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Woman fears that assisted Province rushing death will slip out of grasp debate, say PCs Legislation

Competence

ing able to make an advanced request for a doctor-assisted death.

She fears doctors won’t consider her competent when the time comes.

“It’s like, ‘No, you’re not making me a vegetable or wear diapers.’ I’m not going to be in pain; it’s my choice,” she said. “But I don’t want to go yet. I can handle Jeremy things now, and there’s still so Simes much left out there to see.”

For Metro | Calgary Bill C-14, which the Senate Cheri Roberts was a typical soccer has yet to approve, currently mom before multiple sclerosis doesn’t allow people to make began to slowly take over her life. advanced requests.

As the government debates Sigrid Wili, co-ordinator at assisted-dying regulations, Rob- Dying with Dignity’s Calgary erts, 35, plans to have a doctor- chapter, said the ban on advance assisted death within five to 10 requests is discriminatory. years. That’s when doctors expect “We feel that without having she’ll be at her worst. that, anyone with dementia or She said her brain continues advanced MS or other chronic to develop “black spots” that are diseases would be faced with a slowly eating away her abilities couple of awful choices,” Wili to think, move and feel. said. “One would be assisted “It feels like dying prematurethere’s somely while they’re one constantly still competent stabbing my leg — or risk losing I will be free and shoulders.... that competency, There’s also a and their wishes in the end. tingling pain,” are no longer carCheri Roberts she said, as tears ried out.”

Roberts said she’s telling her began to well in her eyes.

“About every two days it’s to story to let others know people the extreme where I just sit there deserve to decide before it’s too and I pull — it’s called a Shep- late. In fact, she was inked on herd Hook— and I just pull and Wednesday with the phrase, pull and rub oil and sit up against “Live, Love, Laugh and Be Free,” a wall and try to make it go away under her heart.

“I will be free in the end and because it just makes you crazy.

“I can’t do anything.”

I want to do it the right way,” Her concern, though, is not be- she said.

Those with MS, dementia not safe to request in advance

Cheri Roberts plans to have a doctor-assisted death within five to 10 years, as her advanced multiple sclerosis slowly deteriorates her functions. Jennifer Friesen/For Metro

Opposition politicians again harped on the government for “rushing” the debate on physician-assisted death in an emotional legislature sitting on Wednesday.

That evening, Motion 17, the government’s doctor-assisted death regulations, passed by a tally of 41 – 18.

The province’s regulations require Alberta Health Services to co-ordinate patients who request doctor-assisted death. Doctors who refuse to assist a death must instead connect their patients to the co-ordination service.

During the Wednesday debate, Calgary North West MLA Sandra Jansen said discussions are being done in haste.

The government had ample time to consult after the Supreme Court gave the province one year to create regulations, Jansen said.

Associate Health Minister Brandy Payne defended the government’s approach, as it spoke with various stakeholders, including religious organizations.

The federal government is primarily responsible for the assisted-death legislation, Payne said, adding the NDP intended its framework to resemble the federal government’s guidelines.

“Unfortunately, that framework isn’t yet set and may be subject to court challenges,” Payne said. “In the meantime, Alberta must be prepared.”

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Boy was already dead: Cop The first police officer to arrive at the family home of a diabetic teenager in Calgary says the boy looked like a skeleton and was already dead.

Const. Larry Pugliese was testifying Wednesday at the firstdegree murder trial of Emil and Rodica Radita. Their son, Alexandru, was found dead by emergency workers in May 2013.

An autopsy determined the boy died from complications due to starvation and untreated diabetes.

He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was three while the family lived in British Columbia.

Pugliese testified that emergency medical personnel were attending to the boy when the officer first arrived.

“You could pretty much see bones. It was like a skeleton.

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Senior charged The Calgary Police Service has charged a 69-year-old man in connection with sexual assaults that are believed to have occurred at a private dayhome in southeast Calgary.

The incidents are alleged to have occurred sometime between 2013 and this year at a private, unlicensed dayhome located in the 170 block of Midglen Place SE. The accused lives at the dayhome.

Kenneth Alfred Jenkinson, 69, of Calgary, is charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual interference. metro

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Victoria Park resident Tara Martice plans to make use of the city’s first urban off-leash park at Connaught Park with her two dogs, Bella and Mac. JENNIFER FRIESEN/METRO

Beltline park gets bark of approval community

First urban off-leash spot a boon for pooch owners Brodie Thomas

Metro | Calgary Beltline dwellers with dogs will no longer have to load their pooches into a car to get to an off-leash park.

On Thursday, the city is officially opening its first urban off-leash park at Connaught Park ­— the corner of 11 Street and 14 Avenue SW. “It’s a park that was underutilized,” said Ward 9 Coun.

Evan Woolley. “And one of the challenges we’ve had in the Beltline particularly is lots of people have dogs, and you’ve got to do a fast walk with your dog in the morning, and there’s no off-leash areas close by.”

Woolley said people were noting lots of dog poop in the streets, and the city is hoping that problem will dissipate with the off-leash park.

He added the parks can become a focal point for dogowners in the community.

“They’re wonderful gathering places,” he said. “When I was in New York and Toronto and Portland, they have these wonderful off-leash dog parks that are community gathering places.”

Tara Martice is a Beltline

resident who went for a sneak peak of the park on Wednesday with her two dogs.

The owner of Coexisting Canine Training & Pet Care Services Inc. said the park will allow dogs to have access to other dogs off-leash for socialization, and it will save residents from having to travel so far outside of the downtown core.

“I know a lot of people just walk their dog and they do the regular routine, but then they go out of the core to get their off-leash time,” said Martice.

“Having it in town is better, especially for the residents here that actually have smaller dogs and can’t actually go to those big parks that have big dogs,” she said.

She said its important for dogs to have socialization time,

and she just hopes the owners can interpret the signals dogs give to other dogs if they’re uncomfortable.

Martice thinks she’ll be using the park.

“It’s great because right now I go all the way to Dover and I go early in the morning.”

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A parent advocacy group says the pre-registration form sent out by the Calgary Board of Education for yellow school bus transportation is a good first step, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

Calgary Association of Parents and School Councils spokeswoman, Jillian Millar Drysdale said they’re happy to see more parent involvement this year, but they wish parents were given more time.

“We would have liked to see more time allocated to this process and we have expressed that to the CBE,” she said. “We’d like to see as much notice as possible to parents about all of this and we do see that they’re working towards that, but we believe it can still be improved.”

A spokesperson for CBE said the forms were sent out May 17th, and said although it’s a “tight turnaround,” the forms are essential to building bus routes for next year.

“We’re really going to be pushing over the next few days for parents to get that back by Monday because that’s the cut off date and if your application isn’t in your address won’t be included as we’re building the routes,” they said.

Millar Drysdale said she doesn’t think parents understand how important the forms really are.

“If they don’t know about it, they may not have a stop at the end of July when the CBE plans to release their routes,” she said.

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From heartbreak to golden opportunity contest

Artist is looking for a worthy couple for his rings Aaron Chatha

Metro | Calgary Michael Bernard Fitzgerald still believes in love.

The Calgary artist was close to getting married, when unfortunately his relationship dissolved. All he was left with was good intentions, two weddings bands and an engagement ring.

Now he’s giving those rings away.

Fitzgerald is asking couples across Canada to write to him and share their love stories, so he can choose someone deserving of the rings.

“It’s the only way to make the whole thing into a positive,” he said, adding that

Artist Michael Bernard Fitzgerald wants to spin his fallen-through engagement into a positive.

Above right: The wedding rings he plans on giving away.

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selling them himself would cheapen his whole experience.

“Giving them away, really finding someone to include in my community and hopefully become part of theirs, it’s the only way to start the whole thing over again.”

He’s gotten more than 150 stories since posting the request online.

Stories include couples that have been married for years, have fallen on hard times and had to give away their rings.

There are also stories from young couples who are starting families and have grand plans for the future — but are weighed down by student debt, or the multitude of expenses in putting together a wedding.

Despite the flood of stories, Fitzgerald said he’s thinking of extending his original June 7 deadline, to allow everyone to have a chance to share.

“I want to read them all,” he said.

Fitzgerald has already shared his own love story — he turned the experience into an album called ‘I wanna make

I’m happy to sing them down the aisle, or be part of the engagement.

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it with you,’ written through 2015.

The rings themselves are white gold, with a diamond set into the engagement ring.

In his own words: simple, classic stuff.

Once he chooses a deserving couple — a process that will involve talking to couples after reading their stories and getting to know them — he’ll fly down personally to give the rings to them.

“I’m happy to sing them down the aisle, or be part of the engagement,” he added.

“It’s always fun to be part of someone’s special day.”

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Metro | Calgary A woman who bought tickets for the Gay Rodeo in Strathmore this year is beginning to wonder if she’ll ever get her money back.

Stephanie Parker lives just south of Strathmore and said her entire extended family bought tickets and were planning for a fun family weekend at the Canadian Rockies International Rodeo and Music Festival.

“You know, we’re on a tight budget this year. So we thought, ‘Great — we’ll get a whole extended weekend of fun on a good price.’”

Parker and her husband were looking forward to the music acts, but they knew it would be great for their two daughters as well.

“The whole line up looked amazing — and our kids really love horses and rodeos too,” she said.

“We were going to have a big camp out at our place and go and see the rodeo and listen to the music.”

The event, organized by the Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association (ARGRA), was cancelled on May 19.

The event is advertised as a gay-friendly and family-friend-

Ticket holders are still waiting for word on refunds after the cancellation of the Canadian Rockies International Rodeo and Music Festival in Strathmore. Facebook

I sure hope we get a refund because that was our fun budget for summer activities. Stephanie Parker ly event. When the event was first cancelled, ARGRA did not respond to requests for more information about why the festival was called off.

Parker said she reached out to the group on Facebook, and then through their web-

site looking for a refund, but received no response.

She noted that the event’s Facebook page has been taken down.

“We have not heard one thing about getting our money back,” said Parker.

When Metro reached out to ARGRA by email, rodeo director Janie Van Santen responded, saying that every person who contacts ARGRA is getting a response within 24 hours.

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Parker has no choice but to wait for better news.

“I sure hope (we get a refund) because that was our fun budget for summer activities, and if we don’t get that back, I guess we’re staying home. “

Calgary’s payday lenders are one step closer to advertising financial literacy resources and counselling to those looking for quick cash.

There was little debate over the City of Calgary taskforce’s work to bring forward recommendation for payday loan businesses on Wednesday, as a council committee voted in favour of new provisions in the business licence bylaw. Councillors congratulated members of the committee for their hard work, which some said was impactful not just for the City of Calgary. Last week the province released their own legislation for “predatory loaners,” which included some of Calgary’s previous work.

