016

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAINT-DENIS, France — The Icelandic thunderclap roar proved no match for the sheer talent of France as the hosts finally showed their title credentials at the European Championship on Sunday.

A crushing 5-2 victory lined up a semifinal with Germany as France displayed the attacking ruthlessness that had been missing in its previous four games at the tournament.

“We have a lot of desire to get our own back for what happened at the World Cup,” France striker Olivier Giroud said of the quarterfinal loss to eventual champion Germany two years ago.

Was it only six weeks ago Giroud was being jeered by his own supporters?

When Giroud cupped his ears to the crowd after scoring his second goal on Sunday, the striker seemed to revel in silencing his critics.

And yet only national unity is on the mind of Giroud as France prepares for its first tournament semifinal in a decade on Thursday.

“I am delighted for the players as they deserve this, and for these fans who have been behind us for months,” the Arsenal striker said magnanimously through a translator.

“To be able to offer them something to make them smile and feel happy.”

And yet Iceland left the Stade de France far from browbeaten.

An embarrassing exit was on the cards at halftime when France led 4-0.

But the Nordic newcomers recovered the resolve that has seen them charm and captivate the continent over the last month.

Two second-half goals allowed the smallest nation to ever qualify for a major tournament to leave with their heads held high.

“We didn’t handle it well mentally (in the first half),” joint-coach Lars Lagerback said.

“But we showed in the second half it wasn’t something physical in the team, we reloaded.”

The night began with rain descending on the field and the Viking slow capping ritual, with its “Huh” chant, booming around the stadium from the Iceland fans.

France wasn’t going to have its home stadium to itself and Gylfi Sigurdsson even had the game’s first shot although it was easily saved by France captain Hugo Lloris.

But inspirational chants and a strong team ethic only take a team so far.

This was a night of French superiority when stature and skill of the hosts was too mighty to curb.

The Iceland defence was breached with ease in the 12th minute when Blaise Matuidi lofted over a high pass into the path of the advancing Giroud, who clinically shot through the legs of goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.

Then, Paul Pogba soared above

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France’s Kingsley Coman, center, runs with the ball during the Euro 2016 quarterfinal soccer match between France and Iceland, at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, France, Sunday.

Jon Dadi Bodvarsson to meet Antoine Griezmann’s corner and send a powerful header into the top corner in the 20th.

Pogba’s leap was matched almost immediately by one from French President Francois Hollande in the VIP seats.

Worse was to come for the Icelanders with quick-fire goals inside two minutes before halftime.

Moussa Sissoko’s cross was headed down by Giroud and Griezmann knocked the ball into the path to Dimitri Payet, who drilled a low shot in the corner of the net.

The fourth goal saw Giroud and Griezmann combine again. Griezmann raced onto Giroud’s flick-on before dinking a shot over the advancing

Dickenson earns first win as CFL coach as Stamps down Bombers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 36 Blue Bombers 22 CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders haven’t started a season with two straight losses since 2009 and they weren’t about to do so with new coach Dave Dickenson at the helm.

After losing 20-18 last Saturday to the B.C. Lions on the road, the Stampeders rebounded to beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 36-22 in front of 26,815 fans at McMahon Stadium in their home opener on Friday.

“We were pissed that we didn’t get to do it last week,” said quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, who completed 24of-37 passes for 309 yards and a pair of touchdowns. “It was good to come out and kind of get that vengeance and be able to give (Dickenson) that first one.

“When you have a guy that you knew played the game the way he played with heart and passion and now he’s coaching and he does the same thing here. You see it in his eyes. He wishes he could be that guy out there still throwing the ball. You always want to get out there and get it for him because we know he’s going to be the coach here for a long time.”

Simon Charbonneau-Campeau and Marquay McDaniel caught TD passes, while running back Tory Harrison and rookie quarterback Andrew Buckley, with his first CFL touchdown, also scored on the ground. Rene Paredes kicked three field goals and a single for the Stampeders (1-1).

After the game, players doused Dickenson with a Gatorade shower, which is something the former CFL quarterback had never experienced before.

“College, pro, it didn’t matter, I guess they didn’t like me enough, but now they know I actually can cut ’em that they’ll give me a Gatorade shower,” Dickenson said.“It was a good win.

We made it a little closer at the end than we needed to.”

Stamps running back Jerome Messam also had an impressive game as he carried the ball 16 times for 137 yards.

Winnipeg quarterback Drew Willy

threw TD passes to Darvin Adams and Jace Davis in the fourth quarter, while his back-up Matt Nichols ran for a oneyard score in the second.

Justin Medlock added a single for the Blue Bombers (0-2), who have dropped 13 of their past 14 decisions to the Stamps at McMahon Stadium dating back to 2003.

Willy finished the game with 358 yards and completed 32-of-43 passes, but he did most of his damage in the fourth quarter when the game was out of reach.

Calgary took a 3-0 lead at 6:54 of the first quarter thanks to a 37-yard field goal by Paredes.

The Stamps then looked to extend their lead with time ticking down in the first quarter as Paredes lined up to boot a 49-yard field goal. Instead, Winnipeg’s Macho Harris charged ahead and blocked the kick while Julian Posey picked up the ball and ran it back to Calgary’s two-yard line as time expired in the opening quarter.

When play resumed in the second, Andrew Harris ran for one yard before Nichols plunged into the end zone on the next play as Winnipeg jumped out to a 7-3 lead.

Paredes then kicked a 38-yard field goal before Mitchell led the Stamps on a 9-play, 69-yard drive that culminated with a two-yard TD run by Harrison.

While the Bombers continued to struggle on offence, the Stamps scored again on their next drive as Charbonneau-Campeau hauled in a 27-yard pass from Mitchell to cap off a six-play, 61-yard drive.

Paredes booted a 72-yard single late in the first half and then added a 36-yard field goal early in the third to give Calgary a 23-7 lead. Joe West then made a great one-handed catch for a 36-yard gain, but was brought down on the Winnipeg one-yard line.

