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Task force to weigh urgent-care options

More than cookies THOUSANDS OF GIRL GUIDES GATHER IN SYLVAN LAKE FOR WEEK-LONG CAMP

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A plan that will make urgent, after-hours health care a reality for Sylvan Lake and neighbouring communities will be in the hands of Minister of Health Sarah Hoffman by Sept. 30.

A joint task force made up of members from Sylvan Lake and area communities and Alberta Health Services will spend the next three months working on the plan.

“We’re going to look at all of the options. It may be a single location or it may be a network of services that work together to provide that same service in the community,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for Alberta Health Services Central Zone, on Monday.

“What we’ve looked at is making sure there is access for non-emergent conditions that have the proper support, such as lab and diagnostics, after hours to provide for people’s needs.”

Sylvan Lake and area have pursued an urgent-care centre since 2011 and established an Urgent Care Committee to push for a facility that would run seven days a week, with access to a lab and X-ray.

Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre said the Urgent Care Committee, AHS and the Ministry of Health are now working in the same direction.

“The messaging we’re getting from the province now is we hear you loud and clear and we’re working on a solution and they’re committed to making it happen. That’s a very encouraging message to us,” McIntyre said.

“We’re really happy to move past determining the need and getting on to planning and implementing a solution,” said McIntyre who is a member of the task force.

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Girl Guides master the art of medieval warfare: an improvised trebuchet provides the firepower for the forthcoming siege.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

about 40 per cent from Alberta, but there are also close to 100 girls from Peru, Trinidad, Scotland, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and elsewhere.

Campers are sleeping in 13 tent villages named after mountains in the Canadian Rockies.

Ranger Nicole Kundert, 16, of Red Deer, said even though it’s a massive campground, there are tents everywhere.

The camp is hosting a total of 2,752 people.

Girl Guides from across Canada and around the world have gathered on the shores of Sylvan Lake for Girl Guides of Canada’s 13th international camp Guiding Mosaic 2016.

Almost 2,000 guides between the ages of 12 to 18 and from 13 countries will be at Camp Woods for the weeklong camp.

About 90 per cent of the Pathfinders and Rangers are Canadian, with

Guides are involved in a variety of programs from boating on the lake to computer coding. Kundert said it was her first time coding and she will be focusing on media arts like photography and videography while at camp.

“It’s a fantastic experience, plus you get to meet people from all over the world. They’re all really, really lovely people,” Kundert said.

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Crops in good shape, but outlook not ‘all sweetness and light’

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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The canola crop in Central Alberta is said to be about two weeks ahead of schedule due to a warm spring and recent wet weather.

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Early seeding followed by a lot of sunshine and rain is making for some nice growing conditions for Central Alberta crops.

“They are very good, but it’s not all sweetness and light,” said Harry Brook, an Alberta Agriculture crops specialist at the Alberta Ag-Info Centre in Stettler.

Brook took an extensive drive through parts of Alberta earlier in the week looking at crops, and said cereals are looking good. “There’s been a lot of

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In some fields that have heavy soils and not enough elevation for draining, crops have been drowned out in low areas. Farmers have responded by re-seeding, which runs the risk of frost at the end of the growing season.

“The winners of the crop lottery as far as how as they look would be the cereals,” said Brook. These would include crops like wheat, barley and oats.

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Anglers urged to join study of ‘toilet paper algae’

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

The slimy formations were first discovered in the headwaters of the Bow River near Castle Junction in 2003. At about the same time, they started to show up in different areas around the world, most notably in New Zealand, said Jackson. Didymo was found in samples taken from various locations on the Red Deer River, upstream from the City of Red Deer.

“The Kiwis were convinced it was invasive, and because we hadn’t noticed it before, we assumed it was invasive to Alberta as well,” said Jackson.

The more they looked for the diatom, the more they found, including sampling done in a partnership between Parks Canada and the U of C. Researchers started to question whether the diatom was actually invasive or if something was changing to cause the dense blooms that had not been noticed in the past. Genetic studies are now underway to help understand where it’s blooming and where it isn’t and what impact environment is having on whether it blooms or not.

To help gather the data they need, Jackson and his crew invite anglers to collect samples from their preferred fishing areas and send them back to the lab, along with details about where and when they were collected. Secret fishing holes will not be revealed to the public, said Jackson.

Data from anglers will be used to create a map show where Didymo was found and in what form, with a little fudging of the details to protect those secret holes.

Anyone interested in learning more is asked to join Jackson and his team at Three Mile Bend at 6 p.m. There will be a training session and kits will be distributed to all who are interested.

Those who cannot make it to the session can also visit the Trout Unlimited web site, which has a page dedicated to the D3 project.

Please click on tucanada.org/discovering-didymo to learn more. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Local anglers are being asked to seek and collect rock snot for a study now underway at the University of Calgary.

A training session will run in Red Deer tonight for anyone interested in sleuthing out the slimy bio-film created by a single-cell algae known more commonly as rock snot or toilet paper algae.

Biologists call it Didymo because that’s much easier to pronounce than Didymosphenia Geminata.

Although not toxic, Didymo can be a nuisance and is the source of a great deal of curiosity for scientists who want to learn more about where it came from, where it lives, if and how it is spreading and whether environmental conditions are encouraging blooms that did not occur in the past.

Those scientists include Prof. Lee Jackson from the U of C’s biology department, head of D3 — the Discovering Didymo Distribution project — with the support of Trout Unlimited.

Jackson and his research team are now collecting data from a variety of Alberta rivers, including the Red Deer, with plans to release preliminary findings in fall.

Didymo is among the diatoms typically found in river bio-films, which are essentially colonies of tiny organisms clustered on a surface. The slimy formation is not actually the bio-film itself, but sediment that collects in the colonies of algae growing on the rocks, said Jackson.

“It looks kind of like wet wool or wet cotton,” he said.

“The normal bio-film is typically dominated by diatoms, different ones than we find in lakes. Didymo is a little different in that, under some conditions it exists as a single cell. Under other circumstances it creates a stalk that it attaches to rocks with, so what people are seeing is the stalk material, not the actual cell.

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Work continued on Monday afternoon to remove the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s old MRI unit and replace it with a new model featuring upgrades in functionality and patient comfort. The units weigh around 4,800 kg and require significant logistics to move.

Sunday, a suspect entered Chillabong’s Lounge at 69 Dunlop street wielding a handgun.

It was reported the male suspect demanded cash and instructed staff to place it in a bag. The suspect left through the front door and entered the passenger side of a grey Ford F-150.

The truck fled the scene westbound towards the Morrisroe neighbourhood.

The suspect is described by police as a Caucasian male about 1.82 metres (six feet) tall and weighs about 79.3 kg (175 pounds). He wore a half-face skull mask, a black echo hoodie with white writing, dark pants and black gloves.

Contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

cash register. He then fled the store.

Suspects reported the man rode away on a bicycle towards Rotary Park.

Staff did not see a weapon.

Police describe the suspect as Caucasian, about 25 to 30-years-old and tall with a skinny build. He wore a hoodie with the hood up, a mask and blue jeans and carried a black backpack.

Contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Local BRIEFS RCMP hunting for suspect in Pizza 73 robbery The robber may have gotten away empty handed, but Red Deer RCMP are asking for help tracking down a suspect who tried to grab cash and run from a local pizza joint.

Police said at about 1 a.m. on July 6, the suspect entered the Pizza 73 on 43rd Street and demanded cash. He jumped over the counter and tried, unsuccessfully, to take money from the

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Handgun used in robbery at Chillabong’s Lounge A local bar was robbed at gunpoint, and Red Deer RCMP are hoping for some help from the public to track down the suspect.

Police said just before midnight on

Shoplifters arrested at Stettler Walmart

STETTLER — Five alleged shoplifters have been put in handcuffs and the Stettler RCMP credit Walmart’s video surveillance.

Since April, officers have laid charges against five people who they say attempted to leave the store without paying for merchandise in three separate incidents.

It started on April 11, when three men are accused of taking a several small electronics and concealing them in their pants before leaving the store.

Two 22-year-olds and a 20-year-old now face warrants from the incident.

On June 27th, police say a lone male was found taking a pair of flip flops and stuffing them in his pants before leaving the store. A 34-year-old was identified and arrested.

Then on July 5, a loss prevention officer caught a lone male dismantling a fishing rod, and other items, into his pants. The 44-year-old was arrested and charged by police.

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Mosquito numbers expected to stay low

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Fingers crossed that Red Deerians will continue to be able to enjoy the outdoors without many mosquitoes.

So far fewer mosquitoes have been feasting on residents thanks to a dry spring.

“We’re likely to see some increases in the mosquito population through the next few weeks, but it really isn’t anticipated to be a significant year for mosquitoes unless Mother Nature has a change of plans coming up,” said Trevor Poth, Red Deer Parks Department superintendent, on Thursday.

He said after such a dry spring and the temperate rains that have followed, there’s been little standing water to allow larvae to hatch. Larvae need to hatch in a water body that’s going to dry out so they can be released from it. “(Rain) is being absorbed into the ground really, really quickly.”

He said since rain is in the forecast for the next few days things will change, but it really requires the ground to get quite saturated before there is significant pooling across the city.

So far the city has treated ponds and any pockets of standing water

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A dragonfly perches in the grass near a wetland along 40th Avenue in the Southbrook area of Red Deer. Dragonflies are known to eat mosquitoes and their larvae. twice, once in early May and once in mid-June.

The city uses a microbial pesticide

called bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) on ponds where mosquito larvae will hatch. It is used to treat

the aquatic larval stage of the mosquito life cycle before it emerges as an adult.

Bti is a non-chemical product that only kills mosquitoes. It does not affect fishing waters, other aquatic organisms or birds.

He said dragonfly populations are also starting to come out to help control mosquitoes.

“The dragonfly eats a ton of mosquitoes so the more we can support their populations through some of our wetland preservation and some of our lowland preservation, the more of them we see out there and the far less mosquitoes we have to deal with.”

But Poth still advises people to protect themselves against mosquitoes and so does Alberta Health Services.

AHS says West Nile virus infection still poses a hazard. From 2003 to 2015, Alberta had 680 cases of West Nile virus, many acquired here in the province.

There are simple ways people can protect themselves against bites: ● Wear a long-sleeved, light-coloured shirt, pants, and a hat. ● Use insect repellent with DEET. ● Consider staying indoors at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

RCMP bike patrol boosts visibility of force in downtown core

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are back in the bike saddle.

RCMP Cpl. Karyn Kay said this year 19 members were trained — 10 RCMP officers, six community police offices and three auxiliary constables.

The detachment has six mountain bikes that give officers the freedom to travel city streets, alleys, sidewalks and trails.

“It helps us do enforcement in places where the cars can’t normally get to.

Local BRIEFS Woman charged in stabbing death awaiting sentence Sentencing will he held later this month for a Maskwacis woman who has admitted to the stabbing death of another woman in the fall of 2014.

Maskwacis RCMP announced on Oct. 20, 2014, that they had arrested a young woman three days earlier in connection with a stabbing death.

Police alleged that an unnamed victim had been injured inside a home within the townsite and was rushed to hospital in Wetaskiwin, but died of her wounds.

Suspect Charmaine Cheralee LouisCrier, now 37, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder.

Louis-Crier had asked let in 2014 that the case against her be heard in the Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing beforehand. Preliminary hearings are optional and may be requested to test the strength of the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

Louis-Crier’s preliminary hearing was originally set for the fall of 2015, but did not run and has been reset a number of times since then.

During her latest hearing, set for Wetaskiwin provincial court earlier

It also is for visibility in the downtown core which is a priority for the city,” Kay said last week.

“We want to clean up our downtown and make sure that we’re visible to people.”

At any time, day or night, a pair of police members or more, wearing shorts with a yellow stripe down the side and bullet-proof vests, can be patrolling around Red Deer.

“We can do street enforcement, traffic enforcement, anything on our bikes.”

She said one of the big benefits of

bike patrols in fighting crime is the ability to quickly and quietly sneak up on suspects.

“If we had a car we’re loud, you can see us coming. If we’re on a bike you can’t.”

Members are trained to manoeuvre to move quickly, as well as how to use their bikes for protection if necessary, she said.

Kay said crime mapping helps members decide where to patrol based on the crime statistics.

“The more of us that are there, the less crime that’s happening.”

Patrols are out as soon as the snow melts in the spring and continue until snow returns in the fall. They attend community events like Canada Day and Westerner Days, and more.

Red Deer RCMP began patrolling the city’s park system back in 1991 using two stolen bikes whose owners were never found. Trails remain a focus today.

“We don’t want people to be vulnerable out on the trail systems in Red Deer so we make sure we’re on the trails.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

this month, she changed her election and pleaded guilty to the charge of second-degree murder.

She is currently in custody and awaiting a sentence hearing, set for July 22.

reported missing on Aug. 1, 2015. Her remains were found in a wooded area near Calmar, 20 km west of Leduc, on Aug. 3.

Investigators from the RCMP Major Crime Unit in Edmonton launched an investigation that culminated seven months later in the arrest of three men and one teenager, including Dylan Bruce Bakke, 21, of Red Deer. Also arrested were Kyle David James Scott, 29, of Leduc and Christopher A. Stein, 39, of Millet as well as a teenager whose name is withheld under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. All four have been charged with first-degree murder and Bakke faces an additional charge of committing an indignity to human remains.

Bakke and Scott are scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Leduc provincial court on June 26, 2017.

Preliminary hearings are optional for suspects who have asked to stand trial in the Court of Queen’s Bench. A preliminary hearing may be held in provincial court beforehand to test the strength of the Crown’s case before moving to the higher court.

On July 5, police said an online ad appeared for the sale of the stolen tractor. Their investigation led to Erskine along Hwy 12 and in the evening hours, officers intercepted the proposed sale and executed a search warrant for stolen property.

The tractor was recovered and has been returned to the owner.

Three people have been charged including a 38-year-old and a 34-yearold man and an 18-year-old woman.

They face possession of stolen property over $5,000 and possession of stolen property over $5,000 for the purpose of trafficking charges.

Auxiliary nurses, support staff at senior’s facility in Olds join AUPE Staff at Sunrise Village Olds Encore recently voted to join the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees.

About 60 auxiliary nurses and support staff at the seniors’ facility in Olds became AUPE’s newest bargaining unit, and joined the more than 11,000 members working in private and not-for-profit seniors care across Alberta.

AUPE now represents about 260 members working at Sunrise Village sites in Camrose and Olds.

Ontario-based Seasons Retirement Communities, which owns Sunrise Villages, is a private, for-profit developer and operator of seniors’ facilities in Alberta.

AUPE has more than 89,000 members across Alberta.

Preliminary hearing slated in first-degree murder trial A Red Deer man who is among four people accused of killing a Camrose woman has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing in the summer of 2017.

Mackenzie Leah Harris, 22, was

Alleged thieves attempt to sell stolen tractor online STETTLER — Brazen alleged thieves were caught after posting an online ad trying to sell the tractor police say they stole from a Stettlerarea equipment dealer.

Stettler RCMP were called to investigate the break and enter and theft on July 4 and the tractor, valued at $25,000, was reported stolen.

Residents urged to tackle wastewater storage concerns SYLVAN LAKE — Shorter showers are among the water conservation recommendations Sylvan Lake town council is urging residents to consider as it deals with wastewater storage concerns.

In a Monday release, the town said they have a temporary capacity concern with their wastewater storage lagoon. As a result, they are asking people to reduce the amount of wastewater they generate in homes and businesses.

Some water conservation tips include: disconnecting sump pump discharges from the sewer system, reducing toilet flushes, washing only full loads of laundry or dishes, turning off the tap while brushing your teeth or shaving, repair leaks and taking shorter showers.

Contact the Sylvan Lake Public Works department at 403-887-2800.

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Britain: Shakespeare in action Instead, the “Leave” campaign won, and Cameron announced his resignation the morning after the referendum.

However, he said that he would stay in office until October, to give the party time to choose a new leader. This would have involved three months of political paralysis, but it also gave Cameron time to settle his own future (he seems to be angling for a senior job with NATO). And then the slaughter started.

It was generally assumed that one of the pro-Brexit Conservative leaders would replace Cameron, most likely Boris Johnson. His presence at the head of the Brexit campaign probably gave it the million extra votes it needed for victory – but he was clearly shocked by the prospect of actually having to lead the country into the post-Brexit wilderness.

Johnson disappeared from sight for four days after the referendum, which gave the co-leader of the Brexit campaign, Justice Minister Michael Gove, time to plan a coup against him. Gove was supposed to be running Johnson’s campaign, but instead he announced that Johnson was not up to the job and declared that he was running for the leadership himself.

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GWYNNE DYER OPINION

It’s a bit like a Shakespeare play – specifically the final scene of Hamlet, when almost all the play’s major characters die violently. And now we’re down to one. Her name is Theresa May. It has been barely three weeks since the United Kingdom (or at least, 52 percent of those who voted) chose to leave the European Union, but all the main Brexit leaders have already left the stage. The Conservative Party has always been notable for its ruthlessness, and leaders who threaten to split the party get short shrift.

The first to go was Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum expecting that a pro-EU outcome would finally make the anti-EU obsessives on the right of his own Conservative Party shut up. It was a needless, fatal blunder.

Cameron allowed some of his own cabinet members to campaign for “Brexit”, in the belief that they would return to the fold, chastened by defeat, when the country voted for “Remain”.

to be out), and Gove’s treachery was so blatant that even his fellow Conservatives turned against him. For comic relief Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, also quit, saying that he wanted his life back. All the main Brexit leaders were gone in just two weeks, leaving only Andrea Leadsom as a pro-Brexit contender for the Conservative leadership.

Leadsom was a hard-right pro-Brexiter who only entered parliament in 2010. She was a lightweight who would never normally be seen as a potential prime minister, and her views were so extreme – marriage should only be for Christians, not gays; bring back fox-hunting – that she probably could not win a general election.

But Conservative members of parliament worried that she might win the leadership race anyway, because the people who decide that are the 150,000 paid-up Conservative Party members, a socially conservative, middle-class group with an average age of 60. So the pressure on Leadsom to step aside grew and grew.

On Monday morning Leadsom caved in, ensuring that the last woman standing, Home Secretary Theresa May, will be the new Conservative leader and

British prime minister. There will be no split in the party, and there will be no three-month hiatus in British politics. May is seen as a “safe pair of hands,” and she will be in office within days.

May supported “Remain” in the referendum, but very quietly. She has now pledged to carry out the wishes of (52 percent of) the voters and lead Britain out of the European Union – but that doesn’t mean she has the faintest idea how to do it.

The Guardian newspaper summed up the situation in an editorial last Wednesday: “It is now brutally clear that there is not a plan – no plan for how and when Britain leaves, no plan for future relations with Europe, and no plan at all for how political assent might be secured for any of the imperfect political options on offer.” That is as true for May as it was for the defunct pro-Brexit leadership.

But cheer up. Assuming that Angela Merkel remains Chancellor of Germany and that Hillary Clinton wins the US presidential election in November, by year’s end the three biggest Western countries will all be run by women. Maybe they can sort it all out.

