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Dog bite sends woman to hospital SHELLY FOSS SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS AFTER BEING BITTEN AT JJ COLLETT NATURAL AREA

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A large bruise surrounds the ugly bite punctures on Shelly Foss’s leg.

The gruesome-looking injury came at the jaws of a German shepherd that attacked her while she was strolling in JJ Collett Natural Area near Lacombe on Aug. 21.

Signs are posted reminding dog owners that their pets must be on leashes, but Foss estimates 95 per cent of dog walkers ignore the rule.

And she paid the price during a supper-time walk alone.

As she was approaching two dogs accompanied by their owner they ran towards her. As she watched one dog in front of her, the larger, more aggressive of the pair circled behind her.

“Then I felt this searing pain in my thigh,” she said. “I turned around and he had inflicted a nasty — I mean it’s a really nasty bite. It is bad.”

The dog kept circling her as she screamed at it and waved her water bottle to try to scare it off.

While all of this was going on the owner was slowly walking along, oblivious to the scene ahead of her.

“That was the thing that made me the most angry.

I’m being attacked by her dogs and she is not even making any effort to get there any faster.”

Foss said the owner finally grabbed the dogs’ leashes, which had been trailing on the ground behind them and corralled the animals. The biter continued to snarl and try to get at her.

Foss was so rattled she just left without getting the woman’s name.

“I was kind of in shock. I just wanted to get as far away from that horrible, aggressive animal as I could and as quickly I could.”

When she got home, she realized how bad the wound was and went to Lacombe Hospital The hospital staff “took one look at it and said, ‘Oh boy, we’ve got to report this to animal control.’”

An animal control officer questioned her and said they would try to find out who the owner is.

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Kelly Foss is recovering after being bitten by a dog in J.J. Collette Natural Area north of Lacombe near Morningside. Foss’ bite mark shows numerous puncture wounds and deep bruising from the attack that happened August 21.

Foss left hospital after getting a tetanus shot and antibiotics. Days later she is still in pain, which jars her awake during the night.

JJ Collett sent an email to the natural area’s website and asked for information that might help identify the dog owner. She has not had a response.

She did speak with a member of the volunteer foundation which oversees the park, who told her that dogs running free have been an ongoing problem. The board intends to discuss the issue at its next meeting in September.

Meanwhile, Foss wants to warn others and convince dog owners to keep their animals under control.

“What I am trying to do I guess is make people aware of what’s going on out there.”

It could have been much worse, she said.

“There’s lots of people out there with small children. It could happen again.

“People treat this as a dog park. It’s not a dog park.”

Efforts were unsuccessful to reach the JJ Collett Natural Area Foundation, the volunteer steward group that oversees the park, which includes 635 acres of aspen parkland criss-crossed with 18 km of trails.

Alberta Environment and Parks was looking into the incident but could not comment on Friday.

Red Deer gamer takes top spot in competition

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Mission accomplished for the SetToDestroyX team.

The five-person online gaming team, which included Red Deer’s Keynes Ng, emerged as champions of Canada’s first multiplayer national eSports tournament held in Toronto on Aug. 21.

As winning team in the Cineplex WorldGaming Canadian Tournament, Ng and his four teammates shared a $50,000 prize.

“It was pretty exciting,” said the 18-year-old Ng, who attended Notre Dame High School and goes by the gaming handle X_dex_. “A lot of hard work paid off.”

The team, which included four Albertans and a player from Ontario, had to win qualifying and regional tournaments to earn a place among the final eight teams. Teams were pitted against each other on PlayStation’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, an action game based around the adventures of retired fortune hunter Nathan Drake and his accomplices.

Ng, who knew all but one of his teammates from previous online gaming, said they spent about four months, five hours a day honing their strategies.

Ng works part-time at Best Buy and other players also had jobs so they played mostly in the evenings.

“Usually, we’d begin around 5 p.m. up to around 10 p.m. or so,” he said.

The art of hitting the top ranks is getting to know the games down to the pixel and identifying where your weaknesses as a player are.

“We know what basically what to work on. (It’s about) putting in the time and making sure you’re working on the right stuff.”

The team could also draw on experience in other online gaming tournaments. Ng met teammate Allameen Ally (TheAnonAlly) from Brampton, Ont. at a one-on-one Call of Duty competition.

Ally won the $20,000 top prize at that tournament and Ng, and another player who was on his winning Uncharted 4 team, Taber’s Tim Li (P-iston), placed in the top 16. Rounding out the Uncharted 4 team is RED DEER WEATHER

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Ng’s winnings will likely go into rent, he said. He’s apartment hunting in Calgary right now because he is returning to SAIT soon to take his second year of new media production design. The money will definitely come in handy, he said.

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Local athlete heading to Paralympics PETER WON OF BLACKFALDS TO PLAY FOR CANADA’S WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM

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ball in the U.S.’s NCAA. He won a national title as a member of the University of Illinois in 2008.

He also spent time in Seoul, Korea, where his family is from, playing club basketball and played some semi-professional basketball with the Trier Dolphins in Germany.

“I’m trying my best to be the best,” said Won. “I just keep building and trying to be a better player so my team can be one of the better teams. That’s my mentality.”

He leaves today to go to Rio to compete in the Paralympic Games. Wheelchair Basketball starts on Sept. 8 with the medal games on Sept. 16 and 17.

“I’ll be more excited when I get to the airport,” said Won, adding he hasn’t had much time to watch the Olympics because of his own preparation.

“I’ve watched some swimming and some track, but it’s all highlights.”

Won said the team is young and is trying to take the games one at a time in the quick two-week tournament.

The national team won silver at the Pan Am Games in Toronto in 2015, earning a spot in the Paralympic Games in Rio this year.

The team has used the last month to simulate the schedule they will have in Rio de Janerio and get acclimatized to the competition ahead.

“We’re getting used to the idea of how it’s going to work for us,” said Won. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com.

The power of print led a young man on a journey to a roster spot on Canada’s national wheelchair basketball team.

At 13-years-old, Peter Won’s mother was reading a newspaper when she came across an ad for wheelchair sports and she signed her son up.

The Blackfalds resident fell in love with the sport almost instantly. And now, 15 years later, he is on his way to Rio de Janerio to compete in the Paralympic Games.

“It was a summer camp for wheelchair sports and I went there for a week and tried out lots of different sports,” said Won, who had both his legs amputated above the knee in a car crash when he was four years old. “I just fell in love with basketball.

“It’s a team sport with a lot of contact and different things to do. Track and swimming aren’t my type of sport.”

That passion has led the 28-year-old all the way to the senior men’s national team.

Although he didn’t make the national team after a 2014 tryout, he was invited back to selection camp the next year and earned a full-time spot on the roster.

He grew up in B.C. and represented the province at the 2007 Canada Games in Whitehorse. After his junior athlete career he pursued wheelchair basket-

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Wheelchair athlete Peter Won of Blackfalds will join Team Canada on the wheelchair basketball team in Rio for the Paralympic Games. Team Canada leaves for Rio today.

Alberta PCs set rules for leadership race

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives have laid out the rules for their leadership race, including retroactive finance disclosure and a rule forbidding candidates from doing harm to the party or its brand.

Party president Katherine O’Neill said the rules were approved by the party’s board of directors at a meeting in Red Deer on Saturday night.

The race does not officially begin until Oct. 1, and Conservative MP Jason Kenney is the only candidate to announce he is in the running to replace former leader Jim Prentice.

In an interview Sunday, O’Neill said the board decided to continue with a rule from the 2014 leadership campaign that directs candidates to “avoid causing harm or disrepute” to the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and its brand “through any detrimental action or conduct.”

Kenney is running on a platform to merge the PCs with the Wildrose party to create a new right-centre party to challenge Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government. O’Neill declined to say whether Kenney’s merger plan would violate that rule.

“I’m not going to go into hypotheticals until we have officially nominated candidates,” she said.

“But those are rules that we’ve had in place for many years going into leadership races, and we expect every single candidate to respect and abide

by them.”

Kenney’s campaign team said they were reviewing the rules and would comment as early as Monday.

Political scientist Duane Bratt with Mount Royal University in Calgary said the rule against doing harm is sure to reignite the battle within the party between pro- and anti-merger factions.

“Critics of Kenney are going to leap on this,” said Bratt.

Kenney, a Calgary Conservative MP, has been campaigning since early July and raising donations through a third-party entity known as Unite Alberta.

O’Neill said the board of directors has also decided that all candidates must disclose all spending, donations, and donors tied to the leadership bid in the pre-writ period starting June 30.

“If they can’t give us that report … we don’t officially call them a nominated candidate,” said O’Neill.

There is no cap on campaign spending.

The board confirmed the leadership vote will take place March 18, 2017, as previously announced, but will move up the nomination deadline from Jan. 9, 2017 to Nov. 10 of this year.

O’Neill said the new date gives candidates more time to campaign and gives constituencies more time to organize their delegate elections.

Leadership candidates will have to pony up a $30,000 non-refundable fee and, for the first time, post a $20,000 compliance bond. They get the bond

money back if they don’t violate the rules of the race, conduct themselves properly and attend all leadership events.

The PCs have returned to a delegate system to pick the leader, a process they have not used since the 1980s.

O’Neill said party members in each of the 87 ridings will vote for 15 delegates who will in turn vote for the leader next March.

Five of those delegates must be from those who have been on a constituency board since before October 1.

The other 10 will be picked from those who bought party memberships at least two weeks before the delegate vote.

The party is stressing youth and renewal, said O’Neill. Of the 15 delegates in each riding, three must be under 26 years of age.

There are others automatically made delegates, including the party’s board of directors and ex-MLAs. O’Neill says the party is also taking steps to avoid mass purchases of memberships, something criticized in the last leadership election won by Prentice. O’Neill added Stephen Mandel, former Edmonton mayor and PC cabinet minister, is now the party’s northern finance chairman.

The PCs were the governing party in Alberta for more than 43 years before losing in 2015 to Notley’s NDP. Calgary MLA Ric McIver is the interim leader of the nine-member caucus, which sits third in the legislature, behind the Wildrose.

Energy and environment among issues for premiers and governors meeting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BOSTON — Energy, the environment, and climate change are expected to be among the key topics when the New England governors and Eastern Canadian premiers gather Monday in Boston.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan are co-chairing the conference.

MacLauchlan says he expects a fair bit of discussion on renewable energy and what Eastern Canada can offer.

“New England is looking to obtain significant additional amounts of renewable energy over the next several years. They’ve got requirements to reduce some of their carbon based energy,” he said.

Despite the looming U.S. election, MacLauchlan says it’s best that the Canadian delegation avoid making much comment on the potential outcomes.

“Everybody there is in politics but we’ll be pretty careful not to mix ourselves too far into the U.S. election,” he said.

In the case of Prince Edward Island, the United States is the province’s biggest trading partner, and a full third of P.E.I.’s trade is with New England. This is the 40th conference for the leaders of the six states and five provinces.

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Judges Doug Rumsey, left, and John Henderson work their way through some of about 100 Gladiolus entries at Bower Place on Saturday in Red Deer. The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society hosted their annual Dahlia and Gladiolus show at the shopping centre over the weekend. About 200 entries in the Dahlia category were also gracing tables at the show.

Calgary mayor seeks funding from Feds for zoo exhibit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — It’s from one self-declared lover of baby panda snuggles to another.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for Ottawa’s help in defraying the considerable cost of housing the critters at Calgary’s zoo in two years. “As a fellow lover of cute cuddly panda cubs, and having observed with envy your recent opportunity to hold Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue in Toronto during their naming ceremony, I trust you can understand my own desire to embrace these pandas with open arms here in Calgary,� Nenshi wrote to Trudeau in a May 27 letter.

The word “envy� is underlined twice, followed by two typed exclamation points, and circled in purple ink with another handwritten exclamation point thrown in for good measure. “I am writing today to request a federal government contribution towards investments required in Calgary to host both the panda family and the large number of new visitors the zoo expects. The decision for Calgary to host the pandas was supported and encouraged by the previous federal government in 2012, but no funds were provided,� the mayor writes.

Trudeau’s June 21 response thanks Nenshi for his “enthusiastic� letter and opens by telling the mayor that holding the pandas was a “once in a lifetime event� for the prime minister that “made me the envy of many, including my own children.�

But Trudeau rebuffed the funding request and suggested that the Calgary Zoo explore programs offered by the federal Western Economic Diversification agency. Trudeau said he forwarded Nenshi’s letter to Navdeep Bains, the minister in charge of that organization.

“The city of Calgary’s generosity of spirit, as most recently evidenced by welcoming Syrian refugees and those displaced from the Fort McMurray fires, leaves little doubt the giant pandas will be made to feel at home,�

Trudeau writes.

Both letters were provided to The Canadian Press by Nenshi’s office, which declined to be interviewed.

Two giant pandas, Da Mao and Er Shun, were loaned to Canadian zoos for 10 years as part of a 2012 deal with China. Since 2013, the pair has been at the Toronto Zoo, where the cubs were born and later famously photographed in the arms of Trudeau.

The pandas and their progeny are to arrive at the Calgary Zoo in 2018 for a five-year stint. The exhibit is expected to prompt an influx of visitors and provide a much-needed economic boost, but the upfront outlay is sizable.

Calgary Zoo president Clement Lanthier said the “Pathway to Panda� project has a price tag of about $30 million. Renovations need to be made to the building where the creatures will live and expanded parking lots, washrooms and restaurants are required to accommodate more visitors.

Lanthier said it’s fantastic to see the mayor advocating on behalf of the zoo and it will look into what Western Economic Diversification can offer.

Calgary has committed about $8.2 million and the Alberta government is kicking in $10 million. Sponsorship deals, fundraising and the zoo’s capital reserve could make up the remainder, said Lanthier. “I think fiscally we are very comfortable with our ability to deliver on this.�

In his letter, Nenshi said attendance at the zoo is expected to increase by 600,000 visitors a year to 1.8 million because of the pandas.

Lanthier estimates the pandas could mean an $18-million economic boost for Calgary annually.

China seeks to ease human rights worries amid meeting with Trudeau

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set to embark on his first official visit to China, the Chinese government is trying to ease concerns about its human rights record as a way to encourage a deeper business relationship with Canada.

The economic superpower sees last year’s election of Trudeau’s Liberal government as a “new opportunity� to strengthen business ties between the two countries, China’s ambassador to Canada told The Canadian Press.

For both sides, the expectations around Trudeau’s week-long trip are high.

Trudeau, who leaves for China on Monday, will focus on building the economic connection between the two countries. On Friday, he described the trip as something of a “reset� in the relationship.

The prime minister, however, has also vowed to continue Canada’s practice of voicing its concerns at the highest levels of the Chinese leadership over the country’s record on human rights, democracy and governance.

While China has championed the need for the two countries to pursue a free-trade deal, the Trudeau government has taken a more-cautious approach amid public worries over human rights.

Ahead of Trudeau’s visit, the Chinese government made an attempt to calm those fears.

Ambassador Luo Zhaohui raised

the matter of human rights himself last week during an interview at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa. “You say you’re concerned about human rights issues? I think this is understandable,� Luo said. “Every country has their own problems with human rights issues. No country thinks that their human rights situation is perfect. “(In) China, we’ve got a long way to go to improve the human rights situation, but at the same time we have also made a lot of progress in the past many years.�

The Chinese government has had renewed optimism — and “high expectations�— about its relationship with Canada, particularly since Trudeau’s Liberals came to power, Luo said.

Through 10 years of working with the Conservative government, he said Canada-China relations made some progress, but noted that sometimes the “pace and priorities� were “quite different.�

Canada’s relationship with China under the Harper government was at times inconsistent, many experts say.

Historically, Luo acknowledged China has had warmer connections with Canada’s Liberal-led governments.

He said China viewed the Jean Chretien era as the “golden years� in its business dealings with Canada.

The country, Luo added, also hasn’t forgotten how Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, was among the first western leaders to recognize “new China� when he established diplomatic ties in 1970.

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Mandatory voting low-hanging fruit CHANTAL HÉBERT OPINION In the garden of electoral reform, mandatory voting is a low-hanging fruit that all parties seem content – for now – to leave on the branch.

That may change if a special parliamentary committee on electoral reform appointed to make recommendations to Justin Trudeau’s government ends up deadlocked over the big-ticket item on its agenda.

In the wake of Trudeau’s promise to put in place a different voting system in time for the 2019 federal election a cottage industry of electoral experts has sprouted.

The Conservative contention that no move to a different system should take place without its ratification by a national referendum is only contributing to the growth of that industry.

Policy wonks who sometimes have not been heard from since the constitutional debates of the early 1990s are coming out of the woodwork to argue for their pet voting model, or to debate the pros and cons of having a reform ratified by all voters.

So far the public’s engagement in this debate has been inversely proportional to the high academic and political interest it is eliciting. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most voters do not see electoral reform as a defining issue of the Trudeau mandate.

But who knows?

The unprecedented combination of a Liberal overture to do away with the first-past-the-post system with the long-held dream of the NDP and the Green party for more proportional representation could yet lead to change.

Still, the fact is that there are serious political and practical roadblocks in the way of having a different voting system in place in time for the next election.

In a deadlock, could mandatory voting offer the special committee a fallback avenue for attaining a political consensus?

To varying degrees, two of the parties on the committee have flirted with the idea in the past.

It was part of the Green party’s 2015 platform. In 2014, the Liberals – under Trudeau – sounded out their members on it.

It is no accident that exploring the option is part of the mandate of the special committee.

Mandatory voting is not a substitute for a more proportional voting system.

It would address the issue of declin-

ing voter turnouts, but would not lead to outcomes that more closely reflect the support each party receives.

Settling for a reform along those lines would undoubtedly amount to a climbdown from Trudeau’s promise and fall well short of the hopes of the NDP and the Greens.

But the introduction of mandatory voting could bring about transformative change in time for the 2019 election without foreclosing the option of switching to a different voting system at some later point down the road.

It would alter the electoral dynamics in a number of quantitative and qualitative ways.

Here are some of them: In a system where voting is not compulsory, ensuring that one’s supporters show up to vote is sometimes half the battle.

As often as not, the need to mobilize the base takes precedence over expanding a party’s tent. It also provides an incentive for parties to practice dog-whistle politics. Mandatory voting could mitigate that tendency.

And then parties cater to those who vote. Mandatory voting would expand not only the pool of younger voters but also that of aboriginal Canadians whose turnout is well below the national average. In the last election, the Assembly of First Nations identified 51 ridings where the aboriginal vote

could influence the outcome.

On paper, mandatory voting tends to favour progressive parties. Throwing more young voters in the mix could spell trouble for the Conservatives.

They are often the third or fourth choice of that cohort. Chances are the official opposition is no more a fan of compulsory voting than it is of a different voting system.

But it is always risky to use today’s trends to predict the electoral future, and not just because political parties tend to adapt to new dynamics.

On that score, consider that not so long ago many analysts would have seen the introduction of compulsory voting in Quebec as a gift designed to keep on giving for the Parti Québécois.

For most of its history, it had tended to be the party of choice of young Quebecers. The younger cohort consistently favoured sovereignty. But in 2016, the reverse would be true.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer.