On the next play, Buckley scampered into the end zone to cap off a five-play, 78-yard drive. After McDaniel hauled in a 10-yard touchdown pass from Mitchell late in the third quarter, Adams caught a three-yard strike from Willy in the Calgary end zone early in the fourth.

Halldorsson.

Payet went over to kiss the left boot of Griezmann, the team’s top scorer with four goals at Euro 2016.

However, just like its raucous fans, Iceland wasn’t done.

Gylfi Sigurdsson whipped in a cross and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson slid past Samuel Umtiti, the Barcelona-bound defender making his France debut, to poke the ball over the line in the 56th.

Would it be the start of an astonishing comeback? No. The four-goal cushion was restored

by Giroud within three minutes, connecting with Payet’s free kick to glance a header into the net.

“I felt really good physically right from the start,” Giroud said.

“We are used to making bad starts

… but we were very clinical, which is nice from a personal perspective.”

But Iceland had the final say on the night, with Birkir Bjarnason evading Patrice Evra to head Lloris.

“Iceland didn’t give up at any stage,” Giroud said.

“They were a very valiant and determined side who kept on going until the end.”

And its fans remained chanting in their seats long after the final whistle, taking in the surroundings.

It was an unforgettable tournament debut by Iceland, drawing against Poland before eliminating England — an achievement that will be remembered along with the feats of the new European champion, to be crowned back at the Stade de France next Sunday.

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Tuesday ● Ladies fastball: Badgers vs. Bandits and Rage U16 vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Senior mens baseball: North Star Sports vs. Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Wednesday ● Bantam baseball: St. Albert Cardinals vs. Red Deer Bantam Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park

● Senior mens baseball: Canadian Brewhouse Ballers at Phantoms, 6:30 p.m.; Lacombe Stone and Granite at Printing Place Padres, 7 p.m., and Gophers at Canadian Brewhouse Ballers , 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Ladies fastball: Badgers vs. Rage U16 and Panthers vs. Rage U18, 7 p.m., and Rage U18 vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park; Stettler vs. Bandits, 7 p.m., Stettler ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: St. Albert Crude at Red Deer Jr. B Tier I Rampage, 8:30 p.m., Kinex

Sunday ● Alberta Major Soccer League: Lethbridge FC at Red Deer Renegades, 12 p.m., Edgar Park ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Fort Saskatchewan Rebels at Red Deer Jr. B Tier I Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Toronto DH/1B Edwin Encarnacion one game for making contact with Umpire Vic Carapazza during Friday’s game.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Tyler Wilson to Norfolk (IL). Selected the contract of LHP Ariel Miranda from Norfolk. Transferred LHP Brian Duensing to the 60-day DL, retroactive to June 20.

BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Pat Light to Pawtucket (IL). Assigned SS Mike Miller outright to Pawtucket. Selected the contract of RHP Sean O’Sullivan from Pawtucket. Agreed to terms with RHPs Shaun Anderson and Matthew Gorst on minor league contracts and assigned them to Lowell (NYP).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned LHP Shawn Morimando to Columbus (IL). Reinstated OF Abraham Almonte from the restricted list. Transferred OF Michael Brantley to the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with LHP Erik Davis on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Designated RHP Kevin Jepsen for assignment. Recalled 2B Eddie Rosario from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Conor Mullee on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday.

Recalled RHP Chad Green from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed C Josh Phegley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled INF/OF Matt McBride from Nashville (PCL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Luke Jackson to Frisco (TL). Selected the contract of LHP Michael Roth from Round Rock (PCL). Transferred RHP Colby Lewis to the 60-day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed RHP Zack Greinke on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday, and SS Nick Ahmed on paternity leave. Reinstated OF Rickie Weeks Jr. from the bereavement list. Recalled RHP Enrique Burgos from Reno (PCL). Agreed to terms with RHP Ryan Atkinson on a minor league contract.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent 3B Gordon Beckham to Carolina (Carolina) for a rehab assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Maikel Cleto on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed OF Chris Coghlan on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Jeimer Candelario from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Joel Kuhnel on a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Brock Stewart to Oklahoma City (PCL). Assigned RHPs Yaisel Sierra and Layne Somsen outright to Oklahoma City. Released LHP Ian Thomas. Reinstated RHP Brandon McCarthy from the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated RHP Rob Scahill for assignment. Claimed C Eric Fryer off waivers from St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with 2B J.R. Davis Cs Carlos Soto and Joyser Garcia SSs Franklin Soto and Yowelfy Rosario OFs Victor Garcia, Carlos Soler, Diomedes Del Rio, Luis Montano and Alexander Samuel and RHPs Johan Oviedo, Rodard Avelino, Allinson Benitez and Enmanuel Solano on minor league contracts.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned INF/OF Alexi Amarista to El Paso (PCL). Reinstated RHP Andrew Cashner from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with RHP Wen-Hua Sung on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent RHP Matt Cain to the AZL Giants and 2B Kelby Tomlinson to San Jose (Cal) for rehab assignments.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Assigned OF Juan Duran outright to Pensacola (SL). Reinstated RHP Stephen Strasburg from the 15-day DL. International League SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE — Released OF Nick Swisher.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed INF Dustin Geiger.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed OF Joe Moroney.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Released INF Cie Arell.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released RHP Lance Spongberg.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released RHP Luis Pardo.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed OF Devin Harris.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed RHP Tyler Stirewalt. Released RHP Max Schonfeld.

Frontier League LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Released RHP Evan Raynor.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed SS John Holland. Sent OF Griff Gordon to Schaumburg to complete an earlier trade.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F Ben Simmons and G Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with D Nate Guenin on a one-year contract.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with D Matt Tennyson on a one-year, two-way contract.

DALLAS STARS — Signed RW Adam Cracknell to a one-year contract.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed F Vincent Trocheck to a six-year contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Patrik Laine on a three-year, entry-level contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Mike Marcou.