“Your leadership on this is not just for Calgary, but it’s actually provincewide, you’ve made a difference,” said Coun. Brian Pincott.

Courtney Hare, a representative from Momentum said many of her organization’s recommendations, and the taskforce’s recommendations were adopted by the province in their act to end predatory lending.

“We have heard again and again from our participants at Momentum that payday loans cost too much, but they felt that they had no alternative.” said Hare.

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Woman died during family fight: Police Lucie Edwardson

Metro | Calgary Neighbours are describing the apartment where the city’s latest homicide took place as a revolving door of tenants and a violence hotspot.

Insp. Don Coleman said Calgary police officers were called to a residence in the 1800 block of 42 Street SE around 11 p.m.

Tuesday after reports of a woman

in medical distress.

Upon arriving they found a woman in her 30s with serious injuries. She was transported to hospital in life-threatening condition where she later died.

Coleman said the incident occurred after an alcohol-fuelled verbal argument escalated. He said the incident was domestic in nature, not between intimate partners but extended family.

Mike Carruthers has lived in one of the four apartments for the last three years, he said he

heard a few noises before police arrived on scene.

“I heard just a couple bumps and then the cops banging on my door because they thought it was here,” he said. “I just saw the aftermath, they were pulling someone out on a stretcher, doing CPR.” Carruthers said that specific unit in the building has been a problem spot for some time and said he’s called the cops before.

“There have been problems there before but never that ex-

treme,” he said. “There are different people in and out all the time, I have no idea who actually lives there.”

Both Carruthers and another tenant in the building, Sharon Burt, said there was a stabbing in the same unit last year.

“I’m here with a baby, so it’s pretty crazy,” said Burt.

Officers took three people into custody for questioning after combing the area after the initial call. Charges have not yet been laid.

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She was far from alone on the platform, and although many people were watching her struggle to shake off the drunk man’s attention, it was a young man who stepped up.

“The drunk guy chased after him down the platform,” MacKay Helen said. “And then the drunk guy came back.”

Pike The young man came back Metro | Calgary and again told the man he It’s not typically the young man, warned him not to bother “the skateboard in hand, who will poor lady.”

“He put himself in a dangerturn out to be the heroic character in a story — but anything ous situation,” MacKay said. “The can happen drunk guy slapped while waiting his skateboard away…it seemed for a CTrain.

Lindsay like it went on forMacKay, with There aren’t a lot ever and then finalher two kids of kids out there ly the Saddletowne in tow, found willing to step up. CTrain arrived and herself in an we jumped on.”

Lindsay MacKay uncomfortable MacKay said she’s hoping to situation last week as she waited at the City thank the skateboarder, and recHall CTrain station to return to ognize him for standing up to Inglewood. She’d just finished the large and intimidating man. up a fun-filled day at the chil“This kid went out of his way, dren’s festival. and he didn’t have to, and he “He didn’t initially ask for could have gotten hurt,” MacKay money, he just kept on getting said. She added that once on the closer and closer to us,” MacKay CTrain, another man said he had said, describing a large and very been “keeping an eye” on the drunk man who began approach- situation, but not acted. “I would ing her. “My daughter and I both love to thank him…there aren’t had our faces painted, and I had a lot of kids out there willing to a butterfly on my cheek. He said: step up.”

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Twelve-yearold athlete lands high scores at event Lucie Edwardson

Metro | Calgary Abby Hilton is making a name for herself in the world of gymnastics.

The 12-year-old Calgarian is competing in her first ever Canadian National Championships in Edmonton this week — and

she’s doing really well.

After a tough day of competition Wednesday, Hilton, who trains out of Altadore Gymnastics Club, is set to compete in the overall finals, bar finals and her favorite event, floor finals, Thursday.

“It’s really exciting. I’ve worked really hard to make it here and finally I get to show off all my skills and routines,” she said. “I scored 9.175 out of 10 in bar and for floor I got a 9.1.”

Heading into the finals, Hilton said she has a strategy to keep cool.

“I’m definitely going to be more confident and excited because today I was a bit nerv-

She is one of our strongest athletes at the gym Amy Miller

ous,” she said.

The pint-sized gymnast has some wise advice for others taking on a new challenge.

“Absolutely stay confident,” she said. “Don’t doubt yourself, go full out in your routines and smile.”

Hilton’s coach, Amy Miller said she’s been coaching for

about 10 years now, but it’s also her first time attending nationals. Miller said and she’s happy to see how Hilton is rising to the challenge.

“This is my first athlete at national championships and it’s pretty exciting,” she said.

“It’s nice to see all her hard work paying off because even though she is one of our strongest athletes at the gym she’s also a really hard worker, focused and determined.”

Hilton said she’s inspired by the likes of Simone Biles, a 19-year-old gymnast from Team USA who recently appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

“She’s amazing,” she said.

Environment

Feds asked to review Springbank Dam Opponents of the Springbank Dam project are asking the federal government to step in and take a look at the controversial endeavour.

The Tsuut’ina Nation have written to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to formally request an environmental review of the project known as SP1. The flood-diversion plan would take 3,610 acres to create a dry reservoir. During flood events, water could be diverted to it from the Elbow River.

Terry Metatawabin, Tsuut’ina media representative, said the na-

tion would be at a much greater flood risk if the project were to go ahead.

“We need a full environmental review,” he said. “The hydrology and any kind of other data we can get through this process would be very, very helpful.”

His understanding is that a proper review would take about a year, and the proponent — the government of Alberta — would foot the bill for a review if the request is granted.

Metatawabin said that provincial consultations have not been satisfactory in the eyes

of the Tsuut’ina Nation. Lee Drewry, spokesperson for the Don’t Dam Springbank group, said he is aware of at least 1,000

letters from Albertans, local groups and government officials asking for the same review.

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Metro | Calgary We just read a book about gravity — it was a heavy subject.

For something significantly less heavy, FunnyFest returns to Calgary for its 16th year.

Dozens of comedians will perform over a week and a half throughout the Calgary area.

“There’s 11,000 punch lines over the 11 days,” said founder Stu Hughes. “Our theme is

comic relief for economic grief.

“It’s the best value in entertainment you’ll ever see.”

Through sponsorships, organizers are also giving away 1,000 tickets to first responders and families displaced by the Alberta wildfires.

Speaking of family, Hughes said this year will be one of the most family-friendly events they’ve put on, with a majority of their shows aimed at ages 14 and up.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be room for some latenight adult fare though.

“Everyone needs a laugh – except for your ex-girlfriend,” he joked. “So everyone should come out to celebrate laughter.”

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Calgary barista heads to world championship for third time Aaron Chatha

Metro | Calgary Three years ago, in a country far, far across the ocean, professional barista and Monogram Coffee coowner Ben Put came in 11th at the World Barista Championship.

Last year he came in third.

Later this month, competing for the third time, Put hopes bring home the No. 1 prize.

For anyone who thinks barista is nothing more than a grainstained apron who pushes buttons on an espresso machine, they couldn’t be more wrong. “You have to show true mastery of coffee,� Put explained. He has to serve an espresso, milkbased drink and a drink of his

choice to a panel of four judges, while explaining exactly what factors went to making each distinct taste. “You have to be able to tell them exactly what they’ll taste, before they drink the coffee.�

He’ll have 15 minutes to impress them. Luckily, Put’s talents have been brewing for about 12 years. Beginning his career as a barista, not only did he help found the Monogram chain, he’s also been Canada’s reigning barista champion for three years. “The thing that draws me to coffee is, it’s a whole lot of problem solving on many, many facets,� he said, adding everything from grind, to water and temperature is an important variable.

In preparation for the championship, Put spends every morning practising his presentation, and every evening making coffee. That’s a latte of Joe in quick succession. “You spit a lot of it out so you don’t get a massive caffeine rush,� he laughed.

Ben Put is the reigning Canada barista champion — and is quickly climbing the international ranks. Jennifer Friesen/For Metro

Backyard ramps are one slope closer to council approval — but an updated bylaw could take as long as September to come into effect.

On Wednesday, councillors embarked on a tongue-in-cheek debate over the merits of allowing kids to have fun in their own backyards.

In the end, fun won and now administration is embarking on recommendations to change the Land Use Bylaw and allow ramps to be built without permits, as long as they meet certain provisions. “During last year ‌ we got a lot of feedback and most are against skateboards,â€? said Coun. Sean Chu. “Just the sound itself has been quite an issue, so unless Councillor Woolley can give me some very overwhelming reason I have a problem supporting it.â€?

Coun. Brian Pincott was quick to jump in with his thoughts, especially on noise

in backyards. “Children having fun is just so noisy, and that might be a larger problem we need to look at, children having fun in backyards, on the streets and in parks,� said Pincott. “Until we want to ban kids having fun, I suppose there are communities that are kind of like that, I think this makes a lot of sense — it’s an activity that more and more people are participating in.�

Coun. Evan Woolley, the proponent behind the sport ramp changes, snuck in a friendly amendment to recommendations, asking that administration present their final product in Q3 instead of Q4.

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NOTICE is hereby given that unless a vote of the electors is requested, in the form of a sufficient petition as provided for in Section 231 of the Municipal Government Act, Council may pass this Ward Boundary Bylaw.

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The first thing they noticed is the smell. Well, the lack of it.

“It smells so good,” said Heather Thomas, who along with her husband Russell walked into her house for the first time in almost a month Wednesday after being allowed to return to Fort McMurray.

“A little campfire-y,” Russell added, sniffing the air.

“But not bad.”

Heather, Russell and their two sons live just outside of downtown Fort McMurray, in a house surrounded by a large garden.

It’s an area relatively untouched by the wildfire that forced more than 90,000 to flee the city.

But that’s not to say the house wasn’t threatened: The hill right across from the Thomas’ neighbourhood is a sea of burnt trees.

That led to all sorts of stress and worry.

“In the first couple of days, there was no level of comfort around this part of town,” Russell said.

“Oh, rumours, left right and centre,” Heather added.

“This is gone, that’s blown up.”

Thankfully, none were true.

Inside the house, the couple took in their surroundings Wednesday. Despite the faint scent of smoke and a few things left in a hurry, it was all as if they’d left it that morning rather than in early May. The lack of smell is thanks to a relative in the fire department, who emptied the veggie drawers in the fridge and

Heather and Russell Thomas embrace inside their home Wednesday in Fort McMurray. Though it survived the wildfire, it was under threat — a hill nearby is blackened with burnt trees. Kevin Tuong/ For Metro

put a pork tenderloin back in said, pointing to one. “It’s him bours’ and friends’ and colthe freezer. and his two grandchildren.” leagues’ homes look like,” The two emphasized how Heather said.