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The Iconoclast of Timbuktu GWYNNE DYER OPINION Nobody got punished for blowing up the giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley in 2001. Nobody has been sent to jail for blowing up much of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria after ISIS captured it in May 2015. (It was recaptured last March.)

But Ahmed al-Mahdi is going to jail for a long time for destroying the religious monuments of Timbuktu, and he even says he’s sorry.

Appearing before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday, the former junior civil servant in Mali’s department of education said “All the charges brought against me are accurate and correct. I am really sorry, and I regret all the damage that my actions have caused.”

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that they have earned Timbuktu (like Bamiyan and Palmyra) a UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site.

Timbuktu’s greatest treasure was its tens of thousands of manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 16th centuries, which dealt with topics as diverse as literature, women’s rights, music, philosophy, and good business practice When Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) stormed into Timbuktu in 2012, the heroic librarian Abdel Kader Haidara saved 95 percent of the city’s manuscripts by smuggling them out to Bamako, Mali’s capital, by car and boat. But the mosques and the mausoleums could not be moved, and Ahmed al-Mahdi was recruited to head the “morality police”. One of his jobs was smashing the ones that were “idolatrous”.

Al-Mahdi, born near Timbuktu, was already a follower of Wahhabism, an austere Islamic sect of Saudi Arabian origin that condemns ordinary people’s reverence for ancient mausoleums and religious shrines as idolatry. So to protect people from sin, historic buildings, tombs, etc. must be destroyed. (Back home, the Wahhabis have pretty well finished the job in Mecca by now.)

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essentially an offspring of Wahhabism with added extremism. So Ahmed al-Mahdi was an obvious recruit for AQIM, and he threw himself into his new job with enthusiasm. He is charged with destroying nine mausoleums and part of one mosque, but he almost certainly vandalized many more.

Malian and French troops drove AQIM out of Timbuktu in 2013, and al-Mahdi was captured shortly afterwards. As head of the morality police he supervised the whipping of smokers, drinkers and “impure” women, the stoning of adulterers, and the execution of “apostates” – but the charge that the International Criminal Court chose to bring against him was “destroying cultural heritage.”

This is a first for the ICC. Its previous cases have all involved illegal violence against people. This case is about violence against things.

Even if they are things sacred to many people, some critics worry that expanding the category of war crimes in this way undermines the unique status of torture, murder and genocide as crimes so terrible that they require international action if local courts cannot deal with them. Mali requested that the case against al-Mahdi be transferred to the ICC, but the question still begs an answer.

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It’s a very old crime. Gangs of Christian monks (the original iconoclasts) hacked the noses off every “pagan” statue they could find in 4th-century Egypt. Catholic missionaries in 16th century Mexico supervised the burning of thousands of illustrated books containing the history and mythology of the pre-Columbian civilisations: fewer than twenty survive.

The Islamist vandals of today belong to a long tradition, and none of their predecessors was punished. So is the ICC of today just picking on Muslims?

No. Genocide was only defined and made illegal by the Nuremburg trials in 1945-46, although history is full of other genocides. But the world was not picking on Germans. We had just reached a point in our history when we could finally agree that genocide was always and everywhere a crime against humanity.

Making the act of deliberately “destroying cultural heritage” a crime is another, lesser step in the same process of building a body of international human rights law that applies to everybody. Al-Mahdi just happened to come along at what was, for him, the wrong time.

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Community disavows alleged militant BANGLADESHI CANADIANS DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM ALLEGED MASTERMIND IN TERRORIST ATTACK, ANOTHER CANADIAN MOVED TO PRISON

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Members of Canada’s Bangladeshi community disavowed an Ontario resident killed over the weekend who Bangladesh police say masterminded a terrorist attack last month.

Tamim Chowdhury was among three suspected militants killed by police near Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday.

Bangladeshi police allege Chowdhury, who lived in Windsor, Ont., was one of two masterminds of the July 1 attack on a popular restaurant in Dhaka that left 20 people dead.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the restaurant attack, but authorities have denied the claim. They say it was the act of the banned group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, and that ISIL has no presence in the Muslim-majority country.

A spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said the government was aware of news reports that Chowdhury had been killed, and that Canadian officials were in contact with Bangladeshi authorities.

Little is known about Chowdhury.

The Dhaka Tribune, citing Bangladeshi police, said Chowdhury arrived from Canada in 2013 to re-organize the JMB. It said his grandfather opposed Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971, and that the family moved to Canada later that year.

Md. Abdul Quaiyum, president of the Bangladesh Canada Association of Windsor Essex, said the Chowdhury family was known in the community, though not very well. He said he had not spoken to Chowdhury’s parents

BRIEFS Postal workers union give details of job action if no deal reached by late Sunday OTTAWA — Contract talks continued between Canada Post and its largest union Sunday afternoon, with neither side hinting as to whether any progress had been made.

A federally appointed mediator began meeting with the two sides on Friday to try to reach a deal.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said if there was no deal by midnight, it would begin job action on Monday by having its members refuse to work overtime on a rotating basis, starting in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

CUPW served 72 hour strike notice Thursday night, accusing Canada Post of forcing a labour disruption by refusing to bargain in good faith.

The two sides have been deadlocked for months on the issues of pay scales for rural letter carriers and proposed changes to pensions for future employees.

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Bangladesh policemen cordon off the area near a two-story house, behind in blue, that they raided in Narayanganj district near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday. Police in Bangladesh killed three suspected militants, including one Canadian, the alleged mastermind of a major attack on a cafe last month that left 20 people dead. since news of their son’s death.

Quaiyum said there are about 1,000 Bangladeshi-Canadians in Windsor.

He said many are engineers or other professionals who are hardworking and peaceful, and that the community condemns the type of violence that police have accused Chowdhury of.

“The Bangladeshi community here condemns this, we hate this, and we don’t like this,” he said.

Other leaders from Canada’s 100,000-strong Bangladeshi community had similar reactions.

Abul Hossain, former president of the Bangladeshi Community Association of Saskatchewan, said the entire community was talking about and upset about Chowdhury’s case.

“It’s a shame,” he said. “People are very much feeling shame.”

Mohammed Ali, president of the Bangladesh Association of Hamilton, said he was angry. “This guy was against Bangladesh,” Ali said. “We don’t support terrorism anywhere, anyway. No Canadian, no human can support these things.”

The Windsor Islamic Council, which has previously confirmed that Chowdhury was from the city, posted a statement on its website Saturday saying it had no knowledge of his background.

The statement went on to say that the council had adopted a policy of not discussing “the lives of violent extremists.”

“This policy stems from deep conviction that talking about the lives of such individuals only dignifies their heinous acts and serves their twisted quest for fame,” the statement said.

“We do not only condemn and reject all forms of violence in the name of our noble faith, but renew our commitment and determination to expose the criminal and anti-Islamic nature of extremism and terrorism.”

Chowdhury is also suspected to be behind a July 7 attack on an Eid gathering outside Dhaka marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Bangladesh authorities said. Four people died in that attack, including two police officers.

The Bangladeshi investigation into the attack involves another connection to Canada. Police arrested Tahmid Hasib Khan, a University of Toronto student earlier this month. His family said Khan, 22, has been moved to a prison. They have steadfastly maintained his innocence.

‘OUR ACTION WILL CAUSE LITTLE TO NO DISRUPTION TO THE PUBLIC... WE’LL STILL BE DELIVERING MAIL EVERY DAY.’

ing workers at the Canadian operations of the major American automakers has received a strike mandate from its members as it prepares to negotiate contracts.

Unifor says its members at General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Fiat Chrysler Automobile voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to back contract demands.

Unifor President Jerry Dias says the clear mandate shows full support for the union’s bargaining committees.

He says the union won’t accept deals with any of the three automakers unless they show a commitment to invest in Canada’s auto sector.

The union is threatening job action if it doesn’t get an agreement before midnight on Sept. 19.

Dias says the three companies have done well financially since the last contracts were negotiated four years ago and it’s time to reward workers.

“Our demand for new investment is not just about us. It is about maintaining and creating good paying jobs, it’s about our communities and it’s about the next generation,” Dias says in a statement released Sunday.

Last month, Dias said that negotiating wage increases and other benefits would be moot if there are no plants in Canada to employ the workers.

The union will select one of the automakers to start negotiations and use the contract reached with that company as a pattern for negotiations with the other two companies.

Unifor says it will announce which company will be first up in negotiations on Sept. 6.

Unifor represents some 23,000 workers at the three companies and is Canada’s largest private sector union boasting more than 300,000 members in all.

-CUPW PRESIDENT MIKE PALECEK On Sunday, the union said its initial plans for job action would have little effect on Canada Post customers.

“Our action will cause little to no disruption to the public,” national president Mike Palecek said in a statement. “We’ll still be delivering mail every day.”

But a spokesman for Canada Post said the union’s threat of job action was still creating uncertainty for customers.

“Anyone who is trying to plan their usage of the postal system in the coming days is questioning whether or not it will be able to get there, and that is going to have a huge impact on the business whether the union likes it or not,” Jon Hamilton said in a phone interview.

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United Kids Camp 2016 was held at Gaetz Memorial United Church between August 8 and12. The theme “Growing Up” explored the wonders of seed, soil, water and sun as related to God’s world through bible stories, dramas, games, dance, crafts and community guests. The camp was jointly presented by Sunnybrook United and Gaetz United Churches sharing resources and working together to create a program for youth ages 5 to 11.

Many thanks to all the volunteers, the Yellow Fish Road Program and ReThink Red Deer for making this a great week for all involved.

Photos by S. YAWORSKI

ABOVE: Campers enjoy parachute games out in the sun.

BELOW: Storyteller Jeff Rock talks about mustard seeds.

BELOW LEFT: Volunteers serve lemonade to the community.

LEFT: Watching the moss pot growth.

ABOVE: Volunteers with Yellow Fish Road painting storm drains pose for the camera.

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Former gov’t slammed the door REPORTS SHOW TORIES TWICE REJECTED RULE CHANGE THAT COULD HAVE OPENED DOORS FOR MORE REFUGEES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — In spite of relentless pressure to help Syrians flee the perils of civil war, Canada’s former Conservative government twice rejected a proposal last year to make it easier for Canadians to sponsor them, newly disclosed documents show.

Twice in 2015 - first in March, then again in July as the refugee crisis escalated - federal bureaucrats proposed exempting Syrians and Iraqis from a rule requiring them to have official UN refugee status in order to be sponsored by small groups of people to come to Canada.

On both occasions, the recommendation as described in documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act was rejected by then-immigration minister Chris Alexander.

The Conservatives eventually agreed to the change, but not until September, when the original policy became linked to the story of Alan Kurdi - the three-year-old Syrian boy whose tragic drowning galvanized global sympathy for the Syrian refugee crisis.

A memo, entitled “Public policy to facilitate the sponsorship of Syrian and Iraqi refugees by groups of five and community sponsors,” was first sent to Alexander on March 17, 2015.

The issue was a 2012 rule change put in place by the Conservatives that made it nearly impossible for informal groups without sponsorship agreements with the government to bring refugees to Canada.

As a result, such so-called “groups of five” could only sponsor people who carried an official refugee designation the United Nations or the host country.

Applications from non-registered refugees were harder to vet and took longer, gumming up the sponsorship system, according to government materials published at the time, which is partly why the change was made.

But the Tories also didn’t like that the program had become a means of family reunification and feared those applications were pushing out people in more dire need of resettlement, said a source close to the decision process at the time.

The result was a steep drop in the number of applications that had previously brought upwards of 2,000 people to Canada each year.

In 2015, the Kurdi family was trying to make just such an application - indeed, they wrote to Alexander on the very day the minister received the March 17 memo.

In their letter, the family outlined how it was trying to get Alan Kurdi’s uncle and his family out of Turkey, but could not since they had not registered as refugees by either the UN or the Turkish government. Canadian requirements were slowing things down, they wrote.

Alexander would not see that letter for another few months.

He chose not to approve the policy because he wanted to make things faster - and was running up against politics, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details had not been

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Disclosed documents from the Conservative government show the former Conservative government twice rejected a proposal last year to make it easier for Canadians to sponsor Syrian refugees. previously disclosed.

At the time the memo was written, the government had only just belatedly reached its original 2013 target of bringing 1,300 Syrians to Canada in the space of a year.

Alexander had already promised that January to admit a further 10,000 refugees - a promise that took more than a year to get cleared by the Prime Minister’s Office.

The memo pointed out how instrumental groups of five were in meeting previous refugee settlement commitments and that they continued to express interest in sponsorship, often being referred to the formal sponsorship groups instead, who had more latitude in selecting refugees.

Alexander had some power, it noted.

“Section 25.2 authorizes the minister of (immigration) to grant permanent resident status, or an exemption from any criteria or obligations of (the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act), based on public policy considerations,” it said.

The Conservative promise to resettle 10,000 refugees came with a catch, however - they had to meet at least one of a specific list of criteria, like being a member of a vulnerable minority or survivor of sexual violence. Screening non-official refugees against that list would be difficult, and only slow things down.

Two audits of the process, prompted by a Prime Minister’s Office wary of who was coming in, slowed things down even more.

By July, millions of Syrians were on the move and officials sent Alexander another memo, reiterating their March proposal - an unusual show of per-

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sistence, considering a federal election was looming and officials had been told to propose no new policy ideas.

Any idea that wasn’t likely to play well with the Conservative voter base had no chance of making it through the Prime Minister’s Office, said the source.

Instead, on Aug. 10, 2015, and with the federal campaign in full swing, the Tories promised to admit 10,000 more Syrians and Iraqis over four years, if re-elected.

Less than a month later, Kurdi’s lifeless body washed ashore on the beach of a Turkish resort the heart-rending photos were splashed on newspaper front pages around the world.

The public reaction was immediate, its message unmistakable: Syrians being forced to flee their own country and those around it needed help, and now.

On Sept. 19, a notice would appear on the Immigration Department’s website, a carbon copy of which had been in Alexander’s briefing note that past March and again in July.

This one, however, bore Alexander’s signature.

It established “sufficient public policy considerations” warranting an exemption from the rule for “for Iraqi and Syrian nationals who have fled their country of nationality or habitual residence as a result of the current conflicts in Syria and Iraq, in order to facilitate the sponsorship of these persons by groups of five and community sponsors.”

But the challenges in processing the paperwork clearly remain. Since September, over 30,000 Syrians have arrived in Canada. By May, only 195 came under the groups of five program, which the Liberals announced late last week they would extend.

More funds needed for mental health system SECTOR CHRONICALLY UNDER FUNDED: ADVOCATES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Sophie Knievel, 6, looks on as Cohen Mikla, 5, works on his MAGnificent Saturday project at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery over the weekend. This past Saturday the drop-in art project was a patchwork painting where participants painted abstract works of art then chopped them into pieces and glued them back into a new work of art. Magnificent Saturdays, which run each Saturday from 1-4 p.m., are artist-run art activities for the whole family. The cost is $5 per person or $10 per family.

HALIFAX — Canada trails the pack when it comes to mental health funding levels among comparable industrially developed nations - but advocates say a promise from the federal government to improve services means the time is ripe to push for change.

“Access to care is abysmal in most places throughout the country and of course that’s linked … not only, but very much to funding,” said Louise Bradley, executive director of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, in a recent interview.

“We’ve been told to do more with less for a very long time. I think the rubber band is stretched as far as it can go.”

Bradley’s organization and others, such as the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), have been calling for the mental health share of health spending in the provinces and territories to increase by two percentage points over the next decade – from a national average of seven per cent to nine.

Canada’s funding levels rank near the bottom among a list of OECD countries, a point of concern for the Trudeau Liberals who have pledged to make improved access to services a priority since coming to power last fall.

Bradley says she’s cautiously optimistic something can be done through the upcoming round of discussions on a new health funding agreement between Ottawa and the provinces — but

even that modest increase would leave Canada behind countries such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, where funding levels range from 10 to 14 per cent.

Most Canadian jurisdictions are proportionally in the same funding range or slightly higher than Nova Scotia, which earmarked $275 million out of its overall $4.1 billion health budget for mental health services for 2016-17.

Bradley said the numbers simply don’t meet the demands of a growing burden of care for the overall health system and for the economy at large in terms of lost productivity, at about $50 billion a year.

Steve Lurie, executive director of CMHA’s Toronto branch, said research has found that the mental health disease burden in Canada’s most populous province is 1.5 times that of cancer and heart disease and seven times that of infectious disease.

Yet Lurie said Ontario invested about $500 million over a 10-year period for mental health compared to $16 billion in other areas of health care.

“What this manifests as, is that people are denied the treatment they need,” said Lurie.

“There are wait times to get everything from psychotherapy to assessments to get into supportive housing.”

Lurie said in recent years a number of provinces have funded initiatives that, if “scaled up appropriately,” would make a big difference.

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Iran confirms arrest of member of negotiation team

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s judiciary on Sunday confirmed the brief detention of a member of Iran’s negotiation team with world powers on suspicion of “infiltration,” the official IRNA news agency reported.

On Wednesday, hard-line news outlets said authorities detained a dual Iranian-Canadian national, Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani.

He’s a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada.

The Sunday report by IRNA quoted judiciary spokesman, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, as saying, “The report is correct. He was released based on bail. Yet, his charge is not proved.”

He neither elaborated on the case nor identified

the suspect by name.

However IRNA called the suspect, an “infiltrating element.”

Esfahani reportedly worked as a member of a parallel team working on lifting economic sanctions under one of the main negotiators for last year’s landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

He was also an adviser to the head of Iran’s Central Bank.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Esfahani reportedly served as a member of the Iranian team working at the Hague on disputes between Iran and the United States over pre-revolution purchases of military equipment from the U.S. by Iran.

On Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied the report and said none of the members of its nuclear negotiation team was detained.

Diana Khaddaj, a spokesman for Global Affairs

Canada, the government department that oversees diplomatic matters, said Sunday week that it was aware of reports of a Canadian citizen’s detention when asked about Esfahani. She declined to elaborate due to privacy concerns.

It remains unclear why Esfahani is under investigation, though dual nationals have been increasingly targeted by security forces since the nuclear deal and accused of a variety of security-related crimes.

However Esfahani’s release on bail suggests his case is not considered serious by Iran’s Iranian judiciary, which traditionally does not offer bail to suspects accused of major crimes.

The nuclear deal remains a sore spot for Iranian hardliners, but it has boosted the popularity of moderate President Hassan Rouhani and helped his supporters make major gains in March parliamentary elections.

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Homeless vet program shifting gears?

FEDERAL STRATEGY CALLS FOR CHANGE IN BENEFITS PROGRAM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs officials are ready to recommend that the federal government give rental subsidies to veterans who are homeless or nearly so in order to combat what they describe as an unacceptable situation in Canada.

A draft of the new federal strategy to combat homelessness among veterans also recommends the government build new affordable housing units specifically for veterans, suggesting Canada doesn’t have enough units to handle the unique needs of former military members who can have addiction and mental health issues related to their service.

The strategy says that what homeless veterans require is access to immediate housing, peer support and outreach to get them off the street, and months or even years of intensive case management with a broad range of services.

The draft strategy, dated Aug. 4 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, says the government has an obligation to help the potentially thousands of veterans who are homeless in Canada.

A final draft of the strategy isn’t expected to be completed and made public until later this year.