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LPGA-Cambia Portland Classic Sunday At Columbia Edgewater CC Portland, Ore. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,476 Par: 72 Brooke Henderson, 65-68-70-71—274 Stacy Lewis, 72-70-67-69—278 Suzann Pettersen, 69-64-74-72—279 Austin Ernst, 72-66-69-73—280 Mariajo Uribe, 67-67-71-75—280 Christina Kim, 75-66-74-66—281 Lee-Anne Pace, 69-72-72-68—281 Cheyenne Woods, 71-69-69-72—281 Lee Lopez, 71-68-69-73—281 Sakura Yokomine, 71-70-72-69—282 Vicky Hurst, 70-71-70-71—282 Carlota Ciganda, 68-71-70-73—282 In-Kyung Kim, 74-71-69-69—283 Mo Martin, 71-69-73-70—283 Anna Nordqvist, 70-73-69-71—283 Pernilla Lindberg, 70-68-74-71—283 Karine Icher, 71-69-71-72—283 Catriona Matthew, 73-71-66-73—283 Gaby Lopez, 70-72-73-69—284 Sarah Jane Smith, 69-74-71-70—284 Brittany Altomare, 72-70-72-70—284 Chella Choi, 70-71-71-72—284 Kelly W Shon, 74-66-72-72—284 Ayako Uehara, 68-74-69-73—284 Annie Park, 71-72-75-67—285 Megan Khang, 70-74-72-69—285 Candie Kung, 71-71-73-70—285 P.K. Kongkraphan, 70-72-73-70—285 Amy Anderson, 72-71-70-72—285 Kris Tamulis, 72-70-71-72—285 Daniela Iacobelli, 68-72-73-72—285 Angela Stanford, 67-71-72-75—285 Morgan Pressel, 72-71-76-67—286 Jane Rah, 73-71-71-71—286

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RED DEER RIGGERS

Riggers sweep weekend series with Tigers St. ALBERT — The Red Deer Riggers ran their Sunburst Baseball League record to 11-0 with a doubleheader sweep over the St. Albert Tigers Sunday.

The Riggers won the opener 3-2 and took the second game 4-3 on a bases loaded walk by Kerry Boon in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Josh Edwards started on the mound and worked six innings, allowing two runs. Jo-

el Peterman came on in the seventh and gave up the tying run.

Jason Chatwood led the Riggers with three hits while Jaret Chatwood and Levi Moon had two hits each.

Davin Gulbransen went the distance on the mound for the Riggers in the first game, recording his fourth victory of the season.

Edwards led the offence with a two-run home run.

The Riggers host the second-place Sherwood Park Athletics Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

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N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 5-5) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 3-9), 12:10 p.m.

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Seattle (Miley 6-4) at Houston (McCullers 3-2), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Volquez 7-7) at Toronto (Sanchez 8-1), 5:07 p.m.

Detroit (Norris 1-0) at Cleveland (Salazar 10-3), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 50 33 .602 New York 44 37 .543 Miami 43 39 .524 Philadelphia 37 46 .446 Atlanta 28 54 .341 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 51 30 .630 St. Louis 43 38 .531 Pittsburgh 41 41 .500 Milwaukee 35 46 .432 Cincinnati 30 53 .361 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 52 32 .619 Los Angeles 47 37 .560 Colorado 37 44 .457 Arizona 37 47 .440 San Diego 35 47 .427 Saturday’s Games

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Dustin Johnson rallies at Firestone for 2nd straight win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AKRON, Ohio — Dustin Johnson sailed off to the Bahamas for a private celebration of winning his first major championship at the U.S. Open.

He came roaring back at the Bridgestone Invitational.

In the toughest conditions at Firestone in nearly a decade, Johnson made it look easy Sunday when he closed with a 4-under 66 and rallied from a three-shot deficit against the world’s No. 1 player to win another World Golf Championship.

He needed some help from Jason Day, who collapsed on the back nine. Johnson did his part, making a tough par save on the 15th hole when he got in range and pouring in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole that made a bogey at the end meaningless.

Two starts, two victories, and now No. 2 in the world.

“It’s the first time I’ve won two tournaments in a row. I mean, that’s big,” Johnson said after his one-shot victory over Scott Piercy.

“I’m excited and looking forward to going over to the British with the golf game in good form.”

He looks like the player to beat at Royal Troon with a frightening combination of driving, wedges and — finally — getting some putts to fall.

Day also was looking forward to the British Open, anything to take his mind off the finish.

He had a one-shot lead and didn’t hit a green in regulation over the last six holes. Far more damaging was the par-5 16th hole.

He tried to play it safe off the tee on the 655-yard hole and hooked a 3-wood into the trees.

He blasted through the branches and across the fairway, getting a good break when a young fan picked up his ball because it allowed Day a free drop from behind a tree.

Then, he tried to squeeze a shot from 200 yards around the pond. It came up short and rode the collar of the bank into the water, leading to double bogey.

“I thought I had the right play,” Day said. “I was just trying to hit it up there to the left, get it just left of the bunker or just in the bunker there. … Sometimes you take those risks and it doesn’t pay off. So it happens, but I’m looking forward to the Open.”

Day rushed over to Johnson before signing his card to congratulate him.

Piercy nearly overcame back-to-back bogeys, but two good looks at birdies burned the edges on the 16th and 17th holes, and a birdie on the closing hole

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“Inch here or inch there is kind of the difference between winning and finishing second or third,” Piercy said.

Johnson joined Tiger Woods as the only players to capture three of the four World Golf Championships.

He won the Cadillac Championship at Doral last year, and the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in the fall of 2013.

His 66-66 weekend at Firestone gave him a 6-under 274, matching the highest winning score at this World Golf Championship since Woods in 2005. Nine players finished under par, the fewest since Woods was the only player to break par in 2007.