Having assessed the home’s general condition, the couple lucky they are compared The next hurdle, Russell then went to other areas. to the many who have lost added, is knowing who’s back, Russell, an artist, headed houses. who’s coming back and who isn’t. to his studio out back.

“I think the In the first couple of days, there biggest chalAs he lenges will be opened the was no level of comfort around understanding door he this part of town. looked rewithin businessRussell Thomas lieved. es and organizaA dozen or tions, who’s not so paintings were safe.

But, they said, there’s not here,” he said.

“This fellow had his birth- telling what the full impact “Its understanding the day right in the middle of the on the city has been. scope and complexity of what evacuation, so he didn’t get “We haven’t seen what we lost. That’s the great unto see his painting,” Russell agencies are lost, what neigh- known.”

services

What will and won’t be up and running Residents of Fort McMurray started to return to the fire-damaged city in northern Alberta on Wednesday, but officials have warned those residents they should not expect everything to be running normally right away.

Here are the service shortfalls they will be met with in the beginning:

Heath Centre, the city’s only hospital, is not expected to return to full operation until after June 21. Its emergency department is to be open this week and some limited services are to be available now.

In the meanwhile, a temporary urgent care centre has been set up outside the Syncrude Sport and Wellness Centre.

Health Care The Northern Lights Regional

Schools Classes are to resume in Sep-

tember.

Students will finish their current school year in the communities where they have been staying since the city was evacuated.

Airport Commercial air service to Fort McMurray International Airport is currently suspended, but is tentatively scheduled to resume June 10.

Waste disposal At least for the first few weeks, normal residential garbage collection will be unavailable. It is to resume June 16 and temporary transfer stations are to be available by Thursday (June 2).

Stores Crews have been working to get critical services such as banks, grocery stores and pharmacies running. Supplies of some items may be limited in the beginning. the canadian press

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Fort McMurray Wildfire

Same city, new sights A look at what evacuees saw as they returned to their homes on Wednesday.

HEROES WELCOME

A salute to residents Firefighters welcome Fort Mac residents home.

relics

Left behind

A bicycle amongst the snow-white ashes of what used to be homes in the community of Timberlea.

Spared

Homecoming Russell and Heather Thomas walk up the front path of their Fort McMurray home located just outside downtown for the first time since evacuation. Their home was thankfully undamaged.

resilience

Ready to celebrate Marie Kelly just got back to Fort McMurray Wednesday morning.

She was sporting her Fort McMurray Alberta Strong T-shirt.

aftermath

Not over Firefighters were still dousing down burned wood along Highway 63, just 10 kilometres south of Fort Mac.

Photos by Kevin Tuong/For Metro

health

Empty shelves A Shell gas station opens for the first time since the evacuation. Gas is available, but the shelves are empty of food and certain beverages due to health concerns.

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‘It’s bittersweet to be home’

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Alex Boyd

Metro | Edmonton On Wednesday morning, Gerald Wong watched his city come back to life.

“Three days ago it was literally a ghost town,” said Wong, a lifelong resident who arrived back in Fort McMurray early to reopen McMurray TV Centre, the electronics store he manages.

“I would stand in the middle of Franklin (Avenue), right there,” he said, pointing to Fort McMurray’s main street. “I could lay down in the middle of street and not even worry about it.

There was no one here except for police. But now it looks like a city.”

As the first wave of residents returned to their fire-ravaged city Wednesday, car after car honked at a line of firefighters, who hoisted a Canada flag on

Firefighters prepared a welcoming symbol for the first wave of residents returning to Fort McMurray on Wednesday. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

their ladders atop an overpass.

After almost a month in exile, Wednesday marked the start of the staged re-entry of the estimated 90,000 thousand people forced to flee the wildfire.

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major residential neighbourhoods that were more affected opening later in the week.

Standing on the sidewalk on Franklin, morning radio show host Matthew Baron was offering a welcome of his own, standing beside a sign reading “Free Welcome Home Hugs.”

“I will extend that to the end of the week when all phased reentries are complete,” he said, in between doing live hits on two different shows, thanks to a shortage of staff.

“Every morning when I’m on the air you can come on down, tap on the window of the studio

and I’ll give you a hug.” tions ready to fuel cars, but not Program director Andrew much else.

There aren’t a lot of people Wilcox added he was looking forward to seeing more people around yet, but with the extra on the street when residential police and government vehicles, areas reopened later in the week. residents say traffic is almost “I think in a lot of ways that back to normal.

At the Safeway, a rare island Fort McMurray has shown it’s not this crazy, gold rush saloon, of normalcy where one manger shootout kind of town that some said 90 per cent of the stock was people had in their minds. It’s tossed and replaced in just four a regular town, and it’s a great days, Marie Kelly inspected the display of fresh flowers. community.”

Despite the uptick in activShe drove through the checkity, there are still point at 4:30 signs of what a.m. Wednesday happened while morning, eager all were gone. to see her apartTo see your own Grass on ment for herself. property, and otherwise well“To see your tended lots is you own personal own property, ankle deep. A things, it gives you and your own recycling bin personal things, holds hundreds a sense of security. it gives you a of copies of the Fort Mac resident Marie Kelly sense of securMay issue of a loity,” she said. cal newsletter that will never be Having already been home read. The dumpsters of a local — her house has only smoke convenience store are piled high damage, luckily — and regiswith frozen chickens and cheese tered with the Red Cross, she buns that expired weeks ago. was busy picking up supplies, Most stores are closed, but including the brightly coloured personnel linked to services sunflowers.

“I’m going to have them on deemed essential were let back into the city early — so some my dining room table,” she said. grocery stores are open, gas sta- “It’s bittersweet to be home.”

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Support for survivors integral to healthy return Lucie Edwardson

Metro | Calgary Experts are warning that as people begin to return to Fort McMurray, it’s important to keep victims of domestic abuse and shelter users front of mind.

Anuradha Dugal, director of violence prevention at the Canadian women’s foundation said when a natural disaster occurs, those who rely on shelters need

Mike Maloney and his wife Tessa Maloney, hug as they unpack to re-enter their home after being evacuated due to wildfires, in Fort McMurray. Parts of Fort McMurray have been open for the public to go back home. Jason Franson/the canadian press

Lawn work and mouldy food await FORT MAC First group of residents return home to evacuated city Return to

box and put a “natural gas required” sign in his front window.

Pilar Ramirez spent the night sleeping in the back of a truck in Anzac, about 40 minutes southeast of Fort McMurray.

She was washing the refrigerator, stove elements and Gag-inducing, dirty and tiring windowsills in a house she work was waiting for the first shares with co-workers at a group of Fort McMurray resi- concrete company. dents to return to the city Her reaction when she first Wednesday, a month after a opened the door: “Oh, it’s so vicious wildfire forced every- disgusting!” one to flee.

“It smelled terrible, the Many set about right away food. Flies everywhere — and to scrub down refrigerators big ones. I said, ‘Oh, my God, fuzzy with mould what happened that grew after the here?”’ power was cut or Dave Cham o w i n g o v e r - It smelled terrible, lupa said his fridge was a grown, dandelionthe food. Flies “ b i t f u n k y ” infested lawns. but he could Fenton Lovell everywhere. cried as he drove handle it. The Pilar Ramirez back into his city. weed-covered His eyes teared up again when lawn, on the other hand, had he opened his smelly refriger- to be attacked right away. ator.

“This is going to take at “Fort McMurray strong!” least two passes of the lawn he joked. mower ‘cause, I’m going to He was getting the house choke it right to death.” cleaned and ready so his wife The fire destroyed 2,400 and twin babies can return structures, nearly 10 per cent from Newfoundland. After of the city, when it ripped boosting the dead battery in through and forced more than his pickup truck, he grabbed 80,000 residents to flee. a welcome kit out of his mail- THE CANADIAN PRESS

a safe space to live in the wake of a disaster.

“Shelter workers need to confirm that she has a safe place to go and either accompany her or support her,” she said.

Dugal said in the case of Fort McMurray, those who were in the shelters there at the time of the evacuation were set up in shelters in Medicine Hat, Lac LaBiche, or with family or friends who were able to keep them away from their abuser.

Situations like the evacuation

and wildfires in Fort McMurray and now the return can be very triggering for victims of domestic abuse, said Dugal.

“It’s very difficult to have to once again remove yourself from your life and have to go to an entirely new place after having done so already,” she said.

Most importantly, Dugal said it’s important for anyone who knows a survivor of domestic abuse to reach out and offer them support.

In a release the government

of Alberta encouraged those requiring mental health support as they return to Fort McMurray to reach out.

“Returning home may be the most stressful part of this situation, so please take care of yourself. There are mental-health supports available through the information centres or by calling Alberta’s mental-health help line.”

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Parliament’s social challenge Politics

Overindulgence is easy for many at wine-fuelled gatherings Life on Parliament Hill, with its parade of free meals and winesoaked networking events, can make it difficult for even the most stout-willed politicians, staffers and journalists to avoid overindulging at the best of times.

“It’s an occupational hazard,” said one former senior political aide from a previous Liberal government.

So imagine the challenge for those struggling with alcohol issues, such as Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo, who stepped down from his cabinet post and left the Liberal caucus Tuesday to seek treatment for what the Prime Minister’s Office has only referred to as

“addiction issues.”

Tootoo has not spoken about his experience, but former MPs and staffers recall a lifestyle marked by multiple receptions with stakeholders every night, where socializing with a drink in hand is considered part of the job.

Former Liberal MP Marlene Jennings remembers the atmosphere during her time in Ottawa, with a variety of organizations hosting receptions as part of their lobbying efforts on any given night. MPs and senators would circle the room to exchange business

reaction

PM says idea was Tootoo’s

it becomes really easy to have that glass of wine and then have the second one and you’re not realizing that you’re on to your third one,” she said Wednesday.

Don Boudria, an Ottawabased lobbyist and former Liberal member of Parliament, says more awareness about mental health and addiction — and more women on Parliament Hill — means things are not nearly as bad as they used to be.

And they were bad, he said, recalling seeing people drinking themselves literally under

It’s an occupational hazard.

Former Liberal government political aide

cards with a glass of wine in their hands before heading back to a debate — or on to another event.

“Even those who have absolutely no drinking problem,

the table when he was a staffer at the start of his political career.

“All of these things have changed, and thank God they have,” he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Hunter Tootoo has resigned from the federal cabinet and the Liberal caucus, citing “addiction issues.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

Speaking outside of the Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Hunter Tootoo’s decision was his and his alone, and that it followed “a very difficult situation.”

“This was his own choice,” Trudeau said. “We will have nothing further to say on this matter.”

The prime minister’s remarks, however, did not stop widespread speculation about what prompted Tuesday’s surprise announcement.