Gwynne Dyer is an indepedent journalist.

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Canada’s return to NATO’s front line has familiar ring PAUL WELLS OPINION Canada’s return to NATO’s front line has air of familiarity to it And so Canadian soldiers are heading back to Europe.

Times change and the world, despite a steady drumbeat of appalling headlines, is safer for us than for our parents. So the deployment of 450 Canadian Forces troops to Latvia won’t be nearly as formidable as the deployment to West Germany - often more than 10 times larger - that was Canada’s defining military commitment for 42 years through the Cold War. But the purpose is wearyingly similar. To deter military adventures dictated from Moscow. To safeguard NATO’s integrity, both as a territory on a map and as the muscle of western democracy. To fight and die, in the almost inconceivable event that worse comes to worst, and by their deaths to draw other western troops into a battle the likes of which Europe hasn’t seen in most of a century.

And, in the meantime, to show Canada’s most important allies that Canada stands up when asked. At least, often

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enough.

It’s fashionable to decry the long decline in Canadian military spending that began a few years into the Afghanistan conflict. But whenever I’ve asked NATO leaders, including the alliance’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, they are quick to draw a distinction.

They do wish Canada would double its defence spending to two per cent of GDP, NATO’s preferred benchmark.

But at the same time, they recognize that Canada almost always uses its military in meaningful ways within the alliance, whereas other allies sometimes leave their burgeoning armies and glistening kit parked.

There are 28 NATO members. Only four will be “framework nations” leading multinational battle groups along the alliance’s eastern frontier: The United States in Poland, Britain in Estonia, Germany in Lithuania, and our gang in Latvia, which, incidentally is blessed with one of Europe’s loveliest capitals, Riga. Furloughs for Canadian troops over there will not be unpleasant. That the deployment - announced Friday at the Warsaw NATO summit and scheduled to begin next year - is the work of a Liberal prime minister often dismissed by his opponents as a high school teacher should come as little surprise.

First, foreign policy is dictated more by events than by party stripe. If Ste-

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phen Harper had been prime minister in 2001 and Jean Chrétien in 2006, the history of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan would have been little different. (Iraq might have been a different matter. Individual decisions do count at the margin.) NATO was launched while Louis St. Laurent, a courtly Quebec City Liberal, was prime minister.

The lessons of war, and the perilous near-collapse of Western Europe’s ability to defend itself, made the need for transatlantic alliance too obvious to ignore.

Second, this is turning into Justin Trudeau’s season for making progress on files normally seen as Liberal weak spots.

On foreign affairs and national security, the tempo of events has ensured that, only eight months after his first overseas trips as prime minister last autumn, he has become an experienced summiter. The prime minister’s detractors in Canada remain apoplectic at the sight of crowds lining up for photos with Trudeau, but Trudeau’s colleagues remain happy to see him and eager to get into the frame.

He will always face criticism for pulling CF-18s out of Iraq and Syria, but the Americans continue to say he has increased Canada’s contribution to the multinational effort against Daesh.

Because, in terms of the number of soldiers in the theatre, he has. Now comes

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this concrete contribution to the latest chapter in NATO’s founding mission, protecting Europe. Canadian prime ministers often come to the job with almost no foreign policy experience - since the mid-1960s, the biggest exception has been Jean Chrétien, a former external affairs minister. They learn by doing. It’s happening to the new guy, too.

On the economy, Trudeau’s plan to pay for infrastructure spending by borrowing big at low interest rates may be even more popular in the headquarters of the global elite than it is at home. This week The Economist noted that the International Monetary Fund and the G20 have both praised the infrastructure plan. Both are indulgent about the deficits that go with it.

In the New York Times, columnist Tom Friedman wondered why the U.S. Congress can’t meet the challenges of the day with “just common sense - like governments borrowing money at near zero interest to invest in much-needed infrastructure.” That’s what Trudeau is doing.

Stephen Harper used to call Trudeau’s economics “unicorns and rainbows,” and his approach to foreign policy worse than that. But on the global stage, Trudeau is having a good summer.

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Arrest video ‘obviously disturbing’: Notley BUT CONTEXT NEEDED, SAYS PREMIER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she can understand why someone would be disturbed by a video that shows a man being pinned down and hit by Calgary police.

But she says she won’t wade any further into the debate around the video, which has garnered more than 10,000 views on Instagram since it was posted Friday.

The video shows a man standing by a pickup truck outside a bar, when an officer grabs him by the collar and throws him to the ground.

That officer is shown hitting the man, who is covering his head, while two other officers hold the man down.

The Calgary Police Service says the 21-second video doesn’t tell the whole story.

In a statement, it says the officers were doing a walk-through at a bar when someone alerted them to a situation unfolding on the street.

When the officers got outside, they came across the man who they say was involved in an alleged road rage incident with a pedestrian.

Police say the man was aggressive and unco-operative.

The man was given a ticket for “stunting after driving in an unsafe manner” and has been released.

“I think, like all people who sort of see the video, it’s obviously disturbing.

But quite honestly, it’s a question of looking at the whole context,” Notley told reporters after she served pancakes at the annual premier’s Stampede breakfast.

“I think at this point there’s a process in place and we need to let that process work without the premier commenting on it or engaging in it. We’re going to let the process do what it’s supposed to do.”

Howie Shikaze, chairman of the Calgary Police Commission, said members of the group have seen the video and understand the concerns and questions being raised.

“CPS is conducting a formal review of this incident,” Shikaze said in a statement.

“The review will take the full incident into consideration, any available account provided by witnesses, and the current training framework.

“As part of the commission’s role to provide independent oversight of the investigative process, we will closely monitor this investigation, as we do with all investigations, to ensure it is appropriate, fair, and thorough.”

Chief Constable Roger Chaffin also released a statement saying the matter would be investigated.

“Policing is a difficult and dynamic profession — we see that now more than ever before,” said Chaffin.

“We ask members of the service to make determinations in a quick pe-

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, right, flips pancakes at the annual Premier’s Stampede Breakfast in Calgary on Monday.

Premier unfussed with unite-the-right ‘do-si-do’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the “little do-sido” taking place between Alberta’s two right-of-centre parties hasn’t changed how the NDP plans to tackle the next election.

She says her party’s strategy won’t change if longtime Alberta MP Jason Kenney succeeds in making willing dance partners of the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties.

“My focus as the premier of the province is to move forward on governing on the basis of the values that riod of time, and what you often see are those split-second decisions. In an information era like we are living in

I presented to Albertans in the last election, which they endorsed,” she said Monday.

“In the next election — regardless of how many different parties have popped up or disappeared or come together or done the little do-si-do with each other — it won’t matter because we’ll run on our record, the same record that Albertans chose in the last election.”

Notley made her remarks after flipping and serving up pancakes at the annual premier’s Stampede Breakfast in downtown Calgary. It was her second year holding the event, which drew a crowd despite today, these decisions beg for accountability and explanation, and this is our opportunity to look at that and move

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Notley said the goal leading up to the 2019 provincial vote will be winning over Albertans who share the values the NDP stands for.

Alberta’s PCs were ousted last year by the New Democrats after more than four decades in power, and proponents of the unite-the-right movement say vote-splitting was to blame.

Last week, Kenney announced his plan to leave federal politics, seek the vacant Progressive Conservative leadership in Alberta and, if he succeeds, facilitate a merger with the rival Wildrose Party. forward.”

He noted the civilian in the video has not yet made a formal complaint.

Women’s coalition gets status at hearing into judge’s sex assault comments

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A coalition of women’s groups says it has been granted intervener status at a public hearing for a federal court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together.

A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry scheduled for September is to determine whether Justice Robin Camp should be removed from his job.

Camp, who was a provincial court judge in Calgary when he made the comments in 2014, has said he wants to

Local BRIEFS Drug dealer jailed 54 months after guilty pleas A suspected drug dealer arrested during a traffic takedown in Red Deer has been sentenced to 54 months in prison after pleading guilty to some of the charges against him.

Mark Matthew Gommerud, 34 and a resident of Red Deer, was arrested on Sept. 30, 2015 by plainclothes Mounties who had been conducting a criminal investigation.

In a statement released on Oct. 2, Red Deer City RCMP said police had stopped and attempted to disable a vehicle with two occupants inside.

Gommerud was taken into custody on a variety of offences, including eight counts of possessing drugs for trafficking. Police alleged seizing cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and a variety of narcotic pills.

After a period of negotiation with the Crown, Gommerud agreed to plead guilty to three counts of possession for trafficking and one each of possessing proceeds of crime, dangerous driving and assaulting a police officer. Other charges were withdrawn after the guilty plea was entered, five counts of possession for trafficking, possessing a weapon dangerous to the public (a Tazer flashlight) and breaching a recognizance.

Gommerud was sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to

keep serving on the bench and plans to apologize at the hearing.

West Coast LEAF, which advocates for equality of women in the justice system, says it has joined with other women’s groups and will make arguments about the impact of Camp’s comments. The other groups include the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women and the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children.

The coalition also plans to talk about legal protections for sexual assault complainants that it says Camp ignored. serve 54 months, minus 14 months credit for the time he has already served in pre-trial custody.

Riverlands open house scheduled for Wednesday A public consultation meeting on the Riverlands redevelopment will be held in the Snell Auditorium on the lower level of the Red Deer Public Library on Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m.

City staff will be on hand to give people information and answer questions about updates to the Riverlands Area Redevelopment Plan (ARP) and amendments to the Land Use Bylaw, which will assist to advance redevelopment in the area.

The meeting will include information about the Area Redevelopment Plan and the three proposed corresponding Land Use Districts. These updates are the next steps to implementing all the great ideas contained in the vision and will provide the blueprint for changes to existing development and new development.

Right now, the Riverlands area is primarily a light industrial/commercial area in the southwestern sector of the Greater Downtown vicinity. It includes the former city public works yards, Cronquist Business Park, Inland Cement, Carnival Cinemas and the Old Brew Plaza and other commercial businesses.

Following the open house, the feedback will be summarized and considered by administration. A summary of the consultation and draft ARP and Land Use Districts will be posted on the City’s website prior to going to Council for consideration in August.

A public hearing will follow at a later date.

For more information visit www. reddeer.ca/riverlands.

The hearing is to take place in Calgary from Sept. 6 to 9.

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‘Lives are going to be shortened’ FORT MCMURRAY FIREFIGHTERS FEAR FOR HEALTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Many Fort McMurray firefighters, unable to wear their usual air masks while battling a giant wildfire that attacked the northern Alberta city, are being screened for health problems because they spent several days breathing in hazardous smoke.

Some of the 180 crew have developed a persistent cough, says firefighter Nick Waddington, president of the Fort McMurray branch of the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Results of lung and blood tests will be private.

But Waddington predicts the firefighters will need ongoing support and possible treatment for serious illnesses over the next 10 to 20 years.

“Realistically, a lot of our guys, their lives are going to be shortened because of this incident,” Waddington says bluntly. “When you compound that with everything that we’re going to have in our careers, we’re definitely going to be in a high risk.”

The fire spread into the oilsands capital on May 3 and forced more than 80,000 people to leave. It destroyed roughly 2,400 homes and other buildings — about one-tenth of the city. Firefighters were credited with saving the rest of the community.

Municipal crews were assisted in the following days by firefighters from other communities and wildland firefighters from across Canada and other countries — about 2,200 in all.

But the hometown crew was there first, working around the clock, when the forest fire morphed into an urban blaze and moved from timber to buildings with toxins in vinyl siding, treated lumber and furniture.

Firefighters “would have been out there for long periods of time sucking in the smoke,” says Fort McMurray fire Chief Darby Allen.

He explains that municipal firefighters normally wear a self-contained breathing apparatus. The air in the tanks might last up to an hour — enough time for going into a single house fire, but not for a marathon shift fighting flames consuming hundreds of homes.

“We didn’t have time to get back to the hall to charge (the tanks).”

Forest crews sometimes wear particulate filter masks. Waddington says those P100 masks aren’t stocked in large numbers at municipal fire stations.

Pallets of them arrived a few days after the fire raced into the city.

But wearing such masks is a “double-edge sword,” Waddington says. The filters make it harder to breathe and can get plugged.

And the half-masks can cause safety glasses and

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A firefighter wears a mask as he drives his truck pass a road block 16 km south of Fort McMurray. visors to fog, says Jamie Coutts, fire chief of Slave Lake, Alta.

“How do you wear that for six days?” he says.

Coutts and 13 Slave Lake firefighters helped during the initial days of the Fort McMurray fire and he says he didn’t get a filter mask.

He also didn’t have one during a forest fire that spread into his town in 2011 and destroyed about 400 buildings.

In the months after that fire, members of the Slave Lake crew developed chest infections and nose and throat problems, Coutts says. He was diagnosed with asthma and later lung sarcoidosis, although he says the disease can’t be directly linked to the fire.

After Coutts got home from Fort McMurray, he was coughing and wheezing again and couldn’t run up the stairs, he says.

“I’m a firefighter. I’ve got a better-than-average chance of dying of cancer. It is what it is.”

Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray says in a statement that the government is helping fire departments with health assessments of their crews and that they “will absolutely” received any treatment and care they need.

“As we continue with the recovery phase of the Fort McMurray wildfire response, we will do everything we can to ensure the immediate and long-term health of the courageous firefighters and first responders who were on the front lines of this disaster.”

Coutts says experts need to come up with a better way to protect crews when forest fires move into urban area.

“They’re going to have to make better particulate masks.”

No health concerns over soil after fire: government tests

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A wildfire that levelled some parts of the Alberta city of Fort McMurray left few contaminants behind in the soil, suggest the latest government tests.

The results, the first released on soil from neighbourhoods that were burned over in May, found isolated spots where hydrocarbons are above levels that would be expected to cause environmental damage.

But none of those levels was above the threshold that would hurt human health and Alberta Environment spokeswoman Jessica Lucenko said the hydrocarbons may not have even been a result of the fire.

“It could be naturally occurring. It could be from the addition of peat,” she said Monday.

The tests from June showed nine spots where hydrocarbon levels were up to three times higher than Alberta’s most stringent guidelines, which mark the point at which environmental effects begin to appear. Lucenko said none of the hydrocarbons accumulate in plants, so anything grown in the soil would be safe to eat.

“Ingesting the plants in those soils is not a health concern.”

Levels of heavy metals or more toxic hydrocarbons, such as the carcinogen benzene, were found to be low. Neither were heavy metals such as arsenic or lead found to be a concern.

Test results of soil from unburned areas were released last week. They concluded those areas are also safe.

Monday’s test results don’t apply to ash from the fire, which has already been found to be highly caus-

Clement expected to announce bid for Tory leadership

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Former Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement is expected to throw his hat into the ring Tuesday to seek his party’s leadership.

The longtime Conservative politician served in the Ontario provincial government of Mike Harris before becoming a versatile cabinet minister over the nine-and-a-half years of the Stephen Harper government in Ottawa.

In government, the gregarious 55-year-old most recently served as Treasury Board president before the Conservative defeat transformed him into one of his party’s two very TONY CLEMENT vocal foreign affairs critics.

It is a new role that Clement admitted early on would carry a steep learning curve, but he embraced it enthusiastically, dutifully hammering the ruling Liberals on a range of issues from withdrawing Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets from the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition in Iraq and Syria to the government’s decision to re-engage diplomatically with Russia.

Clement, who also severed as Harper’s industry and health ministers, is the last standing member of the troika of Harris-era provincial Tories who migrated to federal politics in 2006 after the Conservatives won power. But he is the only one still in politics.

John Baird abruptly resigned his Foreign Affairs portfolio and seat as an MP early last year, following

the untimely death of longtime Harper finance minister Jim Flaherty the previous year.

The departure last week of another former formidable cabinet colleague has also made more room for Clement: Jason Kenney said he would seek the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, a run Harper himself has endorsed.

This isn’t Clement’s first leadership race. He’s run a pair of unsuccessful leadership campaigns — to replace Harris in 2002 and to lead the newly minted Conservative Party of Canada a year later.

“Tony Clement is the Energizer bunny of Conservative leadership races — he just keeps going and going,” said conservative strategist Tim Powers.

“If persistence matters, he’ll score well among the Conservative electorate — but persistence isn’t fresh and new, which might be his greatest challenge.”

Clement is joining a race that includes Kellie Leitch, a former labour minister Ontario MP Michael Chong and Quebec MP Maxime Bernier, who also held the Foreign Affairs and Industry portfolios.

But several other high-profile candidates are rumoured to be biding their time and could join the race later, including former cabinet colleagues Peter MacKay and Lisa Raitt, as well as outspoken television personality Kevin O’Leary.

Clement’s Muskoka riding was the scene of the 2010 G8 summit, a setting which saw him run afoul of the auditor general who found he should not have diverted $50 million in federal funds to his riding for various buildings, including a gazebo.

Clement was also an energetic supporter of the Harper’s government’s decision to scrap the longform census and he took a hardline during labour negotiations with public sector unions.

tic and to have carcinogen levels high enough to affect human health in some circumstances.

The ash was also found to be high in heavy metals.

Arsenic was found in amounts many times higher than those that would start to damage the environment.

But ash only threatens human health on contact, Lucenko said. Soil was tested, in part, to determine if the ash had become mixed in with it.

“What the soil testing was looking for was to see if anything from the ash made its way into the soil.

What that’s showing is that whatever did, it’s still below human health (levels).”

Tackifiers, a substance similar to papier mache, has been sprayed on the ash several times to stabilize it.

“As cleanup continues, there’s going to be more sampling taken,” Lucenko said.

Police say home invaders forced their way into wrong house, injured woman Calgary police say home invaders who attacked a woman got the wrong house.

Police say they were called to a home early Saturday and found a woman in her early 60s.

They say two men forced their way into her home, one struck the woman with the butt end of a handgun, then both fled without removing anything from the home.

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Delta Fire says the fire in Burns Bog is fully contained and crews from the B.C. Wildfire Service have also left the area.

The fire department says it will work with Metro Vancouver Parks and co-ordinate an aerial scan using a thermal imaging camera this week to look for any areas of concern.

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Trudeau mum on mission extension

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

UKRAINE

KYIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to wrap up his latest overseas travels Tuesday with a visit to western Ukraine, where he will greet the Canadian Forces soldiers who have been training their Ukrainian counterparts since last summer.

Whether those troops will still be there next summer, however, was both an open question and a central issue Monday as Trudeau met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The previous Conservative government deployed 200 Canadian military trainers to a base near the Ukrainian city of Lviv last year in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

The Canadians, alongside British and American troops, have been teaching the basics of soldiering, such as how to use their weapons and move as a unit,

as well as more advanced skills such bomb disposal and medical training.

“We are giving significant support to the Ukrainian military to be able to be more effective in defending and reclaiming Ukrainian territory,” Trudeau told a news conference where the two countries announced a new Canada-Ukraine free trade deal.

“We are very happy to be involved in and to be supporting the people of Ukraine.”