Day closed with a 72 and tied for third with Jordan Spieth (67), Matt Kuchar (66) and Kevin Chappell (67).

Kuchar moved to No. 15 in the world, which could be important if he can stay in the top 15 and remain the sixth-highest American after next week, provided two Americans choose not to play in the Olympics.

Bubba Watson is the only player of those eligible who has said for certain he will go to Rio. Johnson was three shots behind when he rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole, and followed with a wedge into 8 feet for birdie on the next hole.

Right when Day was getting into big trouble on the 16th, Johnson blasted a 9-iron out of the thick rough on the 17th to 15 feet and rolled in the birdie putt to take command.

Johnson has 11 career victories in his nine years on the PGA Tour.

“I feel great,” he said.

“I feel like my game is where it has been all year. I just haven’t been putting quite as well as I’d like. The last couple of weeks, I just putted a little better.”

He made it sound so simple.

It looks that way, too. Key to his game was decided late last year to go to a fade off the tee instead of the draw he has leaned on for most of his career.

He has that dialed in, and Johnson said when he’s driving it as well as he has been, “then I’m going to be very tough to beat.”

That certainly has been the case in his past two tournaments.

He is building a home in south Florida with one room dedicated to golf memorabilia, such as his trophies.

“Hopefully,” Johnson said, “I’ve got to make it bigger.”

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Thursday, July 14 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 15 Hamilton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 16 B.C. at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

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St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 0 Atlanta 9, Miami 1 Kansas City 6, Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati 9, Washington 4, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Pittsburgh 4, Oakland 2, 10 innings Arizona 6, San Francisco 5 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 1 San Diego 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 14, Chicago Cubs 3 Philadelphia 7, Kansas City 2 Washington 12, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 9, Milwaukee 8 Pittsburgh 6, Oakland 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 1 San Francisco 5, Arizona 4, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 6, San Diego 3 Miami 5, Atlanta 2 Today’s Games Milwaukee (Guerra 5-1) at Washington (Scherzer 9-5), 9:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Niese 6-6) at St. Louis (Martinez 7-5), 12:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Reed 0-2) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 6-6), 12:20 p.m.

Atlanta (De La Cruz 0-1) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 5-9), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Anderson 0-2) at San Francisco (Peavy 4-7), 2:05 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 6-7) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-10), 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Gallardo 3-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Urias 1-2), 7:10 p.m.

San Diego (Perdomo 2-3) at Arizona (Bradley 3-3), 710 p.m.

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There’s a fresh problem growing at farmers markets Photos by THE WASHINGTON POST

At the Dupont Circle market in Washington, District of Columbia, Danny Toigo holds strawberries that are grown at the farm of his uncle, Mark Toigo.

The customers aren’t coming just for food to cook themselves

BY TIM CARMAN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE For Zach Lester, co-owner of Tree and Leaf Farm in Unionville, Virginia, farmers markets have traditionally been a gathering of the tribe as much as a collection of freshly harvested fruits and vegetables.

But in recent years, Lester has noticed a shift in the markets, especially at the Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market in Washington, DC, where he once could expect to generate $200,000 or more a year in gross sales.

“The customers have changed,” says Lester, who runs Tree and Leaf with his wife, Georgia O’Neal. “A lot of people that walk through markets are not shopping. They’re there to meet.

They’re there to socialize.”

They’re there to eat and drink, not shop for ingredients.

These new farmers market visitors tend to be young. They arrive for a bite or some booze, maybe a pizza at Red Zebra or even a bottle of gin from One Eight Distilling. They’re “shopping with the eyes,” says Lester, “and they don’t care about the season.”

The change in market demographics, Lester says, has affected sales, which have dropped by as much as $50,000 compared with his peak years in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

Other farmers share similar tales: Heinz Thomet, co-owner of Next Step Produce in Southern Maryland, says his sales have dipped as much as 50 per cent from their peak. Hana Newcomb, co-owner and manager of Potomac Vegetable Farms in Virginia, says sales have dropped 30 per cent in recent years at its farmers market stands.

The decline in sales is, arguably, one result of the contemporary farmers market, which has evolved to meet the needs of a new generation of shoppers who view these outdoor markets as more a lifestyle choice than an opportunity to support local agriculture.

“Consumer and purchasing behaviors are changing, evolving, and Dupont is sort of the leader in many ways of those changes,” says Mike Koch, executive director of FreshFarm Markets and a cheese vendor himself.

When the Dupont Circle market opened in 1997, Koch says, it practically had the organic produce market all to itself. But those days are gone.

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Prepared foods such as the Red Zebra’s breakfast pizza are a hit with customers at farmers markets. But not all market vendors are happy with that. “It’s not our goal to turn them (farmers markets) into food truck rodeos,” said Chris Curtis, executive director of the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance in Seattle. “Our goal is still to support local farmers.” petition from bricks-and-mortar retailers and from online delivery services.

Farmers markets are even competing with each other.

Such shifts in the marketplace have forced farmers markets to become agile to meet the new demands.

It seems to be paying off for FreshFarm: Gross reported sales from January to May are up 25 per cent for its 13 markets compared with 2015, although Koch says “overall produce growers (sales) are flat, some up and some down.”

Chris Curtis, executive director of the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance in Seattle, notes that her region teems with people who work at technology and Internet companies, including Microsoft and Amazon. They have disposable income, and they like good food. They also don’t cook much.

The alliance’s seven markets cater to those shoppers with artisan foods and hot prepared meals.

Nonetheless, “it’s not our goal to turn them into food truck rodeos,” Curtis says about her markets. “Our goal is still to support local farmers.”

Koch with FreshFarm Markets echoes the sentiment: Part of the nonprofit group’s mission, he points out, is to create economic opportunities for local farmers.

In Seattle, that support might man-

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ifest itself in regular cooking demonstrations, teaching young techies how to cook.

FreshFarm, for example, has money to help prepare up to 25 farmers for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification from the USDA. It’s a food-safety program that, once completed, allows small producers to sell wholesale fruits and vegetables to major retailers or to restaurant chains.