The document doesn’t suggest that a veteran will ever go homeless again, but aims to reduce the numbers to a point where “homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring, and no veteran is forced to live on the street.”

“As a department, we’ve got a mandate for the care, treatment and re-establishment to civilian life of veterans in general, and clearly somebody who is homeless is not successfully re-established in civilian society,” said Tim Kerr, director of the veterans priority programs secretariat at Veterans Affairs Canada, which is heading up work on the strategy.

“Because of that, our minister, and our deputy minister and I and my team believe that we have an obligation to address this issue of veteran homelessness.”

The recommendations, if implemented, would mark a shift in veterans benefits programs that leave no room to provide things like housing subsidies that have been successful in the United States at keeping veterans off the street.

Benefits only flow to Canadian veterans who show a link between their military service and their injury or disease, a difficult task for a veteran who becomes homeless a decade after his or her service, said Jim Lowther, president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services (VETS) Canada, a volunteer-based group that has helped about 1,200 veterans off the streets in the last six years.

Veterans affairs workers can get emergency funds from charitable trusts to help homeless veterans pay for rent or food, but the process can sometimes be lengthy, the document says. Instead, groups like VETS Canada and the Royal Canadian Legion step in to help pay for housing and supports.

“We need housing in every province designated housing for vets. We need transition homes in every province to help them get back on their feet,” Lowther said.

The strategy calls on the government to expand

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Claude Lord at times gets emotional, especially when thinks back to his brief military career in Montreal.

Lord, a Canadian military veteran, lives in a shipping container in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal. the eligibility criteria for benefits and services to help homeless veterans, give local offices the flexibility to quickly get emergency cash for a veteran in need, and better connect those local offices with local service providers to reach more homeless veterans.

Kerr, who spent 28 years in the navy, said the recommendations are based on years of research and months of work by the departmental task force.

The strategy itself is a high-level document with the details of how to implement it to be worked out at a later date, he said.

It’s difficult to get an exact count on the number of veterans who are homeless in Canada.

A federal shelter study estimated about 2,250 veterans use shelters annually, but cautioned the actual number may be much higher. Point-in-time counts of homeless populations in cities show veteran form between five and seven per cent of the homeless population, which would put their number over 11,000.

Many homeless veterans in Canada avoid shelters, unlike their American counterparts, because the shelters lack the structure they were used to in the military, said Cheryl Forchuk, a professor of nursing at Western University in London, Ont. The document says the average homeless veteran is over age 50, became homeless about 10 years after being released from service, and abuse alcohol or

drugs.

There are cases of veterans two or three years out of the military who are homeless with some even sooner than that as they burn through savings while waiting for their military pensions to kick in, Lowther said.

Forchuk said research suggests post-traumatic stress disorder doesn’t appear to be a central factor in them becoming homeless.

The military could reduce the risk of a veteran becoming homeless by identifying early on whether they need help with things like money management, or substance use that left unchecked could manifest into addiction in a decade and push someone onto the street, Forchuk said.

“It’s just a matter of where your eyes are. The trauma issues and the PTSD are the obvious things at the top and they’re doing a relatively good job of at least paying some attention in addressing that, but substance use takes a long time to get really fullfledged, particularly alcoholism,” she said.

The document doesn’t call for the establishment of harm reduction programs where, for example, participants receive small amounts of alcohol at regular intervals to help them manage their addiction.

The practice is politically contentious, but has been shown to have positive results.

Kerr said his group is looking into how to harm reduction programs could work in the overall strategy.

Permanent cease-fire taking effect Tropical depression heads for in Colombia under accord ENDS 52 YEARS OF BLOODY COMBAT BETWEEN GOV’T AND REBEL GROUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA — A permanent cease-fire is taking effect in Colombia on Monday, the latest step in bringing an end to 52 years of bloody combat between the government and the country’s biggest rebel group.

The commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia announced Sunday that his fighters would cease hostilities beginning at 12:01 a.m. as a result of the peace accord the two sides reached at midweek.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made a similar announcement Friday, saying the military would halt attacks on the FARC beginning Monday.

FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timochenko, made his announcement in Havana, where rebel and government negotiators talked for four years to reach the deal on ending one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.

“Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” Londono said. “All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past.”

Colombia is expected to hold a national referendum Oct. 2 to give voters the chance to approve the accord, which would end political violence that has claimed more than 220,000 lives and driven more than 5 million people from their homes over five decades. Polls say most Colombians loathe the rebel

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HEALTH: Reduce patients time spent in hospital He said Ontario has funded assertive community treatment teams, which are multi-disciplinary teams that target people with complex mental illness.

Lurie cited research that indicated the teams could reduce the time patients spend in hospital over a sixyear period from 50 days a year to just 10.

Lurie said the teams can support about 5,000 people in Ontario, which has the largest number of teams.

“But relative to the percentage of people who are living with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, you could easily double the capacity of the assertive community treatment teams in Ontario,” he said.

Lurie said another cost-effective initiative that could prove effective nationally is a CMHA program in British Columbia called Bounce Back, which provides telephone coaching to those dealing with anxiety and depression.

“My pitch would be, it’s not like we don’t know what to do … it’s just that we are not funding them (programs) at a sufficient level.”

Patrick Smith, national CEO for CMHA, said the improvements mental health organizations and other advocates have been asking for do not amount to a “Cadillac system” and would still leave Canada behind many other countries.

He said he hopes Ottawa will target areas such as

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Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” -FARC leader Rodrigo Londono

group but will likely endorse the deal anyway.

Top FARC commanders are planning to gather one final time in mid-September to ratify the deal.

Under the 297-page accord, FARC guerrillas are supposed to turn over their weapons within six months after the deal is formally signed. In return, the FARC’s still unnamed future political movement will be given a minimum 10 congressional seats — five in the lower house, five in the Senate — for two legislative periods.

In addition, 16 lower house seats will be created for grassroots activists in rural areas traditionally neglected by the state and in which existing political parties will be banned from running candidates.

Critics of the peace process contend that will further boost the rebels’ post-conflict political power. mental health for more support, even as the provinces call for more money overall through the funding formula.

“We really do need investment,” said Smith. “I think it needs to be a mix … but not transferring money and crossing your fingers and hope they (provinces) do the right thing.”

Whether the provinces will readily accept targeted funding for Ottawa’s health priorities is still an open question.

Some premiers have said they are willing to listen, but Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard made it clear following last month’s premier’s meeting in Whitehorse that his province is “totally opposed” to the idea.

During a stop last month in Halifax, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said the government realizes that Canada does not invest in mental health as well as other countries do.

“It’s a fundamental part of our plan in terms of what we want to be talking to the provinces and territories about and that is making sure that Canadians will have better access to mental health care,” said Philpott.

She said there should be ways that governments can show that the money is being used well and that talks with her provincial counterparts on that point were continuing.

Meanwhile, Bradley, a hospital administrator for most of her career, said she understands the pressures at play in the health system and how mental health has historically struggled as a result.

“The proof will be in the pudding,” said Bradley.

“I do feel that unless it’s protected funding, there is the risk that it will go to something else other than mental health.”

MIAMI — Forecasters say another tropical depression has formed in the Florida Straits and is expected to produce some rain over the southern half of the Florida peninsula and the Florida Keys.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that the depression is located 60 miles (100 kph) south of Key West and is moving west at about 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds were clocking at 35 mph (55 kph), with higher gusts.

The depression is expected to produce 1 to 4 inches of rain through Wednesday.

It is expected to head into the Gulf of Mexico overnight.

Forecasters said earlier in the day that a tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic west of Bermuda, bringing the possibility of heavy rain to the coast of North Carolina early this week.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the coast Sunday night.

The depression is located about 285 mph (460 kph) southeast of Cape Hatteras and is moving west at 10 mph.

Maximum sustained winds were clocking at 35 mph (55 kph), with higher gusts.

The storm’s centre is expected to pass offshore of the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday.

ATV machine driven out of town by thieves

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. LOUIS, Sask. — RCMP in northern Saskatchewan say thieves who stole an ATM dragged it out of town behind a truck after failing to get it into the back of the vehicle.

Police say witnesses in St. Louis watched early on Sunday as the suspects backed a white Dodge truck up to a credit union and dragged the machine down the street.

The truck stopped and the suspects tried to load the ATM into the back of the truck, but couldn’t do it, so they drove away with the machine still dragging behind.

Police say at that point, the suspects were joined by a second truck and were last seen heading east on Highway 25 towards Birch Hills, Sask.

Earlier this year, Mounties asked for help solving nearly a dozen ATM thefts in rural Saskatchewan, and ATM thefts have become so rampant in Alberta that the RCMP have dedicated a team of officers to investigate them.

RCMP say they’re reviewing surveillance video as part of their investigation into Sunday’s case.

Police are also asking anyone with information about the case to call them.

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Unlike typical oilsands, like the one shown here near Fort McMurray, unconventional oilsands mining, or in-situ mining, involves using high-pressure, hightemperature steam underground to soften bitumen enough that it can be pumped up. In-situ mines do not need large tailings ponds.

Sounding the enviro alarm POLLUTION STUDY FINDS TOXIC CONTAMINATES RELEASED BY ATYPICAL IN-SITU OILSANDS MINES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The first study of pollution from unconventional oilsands mines has concluded that so-called in-situ techniques also introduce contaminants into the environment.

The results, which are from a University of Ottawa lab and are to be published Monday, suggest government should increase monitoring of oilsands plants that rely on steam injection instead of open-pit mining, said lead author Jennifer Korosi.

“It’s our hope that this study stimulates that kind of work.”

In-situ mining involves injecting high-pressure, high-temperature steam underground to soften bitumen enough that it can be pumped up. Most bitumen in Alberta is extracted using in-situ methods and they will be used in the majority of the industry’s future growth.

In-situ mines don’t need large tailings ponds and don’t create vast landscape disturbances as do openpit mines, so they are often described as more environmentally friendly. The assumption had to be tested, said Korosi.

That became even more evident in 2013 when a Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) site was

over-pressurized and oozed bitumen to the surface, she said.

“There’s a pressing need to understand how in situ releases contaminants to the environment, because it’s going to be very different than surface mining. At the moment, it’s mostly unknown.”

Korosi and her colleagues took sediment cores from a small lake adjacent to the CNRL site near Cold Lake, Alta. The area has seen in-situ oilsands activity since the mid-1980s.

Their analysis found little trace of heavy metals normally associated with bitumen.

But the sediment cores revealed the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — a class of chemicals considered carcinogenic — beginning in 1985, about the same time as oilsands development in the area began. As well, the specific types of the hydrocarbons they found are closely associated with petrochemicals and not other possible sources such as forest fires.

“There are certain PAH compounds that we know are released by forest fires, from traffic emissions, and we don’t see those compounds increasing,” said Korosi.

“We have a number of different ways we can fingerprint hydrocarbons to know where they’re coming from and consistently, the different metrics were

suggesting a petroleum-based source.”

The lake sediments showed hydrocarbon levels grew steadily as development increased. They are now 137 per cent higher than in 1985, said Korosi.

The levels are still too low to have environmental impacts. But they are real — and growing — and raise questions about how they’re getting into sediments.

“We have sources of contamination around in-situ drilling wells that are unaccounted for,” Korosi said. “There’s a pressing need to understand where they’re coming from.”

She said they could be from pipeline leaks, leaky well bores, process water, groundwater or underground fault lines.

“It’s why we really need to understand what’s going on below the surface.”

The study area, with its history of surface leaks, might be an extreme example. But Korosi said there might be other “hot spots.”

“You don’t want to have to wait for bitumen to bubble over ground before you figure out what those hot spots are.”

The research, which is being published in the journal Environmental Pollution, was partly funded by the Alberta government’s environmental monitoring agency.

NEB hearing heads into hostile territory ENERGY EAST PIPELINE TALKS RESUME TODAY IN MONTREAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The National Energy Board’s review of the Energy East Pipeline heads to hostile territory Monday when it resumes in Montreal, where the city’s mayor has called for the process to be suspended.

Denis Coderre, who has long opposed the $15.7-billion project, is scheduled to be the first to speak at the public hearings.

But he has said he is “not comfortable” with the review following revelations that former Quebec premier Jean Charest met last year with the board chairman and two review panel members while working as a consultant with TransCanada (TSX:TRP), the proponent behind the 4,500-kilometre pipeline.

“I’m not sure of the impartiality of the process,”

he said Thursday. “I think they should take a break and look seriously at how it’s done.”

Steven Guilbeault, spokesman for environmental group Equiterre, said he has similar concerns even though his organization, as well as municipal leaders, First Nations representatives and others, also met with commissioners in advance of the hearings.

“I’m not saying that there is a conflict of interest, but certainly you want people to have trust in these processes,” he said, adding that he told commissioners at the time that the meetings were unusual.

“Perceptions are very important (and) right now there is a perception that there is a bias.”

He said the commissioners who participated in the meetings should recuse themselves or the NEB should ask them to step aside and replace them.

The NEB said last week it was accepting written comments until Sept. 7 on motions calling for two of the three people who met with Charest to step down

from the panel over perceptions of bias.

The board said it would consider those submissions and establish any further steps, if necessary.

The NEB has said that at no time during meetings with Quebec stakeholders did NEB officials permit any inappropriate discussions on pipeline projects under review.

Guilbeault said a suspension of the proceedings would allow TransCanada to complete its application, which he said fails to explain how the company plans to cross the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers.

With more than 60 per cent of Quebecers depending on the St. Lawrence for their drinking water, concerns about spills are driving opposition to the project in Quebec, he said.

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CPP enhancements have pros and cons TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE There has been a lot of discussion and comment from politicians, business and other groups about the enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), but the changes have pros and cons and may not be as good as proponents might suggest or as bad as their detractors might claim.

Currently, workers and employers pay 4.95 per cent of salaries into the CPP up to a maximum of $54,900 year. At 65 when they retire workers are paid a maximum annual pension of $13,100. People who earn more than $54,900 do not contribute to the plan above that level and get no additional benefits.

One of the first major enhancements to the plan will increase the annual payout target to about 33 per cent of pre-retirement earnings from the current level of about 25 per cent. This means people who earn the $54,900 a year will receive a maximum annual CPP pension of $17,500, an increase of $4,390 a year.

A second major enhancement will increase the maximum amount of income covered to about $82,700 from the current $54,900 when the program is fully implemented in 2025. Higher income workers therefore will be eligible to earn CPP benefits on a larger portion of their income, rising to a maximum

of almost $20,000.

These enhancements will be funded by higher contributions from both workers and employers.

Contributions will go up to 5.95 per cent from the current 4.95 per cent and will be phased in slowly starting in 2019. Premiums for people earning $54,900 will increase by about $108 a year in 2019, rising to about $516 a year in 2025.

The federal government has introduced a tax deduction designed to help ease the hit that the increase in premiums will have on lower income workers.

The CPP enhancements have been criticized by business groups such as the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce who say they essentially amount to a payroll tax which could put wages, hours and jobs in jeopardy and have an adverse impact on an already fragile Canadian economy.

Proponents argue the added costs to individuals and companies are worthwhile to give Canadians better pensions in their old age, particularly to the majority of workers who do not have company pension plans.

Some reports have pegged the cost of the enhancement to the federal government at $250 million a year.

“I would suggest that the enhancements are not as good as proponents might suggest and are not as bad as their detractors might claim,” says Andrew Harrison, national leader of the pension and benefits group at Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP. “The additional costs to employers are moderate

and are less than the Ontario Registered Pension Plan that was being proposed by the Ontario government,” Harrison says. (The Ontario government has subsequently scrapped its plan for its own pension plan now that there is an agreement on enhancements to the CPP.) “They are going to be phased in starting three years from now until 2025, so small businesses know what’s coming and have lots of time to prepare. It’s hard to make too much of a fuss when the government has said it will introduce a tax credit to soften the impact and so much else can change in the economy and business by the time the changes are fully phased in.”

The CPP enhancements will primarily benefit young workers who are less likely than older ones to have a workplace pension plan. In order to get the full benefits from the enhanced CPP they will have to contribute the maximum to the plan for 40 years.

Other workers will benefit less on a sliding scale based on their age.

An enhanced CPP does little or nothing for people who do not collect it and for elderly workers who are exiting the workforce in the next couple of years.

“The increases in the benefits are so broadly based that people will end up paying for them over the entire length of their careers,” Harrison says.

“With such a long phase in people know what’s coming and should have time to prepare for it.”

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

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Germany’s vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel says EU-U.S. trade talks have failed between the two parties.

E.U. and the U.S. can’t talk the talk FREE TRADE SUBJECT DEAD IN THE WATER, SAYS GERMANY’S VICE CHANCELLOR BERLIN — Free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed, Germany’s economy minister said Sunday, citing a lack of progress on any of the major sections of the long-running negotiations.

Both Washington and Brussels have pushed for a deal by the end of the year, despite strong misgivings among some EU member states over the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP. Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany’s vice chancellor, compared the TTIP negotiations unfavourably with a free trade deal forged between the 28-nation EU and Canada, which he said was fairer for both sides.

“In my opinion, the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it,” Gabriel said during a question-and-answer session with citizens in Berlin.

He noted that in 14 rounds of talks, the two sides haven’t agreed on a single common item out of 27 chapters being discussed.

Gabriel accused Washington of being “angry” about the deal that the EU struck with Canada, known as CETA, because it contains elements the U.S. doesn’t want to see in the TTIP. “We mustn’t submit to the American proposals,” said Gabriel, who is also the head of Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic Party.

In Washington, there was no immediate comment from the office of the U.S. trade representative.

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Louis Bergeron, TransCanada’s Quebec vice-president, acknowledged that the Calgary-based energy company faces a “big challenge” given the number of opponents in the province, which include more than 300 municipalities, First Nations and the Quebec Farmers’ Association.

“I understand that it is of concern (among citizens), but I cannot change the past,” he said, referring to the Charest meeting which TransCanada says it didn’t initiate. “We are in a new phase of the project and Mr. Charest is not present.”

The chief of the Mohawks of Kanesatake, Simon Serge Otsi, said he plans to question the legitimacy of the board when he speaks before the hearing.

“They have no credibility to speak to the First Nations,” he said.

Otsi said the project requires First Nations consent, something that was raised by Mi’kmaq communities at the public hearings earlier this month in New Brunswick.

“These are our lands. We never ceded them. We never surrendered,” he said.

While the pipeline has fomented dissent from some, others including business leaders and some construction industry unions have backed the project, saying it would create jobs and be a boon for the national economy. Other supporters say it would also help get Alberta’s land-locked crude resources to markets overseas.

The NEB plans additional hearings in several other cities including Quebec City before concluding in Kingston, Ont., in December. Quebec will hold its own environmental hearings.

The board must submit its report by March 2018 after which the federal cabinet will have the final say on the project.

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BRIEFS Iran announces first phase of National Network Data TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s official news agency is reporting the country has inaugurated first phase of its “National Network of Data.”

Iran has long sought to create its own national Intranet. The Sunday report by IRNA says the network aims to promote online Islamic content, and encourage less dependency on the Internet while providing safer data transfer and protection against cyber-attacks.

It said the second phase of the decade-old project will go online in February 2017 and it will be completed in August 2017.

