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One-third of the city makes less than that: Experts Alex Boyd

Metro | Edmonton

How one woman is tackling her fears one day at a time metroNEWS KEVIN TUONG/FOR METRO

If your family is two working adults with two kids, to make ends meet in Edmonton each adult would have to make at least $16.69 an hour, according to the Edmonton Living Wage Report released Thursday.

And according to experts, one-third of the city makes less than this.

This is the second year the Edmonton Social Planning Council has calculated the living wage, using cost of living estimates for Edmonton.

“It’s the amount required to maintain a modest standard of living, to cover your basic needs,” said research co-ordinator John Kolkman.

So while the hypothetical family in the report has a small amount budgeted for things like a basic cellphone plan and

limited emergency savings, they’re not taking big vacations or saving for their children’s educations.

Kolkman said the calculations also take into account costs like EI and CPP premiums, plus dollars coming in from government transfers — which made a difference this year.

The living wage for 2016 is actually 67 cents less than last year, mostly because of child benefit increases from both the federal and provincial governments that kick in in July.

He estimates that about one-third of Edmontonians make less than the living wage. “We hope the slight decrease makes it easier for employers to pay a living wage,” he said, arguing that research indicates that employers who pay a living wage have less staff turnover and better productivity.

The city’s End Poverty report recommends pushing for living wages for everyone in the city, something Kolkman said the council will continue to do.

“In the coming year, we plan to work with the city and community partners to recognize employers who provide living wages, and challenge others to do so as well.”

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Metro | Winnipeg

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Metro | Edmonton Abdullah Al-Kadi has just arrived home from a field trip to a bowling alley with his Grade 8 class, and his eyes go wide when asked about the game he’d never played before. “It’s funny; it’s a small ball!� he says, laughing. “I like to play again.�

The Al-Kadis fled Syria after Abdullah, then 10, was hit in the back with a piece of shrapnel from a bomb while helping his uncle unload a van. It didn’t kill him because he happened to be bent over when it hit him.

When he first arrived in Edmonton, in February, he spoke no English.

Now, just over four months later, he’s sitting on the floor of his family’s new north-side apartment and happy to chat about his class: “I like playing with my friends.� His teachers? “Very nice.� How is school different than before? “We learn English a lot!�

After more than 1,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Edmonton, beginning six months ago, many essential services scrambled to accommodate the influx of newcomers.

Perhaps few institutions have had to adapt faster than the

Abdullah Al-Kadi is in Grade 8 at Mary Butterworth School in Edmonton. kevin tuong/for metro

school system, due to the high number of young families eager to get kids back into class and provide a sense of normalcy.

According to Marlene Hanson, the supervisor of diversity education at Edmonton Public Schools, they enrolled approximately 500 Syrian students, most in the first three months of the calendar year. “Having this number of students, and newcomers to Canada, enter our system in such a short period of time was unprecedented in recent years,� she says.

To find a similar influx you’d have to go back to the arrival of the Vietnamese Boat People in the 1980s. “It was certainly an intense learning situation

during a few short months,� she says.

Principals chose how best to accommodate the newcomers based on their school’s situation, Hanson says, and in some cases got extra funding to do things like hire more teachers.

While some schools only got a couple of students and were able to accommodate them, a cluster of schools primarily on the north side got as many as 60.

At Mary Butterworth, Abudallah says his new class is mostly Syrian, and one of their teacher speaks Arabic, though they spend the day working hard on English.

The need for more supports has raised questions about funding, notably by school board chair Michael Janz, who says he continues to be “disappointed that the federal government has not contributed one dollar to support the school districts

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In any case, it’s clear the supports will be needed for time to come. Hanson says it takes about three to five years for students to be proficient in English in social situations, and slightly longer in academic settings. But she says Edmonton’s newest students seem to be settling in well, and are working hard. “It’s interesting when a child doesn’t speak any English and then somewhere along the way you realize they’re speaking in sentences,� she says. “As educators we often pause and scratch our head and say, when exactly did that happen? “It’s kind of a magic moment.�

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Edmonton is getting another way to fly — but not another airline.

Jim Young, CEO of discount airline seat reseller NewLeaf Travel, announced the re-launch of the company in Winnipeg on Thursday, after an aborted takeoff in January.

The company will offer direct flights to 12 cities — Edmonton, Halifax, Moncton, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Kelowna, Kamloops, Fort St. John, Abbotsford and Victoria. Seat prices will range from $79 to $249 from July 25 to October 2.

Because the company is a reseller of airline seats, Young said Flair Airlines will operate flights on 156-seat planes from some of the country’s smaller airports, as opposed to major flight centres, as was initially intended. Young said many of the routes on the company’s non-stop flight plan are unique to the country’s domestic air market.

The (CTA) ruled in March the company could operate legally as planned — selling discount airline seats without an air licence — if they make it clear they are a “reseller.� Young expressed confidence that an appeal filed against the CTA’s ruling will not be accepted, and the company will remain in the air. “Our plan is to stay in business regardless of the way the appeal goes,� he said, adding the company has a back-up plan.

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Edmonton

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Store has cheese wall, ice table for fresh seafood Ryan Tumilty

Metro | Edmonton Chad McDowell says he believes his new Loblaws City Market franchise is filling an important need.

“There are not many grocery stores in the nearby area, so I think it’s the right time and I think people want it,” McDowell, who co-owns the location, said.

The City Market stores are a concept from the Ontariobased Loblaws grocery chain and they put an emphasis on fresh food.

The company’s other City Market stores are also set in urban neighbourhoods.

“We’re really driving the fresh side of the business as well as the core groceries,”

Franchise co-owners Alyssa and Chad McDowell stands in the store, which will formally open doors on Friday. Kevin Tuong /metro

McDowell said.

The new Edmonton location, in the Brewery District development along 104 Avenue, has a 12-foot-tall cheese wall and 16-foot-long ice table for fresh seafood.

McDowell said they want to be part of the fabric of Oliver. He said with more people

living downtown there was a need for options.

“I feel once the Brewery District and the Ice District get complete that the downtown strip is going to need more variety than what it had,” he said.

Dino Naccarato, the company’s vice-president, said they believe there is room for more

of the city market concepts.

“We’re constantly looking for more opportunities both in Alberta and in Edmonton specifically. We don’t have any concrete ideas yet, but we are looking,” he said.

He said the stores are meant to serve urban communities where not everyone is going to

drive to the store. “The stores are generally a little smaller in size. The customer can walk or drive to our store.”

Downtown has been short on grocery stores since the closure of both the Sobeys at Jasper and 104th Street and the locally-owned Family Foods at Jasper and 118 Street in 2014.

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Province to reveal salaries The Alberta government is going ahead with its next round of salary disclosures, this time for high earners on about 150 agencies, boards and commissions. From now until the end of the month, they will be required to publicly disclose salaries for employees who earn more than $125,000 a year in total compensation.

Early numbers show that four senior members in just one branch of the Alberta Innovates research and development corporation have been earning a combined income of more than $1 million a year.

The four branches of Alberta Innovates are being amalgamated into one organization.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the government is bringing in a grid for salaries on boards and commissions benchmarked to similar positions in the public service.

He says salary disclosures are critical so that Albertans can be assured their money is being properly spent.