Trudeau wouldn’t say, however, whether the Liberal government — fresh from committing hundreds of troops to form the core of a NATO battalion in Latvia — will extend the training mission past its current expiry date in March.

Poroshenko said a professional military is essential for protecting his country’s sovereignty and ter-

ritorial integrity. “I have asked the prime minister to prolong the mandate of the mission,” he said through an interpreter.

Asked to respond, Trudeau said Canada would co-ordinate with its international partners and allies on how best to help Ukraine in the future.

“We are right now focused on the training mission that is going so well for both Canadians and especially for the Ukrainian military,” he said. “As the situation evolves, we will continue to monitor and look at the best way we can continue to support and help Ukraine.”

Trudeau did promise more observers for a mission by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe monitoring ceasefire violations between Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatist forces in the country’s east. Canada will increase its complement to the 700-strong OSCE mission from 25 to 50.

Canada will also send more police officers to help train the Ukrainian police.

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Flash flooding triggers emergency declaration

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A police officer stands outside a home where a woman was injured in a house fire Sunday and later died, during an investigation in Port Moody, B.C., on Monday. A woman has died and a man police believe to be her husband has been arrested after a house fire in suburban Vancouver that is being investigated as a homicide.

Husband charged with arson, murder in fire that killed mother of six

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PORT MOODY, B.C. — A mother of six has died and her husband is charged with second-degree murder after neighbours helped rescue five children from the roof of a burning home in suburban Vancouver.

Rahim Bhatia said Monday that he and his wife Fawziah rushed outside Sunday as firefighters blasted the flames on the house across the street from their home in Port Moody with high-powered hoses.

“The siding — it just went up. You just felt sick. It was like melting butter,” he said.

The couple said they had often seen children playing outside and sometimes noticed a man they believed was their father, but they had never seen their mother.

The fire seemed out of control, Fawziah added, but firefighters extinguished the blaze in minutes.

“We really thought it was going to burn to the ground,” she said.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team tweeted that the unnamed accused in the case has been charged with second-degree murder and two counts of arson causing bodily harm.

Canada BRIEFS Immigration detainees on hunger strike want meeting with minister TORONTO — A group advocating for full immigration status for all migrants says more than 50 immigration detainees began refusing food Monday in two Ontario centres.

The End Immigration Detention Network says the detainees are protesting prison conditions that include increasing lockdowns and the use of solitary confinement, and are calling for an end to indefinite detentions in maximum security prisons.

The immigration detainees are asking for a meeting with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to discuss their concerns. A spokesman for Goodale says the minister is working on issues related to detention and hopes to put forward proposals later this year.

Those taking part in the protest are housed at the maximum security Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., and the Toronto East Detention Centre.

Man to be tried for murder, interfering with body of Nova Scotia police officer HALIFAX — A man accused of killing an off-duty Nova Scotia police officer and disposing of her body near a Halifax bridge will be committed to stand trial.

Christopher Calvin Garnier, 28, was in court Monday for a preliminary hearing on charges that he committed second-degree murder and interfered with a dead body in the death of Truro officer Catherine Campbell last September.

Outside of court, Crown lawyer Christine Driscoll said 10 or 11 witnesses would be called during the

Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound confirmed the accused is the woman’s husband, but said his name is not being released to protect the identity of the couples’ children.

Pound said police responded to reports of a domestic dispute shortly before 1:30 p.m. Sunday, and arrived to find the two-storey home engulfed in flames.

“This incident is one that is tragic beyond words,” Pound said in a statement. “Despite the intensity of the fire, the children, with assistance from the general public, managed to escape the burning home with minimal physical injuries.”

The mother died of her injuries just after 6 p.m., Pound said.

Five of the couple’s six children were home but were able to climb from the second floor before firefighters arrived. The six children range in age from five to 18, police said.

Two bouquets of flowers rested against a skinny tree across the street from the house, which was cordoned off with police tape on Monday.

A gaping black hole replaced a large picture window that had been blasted out by the fire. The acrid smell of charred debris and chemicals lingered in the air. hearing, which is usually held to determine if a judge finds there is enough evidence to commit an accused to trial.

But Driscoll said defence lawyer Joel Pink agreed to a trial, so the witness list was reduced.

“Mr. Pink has consented to committal. …

Sometimes it happens. He provided a number of names he was interested in hearing from and we agreed to subpoena them,” she said. Pink declined comment outside of the court.

A publication ban has been placed upon all evidence discussed at the preliminary hearing, which is set for four days.

ESTEVAN, Sask. — People in most of southern Saskatchewan are being warned that heavy rain — possibly as much as 100 millimetres — could bring flooding.

A rainfall warning was in place Monday from Prince Albert, south to the U.S. border. Environment Canada said heavy downpours could cause flash floods, water pooling on roads and flooding in low-lying areas.

Saskatchewan emergency management commissioner Duane McKay said communities should be prepared.

“Obviously, some of these issues will impact individuals, so we’ve notified our provincial disaster assistance team and they are ready to go with any help that municipalities might require there as well,” McKay said Monday in Saskatoon.

McKay also said there’s a large cache of flood equipment, such as barriers and pumps, in southern Saskatchewan from flood responses in 2011, 2012 and 2014.

“The province is well provisioned in terms of making sure that, in the event of a flood in any community that requires equipment, the entire equipment from start to finish would be available. And it’s on trailers, so it could be rapidly deployed to particular areas.”

A state of emergency was already Sunday in Estevan when roads and basements were left under water by storm sewers unable to handle at least 130 millimetres of rain that fell in just over two hours.

McKay said he hopes the worst is over for Estevan.

“All of the infrastructure, although it was overwhelmed, seems to be keeping up with the removal of the water through lift stations and so on,” he said.

“So although it’s very dramatic when you see the photos of rivers where streets should be, the systems are working and are beginning to clear that water out of that area. Most of the water in those low-lying areas will cause some damages.”

The Red Cross has provided 300 cleanup kits to Estevan, which includes a mop, sponges, brooms, gloves and supplies to safely clean flood-damaged homes and property.

Estevan resident Janet Foord, who was returning home when she was caught driving in the storm, said intersections were flooded and vehicles had water up to their mirrors.

“It took me about 20 minutes to get from the highway to my house, which usually takes about four minutes, just because I couldn’t find a dry spot or a high spot to go down without stalling our vehicle,” said Foord.

Foord said her neighbours’ homes are flooded and the underground parking garage in a condo behind her house is filled with water.

“You could see stuff floating as I walked by.”

People trying to get water out of their basements also faced a challenge when the power went out Sunday, because they needed generators to run their sump pumps, Foord said. usual tall, black fin around 45 metres away.

The 67-year-old retired fisherman had never seen an orca in East Coast waters, and suddenly, five or six of them were nudging his boat.

At first, Strickland thought the orcas were just being friendly.

“If you look at advertising … (for) aquariums, you’re led to believe that those things are very playful,” he said. “I was saying, ‘My god! They’re coming so close!”’

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Buddhist-affiliated restaurant vandalized after monks set lobsters free CHARLOTTETOWN — A Buddhist-affiliated restaurant in Prince Edward Island has been vandalized, hours after a group of local monks liberated 600 pounds of live lobsters.

Charlottetown police responded early Sunday to property damage at the Splendid Essence restaurant, including a damaged railing, uprooted flowers and smashed mailbox.

The previous day, monks from the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society in Little Sands had invited a CBC News crew to join them on a fishing boat as they released lobsters purchased on the island into the ocean off Wood Islands.

Before returning the crustaceans to their natural habitat, the monks sprinkled the lobsters with purified water and performed a 20-minute ceremony involving a Buddhist chant for compassion.

Pack of killer whales surround, jostle family’s boat off Newfoundland BURGEO, N.L. — A father-daughter fishing trip turned dangerous when the family’s boat was encircled by a pack of killer whales off Newfoundland.

Norm Strickland said the orcas surrounded and charged his 5.5-metre boat near Burgeo on Saturday.

“I’ve been in boats all of my life. I’ve never had a fear,” Strickland said Monday. “But I can tell you, that day I was scared … the boat would capsize.”

Strickland said he was cod fishing with his daughter, Elizabeth, and his dog when he spotted an un-

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

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May to be U.K.’s next leader

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — After all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign.

Home Secretary Theresa May, 59, is not well-known internationally, but she has served for six years in one of Britain’s toughest jobs, playing an important role in counter-terrorism policy, and will now take charge of delicate negotiations to separate Britain from the European Union.

She was less visible — and less talked-about as a likely future prime minister — than Treasury Chief George Osborne and former London Mayor Boris Johnson, but she proved to be the stealth candidate, outmanoeuvring both in the intense competition to follow Cameron at 10 Downing Street.

During the EU referendum campaign, Osborne was passionate about remaining in the EU, and lost his leadership hopes when voters turned the other way. Johnson led the campaign to take Britain out of the EU, but never formally entered the leadership race because of dwindling support among his party’s lawmakers.

By contrast, May stayed largely out of the referendum fray. She tepidly

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Britain’s Theresa May, left, speaks outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday. Britain’s Conservative Party has confirmed that Theresa May has been elected party leader “with immediate effect” and will become the country’s next prime minister. backed remaining in the EU in a single speech, then remained largely out of sight as the behemoths of the Conservative Party — including Cameron and Justice Secretary Michael Gove — did each other in.

“We do have this remarkable situation in British politics now where the

people who led a fantastically successful campaign that got 17 million people to vote to leave the European Union have all but disappeared,” said Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics at King’s College London.

May’s triumph is no surprise to colleagues who say she is cool and calm

Inmate kills two bailiffs at Michigan courthouse

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said.

People scrambled for cover inside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, a city of about 8,300 people in the southwestern corner of Michigan, about 100 miles northeast of Chicago.

“Our hearts are torn apart. … I have known them for over 30 years. It’s a sad day,” Sheriff Paul Bailey said of the bailiffs.

Larry Darnell Gordon, 44, who was locked up on several felony charges, was being moved from a cell for a courtroom appearance when a fight occurred and he was able to disarm an officer, Bailey said. The sheriff did not say what charges the inmate was facing.

Bailey said it does not appear that Gordon was handcuffed, adding authorities had “no warning signs” that the suspect would be violent.

The inmate shot a sheriff’s deputy, killed the bailiffs and then shot a civilian in the arm in a public area, the sheriff said.

During the incident, Bailey said Gordon took hostages for a short period before trying to leave through another door. The inmate then was fatally shot “by two other bailiffs who came to render aid, along with several other officers,” Bailey said.

“He was trying to escape,” the sher-

World BRIEFS Attorneys confirm Chelsea Manning attempted suicide KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for the transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for sending classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks said Monday her hospi-

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GUIDES: Teaches girls skills Camp director Brigitte Trau said Girl Guides may still be known for their tradition of selling cookies, their mainstay fundraising activity, but guiding teaches girls skills that help them today.

“The world is changing and we know that. Guiding is very proactive and is very current,” Trau said.

She said camp food is catered so guides don’t have to build campfires and cook and cleanup so they can participate in more programs with fellow guides.

“They do programs side by side and talk to each other and get to know each other. Some are pen pals for life.”

Trau said attending a national camp leaves a lasting impression on a lot of girls.

The camp runs until Sunday. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

under pressure. She has grown in confidence and stature after six years in the limelight, projecting authority in front of TV cameras that once made her nervous. She is not flashy, does not call attention to herself, and had seemed content with her public role as a loyal Cameron backer.

There is no doubt she has her critics. Conservative Party elder statesman Kenneth Clarke last week called her a “bloody difficult woman” in an unguarded moment when he didn’t know he was being filmed.

Others praise her open-minded approach.

Lynne Featherstone, a Liberal Democrat in the House of Lords who played a key role in winning support for same-sex marriage in Britain, said May at first opposed the measure but eventually helped make it the law of the land.

“Theresa May changed her view and by time I authored same sex marriage law — she backed me all the way — unsung hero,” Featherstone tweeted Monday.

May has long seemed aware that the Conservative Party is saddled with an elitist, out-of-touch image. Serving as party chairwoman in 2002, she warned that the Conservatives had become known as “the nasty party” and needed to change their ways and broaden their appeal.

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President, rival call for cease-fire

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Sheriff’s Deputy Guy Puffer stands watch outside the Berrien County Courthouse after a shooting incident in St. Joseph, Mich., Monday. iff said.

Bailey identified the bailiffs killed as Joseph Zangaro, 61, and Ronald Kienzle, 63. He said the longtime law enforcement officers were close friends of his who became court officers after retiring from their departments.

Zangaro was head of court security.

He retired from the Michigan State Police as commander of the Bridgman Post in Berrien County. Kienzle retired as a sergeant of the Benton Township police department after serving in the U.S. Army.

Both had been employed by the court for more than a decade.

The injuries suffered by the deputy and the civilian weren’t considered life-threatening. Bailey said the dep-

uty, 41-year-old James Atterberry Jr., had surgery on his arm and is “doing fine.” He said the civilian was a woman who also suffered an arm injury. He did not identify her.

Bailey said the courthouse would be closed on Tuesday.

Gordon’s ex-wife, Jessica Gordon, told WOOD-TV and the Detroit Free Press that he likely was trying escape to see his family. She added that he was “not a monster,” but “an amazing man that got mixed up with the wrong people.”

Gov. Rick Snyder cut short a visit to Midland and travelled across the state to St. Joseph to meet with investigators and victims’ families.

Snyder called it a “terrible day in a wonderful community.”

talization last week was due to an attempted suicide.

Chelsea Manning’s attorneys, in an email to media outlets, did not disclose details about the attempt early July 5 at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, where the 28-year-old Manning is serving a 35-year sentence.

But the attorneys, who said they spoke to Manning by telephone Monday for the first time since the attempt, accused the U.S. Army of a “gross breach of confidentiality” for publicly revealing last week that Manning had been hospitalized. The Army at that time didn’t offer details.

Manning’s lawyers added that the soldier “knows that people have questions about how she is doing” and will remain under close observation at the

lockup for several weeks.

“She would have preferred to keep her private medical information private, and instead focus on her recovery,” said her attorneys, who appeared unaware of Manning’s hospitalization until reached by reporters the next day and who criticized leaks of the information to media outlets.

“The government’s gross breach of confidentiality in disclosing her personal health information to the media has created the very real concern that they may continue their unauthorized release of information about her publicly without warning,” they said.

Messages left Monday with an Army spokesman, Wayne Hall, were not immediately returned.

CARE: Goal is costeffective service

the area annually.

Doctors with the Wolf Creek Primary Care Network have provided after-hours care on an as-needed basis from their offices, but this practice has become unsustainable as the community has grown. Anyone needing urgent after-hours care has had to travel to nearby emergency departments if they were unable to be seen locally. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

The task force will be made up of staff and physicians from AHS and Wolf Creek Primary Care Network, members of the town’s Urgent Care Committee, and representatives of the Town of Sylvan Lake and surrounding communities.

Bales said the goal is to design the most effective service as cost-effectively as possible.

“We haven’t actually set any parameters around what the funding would look like.”

He said depending on what is recommended, the intention would be to have the new services in place before the end of the current fiscal year that ends March 31, 2017.

The Sylvan Lake area serves a population of more than 22,000 and includes Sylvan Lake, Eckville, Bentley, Benalto, Lacombe County, Red Deer County and summer villages Birchcliff, Half Moon Bay, Jarvis Bay, Norglenwold, and Sunbreaker Cove.

As many as 750,000 people also visit

CROP: Cutworms a bigger problem Some canola fields are not looking so great. Brook said he saw areas where half the field has been eaten by cutworms. “I don’t think we’re going to see the high yield in canola.”

“I saw some really nice canola crops but it wasn’t the rule.” Cutworms became a bigger problem this year because the winter was so warm.

It’s too early to predict whether farmers will see a bumper crop. “It’s not in the bin yet.” But around Red Deer it looks really good, Brook said.

“I’ve seen some awesome pea crops

JUBA, South Sudan — The president of South Sudan and his opposition rival both called Monday for a cease-fire in a conflict that has seen fierce clashes between their forces spread from the capital to a southeastern town.

President Salva Kiir declared a halt in fighting that began Thursday night and has raised fears of a return to civil war that could draw in even more of the East African country’s ethnic groups. On Saturday, the troubled nation marked the fifth anniversary of its independence from Sudan.

Hours after the declaration by Kiir, gunfire could still be heard, although it was unclear if was fighting or troops firing in celebration.

Former rebel leader Riek Machar also called for a cease-fire. Machar, who is the country’s first vice-president under a fragile peace deal, made the call in an interview with South Sudan-based Eye Radio. He also said he was still in Juba but would not elaborate.

Kiir’s announcement came after his forces overran an opposition base in Juba and killed 35 of Machar’s bodyguards, according to opposition officials. The government forces also attacked a UN peacekeeping base and camp for civilians who fled the violence.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council to place an immediate arms embargo on South Sudan. Speaking to reporters Monday, Ban also called for additional sanctions against South Sudan leaders who have blocked the existing peace deal and the “fortifying” of the UN peacekeeping force there.

“The renewed fighting is outrageous,” Ban said. “It is yet another grievous setback. It deepens the country’s suffering. It makes a mockery of commitments to peace.”

Many of the thousands displaced by the fighting are seeking shelter at two UN bases, a World Food Program compound and other areas, said Matilda Moyo, a spokeswoman at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. around Stettler too.”

Unfortunately the warm moist conditions are ideal for disease and the main question he is getting right now from farmers is should they spray for fungicide.

If it stops raining this week and dries up it’s really not an issue, he said.

“Our crops are probably a week to two weeks ahead of normal. … In some peas we may see harvesting occur as early as the second week of August, which is really early. You might even see some of the really early cereal crops being harvested too.”

Growers are having a hard time getting hay out because the fields are so wet, he said. Last year it was so dry farmers were getting maybe a quarter of a bale of hay an acre so the price of hay was high. This year they are probably getting two bales an acre and the price has dropped.

Last year people were paying up to $120 a bale. Prior to that it was between $36 and $50 a bale.

“If they can get this hay crop off, there’s enough moisture they could get a really good second crop,” Brook said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BUSINESS

THE ADVOCATE Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Home construction picks up in June BOOSTED BY APARTMENTS, TORONTO CONDOS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of home construction picked up last month, boosted by work beginning on apartments in Ontario and especially condominiums in Toronto.

The housing agency said Monday the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 218,333 units in June, up from 186,709 in May. Economists had expected June to come in at 190,000, according to Thomson Reuters.

“We’ve argued that Canadian housing wasn’t going to fall off a cliff, but we didn’t exactly expect it to climb again,” CIBC economist Nick Exarhos said.

The increase came as the pace of urban starts increased by 18.1 per cent in the month to 202,702 units, boosted by multiple urban starts, which gained 26.7 per cent to 142,819. Single-detached urban starts increased by 1.7 per cent to 59,883.

Regionally, the pace of urban housing starts rose in B.C., Ontario and in the Prairies, but fell in Atlantic Canada and Quebec.

“Residential construction activity

remains a highly regional story in Canada, as it should given how widely economic conditions differ below the surface right now,” BMO Capital Markets senior economist Robert Kavcic said.