Sources familiar with Tootoo’s career as a member of the territorial legislature in Nunavut say he has a history of alcohol problems.

Police in Winnipeg, where Tootoo attended the annual Liberal policy convention on the weekend, went so far Wednesday as to publicly deny that they were ever involved in any sort of incident involving the member of Parliament.

“Winnipeg Police Service has no record of any official police contact with this individual,” said a public information officer with the force. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Not enough warning about rocket: Feds Canada says it wasn’t given enough warning and has asked Russia for more information about a rocket stage that is expected to splash down this weekend in environmentally sensitive Arctic waters.

“The Government of Canada has sought clarification from the Government of Russia regarding the lack of sufficient notification of this rocket launch,” Austin Jean, a spokesman for Global Affairs Canada, said in an email Wednesday.

New citizens are sworn in at a ceremony in Toronto. An internal government review is calling the future of Canadian immigration into question. Torstar News Service

Changing migration Newcomers

Ottawa needs to review immigration system: report With 35 per cent of male newcomers returning home and a growing middle class in developing countries less inclined to migrate, an internal government review is calling the future of Canadian immigration into question.

The report by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada also points to the challenge of reconfiguring an immigrantselection system in a rapidly changing labour market where a growing number of jobs are temporary and there’s “increasing mismatch” of available skills and the skills in demand.

“What changes, if any, does Canada want to make to its current ‘managed migration?” asked the 23-page study, titled Medium-Term Policy: Balanced Immigration and stamped “for internal discussion only.” “To what extent is the current overall immigration level appropriate and/or necessary?”

With major changes made in the last decade under the former Conservative government, legal and immigration experts are calling on Immigration Minister John McCallum to have a “national conversation” on the future of Canadian immigration.

“Ottawa must take a step back to do a review of the

whole immigration program and reach a national consensus in moving our country forward as a nation-building exercise rather than as an economic imperative,” said Debbie Douglas of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.

The new government has already announced reviews of certain immigration programs involving temporary foreign workers and the Express Entry processing system, but critics say such reviews must be done in a holistic manner rather than a piecemeal fashion.

“This is the most thoughtful brief (on Canada immigration) I’ve seen in 10 years,” said Queen’s University immigration law professor Sharry Aiken. “It’s asking all the right questions.”

The report points to the greater emphasis the former Tory government put on selecting economic immigrants based on in-demand occupations despite the rise of a so-called “project economy” marked by shorter term contract- or project-driven employment. “This environment makes it a significant challenge to target occupations and industries that are priorities for addressing through immigration,” it said.

While the report forecast does mean potentially lower immigration to Canada in the longer term, University of Toronto professor Jeffrey Reitz said global migration is still driven by “inequality” from poor to rich countries.

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No territory of Canada or its ... waters would be affected

Kirill Kalinana, Embassy of the Russian Federation

“We have stressed to the Government of Russia the need for greater advance warning of planned launches to ensure that all precautions, relating both to the safety and security of our airspace and any potential environmental concerns, can be appropriately addressed.”

The Russian Embassy in Ottawa said the federal government was made aware of the launch.

“With regard to the inquired rocket launch, the Canadian side was informed it would be done in a way that no territory of Canada or its territorial waters would be affected while the fuel

of disposed rocket stages fully burn out,” Kirill Kalinin, press secretary for the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada wrote in an email.

“In this context environmental concerns are seriously taken into account.”

Late last week, an international civil aviation authority issued a warning that a stage of a Russian satellite-launching rocket would be falling into Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Overwhelming response to murder-suicide A murder-suicide at a UCLA engineering building Wednesday drew hundreds of heavily armed officers who swarmed the Los Angeles campus, where students close to summer break barricaded themselves in classrooms as best they could before being evacuated with their hands up.

About two hours after the first 911 call came in around 10 a.m., with the centre of campus still saturated with officers, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck declared the threat over. Two men were dead in an office, and authorities found a gun and what might be a suicide note,

he said.

Authorities did not identify the men, and a motive was not immediately clear.

The response to the shooting was overwhelming: Teams of officers in helmets and bulletproof vests who were looking for victims and suspects ran across the normally tranquil campus tucked in the city’s bustling west side.

Some with high-powered rifles yelled for bystanders to evacuate. Groups of officers stormed into buildings that had been locked down and cleared hallways as police helicopters hovered overhead.

Advised by university text alerts to turn out the lights and lock the doors where they were, many students let friends and family know they were safe in social media posts. Some described frantic evacuation scenes, while

others wrote their doors weren’t locking and posted photos of photocopiers and foosball tables they used as barricades.

It was the week before final exams at University of California, Los Angeles, whose 43,000 students make it the largest campus in the University of California system. Classes were cancelled Wednesday but would resume Thursday.

Those locked down inside classrooms described a nervous calm. Some said they had to rig the doors closed with whatever was at hand because they would not lock.

SWAT officers cleared occupants one by one. One man walked out with his hands up and was told to get on his knees. An armed officer searched him and his backpack, then sent him on his way. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An FBI SWAT team arrives at the scene of a fatal shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Wednesday. Nick Ut/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Families from Fallujah, Iraq, flee during fighting between security forces and Daesh on Wednesday. Anmar Khalil/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The UN children’s fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Daesh militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad.

Backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary forces mainly made up of Shiite militias, Iraqi government troops more than a week ago launched a military operation to recapture Fallujah which has been under control of the extremist group for more than two years.

As the battled unfolded — with Iraqi forces this week

Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized. UNICEF statement pushing into the city’s southern sections after securing surrounding towns and villages — more than 50,000 people are believed to be trapped inside the Sunni majority city, about 65 kilometres west of Baghdad.

The UNICEF estimated the number of the children trapped with their families inside the city at about 20,000, warning that they face a dire humanitarian situation, in addition to the risk of forced recruitment into the fighting

by Daesh.

“Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized as they are forced to carry and use arms, fighting an adults’ war,” the organization said in a statement. It called on “all parties to protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave the city.”

On the ground, Iraqi special forces continued their push into the city from its southern edge, said Brig. Haider alObeidi with the elite counterterrorism troops. Al-Obeidi

described the clashes underway Wednesday as “fierce” and said the Iraqi troops were facing tough resistance from Daesh militants.

Fallujah was the first large city in Iraq to fall to Feash and it is the last major urban area controlled by the extremist group in western Iraq. The Sunni-led militants still control the country’s second-largest city, Mosul, in the north, as well as smaller towns and patches of territory in the country’s west and north.

The fight for Fallujah is expected to be protracted because Daesh has had more than two years to dig in, and hidden bombs are believed to be strewn throughout the city. the associated press

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Cities in France pummelled by rain europe

More than 8,000 rescue operations carried out Floods devastated regions across France on Wednesday — in some areas, the worst seen in a century or more. The Seine River overflowed its banks, one French town was evacuated, travellers trapped on a submerged highway were rescued by soldiers and boat cruises in Paris were cancelled.

Meteorologists said more bad news is coming — the waters are expected to keep rising for days.

Drenched tourists were rearranging plans, schools in one region were shut down and the French government pressed to rescue thousands of people trapped in homes or cars in provincial towns.

No casualties have been reported, but emergency work-

A man searches for people in flooded buildings in the town of Montargis, south of Paris, on Wednesday. Torrential downpours have lashed parts of northern Europe. AFP/Getty Images

Residents pass through the flooded streets of Montargis via an inflatable raft. AFP/Getty Images

ers have carried out more than 8,000 rescue operations from the Belgian border south to Burgundy over the past two days, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday.

Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine from the Left Bank in the east to the Eiffel Tower neighbour-

said. “I usually run up the stairs (toward) the Eiffel Tower. Got to the stairs and they are underwater. So I had to turn around.

I have to find a new running route today.”

Signs for the Seine’s popular Bateaux-Mouches tourist boats in French, English and Japanese read “Due to flood waters, all

hood in the west, as water levels rose at least 4.3 metres (14 feet, 1 inch) higher than usual.

Jordan Muller, a 25-year-old from Seattle who is living in Paris, jogged along the Seine quay despite its slippery cobblestones.

“Well, my normal running route is completely gone,” she

cruises are cancelled.”

Unusually heavy rain has pummeled France and other European countries in recent days, causing exceptional delays at the French Open and forcing the evacuation of two prisons.

The town of Nemours, southeast of Paris, was the worst hit.

Authorities were evacuating the centre of town Wednesday even as Environment Minister Segolene Royal rushed to the site. Members of a canoe club were among those helping in the rescue, France-Info radio reported.

President Francois Hollande expressed his support for flood victims during a Cabinet meeting, while Cazeneuve said the government is working to protect flood victims and pledged to pay for rescue and cleanup efforts.

Parts of neighbouring Germany also have seen storms and heavy rain since the weekend.

On Wednesday, floods hit an area of Bavaria in southern Germany near the Austrian border. The centre of the town of Triftern was flooded and Mayor Walter Czech said roads to the town’s hilltop school were impassable. He said the school’s roughly 250 children might have to stay the night in its gymnasium, the dpa news agency reported.

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A French soldier aboard searches for debris from EgyptAir flight MS804 over the Mediterranean Sea. MARINE NATIONALE/AFP/getty images

Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

The development raised hopes the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black boxes, could be retrieved and shed light on the aircraft’s tragic crash.

In Cairo, the Civil Aviation Ministry cited a statement from the committee investigating the crash as saying the vessel Laplace received the signals.

The French Navy confirmed the Laplace arrived on Tuesday in the search area and picked up

the signals “overnight.”

The signals’ frequencies could match with the frequencies of data recorders, a French Navy spokesman said. The location and identification of the source of the signals have not been determined yet, he said, adding that he searches are still at an “early stage.” He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t allowed to speak publicly on the issue.

Laplace’s equipment picked up the “signals from the seabed of the wreckage search area, assumed to be from one of the data recorders,” the Egyptian statement read. It added that a second ship, John Lethbridge affiliated with the Deep Ocean Search firm, will join the search team later this week.

Locator pings emitted by flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black boxes, can be picked up from deep underwater. The Laplace is equipped with three detectors made by the Alseamar company designed to detect and localize signals from the flight recorders, which are believed to be at a depth of about 3,000 metres.

By comparison, the wreck of the RMS Titanic is lying at a depth of about 3,800 metres.

Shaker Kelada, an EgyptAir official who has led other crash investigations for the carrier, told the AP that half “the job has been done now” and that the next step would be to determine the black boxers’ exact location and extract them from the sea. the associated press

more threats Also Wednesday, Egyptian authorities said they had evacuated all passengers from the EgyptAir Flight 960 from Cairo to Bangkok scheduled the previous night after threats of a bomb on board. Tarek Zaki, head of security at Cairo airport, said the warning claimed an unidentified assailant had planted a bomb on the plane. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the plane and the bags were searched but no bomb was found.