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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she told an environmental review panel on the Trans Mountain Pipeline that her province is doing its bit to control greenhouse gas emissions.

Notley says she told the threemember panel that Alberta’s climate plan will cap oilsands emissions to 100 megatonnes and phase out coal-fired electricity by 2030.

“Alberta has done its own homework and is on it,” Notley told reporters at the legislature Thursday, after meeting with the panel earlier in the day.

“This particular pipeline application ought to be considered on the basis of its individual merits, not as a symbol for this much larger issue (of greenhouse gas emissions in Alberta).”

Texas-based energy infrastructure giant Kinder Morgan is seeking federal approval to expand the existing Trans Mountain line in order to triple the capacity of diluted bitumen travelling from Alberta’s oilsands to Burnaby B.C. The move would tanker traffic on the West Coast by about seven-fold.

The project has faced heated opposition from environmentalists, politicians, and indigenous groups in British Columbia worried about the environmental impacts of any spills.

It has been a long and complicated legal process.

The federal regulator, the National Energy Board, OK’d the project last month after two years of hearings and research, saying the ultimate benefit to Canadians outweighs the potential problems.

The final decision still rests with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.

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Richard Skermer started Connect 2 Edmonton in 2003 and said the hottest topic on the forum was the debate about the City Centre airport. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

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Metro | Edmonton A popular online forum for those extra passionate about Edmonton is being brought back from life support with the help of readers.

Connect 2 Edmonton, an online discussion page created in 2003, was about to be switched off a week ago, but it’s likely to return now after supporters unexpectedly raised $8,000 through

a Go Fund me campaign.

Richard Skermer, who has been running Connect 2 Edmonton since 2003, said at its peak, the site saw 50,000 to 60,000 visitors per day and about 300 regular commenters.

But in the last while Skermer said the website — styled like Reddit, but created long before that website became well known — was becoming too much to keep up with.

“It had to be put on hiatus for a bit anyways, because it’s been just been me running for it for a period of time.”

But Skermer said with the money he’s now looking at ways to bring Connect 2 Edmonton back online.

Chris Vazquez, who started the fundraising, said he checks

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the website daily and wanted to help Skermer keep it around.

“He’s a pretty selfless person and he never wanted to ask people for money, so I was worried that was going to be the end of it, so I had to ask,” he said.

Vazquez said he initially set out to raise $1,000, but people quickly surpassed that mark and it now sits over $8,000.

He said the website offers a detailed look at what’s going on in the city and informed debate.

“I love seeing things changing in Edmonton and insider information and things like that,” he said. “It’s really the only place to get that kind of insight in Edmonton.”

Skermer said he built the site to be a place where people could talk about the city.

“The whole point of this thing was to be an honest to goodness conversation, like a town hall,” he said.

Several politicians, including former mayor Stephen Mandel, have answered questions on the forum and Skermer said people were always impressed with the level of debate.

“The questions were articulate. They were very detailed and they required detailed responses.”

The biggest losers of the provincial NDP’s carbon tax will be couples who are supporting kids or relatives, according to a University of Calgary researcher.

On Thursday, Jennifer Winter, area director of energy and environment at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy, outlined her co-authored study that analyzed which Albertans will and won’t reap the benefits of the government’s carbon-tax rebates.

Based on looking at families who make a total income of $107,300, Winter said the study suggests fewer than 50 per cent of all families in Alberta will be eligible for a full rebate, which is well below the province’s promise of 66 per cent.

But that’s where the province disagrees.

In an email, the Ministry of Environment said the government will base rebates on net income — as defined for tax purposes — not total income, which the U of C used based on 2013 Statistics Canada data.

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However, Winter said it’s still not clear whether the rebate will be enough to fully compensate households in Alberta, given the expected increases in costs associated with the carbon tax.

The government and the paper do agree on one thing: the rebates will offset additional direct costs from the carbon levy for lowerand middle-income Albertans.

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Local writer aims to conquer fear Self-help

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I’ve known what I’ve wanted to do since I was a teenager, but have talked myself out of pursuing my goals on a near constant basis,� she writes on her blog.

So she’s taking a cue from Eleanor Roosevelt, best known as a longtime American First Lady, but who also flew with Amelia Earhart, helped draft the Universal Bill of Human Rights and worked for expanded rights for women.

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Crown didn’t prove its case against accused in couple’s death: Defence The lawyer for a man accused of killing two great-grandparents, burning their motor home and hiding their bodies said the case against his client is just speculation.

Brian Beresh told a court in Edmonton that the Crown has failed to prove the most basic elements of its case against Travis Vader and is relying almost entirely on a theory that things “must have happened this way.” “‘Must have happened his way’ was the standard applied by vigilante groups that often executed the wrong person,” Beresh told Justice Denny Thomas in his closing arguments Thursday.

“There is an absence of fundamental evidence in this case upon which you could ever convict Mr. Vader.”

Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, who were in their late 70s when they vanished while on their way to a family camping trip in 2010.

The Crown argues Vader was a desperate drug user living in a makeshift camp when he came across the McCanns and killed them. But Beresh — arguing in

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front of a packed courtroom with many members of the McCann family present — pointed out that without the bodies of the McCanns, there’s no real proof the couple is even dead.

He took a similar tack with other pieces of Crown evidence.

He said there’s nothing to prove, for example, that Vader ever actually had the McCanns’ cell phone, used the day of their disappearance, to place calls to Vader’s ex-girlfriend.

Beresh suggested that two key

Crown witnesses, who identified an SUV Vader was driving as similar to one owned by the McCanns, had conspired against his client and lied about the identification. He said the keys to the McCanns’ SUV could have been planted there by police.

The keys, Beresh said, were discovered long after the truck was first found and searched.

“We suggest those keys were not present when the vehicle was taken to the storage yard.”

DNA evidence placing Vader inside the McCann’s SUV is sketchy at best, Beresh said, and doesn’t prove anything more than Vader was at one time near the vehicle. Drops of Lyle McCann’s blood, which were found on his hat, could have come from the nosebleeds to which the man was prone.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Ashley Finlayson acknowledged the Crown’s case was circumstantial, but he asked Thomas “to consider the totality of the evidence as a whole.”

The trial is now in its fourth month. Thomas has heard testimony from more than 80 witnesses and examined about 200 exhibits. the canadian press

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Dr. Carrie Kollias, a Lethbridge orthopedic surgeon, brought her two children to the courthouse and carried placards with messages. THE CANADIAN PRESS

rendered by the group in 1999.

The suggestion comes after cyclists have expressed concerns about space on the busy bridge, after the city installed suicide barriers that have narrowed the pathways.

“It has definitely been around for a long time,” said Chris Chan, executive director of the group, of the idea for the upper deck pathway.

“We have kind of revived the idea as a potential solution to some of the congestion issues we are having now.”

Currently, the upper deck is used only by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society to run the High Level Bridge Street Car between May and October.

Chan said the streetcar tracks could be moved to make way for the pathway idea, but it wouldn’t have to be.

“Even without re-aligning the streetcar tracks you have

got at least a couple of metres on either side of it,” he said.

And he said it wouldn’t just be a piece of cycling infrastructure.

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Chan stressed that they don’t know how much such a project would cost, but want to start the conversation so it could potentially be included in the city’s next four-year capital budget.