The health of the Canadian housing market has been a key focus for economists.

The Bank of Canada has identified the housing sector as an area of risk and warned that the pace of home price increases in the red-hot markets of Vancouver and Toronto is unlikely to be sustained.

Kavcic noted that the national pace of housing starts looked to be settling in around 200,000, up from the rate in recent years.

“This level of construction activity is somewhat stronger than needed to support demographic demand, but if there is ‘overbuilding’ starting to take shape, it is largely centred in one area — British Columbia,” he wrote in a report.

Rural starts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15,631 units.

The six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rate increased to 197,918 in June compared with 190,302 in May.

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Houses are shown under construction in Toronto. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of home construction picked up last month.

TSUUT’INA PARK Companies must directly notify people affected by privacy breaches: watchdog First Nations

development ‘historic’: Chief

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Companies that lose personal customer data should be required to directly notify affected people — with limited exceptions — about the nature and date of the lapse along with steps taken to reduce the harm, says the federal privacy watchdog.

The Trudeau government plans to introduce breach-notification regulations in coming months to improve transparency and help consumers.

Several large businesses have been stung by hackers in recent years, causing embarrassment for proprietors and potential headaches for customers whose personal and financial details are suddenly circulating in cyberspace.

Legislation passed last year laid the groundwork for mandatory reporting of private-sector breaches that pose a “real risk of significant harm” to individuals.

The government recently asked the public and interested parties for comment on shaping the regulations and determining what companies and other private organizations will have to do in the event of a lapse.

The office of federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says companies should directly notify those affected by a breach through means such as telephone calls, emails or mailed letters.

The notice should tell people about the circumstances, the date of the breach (or at least an estimate), a description of the personal information, steps taken to control the harm, measures those affected can take and the contact information of someone at the company who can answer questions.

Setting out the requirements in regulation would “provide important clarity and certainty about the type of information that organizations should communicate to individuals,” the commissioner’s office says in its submission to the government.

It also urges the government to give thought to cases in which affected people live outside Canada.

In its submission, the Canadian Bar Association also recognizes the importance of providing meaningful notice to individuals of data breaches. “The regulations should avoid being overly prescriptive, however, in the form and manner of notifications.

Organizations should have flexibility to determine whether direct or indirect notification is most suitable.”

BRIEF Alberta to cut royalty rates in effort to squeeze out more oil, gas production CALGARY — The Alberta government is introducing two new royalty programs to encourage the energy sector to spend more on developments in their early stages and squeeze more oil and gas from underutilized existing operations.

Under the programs, companies

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The Trudeau government plans to introduce breach-notification regulations in coming months to improve transparency and help consumers.

The privacy commissioner says organizations should be allowed to notify individuals indirectly only when: — Direct notification is likely to cause undue further harm, for instance by informing family members of the person’s purchase of a confidential product or service — Giving direct notification to every affected person on an individual basis would involve prohibitive costs — Contact information for affected individuals is out of date, incomplete or inaccurate.

Under the new system, organizations covered by Canada’s private-sector privacy law would also have to report significant lapses to the privacy commissioner, which would allow his

office to determine whether appropriate actions were indeed being taken.

In addition, organizations that experienced a breach would have to keep a record of the data breach and make these records available to the privacy commissioner upon request.

One of the thornier issues to be decided in the regulatory scheme is whether data breaches in which the information is encrypted — encoded so as to make it indecipherable without a digital key — should be considered “low risk” events.

The privacy commissioner says encryption may indeed play a role in reducing or even eliminating risk of harm.

would pay reduced royalty rates on those projects for a longer period.

CEO Tim McMillan of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says the new royalty system recognizes the higher risks and greater costs of drilling associated with emerging developments and wringing out as much oil and gas from ongoing operations.

The changes were recommended by the provincial royalty review advisory panel in January.

They are to take effect as of Jan. 1, at the same time as Alberta’s overall new royalty framework.

B.C., are delaying a final decision on the venture that was originally planned to be made at the end of this year.

There is no word when the project might be subject to final approval, although LNG Canada says it remains a promising opportunity.

The LNG Canada project would export up to 24 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year and cost up to US$40 billion to build.

Shell owns a 50 per cent stake in the LNG Canada project along with partners Korea Gas Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., and PetroChina Co. Ltd. LNG Canada says in a statement that it made the decision in the context of global industry challenges, including capital constraints.

It says it will continue with site preparation activities in the area.

“The LNG Canada joint venture participants have determined they

LNG Canada delays final decision on Kitimat project VANCOUVER — The partners involved in a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat,

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CALGARY — The leader of a First Nation sitting on the edge of Calgary says three major commercial projects planned for the land will transform the city’s southwest.

Tsuut’ina Chief Roy Whitney says the band has partnered with real-estate developer Canderel to build three business centres along the planned southwest leg of a ring road.

The 200-hectare Tsuut’ina Park is to have space for retail stores, but will focus on entertainment and hospitality to complement the existing Grey Eagle Resort and Casino.

Tsuut’ina Crossing is to cover 145 hectares and include a research campus, as well as retail, office and mixeduse developments with access to trails, parks and open spaces.

A shopping complex called Tsuut’ina Centre is the third part of the plan. The band says the multibillion-dollar project will have a major, long-term, positive impact on Calgary and the First Nation.

“Tsuut’ina will be home to one of the largest, if not the largest, First Nations developments in Canada,” Whitney said Monday. “In addition to the financial benefits of rents and property taxes that will come from development, so, too, will come opportunity.

“The real motivation is to … allow future generations to work and flourish right here, at home. Generations of Tsuut’ina people will also be able to receive services, to shop, to learn, to invest their money, time and skill, to apply their trades, and to develop a profession — all while being near their families and their extended Nation family.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said the developments will also provide value for Calgarians.

“This thing has the potential to be very valuable and very additive for the community,” he said.

Construction, which is to begin in the next two to three years, is to coincide with work on the ring road. need more time prior to taking a final investment decision. At this time, we cannot confirm when this decision will be made.”

B.C. supports housing vacancy tax in Vancouver to assist with rental shortage VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government will support the city of Vancouver’s request for a tax on vacant housing.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong says the legislature will meet July 25 to consider revisions to the Vancouver Charter that would allow the city to create and collect the tax. De Jong says the levy is aimed at improving the supply of rental homes across Metro Vancouver’s superheated real estate market.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 142.96 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.75

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets closed higher Monday, with Canada’s main index up 100 points and the S&P 500 in New York hitting its highest level ever thanks to reassuring economic signs from the U.S. and overseas.

The S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto soared by 102.04 points to 14,361.88, lifted by gains in the metals and mining and financial sectors.

On Wall Street, the broader S&P 500 composite index inched up 7.26 points to 2,137.16 while the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 80.19 points to 18,226.93. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite gained 31.88 points to 4,988.64.

Stock markets have been enthused since Friday following a stronger-than-expected June jobs report from the U.S. after two months of disappointing data.

Canadian markets strategist Craig Fehr said last week’s employment report not only shows that the U.S. economy is growing, but may be enough to push the Federal Reserve into hiking interest rates at least once before the end of this year.

It also indicates that the U.S. economy is still able to strengthen despite a number of major global events recently — notably the Brexit vote to leave the European Union.

“It shows that the U.S. does have a solid foundation for growth and that many of these global uncertainties didn’t derail the economy from that path,” said Fehr, who works for Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Traders were also buoyed

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.94 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 28.61 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.06 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.52 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 28.92 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 13.86 First Quantum Minerals . . 9.75 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.31 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.81 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 7.30 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.11 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.84 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.870 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.15 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.37 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.04 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 43.60 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.41 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 25.14 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 39.93 Canyon Services Group. . 5.43 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.94 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.670

after the ruling party in Japan was re-elected on Sunday, a sign of continued stability and likely more stimulus for the world’s third-largest economy.

Meanwhile, in the U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May was elected Conservative party leader and named as the successor for Prime Minister David Cameron, who will step down Wednesday. The swift impending departure of Cameron and the instalment of his replacement helped bring some calm amid Brexit fears.

“Some of that is reducing the uncertainty around what is going on in the U.K, even though it doesn’t change the outlook for the challenges that lie ahead with Brexit,” said Fehr.

In commodities, the August crude contract was down 65 cents at US$44.76 per barrel, putting downward pressure on the Canadian dollar. The loonie lost 0.48 of a cent from 76.21 cents US. The August natural gas contract declined 10 cents at US$2.70 per mmBTU, the August gold contract lost $1.80 to US$1,356.60 an ounce and September copper contracts gained three cents to US$2.15 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,361.88, up 102.04 points Dow — 18,226.93, up 80.19 points S&P 500 — 2,137.16, up 7.26 points (record high) Nasdaq — 4,988.64, up 31.88 points Currencies:

Business BRIEFS Staples picks its Canadian president to head North American retail network FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — The Staples office supplies company has chosen the president of its Canadian arm to be the new head of its North American retail network.

The appointment of Steve Matyas was announced by Shira Goodman, who become interim chief executive last month after Ron Sargent agreed to step aside in May. Goodman was previously president of North American operations for Staples.

She says a realignment of retail leadership at Staples will strengthen the company’s position as it continues to “right size” its store network and meet the changing needs of its business customers.

Staples Inc. announced in May that its first-quarter sales were down three per cent from the same time last year and it expected a further year-overyear decline in the current second quarter.

New Jersey political stalemate puts Winnipeg bus firm in tricky spot WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg-based bus manufacturer says an order from New Jersey’s transit system has been put on hold following a state of emergency declared by Gov. Chris Christie due to funding problems.

New Flyer Industries says its MCI subsidiary had received approval in May for the delivery of 142 motor

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 93.89 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 44.48 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.84 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.20 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.37 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.29 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.850 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.38 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.29 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.41 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.39 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.82 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1700 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.29 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.89 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.08 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.54 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 33.56 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.57 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.83 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.16 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.18 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.670 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 78.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.52 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.53

Cdn — 76.21 cents US, down 0.48 of a cent Pound — C$1.7053, up 1.74 cents Euro — C$1.4508, up 0.96 of a cent Euro — US$1.1057, up 0.05 of a cent Oil futures: US$44.76 per barrel, down 65 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,356.60 per oz., down $1.80 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $27.787 oz., up 81.2 cents $893.35 kg., up $26.10 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $0.50 higher $467.90 Nov. ‘16 $0.50 higher $470.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.40 higher $477.10 March ‘17 $0.10 higher $482.50 May ‘17 $0.10 lower $486.70 July ‘17 $0.30 lower $490.50 Nov. ‘17 unchanged $493.50 Jan. ‘18 unchanged $493.60 March ‘18 unchanged $493.60 May ‘18 unchanged $493.60 July ‘18 unchanged $493.60.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $160.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $160.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $160.00 March ‘17 unchanged $162.00 May ‘17 unchanged $163.00 July ‘17 unchanged $163.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $163.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $163.00 March ‘18 unchanged $163.00 May ‘18 unchanged $163.00 July ‘18 unchanged $163.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 308,620 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 308,620.

coaches this year — part of an order for up to about 1,200 buses over six years.

But funding for New Jersey’s transit projects dried up after Democratic leaders in the state senate refused to support a deal on gasoline and sales taxes that had been reached by the Democrat-led state assembly and the Christie administration.

The Republican governor, a former rival of Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, later declared a state of emergency and last week released a list of transportation projects that would be shut down across the state for at least seven days.

New Flyer says New Jersey Transit has advised the company, one of North America’s largest bus manufacturers, that there must be an orderly shutdown of all work for the bus contract.

The Manitoba bus company says it’s working to understand the impact of New Jersey’s funding disruption on Motor Coach International, which New Flyer bought last year from an affiliate of KPS Capital Partners for US$455 million.

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Bombardier’s CSeries commercial jet sits on the tarmac before its first flight in 2013. Quebec’s premier says Bombardier’s CSeries program doesn’t require immediate financial support from the federal government, but he still expects Ottawa to come through with additional funding.

CSeries doesn’t need immediate federal funding, says Quebec premier

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom — Quebec’s premier says Bombardier’s CSeries program doesn’t require immediate federal financial support but he still expects Ottawa to come through with US$1 billion in additional funding.

Quebec has already made a US$500 million first payment towards its US$1-billion commitment to the CSeries.

“There is enough liquidity in the company to advance the program to fill all orders that are before us,” Couillard told reporters Sunday after taking a promotional flight on the CS100 at the Farnborough air show southwest of London.

Couillard said the program is on track with a full pipeline of 370 firm orders.

“The additional funding will be needed to ensure more flexibility in the future, identify new markets, develop new models,” he said during the first event of a trade mission to Europe.

“It’s up to Ottawa to make its decision. We have taken the decision.

And if this decision was not taken, we would not be here today.”

The federal government has said it’s still considering a request for a matching US$1 billion. Navdeep Bains, the federal economic development minister, is scheduled to make an announcement about the Quebec aerospace sector at the air show on Tuesday, although details weren’t immediately

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Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare has said he expects to meet with Bains this week.

Couillard has said Quebec’s intervention in the CSeries was key to securing orders from Air Canada and Delta Air Lines.

Quebec will receive a 49.5 per cent stake in the commercial jet program once the second US$500-million instalment is made on Sept. 1.

Bellemare praised Quebec’s decision to invest in the CSeries program, which he said supported its efforts to win the latest orders.

“A year ago, people wondered if the program was going to be there. Today we have an order book that will allow us to produce exactly what we had planned a year ago,” Bellemare said.

Meanwhile, Bellemare said additional CSeries orders won’t be announced at the air show.

Couillard rejected criticism from Brazilian rival Embraer, which is threatening to challenge Quebec’s support at the World Trade Organization after saying the Delta order would have been impossible without Quebec’s investment.

“There is not a dollar of subsidy in the support we have given to Bombardier, it is only a trade agreement,” he said. “And I know of no place on the planet, including competitors Boeing and Airbus, that have not received major government support.”

Bombardier announced Monday that it’s received Transport Canada certification for CS300, the larger model of its CSeries passenger jet.

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THE ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2016

Stanton named MVP of Home Run Derby

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Giancarlo Stanton wore out Petco Park with a record display of power in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, peppering every landmark from the left field corner to centre field.

Stanton hit 20 homers in the final round to best defending champion Todd Frazier of the Chicago White Sox. Overall, the Miami Marlins slugger hit a record 61, shattering the single-night mark of 41 by Bobby Abreu in 2005.

Stanton’s impressive shots hit the top level of the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in the left-field corner and the top of the batter’s eye in centre field.

He sent several balls just below the giant scoreboard high atop the left-field stands and several over the bullpens in left-centre.

“For sure being on the West Coast and taking the flight out here just for this, you know. I figure it’s a waste if I don’t bring this bad boy home,” Stanton said, hoisting the trophy.

The three-time All-Star is not on the NL roster for Tuesday night’s game after batting .233 with 20 homers and 50 RBIs before the break.

“I had a great time. I had a blast.”

Literally.

His longest shot was estimated at 497 feet. He hit the eight longest homers of the competition and 20 of the 21 deepest drives.

“When I get a few in a row I would kind of bump

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National League’s Giancarlo Stanton, of the Miami Marlins, hits during the MLB baseball All-Star Home Run Derby, Monday. it up 5 to 10 per cent,” he said. “But most the time I stuck at 80-90 per cent. I knew I could do it endurance-wise. I was just hoping my swing didn’t fall about.”

Stanton can defend his title at home next year when the Marlins host the All-Star Game.

“That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid,” said Stanton, who’s from Los Angeles. “Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.”

Stanton is baseball’s highest-paid player with a $325 million, 13-year deal. His new hitting coach is home run king Barry Bonds.

Frazier, who’s not on the AL All-Star team, hit 13 in the final round.

He was a hometown winner last year while with the Cincinnati Reds. He was traded to the White Sox in December.

The Western Metal Supply Co. Building served as one of the better Derby targets, joining the Warehouse at Baltimore’s Camden Yards in 1993 and McCovey Cove outside San Francisco’s AT&T Park in 2007. Those were both targets for lefty hitters Stanton hit 24 homers in the first round to eliminate the Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano (seven) and 17 in the semifinals to knock out Mark Trumbo (14) of the Baltimore Orioles.

Frazier hit 13 in the first round to beat Carlos Gonzalez (12) of the Colorado Rockies, and 16 in the semifinals to eliminate Adam Duvall (15) of the Cincinnati Reds.

Trumbo, who leads the majors with 28 homers, had two of the most impressive shots of the night, off the scoreboard in left field and onto the top of the Western Metal Building in his semifinal matchup against Stanton.

UFC sold for $4 billion

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate Staff

The Central Alberta Bantam football team, an all-star squad of players from across the region, runs some goal-line drills on Monday at Notre Dame High School. The team will compete in the Alberta Summer Games this weekend in Leduc.

Stacked Central bantam football team ready for battle at Alberta Summer Games

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Confident in his squad, head coach Duane Brown called the all-star team of Central Alberta’s bantam football players heading to Leduc in the Alberta Summer Games scary good.

Brown was overseeing goal-line offensive drills on Monday as the team prepares for three games in three days, a daunting task.

“It’s incredibly tough on the body,” said Brown.

“Typically we give kids five to seven days off between games. To do three games in three days, and have each game be more difficult than the last, is an incredible challenge for the kids.

“That said, our expectation is coming home with a medal.”

Comprised of the best football players from the Central zone, the team features players from Stettler, Ponoka, Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, Innisfail and Red Deer.

Going in some form of preparation since December, the team is now in its second week of preparing for the Alberta Summer Games.

They will compete in three games from July 15 to 17 in Leduc during the games. They open against the Edmonton team and their subsequent opponents will be determined based on the other games outcomes.

The medal games take place on July 17 and Brown said his squad has a chance at one of them,

which would be a first for the Central zone in this event.

At the core of the offence are two talented running backs, Logan Clarkson and Noah McKay. Clarkson, described by Brown as a power runner, was the most valuable player of the Central Football League.

To complement Clarkson’s power, McKay is speedster who can run around defenders.

“We’re a power team with some great running backs. Anyone who saw bantam football last year knew we would have some great running backs,” said Brown.

“Our offence is going to be a true power this year. As a defensive coach, to have an offensive team is a phenomenal little treat to have.”

Both of the team’s slotbacks have a height advantage with Richard Jans standing at six-foot-four and Nathan Fuerbringer at six-foot-one.

Supplementing the high-powered offence is a new look defence that Brown hopes will help keep opponents off balance.

“We’re trying out a new style that I find exciting,” said Brown. “Coach Cody Baird from Ponoka High School has put this in and it’s been amazing to watch it come together.

“It’s something no one in Central Alberta runs right now. I think it will be a really nice challenge for some of the teams we play in this tournament when you have one night to prepare and you have something you’re not used to seeing.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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LOS ANGELES — In less than 16 years, the UFC has grown from a money-losing company in a widely reviled sport into a global entertainment property worth $4 billion.

While the UFC and its new owners figure out the company’s next steps, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta are tapping out of mixed martial arts with a remarkable return on a $2 million investment.