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Jonathan Lopez, 18, travelled as an unaccompanied minor to Clive, Iowa, fleeing gang violence in his native El Salvador. He was interviewed at a U.S. citizenship office in Chicago, where only 15 per cent of applications are approved, compared to 86 per cent in San Francisco. Charlie Neibergall/the associated press

Child asylum varies across U.S. immigration

Kids have better odds of approval in California For unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the U.S., where they apply seems to make a world of difference.

Youngsters whose applications are handled by the U.S. government’s regional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles are far more likely to win approval from asylum officers than those applying in Chicago or Houston, according to data obtained by The

Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request.

The figures offer a snapshot of how the government is handling the huge surge over the past two years in the number of Central American children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied by adults. Tens of thousands of youngsters — many of them fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — have overflowed U.S. shelters and clogged the nation’s overwhelmed immigration courts.

Under federal law, these children can apply to remain in the country in a process that involves an interview with an asylum officer from one of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ eight

The quality of justice should not be like a crapshoot.

Karen Musalo, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies

regional offices. To win their cases, they must show that they have been persecuted or are in danger of persecution.

As of January, asylum officers had rendered decisions in the cases of nearly 5,800 such children who arrived since May 2014, according to the figures obtained by the AP. Overall, 37 per cent were granted asylum, but the rate varied from 86 per cent at the San Francisco office, which handles applications for the Pacific North-

west, to 15 per cent in Chicago, which covers 15 states.

Los Angeles, which covers parts of California and Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii, granted asylum in 53 per cent of its cases, while only 16 per cent were approved by Houston, which handles several states. Asylum offices in New York and Miami had approval rates in the 20s and 30s.

Immigration lawyers said they expected some differences, given that some parts of the country are more sympathetic toward

immigrants. But they said there shouldn’t be large disparities.

“The quality of justice should not be like a crapshoot. It shouldn’t be a lottery,” said Karen Musalo, director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the University of California.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had no explanation for the disparities. Asylum claims are evaluated case-bycase, and all children’s applications get an additional review by a supervisory officer, spokeswoman Claire Nicholson said.

Children who are turned down get a second chance to plead their cases before an immigration judge. If they fail, they can be deported. The associated press

Municipal water in Flint, Michigan, has improved significantly and is suitable for personal cleanliness uses, scientists said Tuesday in a bid to calm fears raised by actor Mark Ruffalo and others who have questioned the safety of the supply that flows into the city’s bathtubs and showers.

Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech engineering professor whose testing last summer confirmed the lead contamination of Flint’s water, said sampling in recent months has found lead levels steadily declining, although they remain too high for people to drink unfiltered tap water. Also reduced are bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease.

Edwards said he’s hopeful the water will meet federal standards within the next six months.

The upbeat assessment contrasted with a grim portrayal by Ruffalo and Water Defence, an organization he founded, which said in February its testing had turned up lead and dangerous chemicals in sinks, tubs, showers and water heaters. Ruffalo has continued sounding the alarm, while Edwards has accused him of fearmongering based on flawed testing. the associated press

FLINT FACTS Water crisis dates to 2014 Flint, Mich. switched from the Detroit water system to the Flint River in April 2014.

In Sept. 2015, state officials admitted they failed to limit corrosion, allowing river water to absorb lead.

Flint returned to the Detroit system in Oct. 2015.

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India is worst for modern slavery human rights

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Activists against forced labour said Wednesday that while India tops a recent global slavery index, the situation is improving in the South Asian nation thanks to public awareness, legal reforms and police-backed raids on factor-

ies employing workers illegally.

The Walk Free Foundation counted some 18.35 million modern slaves in India in its index of modern slavery released Tuesday, or 40 per cent of a global total of 45.8 million, an estimate 10 million higher than the group last reported in 2014. The figures include children and adults forced into labour, child brides, child soldiers and migrant workers.

Officials with the Indian Labor Ministry did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

Experts and activists said, how-

ever, that while the problem has persisted for years in India, there are signs that the situation is improving.

“We get 20 complaints per day from family members and public in general” — a sign that awareness of the problem was growing, said Ramesh Senger from Save the Childhood Movement.

He noted that India’s carpet industry used to employ 300,000 trafficked children just a decade ago, but that the number has come down to an estimated 5,000-10,000. The associated press

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A small group of employees in Dubai is starting to move into a new workspace that the emirate says is the world’s first functional office building made using three-dimensional printer technology.

Dubai’s ruler quietly inaugurated the whitewashed buildings last week, not far from the site of a planned “Museum of the Future” that

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Looking like a mashup of a Jetsons abode and an Apple Store, the compact office was printed out layer by layer over 17 days at a cost of $140,000, said Saif al-Aleeli, the CEO of a government initiative called the Dubai Future Foundation that is behind the project.

Features include a treeshaded outdoor garden deck and LED lights that automatically adjust to the brightness outside.

“Why 3D printing? Because it makes sense in terms of cost, in terms of time-saving, in terms of efficiency,” the 29-year-old al-Aleeli said.

“We really believe that this technology will revolutionize the construction, the development sector as well as other sectors.”

Products made using 3D printing are first designed on a computer and then printed out using a variety of materials, including metal, plastic and concrete.

Developers are finding a growing number of uses for the technology as it evolves.

“The future will be 3D printed,” al-Aleeli predicted.

“I won’t be surprised if in 20 years down the road whole cities will be 3D printed.” the associated press

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Apple to delay iPhone Pizza Hut to remove refresh, analysts say artificial ingredients Can Apple slow the pace of smartphone innovation?

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Many analysts were expecting something big coming from this September’s model, likely the iPhone 7.

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slowed sales The global smartphone market is saturated and growth has slowed. After 8 years of incredible growth, this past quarter Apple reported iPhone sales slowed, selling 51 million iPhones — down from 61 million units from the same time period a year earlier.

Pizza Hut said it will remove more artificial ingredients from its pizza pies in the next year at its U.S. restaurants.

The company already removed artificial flavours and colours from its pizzas last year.

Pizza Hut, which has about 6,400 U.S. restaurants, said the preservatives BHA and BHT will be removed from all its meat by next month. Artificial preservatives in cheese will be cut by next year. Chicken will now be free of human antibiotics by March.

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DESMOND COLE on marijuana

The line between needing pot for an illness and wanting it for pleasure needs to be blurred in order to erase stigma, and avoid foolish expenditure of resources.

The problem is pot stigma, not the “black market.”

Last week’s police raids of marijuana dispensaries in Toronto exposed an important feature of the so-called “war on drugs” in Canada.

For years, most Canadians have told pollsters that pot should be legalized or decriminalized. More and more people are recognizing the medical benefits of weed. Our war, then, seems not so much on marijuana as it is on people who have been selling and using it illegally, especially for recreation.

Pot advocates have warned that the “black market” of presumed gangsters will benefit from the dispensary raids. To me, the “black market” is just another term for the people you bought your weed from before dispensaries.

Our government has exploited the stigma of consuming pot for fun, rather than for health, to criminalize the market and create space for armed, organized gangs to control it. It’s going to take a lot more than legalization to end a stigma around weed that has encouraged crime and led to an untold waste of public resources.

It’s easy to hate the players in the drug trade, especially those who can’t afford a storefront, but the foolish game of prohibition itself is the reason people cannot access marijuana in peace and safety. The problem is

I don’t care if someone without a medical condition can get weed from a dispensary or dealer, as long as no one is harmed.

not that people with shady motives want to sell weed, but that the government has incentivized such people by making it a crime to grow and sell pot.

Graham Clark, a Toronto criminal lawyer, seized on this in his reaction to the recent dispensary raids. “Every person who now cannot go to a dispensary will instead have to trek into the black market that government and police, through prohibition, create to the great

Cannabis Coalition argued, “when compared with (government-sanctioned) mail order or the black market, dispensaries in Toronto provide a safe, informative environment where patients can source high-quality medical cannabis.”

This statement is true, but the contrast between dispensaries and street drugs reinforces stigma. Just as people who use pot for medicinal purposes have long relied on illegal, recrea-

Cannawide marijuana dispensary is raided by Toronto Police officers in Toronto on last week. In decrying the raids, pot advocates have held out the dispensary model as preferable to the “black market.” Cole Burston/the canadian press

benefit of actual criminals,” Clark said.

The latter part of Clark’s statement, about government creation of crime through prohibition, is absent from many condemnations of the raids. Rather, the spectre of a dangerous criminal market is being used to explain why police should leave dispensaries alone.

In a news release calling for all charges to be dropped against dispensary operators and employees, the Toronto

tional suppliers, recreational users have almost certainly been benefitting from dispensaries whose stated purpose is to provide medical marijuana.

Some Toronto dispensaries reportedly have very lax standards for determining a person’s medical need for marijuana. If this is true, dispensaries are successfully blurring the line between selling pot for health reasons, and simply helping people get high.

This line needs to be

blurred in order to erase pot stigma. Yes, there is a big difference between needing pot for a diagnosed illness and wanting it for pleasure.

But the difference should never be used to justify the violence, policing costs, criminal records, prison sentences, and court expenses the government currently employs against recreational users and suppliers.

I don’t care if someone without a medical condition can get weed from a dispensary, or her local dealer, or by growing it at home, as long as no one is harmed or threatened in the process.

Removing the stigma associated with marijuana can help us to avoid more foolish time and resource expenditures in the future.

For example, in a post-legalization era, the government should make it cheap and easy for people to receive pardons with criminal records related to pot.

There shouldn’t be any sanction for smoking weed in public, selling it on the street, or growing small amounts of it on the balcony — it cannot be added to the preposterous regime of provincial-offence tickets for such horrors as drinking in public, begging for change, or sleeping in a public park.

Pot proponents will have to fight for these realities — they will be less successful in doing so if they reinforce the stigma around weed that makes it OK to sell weed in a posh dispensary, but not OK to grow at home, smoke in public, or trade on the street. If people want marijuana, let them have it without shame or sanction.

Instead of reinforcing fear of a black market, let’s make such a market irrelevant.

Desmond Cole is a Torontobased journalist.

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In putting health above all, Tootoo has served his country well Lately a certain someone has been bemoaning our culture’s seeming lack of interest in, even wilful ignorance of, history.

Every time I bring up some newish trend — “white anger in the U.S.!” — he scoffs and utters some variation of “history repeating itself.”

It’s an irritating recurrence, but given my own spotty sense of the past, I’ve decided he’s got a point.

And so I feel compelled, in the wake of Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo’s resignation, to remind us all of how badly addiction-and-politics stories can go.