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On Wednesday, Coun. Scott McKeen asked administration for a report on the suicide barriers on the bridge, asking about options to address the narrow pathways.

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Wildrose responds to unite-right rumour Calgary MP Jason Kenney’s rumoured plan to come home to unite Alberta’s two right-leaning provincial parties is shaping up to be a bumpy ride.

After the Progressive Conservatives made it clear Tuesday they are looking for a leader but aren’t keen to merge, the Wildrose caucus announced Wednesday it’s happy to link up — but only under its banner and with its leader, Brian Jean, at the helm.

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The Wildrose declined to make Jean or anyone with the caucus available for an interview.

A day earlier the Progressive Conservatives, responding to rumours Kenney was poised to announce a run for the party leadership, reiterated that delegates at the recent annual general meeting “passed a motion that party efforts be centred around rebuilding the Progressive Conservative brand, rather than uniting with another party.” the canadian press

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Designers to battle it out in building competition There will be hand saws, and hammers and, at the end of it all, a lot of street furniture.

The 15th annual street furniture competition runs this Saturday in Churchill Square, offering onlookers the chance to smell wood being cut as young and hip designers take on the challenge of designing, then building, street furniture in teams.

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Previous competitions have build it within the six hour seen teams create benches, time-window. Do not expect to chairs, bike racks and all man- hear electric saws or otherwise; ner of other projects, he said. another rule is that only hand “Some people have made tools can be used to build the pieces like rocking chairs, bench- furniture.

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Premier Rachel Notley says having an oversized picture of her face tacked onto a cardboard target for golf balls is not the Alberta that she knows.

“This kind of thing does not reflect the vast majority of Albertans, I know that,” Notley told reporters at the legislature Thursday.

“I think political debate is great. I think (having) political differences is great … but I think that the best way to deal with that is through intelligent, thoughtful, respectful dialogue and debate.

“It’s more important to put the facts in front of the anger.”

Notley was responding to the picture propped up on the Brooks golf course last Friday for an oilmen’s golf tournament. It was meant to be a target for golfers. A video later posted online depicted a dash-cam-style shot of laughing golfers running it over.

A picture of the target posted on social media last Saturday prompted angry denunciations from some members of Notley’s government and reignited the larger discussion of threats against female politicians.

Ernest Bothi, creator of the sign and the organizer of the Big Country Oilmen’s Association golf tournament, initially told reporters he had nothing to be sorry about. But, as the outrage grew, he apologized for offending anyone.

He said the sign was meant as lighthearted fun. He said people he knows are upset with job losses due to low oil prices and feel Notley’s government has failed to address those issues. Stepha n i e M c L e a n , Al b e r t a ’ s minister for the status of women, condemned the sign as did Wildrose member Derek Fildebrandt. the canadian press

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Duffy still on hook for expenses The interminable spectre of the Mike Duffy spending scandal reared its ugly head yet again Thursday as the Senate found itself once more locked in a battle with the controversial senator over dubious expenses.

This time, however, the expenses in question were from claims well-canvassed during Duffy’s criminal trial, which ended earlier this year in his sensational acquittal on 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery.

In that acquittal, Ontario Court Judge Charles Vaillancourt excoriated the Senate for spending rules that lacked clarity and oversight, allowing senators to claim expenses for anything related to what they deemed Senate business.

The Senate committee that polices spending has asked Duffy to repay seven of his claims totalling $16,955, despite last April’s court decision.

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late March that a senator has been asked to reimburse questionable spending — an order Duffy is fighting and could soon be entitled to take up with a special arbitrator. The arbitration process was originally set up to handle disputes arising from a federal audit of Senate spending — a review that missed Duffy initially, because he was under RCMP investigation and facing criminal charges.

Duffy has been subject to an audit once before on Senate orders, by auditing firm Deloitte.

That 2013 audit looked only at his housing expenses and ended with a Senate committee ordering Duffy to repay $90,000, which he did after then-prime minister Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, gave him the cash in order to take away a potential political headache for the Conservative government.

Some senators on the committee tasked with oversight of

Senate spending wanted auditor general Michael Ferguson to come back and review more of Duffy’s spending, but the majority of committee members opted against rekindling the controversy.

But details that emerged during Duffy’s trial led Senate administrators to take another look at his spending, with the head of Senate finance alerting the Senate’s internal economy committee to the questionable claims.

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Two people who fell ill while working at the U.S. research station at the South Pole have been evacuated by a Canadianowned Twin Otter turboprop plane that made the daring rescue flight in Antarctica’s harsh winter.

The National Science Foundation said the two workers arrived safely late Wednesday in Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in Chile, after a long trip from the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole. They stopped for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica to be put on another plane.

“From Punta Arenas, the two patients aboard will be transported to a medical facility that can provide a level of care that is not available at Amundsen-Scott,” said a statement from the National Sci-

Head scarf in refugee Pilots make daring South Pole rescue ad raises concerns bers of the general public who were reluctant to accept refugees by reinforcing some negative stereotypes associated with Syrian refugees,” said a report on the discussions, posted online recently. Those who liked the picture said it sent an important message.

“The image showing a mother and a child was seen to elicit compassion and showed the love of a mother for her child … It elicited a desire to help them make a better living in Canada.”

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All eyes on Brexit results

The world watched with bated breath as the polls closed Thursday in Britain’s historic referendum on membership in the European Union. Throughout the night, results were too close to call. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The British pound plunged to a 31-year low Friday as results in the country’s European Union referendum gave the “leave” side a small but growing lead.

The figures delivered a deep shock to financial markets, overturning earlier anticipation of a narrow victory for “remain.”

The pound initially soared as polls closed and two opinion surveys put “remain” ahead and two leading supporters of the “leave” campaign said it appeared the pro-EU side had won.

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ided nation: Strong pro-EU votes in the economic and cultural powerhouse of London and semi-autonomous Scotland were countered by sweeping anti-Establishment sentiment for an exit across the rest of England, from southern seaside towns to rust-belt former industrial powerhouses in the north.

“A lot of people’s grievances are coming out and we have got to start listening to them,” said deputy Labour Party leader John McDonnell.

With more than 16 million of an expected 30 million votes counted, the result was closely split, with the “leave” ahead by a few hundred thousand votes — and “remain” underperforming analysts’ expectations.

“Few ‘remain’ strongholds

are doing better than expected,” said John Curtice, a University of Strathclyde political scientist and BBC election analyst.

“There are far more places where ‘leave’ are doing better than expected.”

“It may be possible that the experts are going to have egg on their face later on tonight,” he said.

A vote to leave the EU would destabilize the 28-nation trading bloc, created from the ashes of World War II to keep the peace in Europe. A “remain” vote would nonetheless leave Britain divided and the EU scrambling to reform.

The Betfair market predicted an 81 per cent chance of Britain leaving the EU, and bookies made Brexit the favourite outcome for the first time.

First results England’s workingclass northeast returned a smaller-than-expected “remain” win of 50.7 per cent in Newcastle and a bigger-than-expected “leave” vote of 61 per cent in nearby Sunderland.

In Wales, the first four results showed 54 per cent in favour of “leave.”

Northern Ireland’s first five voting areas were all for “remain.”