Critics say the network may eventually lead to more restrictions for users, but officials deny that.

Earlier in August, Iran targeted hundreds of

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May is bringing her Cabinet together at her rural retreat to plot Britain’s first steps on leaving the European Union.

Officials at May’s Downing Street office say May will oversee a daylong brainstorming session with Cabinet colleagues Wednesday at Chequers, the prime minister’s 16th-century mansion 40 miles (65 kilometres) northwest of London.

May, a Eurosceptic who remained neutral during June’s referendum on leaving the EU, was appointed prime minister last month following David Cameron’s resignation as Conservative Party leader. Cameron had campaigned to keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc. May says her government will abide by the results of the vote and intends to open exit negotiations with EU colleagues next year.

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Commission, the EU’s executive arm and which is leading the TTIP negotiations, said Sunday that the institution had no comment or reaction at this time.

Gabriel’s ministry isn’t directly involved in the negotiations with Washington because trade agreements are negotiated at the EU level. But such a damning verdict from a leading official in Europe’s biggest economy is likely to make further talks between the EU executive and the Obama administration harder.

Gabriel’s comments contrast with those of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said last month that TTIP was “absolutely in Europe’s interest.”

Popular opposition to a free trade agreement with the United States is strong in Germany. Campaigners have called for nationwide protests against the talks on Sept. 17 — about year before Germany’s next general election. social media users following a May crackdown on women modeling on Instagram.

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All good things must come to an end CENTRAL ALBERTA BUCCANEERS SEASON ENDS WITH LOSS IN LEAGUE FINAL

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Monarchs 32 Buccaneers 23 The Fort McMurray Monarchs had been the Central Alberta Buccaneers biggest test all season.

In regular season play, mere weeks after wildfires damaged the northern Alberta community, the Bucs and Monarchs played to a tightly contested 4342 Bucs win.

The Alberta Football League final was the rematch for these two, evenly matched teams. This time, the Monarchs emerged triumphant, winning the league title 32-23.

The Bucs carried a 14-3 lead into the half as quarterback Brandon Leyh connected with wide receiver Axsivier Lawrence for a 5-yard TD pass wide receiver Josh Blanchard for a 27-yard TD on a 3rd and 7.

But the power run game of the Monarchs helped the team grind out the win. In the first half, the Bucs defenders were able to contain the talented Monarchs running back Melvin Abankwah. But by the second half, the grind of the ground game wore down the Bucs defence.

“They have, by far, the best skill player in the league in Melvin Abankwah, he’s absolutely spectacular,” said Hand. “Once you start wearing down, he gets bigger creases and he gets his yards.

“He’s fringe CFL talent. If you don’t come ready to get physical, they can get on you quick.”

Not helping matters, the Bucs lost some of their starting offensive linemen early in the game. That allowed the Monarchs defence to pressure Leyh. Leyh did what he could and escaped some pressure, but he took a quite a few hits during the game.

“He’s done that his entire career,” said Hand. “He’s a true competitor, he’s gritty and the guys love him.”

Late in the game, the Bucs had a chance to pull ahead, down 24-23 with 9:45 minutes to go in the fourth quarter. After teams traded possessions, Leyh was given a chance with 3:56 to go after Markus Fay intercepted a Monarchs pass.

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Central Alberta Buccaneer Josh Blanchard looks to break free from Ft. McMurray Monarch Jordain Alexis during a second quarter scoring drive by the Buccaneers Saturday at the Lacombe Athletic Park. The Buccaneers and the Monarchs played in the rain Saturday for the Senior Men’s Alberta Football League Championship.

But, Leyh threw a pick six that put the game out of reach for the Bucs.

“We ran out of gas at the end, they’re a very talented team,” said Hand.

“I’m proud of our guys, we stuck together this game. They battled hard and they deserved it.”

The loss puts an end to the Buccaneers season. They had gone 8-0 in the

regular season and had a chance at a perfect season. The Monarchs will now face the Greater Toronto Area All-Stars in the Canadian Major Football League final.

“The game we wanted to win the most was the national championship, two weeks from now,” said Hand.

“That’s the ultimate goal. If you don’t win the big game, then your season

didn’t matter. You’re always shooting for the big game.

“We’ll learn from it, we’ve come a long way in two short years. We have a nice foundation and hopefully we can retain our big name recruits.”

The Monarchs and All-Stars will meet on Sept. 10 in the national championship. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Jerome has bigger goals at this year’s Rebels camp

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF In his second time at Red Deer Rebels Training Camp, Lethbridge forward D-Jay Jerome wants to be more than a player.

The 16-year-old didn’t make the lineup last year and was sent to his midget team after a couple of preseason games.

“I’m supposed to be much better than last year and go a lot farther in preseason,” said Jerome of his expectations. “I’m supposed to be more of a player in the preseason. Last year I was there to just play in the preseason.

This year I’m here to make the team.”

To prepare for training camp, which opened on Wednesday, and hopefully a place on the Rebels roster, Jerome spent just about every day of the summer on the ice.

“I love it out there on the ice,” said Jerome. “I bulked up for the start of the summer and then the second half of the summer was all about speed and agility. I wanted to make sure I was prepared to go and go and go.”

The trip back to midget last season may have done some good for Jerome’s development as he averaged slightly more than a point a game 35 points (15g, 20a) in 34 games with the Lethbridge Midget AAA Hurricanes.

He sees himself as a skilled forward and wants to get some work with the special teams units.

“I’ve always been more of a skilled guy,” he said.

“I want to work my way onto a power play unit and be a second or third line guy eventually. Just have to get there.”

He turns 17 in November and is not draft eligible until the 2018 NHL draft.

On Saturday, the Rebels main camp had their first scrimmage. Goals were at a premium as after two 25 minute periods, no one had scored. They went to a five minute three-on-three overtime period where import forward Michael Spacek sniped the scrimmage’s lone goal. A shootout was afterward.

Rookie camp opened on Sunday with 40 players in camp.

Both camps resume today with rookies scrimmaging from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and 3 to 4:30 p.m. The main camp will practice from 8 to 8:45 a.m., 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. and from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the Enmax Centrium.

Main camp roster: (returnees in bold) Goalies — Rylan Toth (1996), Trevor Martin (1996), Dawson Weatherill (1999) and Riley Lamb (1998).

Defence — Colton Bobyk (1996), Carson Sass (1999), Zach Wytinck (1999), Austin Strand (1997), Jacob Herauf (2000), Josh Mahura (1998), Alexander Alexeyev (1999), Ethan Sakowich (1999), Tyrell McCubbing (1999), Kyle Dronyk (1999) and Cale Chalifoux (1998).

Left Wing — Quinn Martin (1999), Grayson Pawlenchuk (1997), Austin

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Adam Musil, left, and Cale Chalifoux battle for the puck during a Red Deer Rebels main camp scrimmage, Saturday afternoon.

Shmoorkoff (1997), Carter Barley (1999), Evan Polei (1996) and Akash Bains (1999).

Centre — Adam Musil (1997), D-Jay Jerome (1999), Chase Lowry (2000), Michael Spacek (1997), Ben Hiltz (1999)

and Reese Johnson (1998).

Right Wing — Austin Pratt (1999), Jeff de Wit (1998), Zac Gladu (1998), Brandon Hagel (1998), Taden Rattie (1998) and Brayden Labant (1999). mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Trio of Canadians finish well at LPGA’s Canadian Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRIDDIS, Alta. — Ariya Jutanugarn rebounded from disappointment at the Olympic Games to win the LPGA’s Canadian Open on Sunday.

Knee pain forced the 20-year-old from Thailand to withdraw during the third round of the women’s golf tournament in Rio, where women’s golf made its Olympic debut.

Jutanugarn was the leader after the opening round there.

She almost pulled out of this week’s US$2.25-million Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, but was glad she didn’t.

“My knee hurt so bad last week, but when I got here on Monday and Tuesday, it was getting a lot better,” Jutanugarn said Sunday after collecting a winner’s cheque of $337,500.

“I think my tee shots were pretty good all week and my irons are getting a lot better in the last week or so.”

Jutanugarn’s fifth victory in just her second year on the tour is the most by

any LPGA player this season. Among the wins for the No.-2 ranked player in the world is this year’s Women’s British Open.

Leading by two shots heading into the final round at Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club, she posted seven birdies and just one bogey en route to a six-under 66 in cool, cloudy conditions.

She finished four shots clear of runner-up Sei Young Kim of South Korea on the 6,622-yard Raven course. Threetime winner Lydia Ko of New Zealand tied for seventh at 13-under.

Jutanugarn received a champagne shower from playing partners Kim and countrywoman In Gee Chun after sinking a birdie putt on No. 18.

“I felt like I wanted to have fun and be happy on the course,” Jutanugarn said. “I feel really happy with myself right now. No matter what’s going to happen, I feel like I can handle it.”

Three Canadians finished in the top 15 for the first time in the history of the tournament. Alena Sharp of Hamilton closed out with gallery-pleasing,

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back-to-back birdies for a career-best fourth.

The 35-year-old shot 5-under on the final day to finish seven shots back of Jutanugarn.

“I can’t really describe how great it feels to play this well in Canada because I have not played well at the Canadian Open in recent years,” Sharp said.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., and Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., tied for 14th at 11-under for the tournament.

Henderson, 18, walked off smiling after a birdie putt on No. 18. Leblanc, 27, was not as happy after missing a short par putt for a bogey there.

“I feel like I can play a lot better than this,” Leblanc said. “I played good, but obviously there’s some improvements I need to make.

“It was very important to play well here. My goal was top 10.”

Henderson, the world No. 3, and Sharp flew directly to Calgary from Rio, where Henderson tied for seventh and Sharp placed 30th.

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Both women felt optimistic about their game as they head to the US$1.6-million Manulife LPGA Classic in Cambridge, Ont., starting Thursday.

They’ll morph from the home-country favourites to the home-province favourites.

“I had a pretty solid week,” Henderson said. “My game is really close to being really, really good so hopefully next week I’ll fix those little things and be closer to the top.

“I’ve had such an amazing experience here in Calgary and I think just being a little bit closer to home, I think the crowds will be outstanding.”

Sharp’s ball bore the initials “DCJ” to honour Dawn Coe-Jones. A member of Canada’s Golf Hall of Fame, CoeJones of Lake Cowichan, B.C., underwent surgery on her right leg in March to remove cancerous tumours.

“I’m just thinking of her this week,” Sharp said.

“She inspired me to play well this week and when I had a bad hole, I really didn’t let it get to me. It was perspective.”

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Alberta downs Quebec to claim bronze

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta 8 Quebec 5 (7 innings) Closing games hasn’t been the strength of Alberta at this year’s Baseball Canada Senior Women’s Invitational Championship.

On Saturday, they surrendered five runs in the last two innings and barely hung on to beat Quebec 10-9. Then on Sunday morning, they gave up six runs in the last two innings and lost to Ontario 6-2.

The Sunday morning loss at Great Chief Park, put Alberta into the bronze medal game and set up a rematch with Quebec. Alberta won the game 8-5 and the bronze medal.

After a sluggish start, Alberta’s bats came alive and they scored two in the 2nd, one in the 3rd and two in the 4th and 5th to jump out to a 7-1 lead.

“We tried to get a little big and pull stuff,” said Alberta head coach Steven Inch. “We had a little chip on our shoulder from the first game. But we turned the page and started to get a good approach at the plate and hit the ball up the middle.”

Shortstop Kelsey Lalor, from Red Deer, drove a deep triple into right field in the sixth inning and came home on a ground ball out at first. She went 1-for-3 at the plate. She wasn’t the only Lalor to have an extra base hit as sister Hailey Lalor pocketed a double of her own.

Paige Hildebrandt and Nicole Luchanski also added doubles, with Luchanski driving in two runs with hers in the fourth inning.

But, as has been Alberta’s struggle

in the tournament, they let Quebec back into the ball game.

A combined six errors in the last two innings by Alberta gave Quebec a chance. They cashed two runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh before loading the bases with two out.

Pitcher Heidi Northcott, who threw a 100-pitch game on Thursday, pitched the last two innings in relief. With the bases loaded and the tying run on first base, Quebec first baseman Ann Sophie Tremblay came to the dish.

Northcott struck her out looking to end the ball game.

“She probably hasn’t relieved a whole lot recently, she’s a workhorse for team Canada as a starter,” said Inch. “Good for her to settle down and pick us up when we needed her to.”

The win gave Alberta a bronze in the tournament, which ran Thursday to Sunday at Great Chief Park.

“It’s always nice to win the last one,” said Inch. “Not what we were aiming for.”

In the gold medal game, B.C. and Ontario battled it out, but in the end B.C. won 9-8 in the bottom of the seventh inning.

B.C. jumped out to an early 8-1 lead with an eight-run second inning. Of those eight runs, seven were unearned as errors befell Ontario. Ontario starting pitcher Tylin Lee was pulled in the second inning and Hannah Martensen came on in relief. She pitched four innings of shutout baseball before surrendering the go-ahead run.

Ontario rallied back to make it a competitive game with runs in the third, fifth and seventh and a four-run fourth inning. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta shortstop Kelsey Lalor, of Red Deer, steals third base Sunday against Team Ontario at the Baseball Canada Senior Women’s Invitational Championship. Alberta lost to Ontario 6-2, but won the bronze medal 8-5 over Quebec.

Stampeders take down Ticats; HAT TRICK roll to sixth straight win HERO DONALDSON HITS THREE HOME RUNS TO LEAD BLUE JAYS TO SWEEP OVER TWINS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 30 Tiger-Cats 24 CALGARY — DaVaris Daniels has a couple souvenirs to send his mom after helping lead the Calgary Stampeders to a 30-24 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday night.

Playing in just his second CFL game, Daniels blocked a punt that led to a field goal before he caught a 76-yard touchdown pass from Bo Levi Mitchell as time expired in the first quarter.

“I got a game ball and I kept the touchdown ball, so I’m happy guy right now,” said the 23-year-old receiver, who had five catches for 108 yards. “I’ll probably send them to my mom (Leslie Daniels in Philadelphia). I know she’s been waiting for this moment for a long time.”

It wasn’t all good news for Daniels, though. He had to go to the locker room for treatment after sustaining a leg injury late in the first half.

“He’s just banged up on his leg,” said Calgary coach Dave Dickenson.

“It might just be a thigh bruise, but unfortunately he couldn’t really run after that. It’s not ligaments or anything like that. He took a shot on the outside of the thigh and he just wasn’t the same guy after that.”

Mitchell was 27 of 37 passing for 323 yards and the one touchdown. Jerome Messam also ran for a TD as the Stampeders (7-1-1) won their sixth in a row while extending their unbeaten streak to eight games.

“I thought our discipline was there and we didn’t turn the ball over,” said Dickenson. “It’s hard to beat us when we’re playing good discipline, smart football, fundamentally sound and guys making plays.”

The last time the Stamps went eight games without a loss was when they had a 10-game unbeaten streak over two seasons that ended in August of 1995. The last time they accomplished the feat in the same season was when they won eight in a row from July 16 to Sept. 5, 1994.

Hamilton quarterback Zach Collaros threw a pair of touchdown passes to Terrence Toliver and another one to Luke Tasker, while Brett Maher kicked a field goal for the Tiger-Cats (4-5).

“When you play Calgary, you have to play mistake-free football because they typically play mistake-free foot-

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ quarterback Zach Collaros, left, gets the ball away just as he is tackled by Calgary Stampeders defensive lineman Charleston Hughes during first half CFL action in Calgary, on Sunday. ball and we didn’t do that in all three facets,” said Collaros, who was 34 of 53 for 439 yards and the three TDs. “That gets you into field position issues, second-and-long issues and it makes it tough.”

Daniels’ punt block early in the fourth quarter meant the Stamps started their subsequent drive on the Hamilton 43-yard line. That led to a 13-yard field goal by Paredes.

“I believe it gave our whole team a spark,” said Daniels. “We needed something early going against a good team like Hamilton. I think that was the play that got us rolling in the right direction.”

Despite being penalized five times on their next drive, the Ticats still managed to score as Toliver caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from Collaros.

The 15-play, 90-yard drive took nearly seven minutes.

The Stampeders wasted little time on their next drive. Daniels hauled in a long pass from Mitchell and ran for a touchdown as time expired in the first half to put Calgary up 10-7.

Paredes accounted for all the scoring in the second quarter, booting field goals from 17 and 41 yards.

Maher pulled the Ticats within six points when he kicked a 47-yard field goal at 4:06 of the third quarter.

Mitchell led the Stamps on a 10-play, 76-yard drive that ended eight seconds into the fourth when Messam ran for a two-yard touchdown.

Grant caught a short pass from Mitchell for a two-point convert before Paredes kicked a 14-yard field goal to extend Calgary’s lead to 27-10.

Toliver then hauled in a 26-yard TD pass from Collaros to cap off a fiveplay, 77-yard drive before the Ticats missed the two-point convert.

Hamilton pulled within three points at 14:13 of the fourth as Collaros engineered a seven-play, 71-yard drive that culminated in a five-yard TD pass to Tasker. The Ticats got the two-point convert when Collaros completed a pass to Tasker in the end zone.

Paredes rounded out the scoring with a 45-yard field goal with 32 seconds left in the game.

Injuries force shuffle to Team Canada roster WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Mike Babcock will have to sift through the pile of lineup cards sitting in his car and come up with something new after two key members of Canada’s World Cup team pulled out this week with injury.

Influential members of the 2014 Olympic squad, Duncan Keith and Jamie Benn will both sit out next month’s tournament with injury, replaced by Jay Bouwmeester and Logan Couture. Babcock, who says he has numerous sheets in his vehicle listing possible lineup combos and defence pairings, will be forced to make immediate alterations.

Keith’s absence in particular stings most, disrupting the team’s attempts at continuity on defence from the Games in Sochi, where Canada captured its

second consecutive Olympic gold medal with a stunning degree of dominance (three goals allowed).

The 33-year-old was one half of Canada’s top pair, teaming with then-Nashville Predators defender Shea Weber. Drew Doughty and MarcEdouard Vlasic formed the second pair. Who replaces Keith in that frontline role in Toronto wasn’t immediately clear. Babcock said his staff would use an upcoming training camp, with three exhibition games, to come to a decision that way.

“We’re going to come up with something that works and if it doesn’t work right away we’ll tweak it and make it work,” Babcock said Thursday on a Hockey Canada conference call.

Bouwmeester was plucked as a replacement primarily because of his experience alongside Alex Pietrangelo, both with the St. Louis Blues and on Canada’s third pair in Russia. He was also, perhaps more importantly, a left-shooting defender, helping the Canadians keep a prospective left-right

mix for each pair on the back-end.

Canada’s coaches and management huddled together on a conference call when they learned that Keith wouldn’t be available to determine the best course forward. They went through names of prospective replacements, debating their merits.

“We talked about what makes us the best team and we really felt that going into this tournament we wanted to have as close to a balance of right and left-shot players as possible,” Armstrong said, also via conference call.

They followed the guidance of Rob Blake, a management member and right-shooting Hall of Fame defenceman who stressed the difficulties of shifting from right to left, especially in a short tournament. Babcock felt it was also important in close games.