But market managers say farmers must also help themselves if they want to survive and thrive in this new era.

It’s not enough to simply show up at a market and expect consumers to buy all your gorgeous, freshly harvested stone fruits and greens. Farmers must be attuned to consumer demand and be better marketers and shopkeepers.

Newcomb with Potomac Vegetable Farms has witnessed firsthand what good marketing can do.

In 2014, Stacey Carlberg and Casey Gustowarow were working as managers of a Virginia farm. The married couple, both in their 30s, threw themselves into pushing the farmers market stand on Saturdays. Their techniques were not complicated: They made sure that the stand was colorful and well stocked, that signs were informative and that there were friendly people to sell the produce.

With Carlberg and Gustowarow

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leading the way, their farm’s stand enjoyed sales of between $5,000 and $6,000 every Saturday, Newcomb says.

Since their departure last year, their best day has been around $3,000.

Other farmers have found new avenues to generate income. About two years ago, Toigo Orchards in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, opened a five-acre organic greenhouse with financial support from Whole Foods.

The greenhouse allows Toigo to, as they say in the farming business, “extend the season” and grow tomatoes, eggplants and peppers during colder months. Whole Foods sells 80 per cent or more of what Toigo grows in the greenhouse, says owner Mark Toigo.

Some of those greenhouse vegetables end up at farmers markets, and that can be a source of irritation to farmers who fiercely believe in seasonal agriculture.

Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, says Next Step’s Thomet, requires enormous amounts of energy to keep temperatures in the necessary range.

And, he adds, all those greenhouse tomatoes at market lower the value of his summer field tomatoes, which historically have been cash cows.

“Tomatoes in April,” Thomet says matter-of-factly, “are environmental suicide.”

Counters Toigo: “Farming is extremely difficult, and people talk about sustainability in many ways… .

Sustainability is also the ability to be here next year and do what you’re doing to make a living.”

With their revenues at farmers markets declining, Lester and Thomet are actively thinking about their survival.

Thomet is eyeing the restaurant industry as a major source of new income. People dine out multiple times a week, he figures, so it makes sense to sell local produce to chefs who promote a farm-to-table philosophy. Next Step already sells to Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore and the Dabney in D.C., both run by chefs deeply committed to local ingredients.

“I think that’s the next hope,” Thomet says about the chef community.

Still, many farmers continue to believe in the markets that first gave them a direct — and profitable — pipeline to consumers. They just don’t believe they can rely on farmers markets anymore to generate all their revenue.

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Bangladeshis light candles as they pay tribute to those killed in the attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday. The assault on the restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone by militants who took dozens of people hostage marks an escalation in militant violence in the Muslim-majority nation.

Bangladesh searching for hostage crisis clues

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DHAKA, Bangladesh — Security officials searched on Sunday for evidence and the possible masterminds of the weekend hostage-taking in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh’s capital. The government has denied the Islamic State group’s claim of responsibility for the attack that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages.

Police released photographs of the bodies of five attackers, along with their first names: Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don and Ripon. The men belonged to the banned domestic group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, and their families hadn’t heard from them in months, according to police. Asked whether they might also have had Islamic State ties, Police Inspector General A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said authorities were investigating that possibility.

Despite the police saying IS links were being investigated, the home minister refuted the possibility that the Islamic State directed the attack from abroad. Bangladesh’s government insists the extremist Sunni Muslim group based in Syria and Iraq has no presence in the country, and in the past has suggested that any claims of responsibility for violence waged in the South Asian country are simply opportunistic attempts at grabbing global attention.

“They are all Bangladeshis. They are from rich families, they have good educational background,” Khan said of the attackers. One surviving suspect was detained when paramilitary forces ended the 10-hour standoff Saturday morning, and authorities said

he was being interrogated.

The siege marked an escalation in the militant violence that has hit Bangladesh with increasing frequency.

Most of the attacks in the past several months have involved machete-wielding men singling out individual activists, foreigners and religious minorities.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed her political opponents of trying to create chaos by backing domestic militants.

“Anyone who believes in religion cannot do such an act,” Hasina said Saturday. “They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism.”

On Sunday morning, the first of two days of national mourning for the victims, police were blocking all access to streets near the Holey Artisan Bakery where the siege occurred. Investigators from both Bangladesh and Japan visited the restaurant to collect evidence.

The 20 hostages who were killed included nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and one Indian teenager. Two police officers were killed by the attackers, and 13 people were rescued when commandos stormed the restaurant Saturday morning. Another 25 officers and one civilian were wounded, and some of the rescued hostages had injuries.

The hospitals treating them would not give fresh information on their conditions Sunday. The attack was the worst in the recent series of attacks by radical Islamists in the moderate, mostly Muslim nation of 160 million.

Unlike the previous attacks, the assailants were well-prepared and heavily armed with guns, bombs and sharp objects that police later said were used to torture some of the 35

captives.

That the attackers targeted a popular restaurant in the heart of the diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh’s capital signalled a change in tactics.

The restaurant overlooking a lake serves Spanish food and is patronized by residents of Gulshan, an affluent neighbourhood where most of the foreign embassies are located.

The hostages were asked to recite verses from the Qur’an, to prove themselves Muslim, according to a witness.

Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were tortured and slain.

Western embassies issued travel warnings to their citizens, advising those in the country to be vigilant and avoid places frequented by foreigners in the diplomatic zone. The U.S. Embassy also urged its citizens and personnel to avoid travelling on foot or in open vehicles. In its claim of responsibility, the Islamic State group said its operatives had targeted the citizens of “Crusader countries,” warning that citizens of such countries would not be safe “as long as their warplanes kill Muslims.”