The “remain” vote was ahead in Scotland, although turnout there was below average.

Staff count ballot papers at the count centre at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday after polls closed in the referendum. AFP/Getty Images

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The results of Thursday’s Brexit referendum will send ripples around the globe. If the U.K. leaves the European Union, the news could hit Canadians on a number of fronts: Fewer exports Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Canadian businesses that invested in the U.K. to access the European market may be forced to rethink their strategies.

“We’re watching in Canada and we’re anxious,” Morneau said. Canada could also lose out on some of the benefits of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the country’s trade agreement with the EU. Canada exported almost $16 billion worth of products to the U.K. in 2015, or about three per cent of total exports, which

makes it Canada’s third-largest trading partner behind the U.S. and China.

If the U.K. stays in the EU, that means big savings for Canadian businesses. But if the U.K. leaves, it would have to negotiate its own deal with Canada, a lengthy process that could take decades.

Lower returns Canadian Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has warned that a Brexit could trigger financial instability in the country. That’s bad news for Canadians with investments in the U.K. Canadians invested almost $69 billion in the U.K. in 2014, according to Statistics Canada, or 8.3 per cent of foreign investment.

Many Canadians also have money tied up in Britain through retirement funds such

as the Canada Pension Plan.

According to the CPP Investment Board, about $20 billion, or 7.5 per cent of the plan’s assets, are in the U.K. Stronger U.S. dollar A Brexit could throw the British economy into turmoil, weakening the pound against the U.S. dollar.

U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen warned that a hike to the dollar caused by European uncertainty could slow the U.S. economy by discouraging trade.

And a stronger U.S. dollar would make it even more expensive to travel in the U.S., throwing a curve ball in Canadian’s summer vacation plans.

Housing market stays hot A Brexit could further fuel Canada’s white-hot housing market, according to BMO

We’re watching in Canada and we’re anxious.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau

Nesbitt Burns, because global market uncertainty caused by Brexit might keep interests rates low.

“In that event, the Fed will remain on ice even longer and Canadian rates will again probe all-time lows, keeping mortgage rates at an extremely low ebb and thus further fanning the flames in the domestic housing market,” said BMO chief economist Douglas Porter and senior economist Robert Kavcic.

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Republicans refuse to give in to calls for tighter rules Exhausted but exuberant, House Democrats vowed to fight on for gun control Thursday as they ended their highdrama House floor sit-in with songs, prayers and defiant predictions of success. Republicans offered a dose of political reality, denying House Democratic demands and holding a Senate vote designed to show a bipartisan gun compromise can’t pass.

“They’re trying to get on TV,” House Speaker Paul Ryan complained in an angry denunciation of the Democrats’ 25-hour occupation of the Capitol chamber.

Ryan said the House would not be giving in to Democrats’ calls for votes on legislation expanding background checks for gun buyers and keeping people on the no-fly list from getting guns in the wake of the Orlando shooting. .

Yet while they may have lost the legislative battles at hand,

Public relations success The public could see it all, because even after Republicans shut off the cameras in the House chamber, Democrats began recording the action on their cellphones, and C-SPAN and other networks carried the feeds.

Rep. John Lewis, from left, Rep. Joseph Crowley, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Charles Rangel sing “We Shall Overcome” on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, after House Democrats ended their sit-in protest. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Baltimore Judge Barry Williams ruled Thursday that the state failed to prove Officer Caesar Goodson committed murder, manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment or misconduct in office.

Goodson was the only one of the six officers charged in Gray’s death to be accused of murder. He’s the second to be found not guilty, and another officer’s case ended in a mistrial.

The judge said Goodson wouldn’t have been able to determine whether Gray was injured between the second and fifth stops on the 45-minute trip, because only after the van finally arrived at the Western District station house did officers observe Gray with blood and saliva on his face.

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On Thursday Democrats streamed onto the steps of the East Front of the Capitol, where cheering crowds welcomed them. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights icon who helped lead the sit-in, urged the crowd not to give up and to vote in the fall elections.

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nesday. Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero this month attempted to mediate between the government and its opposition.

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down on his existing approach to the opposition, and denouncing any country he believes is meddling in his country’s affairs. The government brought charges against two more opposition activists this week, and officials have said the presidential recall referendum will not be held this year.

When he called the meeting, Almagro invoked the OAS’ Democratic Charter, a tool former President Hugo Chavez supported when it was approved 15 years ago to give the body a way to punish governments that became too autocratic. It was used to temporarily suspend Honduras after a 2009 military coup.

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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH TURF TOE? Toronto Blue Jays star Jose Bautista lost a fight with a solid wall at the edge of the outfield during a game against the Phillies in Philadelphia last week. He smashed right into it, foot first, and was diagnosed with turf toe. He earned himself a 15-day disability leave and has to wear a walking boot.

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HOW DOES TURF TOE HAPPEN? The most common way is hyperextension: As the foot is smashed into the ground (or, say, an outfield wall), the large big-toe joint bends too far upward, outside of its natural range of motion.

The big toe (or, to use medical lingo, the great toe or Hallux) is one of the leading sources of athletic injuries. Without a functioning big toe, an athlete can lose “push-off strength” — aka Bautista’s ability to sail off of first base.

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It’s reasonable to assume that a great portion of the extraterrestrial life that’s out there, if there is any, is single-celled and looks something like pond scum.

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Apocalyptic plot lines help audiences deal with stress Richard Crouse

For Metro Canada In today’s world it’s not enough to be a hero. Now you must be a superhero. Liberating a cat from a tree or performing the Heimlich manoeuvre is considered HeroLite™.

Unlike the old days when

square-jawed movie stars rescued damsels in distress or battled cold-hearted landlords, today’s champions won’t get out of bed for anything less than the threat of complete world annihilation.

This weekend the heroes of Independence Day: Resurgence join Mystique, Quicksilver, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, Captain America and legendary do-gooders Batman and Superman in some good, old-fashioned world saving.

The 20-years-in-the-making sequel to Will Smith’s megahit sees aliens from outside the Solar System attack our planet. It’s life and death on

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a planetary scale.

It’s not a surprise the stories are getting larger and louder.

Audiences want a big bang for their buck and Hollywood is pleased to oblige with highstakes situations that provide frenetic action and happy endings (unless, of course you’re rooting for the bad guy).

These days Hollywood also

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looks to overseas markets for mega-revenue and presenting globe-spanning stories helps to attract crowds in other countries. Business aside, why have audiences embraced world-onthe-brink movies?

Films, says Dr. Norman Holland, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida, work on

different parts of your brain.

“The parts that turn off are the parts that plan action because you’re not going to act on what you see on the screen in front of you,” he says.

“You accept the most improbable things, like Stars Wars or Spider-Man or whatever.

“At the same time the lower centres of your brain are generating emotions like mad in response to what you’re seeing.

This is the peculiar phenomenon that you can feel and care about these people on the screen while at the same time knowing they are nothing but a fiction.”

In these heroic tales good almost always wins out, a com-

forting antidote to the nightly news where stories often don’t have happy endings. It makes us feel good, but, as Dr. Holland notes, it’s also restful.

“As you know they are redesigning movie theatres with recliner chairs so you can sleep through the movie,” he says.