Tootoo — who was a historic appointment, the first northern MP to hold the fisheries file — stepped aside with little fuss this week. He released a statement asking for privacy, and only vaguely explained a need to address “addiction issues.” The prime minister issued a similarly restrained statement.

Some, including the Aboriginal People’s’ Television Network, left the story mostly at that. Other media went picking for loose threads.

The Globe ran a piece claiming the addiction in question was alcohol abuse, and both it and CTV suggested some kind of incident during the Liberal convention. The Toronto Star followed up with Tootoo’s father, who said his son will “pull out of it.”

We might expect the additional straggling story, but all in all, it’s been a sad but

respectable political event.

Tootoo managed to leave a high office with his dignity intact, despite whatever he may be dealing with (and I hope he gets whatever help he needs). From what we understand, he executed this graceful exit (for now) for himself. An equally dignified but quieter version of fellow Liberal MP Seamus O’Regan’s public announcement this winter he was going to rehab for alcoholism. For both these examples, we should be grateful. In not-so-distant history, all was not thus.

Rob Ford’s battle with addiction turned Toronto City Hall into an international laughing stock. It sidelined important city business. It wasted citizens’ time and money. It caused apparently irreparable schisms between supporters and critics, mostly because Ford lied with reckless abandon about his problems. Even Ford’s well-chronicled rehab efforts were marked with controversy. Everything he touched became a trending story, and rarely was the city served in the process.

In stark contrast, we have Tootoo. He had only recently gained so much, and inspired so many. And instead of fighting to hold onto that, he has chosen to take care of himself. Canadians will be better served in the interim, which means he’s also chosen what is best for us. That, above all moves by a politician, is praiseworthy.

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Moby memoir covers sex, booze and making music Melita Kuburas

Metro | Canada Money has not been a great motivator for Moby.

When the musician got his first big break, a regular DJ-ing gig at a New York City nightclub called Mars, he was living in an abandoned factory in a crack neighbourhood in Stamford. He had no running water and would urinate in an empty water bottle, showering once a week at other people’s homes.

But his $50-a-month space had electricity, which meant he could cook oatmeal on a hot plate, and, more importantly, make music.

“It was pretty squalid, but I was considerably happier there than when I lived in a five-level apartment overlooking Central Park, and Bono and Alec Baldwin were my neighbours,” Moby says.

In fact, he sees most manifestations of luxury as either gratuitous or something to worry about.

Sitting in a hotel lobby last week wearing jeans, a light gray tee and dark sweatshirt with a few animal hairs clinging to it, the musician has just come back from an interview at a morning TV show in Toronto, discussing his memoir, Porcelain (also the title of a song on his hit 1999

album, Play, which was recently cited by Adele as having inspired her sound on 25).

“Backstage there were a bunch of pugs and I got to spend like, five minutes rolling around on the floor with pugs,” says the animal rights activist and longtime vegan. “If I had $500 jeans or a $500 sweatshirt, I would have been scared to do that.

And I think there shouldn’t be anything in your life that you have to worry about in the presence of pugs.”

Born in New York City, Moby grew up in Connecticut, raised by a single mom who occasionally would send him out to buy groceries with food stamps. After his career takes off in the early ’90s, he becomes an international star with electronic hits like Go and Feeling So Real. But his success flounders with the release of a punk rock album called Animal Rights, and after eight years of sobriety a post-breakup beer in a San Francisco dive bar

leads to regular binge-drinking and severe anxiety.

Moby wrote Porcelain, putting a lot of effort into transporting detail — from the pools of blood of butchered animals in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, to the texture of the sheets and bedspreads in the drab hotel rooms he slept in while on tour. Even the spouts of vomit, semen, and spit that accompany alcohol and drug-fuelled parties are declared.

Through his writing, the past would come to seem more real than the present, says Moby. “It’s like Proust with his madeleine in Remembrance of Things Past where there’s this cascade; this domino effect,” he says. “I would just sort of then remember all these different memories and try to describe them in a way that gave them almost a tactile quality.”

Living in New York wasn’t easy — he writes of encounters with drug dealers, angry cab drivers, and a constant search for love and a soulmate that often left him feeling lonely and insecure.

“Cities even at their best are still difficult, challenging places.

And oftentimes whether you’re an artist or a writer or a musician, sometimes you’re making your art or music or writing a reflection of the dynamism of the city but also as a refuge against it.”

Still, Moby’s biggest fear was having to leave the city and to go back to the “purgatory” of life in the suburbs, he says.

It wasn’t being broke that he was afraid of — it was going back to a “lifeless environment.”

Moby says cities, even at their best, are difficult and challenging places. “Whether you’re an artist or a writer or a musician, sometimes you’re making your art or music or writing a reflection of the dynamism of the city but also as a refuge against it.” courtesy Melissa Danis

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Watch your tone bad singer

Tim Falconer investigates how we hear in new book First, the good news: only 2.5 per cent of the population is scientifically tone deaf. So if you suspect you are, you’re probably being too hard on yourself. The bad news: while researching his new book, Bad Singer, Tim Falconer found out that he officially qualified.

As a great listener of music, it was a diagnosis the journalist and author found crushing.

“My other books, I would talk about what I was writing,” he says, sipping a bottle of water in a Toronto coffeeshop.

“This book, I didn’t talk about it because I would have to admit to people I was tone deaf. After I was diagnosed I didn’t even tell friends. So, yeah, it’s a bit embarrassing.”

With Bad Singer’s publication, Falconer is adjusting to being known as the guy who literally wrote the book on bad singing. His investigation into how science is illuminating the way we experience music covers physical and psychological barriers to singing, how music communicates emotion and the back seat that pitch takes in pop music.

But it’s Falconer’s own attempts to outwit his brain’s deficit and master singing (or at least master singing the Beatles’ Blackbird) that forms the throughline of the book.

After Université de Montréal cognitive neuropsychologist Isabelle Peretz diagnosed Falconer with congenital amusia, a term she coined to describe what we commonly call tone deafness, he trained for seven months to improve. Then he returned for further testing.

“I spent a day and a half just failing test after test,” he recalls (in one test, he was asked to identify music as either a waltz or a march; in another, he sang Happy Birthday with “la la la” in place of lyrics).

“At the end of the day and a half, one of the researchers took me aside and said, ‘We have some results. There has been modest improvement.’

So I thought, I guess I’ll keep going. But I think if I weren’t a writer, I would have given up fairly early on.”

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getting in tune Vocal coach Micah Barnes shares five tips for improving your singing.

Get deep Sitting in a chair, imagine you have a balloon in your lower belly that you are filling and emptying with air.

Practice breathing in and out while using your hands to squeeze your torso tightly just above the hip bones. This will provide the resistance you want in order to develop a deeper and fuller approach to breathing.

Good buzz Humming while manipulating and moving your lips around is a great way to create a vibration in the front of your mouth. It will tickle if you are doing it right. Try it with single notes first and then try humming and buzzing your lips through a song as you get better at it.

Whistle while you work Blowing through your lips as you sing notes is a great way to warm up the chords and loosen the muscle tension we all carry in our mouths and throats. Don’t worry if you can’t get this one right away, sometimes it takes practice!

The full Miley Sing through notes using “ma-a-a” but with your tongue out between your lips. You should feel a buzz on your lips.

This will help relax the tongue and throat muscles so your sound is more open and free.

Go ape Another way to get rid of neck and shoulder tension is to sing an open “ahhhhh” with your head and shoulders falling forward while you bounce at the knees (called the “monkey bounce”). The idea is to loosen the muscular tension and create an easy, relaxed production of sound.

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‘Power is the ability not to have to please’ new release

How to raise hell but still be able to laugh at yourself Gina Barreca understands women can laugh at themselves.

One of her previous books, They Used to Call Me Snow White …

But I Drifted, was a bestseller in Canada. Barreca continues to delve into women’s daily quirks in her latest book, If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse? Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times. Our conversation has been edited for length.

Let’s talk about purses.

Today mine contains two books, five lipsticks, three eyeglass cases, a hairbrush, a bottle of Tylenol and four pens. It weighs a ton.

We are the nurturers and the caretakers and we carry everything we need to start life in another city. Men just carry a credit card and $20 because they figure if they need it, they can buy it or they can ask any woman for it, and we will

Of course men will look down your blouse. What women need to do is stand up straight. We need to make noise, we need to make trouble.

have it, be it Aspirin, Aleve, Tylenol. I am surprised you don’t have Band-Aids. Most of us have Band-Aids because we have grown up with cheap shoes and we have bleeding ankles from the cheap shoes digging in. Women want to make sure they look after everybody. Not only do we hold up the sky, we do it with a 500-pound bag.

What do you have in your bag today?

I have keys, a tiny change purse. I have my iPhone in a leather protector that looks like a holy book so people think I am deeply religious.

When I take a picture it looks like I am holding up a small Bible and doing an exorcism instead of a selfie. I have a pink plastic pen that says Cat Lady. I have an eyeglass holder. I have Aspirin, Advil, Aleve, Imodium, DayQuil. I have makeup: liquid lipstick, a regular lipstick, mascara and Gas-X because I am 59. I have cheques, all the credit cards I need for stores I haven’t been to in years but just in case ... and one earring. I hope to find the other.

I used to watch my mother

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put her girdle on and I always thought it was ridiculous.

Our generation of women thought they had eschewed girdles and falsies, but no … I admit I wore Spanx to fit into the dress I wore for my son’s wedding.

How did you pee? You need to have an evacuation plan if you’re doing that. When I give

a speech I always reveal my age and my weight, as soon as I get the mike, to get it over with.

I am 59 years old and 157 pounds. Now you can listen to me. You don’t have to figure out whether I am older or younger than you or whether

I weigh more or less than you do. When I was in my early 20s I read fashion magazines like Vogue but knew I could never afford anything. Today I look at Vogue but I know I’d never squeeze into anything. Not only that, but who ever heard of size 0 or size 2 when we were young? Size sub-zero is a refrigerator. It is not a size for a human being. We are looking for the same types of deductions with our weight as we do with our taxes. I just don’t get on a scale. Why do that to myself ? My mother was French Canadian from northern Quebec. One of the great gifts she gave me was to feel good about how I look and to have everything in my body working properly. I’ve had my gallbladder out, my uterus out, but I really try to be grateful

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You say learning how to raise hell is an important skill for middle-aged women. But then we get ostracized and typecast as bitches.

Any time a woman opens her mouth and a cooing sound doesn’t come out, then you are already a bitch. You might as well enjoy it and accept the privileges of that position.