Right-shooting candidates such as Nashville’s P.K. Subban and Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang were left on the sidelines. Other prospective left-shooters, Calgary’s Mark Giordano and T.J. Brodie, were also passed over.

TORONTO — Josh Donaldson briefly turned Rogers Centre into a hockey arena on Sunday.

With the Blue Jays wearing their red uniforms on Canada Baseball Day at Rogers Centre, the Toronto third baseman hit three home runs for a hat trick in a 9-6 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Fans threw hats on the field after Donaldson’s third homer in the eighth inning for the Jays, who completed the three-game sweep.

“It’s one of those things, as a baseball player, you want to happen one day,” said Donaldson of hitting three homers in a single game. “You don’t know it it’s ever going to happen, it’s kind of a rare thing (and) I was happy to do it.”

After the game Donaldson posted a picture on Twitter of him holding up two clear garbage bags filled with ballcaps that the grounds crew and Blue Jays mascot Ace had collected from the field.

Donaldson’s two-run homer (74-56) in the seventh gave Toronto a 6-5 lead and helped extend the Twins’ (49-81) losing streak to 10 games.

“You can start to see it at the beginning of this home stand, he was just missing some pitches, he just skied a couple breaking balls,” said Toronto manager John Gibbons. “He’s capable of that, we have a few guys who are capable of doing something like that, it’s a rare feat.”

The 30-year-old Donaldson followed that by completing the homer trifecta with a solo shot to dead centre in the eighth, his 33rd. The third baseman’s first career three home run game helped Toronto rally from a 5-2 deficit after coming back from a 5-0 deficit Saturday.

Following Donaldson’s third homer of the day and fifth in four games, hats poured onto the field.

“I think it’s unique to this area (the hat-trick) right, so it’s really cool,” said Jays starter R.A. Dickey “You don’t see something like that very often, I think the response was warranted.”

The sell-out crowd of 47,444 largely draped in red and white colours, demanded a curtain call from him.

“I’ve never had a curtain call before so that was nice. I tried to enjoy it for a second,” Donaldson said. “Eddie was on deck after I hit the third one and he had a huge smile on his face, that kind of brought it into reality a little bit there.”

Dickey gave up five runs, three earned, over six innings, scattering six hits and three walks.

“To win championships, you have to beat the teams you should beat, today we were able to do that,” Dickey said.

“It was a team effort all around and Josh had a special day today, it was neat to sit back and watch him to do his thing.”

Minnesota starter Kyle Gibson threw 5 1/3 innings allowing four runs and eight hits.

Jose Bautista led off the seventh with a single, his third hit of the day, and Donaldson followed that up with a centre-field bomb off Pat Light, his 32nd of the season.

Light (0-1) took the loss while Scott Feldman (7-4) pitched 2/3 of an inning in relief for the win.

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Larson earns NASCAR win in Michigan

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BROOKLYN, Mich. — During the last couple laps of his first Sprint Cup victory, Kyle Larson was emotional.

“I think with two to go, I was starting to get choked up,” he said. “We worked really, really hard to get a win, and just haven’t done it. Finally all the hard work by everybody, hundreds of people at our race shop, people who have got me through to the Cup Series, it was all paying off.”

Larson took the lead on a restart with nine laps remaining and held off Chase Elliott at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday in a duel between two of NASCAR’s up-and-coming standouts. Elliott had a comfortable lead before a tire problem on Michael Annett’s car brought out the yellow flag. Larson had the better restart and went on to win by 1.48 seconds.

Brad Keselowski finished third.

Larson’s victory in his No. 42 Chevrolet snapped a 99-race losing streak for Chip Ganassi Racing dating to Jamie McMurray’s victory at Talladega in 2013.

Larson secured a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with two races left in the regular season. Elliott remains winless, but is in solid shape to make the Chase field on points if need be.

It was the 99th career start for the 24-year-old Larson, who had 14 topfive finishes before Sunday but hadn’t won at the Cup level. The 20-year-old

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Kyle Larson celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., Sunday.

Elliott is winless in 29 starts, but this was an impressive showing for him after eight consecutive races outside the top 10.

Elliott finished second at Michigan in June as well, losing to Joey Logano.

“That’s a couple races in a row in just a few short months here at this place we had a really good car, had an opportunity,” Elliott said.

“That’s one thing I try really hard to do is make the most of opportunities

when they’re presented. Obviously I didn’t do a very good job of that here both trips.”

Elliott led by 2.86 seconds with 28 laps to go Sunday, and it looked as if Larson’s chance to catch him had been derailed when he lost ground passing a lapped car. The caution gave him another shot, though, and he took advantage.

“We both spun our tires really bad, and the No. 2 (Keselowski) pushed me really good,” Larson said. “He could have probably pulled underneath me and went by, but he stayed with me and got me the lead.”

There were only four cautions in the 200-lap, 400-mile race. Larson led a race-high 41 laps. Logano, the pole winner, finished 10th.

Chris Buescher, who has a victory but still needs to stay in the top 30 in points to make the Chase, finished 35th after some early engine trouble.

Buescher is seven points ahead of David Ragan for 30th place on the season.

Alex Bowman, filling in for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 car, had a problem with the ignition system and finished 30th.

Twelve drivers have wrapped up Chase berths. Tony Stewart, who has a victory, has clinched a top-30 finish in points to secure his spot.

Buescher’s situation is still uncertain, so there could end up being as many as four drivers making it in on points. Elliott is 11th in the standings, the top driver with no victories.

Maia beat Condit in Vancouver UFC Fight Night

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Demian Maia backed up his calls for a welterweight title shot with an early submission win over Carlos Condit in the main event of UFC Fight Night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Saturday.

Maia, ranked third in the division, stated earlier this week that with a victory over Condit he should be in line for a title fight. And, at 38 years of age, he may get his wish later in the year after forcing Condit to tap out at 3:08 of the opening round — a sudden conclusion to the fourth UFC stop in Vancouver in six years.

Maia made quick work of the fight, which was scheduled for five rounds in front of a crowd of 10,533 fans. He broke down in tears in the middle of the octagon when it was over. Now he will await word on when a potential title fight could take place.

Maia said during a post-fight interview that if the UFC gives Stephen Thompson, the No. 2-ranked fighter in the welterweight division, the next title shot, he wants his opportunity right after that.

“I’m very grateful for everything I’ve accomplished in my life and very grateful for my family,” said Maia, who has won six straight fights. “My life is complete already. The title shot, that will be something else, something amazing if it happens.”

Tyron Woodley currently holds the welterweight championship.

Tom Wright, executive vice-president and general manager for UFC Canada, Australia and New Zealand, called Maia’s performance “dominant”

but said a decision on a possible title fight for Maia has not been made.

Saturday’s fight may have been the last for Condit in his career.

There has been speculation about Condit’s future in the UFC, and he strongly suggested following his loss to Maia that his days as a fighter could be over. He stopped just short of confirming his retirement, saying he hopes this defeat won’t be his “swan song.”

He said he’ll talk to his management team and his wife and make a decision after that. But he said possible retirement has been “in the back of my mind for a while.”

“I don’t know if I have business fighting at this level anymore. I’ve been at this for a really long time,” said Condit. “It’s been awesome. I’ve … got to do what I love for a living for a very long time, but I don’t know … if I belong here.”

Saturday’s fight card featured 10 events, including four on the main card.

Charles Oliveira, through a translator, predicted earlier this week following a training session that his hand would be raised in victory over Anthony Pettis, who entered their featherweight bout with three losses in a row.

Instead, Oliveira used his hand to tap out in a loss to Pettis in the third round.

After dropping down from the lightweight division (155 pounds) to the featherweight division (145 pounds), Pettis avoided possible submission at least three times against Oliveira as their fight continued. Pettis, who flirted with a knockout win in the first round, was able to roll Oliveira into a guillotine choke, forcing his oppo-

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Demian Maia, top, of Brazil, and Carlos Condit, of Albuquerque, N.M., fight during a welterweight bout during a UFC Fight Night event in Vancouver on Saturday. nent to end the fight at 3:11 of the third round.

“I had two losses my whole career and then three (losses) back-to-back ones, I had to do some soul-searching, find out what drives me,” said Pettis.

After taking time away from the Octagon to appear on Dancing with the Stars, Paige VanZant returned to UFC

with a second-round knockout over Australia’s Bec Rawlings.

VanZant, who last fought on Dec. 10, 2015 when she lost by submission in the fifth round, was able to land a kick to the head of Rawlings, driving her opponent to the ground. VanZant continued with a series of punches before the fight was stopped.

Reed wins Barclays, Fowler loses Ryder Cup spot FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Patrick Reed had a crystal trophy, a clear shot at the richest payoff in golf and a spot on the Ryder Cup team.

All he could offer Rickie Fowler was best wishes to join him at Hazeltine.

Reed picked up two victories Sunday at The Barclays. He rallied from an early two-shot deficit to win the FedEx Cup playoff opener and assure himself a clear shot at the $10 million bonus. And he secured a spot on the U.S. team at Hazeltine that will try to win back the Ryder Cup. “Everyone’s been talking about the Ryder Cup, been talking about, ‘Oh,

you’re in the eighth spot and you’re on the bubble’ and all that,” Reed said after his one-shot victory.

“If you go and win, it takes care of everything else. … It takes care of everything.”

The way Fowler finished only leads to two weeks of uncertainty.

Fowler needed only to finish alone in third place, which was the farthest from his mind as he battled Reed at Bethpage Black.

“I wasn’t trying to get a decent finish,” Fowler said.

“I was trying to win.”

Two shots behind with four holes to play — and two shots clear of third place — Fowler missed a 4-foot par putt on the 15th hole and made double bogey on the next hole.

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His late meltdown sent him to a 74, a tie for seventh and kept him off the Ryder Cup team.

Reed built a big enough lead that a few sloppy mistakes over the final hour didn’t matter. He made bogey on the final hole for a 1-under 70 and a one-shot victory over Sean O’Hair and Emiliano Grillo.

Fowler still could have made the Ryder Cup team with a birdie on the 18th hole. He missed another fairway and took bogey. It was the fourth time Fowler has failed to convert a 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour, though he remained optimistic.

“He just told me, ‘Hey, I’m going to go get my work done. I’ll see you in Minnesota,”’ Reed said.

Sunday was the final day to earn

eight automatic spots on the U.S. team.

Fowler’s late collapse allowed Zach Johnson to claim the eighth and final spot.

Davis Love III still has four captain’s picks over the next three weeks.

Reed, who finished at 9-under 275, wasn’t the only player who felt like a big winner.

O’Hair was among five players who moved into the top 100 in the FedEx Cup, advancing to the next playoff event at the TPC Boston that starts Friday. And he made a big move, closing with a 66 to tie for second. That moved him all the way up to No. 15, assuring two more playoff events and giving O’Hair a good shot at staying in the top 30 who qualify for the finale at the Tour Championship.

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Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 74 56 .569 Boston 72 58 .554 Baltimore 71 59 .546 New York 67 62 .519 Tampa Bay 55 74 .426 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 73 56 .566 Detroit 69 61 .531 Kansas City 68 62 .523 Chicago 63 66 .488 Minnesota 49 81 .377 West Division W L Pct Texas 77 54 .588 Seattle 68 62 .523 Houston 68 62 .523 Oakland 57 73 .438 Los Angeles 56 74 .431

Local Sports Seattle at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Oakland at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

GB — 2 3 6 1/2 18 1/2

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Altuve Hou 129 513 92 182 .355 Pedroia Bos 125 506 85 162 .320 Betts Bos 126 544 100 174 .320 YEscobar LAA 110 438 58 140 .320 Ortiz Bos 120 429 62 137 .319 Trout LAA 129 449 98 140 .312 Lindor Cle 128 501 83 156 .311 MiCabrera Det 128 482 72 150 .311 Bogaerts Bos 125 523 91 162 .310 MMachado Bal 125 512 91 158 .309 Home Runs Trumbo, Baltimore, 40 Encarnacion, Toronto, 36 KDavis, Oakland, 34 Donaldson, Toronto, 33 NCruz, Seattle, 32 Frazier, Chicago, 32 CDavis, Baltimore, 32 MMachado, Baltimore, 31 4 tied at 30.

Runs Batted In Encarnacion, Toronto, 106 Pujols, Los Angeles, 101 Ortiz, Boston, 100 Trumbo, Baltimore, 96 Betts, Boston, 94 Donaldson, Toronto, 91 Correa, Houston, 88 Napoli, Cleveland, 88 Altuve, Houston, 87 KDavis, Oakland, 85.

Pitching Porcello, Boston, 17-3 Happ, Toronto, 17-4 Tillman, Baltimore, 15-5 Sale, Chicago, 15-7 Hamels, Texas, 14-4 Verlander, Detroit, 14-7 Kluber, Cleveland, 14-8 Iwakuma, Seattle, 14-9 SWright, Boston, 13-6 Price, Boston, 13-8.

GB — 4 1/2 5 1/2 10 24 1/2 GB — 8 8 19 20

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 13, Baltimore 5 Toronto 8, Minnesota 7 Boston 8, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 9, Seattle 3 Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2 L.A. Angels 3, Detroit 2 Oakland 3, St. Louis 2 Texas 7, Cleveland 0 Sunday’s Games Baltimore 5, N.Y. Yankees 0 Toronto 9, Minnesota 6 L.A. Angels 5, Detroit 0 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 1 Tampa Bay 10, Houston 4 Oakland 7, St. Louis 4 Texas 2, Cleveland 1 Kansas City 10, Boston 4

Washington Miami New York Philadelphia Atlanta

Monday’s Games Toronto (Estrada 7-6) at Baltimore (Miley 8-10), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Shields 5-16) at Detroit (Boyd 5-2), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Santiago 10-8) at Cleveland (Bauer 9-6), 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Andriese 6-5) at Boston (Porcello 173), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 14-9) at Texas (Darvish 4-3), 6:05 p.m.

Oakland (Manaea 5-8) at Houston (Musgrove 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 6-10) at Kansas City (Gee 5-7), 6:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Straily 10-6) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 8-13), 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

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

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

National League East Division W L Pct 75 55 .577 67 63 .515 66 64 .508 60 70 .462 48 83 .366 Central Division W L Pct 82 47 .636 68 61 .527 67 61 .523 56 74 .431 55 74 .426 West Division W L Pct 73 57 .562 71 59 .546 62 68 .477 55 75 .423 55 76 .420

GB — 8 9 15 27 1/2 GB — 14 14 1/2 26 1/2 27 GB — 2 11 18 18 1/2

Saturday’s Games Colorado 9, Washington 4, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 2 N.Y. Mets 12, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee 6 San Diego 1, Miami 0 Oakland 3, St. Louis 2 Cincinnati 13, Arizona 0 Atlanta 3, San Francisco 1

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Mets 1 San Diego 3, Miami 1 Colorado 5, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 3, Milwaukee 1 Oakland 7, St. Louis 4 San Francisco 13, Atlanta 4 Arizona 11, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Dodgers 1, Chicago Cubs 0 Monday’s Games Washington (Roark 13-7) at Philadelphia (Thompson 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 13-7) at N.Y. Mets (Montero 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Martinez 12-7) at Milwaukee (Davies 106), 5:20 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Brault 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 16-5), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 13-7) at Colorado (Gray 8-6), 6:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (Straily 10-6) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 8-13), 8:05 p.m.

CFL East Division W L T Ottawa 4 4 1 Toronto 4 4 0 Hamilton 4 5 0 Montreal 3 6 0 West Division GP W L T Calgary 9 7 1 1 B.C. 9 6 3 0 Winnipeg 9 5 4 0 Edmonton 9 5 4 0 Saskatchewan 9 1 8 0

PF 243 188 263 191

PA 241 220 233 218

Pt 9 8 8 6

PF 278 264 231 272 170

PA 185 233 204 247 319

Pt 15 12 10 10 2

WEEK 10 Bye: Toronto Sunday’s result Calgary 30 Hamilton 24 Friday’s results Edmonton 33 Saskatchewan 25 Winnipeg 32 Montreal 18 Thursday’s result B.C. 29 Ottawa 23 WEEK 11 Wednesday’s game B.C. at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Ottawa at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 4 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 1 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 5 Edmonton at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Toronto at Hamilton, 4:30 p.m.

WEEK 12 Bye: Ottawa Friday, Sept. 9 Montreal at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 10 Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 11 Hamilton at Toronto, 2:30 p.m Sunday’s summary Stampeders 30, Tiger-Cats 24 First Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 13 7:46 Ham — TD Toliver 21 pass from Collaros (Maher convert) 14:36 Cgy — TD Daniels 76 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 15:00 Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 17 12:17 Cgy — FG Paredes 41 13:44 Third Quarter Ham — FG Maher 47 4:06 Fourth Quarter Cgy — TD Messam 2 run (two-point convert: Grant 3 pass from Mitchell) 0:08

LPGA-Canadian Open Sunday At Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club Calgary, Alberta Purse: $2.25 million Yardage: 6,622; Par: 72 Final (a-amateur) Ariya Jutanugarn, $337,500 68-64-67-66—265 Sei Young Kim, $207,791 69-67-68-65—269 In Gee Chun, $150,737 68-67-66-69—270 Alena Sharp, $116,607 68-70-67-67—272 Karrie Webb, $85,323 73-67-69-64—273 Anna Nordqvist, $85,323 71-68-66-68—273 Alison Lee, $57,072 74-67-66-68—275 Lydia Ko, $57,072 67-69-70-69—275 Chella Choi, $57,072 65-71-69-70—275 Mo Martin, $41,466 71-68-71-66—276 Ayako Uehara, $41,466 67-74-68-67—276 Suz. Pettersen , $41,466 68-69-69-70—276 Steph. Meadow, $41,466 66-69-69-72—276 Carlota Ciganda, $29,436 75-67-68-67—277 Austin Ernst, $29,436 69-72-68-68—277 Mi Hyang Lee, $29,436 71-69-69-68—277 Br. Henderson, $29,436 72-68-68-69—277 Cristie Kerr, $29,436 69-71-68-69—277 M.-Aimee Leblanc, $29,43669-69-70-69—277 Mirim Lee, $29,436 67-71-69-70—277 Amy Yang, $29,436 68-69-68-72—277 Stacy Lewis, $24,345 67-72-69-70—278 Ryann O’Toole, $20,563 72-70-70-67—279 No. Srisawang, $20,563 72-70-68-69—279 Azahara Munoz, $20,563 69-72-69-69—279 Jane Park, $20,563 70-71-67-71—279 Morgan Pressel, $20,563 70-72-65-72—279 Mi Jung Hur, $20,563 67-69-71-72—279 Gaby Lopez, $20,563 71-67-68-73—279 Hyo Joo Kim, $20,563 69-67-70-73—279

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Saturday ● ACAC soccer: Kings University vs. Red Deer College Kings, 11 a.m., Queens, 1 p.m., Ponoka Fields ● WHL: Price George Cougars vs.