“Yes, it is relaxing. This is the part of your brain that worries, that plans for the future, that is concerned about the state of your body.

“All that shuts down. It’s restful, no question.”

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The amiable David Farrier doesn’t want to be talking to me right now. The New Zealand director was in our hemisphere to chat up his documentary Tickled.

“I wish I wasn’t doing this now,” he says.

“I wish there was no trailer.

I wish there was no reviews. I wish people could hear about this thing called Tickled, a film about the sport of competitive endurance tickling and say, ‘I’ve got nothing on, let’s go to the movies and see what happens.’ That’s the dream. I wanted people to feel like they were on the same what the f—? journey I was with (co-director) Dylan (Reeve) when we made the film.”

The story of Tickled begins when Farrier, a self-described “light fluffy journalist,” came across a strange tickling video on the internet.

Thinking it would make a good story he contacted the makers of the video requesting an interview.

“I’m always trying to find a story no one has seen before,” he says.

“I’ve been doing this for 10 years now and it’s harder and harder to do that because everyone on Facebook is sharing the craziest things. But when I came across this tickling video alarm bells went off. You’ve got these young, model-esque men in

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is by his own admission a “fetish filmmaker.”

This is not to say that his movies are choked with too-tightcorsets, PVC cat suits, 12-inch stiletto heels and riding crops, though you certainly might find these objects of erotic fixation littered about his pictures. No, the enfant terrible of the arthouse defines the term “fetish” in a much more singular way.

“To me, being a fetish filmmaker simply means I shoot what I want to see,” Refn tells Metro. My goodness, what sights he sees in The Neon Demon.

Refn’s latest fever dream is a slow-burning supernova of style-gone-sinister, an opulent wallow in the feral underbelly of the L.A. fashion model industry that serves as an excuse for Refn to saturate the screen with arch femininity, color, glitter and blood. Lots and lots of blood.

In it, actress Elle Fanning plays Jesse, a naïve waif who appears in Hollywood in search of a fantasy and instead finds a monstrous cabal of parasites who feed off her energy, literally and figuratively.

Her transformation from an innocent to a sociopathic zombie plays out like a perversion of The Wizard Of Oz by way of Suspiria and is a film perhaps only Refn could have made.

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bright Adidas clothes in a stark white room. One of them is tied down with shackles and they’re tickling and having a great time.

“It jumped out at me because I genuinely thought it must be some sort of Adidas sponsored (video). I thought it was legit. It wasn’t shot on a cell phone. It wasn’t shot in someone’s bedroom. It was shot in a studio and that costs money to rent.

Aesthetically, it grabbed me.”

When the video maker was slow to respond via email Farrier contacted them through a public Facebook page and that is when the story got weird, troubling and took on the aura of a thriller.

Imagine Michael Clayton with tickling and you get the idea.

The documentary sheds light in the dark corners of competitive endurance tickling.

There’s alleged cyberbullying, blackmail and catfishing involved as Farrier takes viewers deeper

into the subject matter.

“This company does so many strange things,” Farrier says of the outfit that hosts the endurance tickling contests. “I have to talk about it in obscure language, I’m sure you understand.

Part of it is the game. They love tickling but, as it came out, they love bullying and abusing and derailing lives as well.

“When I came along I was another target.”

Farrier says being the subject of threatening lawsuits didn’t concern him too much. “It’s been two years now and I am so used to threats. Other things keep me up at night. Also, I’m an entertainment journalist from New Zealand. I don’t have money.”

But the documentary subjects have been persistent. At the Los Angeles premiere last Friday, two men who feature in the documentary — David D’Amato and Kevin Clarke — confronted Reeve

(Farrier was not at the premiere) and accused the pair of using recorded material they had agreed was off the record.

The circumstance that inspired his documentary is “an unusual thing,” says Farrier.

“I still can’t believe this happened,” but he thinks the movie has messages beyond its obvious examination of cyber bullying.

“Hopefully those who come along will learn the simple lesson that not everything is as it seems,” he says.

“If you are engaged in anything on the internet, look into it before you dive in. On a slightly cheesy level, just be yourself.

“If you are into something, as long as you’re not hurting anyone, be loud and proud about it.

“Try and have that confidence.

“We’re living in 2016 and we have a long way to go but if you can, try and be yourself, it will help you. Repression is bad.”

order,” Refn admits.

“So, I was kind of figuring it out as I went. It quickly began to become apparent that it was more exciting to me to have this duel relationship between Jesse and herself. You know, on one hand she can be this deer in the headlights and then, on another hand, she can be an evil Dorothy. I think there are clues in the movie to this transformation that pop up again and again and again.”

The Neon Demon grew organically out of a previously announced project, a horror film called I Walk With The Dead that was intended to reunite the director with his Drive star Carey Mulligan. But, in true fetish filmmaker fashion, Refn’s attentions began to drift in pre-production and soon, he switched gears and began fixating on making a darker, more abstract sort of shocker. “(The Neon Demon) kind of jumped out of that project and became something else,” says the director. “I switched interests, which usually happens with me.

I wanted to make something different, so I took all of my original ideas that I liked from the first film concept and continued evolving it and adding to it. It became The Neon Demon, naturally.”

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I was certain that a great white shark resided under my bed.

That my father hid outside my bedroom door humming a twonote tune — duh-dah — might’ve contributed to this fallacy.

Blake Lively recently said that The Shallows, a film opening Friday in which she stars as a woman trapped on a rock surrounded by sea battling a shark, isn’t just “a survival movie, an isolation story,” but also one that addresses the environment: “Because of climate change and global warming,” the 28-year-old former Gossip Girl said, “what was once in the deep is now in the shallows.”

I’m not sure I got that from the trailer, which was nonetheless appealing. I mean, Blake Lively vs. a great white shark? OK! Film critic and industry pundit Scott Mendelson agrees: “It does seem like a perfect summer movie,” he recently wrote in Forbes, “and of course it was a glorified B-movie horror thriller about a giant shark that kickstarted the modern summer movie season in the first place.”

That was exactly 41 years ago on June 20, 1975. Jaws, which put then 27-year-old director Steven Spielberg on the map, opened in just over 400 theatres but became the highest grossing film in history.

I don’t remember where I first saw it but for close to a solid year when I was five (Jaws was rated PG) I was certain that a great white shark resided under my bed. That my father hid outside my bedroom door humming a two-note tune — duh-dah — might’ve contributed to this fallacy.

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve seen it. But I do know that when my brother and I were teenagers, with little to say to each other, we’d swap lines of dialogue from the film instead of having an actual conversation.

That they were mostly bits of monologues delivered by Quint, the Orca fishing boat’s salty captain played by Robert Shaw, hardly mattered.

We also became life-long devotees of early Spielberg films and revelled in learning about the movie-making mythology that Jaws is steeped in: how a film shoot with a relatively small budget with three malfunctioning

mechanical sharks — collectively nicknamed Bruce, after Spielberg’s lawyer — became a global phenomenon winning three Academy Awards.

And yes, some say this original summer blockbuster was the beginning of the end of art house films. I say: “It’s a masterpiece! The performances, especially Roy Scheider’s as Brody, are extraordinary! Let’s watch it tonight!”

Simon says: “Again?”