The UFC has been sold for approximately $4 billion to a group led by Hollywood entertainment conglomerate WME-IMG, both companies confirmed Monday.

The sale will spectacularly benefit the Fertitta brothers and UFC President Dana White, who first persuaded his wealthy high school buddies to buy the cage fighting promotion in 2001. White also owned 9 per cent of the company, and he isn’t going anywhere despite his own windfall: He’ll remain the boss and public face of the UFC while keeping an ownership stake.

“No other sport compares to UFC,” White said.

“Our goal has always been to put on the biggest and the best fights for our fans, and to make this the biggest sport in the world. I’m looking forward to working with WME-IMG to continue to take this sport to the next level.”

Since their purchase of IMG three years ago, WME co-CEOs Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell have been pursuing properties throughout sports and entertainment ahead of a possible initial public offering. The UFC is their biggest buy yet — and the deal appears to be the largest single financial transaction in the history of sports.

“We’re now committed to pursuing new opportunities for UFC and its talented athletes to ensure the sport’s continued growth and success on a global scale,” Emanuel said.

In their first public comments about the deal, White and the new owners have suggested little will change at first for the promotion. The UFC has a full slate of fights scheduled this year, all building toward its long-awaited debut at Madison Square Garden in November after New York legalized MMA earlier this year.

But the UFC’s new financial backing and WMEIMG’s marketing dexterity seem certain to lead to even more growth and global prominence for MMA’s dominant promotion, which has bought out or eliminated many of its competitors in the sport.

“UFC has experienced tremendous growth over the last decade and we are looking forward to helping the organization and its athletes identify new opportunities to develop and further establish their global footprint,” Emanuel said.

Few companies do that better than WME, but the UFC has also been pretty good at building stars in its own violent milieu.

After helping Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture and Tito Ortiz to straddle the line between sports and entertainment, the promotion now boasts a stable of elite athletes with mainstream fame, including Conor McGregor, Brock Lesnar and Ronda Rousey, who is represented by WME. It’s too soon to tell whether the deal will lead to more money for the UFC’s non-unionized athletes.

The promotion regularly receives criticism from mid-level fighters for its pay scale, but its ability to control talent costs is a major factor in its profitability.

For instance, Lesnar made a disclosed $2.5 million along with probable millions in undisclosed bonuses for his victory over Mark Hunt at UFC 200 last Saturday. T.J. Dillashaw, the promotion’s former bantamweight champion, made $50,000 for his fight, and that includes a $25,000 bonus only paid because he won. McGregor, who makes multiple millions for each of his fights, congratulated the Fertittas on his Twitter account.

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Duncan retires after 19 seasons

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tim Duncan never wanted the spotlight, only the trophies. He never wanted the endorsements, only the camaraderie. He never wanted the accolades, only the collective achievement.

So when one of the most understated superstars in sports decided to finally call it a career after nearly two decades of excellence, he made the announcement with a 15-foot bank shot and not a boisterous slam dunk.

No big news conference. No victory lap. Not even a canned quote in the press release. Just a simple goodbye on Monday from the quiet anchor at the foundation of the San Antonio Spurs dynasty.

Just as he has for so much of his 19 seasons, the 40-year-old Duncan let others do the talking for him.

“Congrats to Tim Duncan. Probably a top 5 all time player and undoubtedly a top 5 all time teammate,” tweeted Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who played with Duncan in San Antonio. “Wow, what a career.”

Fifteen All-Star appearances, five championships, three NBA Finals MVPs, two NBA MVPs, one coach, one team. Forever.

The Spurs made the playoffs in all 19 of his seasons and won 71 per cent of their regular season games with No. 21 in the middle.

“The best (power forward) ever!”

Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge tweeted. “Thanks for the memories old man. A great player and teammate.”

Few would dare argue.

Duncan was the No. 1 overall pick in 1997 and teamed with coach Gregg Popovich, point guard Tony Parker and shooting guard Manu Ginobili to turn the Spurs from a solid franchise that could never quite get over the hump into the model for American sports.

“The constant staple of their fran-

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San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan (21) celebrates after Game 5 of the NBA basketball finals in San Antonio in 2014. Duncan announced his retirement on Monday after 19 seasons, five championships, two MVP awards and 15 All-Star appearances. It marks the end of an era for the Spurs and the NBA. chise,” Cleveland’s LeBron James said earlier this year.

The unassuming Duncan was the only player to start and win a title in three different decades. Nicknamed “The Big Fundamental” for his clinical approach that favoured bank shots over dunks, he was a member of the All-NBA first team 10 times and is one of only three players — joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Parrish — to win at least 1,000 games in his career. He is fifth on the NBA’s career list in blocks, sixth in rebounds and 14th in scoring.

He joined Larry Bird and Michael Jordan as the only players to be named

college basketball’s player of the year, the NBA rookie of the year, and the MVP of the All-Star game and the NBA Finals.

“Even tho I knew it was coming, I’m still moved by the news,” Ginobili tweeted. “What a HUGE honour to have played with him for 14 seasons! .ThankYouTD.” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called Duncan “one of the most dominant players in NBA history” and lauded him for an “understated selflessness (that) made him the ultimate teammate.”

“For two decades Tim represented the Spurs, the city of San Antonio and

the league with passion and class,” Silver said. “All of us in the NBA family thank him for his profound impact on the game.”

The reluctant star was often overshadowed in the public eye by more outsized personalities like James and Kobe Bryant, who also retired this year after 20 seasons, all with the Los Angeles Lakers. But he leaves this game as one of the league’s true giants, perhaps the best power forward to ever play and one who left as indelible a mark on his franchise as any player to come before him.

“This will always be Timmy’s franchise. Always,” Parker said during the 2013 NBA Finals. “Should do a statue for him outside the AT&T Center.”

The last time Duncan spoke to reporters was on May 12, when the Spurs had just been eliminated by the Thunder in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals.

There were hints in that game of Duncan’s plans, even though he later exercised a contract option to clear the way for his return. He had always said that he would walk away when he felt he could no longer have a significant impact on the game, and for most of the series the younger Thunder big men had their way with him and the Spurs on the glass.

With the Spurs getting blown out and the fourth quarter set to begin, Popovich and his veteran star had a brief conversation on the bench. Duncan then played all 12 minutes of the fourth quarter without coming out for a rest, finishing with 19 points and soaking up every second he could in the last game he would ever play.

And when the game was over, Duncan waved to the visiting crowd and pointed a finger toward the roof as he headed to the locker room.

“Timmy’s never been a very outspoken or emoting sort of individual on the court,” Popovich said earlier this year. “Everybody does it differently.”

Bucs stay undefeated

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

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San Francisco Giants pitcher Johnny Cueto throws against the Colorado Rockies during the first inning of a baseball game in San Francisco. Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox will start for the American League in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game. Cueto of the Giants will start for the National League.

Chris Sale, Johnny Cueto to start All-Star Game

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — Chris Sale can admit it now: He was a little too in love with the strikeout.

He led the American League last year with 274. But all those long counts cost him.

“I wanted to pitch more innings, get deeper into the games,” the Chicago White Sox ace said Monday after he was announced to open the All-Star Game for the American League.

“As a starting pitcher, that’s really the name of the game, is getting as deep into the game while giving your team a chance to win at the same time,” he said.

San Francisco’s Johnny Cueto will start for the National League on Tuesday as the All-Stars return to San Diego for the first time since 1992.

A 27-year-old left-hander, Sale is 143 with a 3.38 ERA and leads the major leagues in wins. He has 123 strikeouts — third in the AL — and just 26 walks in 125 innings. Batters are hitting .225 against him.

“In the past, he was a little bit more of a power pitcher,” the Chicago Cubs’ Ben Zobrist said. “If he’s hitting spots a little bit more, that might change our ability to drive the ball.”

Cueto, a 30-year-old right-hander who left Kansas City to sign with the Giants last off-season, tops NL pitchers in victories. He is 13-1 with a 2.47 ERA, striking out 115 in 131 1/3 innings. He has won 10 consecutive decisions since an April 21 loss to Arizona.

His path to the starting nod became clearer when Clayton Kershaw and Noah Syndergaard got hurt, Stephen Strasburg pulled out of the game because of a recent disabled list stint and Madison Bumgarner was ruled out because he started Sunday.

“I was just happy to be participating in the game,” Cueto said through a translator.

“But I’m very happy.”

Cueto impressed New York Mets manager Terry Collins with a two-hitter for Kansas City in Game 2 of last year’s World Series, the first complete game by an AL pitcher in the Series

since Jack Morris in 1991.

“That was the best outing I’ve ever seen him have,” Collins said.

Jake Arrieta of the Cubs was on track to get the honour, going 11-1 with a 1.74 ERA through mid-June. But he lost three of his last four starts heading into the break.

“The last three outings, I haven’t pitched very well,” he said. “If I had took care of business, I probably would have been the starter or considered a little more highly.”

AL manager Ned Yost’s batting order has Houston second baseman Jose Altuve leading off, followed by Angels centre fielder Mike Trout, Baltimore third baseman Manny Machado, Boston designated hitter David Ortiz, Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts, Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer, Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts, Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez and Boston left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. Collins has Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist leading off, followed by Washington right fielder Bryce Harper, Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, San Diego’s Wil Myers at designated hitter, San Francisco catcher Buster Posey, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, Miami centre fielder Marcell Ozuna, Colorado left fielder Carlos Gonzalez and Cubs shortstop Addison Russell.

Ozuna and Gonzalez are replacements for the Cubs’ Dexter Fowler and the Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes, who are hurt.

Yost said Corey Kluber, Cole Hamels, Aaron Sanchez and Jose Quintana will follow Sale to the mound.

The AL will be the home team for the game at Petco Park because this is the second straight year of at least four in which the NL will host the All-Stars.

The AL has a 10-3 advantage since the All-Star Game has determined homefield advantage in the World Series.

“It’s vitally important,” said Yost, whose Royals swept the first two games at Kauffman Stadium last year.

“We’ve got a room full of tremendously talented players and if we win this game it’s going to affect somebody or somebodies in that room.”

Buccaneers 79 Wolfpack 0 Another dominating performance by the Central Alberta Buccaneers has them vying for first place with the wounded, but dominant Calgary Gators.

On Saturday, the Bucs knocked off the Calgary Wolfpack 79-0 on the road to maintain their undefeated record of 5-0 and sit atop the Alberta Football League. They will face the Calgary Gators next week, who had not lost a game in more than a year before a 4237 defeat at the hands of the Fort McMurray Monarchs.

Bucs’ quarterback Brandon Leyh led the offence, going 11-for-12 throwing for 253 yards and three touchdowns. He added a touchdown on the ground.

“Offensively, Leyh came ready to play, as usual,” said Bucs linebacker Elliott Mabbot. “Our offensive line has been huge for us all season. They are the unsung heroes of the team and because of their hard work our pass and run games are deadly.”

Slotbacks Jamal Henry and Jesse

Mcphail torched the Wolfpack’s defence for two touchdowns each with Henry catching five passes for 112 yards and Mcphail catching five passes for 159 yards.

On the ground, Junior Rivera and Ron Lee King-Fileen shared the workload with five carriers for 46 yards for Rivera and six carries for 60 yards for King-Fileen. Both scored two touchdowns. Fellow running back Stas Mcfail had three carries for 22 yards and a touchdown.

Defensively the Bucs limited the Wolfpack to only four first downs in the game.

“Our front seven on our defence shut down their running game and put a lot of pressure on the quarterbacks and made life difficult for them,” said Bucs cornerback Cole Stewart. “We set the tone early and even when we subbed in new guys, we kept the tempo up. It was good to see.”

The win sets up a clash for first place with the 4-1 Gators. The game is scheduled for July 16th in Calgary.

A win gives the Bucs a strong edge to finish the season atop the AFL, a loss puts them into a tight three-way battle for first with the Gators and Monarchs.

MOSQUITO BASEBALL DRAYTON VALLEY — Rain shortened two of the three games over the weekend for the Red Deer Mosquito AA2 Lock N Safe Braves, while the team came away with one win.

That win came first, 6-5 over the Fort Saskatchewan Red Sox. Daven Comfort and Raymond Bottin pitched the first six innings while Luke Schmitt closed out the seventh.

Down one run going into bottom half of the seventh, Schmitt drove in the tying run with a triple and then stole home for the winning run. Elijah Cadieux, Carter Krause, Addison Giesbrecht and Comfort all drove in runs.

Playing only three innings before the rains started, the Braves fell 7-2 to the Edmonton South Jasper Jays. The Jays jumped out to an early lead with seven runs through the first two in-

nings. The Braves got two in the top of the third inning, but the comeback was derailed by the rain. Keiran PEterson and Avery Coumont pitched the shortened game while Giesbrecht and Noah Nakonechny had the two RBIs. The Braves closed out the weekend with a tough 7-6 loss to the hometown Drayton Valley Giants.

Avery Bettesworth pitched four innings of two-run ball, but the Giants broke through in the fifth, scoring five to tie the game. Owen Dixon closed out the game on the mound.

On the bats, Dixon narrowed the game to 7-6 with an RBI double, but the rain returned and the game stopped. Austin Goruk had a triple and two RBIs while Coumont, Bottin and Peterson each drove in a run.

MLB scraps plans to play in London in 2017

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — London is not calling for Major League Baseball next year.

The players’ association says MLB has given up plans to play regular-season games in the British capital in 2017.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in January that his staff was working hard at playing in London, and MLB officials looked at the renovated Olympic Stadium as a possible venue.

“There was discussion about London early on,” union head Tony Clark said Monday. “Unfortunately there were a number of moving pieces related to London that shortened our window in an effort to try to find common ground on that happening, and we weren’t able to get it done in time.”

Clark also was non-committal about having players on 25-man active rosters made available for the 2020 Olym-

pics, which will be held in Tokyo from July 24-Aug. 9.

The International Olympic Committee executive board voted last month to support a six-nation tournament that year in both baseball and women’s softball, and the full IOC is to vote in August.

Baseball became a medal sport for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics but was dropped for the 2012 London Games and won’t be played this year in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2008, only those not on 25-man big league rosters as of late June were allowed to compete — the U.S. team included Jake Arrieta and Stephen Strasburg — both All-Stars this year.

“Is there an appreciation for the value of having baseball in the Olympics? Yes, there is,” Clark said. “ Is there an appreciation for the season and how or if it could work with our active players? Yeah, there’s a conversation, but we run into the same roadblocks we always have.”

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

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World champions headline Olympic track team

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — One by one they walked down the stairs of Edmonton’s City Hall, throwers, jumpers, sprinters, decathletes, world champions, Olympic medallists.

Canada will field its largest — and arguably strongest — Olympic track and field team next month in Rio. Four years removed from a young squad who captured one medal at the London Olympics — Derek Drouin’s bronze in high jump — the team is that much older and better, and poised for a parade to the podium in Brazil.

“I think the switch kind of happened in London, in 2012 we saw the torch being passed from some of the older, more experienced athletes, to all of us,” said Brianne Theisen-Eaton, a world silver medallist in the heptathlon.

“Derek won our only medal, and for me at least, it was: what are you doing here if you’re just participating? Why aren’t you trying to win a medal? And that has lit a fire in a lot of us to be like, you know what? We can be contenders on this stage for medals, not just there to experience it.”

The Canadian team, introduced in a ceremony Monday at City Hall, now has embarassment of riches virtually across the board. Where once Canada dominated only in men’s sprints or women’s hurdles, this team has contenders in virtually ever discipline from the 100 metres in world bronze medallist Andre De Grasse, to the multi-events in Theisen-Eaton and Damian Warner, the world decathlon silver medallist.

“Seeing Derek win that medal in 2012, you couldn’t help but feed off that, and I think it’s making everybody pick up their game,” said Warner, who was ranked 18th going into London, and finished fifth. “(Drouin’s bronze) showed me it was possible.

“Now people are a lot older and ready to compete, and it’s just exciting to be a part of this team.”

Lanni Marchant received some good news when she was named to the team for a rare double — both the women’s 10,000 metres and marathon.

Marchant, the Canadian record-holder in the marathon, said she was originally told her focus would be the 10,000 metres in Rio. While Athletics Canada didn’t gave her a firm “no” on running the marathon, she wasn’t on the original list when determining the marathon team for Rio, sparking a “LetLanniRun” social media campaign.

“I’m really excited and happy,” Marchant said.

“We kind of just stayed the course. My coach, his philosophy since the end of May was forge on (regardless of the decision). We control what we can which is training, and everything else will fall into place as it’s supposed to.”

It did sometime after midnight, when emails went out to those athletes chosen. Marchant had planned on waiting up for the news.

“Then I was like, you know what? It’s out of my control, I’m going to go to bed,” Marchant said. “I got up in the middle of the night to use the washroom

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Brianne Theisen-Eaton, of Canada, competes in the women’s long jump final during the athletics competition at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto last summer. Theisen-Eaton set this year’s best mark in heptathlon to win the Hypo Meeting for a third time on Sunday. and that’s when I checked. And then I couldn’t go back to sleep.

“I forwarded to my coach, we had to keep it quiet otherwise, I didn’t even get to send it to my mom, and she’s been such a big supporter.”

Among other notable members: Shawn Barber, the reigning world champion in the pole vault, and race walker Ben Thorne, a world bronze medallist.

The athletes can take comfort in the depth of the team — there’s enough of them to share the spotlight, and the pressure that comes with it.

De Grasse, a 21-year-old from Markham, Ont., will feel the spotlight more than most in his first Olympic appearance, as a contender in track and field’s marquee event. He’s not worried.

“I’m out there having fun,” De Grasse said. “My family, my supporters they do a great job of keeping the pressure off of me, so I’m going to go out there

and have fun and don’t think about it too much.

“For me, this is my first Games, so I’m excited to be here. Obviously I want to get on the podium, so I’m going to do my best.”

The team was named following a cut-throat four days of Olympic trials in Edmonton.

“The competition started early, so if you got through these trials and placed well, that’s when you’re going to get on the team,” said Athletics Canada head coach Peter Eriksson.

“As you can see, I have the greatest and biggest team ever of athletes. We’re ready to go when it counts.”

Among the noticeable absences: veteran sprinter Justyn Warner, who was on Canada’s relay team that finished third only to be disqualified in London, and distance runner Cam Levins, who was a finalist in both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in 2012.

Sports BRIEFS Former Calgary Stampeders offensive linebacker Allbright dies at 81 File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Former Calgary Stampeder Ron Allbright has died. He was 81.

The team said Monday night that Allbright had died in Calgary on Saturday.

Allbright, a Calgary native, played primarily as an offensive lineman during his 12-year career with the Stampeders from 1956 to 1967.

Allbright was the franchise’s all-time leader in games played upon his retirement in 1967. His total of 188 regular-season contests held up as Calgary’s all-time high until 1972 when he was passed by teammate Larry Robinson.

The Stampeders added Allbright to their Wall of Fame in 2014.

Canada’s Alena Sharp, of Hamilton, Ont., tees off on the first hole during the second round at the Canadian Open LPGA golf tournament at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam.