Edmonton Oil Kings, 3 p.m.; Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels, Black and White game, 7 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. LeMahieu Col 119 448 85 154 .344 Murphy Was 122 463 80 159 .343 Seager LAD 126 505 87 162 .321 Prado Mia 124 493 59 158 .320 Blackmon Col 115 464 89 147 .317 Segura Ari 123 512 79 162 .316 WRamos Was 109 401 54 126 .314 Braun Mil 109 411 67 129 .314 ADiaz StL 96 353 64 110 .312 Votto Cin 126 431 82 133 .309 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 35 Bryant, Chicago, 35 Carter, Milwaukee, 30 Duvall, Cincinnati, 29 FFreeman, Atlanta, 27 Story, Colorado, 27 Tomas, Arizona, 27 Cespedes, New York, 26 6 tied at 25.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 111 Murphy, Washington, 98 Bryant, Chicago, 89 Rizzo, Chicago, 89 ARussell, Chicago, 84 CGonzalez, Colorado, 83 Duvall, Cincinnati, 83 JaLamb, Arizona, 80 Jay Bruce, Cincinnati, 80 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 78.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 16-5 Strasburg, Washington, 15-4 Lester, Chicago, 14-4 Cueto, San Francisco, 14-4 Scherzer, Washington, 14-7 Hammel, Chicago, 13-7 Maeda, Los Angeles, 13-7 Fernandez, Miami, 13-7 Roark, Washington, 13-7 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 13-8.

Soccer Houston 26 5 11 10 29 34 25 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Toronto 27 12 8 7 39 New York City 27 11 8 8 45 New York 27 11 9 7 40 Philadelphia 27 11 9 7 47 Montreal 26 9 7 10 40 D.C. 26 7 8 11 33 Orlando 26 6 7 13 41 New England 27 6 12 9 29 Columbus 25 5 9 11 34 Chicago 25 5 12 8 29

GA 28 45 33 41 38 33 44 47 40 40

Pt 43 41 40 40 37 32 31 27 26 23

WESTERNCONFERENCE GP W L Dallas 27 14 7 Colorado 25 11 4 Salt Lake 27 12 8 Los Angeles 26 9 4 Kansas City 28 11 12 Portland 27 9 10 San Jose 26 7 8 Seattle 26 9 13 Vancouver 27 8 12

GA 35 22 37 26 32 41 29 36 43

Pt 48 43 43 40 38 35 32 31 31

T 6 10 7 13 5 8 11 4 7

GF 42 28 39 40 32 41 26 32 34

S 4 6 0 4 3 14 3 2 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct New England 3 0 0 1.000 Miami 2 1 0 .667 Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 .333 South W L T Pct Houston 3 0 0 1.000 Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 North W L T Pct Baltimore 3 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 West W L T Pct

Pt 114 105 97 95 85 78 70 69 48 42 36 34 32 30 30 30 30 30 26 26 26 24 24 23 22 20 20

Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland

2 1 1 1

1 2 2 2

0 0 0 0

.667 .333 .333 .333

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Philadelphia 3 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 Dallas 1 2 0 .333 South W L T Pct Tampa Bay 2 1 0 .667 Atlanta 2 1 0 .667 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 New Orleans 0 3 0 .000 North W L T Pct Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 Green Bay 3 0 0 1.000 Detroit 1 2 0 .333 Chicago 0 3 0 .000 West W L T Pct Los Angeles 2 1 0 .667 Seattle 2 1 0 .667 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333 Arizona 0 3 0 .000 Saturday’s Games Kansas City 23, Chicago 7 Philadelphia 33, Indianapolis 23 Baltimore 30, Detroit 9 Tennessee 27, Oakland 14 N.Y. Giants 21, N.Y. Jets 20 Denver 17, Los Angeles 9 Sunday’s Games Minnesota 23, San Diego 10 Houston 34, Arizona 24 Jacksonville 26, Cincinnati 21

PF 76 58 55 55

PA 61 57 40 56

PF 74 70 60 60

PA 46 50 70 65

PF 71 44 67 37

PA 46 61 57 71

PF

PA

Thursday, Sept. 1 Jacksonville at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Tennessee at Miami, 5 p.m.

New England at New York Giants, 5 p.m.

New York Jets at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 5:30 p.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Green Bay at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Baltimore at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Denver at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8 p.m.

63 39 59 57

40 53 45 57

PF 67 60 31 82

PA 32 57 68 69

PF 66 53 62 45

PA 51 47 57 77

PF 58 58 53 29

PA 37 33 77 68

PF 58 55 54 37

PA 61 51 69 84

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Signed RHP Tommy Hunter. Recalled RHP Oliver Drake from Norfolk (IL). Designated LHP T.J. McFarland and OF Julio Borbon for assignment.

National League WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Lucas Giolito. Optioned INF Wilmer Difo to Harrisburg (EL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed S Dashon Goldson.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed QB Austin Trainor.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Terminated the contracts of WR Stephen Hill and OT Willie smith.

Waived LB Jared Barber, WR Avius Capers, TE Braxton Deaver, C Reese Dismukes, DT Ray Drew, OT David Foucault, DE Tom Lally, C Matt Masifilo and WR Miles Shuler.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived RB Senorise Perry, DL Keith Browner, WR Kieran Duncan, WR Derek Keaton, OL John Kling, WR Darrin Peterson, DB Joel Ross, TE Gannon Sinclair and OL Martin Wallace. Terminated the contract of FB Darrell Young.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed RB Stevan Ridley. Waived WR Justin Berger, S Alden Darby, G Eric Herman, DT Ricky Lumpkin, TE Mike Miller, RB Chase Price, CB Winston Rose, DE Delvon Simmons, WR Josh Stangby and LB Junior Sylvestre.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed S Eric Berry.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed WR Devin Smith on the PUP list. Released LB Deion Barnes, OT Jesse Davis, C Kyle Friend, DL Shelby Harris, G Jarvis Harrison, K Ross Martin, DL Helva Matungulu, RB Lache Seastrunk, TE Jason Vander Laan, WR Kyle Williams and RB Terry Williams.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released LS John DePalma, CB Randall Evans, OL Andrew Gardner, WR Chris Givens, DT Mike Martin, S Nick Perry, WR Rueben Randle and CB Denzel Rice. Placed LB Joe Walker and DE Alex McCalister on injured reserve.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed OT Jerald Hawkins on the reserve/injured list. Waived/injured QB Dustin Vaughan. Released LBs Jordan Zumwalt and Mike Reilly, WRs Issac Blakeney and Levi Norwood, TE Michael Cooper, DE Giorgio Newberry, DT Khaynin Mosley-Smith and CB Julian Whigham.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released TE Busta Anderson and G-OT Erik Pears.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived DT Travis Britz, CB Daniel Davie, WR Andre Davis, OL Taylor Fallin, LB Jeremiah George, DE Martin Ifedi, RB Storm Johnson, DT Ishmaa’ily Kitchen, S Kimario McFadden, P Jacob Schum and TE Tevin Westbrook. Released S Major Wright.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived S Lamarcus Brutus, OT William Campbell, WRs Donte Foster and Reece Horn, LBs Deiontrez Mount and Amarlo Herrera, CBs Blidi Wreh-Wilson and Tyler Patman, OL Nick Richter and DEs Mike Smith and Ropati Pitoitua. Waived/injured C Andy Gallik.

Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Mike

Sharp, Henderson continue post-Olympic home tour with LPGA stop in Ontario

Golf PGA-The Barclays Sunday At Bethpage State Park (Black Course) Farmingdale, N.Y. Purse: $8.5 million Yardage: 7,468; Par: 71 Final Patrick Reed, $1,530,000 66-68-71-70—275 Emiliano Grillo, $748,000 67-69-71-69—276 Sean O’Hair, $748,000 69-69-72-66—276 Jason Day, $351,333 68-70-70-69—277 Adam Scott, $351,333 69-72-65-71—277 Gary Woodland, $351,333 71-69-68-69—277 Jason Kokrak, $264,917 74-66-69-69—278 Ryan Moore, $264,917 69-68-72-69—278 Rickie Fowler, $264,917 67-69-68-74—278 Jordan Spieth, $221,000 71-67-72-69—279 Justin Thomas, $221,000 71-71-66-71—279 Tony Finau, $195,500 72-70-67-71—280 Charley Hoffman, $154,700 71-69-74-67—281 Billy Horschel, $154,700 69-72-70-70—281 Phil Mickelson, $154,700 70-73-70-68—281 Ryan Palmer, $154,700 71-68-70-72—281 Bubba Watson, $154,700 71-74-70-66—281 Dustin Johnson, $114,750 70-72-67-73—282 Sung Kang, $114,750 68-75-75-64—282 Martin Laird, $114,750 66-72-69-75—282 Louis Oosthuizen, $114,750 72-73-70-67—282 Jhonattan Vegas, $72,722 68-71-74-70—283 Johnson Wagner, $72,722 74-69-76-64—283 Jason Dufner, $72,722 73-68-69-73—283 Brian Harman, $72,722 70-72-71-70—283 Jim Herman, $72,722 71-68-73-71—283 Jamie Lovemark, $72,722 74-66-69-74—283 Scott Piercy, $72,722 69-72-72-70—283 Brendan Steele, $72,722 73-70-68-72—283 Kevin Streelman, $72,722 71-70-67-75—283

Tuesday ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp — main practice Group A 8-8:45 a.m. and Group B 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage 9-10:30 a.m. and 3-4:30 p.m.; main group 5 to 6:30 p.m., Enmax Centrium

Sunday’s results New York 1 New England 0 Orlando 2 New York City 1 Portland 4 Seattle 2 Saturday’s results Columbus 2 San Jose 0 D.C. 6 Chicago 2 Dallas 3 Houston 1 Montreal 1 Toronto 0 Philadelphia 2 Kansas City 0 Vancouver 0 Los Angeles 0 Thursday, Sept. 1 D.C. at New York City, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 3 New York at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Colorado at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m

Transactions

Cgy — FG Paredes 14 5:30 Ham — TD Toliver 26 pass from Collaros (two-point convert failed) 10:41 Ham — TD Tasker 5 pass from Collaros (two-point convert: Tasker 3 pass from Collaros) 14:13 Cgy — FG Paredes 40 14:28 Hamilton 7 0 3 14 — 24 Calgary 10 6 0 14 — 30 CFL scoring leaders (x — scored two-point convert): TD C FG Paredes, Cgy 0 14 32 Medlock, Wpg 0 18 27 Whyte, Edm 0 22 25 Milo, Ott 0 16 25 Maher, Ham 0 19 21 Leone, BC 0 13 17 Hajrullahu, Tor 0 16 17 Crapigna, Sask 0 10 19 Ch.Williams, Ott 8 0 0 Bede, Mtl 0 11 7 Messam, Cgy 6 0 0 x-Fantuz, Ham 5 4 0 x-E.Jackson, Ott 5 2 0 Banks, Ham 5 0 0 Bowman, Edm 5 0 0 D.Carter, Mtl 5 0 0 Toliver, Ham 5 0 0 D.Walker, Edm 5 0 0 x-Arceneaux, BC 4 2 0 x-Owens, Ham 4 2 0 x-Rainey, BC 4 2 0 A.Harris, Wpg 4 0 0 J.White, Edm 4 0 0 Fera, Mtl 0 5 6 x-Tasker, Ham 3 4 0 x-Cunningham, Mtl 3 2 0 x-J.Johnson, BC 3 2 0

Friday ● WHL: Prince George Cougars vs.

Calgary Hitmen, 3 p.m.; Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Enmax Centrium ● High School Football: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, 4:30 p.m. and Hunting Hills at Lacombe, 7:30 p.m., M.E. Global Field

Wednesday

Tuesday’s Games Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

San Diego at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Cincinnati at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Football GP 9 8 9 9

Today ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp — main practice Group A 8-8:45 a.m. and Group B 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage 9-10:30 a.m. and 3-4:30 p.m.; main group 5 to 6:30 p.m., Enmax Centrium

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRIDDIS, Alta. — The Maple Leaf theme continues for Alena Sharp and Brooke Henderson, who will play a second LPGA tournament in Canada in as many weeks after their return from the Olympic Games.

They’ll be home-province favourites at the US$1.6-million Manulife LPGA Classic in Cambridge, Ont., starting Thursday.

Hamilton’s Sharp and Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., were the home-country favourites at the Canadian Pacific Canadian Open that concluded Sunday at Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club.

The Olympians had reason to feel good about their respective golf games heading to Ontario.

The 35-year-old Sharp went 16-under for a career-best fourth in Priddis. She sank back-to-back birdies to close out Sunday’s final round.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better way to come back from Rio and play in Canada for two weeks,” Sharp said. “Playing well here is icing on the cake. Now I get to go and play basically in my own backyard. My parents will be there. I can’t really put into words how happy I am right now.”

Sharp said she would be on a 6 a.m. flight Monday and planned nine holes of practice at the 6,613-yard Whistle Bear Golf Club.

“We’ve had a drought in Ontario,” Sharp said. “It’s going to be firm and fast.”

Henderson, 18, finished tied for 14th at 11-under for her best result at a Canadian Open.

Her galleries at Priddis easily numbered 200 at times on Sunday.

People wanted to see the world No. 3 and a winner of a major this year at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

She closed with a 3-under 69 on Sunday thanks to a walk-off birdie putt. Henderson says she’s not distracted by large galleries and feels energized by the buzz.

“This is our national championship and the crowds always seem to be amazing here wherever it is in the country, which is really cool,” Henderson said.

“Cambridge hasn’t had the same crowds the last couple of years, but that might change this year. I’m hoping so. The more the better. The bigger the crowds, the more energy I feel and the better I play normally.

“Both Alena and I are from Ontario and pretty close. She’s just a couple of hours away and I’m a four or five hour drive so hopefully family and friends will come out.”

Henderson finished tied for seventh and Sharp placed 30th in Rio, where women’s golf made its Olympic debut.

With two straight tournament stops in Canada upon their return, it’s been a unique 2016 for both women. Cambridge will also be a dress rehearsal for the 2017 Canadian Open at Ottawa’s Hunt and Golf Club, where attention on both Ontario golfers will intensify.

The last Canadian to win was Jocelyne Bourassa in 1973.

“Every Canadian wants a Canadian to win so if it’s me or another player, that’s what we want,” Sharp said.

Wright to Norfolk (IL). Selected the contract of OF Julio Borbon from Bowie (EL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Sent C Ryan Hanigan to Portland (EL) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated C Alex Avila from the 15-day DL. DETROIT TIGERS — Designated OF Alex Presley for assignment. Reinstated SS Jose Iglesias from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Jordan Zimmermann to Toledo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated SS Marcus Semien from paternity leave.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed RHP Tom Wilhelmsen on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday.

Optioned 1B Mike Freeman and OF Norichika Aoki to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled 1B Dae-Ho Lee and R/ LHP Pat Venditte from Tacoma. Selected the contract of RHP Dan Altavilla from Jackson (SL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent OF Nick Franklin to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

TEXAS RANGERs — Extended their player development agreement with Spokane (NWL) for two years.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated LHP Aaron Loup for assignment. Recalled RHP Bo Schultz from Buffalo (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned C Shawn Zarraga to Oklahoma City (PCL) and RHP Kenta Maeda to the AZL Dodgers. Recalled RHP Brock Stewart from Oklahoma City.

MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with 2B Sutton Whiting on a minor league contract. Sent 2B Derek Dietrich to Jacksonville (SL) for a rehab assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Junior Guerra to Colorado Springs (PCL) and RHP Jacob Barnes and 3B Will Middlebrooks to Biloxi (SL) for rehab assignments.

NEW YORK METS — Recalled INF T.J. Rivera from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed OF Justin Ruggiano on the 15-day disabled list.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned C Jorge Alfaro to Reading (EL). Added C A.J. Ellis to the 25-man roster.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned OF Patrick Kivlehan to El Paso (PCL). Claimed OF Oswaldo Arcia off waivers from Miami. Transferred OF Jon Jay to the 60-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed RHP Jake Peavy on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 21. Recalled RHP Albert Suarez from Sacramento (PCL).

Sent RHP Matt Cain to Sacramento for a rehab assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP Joe Ross to Syracuse (IL) for a rehab assignment.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Released S Sergio Brown.

Waived OL Michael Huey, RB Gus Johnson, WR Jordan Leslie, TE Arthur Lynch, LB Ivan McLennan, QB Sean Renfree, CB Ryan White and DL Brandon Williams.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Agreed to terms with WR Tavon Austin on a four-year contract extension.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived LB Akil Blount, OL Ruben Carter, LS Ryan DiSalvo, TE Gabe Hughes, PK Marshall Koehn, CB Al Louis-Jean, G Vinston Painter and WRs A.J. Cruz, Matt Hazel and Brandon Shippen. Released CB Brandon Harris.

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Eating healthy on a family food budget

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES As I’ve reflected on our summer months, the fun moments and the misses, I’ve noticed that the money we spent on activities skyrocketed – paddle-boarding has become a family obsession – and the amount we spent on food plummeted.

Perhaps we ate out less frequently or loaded up on more vegetables and not as much meat, or maybe the seasonal produce was less expensive.

Could we possibly stick to this financial food plan all year long, even when we return to normal bedtimes, daily lunch boxes and the inevitably hectic nature of fall?

I believe we can. What I have to do is pay more attention when I grab items off the grocery store shelf, tighten my meal plans so we don’t buy any foods that go to waste, and admit that my kids just don’t like zucchini so that I stop buying so much of it.

In any case, any time of year is a good time to pocket a few pennies on food savings. So here are some ways to eat healthy on a budget: ● Eat seasonally. This is much easier during the summer months, when more foods are locally in season and therefore less expensive than when they are grown and shipped from another state or continent.

Focus on hearty greens, winter squash and beets in the winter and stone fruit, zucchini and peppers in the summer. Offseason, embrace frozen vegetables. ● Get organized. Plan your meals a week ahead of time, and write the ingredients on a weekly grocery list. Keep an organized fridge and pantry so you never buy anything you already have. ● Set a food budget and stick to it. Keep track of your food expenses for a few weeks, then analyze where the money is going. Is it eating out? Shopping at a higher-end grocery store when you could buy the same products for less money elsewhere? Do you depend too much on prepared foods? Do vegetables or leftovers regularly go to waste? Once you have a sense of how much you spend and where you could cut, set a budget that works for you. ● Be smart about leftovers. Repurpose leftovers into a second night’s dinner, plan meals that use similar ingredients so that the entire bunch of broccoli and the whole onion are consumed, and either eat your leftovers for lunch the next day or freeze them for a future meal. Rice bowls and burritos are helpful for catching the remains of last night’s meat and

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

With the children heading back to school, families find themselves having to stretch their food bills. Luckily, there are several ways to do just that. vegetables. ● Be choosy about organics. Refer to the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists to know which fruits and vegetables are the most important to buy organic and on which ones you can save your pennies without exposing your family to countless pesticides. ● Try Meatless Mondays. Eat less meat. Design meals around cheaper vegetarian foods, such as sweet potatoes, spinach, eggs, oats, beans and lentils. ● Get help from the store. Many grocery chains now have in-store nutritionists who can help you eat well on a budget. Seek them out. And remember that store brands and bulk bins tend to be cheaper than private-label products. Most store sales are promoted online or through a phone app, so you can plan your meals around the cheaper items before you even shop. ● Teach your kids to limit waste. Take a moment before meals or snacks to ask your children how hungry they actually feel and how much they might

eat of each item, then encourage them to serve themselves accordingly. They can always have seconds, but it’s good for kids to observe how much they are scraping off their plates into the garbage. ● Take the pantry challenge. Think of it as a winter sport: Every January, challenge your family to eat out of the pantry until it’s empty. Buy milk and selected fresh produce each week, but otherwise design meals around whatever grains, beans, pasta, canned tomatoes and other items you find hiding in the back of the cupboard or freezer. Some tips: Make soups; use flours to make cookies, breads and other baked goods instead of buying them; and batch-cook staples such as lentils and couscous so you can put them to work in different recipes on successive days.