“How about just the DVD bonus material?” I pleaded, while we prepared summer sausage sandwiches — another seasonal staple in our home — with corn relish, tomato, onion, lettuce, cheddar, mustard and Simon’s mom’s extraordinary dill pickles.

That they require no cooking was a bonus because the first day of summer reached a high of 35 degrees.

I stacked my sandwich real high with toppings. Meanwhile, Simon stacked three.

Three giant sandwiches.

“You’re gonna need a bigger plate!” I said. “Ha ha ha!”

We watched the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup instead.

Ben Affleck launches epic ‘Deflategate’ rant Ben Affleck gave former ESPN personality Bill Simmons’ new HBO talk show a lively start with a fiveminute, expletive-filled rant on “Deflategate.” During an interview on the Wednesday episode of Any Given Wednesday, Affleck criticized the NFL and its commissioner, Roger Goodell, for suspending New England Patriots quarter-

back Tom Brady for using underinflated balls during a 2015 playoff game. The New England-raised Affleck called the issue a “ridiculous smear campaign” and questioned Goodell’s integrity. Affleck’s appearance is being heavily discussed on social media. Some said he appeared to be drunk, while others said he was just an angry and passionate Patriots fan.

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Gary Ross on his three biggest movies: Seabiscuit (2003) “It was a wonderful world,” said Ross of the Oscarnominated true story of a beloved racehorse. “I loved shooting on the race tracks. It was very athletic in every respect — with the filmmaking and the subject matter itself.”

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For Metro Canada When you see a movie that claims to be “based on a true story”, do you often wonder just how much of it is fact versus fiction?

So does Gary Ross.

That’s partially why the filmmaker behind the new Civil War-era drama Free State of Jones has designed his movie’s website to defiantly outline in detail what was unofficial and what was authentic.

“It’s a true companion piece to the film and they really do go together,” explained the four-time Oscar-nominee from New York.

“There’s a higher burden in this. I think the civil war is used as a political instrument by people who have

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present-tense agendas so I thought it was very important to be transparent so that it didn’t become a topic of debate or people pulling at

one end of the political rope or the other.”

While the biography of Newton Knight (who united runaway slaves and farmers

to rebel against the Confederacy) may be set in the distant mid-19th Century, the story’s themes are surprisingly still current.

In fact, the drama’s issues of race and class are eerily poignant in the wake of last year’s Confederate flag debate — reason enough for Ross to be vigilant with accuracy.

“You can’t treat it glibly,” said Ross, who realizes much of history is now absorbed by

means other than textbooks.

“Because people get so much of their information from pop culture, there is a responsibility to apply a certain kind of rigor to it.”

Casting Matthew McConaughey was a crucial component in the movie’s credibility as well.

Not only does the Texan actor look related to the Southern freedom fighter, but he’s clearly a thespian who care-

everyway,” said Ross of his first screenplay. “There was just a feeling of newness and enthusiasm that I think both informed the subject matter and the experience.”

The Hunger Games (2012) “Shooting that movie was really fun,” recalled Ross, who directed the first of the sci-fi franchise. “One the reasons I didn’t move on with the sequels was that Jones was such a labour of love.”

fully chooses his roles. “He’s very, very focused.

“He has a lot of rigor in his process and he’s incredibly prepared,” said Ross of the Oscar-winning star.

“There’s so many millions of things that go into shaping a culture, a person that you can’t just replicate in the acting process so I was very lucky to have somebody with his stature, with his depth of talent who could do this.”

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ation, says Fleming. Listen closely and you’ll hear him distinctively halt his speech after nearly every phrase.

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Ser Davos Ser Davos Seaworth is played by Irish-born Liam Cunningham “who has a very thick Irish accent,” says Fleming. He is “one of the only people on the show who puts on a Geordie accent, which is from Newcastle … right up in the northeast, near the Scottish border.”

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Metro | Canada The voices in Game of Thrones are often as colourful as the characters themselves, and if you’ve ever looked in the bathroom mirror and given it your best “You know nothing Jon Snow,” you’re not alone.

John Fleming is a speech and dialect coach based in Toronto who teaches actors the ins and outs of accents and affectations. A Game of Thrones fan himself, he uses some Westerosi patios when he’s working with actors.

Sounding out Westeros A map of Westeros — which looks suspiciously like Great Britain — will clue you in on who speaks with what kind of accent. The northern end of

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the fictional continent is, aurally speaking, analogous to the north of England, and so on.

“They’ve separated the seven kingdoms, to a degree, by dialect,” explains Fleming. “So all the people from Winterfell speak with a northern accent; something a little bit closer to Manchester or up in that belt between Manchester and

Scotland.” Think: Ned Stark, Jon Snow.

“It works well geographically compared to the Lannisters,” who all speak with what’s called Received Pronunciation — the standard British accent associated with posh southerners.

While most GoT actors do hail from the U.K., many are

masking their natural accents in favour of one that better fits their character. Here, Fleming helps us connect the dots between fictional characters and real-world speech.

Tyrion Lannister The outcast Lannister is a great example of an American putting on Received Pronunci-

Petyr Baelish, a.k.a Little Finger Aiden Gillan plays the former Master of Coin and brothel keeper everyone loves to hate. “He’s Irish,” notes Fleming, “but in The Wire, he spoke with perfect general American, even a little bit tinged with Baltimore.”

He notes a deliberate change in the actor’s pronunciation as the show goes on. “When he was in King’s

Landing during the first couple of seasons, he spoke something that was quite close to Received Pronunciation. As soon as he left King’s Landing, you started to hear more of his Irish qualities.”

Ygritte Fleming tells us actress Rose Leslie is actually Scottish nobility, who was educated in England. Her natural speech is fairly English, “but she puts on that very quintessential northern English accent” for the role.

Oberyn Martell The Martell’s accent is “a little bit Spanish, and a little bit Arabic and so it gives it this kind of Northern African feel. It fits with the design elements they’re going with” for Dorne, Fleming says.

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At the War Photo exhibit in Dubrovnik, there’s an image that stands out: a sweeping staircase, eerily deserted during shelling that destroyed more than 60 per cent of the medieval walled city after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

Two decades on, and this UNESCO heritage site has been restored to its former glory as the jewel of the Adriatic. And that staircase — now packed with tourists taking selfies — is known to millions of people around the world: It’s where Cersei Lannister begins her “walk of shame” on Game of Thrones.

The TV series — based on the fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire and distributed by HBO — is filmed in multiple locations, from Iceland to Ireland, Morocco and Spain. In season one, the fictional fortified port city of King’s Landing was filmed in Malta, but has now made its home in Dubrovnik (my GoT guide tells me it’s because of significant tax breaks offered in Croatia).

But it’s more than that. Sure, there’s a lot of CGI in GoT — like dragons, White Walkers and such — but it wasn’t hard

Dubrovnik (above) is a stand-in for King’s Landing, while Klis Fortress near Split (left) serves as the road to Meereen.

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to transform Dubrovnik into the stronghold of the Lannister family, which uses the city’s existing medieval fortifications, guard towers and narrow streets to double as King’s Landing.

They’re the real deal.

Like this staircase, where Cersei begins her walk of shame in “Mother’s Mercy.” Just add an angry crowd, a High Sparrow and a naked Cersei — and voilà.