Charges against Sabres’ O’Reilly dropped

Alena Sharp’s long, Olympic wait over CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — After every LPGA tournament this season Alena Sharp checked the world Rolex rankings with one thing on her mind: the Rio Olympics.

The Hamilton golfer finally qualified to represent Canada on Sunday after finishing the U.S. Women’s Open in a tie for 21st, putting her at 91st in the world and clinching her trip to Brazil for the Games.

“I’ve been watching (thee rankings) every week and knew that maybe a couple of weeks ago that it was probably mathematically impossible to not be on the team,” said Sharp, who will join world No. 2 Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., as Canada’s women’s pairing. “Last night the rankings came out early and it was obviously done that I was the second Canadian.

“I figured it out on my own, but I kind of knew.”

The U.S. Women’s Open was the final tournament to determine who would qualify for next month’s Olympics. The top 15 players in the world rankings — including Henderson —are all eligible with a limit of four for any country. South Korea — which has five — is the only country with more than two players currently in the top 15. The rest of the 60-player field was determined by the world rankings with a limit of two players per country.

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The 35-year-old Sharp, as the second highest ranked Canadian, guaranteed her trip to Rio with a career-best showing at a major event. She shot a 72 on Sunday to finish tied for 21st at 1-over.

“I think (the Olympics) is the top of my career thus far,” said Sharp, who flew from San Martin, Calif., to Toronto on a red-eye flight late Sunday night. “ Being able to represent Canada in Rio is something that two years ago was kind of in the back of mind. I knew I had to play well to get ahead, and I did that last year.

“To be standing here on July 11, and the day’s finally here, to be on the team is an amazing thing.”

Sharp was in Cambridge as part of a media day for the LPGA’s Manulife Classic which she, Henderson, world No. 1 Lydia Ko and a full field of other pro golfers will compete in Aug. 31-Sept. 4. Sharp also participated in a charity challenge, taking shots across the Grand River, with each ball she hit on target earning the St. Mary’s General Hospital Foundation $10,000.

Along with three amateurs, Sharp earned the charity $103,000.

“It was a little pressure having people watch me, but I did well on the par-3s this week at the U.S. Open, so I’m like ‘oh, it’s just like a par 3’,” said Sharp, who used a nine iron to make the 135-yard shot from one side of the gorge to another.

Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist to run in $1M Haskell OCEANPORT, N.J. — Canadian owned Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist will make his next start at the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 31. Track officials made the announcement Monday. Trainer Doug O’Neill said the 3-year-old colt, who’s owned by Paul Reddam of Windsor, Ont., turned in an impressive workout earlier in the day at Santa Anita racetrack in California, covering five furlongs in 59 seconds. O’Neill said it hasn’t been decided when Nyquist will be shipped to New Jersey, but the travel plans should be worked out soon.

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The agent for Ryan O’Reilly confirmed that charges against the Buffalo Sabres forward have been dropped stemming from an impaired driving incident last year.

Pat Morris tells The Associated Press in an email that Canadian prosecutors found there was not enough evidence to proceed and dropped the charges against O’Reilly of impaired driving and failing to remain at the scene. The case has been dismissed. The London Free-Press first reported the charges being dropped. Police said a green pickup truck was driven into the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant in Lucan, Ontario, north of London, around 4 a.m. on July 9, 2015, before driving away.

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SCOREBOARD TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2016

Baseball 2016 Home Run Derby Results At Petco Park, San Diego Monday First Round Tot Long ET Mark Trumbo (1), Baltimore 16 479 :00 def. Corey Seager (8), L.A. Dodgers 15 454 :30 Giancarlo Stanton (5), Miami 24 497 :30 def. Robinson Cano (4), Seattle 7 452 :00 Adam Duvall (3), Cincinnati 11 429 :00 def. Wil Myers (6), San Diego 10 418 :00 Todd Frazier (2), Chicago White Sox 13 448 :00 def. Carlos Gonzalez (7), Colorado 12 450 :30 Semifinals Tot Long ET Stanton 17 497 :30 def. Trumbo 13 464 :30 Frazier 16 445 :00 def. Duvall 15 407 :00 Championship Tot Long ET Stanton 20 491 :30 def. Frazier 13 438 :00 Seeding in parentheses based on 2016 home run totals through July 7th. Tiebreak between Stanton and Myers was decided by home runs hit since June 15th.

If the second batter hits more home runs than the first batter in any matchup, he will be declared the winner and not attempt to hit additional home runs.

Four minutes per batter, per round.

Ties in any round will be broken by a 60-second swing-off with no stoppage of time or additional time added if a tie remains after the swing-off, batters will engage in successive three-swing,swing-offs until there is a winner.

In the first round and semifinals, each batter is entitled to one 45-second timeout. In the finals, each batter is entitled to two 45-second timeouts.

Home Run Derby Winners 2016 — Giancarlo Stanton, Miami (Petco Park) 2015 — Todd Frazier, Cincinnati (Great American Ball Park) 2014 — Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland (Target Field) 2013 — Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland (Citi Field) 2012 — Prince Fielder, Detroit Tigers (Kauffman Stadium) 2011 — Robinson Cano, N.Y. Yankees (Chase Field) 2010 — David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox (Angel Stadium) 2009 — Prince Fielder, Milwaukee Brewers (Busch Stadium) 2008 — Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins (Yankee Stadium) 2007 — Vladimir Guerrero, Los Angeles Angels (AT&T Park) 2006 — Ryan Howard, Philadelphia Phillies (PNC Park) 2005 — Bobby Abreu, Philadelphia Phillies (Comerica Park) 2004 — Miguel Tejada, Baltimore Orioles (Minute Maid Park) 2003 — Garret Anderson, Anaheim Angels (U.S. Cellular Field) 2002 — Jason Giambi, New York Yankees (Miller Park)

Local Sports 2001 — Luis Gonzalez, Arizona Diamondbacks (Safeco Field) 2000 — Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs (Turner Field) 1999 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Fenway Park) 1998 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Coors Field) 1997 — Tino Martinez, New York Yankees (Jacobs Field) 1996 — Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants (Veterans Stadium) 1995 — Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox (The Ballpark in Arlington) 1994 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Three Rivers Stadium) 1993 — Juan Gonzalez, Texas Rangers (Camden Yards) 1992 — Mark McGwire, Oakland Athletics (Jack Murphy Stadium) 1991 — Cal Ripken, Baltimore Orioles (SkyDome) 1990 — Ryne Sandberg, Chicago Cubs (Wrigley Field) MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 51 36 .586 49 38 .563 51 40 .560 44 44 .500 34 54 .386 Central Division W L Pct 52 36 .591 46 43 .517 45 43 .511 45 43 .511 32 56 .364 West Division W L Pct 54 36 .600 48 41 .539 45 44 .506 38 51 .427 37 52 .416

Baltimore Boston Toronto New York Tampa Bay Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota Texas Houston Seattle Oakland Los Angeles

GB — 2 2 7½ 17½ GB — 6½ 7 7 20 GB — 5½ 8½ 15½ 16½

Saturday’s Games Detroit 3, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 6, 11 innings Oakland 3, Houston 2 Kansas City 5, Seattle 3 Minnesota 8, Texas 6 Sunday’s Games Toronto 6, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 7 Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 0 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Houston 2, Oakland 1, 10 innings Seattle 8, Kansas City 5 Minnesota 15, Texas 5

Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Toronto at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 810 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 54 36 .600 New York 47 41 .534 Miami 47 41 .534 Philadelphia 42 48 .467 Atlanta 31 58 .348 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 53 35 .602 St. Louis 46 42 .523 Pittsburgh 46 43 .517 Milwaukee 38 49 .437 Cincinnati 32 57 .360 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 57 33 .633 Los Angeles 51 40 .560 Colorado 40 48 .455 San Diego 38 51 .427 Arizona 38 52 .422

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Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2 Miami 4, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 12, Chicago Cubs 6 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 3 Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Colorado 8, Philadelphia 3 Sunday’s Games Miami 7, Cincinnati 3 Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 5 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Philadelphia 10, Colorado 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 0 Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Soccer (Portugal advances 5-3 on penalties)

UEFA Euro 2016 At Sites in France PLAYOFFS QUARTER-FINALS Sunday’s result At Saint-Denis, France France 5 Iceland 2 Saturday’s result At Bordeaux, France Germany 1 Italy 1 (Germany advances 6-5 on penalties) Friday’s result At Lille, France Wales 3 Belgium 1 Thursday’s result At Marseille, France Poland 1 Portugal 1

SEMIFINALS Wednesday’s match At Lyon, France Portugal 2 Wales 0 Thursday’s match At Marseille, France Germany 0 France 2 CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 10 At Saint-Denis, France Portugal 1 vs. France 0 PORTUGAL WINS EURO 2016 European Championship Finals

2016—Portugal 1, France 0, ET, Paris 2012—Spain 4, Italy 0, Kyiv 2008—Spain 1, Germany 0, Vienna 2004—Greece 1, Portugal 0, Lisbon 2000—France 2, Italy 1, ET, Rotterdam 1996—Germany 2, Czech Republic 1, ET, London 1992—Denmark 2, Germany 0, Gothenburg 1988—Netherlands 2, Soviet Union 0, Munich 1984—France 2, Spain 0, Paris 1980—West Germany 2, Belgium 1, Rome 1976—Czechoslovakia 2, West Germany 2, ET (Czechoslovakia wins 5-3 on penalties), Belgrade 1972—West Germany 3, Soviet Union 0, Brussels 1968—Italy 2, Yugoslavia 0, Rome 1964—Spain 2, Soviet Union 1, Madrid 1960—Soviet Union 2, Yugoslavia 1, ET, Paris

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Noe Ramirez to Pawtucket (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Chris Beck to Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Released RHP Joba Chamberlain.

DETROIT TIGERS — Sent RHP Warwick Saupold to Lakeland (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with 2B L.P. Pelletier on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Released RHP Kevin Jepsen.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent RHP Felix Hernandez to Everett (NWL) and RHP Ryan Cook to the AZL Mariners for rehab assignments.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned C Hank Conger to Durham (IL). Sent OF Kevin Kiermaier to the GCL Rays for a rehab assignment.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Markus Solbach on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Iowa (PCL). Agreed to terms with RHP Chad Hockin and LHP Wyatt Short on minor league contracts.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated RHP Christian Bergman from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Albuquerque (PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded RHP Jaye Chapman to Tampa Bay for cash.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLI8ES — Designated LHP Mario Hollands for assignment. Optioned RHP Severino Gonzalez to Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Sent RHP Ryan Vogelsong to Altoona (EL) for a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Reinstated 2B Kelby Thompson from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Sacramento (PCL).

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released C Mike Falsetti and OF Joe Moroney. Signed INF John Holland and OF Anthony Cheky.

JOPLIN BLASTERS — Released LHP Axel Johnson.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Claimed INF Sergio Leon off waivers from Joplin. Released INF Jimmy Mojica.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed LHP Matt Bywater.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Released OF Chad Christensen.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released LHP Dylan Badura.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released RHP Alex Fishburg.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Released C Scott David.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Agreed to terms with G Jarrett Jack on a one-year contract.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Named Ethan Casson chief executive officer.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Announced the retirement of F/C Tim Duncan.

CYCLING USADA — Announced American rider Nick Brandt-Sorenson accepted a lifetime sanction for his and second and third doping offences.

FOOTBALL National Football League

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed P Brad Wing to a contract extension through the 2019 season.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed LB Donnie Baggs.

HOCKEY National Hockey League WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed C Zach Sanford to a three-year, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League AHL — Approved the relocation of the St. John’s IceCaps to Laval, Quebec.

SOCCER United Soccer League SAN ANTONIO FC — Signed F Cesar Elizondo.

COLLEGE CLEMSON — Named Tiffany Sardin women’s assistant basketball coach.

CUMBERLAND (TENN.) — Named Kelli Polizzi trainer.

EAST CAROLINA — Named Daniele Petty, Chris D’Errico and Karen Stuart assistant trainers.

LENOIR-RHYNE — Promoted associate athletics director Brent Heaberlin to deputy athletic director.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Kermit Davis on an eightyear contract extension through the 2023-24 season.

SAINT ELIZABETH — Named Tiago DosSantos men’s soccer coach.

SMU — Named Tim Jankovich men’s basketball coach.

WISCONSIN — Named Craig Carter women’s assistant basketball coach.

Road teams enjoying huge advantage so far during CFL season

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Home field has been anything but an advantage in the CFL so far this season.

Through three weeks, the visiting team has posted an 8-3-1 record.

That trend continued this past weekend with both Winnipeg and Toronto winning road games. The Blue Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 28-24 on Thursday night while the Argos beat B.C. 25-14 in Vancouver, knocking the Lions (2-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten. Toronto (1-2) and Ottawa (2-0-1) have both been road warriors, sporting 2-0 records away from home. Meanwhile, Hamilton is 0-2 at Tim Hortons Field.

Road teams have outscored their opponents 350-263 and their margin of victory has been by 13.25 points per game.

B.C., Calgary and Edmonton are the lone teams to win home games this season.

COLLAROS PRACTISING: Quarterback Zach Collaros is back practising with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The Ticats removed Collaros from the sixgame injured list Monday, clearing the way for him to return to the practice field with his teammates. The 27-year-old American has been sidelined since last suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament last September in a game versus the Edmonton Eskimos.

At the time of the injury, Hamilton was 8-3 and Collaros was leading the league in passing yards (3,376), touchdowns (25) and passer rating (113.7) with an impressive 70.2 completion percentage. The Ticats finished the regular season at 10-8 and reached the East Division final before losing to Ottawa.

Collaros signed a new contract with Hamilton last month through the 2018 season. There’s no timetable for his return to the lineup.

Backup Jeremiah Masoli will again start Friday when Hamilton (1-2) visits the Montreal Alouettes. Masoli is the CFL’s third-ranked passer with 933 yards and has also thrown five TDs but has been intercepted a league-high four times.

DYNAMIC DUO: It hasn’t taken Trevor Harris and Chris Williams long to gel together.

Harris tops the CFL in passing yards (1,083) and touchdowns (nine) while Williams is its leading receiver with 25 catches for 493 yards and six TDs. They’re a big reason while Ottawa (2-0-1) sports the league’s top-ranked offence.

The Redblacks lead the CFL in total yards (520 per game), passing yards (444.7), yards per play (eight) and first downs (26.3) while standing second in scoring (33 points) and yards rushing (105). But even more impressive is the defending East Division champions have converted a league-best 47-of-77 second-down opportunities (61 per cent).

PLOEN HONOURED: The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will add quarterback Ken Ploen to their Ring of Honour prior Thursday night’s home game against the Edmonton Eskimos.

Ploen will be the second player to receiver the honour after offensive lineman Chris Walby.

Ploen spent 11 seasons with Winnipeg (195767), leading the club to four Grey Cup titles (1958, ‘59, ‘61 and ‘62). Ploen was named the MVP of the 1961 CFL championship contest, his 18-yard TD run on a broken play in overtime clinching the Bombers a 21-14 win over Hamilton at Toronto’s CNE Stadium.

Ploen, 81, played collegiately at Iowa and was the MVP of the 1957 Rose Bowl after leading the Hawkeyes past Oregon State 35-19. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1975 and is also a member of the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame, Rose Bowl Hall of Fame and Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.

GREGORY HIRED: John Gregory has a new football post.

The former Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach was recently named the first commissioner of the Arena Development League, an indoor football circuit that has no affiliation with either Arena Football League or Indoor Football League.

The ADL plans to begin play in March with the mandate of developing players for the AFL, CFL and NFL. Gregory, 77, began his CFL coaching career as an assistant with Winnipeg (1983-‘87) before becoming Saskatchewan’s head coach in 1987. Gregory led the Riders to a Grey Cup title in 1989 and was named the league’s top coach that season but was fired in 1991 following a 1-6 start to the season.

● Senior mens baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Gophers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Ladies Fastball: Stettler vs. Panthers and Bandits vs.

Badgers, 7 p.m. and U16 Rage vs.

Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Sunburst Baseball League: St. Albert Tigers at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Wednesday ● Bantam baseball: Red Deer AAA Bantam Braves vs. Calgary Cubs, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Calgary Dino’s Black, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Ladies Fastball: U18 Rage vs.

Bandits, 7 p.m. and U18 Rage vs.

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

Thursday

● Senior mens baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Phantoms, 6:30 p.m; North Star Sports at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks, 7 p.m.; and Canadian Brewhouse Ballers at Lacombe Stone and Granite, 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Friday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer Junior B Tier I Rampage, 8 p.m., Kinex

Saturday ● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park

Sunday ● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park

Football Ottawa Toronto Montreal Hamilton

Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T PF 3 2 0 1 99 3 2 1 0 75 2 1 1 0 35 3 1 2 0 69

PA Pt 76 5 73 4 42 2 76 2

West Division W L T 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0

PA Pt 46 4 68 3 81 2 82 2 69 0

GP B.C. 3 Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 3 Saskatchewan1

PF 62 80 76 64 53

WEEK THREE Bye: Montreal

Friday’s results Calgary 26 Ottawa 26 (OT) Edmonton 39 Saskatchewan 36 (OT) Thursday’s results Winnipeg 28 Hamilton 24 Toronto 25 B.C. 14 WEEK FOUR Bye: Calgary Wednesday’s game Ottawa at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Hamilton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

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

Duathlon Held on July 9, the Comfortec Red Deer Duathlon featured hundreds of competitors starting from the CrossRoads Church west of Red Deer and into the neighbouring rural area.

A percentage of the funds raised from the duathlon will help the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre.

Race Results: Standard distance (10 km run, 40 km bike, 5 km run) — Top three males: Evan Bayer, 1:53.48; Noah Arychuk, 1:59.45 and Eric Walker, 2:07.37.

Top three females: Stephanie Murray, 2:27.23; Heidee Walshe, 2:49.29 and Shehana Woodland, 2:50.37.

Sprint distance (5 km run, 20 km bike, 2.5 km run) — Top three males: Jess Bauer, 56.06; Mi-

chael Schnare, 1:01.48 and Marcus Brown, 1:07.57.

Top three females: Suzi Poirer, 1:10.31; Lindsay Nicks, 1:12.54 and Janet Barghols, 1:18.08.

Do-A-Du distance (2.5 km run, 10 km bike, 1.25 run) — Top three males: Sigurd Debruijn, 40.31; Grant Nieman, 55.26 and Jason Braaksma, 58.02. Top three females: Dawsin McDonald, 40.23; Helen McDonald, 45.34 and Heather Debruijn, 49.11.

Top standard relay team: Team Pro Paint, 2:44.39.

Top sprint relay teams: Team Steam, 1:16.41; Team Fast & Furious, 1:16.55 and Team Armchair Quarterbacks, 1:17.09.

Dinos receiver Simonise works out for NFL clubs NFL PRO DAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Now the waiting begins for Rashaun Simonise.

The Calgary Dinos receiver held his pro day Monday in preparation for the NFL supplemental draft on Thursday.