The statement was circulated in a manner consistent with past IS claims of responsibility. The Amaq news agency, affiliated with IS, also published photos of five smiling young men, each holding what appear to be assault rifles and posing in front of a black IS flag, and identified them as the restaurant attackers, according to the SITE Intelligence Service, which monitors jihadi online activity. The men in those photographs appeared to match the bodies shown in police images of the dead assailants in the restaurant after the hostage crisis ended.

Syria’s new U.S.-backed force stumbles in first test

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The call came around noon, about four hours after U.S.backed Syrian fighters announced they had taken over an air base outside a town held by the Islamic State group near the Iraqi border. “We are trapped. Pray for us,” a commander called into the operation room.

Then communication was cut. Six hours later, the exhausted fighters from the group, known as the New Syrian Army, returned to their base in Tanf, nearly 150 miles (240 kilometres) across the desert to the west, having lost four fighters, four vehicles and ammunition.

The swift, humiliating defeat last Wednesday marked the end of a widely advertised offensive launched less than 24 hours earlier with intense U.S.-led air cover. The fighters had hoped to capture Boukamal, a prize possession of IS and the extremist group’s last border crossing between Iraq and Syria. The Boukamal offensive was the first serious attempt to take on IS in the northeastern province of Deir el-Zour, and the first major test for the nascent force of some 1,000 fighters, formed in November from a coalition of Syrian army defectors, local militias and Islamist fighting groups, many of them from the area. The quick collapse of the offensive reflects the difficulties the U.S. faces in creating an effective Syrian force against IS, given the complex terrain, competing personal and tribal loyalties — and the extremists’ continued ability to fight on multiple fronts.

The U.S. has struggled to find local partners in Syria. The exception has been the Kurds, who heavily dominate the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which have had success wresting territory from IS in the north.

All other known attempts to train rebel groups have largely failed, in part because of Washington’s focus on the fight against IS rather than toppling the Syrian government, and its failure to protect its partners from better-equipped rivals.

The offensive on Boukamal, a city of nearly 160,000 people along the Euphrates River — mostly Sunni Arab tribes that move freely between Iraq and Syria — aimed to take advantage of IS’ focus on defending its northern stronghold of Manbij, which is under attack by the SDF. Some 200 New Syrian Army fighters took part in the Boukamal operation, according to activists and media reports. They had extensive air support from the U.S.-led coalition, a vote of confidence in the new force, said Jennifer Cafarella, of the Institute for the Study of War. But the group “is definitely not off to a good start,” she told The Associated Press.

Commanders of the U.S.-backed militia say they have received extensive training since June last year by U.S. and British special forces, with the Jordanian military playing an advisory role. Activists and observers say the group appears to have equipment and weapons not often seen with other rebels, such as special vehicles for difficult terrain and exclusively U.S.made small arms.

U.S. officials have not specified the extent of their support for the group, which has been channeled through the Pentagon. The U.S. military refers to the New Syrian Army as a “partner.”

The group’s first major operation — though much smaller than the Boukamal push — was in March, when it took over Tanf, a smaller IS-held crossing on the border with Jordan.

Ahead of the Boukamal offensive, the American-backed fighters posted a number of messages online in-

dicating that an attack was imminent and taunting IS as “rats.” Days before the New Syrian Army offensive, IS announced it had killed five Boukamal residents, describing them as spies.

The fighters made gains early on, taking the small Hamdan air base — but then the offensive quickly unraveled. A member of the New Syrian Army debriefed on the battle said the American-backed force closed two or three routes to the base but left another one unguarded. IS then used that approach to attack and surround the facility. The member of the force spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

After hours of fighting and heavy airstrikes, the U.S.-backed fighters found a way to escape, but were chased for six hours. Reinforcement from a separate U.S.-backed brigade arrived, the group member said, adding that some tribal members in the area offered logistical support but didn’t take part in the fighting.

The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, Col. Christopher Garver, described the Boukamal operation as a “very tough fight,” and acknowledged it had been a setback. He said the implications will need to be analyzed to determine the way forward.

Analysts and members of the American-backed force believe it has the advantage of being able to draw on local support, unlike Shiite or Kurdish forces. Many Arab Sunni tribes in the area have allied with IS, either out of fear of the extremists or anger at the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.

Soon after IS declared its so-called caliphate in 2014, some local tribes tried to rise up against it. The extremists responded with a brutal crackdown, shooting and beheading hundreds of members of the prominent Shueitat tribe, which lives in the area north of Boukamal

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Young stars ready for the spotlight

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SCHOOL-AGED ACTORS SHARE LEAD ROLE IN MATILDA THE MUSICAL

BY VICTORIA AHEARN THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Call them the Mighty Matildas of Canada.

Nine-year-old Hannah Levinson and 10-year-olds Jaime MacLean and Jenna Weir have a lot resting on their little shoulders as they share the title role in the Canadian premiere production of Matilda the Musical.

But during a recent press day at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre, they seemed unperturbed and wholly embodied the resilient character and the show’s empowering motto.

“There’s one message that goes through the whole story, which is: ‘Even if you’re little, you can do a lot,”’ Weir, a Toronto native, said in an interview.

“I’ve never done a production other than school plays, so it’s really cool to do this and to be a strong, bold character that’s a lot like me.

“She isn’t afraid and I think I carry on that, too.”

Said MacLean, who hails from Vancouver: “It’s like, ‘OK, this is where it starts, this is how it starts and I can’t wait for it to become bigger and better and so much more exciting.”’

Based on the novel by bestselling author Roald Dahl, Matilda the Musical follows a young bookworm who has the gift of telekinesis and remains strong amid mistreatment at home and school.

There’s one message that goes through the whole story, which is: Even if you’re little, you can do a lot.”

-Jenna Weir

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Jenna Weir poses in this undated handout photo.

Nine-year-old Hannah Levinson and 10-year-olds Jaime MacLean and Jenna Weir have a lot resting on their little shoulders as they share the title role in the Canadian premiere production of Matilda the Musical.

Matthew Warchus directs the book by Tony-winning playwright Dennis Kelly. Australian comedian and musician Tim Minchin did the music and lyrics.