In fact, actress Lena Headey, who was pregnant at the time, used a body double for this scene, though she did multiple takes to act out the facial expressions — and, through the magic of post-production, her head appears on the body double.

Several key scenes were filmed in the Old Town: at the Pile and Ploče gate, on St. Dominika street and along the

city walls. Wander the streets and you might stumble upon Littlefinger’s brothel, or walk in Daenerys’ footsteps around Minčeta Tower where she disappears into the House of the Undying in Qarth.

Dubrovnik’s Fort Lavrijenac was a stand-in for the Red Keep, and a number of scenes were filmed here, including the tournament thrown in honour of

King Joffrey’s name day and the spot where The Hound saves Sansa from being raped.

Not only do you get a stunning view of the Adriatic Sea from atop Fort Lavrijenac, you’ll also notice a parking lot on a dramatic rocky outcropping. Sure, it’s a cool spot for a parking lot, but it’s also where Joffrey’s wedding/death scene was shot.

The nearby Island of Lokrum was used for scenes in Qarth.

And Arboretum Trsteno — a renaissance garden dating back to the 15th century — doubles as the gardens of King’s Landing.

They’re relatively untouched by CGI; you almost expect Varys to walk around the corner.

Dubrovnik isn’t the only Croatian location used in GoT, though. Split, further north on the Dalmatian coast, doubles as Meereen. Within Split’s historic Diocletian’s Palace, several scenes were filmed: from the dungeon where Tyrion unchains Daenerys’ dragons to the spot where Ser Barristan is slain.

Head into the countryside to the ruins of Klis Fortress and you’ll easily recognize the road to Meereen, where Daenerys freed the slaves and, later, crucified the masters. The fortress has a history just as interesting as a fictional story: ask your GoT guide about the “sky toilet.”

Wandering through Croatia’s historic sites, it may feel like you’re on the set of GoT (there’s even a replica of the iron throne on Lokrum). But while the night may be dark and full of terrors, Croatia is anything but.

travel notes BLUES, views AND A SHINING LIGHT Elvis’s Hawaii haunt gets a facelift

Work has finally begun on rebuilding the storied resort where Elvis Presley’s character got married in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii, decades after a major hurricane damaged its buildings. The company redeveloping Coco Palms Resort began demolishing structures this week. It hopes to reopen the hotel in mid-2018. It initially opened in 1953 next to a historic coconut grove and an ancient Hawaiian fishpond.

The grounds were once home to Kauai’s last queen. the associated press

Penn Station’s off-therails thriller

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Catching a train at New York’s crowded Penn Station is no thrill. But a development team has proposed a novel plan to overhaul the station: Build a 1,200-foot thrill ride on top of it and pay for renovations by charging $35 a ticket. Plans were submitted after Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo put out a request in January for proposals to renovate the rail hub, which handles more than 650,000 passengers daily, he called “a blight on the greatest city in the world.” the associated press

Lighting candles on 300th birthday

The planned Halo thrill ride. the associated press

Boston Light, the first and oldest lighthouse station in the U.S., is marking 300 years of warning mariners as they navigate the tricky waters of Boston Harbor. A summer celebrating the milestone kicks off this weekend with the National Park Service’s ranger-led tours resuming Friday for the season. “Not many things are 300 years old in this country,” said Coast Guard Lt. Karen Love Kutkiewicz, who is helping to plan the anniversary celebrations. “It’s a really big deal.” the associated press

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American Auston Matthews is expected to go first overall, followed by Finns Patrik Laine and Jesse Puljujarvi.

Brown may be anxious but the well-spoken 18-year-old is mature enough to keep things On the eve of finding out his in perspective. hockey future, Logan Brown ad“When you look at it closely, mitted to a case of the nerves. it’s tough and it’s stressful. But “It’s tough,” said the six-foot- when you really look back and six, 220-pound centre from the you look at the position that Windsor Spitfires. “Like it’s the we’re in, it’s going to be awegreatest time of my life, but it’s some. We’re getting drafted also the worst. I’m ready for it in the NHL (Friday) night. It’s to happen. Just real anxious.” what I’ve been working for for Brown likely won’t have about 16 years now.” to wait long.

Against a backdrop of The big centre from ChesterLake Erie, with field, Mo., who the Edmund M. is the son of Cotter fireboat former NHLer spouting water Jeff Brown, is nearby for ranked seventh show, top prosamong North pects met the American skatmedia Thursers by NHL Cenday afternoon. tral Scouting.

While Brown It’s a once-in-aCanadian admitted to lifetime thing ... I butterflies, it teams will figu r e p r o m i n - definitely don’t take seemed just another day ently in Friday it for granted. at the office night’s draft, Auston Matthews with Toronto for Matthews. picking first, The six-footWinnipeg second, Edmonton two 216-pound centre, who fourth, Vancouver fifth, Cal- excelled playing in the top gary sixth, Montreal ninth and Swiss league last season, was Ottawa 12th. as cool as a cucumber in front But Canadian talent may of the media. have to wait its turn behind “I’m definitely enjoying it,” U.S. and other foreign players. he said of the pre-draft experi-

Canadian carry high picks at draft

Simmons goes to Philly The Philadelphia 76ers selected LSU freshman Ben Simmons with the No. 1 pick Thursday night as the NBA draft opened with three straight freshmen.

The 76ers grabbed the versatile six-foot-10 forward from Australia who averaged 19.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 4.8 assists to become the only player in SEC history to finish in the top five in all three categories.

He comes with some questions — he made only one three-pointer — but too much potential for the 76ers to pass up with their first No. 1 pick since taking Allen Iverson 20 years ago.

“It feels amazing, honestly,” Simmons said. “I can’t even — my legs were shak- Ben ing when I was Simmons Getty Images on stage.”

Jamal Murray of Kitchener, Ont., was selected seventh overall by the Denver Nuggets.

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Windsor Spitfires forward Logan Brown checks Travis Konecny of the Ottawa 67’s, and a 2015 Philadelphia Flyers draft pick, during OHL action last fall. Brown is ranked seventh among North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting for this weekend’s draft. Dennis Pajot/Getty Images

ence. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Not every 18-year-old is in this position, in this situation. So for me, I definitely don’t take it for granted.”

Matthews seems ready for anything — even playing in

the fishbowl that is the Toronto Maple Leafs. He says he is unfazed by being tagged with a franchise centre label.

“To me it’s fine. That’s obviously what I want to be — a No. 1 centreman. I like watch-

ing guys like Anze Kopitar, Jonathan Toews. I think if you look at those two and how much of a factor they are to these teams, it’s something I really like to watch.”

Raps’ top pick Jakob Poeltl Position: Centre School: Utah Height/weight: 7-1/242 Age: 20 2015-16 stats: 17.2 points, 9.1 rebounds

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In five transformational GOALKEEPER experience,” Wales foryears, Wales and Northward Gareth Bale said, ern Ireland have gone “and one I’m sure everyfrom playing in front body will relish.” of 529 fans to preparFew will relish faHannes ing for a British derby in Halldorsson cing Bale. The Real Mathe 45,000- capacity Parc drid forward has taken (ICL) des Princes RIGHT CENTRE CENTRE LEFT t o t o u r in Paris.