You can always restock in February, and you probably will appreciate the opportunity to buy what you really want after a month of staring at your diminishing supply. Compare your budget that month with other months and be prepared for some serious shock and awe.

Sometimes garlic needs to be tamed The truth behind nutritional myths

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Recent online special guests were Ian Cumming, finalist from Season 3 of The Great British Baking Show on PBS, and columnist Cathy Barrow. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. Recipes whose names are capitalized can be found in our Recipe Finder at washingtonpost.com/recipes.

Q: Much as I love garlic, sometimes it is too harsh when raw, as in panzanella or uncooked tomato sauce. Would blanching help, or is it the variety of garlic?

A: There are a couple ways to go. I prefer to roast it, because of the resulting sweetness (and aroma).

Or you can simply soak it in lukewarm water for 10 to 20 minutes. Blanching works, too, but soaking is easier.

- Bonnie S. Benwick A: Some varieties are sharper than others, but it’s hard to know what you’re going to get. You know the trick about removing the little green germ/sprout inside? Especially if it is green, which means the garlic is more mature, the germ becomes more bitter, especially if left raw.

- Joe Yonan Q: I had an amazing kale salad that tasted as if it had been massaged with oil, and it had pine nuts and Parmesan mixed in. I would love some suggestions for kale salad.

A: Massaging the kale is key; it helps soften the otherwise potentially tough leaves and brings out kale’s deep green color. Try Kale and Cucumber Salad With Avocado-Tahini Dressing or Kale Salad With Pecans and Preserved Berries Dressing.

- Kara Elder Q: A “Great British Baking Show” question for Ian about what you can practice ahead of time and what you can’t. Do you practice the signature challenge and showstopper, and then are surprised by the technical challenge? If you were estimating, how many times did you have to make a bake at home before you were happy with it?

A: We did get a few weeks to practice the signatures and showstoppers but not the technicals - not even the slightest hint. Some things I practiced five or more times; my first attempts at the biscuit box were totally laughable. Other things I didn’t have much time to practice, for various reasons; that is why my cream horns looked and tasted terrible.

- Ian Cumming Q: Buying a supermarket rotisserie or roast chicken along with other groceries is sometimes my go-to way to have food ready to eat at suppertime.

Can you help me figure out how to tell, when the chicken is in a plastic container, if the meat is moist or dry? Looking for juices in the bottom of the container doesn’t work. Neither does how recently the bird was cooked. Or the darkness of the skin. Or whether the legs are falling off. Chickens from the same store sometimes are so dry they’re good only if slathered in mayo, cheese or sauce. Other times, they’re as juicy as the chicken at a Peruvian carryout.

A: I don’t know why they don’t package those birds upside down. That way, at least the juices would stay in the breast meat longer. When you get yours home, if you’re not going to eat it straight away, peel back the skin over the breasts and invert

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the chicken in its package.

At the store, the best way to tell is to ask your friendly, hairnetted deli server when the chickens were roasted. The color of the skin has more to do with the various seasonings/sauces used, so I have found that not to be a good indicator. In general, I’d say the more juices that have accumulated at the bottom, the more likely it is that the white meat has gone dry. Look for drumsticks or dark-meat leg quarters that have not pulled away from the body, too.

- B.S.B. Q: After consuming the pickles from a jar of commercial pickles, on a whim I dropped some whole radishes into the nearly half-jar of remaining brine, closed the jar and stuck it in the back of the refrigerator. The next time I looked, around two weeks later,

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A seller prepares strips of garlic during the garlic fair in Vitoria, northern Spain. all the brine was gone and the radishes were so huge they filled the whole jar! I was afraid to open the jar in case there was too much built-up pressure, and the radishes looked too sci-fi to bite into. I think I’ve had sliced pickled radishes as part of a mix called “escabeche” with chilies and onions. Was my error in not slicing the radishes or leaving them brine too long?

A: Pickled radishes have a short shelf life and are best when consumed within three or four days.

Whole radishes will absorb liquid, so it’s best to quarter or slice them thick, pour a warm brine over, then chill for half an hour or so. They’ll be delicious.

- Cathy Barrow Q: For the Summer Tomato Panzanella recipe, should the sourdough bread be stale or fresh? How did you decide what type of bread and preparation of the bread to use?

Do you know how far in advance you can prepare if you have guests coming?

A: I picked sourdough for the obvious reason: It imparts a little more flavor than, say, baguette. But really, any hearty, crusty bread will do. (Assuming you like crusty breads, which some don’t.) You can use stale or toasted bread. It’s all the same. You’re only toasting the bread until it hardens, not until it browns. You’re essentially creating a stale bread in the oven. As for timing, give yourself at least an hour, maybe a little more, depending on how fast you chop tomatoes and mince garlic. The most important thing, though, is fresh, ripe tomatoes. They will make or break your salad. If you have those, you can’t go wrong.

- Tim Carman Q: What’s the difference in flavor between pink and green peppercorns? I’d like to buy some to make a steak sauce, but I’ve got herbs and spices coming out of my ears, so I’m trying to limit myself to one or the other.

A: Pink peppercorns have a bit of sweetness in their heat, and the crunch of them is usually considered part of their charm. The green ones typically are unripe when picked, are less pungent than black peppercorns and are sold brined, oven-dried or freeze-dried.

- B.S.B.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES THANKS CENTRAL ABLBERTA

THINGS HAPPENING TOMORROW

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On Aug. 31 from 7 to 9 p.m., Catholic Social Services is hosting a free event to celebrate over four decades of providing hope to people in need in Central Alberta. The event features food trucks and entertainment. By registering at www. cssalberta.ca, individuals can receive a complimentary coupon for a food truck meal and enjoy music at Bower Ponds.

Visit www.cssalberta.ca for more info.

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Is agave really better than white sugar? Does process meat really cause cancer? We all hunger for nutrition advice, but not all the advice you hear is worth believing. Here are the truths behind three common nutrition myths: Processed meat causes cancer Remember last year’s scary headline? “World Health Organization Says Processed Meat Causes Cancer.” Turns out, the science was not as dire as the headline made it sound.

The WHO report said that eating 50 grams of processed meat every day (about one hot dog) increased the relative risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent.

That’s not the same as “causing cancer.” To put it into perspective: The average person has a 5 percent risk of developing colon cancer; those who eat a lot a processed meat increase their risk to 6 percent.

Meats that are not processed - such as steak, veal and fresh pork (like pork chops or loin, not bacon or ham) are less strongly linked to colorectal cancer than processed meats.

So what does this mean for your dinner plate?

The American Institute for Cancer Research suggests avoiding processed meat and limiting red meat to no more than 18 ounces (about three 6 oz. servings) per week. Steaks and pork chops are better choices than sausages, deli meats or bacon.

Natural sweeteners are better than regular sugar Let’s face it: If you bake cookies using a cup of sugar, it really doesn’t matter what type you use if you eat all of the cookies, right? Whether it’s date sugar, agave or evaporated cane juice, when it comes to sugars, the quantity you consume matters more than the type.

Guidelines recommend no more than six (for women) to nine (for men) teaspoons of any type of added sugar daily. Higher consumption is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

Maybe you prefer coconut sugar because it’s less refined or may cause less of an insulin spike than white sugar. That’s fine, but you still need to watch portion size.

Despite the different colors, textures and flavors, all sugars contain a similar number of calories (10-20 per teaspoon) but scant amounts of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Enjoy a spoonful in your coffee or in that bite of dessert, but don’t believe any sugar is a health food.

Quinoa is super-high in protein Quinoa is often listed alongside poultry and meat as a stellar source of protein, so it’s time to set the record straight. Quinoa has eight grams of protein per cup, but a three-ounce serving of meat or poultry has around 25 grams of protein – hardly comparable.

The confusion lies in the terminology. Quick science lesson: Protein is made up of smaller units called amino acids. A “complete” protein contains all nine essential amino acids – and quinoa is one of relatively few plant-based foods in this category.

But being a complete protein isn’t the same as being high in protein.

PENHOLD COMMUNITY MARKET The Penhold Community Market is being held Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Penhold Regional Multiplex. The Penhold Community Market is a weekly outdoor market featuring local artisans, producers and other fabulous vendors. This all-ages event is free for everyone to attend.

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FLK TAOIST TAI CHI BEGINNERS CLASS FLK Taoist Tai Chi is offering a free beginners class Tuesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 4419 50 Ave. (Behind ScotiaBank in Port O’Call Shopping Centre).

Come and join us for this relaxing exercise program that improves strength, balance and flexibility while reducing stress.

This is an all-ages event. For more information, call 403-346-6772.

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ARMITAGE (Hagel) Helen Apr. 8, 1930 - Aug. 20, 2016 We would never be ready to say goodbye, and Mom’s determination allowed us to hold off on that for many years. We are grateful that her struggles with her health ended peacefully when we lost her mortal presence on Saturday, August 20th at the age of 86. Born in Beiseker, AB on April 8, 1930 to the late Edward and Frances Hagel, Helen Rose Armitage was known as Helena to the Receiver General only, but to many “legit” and “adopted” she was known as Mom. She was a collector, but her favorite collection by far was “children” who called her Mom that she could share her love and wisdom with - whether asked for or not. Officially Mom to Jim (Bonnie Schadeck) Armitage, Susan Wylie, Rob (Heather) Armitage, Don Armitage, Sandra (Kevin) Graf and Glenna Armitage; grandmother to Ryan (Erin), Chad, Dallas, Christopher, Owen, Isaac and great-grandmother to 6 along with numerous nieces and nephews, those she referred to as “Helen’s Herd”, and special friends. We won’t say that she was stubborn, but Mom certainly had the Virtue of Determination, something needed with 2 sisters, Mary (John) and Selma and 8 brothers, Louis (Anna Mary), Ed (Julia), Francis, Raymond (Eva), Pat (Jean), Rev. Jim Hagel, Leonard (Lucille), Donald, and Rev. Martin Hagel. She graduated from Beiseker High School in 1949 and attended the University of Western Ontario for a year before returning home to help her ailing parents. January of 1951 she moved to Calgary to attend Calgary Business College. In 1952 she married Don Morrow, adopting an infant boy, Don Jr., and found herself widowed in 1963. Helen became a working mother and supported her and her young son utilizing her secretarial skills. On November 20, 1970 she married widower Glen Armitage and became an instant mother to another 4 children (Jim, Susan, Rob and Sandra). Later, Glenna was born completing the “yours, mine and ours”. As a farmer’s wife Mom fed the summer crews hot meals, always had an eye out for berries and apples to pick, and supported Glen with the bookkeeping and banking. Mom enjoyed scheming, designing and sewing Halloween costumes for many years. With Glen she enjoyed traveling on some great adventures until he passed away in 2006.

Closer to home she was active with volunteering in the community (CWL, DTHR Voluntary Association, Sacred Heart Parish, and the Shady Nook Community to name a few). She was a storyteller and enjoyed sharing humor throughout her life. In her later years Mom got pleasure out of teaching others how to bake. Among Mom’s things, indicating that she was ready even though we were not, she had left the following note requesting that her obituary read; “Do not wear black to my funeral - please wear color.

God gave us color to take us out of the dark.

I hope to be in color when I meet Him, as sent on by those in color delivering over my mortal remains.”

Prayers will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer AB on Monday August 29, 2016 at 7:00 pm. A Public Funeral Mass will be con-celebrated by The Reverend Jozef Wroblewski and the Reverend Father Jim Hagel at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48 A Avenue, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 11:00 am. A Public Internment will be held at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm.

As the Hospice Home was very near and dear to her heart, if friends desire, Memorial Donations in Helen’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6 (403) 309-4344.

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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JACKET & a set of keys.

Found on my driveway in Bower early this morning.

Phone to claim by identifying. 403-346-4263 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Personals

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T permanent shift, early morning, morning, day, eves. shift weekend day night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk 8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs. Education not req’d. Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 LINE COOK NEEDED for evenings, f/t or p/t.

Experience required.

Apply in person inside Jackpot Casino.

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Restaurant/ Hotel

820

SWISS CHALET Red Deer Hiring Food Service Supervisors: $13.75 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and co-ordinate staff activities and customer service.

Establish work schedules and train associates.

Interested candidates can email swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1-866-928-5481 or deliver resume to unit # 8 5111 22 Street Red Deer T4R 2K1

Sales & Distributors

830

FONESHOP COMMUNICATIONS located at Bower Place, #200 - 4900 Molly Banister Dr, Red Deer, AB T4R 1N9, requires a F/T, Perm.

Assistant Manager-Retail; min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., to start ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca

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Sales & Distributors

830

WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747 67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm.

Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties, Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages $26.50/Hr. Email Resume - retailjobs@ mywirelessworld.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS in AB. Super B exp. req’d.

Home the odd night. Weekends off. 403-586-4558

Misc.

Help

880

710

Caregivers/ Aides

In-home Caregiver for 2 Boys . 403-356-2075 Deer Park Red Deer

CAREER ALERT: Saputo

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Professionals

810

SUNTERRA Meats in Trochu,AB is seeking a HACCP Co-ordinator/ Manager. Duties will include monitoring HACCP and quality requirements, maintaining records, following CFIA regulations, microbial sampling and interpretation of results, monitoring duties under the HIP program, training personnel in food safety procedures and policies.

Need to have great attention to detail, good communication skills, able to multi task. Experience in HACCP/QA/HIP. Please send resume to trish. hyshka@sunterra.ca or fax at 403-442-2771.

Call Trish at 403-442-4202 for more information.

CLASSIFIEDS - LABOUR DAY Hours & Deadlines Office & Phones CLOSED Monday, September 5, 2016 Non Publishing Day

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Red Deer is seeking an enthusiastic, driven, Production Supervisor to join our team. This position is responsible for front line supervision of operations to ensure safe and efficient production of quality products. Saputo offers competitive compensation plans. Apply online at www.saputo.com or email your resume to cv.edm@saputo.com RECYCLE SORTERS F/T, required Immed. in Red Deer shop. Email resume to: canpak1212@gmail.com

Positions Wanted

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RECENTLY RETIRED financial advisor seeking employment in customer service field. Excellent acquisition and retention skills, 34 yrs exp. building relationships and trust with customers a key strength.

All employment opportunities will be considered.

Resume avail. upon request. 403-346-9215

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Phone (403) 347-2222

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

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Anniversaries 50TH ANNIVERSARY for DARYL & ILONA JOY OPEN HOUSE 2- 4 pm, Thurs. Sept.1 at Corner Stone Gospel Chapel 5911 63 St. Red Deer

Announcements

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Contractors

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Caregivers

1060

ATTN: SHIFT WORKERS We are the answer to your child care needs.

24/7 Family Child Care Opening September 1, 2016 For appointments, please contact Lisa @ 1-403-872-3803

Cleaning

1070

HONEST, reliable house cleaner, 3 - 4 hrs.

403-598-1906 after 7 pm

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Value Home Repair Call 403-598-7499 R.D.

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For indoor/outdoor projects such as reno’s, painting small tree cutting, sidewalk blocks & landscaping Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

Roofing

1370

FANTASY SPA

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

10 - 2am Private back entry

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

403-341-4445 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

Call Tammy at 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Accounting

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER ECKVILLE SPRINGBROOK

Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED INNISFAIL ECKVILLE WASKASOO ESTATES MORRISROE

6 DAYS A WEEK BY 6:30 AM

Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

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Condos/ Townhouses

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Auctions

1530

THE ELECTRIC GARAGE 9TH Annual Fall Finale

Collector Car Auction & Speed Show

Sept. 9. 10 & 11, 2016 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Featuring “Horny Mike” from Counting Cars Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 X 102 or 103 EGauctions.com

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

4 WHEEL scooter, Legend XL. 403-573-3298

Household Appliances

1710

MAYTAG washer and dryer, $400 for the pair.

403-358-6579

Household Furnishings

1720

COFFEE table and 2 matching end tables, $90.

403-309-4518

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020 2 ELECTRIC LAMPS, $20.

403-885-5020 WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020 WEDDING dress, size 10, Àts small, $200.

403-309-4518

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Cats

2 KITTENS, 1 Siamese male and 1 Balinese female, $50 each, and 2 grey kittens to give away.

403-887-3649

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Items To Give Away

1940

ROLLED OATS, 20 Kg. from Master Feeds.

FREE Must pick up. ~OATS GIVEN AWAY~

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. main Ár. incld’s utils. Avail. Sept. 1. $1200 rent/dd, 403-357-7662 4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1250/mo. in Red Deer.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 JOHNSTONE. $1100.

3 bdrm.,duplex, 1 bath,, garage, yard, parking, 5 apps., N/S, no pets.

403-598-6630 SMALL rural home, SE of Red Deer, suitable for single, semi-retired gent.

403-986-4469

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

3040

WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl.

403-348-6594

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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Realtors & Services

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $875./mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Sept. 1. 403-304-5337

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ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Available Sept. 1.

403-304-5337 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $875/mo. d.d. $650.

Available now or Sept. 1 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995

Houses For Sale

4020

2 BDRM. bsmt. suite, $875 rent/dd. Westpark area, large windows n/s, no pets, utils. incld.

403-341-0156, 885-2287 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Sept. 1 $850/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incl’d., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 BACHELOR, 1, & 2 Bedroom Suites Starting at $849/month!

One Month Rent FREE! One FREE year of Telus cable & internet.

Cat friendly.

1(888)482-1711 leasing@rentmidwest.com CENTRAL AREA well-managed, quiet adult bldg., 2 bdrm. suites avail. now and Sept. 1. Heat and water incld. 2 wks. free with 6 mo. lease. No pets.

Ph. 403 309-2368

CITY VIEW APTS.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rinaldo Plini, 81, stands by a damaged house in Capricchia, near Amatrice, central Italy, Sunday.

INCREDIBLE Location in Anders, Very Spacious 2 Storey Home backing onto a park. Main Áoor Family room, Bonus Room up & huge bdrms. Contact: Kevin Schropfer @RE/MAX real estate central alberta, 403-318-6439 Kevin@hatman.biz

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

SIERRA GRAND upscale condo, centrally located, top Áoor, 1 bdrm. and den, vaulted ceilings, 6 appl., swimming pool, games room, media room. Priced to sell at $295,900.

403-341-4418

Income Property

4100

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, TWO 4 plex’s, Clearview newly reno’d adult building. Meadows. 403-391-1780 Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 GLENDALE, 2 bdrm., $850/mo., $850 D.D., and 1 bdrm. $765/mo, $765. DD. N/S, no pets, no partiers.