The show has won scores of awards, including four Tonys, and there’s much anticipation for the Toronto production that begins performances on Tuesday.

The Canadian cast also includes Paula Brancati, Dan Chameroy, Keisha T. Fraser, Brandon McGibbon and Darcy Stewart.

Each performance, once of the three will perform onstage while another stands by backstage in case they need to quickly sub in.

“I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said Levinson, who hails from Toronto.

“It came at the perfect age, I was the perfect height, so I thought, ‘Why not do it? If this is your only chance to be the one role, the main role of Matilda, just why not and why not try to be Matilda?”’

Added MacLean: “I just really wanted to be Matilda because ever since I was like three years old I was like, ‘This girl is like me. I really want to be this girl!’

“I kept looking up videos online, trying to do exactly what she did and finally got to audition.”

Finding Dory bigger than a giant, swims past Tarzan

BY JAKE COYLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — It’s Dory’s ocean.

The rest of the movies are just swimming in it.

The Pixar sequel Finding Dory led the box office for the third straight weekend, dwarfing The Legend of Tarzan and Steven Spielberg’s Roald Dahl adaption The BFG, both big-budget debuts that had hoped to dominate the July 4th holiday.

But modest enthusiasm for the high-profile new releases left the weekend to Dory again, which came in No. 1 with $41.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Disney expects the film to make about $50 million over the four-day holiday weekend. It’s grossed $538.2 million globally in three weeks.

Tarzan came the closest to dethroning Dory with $38.1 million. While that total was better than expected, it’s far from chest-thumping for a movie that cost Warner Bros. $180 million to make.

Critics largely panned the David Yates-directed film, staring Alexander Skarsgard as the King of the Jungle and Margot Robbie as Jane. But audiences gave it a respectable A-minus CinemaScore.

“We’re in a much better place today than we thought we were going to be,” said Jeff Goldstein, head of distribution for Warner Bros.

“We’re positively looking forward.

Friday came in much stronger than we thought. Yesterday was much stronger than we thought.”

The horror sequel The Purge: Election Year opened solidly with $30.9 million, in line with previous Purge installments where crime in America is legal for 12 hours every year.

Given that the Universal release, pro-

duced by Blumhouse Productions, cost a mere $10 million to make, it was the most lucrative opening of the week.

The continued success of Dory, however, bit into the similarly family-friendly The BFG, which debuted weakly with $19.6 million.

The Spielberg film, starring Mark Rylance as the titular giant, cost about $140 million to make. Reviews were largely good but not glowing.

Despite a red-carpet premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Spielberg’s first film for Disney didn’t click with audiences.

“It’s frustrating when there’s a disconnect between the critical response, the consumer response and ultimately the box office,” said Dave Hollis, distribution head for Disney.

“But we’ve got every reason to be hopeful for the midweek business ahead, every reason to be hopeful for a nice long run. And we’ve only opened in two international markets: Australia and Russia.”

The weekend’s tailor-made option, Independence Day: Resurgence, had hoped to open big last week and play through the holiday weekend.

Instead, the 20th Century Fox release bombed and dropped steeply in its second week, sliding 60 per cent to $16.5 million in fifth place.

The diverse slate of releases didn’t produce a runaway hit, but overall business was up in theatres from recent July 4th weekends, partially since the holiday fell on a Monday this year.

“Considering the roller-coaster year we’ve been having, this was a solid Fourth of July,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore.

“In terms of the cumulative numbers, it was a really good showing, though individual films may have had their challenges.”

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This file image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Alexander Skarsgard from The Legend of Tarzan. The Legend of Tarzan and The BFG were both dwarfed by Finding Dory over the July 4th weekend, as the Pixar sequel led the box office for the third straight weekend.

Chesney concert turns rowdy, again

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — Officials say more than two dozen people were taken to hospitals and several others were arrested in and around the Kenny Chesney concert in Pittsburgh.

Public safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler said 57 emergency medical transports were requested by 9 p.m. Saturday and 25 people were taken to hospitals, mainly for intoxication or intoxication-related injuries.

Police reported a handful of arrests on charges including trespassing, ticket robbery, simple assault and public intoxication.

Several dozen people were also cited for underage drinking.

Toler said one officer injured his thumb while breaking up a fight.

A 2013 concert by the country artist in the city drew national 57 emergency medical transports were headlines after 73 people were requested by 9 p.m. Saturday following a arrested and patrons left behind Kenny Chesney concert in Pittsburgh more than 30 tons of trash.

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Make it work; invite your friend ANNIE LANE DEAR ANNIE Dear Annie: My college sweetheart, Ryan, and I are now engaged. We met at a bar because of a mutual friend, “Nancy.” Ryan and I are both shy people, and we were even shyer back then.

Nancy actually grabbed my arm and dragged me over to meet Ryan that night because she had a feeling we’d like each other.

I lived with Nancy for two years during college, in a big house with lots of roommates, and although we were never best friends, we were still in the same friend group.

When Ryan and I got engaged, Nancy contacted me saying how happy she was and how excited she was to be a bridesmaid because she was, in fact, the “reason” we met. That was an awk-

ward moment!

We are paying for the wedding on our own, and it will be a very small one, meaning we have to be selective about whom we invite. We can’t even afford to invite all the people we would truly love to have there.

Nancy wasn’t originally on the list, and now I don’t know how to tell her she’s not a bridesmaid or even invited to the wedding. A limited budget can only go so far as an excuse, but it truly is the only reason. We are looking at a little over $100 a head. — Budgeting Bride Dear Budgeting: This pushy matchmaker may be on your last nerve, but she is the reason you two met. Yes, it would be an additional person to feed at the reception. I feel your pain there.

Weddings have gotten ridiculously expensive, and it’s hard for average folks to keep up.

But out of respect for her role as the catalyst for your marriage — and to

avoid bringing bad juju upon your big day — do whatever it takes to make it work and invite her. Just ask a friend to keep an eye on her and head off any impromptu self-congratulatory toasts.