With the audition complete, all the six-foot-five, 190-pound Vancouver native can do now is hope he did enough to earn an opportunity south of the border, either as a draftee or undrafted free agent.

Although his football future remains very uncertain, Simonise was relieved his pro day was over.

“I feel there’s been a huge weight lifted off my shoulders,” he said via telephone from Calgary. “I feel like I gave everything to this process.

“If I get picked up by a team that would be blessing and if not, I’ll just get back to work and keep going after my dream.”

Simonise worked out before scouts representing six NFL teams — New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts. The Calgary Stampeders were the only CFL team on hand.

Simonise posted a 40-yard dash time of 4.52 seconds in windy conditions at McMahon Stadium but has registered a laser-timed effort of 4.42 seconds.

He also had a 35-inch vertical, broad jump of 10 feet three inches and eight reps in the 225-pound bench press while also going through agility and route-running drills.

Simonise had 51 catches for 1,079 yards and 11 touchdowns in eight games to earn All-Canadian honours last season.

But Canada West’s top rookie in 2013 was ruled academically ineligible for the 2016 campaign, prompting Simonise to pursue an NFL career.

“Honestly I thought it went pretty well,” Simonise said.

“I felt like the receiver drills went well and I had fun with it.

“I have to work on my

blocking, getting out of my routes and also attacking the football. Being a six-foot-five guy if I attack the ball with the mentality that it’s my ball and no one else’s, I feel like there will be nobody who could stop me.”

Simonise will be one of six players eligible for the supplemental draft. The others include Ole Miss cornerback Tee Shepard Concordia College Alabama defensive lineman Cameron Walton Virginia Tech long-snapper Eddie D’Antuono Purdue defensive lineman Ra’Zahn Howard and Sam Houston State running back Jalen Overstreet.

Teams taking a player in the supplemental draft lose a pick in the corresponding round of the 2017 NFL draft.

Last year only one player, Clemson offensive lineman Isaiah Battle, went in the supplemental draft, going in the fifth round to the Rams.

Battle was the first player selected in the supplemental draft since 2012, when the Cleveland Browns used a second-round pick on Baylor receiver Josh Gordon. Since 2000, only 12 players have been taken in the draft.

Simonise faces a big challenge making the jump from the CIS to the NFL but remains unfazed.

“I feel like my work ethic and hunger to learn definitely set me apart from athletes in Canada as well as the U.S.,” he said. “If I’m given an opportunity I feel like I can really show on the field I’m meant to play in the NFL.” Calgary has never had a player drafted into the NFL but has been represented south of the border.

Defensive back Elie Bouka is currently with Arizona after signing there as a free agent in April. Offensive lineman Dan Federkeil — currently with the Stampeders — earned a Super Bowl ring with Indianapolis in 2006 while defensive tackle Lynden Gaydosh, taken first overall in the ‘13 CFL draft by Hamilton, spent time on the Carolina Panthers’ practice roster before joining the Ticats in 2014.

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Brothers Jon and Ryan Edmonds play the augmented-reality smartphone game ‘Pokémon Go’ in downtown Texarkana, Ark., on Saturday. Released July 5, the game allows players to “catch” characters that appear to be in the real world using GPS and the smartphone camera. Even after living in Texarkana for years, the brothers said they never ventured downtown for pleasure until they downloaded the game.

Gotta catch ’em all CANADIAN GAMERS EMBRACE POKÉMON GO — ONCE FIGURING OUT HOW TO GET THE MOBILE HIT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canadians unwilling to wait for access to the mobile gaming sensation Pokémon Go seem to be having no trouble figuring out ways to join the fun now.

Officially, the augmented-reality game has only been available in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan since last week, but it quickly became an overnight smash hit generating headlines around the world.

The game sends players into the real world to search for the mythical digital pocket monsters known as Pokémon, who appear onscreen when users hold up their iPhones or Android devices in various locations at various times of the day.

Most Canadians have been forced to watch from the sidelines, but a sig-

nificant number appear to have found workarounds.

Tanya Barrett says she and three of her kids were playing the game all weekend, exploring their east-end Toronto neighbourhood for hours despite restrictive measures meant to stagger the game’s global rollout.

“It’s different than the gaming consoles where you’re staring at the TV,” says 41-year-old Barrett, who adds it forces her eight-year-old and 10-yearold twins to get out of the house.

“It’s summer, they’re looking for something to do…. They’ve actually been getting out. Yes, they’re still attached to a device but they’ve been getting out. In the summer, sometimes that’s hard to do.”

Getting the game was relatively easy, she adds.

She was able to download it for her iPhone through a U.S. iTunes account, while her husband figured out how to

put it on his Android phone thanks to a YouTube video.

But eager downloaders do so at their own risk, says fellow Toronto-based Pokémon Go fan JP Casino, who pointed to reports of malware embedded in unofficial Android downloads, as well as possible blowback from game developer Niantic.

Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped the 39-year-old from downloading the game from his U.S. iTunes account.

“It’s insanely fun,” says Casino, who plays with his six-year-old son. He adds the appeal for him involves a fair bit of nostalgia.

“For a lot of us anyway, it’s touched on a lot of our childhoods and earlier years.”

Like the Pokémon franchise that hit in the late 1990s, the goal is to find and capture the cartoon creatures, which can be upgraded and pitted against each other.

Maya & Marty ends brief run with laughs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — There’s no denying: The age of TV variety that found viewers flocking week after week to the likes of Ed Sullivan and Carol Burnett is long over.

But insistent reports of variety’s death have been exaggerated. The latest evidence: Maya & Marty.

Starring Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, this NBC music-and-comedy series completes its limited run Tuesday. Along with fellow regular Kenan Thompson, the finale welcomes Emma Stone and Steve Martin, with Short (as addled celebrity journalist Jiminy Glick) sitting down with Kelly Ripa.

“We’re still on our feet! It’s quite shocking!” Short laughed a few days after wrapping the breakneck six-episode season. “It’s like you’re hosting SNL every week.”

“It was a joy,” said Rudolph. “But

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doing six in quick succession, we’re fried!”

Maya & Marty debuted May 31 after months of brainstorming and with Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels at the helm, tucked into the cushy berth following America’s Got Talent. It has averaged a healthy 4.5 million viewers each week while most summer newcomers have received a cold shoulder from the audience.

But now it’s almost time to go.

“Like any new industry, you start by working out the kinks. And then, when you really have the kinks ironed out, it’s weird to stop,” Short conceded.

“But like they say: Always leave ‘em asking for more.”

Skeptics were wondering what NBC was up to — and what Michaels was thinking — when plans for Maya & Marty were unveiled, especially since it was coming on the heels of NBC’s much-anticipated Best Time Ever, a va-

riety series starring Neil Patrick Harris that failed to cause much of a stir last fall.

“Television has been recycling forms for a long time,” noted Michaels, “and people like Maya and Marty — who can sing and dance and do comedy and impressions — are perfect to host the kind of show that was central to television in its first 30 or 40 years.

And now the big shows on NBC like The Voice and America’s Got Talent have their roots in variety shows. There’s an audience for it.”

So is “Maya & Marty” bidding farewell prematurely?

“I don’t think you can do 24 anymore, like they did with Laugh-In and Sonny & Cher,” said Michaels, referring to the full-season demands placed on most series, including variety, in decades past. “I think you just burn out the people (doing it), and I don’t think you can sustain its audience.”

NEW YORK — Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is “doing well” after he walked off a New York City stage during a performance with Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper and was taken to a hospital, a representative said Monday.

Perry became ill around 9:30 p.m.

Sunday while performing with the Hollywood Vampires rock group at the Ford Amphitheater in Brooklyn’s Coney Island.

An administrator at Coney Island Hospital confirmed the 65-year-old Perry had undergone tests. Further details were not released.

“Joe Perry is doing well and resting and appreciates all your good wishes,” said the group’s representative, Sujata

Murthy.

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Taylor Swift tops Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebs LOS ANGELES — There’s no Blank Space in Taylor Swift’s bank account.

The singer-songwriter tops Forbes’ annual list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities with $170 million.

Swift is ahead of fellow chart-topping pop stars Adele at No. 9 with $80.5 million, Madonna at No. 12 with $76.5 million, Rihanna at No. 13 with $75 million and Katy Perry at No. 63 with $41 million.

The Shake It Off crooner’s star-studded 1989 World Tour earned more than

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TORONTO — As Ivan Reitman sees it, much of the premature Ghostbusters reboot backlash that’s splattered across social media like Slimer ectoplasm is due to nostalgia.

When the female-led reboot of Reitman’s 1984 comedy was first announced in August 2014, some fans objected to both the idea of a new version and one featuring women.

Then when a trailer emerged last March, the IVAN REITMAN video garnered substantially more “dislikes” than “likes” on YouTube.

“When we released the very first trailer, it hit me: Well, you’ve got this large population of mostly men who are now in their late 30s or early 40s, they saw Ghostbusters when they were like eight or nine years old and remarkably, it became kind of an important film in their lives,” says Reitman, who produced the reboot.

“On one hand it was this amazing compliment to the movie, to me. But now there’s this great fear that somehow we’re going to screw up this thing and this love,” adds the Toronto-raised filmmaker, whose other credits include Animal House and Meatballs.

“Particularly when we released the first trailer, however good or bad it may have been — and it was somewhere in between those two things — there was no way for that minute and a half to capture what was burning in the hearts of these people who held that movie dear to their hearts.”

It’s a similar issue when it comes to the negative reaction over the female cast, he adds.

“Gender issues are really complicated and they have more to do with society, obviously, than with film, per se,” says Reitman.

“I’m hoping in some small way that this Ghostbusters contributes to tearing down those clichés or those stereotypes. But my instinct was that the issues … go beyond gender politics and had a lot to do with just regular people’s love of something and not wanting to see it soiled.”

Reitman is hopeful fans will be satisfied when the new flick hits theatres on Friday.

He says feedback from a recent preview in Toronto was positive. He also got positive feedback from original cast members Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Annie Potts and Ernie Hudson, who appear in the reboot and watched it together in a private screening.

“I came in at the end and they hugged me, even Bill hugged me,” says Reitman, noting that was one of the happiest moments of his life.

“He said, ‘We all jumped up and applauded at the end.’ He said he was nervous at the beginning and then they soon relaxed when they saw how well it was going and how much fun the movie is.”

Paul Feig directed and co-wrote the film, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. $200 million last year.

Swift’s DJ ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris landed at No. 21 on the magazine’s list with $63 million.

Other top 10 earners included boy band One Direction at No. 2 with $110 million, actor-comedian Kevin Hart at No. 6 with $87.5 million and self-proclaimed “king of media” Howard Stern at No. 7 with $85 million.

Kim Kardashian is featured on the magazine’s cover. She’s No. 42 on the list with $51 million. Forbes says 40 per cent of her paycheque this year came from her mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.

The game’s maker, Glu Mobile, is scheduled to release an app starring Swift later this year.

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WAGSTAFF Feb 15, 1914 - July 7, 2016 William (Bill) John of Elnora, AB passed peacefully at Michener Extendicare, Red Deer, AB, in the late afternoon of July 7, 2016. This engaging gentleman of generous spirit and tremendous vigor will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

Bill began life on the homestead farm northwest of Huxley, AB, the oldest son of John and Laura Wagsaff. He began tending sheep before age 7 and entered Olds Agricultural College at age 15. He was gifted with extra vitality from birth and learned to work hard, persevering in his independent farming career for 80 years. He was exceptionally confident, building up the family farm which is still operated by the Wagstaff family in Elnora. The integrity and courage of his expansive life grew to be an abundant, strong, and secure vine with extensive roots which gave nourishment entirely throughout his years. His gracious caring, gentle considerations, and sensitivity have created an enduring sense of respect, serving as a perfect model of how to conduct oneself through life. He had a loving and perfect union in marriage to his wife Margaret, which was a sacred celebration of enhanced goodness and beauty; was totally loving and supportive to his devoted daughter and her family whom he cherished; an immensely caring and encouraging father to his foster son and foster daughter and their families, who adored him; and an especially thoughtful, deep and trusting friendship with his most dear nephew, Neil Wagstaff and family who have been the integral support of all of Bill’s family and their concerns, particularly in these last few years. He was a man of action, and vital part of his community. He and his brothers were part of the team who carried and erected St. David’s Anglican Church in Elnora, and he was instrumental in activating the AYPA for young people. He funded and initiated publishing of the original history book, Buried Treasures, with his wife Margaret to record the lives of all in the Elnora and surrounding area for posterity. As a founding member of the Elnora curling club in 1923 and of service on the board of the Elnora Ag Society in the 1970’s, he was part of the planning and building of the communities two curling rinks. He was a participant in every social structure in his community including a member of the Treville Elks Club, and Knights of Pythias.

For the latter half of his life he travelled with his wife, Margaret, and later with his companion of 13 years, Daphne Stankeveich, to Sky Valley in California where his outgoing personality once again brought him much affection and innumerable new friends. He fit in completely, playing golf, joining the Bridge, Cribbage and Poker clubs he also enjoyed at home. In his very active social life he forged many lasting, dear bonds. He officially retired to Chateau Three Hills and then later at age 99 to Michener Extendicare in Red Deer where he continued an active social life in the various recreational programs creating even more friendships and developing fellowship. His honesty, courageous stand for what makes for a unified and wholesome community, reverence for God’s creation, command of personal wellbeing and health, sense of humor and wit, confidence and winning streaks, discretion and good nature have earned him well deserved and respectful place in our hearts and minds always. He was a man of action always committed and contributing to what was worthwhile. He is predeceased by his wife of 54 years, Margaret (Thorburn), his foster son Reginald Godfrey and his daughter in law Marlene (Herrmann) Godfrey, and his foster grandson Darcey Davis.

He is survived by daughter Noelle Wagstaff, her son John (Kodi Goetzinger) and six grandchildren, three foster grandchildren of the late Reginald and Marlene Godfrey, his foster daughter Betty Ann Godfrey (Jim Davis), two foster grandchildren, and many great and great great grandchildren, as well as the extended families of his ten nephews and nieces. His very full and vital life will be celebrated by family at St. David’s Anglican Church in Elnora at 11:00 am Tuesday, July 12th with internment in the Elnora cemetery immediately after. Ven. Noel Wygiera of St. Luke’s Parish, Red Deer presiding. A memorial service will follow in the Elnora Community Hall at 2:00 pm. Donations in his honor may be made to the Elnora Curling Club and Michener Extendicar Recreation Program.

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Lost We the family of Ethel Hollihan wish to thank so many people for their kindness shown to us in the passing of our mother, grandmother & wife. We are so grateful for the thoughtfulness of so many people. Thank you to all the staff at Sunrise Village for all the visiting and caring of our mom. To all the Doctors and Staff at Ponoka Family Health Centre, Ponoka Hospital and Red Deer Regional Hospital for their care over the years. Ponoka Ambulance Staff for when mom was in need. Kiara Moshansky for the beautiful service. Ron Rust for saying the eulogy. Stefanie Rose for the beautiful singing. Royal Canadian Legion for the use of the hall. All the staff at Bob & Company Catering for the amazing lunch. Flowers For You for all the beautiful arrangements. Thank you for everyone that came to visit while mom was at home or in the hospital. Thank you for all the cards, flowers, meals, donations and thank you to those that attended the service. Thanks to the Wombold Family Funeral Home that we are so blessed to have in our community. We thank Marlon & Staff for their gracious and understanding help with all the funeral arrangements, Sheila for the inspiring singing that touched so many hearts. Anyone else we forgot to thank. We say thank you, thank you so… much to you all. We know everyone has touched mom’s heart. Thank you from Merv Hollihan, The Rose’s - Jimmy (Micha), Bill (Diane), Blaine (Shelly) & Families. The Hollihan’s - Alton, Lloyd (Laura) & Eugene & Families.

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Obituaries ELIUK Lance Edward Lance was born in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan on January 5, 1957 and passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was predeceased by his parents Walter and Audrey Eliuk.

Lance will be lovingly remembered by his family and friends. Lance lived a life as big as he was. He was an avid outdoorsman, truly at his happiest out west whether hunting, quadding or sharing a campfire with friends. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Sylvan Lake, on Friday. July 15, from 2 pm to 4 pm. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made in Lance’s name at the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, 8602 112 St. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. T6E 2E1.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — When Micah Johnson opened fire on Dallas police in an act of vengeance against white officers, he was attacking a department whose chief has been lauded across the country for taking bold steps to root out bad cops and repair relations with minorities.

Police Chief David Brown, a black man who pushed through the reforms despite resistance from the rank-andfile, boasted at a news conference Monday that crime, police shootings and excessive-force complaints against the department have all dropped dramatically on his watch.

“This is the best department in the country, and I’m proud to be associated with the men and women of the Dallas Police Department,” he said.

Johnson, a black Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, killed five officers in a sniper attack Thursday that he portrayed as payback for the fatal police shootings of black men last week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban Minneapolis. The attack ended with Johnson blown up by a bomb delivered by a police robot.

No evidence has come to light to suggest that the 25-year-old Johnson had a grudge specifically against the 3,400-officer Dallas Police Department.

“Dallas PD is paying the price for problems elsewhere around our country,” said Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based Department of Homeland Security adviser.

Carlyle Holder, president of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, had been holding up the Dallas Police Department as an example of a law enforcement agency effectively addressing the problem of racial disparities in police work.

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Brown became chief in 2010, taking over a department that a generation ago had one of the highest rates of civilian shootings in the country. In 2012, his efforts to heal the rift between police and the black community took on greater urgency when the killing of a black man by a white officer triggered widespread protests.

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the last six months, when Brown started a community policing program in mostly Hispanic and black neighbourhoods. He began reassigning officers from desk jobs to foot patrols, a move that was praised by criminal justice experts but angered the police unions, who demanded his resignation.

“We need more boots on the ground, absolutely,” said Mike Mata, vice-president of the Dallas Police Association.

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had such trouble recruiting officers that academy classes are frequently cancelled for lack of participation.

While attending the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship, Brown became motivated to enter law enforcement when he returned to Dallas in the early 1980s and found friends from the neighbourhood caught up in a cocaine epidemic. Months after he became chief, his 27-year-old son, David Brown Jr., was shot to death by police after killing two officers.

“I’ve been black a long time,” Brown told reporters Monday. “We’re in a much better place than when I was young man here, but we have more work to do, particularly in my profession.”

In the south Oak Cliff neighbourhood where Brown grew up, for example, 12 officers on the beat regularly introduce themselves to residents — a dramatic shift for a community that had been accustomed only to seeing officers responding to a crime. One of the team’s priorities is to help convicted felons find jobs.

“We knew we couldn’t arrest our way out of the situation,” said Maj. Thomas Castro. Since the community policing strategy was instituted in January, violent crime in the neighbourhood has dropped 10 per cent, he said.

But it has been a gradual process of getting residents accustomed to community policing. Three young men appeared startled Sunday when an officer pulled up in his police car.

“I’m more afraid of the police after the shooting because people are going to feel like everybody’s out for them,” said Anthony Williams, a 23-year-old demolition worker who described being routinely sworn at, frisked and asked for identification simply for sitting outside. “We feel like the biggest gang is the police out here because they face no repercussions.”