There is not a way to avoid that moniker, so therefore it needs to be embraced. Power is the ability not to have to please. That is something women, more than men, need to take lessons in. You have to be so good at what you do so it doesn’t matter whether they like you. They can think you are Medusa but still want you to work with them. You are the one they can rely on. torstar news service

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Large cast, sprawling plot and vampiric monsters conclussion

Trilogy’s last line was already in Cronin’s mind Sue Carter

For Metro Canada A decade ago, when Justin Cronin began working on his postapocalyptic thriller The Passage and its two sequels, he had a few concepts in mind. He knew he wanted the books to feature a sprawling plot and a large cast of characters.

And monsters: vampiric creatures, specifically. Not the handsome, sparkling bloodsuckers that dominated popular culture, but a more insidiously sinister monster that could reflect contemporary anxieties.

The Houston-based author wanted to make a certain “sound or music” with words, and he knew exactly what the final sen-

tence of the trilogy’s collective 2,000 pages would be. “I needed to know the rhetoric of the last moment,” he says.

Cronin didn’t give any consideration to where the book would be shelved in stores. The Passage trilogy is a mash-up of genres “piled on top of each other.”

Readers didn’t care how The Passage was labelled — nor were they intimidated by its nearly 800-page length — they were happy to spend sleepless nights with the terrifying New York Times bestseller, and its two sequels, 2012’s The Twelve, and now, the final tome, The City of Mirrors.

Given the books’ vast scale, time-shifts and interconnected stories, a plot summary is challenging: a secret government project backfires, creating a horde of vampirish “virals” with intense powers who essentially destroy civilization, save for a small group of survivors, including a young girl named Amy, who was also injected with the virus. While some semblance of

peace is established by the beginning of The City of Mirrors, it turns out to all be an illusion.

The origin of the trilogy has become part of the books’ legend, and a PR dream. It started as an ongoing storytelling game between Cronin and his then-eight-year-old daughter Iris.

Iris suggested the idea of a “girl who saves the world,” a far stretch from Cronin’s first books, which focused more on relationship dynamics. Although she is now a college freshman with her own writing career, Iris — who refers to Cronin cheekily as her “work wife” — taught the author a valuable reminder early on about the fundamentals of storytelling.

“There’s an inner critic that you acquire as an adult that tells you what you ought to like, but with a kid it’s just, ‘is this interesting? Is this good? Is it exciting?’ That was a pretty good standard.”

Born in 1962 shortly before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cronin grew up “during the most dangerous time on the planet,” be-

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lieving it was possible he could be incinerated at any moment, which gave him an early taste for post-apocalyptic literature.

While his books tap into literary themes that have been around since the Bible, the trilogy is loaded with decidedly modern anxieties, with references to 9/11, global warming, viral disease and his own panicked experience during 2005’s Hurricane Rita, when Houston was evacuated just weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

So does Cronin have insight as to why so many people love to read about the things they fear the most?

His own pet theory is that “by reading the story, we are cast in the role of the survivor. You close the pages and the beautiful world is still here, and it’s enormously reassuring.”

Sue Carter is the editor at Quill & Quire magazine.

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Music

K-os learned much from his Views from the Stix new mixtape

Artist mixed his new tracks at his farm in Ontario

K-os thinks there’s a possibility all this global success of Canadian artists will Americanize Canada’s pop music scene. george pimentel/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Hip-hop artist K-os is hoping to bring a little equilibrium to Canada’s music scene.

After the runaway success of Drake, Justin Bieber and a handful of other Canadian popstars on the music charts, the Vancouver-based performer thinks there’s a possibility all this global success has gone to the local music industry’s head.

“A bit of me sees Canada going down this road that’s very American when it comes to our pop music,” he says during a phone interview.

“I feel I’m here to balance that and take it back to the sticks,” he says, referencing his recently released mixtape Views from the Stix.

The project came together when K-os escaped the bustle

of city life to wind down at his family’s countryside home near Whitby, Ont., about an hour outside Toronto.

Their farmhouse ended up being a centre of inspiration and a reminder that not every Canadian performer has to aspire to chart-topping glory.

Views from the Stix is a direct nod to Drake’s Views album, originally titled Views from the Six, an homage to his Toronto stomping grounds. The album name was truncated just prior to its release.

Inspiration for the mixtape also came from the Zen Buddhist philosophies K-os studied over the past few years. He says they’ve allowed him to transcend hesitation over his musical career and better understand his place in the Canadian music scene.

“The thing Buddhism underlined is everything is everything,” he says. “To know one thing you had to know the opposite — the whole yin-yang idea.”

If last year’s label release

Can’t Fly Without Gravity was a yin, then K-os, born Kevin Brereton, has released the yang with Views from the Stix.

While K-os doesn’t call out Drake by name on his mixtape, he deals out verses that could be interpreted as subtle shots at the Hotline Bling rapper or other unabashedly mainstream hiphop artists. Smells Like Cream Spirit counters rappers who talk a good game but don’t live up to the hype, while On My Kanye calls out artists with runaway egos.

The mixtape took about three weeks to complete and features collaborations with an array of artists, including Canadian beatmaker Kaytranada, CBC Radio host Shad and veteran Toronto rapper Saukrates. K-os laid down many of his freestyle verses while soaking in the calm of the sprawling fields outside his family’s home. When his brother and sister-in-law raced off to work each morning with their four kids in tow, K-os used the solitude to create music.

“It made my idea about hip-

hop a lot more simple and more, kind of, country-boy,” he says.

He also revisited a few of his old stomping grounds in the same neighbourhood where he spent part of his teenage years.

“It humbles you because you realize that you’ve actually achieved some of the things you have,” he says.

“You get off the whole rat race and go, ‘What am I really doing here? It’s time for some inventory for what makes me happy and what I’m in this music thing for.”’

He hopes other young Canadian musicians ask themselves the same question as they balance the pressures of fame against the art of music.

“Everybody becomes so egocentric, they don’t realize it’s the people around you who really define you — the other rappers, the other actors, the other bookwriters — they help your style and feed you,” he says.

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London Spy a complex tale of love at its core THE SHOW: London Spy, Season 1, Episode 4 (Netflix) THE MOMENT: On Hampstead heath

Danny (Ben Whishaw, beyond excellent), a reformed crackhead, and his mentor Scottie (Jim Broadbent, always excellent), walk and discuss Danny’s late lover Alex (Edward Holcroft).

When Alex died, Danny learned he was a spy — and that he’s dangerously entangled in Alex’s secrets.

“It was his funeral last week,” Danny says. “Do you know how I found out? Heard about it on the news.”

“I can’t count how many men I’ve comforted when their partners were dying and the family wouldn’t allow them into the hospital,” Scottie says, quietly furious. “I’m sick of it.”

“What am I doing all this for?” Danny asks. “Because Alex discovered some government secret? So what? They lied about a war? They spy on us?

What’s it got to do with me?”

I can’t do justice to this series’ brilliance. You just have to watch it. As chilling as the spy stuff is, it’s merely the McGuffin that allows creator Tom Rob Smith to tell a stunningly written story about love.

Alex was inscrutable, but not because he was a spy. Because he lied. Because we lie.

Because we’re unknowable.

So what are we loving, when we love? What a person does?

What we project?

These questions are made meaningful by Danny and Scottie, two of the most thoroughly imagined and beautifully rendered characters I’ve seen.

Their relationship is so rich, so specific. Every hour stabbed me in the heart.

Please, do NOT speed to the fifth (final) episode, to get the “answers.”

The answers don’t matter.

The questions do.

Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop-culture moments. She appears Monday through Thursday.

Ben Whishaw is Danny, a reformed crackhead left with many questions after the death of his boyfriend Alex. contributed

Revenge of the nerds: TV mines science for laughs

HBO’s Silicon Valley, left, and CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, right, have carved out a niche for high-tech comedy. contributed analysis

Today’s writers are finding comedy in the complex The world of science and technology is rife with fantastic, gripping and unforgettable stories that are regularly told on TV, but it hasn’t been the most fertile of ground when it comes to the comedy genre.

The political, media and entertainment spheres have supplied the setting for numerous quality comedies over the years — Veep, WKRP in Cincinnati, 30 Rock and The Larry Sanders Show, to name a few — but just about anything and everything related to advanced technological concepts usually remains in the realm of the dramatic (AMC’s

Halt and Catch Fire) and crime (CBS’s CSI: Cyber).

But in recent years, that’s changed. Though there’s still a paucity of high-tech comedies for viewers to enjoy, two of them — CBS’s The Big Bang Theory and HBO’s Silicon Valley — have carved out significant niche spots in the TV landscape.

With some exceptions (mainly, the socially inept nerd unable to connect with the opposite sex), the two shows are about as far from the same type of comedy as they can be, but both have succeeded at infusing intricate ideas with laughter and have established themselves as beloved productions with devoted fan bases.

Because it airs on a major American network, The Big Bang Theory (TBBT, for abbreviation’s sake) took the traditional comedic route that employs multicamera and a laugh track, as

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Series stars T.J. Miller (Deadpool), Kumail Nanjiani (Franklin & Bash) and Canadian Thomas Middleditch (Comedy Bang!

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well as broadly drawn characters (most notably, Sheldon Cooper as played by Jim Parsons), and relatively simple plot and character arcs that don’t require viewers to have seen a prior episode to understand.

This isn’t appointment TV and, because of that, it isn’t disappointment TV if you forget to record it on any given evening.

Like Silicon Valley, it embraces and normalizes the geek/nerd archetype, but TBBT makes clear that the main cast are, at heart, fundamentally decent people.

Contrast that with Silicon Valley, a program that is more satirical in tone — sharpening its knives to poke fun at the highstakes world of techno-capitalism geek culture — and that uses HBO’s more open platform to produce dark laughs and adult humour.

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That’s right. It’s still only $5 for adults (seniors and children under 12 are free) to see Olympic calibre athletes compete at one of the richest show jumping tournaments in North America.

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GPS is one of the world’s largest oil and gas networking events. The annual event welcomes leading oil and gas companies, business partners, media, and business analysis from more than 84 counties. The event ran every other year from 1968 through 2014. Since then it’s been an annual event with its 50th anniversary approaching in 2018.

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The event appeals to a variety of industry representatives, over a wide range of job types from sales and engineering right through to the C-suite, president and CEO levels. There are topics of interest for a wide variety of industries ranging from oil and gas production, equipment sales and service, drilling, production, pipelines, transportation, operations and maintenance, and regulatory and training services.

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Rookie Sheary stakes Pens to 2-0 series lead Stanley Cup final

Sharks’ comeback all for naught in overtime loss Conor Sheary scored in overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the San Jose Sharks 2-1 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup final.

Sheary beat Martin Jones through traffic at the 2:35 mark of overtime after the Sharks evened the score 1-1 with less than five minutes to go in regulation.