Dear Annie: I’m retired. My wife died five years ago. My house is paid in full. It is my pride and joy.

I spend most of my day doing various chores around the house. I am pretty handy and don’t mind tacking on projects.

If I had to pick one part of the house that I am most proud of, I’d say it is my yard. I have a green thumb. I love gardening. I am out there every day planting, trimming or weeding. But my lawn, my grass — that’s my crowning achievement (and I have three kids).

The reason I am contacting you is that some jerk lets his dog poop on my lawn. I confronted him about it once before, and he apologized in the moment. Then I saw him letting his dog do his business on my lawn again that

same week.

My house and my yard are all I have. I want to have a good relationship with my neighbors, but this guy is pushing me. If he picked it up, it would be one thing, but the guy just leaves it there.

I bet he’s the type of guy who spits his gum out on the sidewalk. How should I handle this stinker? — Get Off My Lawn Dear Get Off My Lawn: I doubt Robert Frost had this sort of thing in mind when he wrote about good fences making good neighbors; nevertheless, the line applies here. Try putting up a small, attractive fence that won’t detract from your lawn’s glory. Then that lazy stinker will have to find a new neighbor to rattle.

By the way, I hope you’re joking about being prouder of your yard than you are of your children.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

Aboriginal voices softened the path taken on assisted suicide

BY JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Despite the clamour from doctors, lawyers, religious groups and advocates for the disabled, the softer voices of indigenous parliamentarians were instrumental in shaping the Trudeau government’s cautious approach to medical assistance in dying.

Indigenous MPs and senators played a central role in securing passage of the new assisted dying law, bringing to the debate what they describe as a unique perspective on the sanctity of life.

Their prominent role started at the top, with Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations and lead minister on the assisted death file.

She was back-stopped in the Senate by former judge Murray Sinclair, who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission inquiry into residential schools and was instrumental in persuading skeptical senators that the controversial new law was constitutional.

The first government backbencher to intervene on the issue in the ruling party’s caucus was Robert-Falcon Ouellette, one of nine indigenous Liberal MPs and, in the end, one of just a handful of Liberals to vote against the new law.

Theirs were voices Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would have been loath to ignore in any event, having repeatedly asserted that “no relationship is more important to me and to Canada than the one with Indigenous Peoples.”

But their message was amplified by the fact that the assisted dying debate played out against the backdrop of a youth suicide crisis in Attiwapiskat and other First Nations communities.

Wilson-Raybould herself never directly linked the two. But she did repeatedly talk about the need to “prevent the normalization of suicide, protect vulnerable persons who are disproportionately at risk of inducement to suicide.”

The law grants only those who are near death the right to medical assistance to end their lives.

In defending it before the Senate, Wilson-Raybould warned that expanding the eligibility criteria to include anyone who is suffering intolerably would “send the wrong message that society feels it is appropriate to address suffering in life by choosing death.”

“This message may encourage some who are in crisis and already considering suicide to act.”

Sinclair has no doubt that the aboriginal youth suicide crisis was in Wilson-Raybould’s mind.

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Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould says that broadening the law too far in permitting people suffering pain to get help in ending their own lives would “send the wrong message that society feels it is appropriate to address suffering in life by choosing death.” For aboriginal leaders and people living on reserves where youth suicide is many times the national average, this is a sensitive issue. no doubt that she has been influenced by her own teachings and her own cultural experiences in terms of how she approached it, as was I,” Sinclair said in an interview.

“As more and more young indigenous people seek out their culture and seek to understand how their culture can be relevant and valid for them today, it’s important to make connections to the current situation of things and show how our culture can help us through these things.”

Ouellette said he believes “indigenous people did have major influence” on the government’s approach to the issue. Although he voted against the law, he’s gratified that his views were reflected in the cautious approach taken by the government.

“Traditionally, in indigenous cultures, suicide never existed,” he said in an interview.

“If you live in nature and all of sudden you’re going around killing yourselves, committing suicide, your people won’t survive. You have to carry on, you have to move on, no matter all the bad things that happen in life.”

Sinclair echoes that view.

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ending one’s own life was not encouraged, in fact it was discouraged and there are teachings in my community, Ojibwa teachings, around whether or not you will be able to travel to the spirit world in the proper way or a ceremony could be done for you if you make the decision to end your life without good reason.”

Not all indigenous parliamentarians shared that view, however.

Sen. Lillian Dyck argued that the aboriginal youth suicide epidemic is the result of dysfunctional communities still grappling with the after-effects of the residential school era.

Moreover, she said, repeatedly referring to indigenous youth as vulnerable “is a big mistake.”

“It is a mistake because you are telling them, ‘You’re vulnerable, you’re weak, we’re afraid for you.’ I think that’s an awful message to give to youth,” Dyck, who voted for more expansive eligibility to assisted dying, told the Senate.

Thunder Bay MP Don Rusnak, chair of the Liberals’ newly formed indigenous caucus, said aboriginal communities in his riding also bristled when links were drawn between assisted

dying and the youth suicide crisis. He says many of his constituents objected that the law didn’t go far enough.

“There is not a pan-aboriginal or indigenous voice,” Rusnak said. “You can’t think of it as one homogeneous group. There’s different perspectives from different areas of the country, different languages, different cultural practices.”

Rusnak said the reason for creating the indigenous caucus is to share those different perspectives and ensure that ministers take them into account when crafting public policy. “We need to listen to the voices that for far too long in this country haven’t been heard.”

On assisted dying at least, Sinclair believes that’s already happened.

“What I heard from some of my colleagues and others is that they saw it, they saw the connection and they saw how it fit into indigenous teachings and how indigenous teachings … could be applicable to this kind of situation.”

More importantly, for indigenous peoples, Sinclair said: “It validated the fact that our teachings are important and real and so it moves the whole conversation of reconciliation forward a great deal.”

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