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LUANN July 12 1994 — Queen Elizabeth II approves present design of the Arms of Canada, with addition of annulus bearing Order of Canada motto 1968 — Health Minister Allan MacEachen tables Medical Care Act in the Commons.

1963 — Vandals destroy the Queen Victoria monument in Dominion Square with a dynamite explosion; followed several other suspected FLQ terrorist bombings.

1952 — Fire destroys orginal Jasper Park Lodge.

1940 — Pilot Officer D. A. Hewitt is the first Canadian killed in the Battle of Britain.

1876 — Acrobat Maria Spelterina walks across Niagara Falls backward on a tightrope, with peach baskets on her feet; 23 year old takes 11 minutes to cross; the following week, she walks across blindfolded, then with her wrists and ankles manacled.

1843 — British Parliament passes the Canada Corn Act, that lets Canadian wheat into the UK with minimal duty.

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B9

Deficiency thinking OBSESSION WITH WHAT WE LACK MURRAY FUHRER EXTREME ESTEEM

“Deficiency motivation doesn’t work.

It will lead to a life-long pursuit of ‘try to fix me.’ Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.”

— Dr Wayne Dyer, American self-help author “I’m just no good at this job,” he said. “There’s so much that I don’t know.”

A friend was speaking to me about the new job he’d undertaken. It was quite a stretch from what he’d been doing previously.

At first, he was excited by the challenge. Now, each misstep seemed to be heartbreaking for him, each gradually chipping away at his self-esteem.

“It’s the same with any new job,” I offered.

“There are always lots of things to learn.”

He talked about his old job and how he wished he had stayed there.

I reminded him of how he had complained about that job being too challenging.

As I listened, it became obvious that his focus was on his deficiencies: all the things he was constantly trying to fix.

“I guess I’m just not much good at anything,” he said at last and sighed.

If our focus is always on what we don’t know or can’t do rather than on what we can do, we may begin to feel inadequate and think that something is wrong with us – something that desperately needs to be fixed.

Recently, I heard a term that seems to describe this way of perceiving: de-

ficiency thinking.

The idea is if you spend your entire life trying to fix your perceived deficiencies, you’ll never arrive — not at a goal, at a state of completion or wholeness, or a place of peace.

If we persist in this way of thinking, we become fixated on what we lack, and this can manifest in many forms: lack of abundance, awareness, self-responsibility and accountability.

There’s a difference between the person who recognizes the need for additional training or understanding and sets out to acquire it, and the person who constantly feels inadequate.

The person with healthy self-esteem — the no-limit person — seldom operates from deficiency or lacking in his or her life.

No-limit people believe they already have everything they need to succeed.

They feel capable and deserving.

They believe they have the skills necessary to learn, grow and move systematically in the direction of any worthy goal or desire.

It’s not that they are arrogant or egotistical; it’s that they understand self-efficacy: the power to produce desired results.

If you don’t have the ability to appreciate who you are and where you are, you won’t have the power to change anything.

You’ll just want more, or something different, or for things and people and situations to be how they “should” be or used to be.

On the surface, no-limit people seem to have an ability to handle most anything.

It’s not because they’re dealing with a different set of circumstances; in truth, circumstances have little to do with living a rich and fulfilling life.

The difference lies in how we deal

Therapist sets heartbeats to music

BY MIKE HOUSEHOLDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A music therapist at a Michigan children’s hospital has made dozens of unique recordings as a gift for patients’ parents and other loved ones.

Bridget Sova uses a specialized stethoscope recorder to capture the thumping, rhythmic heartbeats of young patients then blends them with a recording of her playing guitar or singing a tune of the family’s choosing. Sova, 24, says it’s a way to ensure the heartbeats live on, regardless of what happens to the child.

Sova says she has made 60 to 70 heartbeat recordings during her year at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. She has paired heartbeats with everything from traditional lullabies to songs by pop stars Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus. One family even requested the theme song from the classic boxing film “Rocky.”

“I don’t change the heartbeat. I change the song

with our circumstances.

What it comes down to is self-responsibility: a cornerstone of healthy self-esteem.

It’s taking your life into your hands and seeing every situation, especially the challenging ones, as an opportunity to learn, grow and succeed.

To the healthy self-esteemer, life is filled with challenges, not roadblocks.

If our focus internally is one of fear, we will experience things that frighten us. If our focus internally is anger, we will experience things that frustrate and enrage us.

If our focus internally is one of deficiency, we will see only situations that reinforce our sense of lacking and ineptitude.

There’s an old saying: “What is expected tends to be realized.”

An important step in changing what becomes real is to change our expectations.

For years now, I’ve used a technique called creative visualization to help me “realize” a better outcome. In hypnotherapy, we call it “future-pacing.”

It’s mentally rehearsing a successful outcome.

When you have an internal focus on success, success becomes much easier to attain.

It still takes practice but in this case, the practice is mental.

Think of it as mentally shooting hoops.

Over and over and over again you shoot the ball until it becomes second nature.

When you play the actual game, you take what you’ve learned and you incorporate it into your next round of future-pacing.

Are you ready to own your life?

When you reach the point where you’re no longer blaming others for

to fit the heartbeat,” Sova said. “And so that way the song is unique to them and to their son or daughter, brother or sister.”

Kim Betser says she often listens to Sova’s mashup of her infant daughter Adalyn’s heartbeat and an acoustic guitar rendition of “You Are My Sunshine.”

How often?

“Probably daily,” the 36-year-old X-ray technician from nearby Rockford, Michigan, said while laughing. “I do. It’s on my cellphone. I’ve been showing friends and family, and they just are blown away.”

Betser says the recording is a reminder that little Adalyn, who was born 8 weeks premature and with Down syndrome and heart defects, is still around.

“It just brings joy. It makes me happy to hear that heartbeat and know that she’s strong and healthy and here, and we’ve made it through some rough patches early on in her life,” Betser said of the 9-month-old, who spent 67 days in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.

Sova brought the technique with her from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she worked as an intern. She has taught a number of the DeVos hospital’s Child Life specialists how to construct the recording device — by combining a stethoscope with a lapel microphone — and how to record the heartbeats and remove extraneous noise using an app.

“It’s such an amazing technique and intervention that we really want to share this with everyone,” Sova said in her office, shortly after recording her latest set of heartbeats.

Sova’s stethoscope recorder picked up the heartbeat tones of each member of the Jackson family of Grand Rapids — father Julius, mother Widline

your past or present or for why you can’t create the future you want, everything begins to change.

You begin to advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and desires.

Happiness, fulfilment and success are not external rewards; they’re part of a complex and ongoing inner process.

It’s true, you tend to get out of life what you put into it.

You can’t go out and buy a kilogram of self-esteem.

You have to work at it.

You have to build empowerment brick by brick, moment by moment.

“We all make mistakes, have struggles and even regret things in our past,” wrote American best-selling author Steve Maraboli.

“But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.”

Tired of spending your life trying to transcend your deficiencies?

Change your thinking.

Choose instead to build your self-esteem — choose to become a no-limit person.

You really do have everything you need to succeed.

You are capable.

You are deserving.

With effort and perseverance, you will eventually arrive at a state of completion, wholeness and peace.

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

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bridget Sova, music therapist at the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, sings to Aubrey Spearman inside the infant’s room in Grand Rapids, Mich. and infant daughter Mistha, who was born with a rare and life-threatening autoimmune condition and needs a bone marrow transplant.

Sova brought together the trio of heartbeat sounds with the strains of one of Widline Jackson’s favourite tunes from her Haitian homeland to produce Mistha’s special song.

In addition to the music-added version, Sova gives each family a copy of their child’s solo heartbeat recording. “It’s very meaningful just to have that heartbeat just plain, so that they can listen to it — listen to that essence of life,” she said.

Canadian freedoms so abundant, we take them for granted TREENA MIELKE LIFE I love my job.

Mostly!

However, I am of the old school.

And seriously, we’re talking ‘OLD SCHOOL’ here. I started out as a reporter using a typewriter to pound out my stories and I spent hours in the darkroom developing film. Each time I was in there, I hoped and prayed my pictures would turn out well enough to pass the garbage can test. After I passed that test, I was given the okay by my very mean editor (I had many) (They were all mean, actually, especially on deadline day) to paste said picture onto a broadsheet page using a light table.

How things have changed.

Now we have computers and programs and we talk to each other through messenger.

Now my trusty Pentax 1,000 sits dusty and unused on a shelf in my bedroom.

Part of my job as an editor of a small rural paper is to post something daily on Facebook. What that something is could be a picture, a news flash or a bit of trivia that may or may not inspire someone to ‘like’ the post.

The more ‘likes’ you get, the better.

The trouble with using Facebook as part of my daily ‘work’ routine is that I find myself mindlessly scrolling through other meaningless messages which really have nothing to do with my job and should have the caption, ‘one more way to waste one’s time.’

The other day in a mindless time wasting marathon, I came across a post that I found rather humorous. However, I had a notion in the back of my head where such notions reside, that some others might not see the humour in this particular post.

I decided to share it with my husband only in a private message. Unfortunately, because my brain waves did not wave at the appropriate time, I shared the thing with all my friends who live in the same Facebook world as me. Once again I had a sneaking notion this was not a good thing.

I was right.

It didn’t take long before replies came filtering back. One such reply was from a teenage niece whom I love dearly, but whom saw fit to take me to task over the post.

She said she was sorry for expressing herself on my wall, but freedom of speech was really one of the few freedoms Canadians had left.

Her response made me ponder such things as rights and freedoms.

As I said before I come from the old school of learning and I’m probably missing something.

But I do feel we as Canadians are extremely fortunate and, at the risk of sounding a bit like a Pollyanna, I think we enjoy many rights we probably, in our ignorance, take for granted.

Mind you, I’m not talking about traffic circles here. Traffic circles have their own code of ethics as far as rights go. Speaking of Facebook, I recently read a post from the City of Red Deer on how to enter a traffic circle.

I’m still confused.

Where there is a huge line of traffic on Hwy. 20 and I’m on Lakeshore Drive, waiting to get in, I’m still not sure when I have the right to do so.

And who am I to argue with a honkin’ big truck!

Anyway, today is one of those beautiful days that you wish you could get your genie (if you had one) to bring out of his lamp in February when the world is encased in snow and ice and more is in the forecast.

And I’m grateful for this beautiful day etched in God’s own colouring book, all warm and mellow and filled with promise. And I’m also grateful I have the freedom to write this column.

And I’m grateful my readers have

the freedom to read it.

Or not!

Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and is editor of the Rimbey Review. She

has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Peter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

MENTAL HEALTH MANAGER The Red Deer Primary Care Network is looking for a Manager for our Mental Health Program. This is a dynamic and exciting role in which the manager is actively involved in shaping the future of Mental Health Care Provision in the PCN. A day in the life of the Mental Health Program Manager includes: •

Evaluating, designing and implementing mental health service delivery

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Managing with a team of RDPCN Mental Health Counsellors, other health care professionals, and acting as a community liaison

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Scheduling, developing and evaluating state of the art mental health groups

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Resolving service delivery challenges or conflicts

If you: • are a Psychologist or Master’s level Social Worker, or other health care professional with significant management experience, • Have strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills • are interested in .8 - 1.0 FTE

Act now. APPLY Submit your curriculum vitae to hr@rdpcn.com or by fax to 403.342.9502 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Open until suitable candidate selected.

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Grandma needs to learn to say no ANNIE LANE DEAR ANNIE

Dear Annie: I’m a grandmother to five children. My son Brian and his wife, Amanda, have a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old.

They live several states away, about a five-hour drive. I get to see them close to once a month, though, as they continually ask me to watch the kids while they go on vacation.

When their baby was only 3 months old, they took a trip to a resort in Mexico. Personally, I would never leave an infant, so I don’t understand their desire to leave so often. Now they’re going on a weeklong cruise, and I’ll be baby-sitting again.

I don’t mind watching the grand-

kids. I love them to the moon and back, and really, I appreciate how nice it is that I get to spend time with them, especially while they’re still little and thrilled to see their grandma.

But I think it’s getting out of hand, and I feel as if my son and daughter-inlaw think I don’t have a life of my own.

Am I being ridiculous? — Frustrated Grandma Dear Frustrated: Here’s a word that will change your life: “No.” Try using it the next time your son and his wife are daydreaming of making a tropical getaway and leaving you in charge of their home life.

Giving in to their requests all the time will leave you feeling taken advantage of and resentful. And that’s a surefire way to damage your relationship with your son. Set boundaries.

Dear Annie: I am dating Jacob, a man I met online two years ago. Soon after we connected online, I broke it off with the guy I had been seeing and

flew to meet Jacob in Utah, where he lives. We hit it off and decided to start a long-distance relationship. (I live on the East Coast.)

Things were great for the first few months. Then we started fighting almost every day, mostly about small stuff; he wasn’t calling me enough and hadn’t visited me (when I had visited him twice). We worked out a better routine, and he started visiting me every few months. But now I’m dealing with some other issues.

Jacob is Mormon. (I’m not religious.)

He isn’t fully committed to his faith anymore, but he still goes to church every week and has a lot of friends from that community.

One of these friends is a woman who is about his age (he’s 40) and has taken to sending me threatening Facebook messages about how I am “bad” and Jacob is a “good man” who deserves “a nice Mormon girl.” She makes me feel like a terrible person, and I’ve never

even met this lady!

I brought this up with Jacob, but he continues to act as if everything is fine when he sees this woman in group settings. He said he doesn’t want to confront her, because they have so many friends in common.

I wish he would tell her to stop. He just laughs it off and says, “That’s just how Mary is. Don’t worry about her.”

Well, I do worry! — Secular Girlfriend Dear Secular: Mormon or not, Jacob should not be allowing anyone to harass you in any way. If he is allowing this to go on from across the country, I shudder to think what he would tolerate if you lived in the same city.

It sounds as if he either does not have much of a backbone to stick up for you or he does not care enough to. Move on and try to find a new boyfriend.

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

The new bachelor party: something more wholesome than strip clubs and casinos

BY ALY THOMSON THE CANADIAN PRESS For Jarrett Ehler, the perfect bachelor party was not a night of drunken debauchery. There were no strip clubs, casinos or limousines.

Instead, he and 11 close friends played golf, ate steaks, sipped beers and talked around a campfire during a getaway at Sherwood Golf and Country Club in Chester, N.S., in early June.

“I wanted it to be about having my friends together and having a good time with them,” said the 27-year-old Ehler, who is from Prince Edward Island but lives in Toronto.

“I didn’t want it to be a typical city event where everyone is going in different directions and you get so absolutely hammered that you don’t even have any meaningful conversations.”

Industry experts say Ehler’s experience is becoming the new normal.

Bachelor parties in Canada are moving away from the traditional night of vice, with many grooms opting instead for experience-based celebrations that run the gamut from beer tasting to bike tours.

Dan Brennan, CEO of the Ottawa-based Breakaway Experiences Inc., said he often caters to the thrill-seeking groom. He said bachelors nowadays are looking for a full-day or weekend-long experience, with some opting to tick boxes off their bucket lists.

“It’s often not just about partying in bars and drinking anymore. It’s turning into a full experience,” said Brennan, adding that his company offers a range of bachelor party experiences including skydiving and stunt car driving.

“More and more, bachelor parties are becoming an event. They want to do something that they’re going to remember — something unique and fun.”

Oren Bornstein, owner of the bachelor party planning company Connected Montreal, said many contemporary couples are getting married at an older age than their parents did.

He said those grooms are more likely to crave a weekend away from the daily grind rather than a one-night

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Tuesday, July 12 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Bill Cosby, 79; Christine McVie, 73; Malala Yousafzai, 19 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars create the perfect conditions for novel ideas and innovative thinking.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You don’t like others telling you what to do! Aim to be more diplomatic in the coming year. Cooperation and compromise will get you a lot further than controlling behaviour.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can have trouble following through on your wellmeant promises. The Moon opposes restless

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Friends of Howard An, right, who is getting married in October, exercise before some Axe Throwing action as part of An’s bachelor party, in Toronto on July 9. bender.

“People are getting married later on in life and there’s less and less chances for guys and their buddies to go on vacation with just each other,” said Bornstein. “So ironically, it’s becoming less about the bachelor and more just about everyone getting together.”

But Bornstein conceded he still plans plenty of parties riddled with immoral self-indulgence: “I think at the end of the day, boys will be boys,” he said with a laugh.

Newlywed Matt McGrath wasn’t interested in having naked women at

his camping stag in coastal Blandford, N.S. “At the end of the day, I don’t live my life like a rap video,” said the 31-year-old man with a deep chuckle, adding that his friends planned his party. “(Strippers) don’t have any sort of appeal to me. I don’t see the entertainment in it and I don’t think it’s tasteful.”

McGrath said he thinks grooms in the 21st century are also becoming more frugal.

“Throwing away your money on visuals — maybe that’s not the best way to spend your money or your friend’s

money when you can grab a couple of beers… and share some stories with the intent of celebrating the life you’ve created and carved out for yourself,” he said.

Ehler agreed, saying he didn’t want his bachelor party to be about having one last night of freedom, but rather celebrating his upcoming marriage with his closest friends.

“It’s not about a ‘last call,”’ said Ehler, who is getting married in Digby, N.S., on July 31. “It really is just an opportunity to get everyone together and celebrating the phase of life that you’re at.”

Uranus, so keep plans flexible — and don’t make commitments you know you can’t keep.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The more proactive and vocal you are about a current relationship issue, the smaller the problem will be. It will help if you have the inner confidence to tell a loved one how you really feel.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The more energy you put into expanding your knowledge base, the more rewards you’ll reap. But don’t believe everything a child, teenager or close friend tells you today Twins.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Crabs — are you in a career rut? Is a change of approach needed at work If you shift the stale old energy and get fresh ideas moving, then it could lead to an exciting new job opportunity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As vivacious Venus moves into your sign, you’ll feel your Lion’s roar returning! The stars favour being passionate and proactive but — if you rush communication — you could end up in hot

water.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Avoid unreliable people with confusing plans today Virgo — especially involving finances. Get the facts first and examine them carefully. Then have the courage to follow your gut instincts.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t expect relationships to run like clockwork — there will be some sort of confusion at home or work. If you are flexible and respond quickly, then things will soon be back on an even keel.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Avoid getting into a mental rut Scorpio. Tune into the wisdom around you, especially from those who are older and more experienced than you. Thereís always something new to learn!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians can be selfish souls but today the focus is on those around you — especially children or friends. You’re in the mood to help, and are keen to make a difference in

the lives of others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Loved ones and colleagues wonít behave in predictable ways today, so don’t even try to anticipate what they will do next. All you can do is stay centred Capricorn — and be open to change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many Aquarians will feel edgy today. Don’t let your restlessness lead you off in a totally unsuitable direction. You’re hungry for change, but avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid being rash with cash and careless with credit today.

Otherwise you’re liable to buy frivolous things for purely emotional reasons. And what hits the spot today may not look so good tomorrow.

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

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