403-346-1458 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent $750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000

NOW RENTING SELECT 1 BDRM. APT’S. starting at $795/mo.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

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Antique & Classic Autos

5020

THE ELECTRIC GARAGE 9TH Annual Fall Finale

Collector Car Auction & Speed Show

Sept. 9. 10 & 11, 2016 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Featuring “Horny Mike” from Counting Cars Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 X 102 or 103 EGauctions.com

Cars

5030

PENHOLD deluxe 3 bdrm., Incld’s heat & water, $950/mo. 403-348-6594

2006 FORD Crown Victoria LX Sedan, leather, 70,000 km, $12,000 obo.

403-573-3298

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

Rooms For Rent

3090

2004 MAZDA 6, black, 240,000 kms., new performance tires & rims, 1 yr. old winter tires. Asking $2500. 587-377-5275

BLACKFALDS, $600, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 ROOM TO RENT, very large, $450. 403-350-4712

TWO fully furn. rooms, all 2003 MAZDA MX5, exc. util. incl., Deer Park, AND cond. 78,000 kms., hardRosedale, 403-877-1294 top & roll bar incl’d. loaded. $12,500. 403-755-2760 SYLVAN, 5 fully furn. rentals TWO furnished rooms in incld’s all utils. & cable.

Tired of Standing? quiet home. Larger room $550 - $1600./ mo. neg. has ensuite ~ N/S, no Find something to sit on details call 403-880-0210 drinking, working persons. in Classifieds Avail. Swept. 1. $495 + $300 s.d. Larger $610 + Condos/ $350 s.d. 403-309-4155

Townhouses

3030

3 bdrm. townhouse in Red Deer, 11/2 bath, 4 appl.

403-887-4670 or 403-350-6194

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 1/2 1 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1095. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545

Offices

3110

Downtown Office

Large waiting room, 2 ofÀces & storage room, 403-346-5885

Mobile Lot

3190

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMATRICE, Italy — Italian authorities are vowing to investigate whether negligence or fraud in adhering to building codes played a role in the high death toll in last week’s earthquake in Italy.

They also called for efforts to ensure organized crime doesn’t infiltrate lucrative construction contracts to eventually rebuild much of the picturesque towns levelled in the disaster.

Meanwhile, rescue workers pressed on with the task of recovering bodies from the rubble, with hopes of finding any more survivors virtually vanished more than four full days after the powerful quake.

Over the past two days, they found six more bodies in the rubble of Hotel Roma in Amatrice, the medieval hill town in mountainous central Italy that bore the brunt of destruction and loss of life in the powerful quake. They recovered three and by late Sunday were still working to retrieve others that were hard to reach.

It wasn’t clear if those six were included in the overall 290 death toll given by authorities.

The Civil Protection agency, which combines the figures it receives from different provinces affected by the quake, said the number is lower than the previous toll of 291 dead due to a correction in the numbers from the province of Rieti, where most of the victims died.

The quake that struck before dawn Wednesday also injured nearly 400 people as it flattened three medieval towns near the rugged Apennines. Prosecutor Giuseppe Saieva, based in the nearby provincial capital of Rieti, said the high human death toll “cannot only be con-

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Another 32 people aboard the 47-seater bus were injured, five of them seriously. The bus driver was among those killed and the cause of the accident remains under investigation.

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A diver in the water signals to a New Orleans Fire Department boat while searching for the wreckage Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, near the Seabrook Bridge after a plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain Saturday night in New Orleans.

Plane wreckage discovered but men still missing in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS — Divers found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the huge, mud-bottomed lake that forms New Orleans’ northern shore, but two men remained missing Sunday, the New Orleans Fire Department said.

There should be more information about them on Monday, when the plane will be pulled back out of Lake Pontchartrain, said Capt.

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sidered the work of fate.”

“The fault lines tragically did their work and this is called destiny, but if the buildings had been built like in Japan they would not have collapsed,” Saieva said in comments carried by Italian media.

Investigations are focusing on a number of structures, including an elementary school in Amatrice that crumbled despite being renovated in 2012 to resist earthquakes at a cost of 700,000 euros ($785,000). With schoolchildren’s summer vacations in their final weeks, the school wasn’t yet in use. Many were shocked that it didn’t withstand the 6.2 magnitude quake.

After an entire first-grade class and a teacher were killed in a 2002 quake in the southern town of San Giuliano di Puglia, Italian officials had pledged citizens that the safety of schools, hospitals and other critical public buildings would be guaranteed.

Questions also surround a bell tower in Accumoli that collapsed, killing a family of four sleeping in a neighbouring house, including a baby of 8 months and a 7-year-old boy. That bell tower also had been recently restored with special funds allocated after Italy’s last major earthquake, which struck nearby L’Aquila in 2009.

Italy’s national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Franco Roberti, vowed to work to prevent organized crime from infiltrating public works projects which will be eventually begun to rebuild the earthquake zone.

“This risk of infiltration is always high,” he said in comments Sunday in La Repubblica newspaper. “Post-earthquake reconstruction is historically a tempting morsel for criminal groups and colluding business interests.”

Holmes said a professional diver helped find the wreckage Sunday afternoon. It was about 1,000 feet west of the runway the Cessna was heading for when it crashed during a training exercise around 9 p.m. Friday, he said.

Holmes said he did not know who was being trained, or what sort of exercise was being performed. A private boat rescued a woman Friday. Her condition was not available Sunday.

The Cessna aircraft was heading to Lakefront Airport, about 10 miles from downtown.

Lake Pontchartrain is a roughly triangular tidal basin about 40 miles east to west, and 24 miles across at its widest north-south point, and covering about 630 square miles. Though extensive it is shallow, averaging 10 to 15 feet deep.

Two killed after bus hits fire truck in Louisanna LAPLACE, La. — A bus full of construction workers hit a firetruck on an elevated highway Sunday, killing two people and injuring 36, several of them seriously, Louisiana State Police said.

The ladder truck from St. John the Baptist Parish, west of New Orleans, had parked across the right lane of Interstate 10 to block traffic while police investigated an earlier wreck involving a pickup truck that had skidded on the wet road, crashing into both guardrails about 6:40 a.m., Trooper Melissa Matey said.

The 2002 Eldorado National party bus hit the fire truck and then rear-ended a 2012 Toyota Camry, pushing it into a flatbed trailer being towed by a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado, Matey said. She said the bus then veered behind the fire truck and into the first pickup truck, a 2005 Nissan Titan. It also knocked three firefighters, who were standing near the guard rail, into the water 30 to 40 feet below.

Matey said the wreck killed Jermaine Starr, 21, of Moss Point, Mississippi, a back-seat passenger in the Camry, and St. John the Baptist Parish district Fire Chief Spencer Chauvin. The injured included the other two firefighters, the bus driver, 24 bus passengers and a total of nine people in the car and pickups.

Murdered nuns laid to rest in Mississippi DURANT, Miss. — More than 300 people came to a small church Sunday evening to say farewell to two nuns killed in their Mississippi home, even though more than half had to watch the service called vigil for the deceased on a monitor outside.

A funeral Mass for Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill, both 68, will be celebrated Monday at the cathedral in Jackson, even as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime. About 145 people filled St. Thomas Church in Lexington.

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CANADIAN RAPPER WINS FIRST AWARD OF THE NIGHT AT MTV AWARDS BUT NOT THERE TO COLLECT His controversial Famous music video — featuring what appears to be naked images of West, Swift, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump — is nominated for NEW YORK — Rihanna kicked off the MTV Video best male video and video of the year.

Music Awards, performing a medley of her hit songs Beyonce’s Formation, Justin Bieber’s Sorry, in a bright pink ensemble that matched her back- Drake’s Hotline Bling and Adele’s Hello are also up ground dancers and the stage. for the top prize. Adele, though, won’t attend the She sang songs like We Found Love and Where show, her representative Have You Been — somesaid. times letting the backing Reps for Drake and track do most of the work Bieber didn’t return — on Sunday at Madison emails asking if they Square Garden in New would or would not attend York, where she’ll receive the show. the Michael Jackson VidDrake won the first eo Vanguard award. Riaward for the night — best hanna is expected to perhip hop video for Hotline form more times Sunday Bling. night.

Puff Daddy, who preThe night will feature sented the award, said surprises from Kanye Drake was stuck in traffic.

West and Beyonce.

Other performers inHours before the clude Britney Spears, Arshow, MTV confirmed iana Grande with Nicki Beyonce, the top nomMinaj, Future, Nick Jonas inee with 11, would hit the stage. Angel-winged and The Chainsmokers. and green-feathered with Presenters include daughter Blue Ivy in tow, Jimmy Fallon, Alicia she arrived on the white Keys, Puff Daddy and the carpet along with Sybrina recent Olympian gold Fulton, Lezley McSpadmedallists Michael Phelps den and Gwen Carr, the and the four of the Final mothers of Trayvon MarFive gymnasts — Simone tin, Michael Brown and Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Eric Garner, among othMadison Kocian and Aly ers. They appeared in vidRaisman. eos for Beyonce’s LemonNominees for best feade visual album and also male video include Bemake up the Mothers of yonce, Adele, Rihanna, the Movement, women of Sia and Grande. The best colour who lost children Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS male video nominees are to violence.

West could dominate Rihanna performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at West, Drake, the Weeknd, Bryson Tiller and Calvin headlines, too.

Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York.

Harris, whose nomination He famously jumped is for “This is What You onstage and stole Taylor Swift’s microphone at the 2009 show and last year Came For,” which he co-wrote with former girlfriend gave an 11-minute speech onstage — after being in- Swift.

Coldplay, Desiigner, Fergie and Alessia Cara troduced by Swift — and announced he was going to earned multiple nominations. run for president in 2020.

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West arrive at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday

Don’t breathe tops box office HORROR FLICK KNOCKS OFF SUICIDE SQUAD TO CLAIM NO. 1 SPOT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The horror movie Don’t Breathe has reason to let out a big sigh of relief. Audiences turned out in droves for the late summer thriller, which brought in $26.1 million, according to studio estimates released Sunday.

That’s more than double the early predictions for how the scary pic would perform and far above the modest production budget, which was reportedly less than $10 million. Stage 6 Films produced and Sony’s Screen Gems oversaw distribution.

Don’t Breathe is about a group of Detroit teens who chose the wrong house to rob — that of a blind, vengeful veteran. It stars Jane Levy and Dylan Minnette and was directed by Fede Alvarez, who is known for the Evil Dead remake.

Sony Pictures Marketing Chief Josh Greenstein noted how rare it was for a film in this genre to have resonated so deeply with critics. The current Rotten Tomatoes score is a very fresh 87 per cent. It also continues Sony’s summer of seeing successes with original films that cost very little to make.

“This marks a string of very profitable hits for Sony with very modest budgets. The Shallows, Sausage Party and now Don’t Breathe were all incredibly profitable because they were made for modest budgets and did incredibly well at the box office,” Greenstein said. It’s also the latest horror success for Hollywood this summer, which has seen films like Lights Out, The Conjuring 2, and The Purge: Election Year thrive while their bigger budget, spectacle-driven counterparts flailed.

“As it turns out horror is the least scary genre this summer, especially to the bean counters in Hollywood,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for box office tracker comScore. “(They) can almost always be counted on to make money.”

Horror films, Dergarabedian said, perform very well on home video too.

Don’t Breathe effectively unseated Suicide Squad from its three week run atop the box office. This weekend, the comic book film Suicide Squad grossed $12.1 million, bringing its domestic total to $282.9 million.

Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings took third place in its second weekend in theatres with $7.9 million.

The $60 million film has now earned $24.8 million

domestically.

Sausage Party, meanwhile, continued to have a ball at the box office, earning $7.7 million for a fourth place finish and an $80 million domestic total.

The poorly reviewed Jason Statham-led sequel Mechanic: Resurrection, meanwhile, placed fifth in its opening weekend with $7.5 million, according to Lionsgate. The first film opened to $11.4 million in 2011.

Among specialty releases, the Barack and Michelle Obama first date movie Southside With You launched in 813 theatres to an estimated $3.1 million, while The Weinstein Company’s Roberto Duran boxing biopic Hands of Stone opened in 810 theatres to $1.7 million.

Overall the box office was up 32 per cent from this weekend last year when Straight Outta Compton opened. Next weekend closes out the summer movie season with the release of the sci-fi film Morgan and the romantic drama The Light Between Oceans.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.Don’t Breathe, $26.1 million ($1.9 million international).

2.Suicide Squad, $12.1 million ($19.6 million international).

3.Kubo and the Two Strings, $7.9 million ($1.5 million international).

4.Sausage Party, $7.7 million ($1.6 million international).

5.Mechanic: Resurrection, $7.5 million ($6.1 million international).

6.Pete’s Dragon, $7.3 million ($3.5 million international).

7.War Dogs, $7.3 million ($5.3 million international).

8. Bad Moms, $5.8 million ($6.3 million international).

9. Jason Bourne, $5.2 million ($56.8 million international).

10.Ben-Hur, $4.5 million ($6.3 million international).

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Stephen Lang plays a blind veteran in the horror film, “Don’t Breathe”, which topped the box office.

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Elderly mother caught in sibling rivalry DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: My children are grown and have wonderful families of their own, but my daughter is extremely jealous of her brother and his family.

My daughter moved to another state after she graduated college (she is the eldest) and lived with her father for a while before she married and had her two children. She lived there for almost 24 years before she came back to our hometown. My son and I were close because his dad and I were divorced for four years before I remarried and we only had each other. Even after he moved out and got married, we remained close.

Five years ago, my daughter divorced her husband, moved home and married a nice man here.

But never in these five years has she had us down to her home for a meal, though we’ve had them over to our place many times and on most holidays. On the holidays we don’t host, we are all invited to my son’s, two hours away. My daughter complains because of the drive, yet she won’t have any of the holidays at her house. She always has excuses — that her house

is too small, she can’t cook, etc. But we have answers for all of those.

When I talk about her brother, she gets upset, but I talk about her life and compliment her all the time. She lives one mile from me but never comes by. When I go there, she is too busy watching TV or sleeping.

When my mom was alive, there was never a day I didn’t talk to her, and most days I just dropped by her house to see how she was doing. I wish I had this kind of relationship with my daughter. She refers to her brother as “the chosen child.”

I am 68 years old and don’t want to die and have my children hate each other after I’m gone. — Moderator Mom Dear Moderator: Your daughter is so attached to that chip on her shoulder she should give it a name.

It’s possible she’s holding on to a lot of anger from her divorce; maybe she blames her ex-husband for their living in another state for 24 years and she is taking that resentment out on you and your son because she feels as if she missed out. Regardless, she’s being unfair.

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HOROSCOPES CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chris Hadfield, 57; Elliott Gould, 78; Lea Michele, 30 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour making social connections and having fun.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You hate chaos and love structure in your life. Over the coming year, strive to get the balance right between being imaginative and being practical.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With your ruler Mars in sunny Sagittarius, Rams are in an optimistic phase. No challenge is too great as you approach life with extra enthusiasm but make sure you don’t skip over important details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Confidence and chutzpah are the keys to making a social situation a much happier one. Plus manage your Bullish restlessness with outdoor activities and some fun physical exercise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s time to accept responsibility for the part you’re playing in ongoing partnership problems. Communication and consultation are the keys to getting close relationships back on track again.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Communication is the buzz word today Crabs, as you strive to get your message out loud and clear.

Aim to bring others over to your point of view with plenty of tact and gentle persuasion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re in the mood to buy something beautiful, but take the time to do your research first. And make sure

you can afford it! If you can’t, then maybe you could start a sensible savings plan?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all visiting your sign, put a positive spin on a perceived failure. With energy and enthusiasm, you can turn a pig’s ear into a beautiful silk purse.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today, aim to get the balance right between being busy in the outside world, and spending quiet solo time with your inner thoughts and dreams.

You need some rest and relaxation ASAP. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t think small Scorpio! With the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all jumping through your hopes and wishes zone, make your dreams for the future as big and beautiful as possible.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you have to explain something to a work colleague, client or customer, then do so with plenty of care and consideration. Plus take the time to make sure they understand your instructions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Physical activity is a fabulous way to work off extra energy — and kilos — today Capricorn. So quit being a couch potato and get moving via walking, sport or a session at the local gym.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in a lively mood but consider the needs of your partner, not just your own. Singles — your desire for love is strong but don’t rush into a relationship without thinking things through.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your intuition will let you know the most appropriate way to handle a delicate situation with a child or friend. Some singles can expect a fated meeting with a mercurial type who is a good talker.

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Customers at bouldering gym in Portland, Ore, make their way to the top of the man-made structure. The sport is growing by, literally, leaps and bounds.

Lying on the ground after a mild fall off a boulder in the middle of the woods, Robin Close lets his self-deprecating sense of humor show.

“In case you haven’t figured it out,” he says, “climbing’s really stupid.”

Close and his friend, Rob Brisentine, are spending a Saturday morning in July bouldering on the Wishing Rocks in Pasadena, Md., a short trail away from a shopping center. While some people work out at Planet Fitness, and others eat at Pizza Hut, Close and Brisentine park in a small lot behind the shopping center and walk through the woods to get to a small group of rocks between the trees.

Bouldering is a subset of climbing, still a niche sport but rising in popularity. In June, after more than a year of cooperation with the climbing community, Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland legalized bouldering for the first time since 2014. And this month, the International Olympic Committee said it would add climbing to the Olympic program in 2020.

But most climbers climb for the same reasons many people start other sports, for the fun. Even in competitions, Close and Brisentine say, the interaction is friendly. One competitor will complete one climb, then tell an opponent about it so he or she can try it.

“You want to win,” Brisentine said, “but you want to be a good ambassador for the sport.”

In this sport, there are few egos and few guidelines, just people who want to have fun in as many different settings with as many different people as often as possible. Like other athletes, they walk up to a group of rocks and see things nobody else would see — subtleties in the texture of the rock, crevices that could be footholds and different, intricate paths to the top.

The opening of Catoctin to bouldering

expands their opportunities.

When the park initially outlawed bouldering, it grouped bouldering with other types of climbing, such as rope climbing, which, the park feared, could damage the rock. In reality, bouldering is a low-impact activity, with injuries rare, environmental consequences minor and heights topping out around 20 feet.

The climbing community, led by Chris Irwin of Mid-Atlantic Climbers (a liaison between climbers and land owners) and Erik Murdock of Access Fund (similar to Mid-Atlantic Climbers, but on a national level), met with Catoctin administrators to explain this difference. They scheduled appointments in June 2015 and again this March and made progress in changing the rule. New Catoctin superintendent Rick Slade took over in May and approved the modifications.

The sport provides a rigorous workout — both start sweating within minutes, albeit on a humid morning — and rarely dangerous. The most common injury is a mild muscle pull from not warming up enough before climbing.

Close estimates that he hurts himself on impact only about once a year.

They proceed that way from 9 a.m. until about 12:30 p.m., trying different paths up different sides of the rock.

Close attempts a climb, then falls. He tries again as Brisentine encourages him — “Trust it!” — and then he falls.

On the third time up, he makes it to the top, then points out a helpful approach to Brisentine.

The last climb they try is a rock that slopes outward from the ground, requiring them to start at the bottom and work against the slant of the rock to mount to the top.

He tries it once, grasping hold for a moment before falling onto the mat and crying out in agony.

Close gets up and approaches the rock.

“All right, I need to try this,” he says.

“You just made it sound appealing.”