BACK BACK BACK BACK n a m e n t soccer efA n d fortlessly, rather than a meaningalready the less friendjoint-leadly, as the Elseid Leonardo Jerome Jonas ing scorer 2011 fix- Hysaj Bonnucci Boateng Hector with three ture was, (ALB) (ITA) (GER) (GER) goals. Althis time though CENTRAL Wales and Wales was MIDFIELDERS Northern Ireland beaten by England, will be meeting in Chris Coleman’s the round of 16 at side still advanced the European Chamas Group B winners. pionship.

Northern Ireland Andres Eric No longer a soccer will be a different Iniesta proposition to EngDier sideshow, these small (SPN) land, less ambiBritish nations will (ENG) take centre stage tious going forATTACKING ward and more Saturday. There MIDFIELDERS will even be an dogged at the English referee, back. with Premier “We’ve got League official one of the best defences in the Martin Atkinson Gareth Dimitri Ivan Payet Perisic tournament,” taking charge.

Bale The start of (WALES) (FRA) (CRO) Northern Ireland forward the knockout STRIKER phase is uncharted terriKyle Lafferty said. “I don’t tory for Wales and Norththink they’ve been given ern Ireland as they make enough praise for what unexpected progress on they’ve done. It’s going to their debuts in UEFA’s conbe a tough game, but hopeAlvaro tinental showpiece. fully we’ll be celebrating Morata “It’s another new chalat the end.”

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IN BRIEF EURO ROUND OF 16 SATURDAY Switzerland vs. Poland Wales vs. Northern Ireland Croatia vs. Portugal SUNDAY France vs. Republic of Ireland Germany vs. Slovakia Hungary vs. Belgium MONDAY Italy vs. Spain England vs. Iceland Tigers cap four-game sweep of Mariners Pinch runner Cameron Maybin scored on a basesloaded wild pitch by Steve Cishek with two outs in the 10th inning Thursday in Detroit, giving the Tigers a 5-4 win over the Seattle Mariners and a fourgame sweep. Nelson Cruz homered twice in the loss.

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Rahm off to a quick start in his professional career Jon Rahm had a professional debut to remember, shooting a 7-under 64 on Thursday at Congressional to take the first-round lead in the Quicken Loans National.

The 21-year-old former Arizona State star was the only amateur to make the cut last week in the U.S. Open, tying for 23rd at Oakmont.

Tiger-Cats defensive back Emanuel Davis tackles Argonauts wide receiver Vidal Hazleton as he tries to haul in a pass in Toronto on Thursday night. Chris Young/the Canadian Press

Tabbies spoil Argos’ debut at new home CFL

Masoli’s 3 TDs lead Hamilton over their arch rivals Jeremiah Masoli threw three touchdown passes as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats beat Toronto 42-20 to spoil the Argonauts’ official BMO Field debut Thursday night.

Masoli completed 27 of 37 pass attempts for 318 yards as Hamilton crashed the party at its arch rival’s new home following 27 seasons at Rog-

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ers Centre. Toronto moved to the domed stadium in 1989 after 30 years at Exhibition Stadium, where it flourished in the 1960s and ’70s.

Vidal Hazelton brought the enthusiastic crowd of 24,812 — just short of a sellout — to its feet with two third-quarter TDs that pulled Toronto to within 25-20. He took Ricky Ray’s one-yard TD strike at

9:40, then scored from 10 yards out at 10:26 after Cam Walker recovered Brandon Banks’ fumble on the ensuing kickoff.

But Masoli — who led the Ticats past Toronto 25-22 in last year’s East semifinal — found Banks on a 19-yard TD pass at 14:28 that put Hamilton ahead 32-20. Masoli then connected with former Argo Chad Owens on a 30-yard scoring strike at 7:29 of the fourth.

On those two drives, Masoli was 15 of 15 passing for 176 yards.

Toronto defensive back Jeremaine Gabriel left on a stretcher with an apparent neck injury at 9:23 of the

fourth, giving the crowd the thumbs up and waving before departing.

Toronto beat Hamilton 25-16 at BMO Field during the preseason. But the Ticats handed the Argos their first seasonopening loss in five campaigns.

“It’s so exciting,” CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge said.

“It’s a new era for the Argos.

“A brand new field, new ownership (under MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum and Bell), new energy and new excitement and a beautiful place to play. And a place that they can call home for really the first time in a long time.”

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CM Punk to make MMA debut at UFC 203 The UFC announced on Thursday that ex-pro wrestler (CM Punk) Phil Brooks will make his longanticipated mixed martial arts debut when he fights Mickey Gall at UFC 203 on Sept. 10. The Associated Press

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Redblacks QB Henry Burris throws during last year’s Grey Cup game.

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Last year’s Grey Cup loss to the Edmonton Eskimos is still a sore point for the Ottawa Redblacks. A regular-season victory won’t heal that wound, but it would be a good start.

The Redblacks open their third CFL season Saturday night on the road against the Eskimos, setting up a rematch of last year’s championship game.

Throw in the fact the Redblacks will face former offensive co-ordinator Jason Maas, who left Ottawa to take over the Eskimos head coaching va-

Right now we’re going to do whatever it takes to get that victory.

Henry Burris

cancy, and the Redblacks will have no shortage of motivation.

“Hopefully we can go up there and get things done and do it correctly and get this big win,” said quarterback Henry

Burris, who will play in his 21st season opener. “That’s one team that we haven’t had success against and if you want to become a champ you have to beat the champ.

“This is a great measuring stick for us getting the season kicked off and we’re looking forward to the challenge.”

Having struggled in the past on western road trips, the Redblacks have adjusted their travel schedule to arrive a full day earlier in Edmonton than in the past. The Canadian Press

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ALL PAYMENTS INCLUDGE FREIGHT & PDE BUT ARE PLUS APPLICABLE TAXES. PRICES ARE NET OF MANUFACTURER CASH REBATES IN LIEU OF SUBVENTED FINANCE RATES. PAYMENTS ON 2015 CX-5 BASED ON 4.24% APR OVER 96MTHS WITH A TOTAL COST OF BORROWING $4689.16. PAYMENTS ON 2015 MAZDA3 BASED ON 0.99%% APR OVER 84MTHS WITH A TOTAL COST OF BORROWING $612.62. 2014 MAZDA2 PAYMENTS BASED ON 3.99% OVER83MTHS WITH A TOTAL COST OF BORROWING $2161.48. 2015 MX-5 PAYMENTS BASED ON 4.24% APR OVER 96MTHS WITH TOTAL COST OF BORROWING $6295.56. 2015 MAZDA5 PAYMENTS ON 0% APR OVER 84MTHS WITH A COST OF BORROWING $0.00. 2015 CX-9 PAYMENTS BASED ON 0.00% APR OVER 84MTHS WITH A COST OF BORROWING $0.00. 4 FOR THE PRICES OF 3 WINTER TIRES AND RIMS AVAILABLE WITH THE PURCHASE OF A NY NEW INSTOCK MAZDA. FREE LIFE TIME OIL CHANGE PACKAGE WITH THE PURCHASE OF A INSTOCK MAZDA. CLEAR OUT PRICING IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER PROMOTIONS. ON APPROVED CREDIT, SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS OFFER ENDS MAY 31ST, 2016.