Phil Kessel also scored for the Penguins, while Matt Murray stopped 21 shots in net.

Jones made 28 saves for San Jose and Justin Braun had the only goal for the Sharks, who dropped to 5-2 this spring when coming off a loss.

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San Jose was frustrated by its slow start in Game 1 and though there were an encouraging opening few minutes in Game 2 the Sharks were again stymied by the Penguins’ speed and pressure.

San Jose winger Joel Ward had the first good chance of the game less than two minutes into the opening frame, but from there the Sharks went cold.

The highest scoring team throughout these playoffs, San Jose generated next to nothing offensively, stuck defending in their own zone most of Conor Sheary the time.

Getty images The Sharks’ top line of Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton and Tomas Hertl combined for only two shots in the first period, coming close only on a Hertl backhand attempt that hit the post.

The unit, though boasting strong puck possession, remains pointless at even strength in the series.

Kessel had three shots during an engaged start and five attempts on goal on the night.

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IN BRIEF Venus out of French Open Venus Williams was unable to join her sister in the French Open quarterfinals, failing in a bid to get back to that stage at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament for the first time in a decade.

Finally back on court after her fourth-round match was postponed twice because of bad weather, the No. 9-seeded Williams lost to No. 8 seed Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday. the associated press

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Owner of Canes sued by his sons Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos Jr. is being sued by three of his sons for more than $100 million.

The lawsuit was filed last week in a court in Oakland County, Mich., where Karmanos Jr. lives.

The sons say their father did not repay a loan he took out in 2013 from a limited partnership he created with them.

The lawsuit states a son sent Karmanos Jr. a notice of default on April 21 demanding a $4.3-million payment on the loan within 30 days or else the entire balance of $105 million would be due immediately. The lawsuit says no payment was made.

Peter Alter and Ethan Holtz, the Michigan-based attorneys representing the sons, did not respond to requests for comment. Hurricanes spokesman Mike Sundheim declined comment. The Associated Press

The Penguins celebrate Conor Sheary’s overtime goal in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.

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mark of the second when Kessel scored his team-leading 10th goal of the playoffs.

The play started when Sharks defenceman Roman Polak flubbed on a passing attempt in front of his own goal, teammate Brenden Dillon unable to control the puck thereafter.

Dillon was picked free by the Penguins Carl Hagelin, who

found teammate Nick Bonino, his passing attempt effortlessly guided in by Kessel.

The trio of Kessel, Hagelin and Bonino has been the Penguins best this post-season, Kessel also leading the team with 19 points.

It took until the 4:05 mark of the third for the Sharks to tie the score. Controlling the

puck confidently behind the Penguins goal, Logan Couture found Braun at the point, his shot sailing through traffic before pinging off the post and in.

It was the first goal of the post-season by the Sharks defenceman and 26th point for Couture, who leads all players in playoff scoring.

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Court won’t reconsider ruling on NFL settlement A federal appeals court in Philadelphia says it won’t reconsider a ruling that upholds the potential $1-billion settlement of NFL concussion claims.

Critics of the plan for retired players had hoped the full court would reconsider the approval granted by a three-judge panel in April.

On top of payouts, the settlement offers medical monitoring to more than 20,000 retirees for the next 65 years. The Associated Press

LeBron-Steph rivalry: Round 2 begins LeBron versus Steph. King James versus the Baby-faced Assassin.

Nike versus Under Armour.

Any way you slice it, it’s a dream matchup for the league in the NBA Finals. Again.

A second straight championship showdown between LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers and Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors puts the league’s two brightest stars on its biggest stage.

It could also mark the beginnings of a new rivalry between the longtime face of the league and the shooting supernova

threatening to for me.”

Curry got his supplant him.

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That’s not what And there have I’m playing for, been subtle to be the face of signs of a brewing rivalry ever the NBA or to be since. this or that or LeBron James and to take LeBron’s Stephen Curry Getty images As the Curry throne or whathype was buildever,” Curry said Wednesday, one ing during the Warriors’ run day before the Warriors host the to the title last season, James Cavs in Game 1. “You know, I’m went out of his way to proclaim trying to chase rings, and that’s himself “the best player on the what I’m all about. So that’s planet” during the Finals. He where the conversation stops played like it, too, averaging

35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists while carrying a Cavs team missing Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love through six games in the series.

After Curry won his second MVP award this season in unanimous fashion, James offered a nuanced take on the achievement. He said Curry’s numbers were tremendous, “but when you talk about most ‘valuable’ then you can have a different conversation, so, take nothing away from him, he’s definitely deserving of that award, for sure.” The Associated Press

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Stopping cheats is main aim for IOC Olympic leaders took action on two fronts Wednesday, ramping up efforts to keep drug cheats out of the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and recommending the inclusion of baseball-softball and four other sports for the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The IOC executive board agreed to double its budget for pre-games drug testing to $500,000, to target athletes from Russia, Kenya and Mexico, and to extend retesting of stored doping samples to include medal winners from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

“We want to make sure any targeted athletes who have a positive result will be stopped from competing in Rio,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.

“That is for us the No. 1 priority.”

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Simoneau, who will compete with duet partner Karine Thomas at the Summer Games in August, was selected from over 500 applicants for bursaries supplied jointly by the Canadian Olympic Foundation and the HBC Foundation. “My body is really my tool for my sport and I need to take care of it,” Simoneau said Wednesday from Toronto where the bursary program was announced.

“Ideally, my coach wants me to have a massage three times a week. Before, I was barely able to afford once a week. I’d have to save money for something, for vegetables or the like.”

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“We had to take various factors into consideration - summer, winter, male, female, individual sport, team sport,” Nicolle explained.“If we had an infinite pot of money they would all get it. We wanted to take emerging athletes, or emerging potential medallists, and we wanted to do some next generation and current generation, so we had a framework that we did to make sure a lot of the athlete populations were represented.”

Athletes’ personal stories were also a factor in determining successful applications, she said.

“If they’re going to drop out because they and their families can’t afford to keep them in sport, which is a massive barrier in high-performance sport as you can well imagine, then we wanted to make sure as many of these athletes we can keep in the system,” Nicolle added.

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Sanchez heat helps to shut out Yankees Aaron Sanchez and three relievers kept the Yankees off the scoreboard and the Toronto Blue Jays rocked New York’s bullpen in a 7-0 win to complete a 3-game sweep over their AL East rivals Wednesday. Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak drove in two runs and Michael Saunders plated another over Toronto’s (29-26) five-run seventh inning.

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For Metro Canada Ready in Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Ingredients • 3/4 cup chopped walnuts • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil • 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1/4 cup drained and sliced oilpacked sun-dried tomatoes • 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper • 2 cups baby spinach • 1 pound farfalle pasta • 1 cup ricotta cheese • 3 tablespoons vegetable stock or water • freshly grated parmesan cheese Directions 1. In a small skillet, warm walnuts over medium heat so they release their oils and are warm, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat

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Scoop a bit of pasta water from the pot before draining.

3. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil and then add garlic, sun-dried tomatoes and crushed red pepper. Sautée until garlic is a golden brown, about 3 minutes. Add a handful of spinach in batches and cook until each batch is wilted.

4. In a large serving bowl, whisk ricotta cheese with stock or water. (Use pasta water if you don’t have any stock handy.)

Then add spinach mixture, pasta and walnuts; toss to combine.

Add salt and pepper to taste and grate fresh parmesan cheese over top and serve. for more meal ideas, VISIT sweetpotatochronicles.com

Across 1. Singer Ms. Terrell 6. Smartphone purchase 9. ‘Twilight’ actress, to fans 14. After-midnight hour: wd. + acr.

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42. 1989: Oil spill ship, Exxon __ 44. Brooch 45. “Movin’ __”: “The Jeffersons” song: 2 wds.

47. Herbal drink for a wise one?: 2 wds.

51. Four-leaf clovers: 3 wds.

54. Shirley Douglas’ role on #38-Across: 2 wds.

55. Creamy cheeses 56. Bubbling on the stove 57. Absorb 58. Fridge brand 59. Second ‘R.’ of J.R.R. Tolkien’s name 60. WNW’s reverse 61. Australian songstress Helen

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6. Formal orgs.

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It’s all in The Stars Your daily horoscope by Francis Drake Aries March 21 - April 20 This is a good day for financial negotiations, but guard against extravagance. Nevertheless, look for ways to boost your income and get value for your money.

Cancer June 22 - July 23 Time spent with a female friend will be rewarding today. This person might encourage you to explore new ideas about politics, religion or long-distance travel.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 This is a strong day for you.

The Moon is in your sign dancing with lucky, moneybags Jupiter. Financial speculation might interest you.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 You make a great impression on others today, and this impression ultimately might bring you more money in the future. Don’t hesitate to be generous to someone.

Gemini May 22 - June 21 You will enjoy relaxing at home if you get the chance. You want to cocoon and be by yourself. In any case, this is an easy-going day.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 Shake things up a little, because you need some adventure today.

You want to do something different.

A short trip or an interaction with someone unusual will please you.

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 Be open to the offers of others, because you can benefit from the wealth and resources of others today. In turn, you might be generous to someone at work. (What goes around, comes around.)

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Relations with others, especially partners and close friends, are warm and friendly today because people are upbeat. Make plans to have fun in the future.

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 It will be easy to get the cooperation of others at work today. If you do this, something will happen that makes you look good in the eyes of your boss.

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Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 This is a playful day for your sign! Make room for some fun activities with romantic interests, friends or children, because you will enjoy yourself.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 Home and family are your primary concerns today. In fact, this is a good day to look into real estate possibilities or how to improve your home.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 Because you are in such a positive frame of mind today, others want to be in your company.

Everyone likes to be with someone who is upbeat and happy.

13. “__ _ in Need of a Musical Revolution” by Canadian singer Esthero 19. Ansel of horror remake “Carrie” (2013) 21. Ingested ingredients 26. Outlying 27. Sugar-topped

cookie’s name 28. Sacred chests 29. Surveillance system, e.g.

30. __-Seltzer 31. NHL ‘N’, briefly 32. __ balm (Makeup item) 33. Pixie 34. Touristy thoroughfare in Rome, __ Veneto 37. Blue semi-precious stone found in Kimmirut in Nunavut, Lapis __ 38. 1985 hit for English band ABC: 3 wds.

40. “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” cast member 41. Apparatus in gymnastics: 2 wds.

43. “Listen to the Music”

by The __ Brothers 44. Ocean, e.g.

46. Legume 47. Communicatingby-Web service 48. Set of three 49. Make corrections to text 50. Ore evaluation 51. Vinnie’s ‘70s sitcom teacher 52. Shakespeare: “_ __ hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome...”

53. Boardroom VIPs 54. Spoil

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