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Time expiring on free park and ride spots TRANSPORTATION

Councillors vote to turn 75 % of LRT lots into paid spaces Ryan Tumilty

Metro | Edmonton Free park and ride spaces could be a lot harder to come by and paid spots will likely be more expensive by September, after city councillors pushed ahead with a plan to charge more.

At the city’s transportation committee Tuesday, councillors voted to turn 75 per cent of the spots in LRT park and ride lots into paid spots, exceeding even the recommendation from city administration to look at 50 per cent of spots.

They also approved of plans to increase the fee from $40 per

month to $50 per month. Full council will vote on the idea next week and if they approve it, the new rates and space will come in September.

There is some fluctuation between LRT stations, but on average only 15 per cent of spots are paid.

Coun. Ed Gibbons said with the city seeing high wait lists for the paid spots it is clear there is a demand.

“People want places to park.

They need to have it,” he said.

The proposal to charge for parking began with the Edmonton Transit System’s citizen advisory board.

Izak Roux, chair of that group, said council is on the right path, but will have to constantly consider changes to see if they have struck the right balance between free and paid spots.

“It’s not something that they should just decide on and then leave it alone,” he said.

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Parking options sought The city is exploring a raft of options to deal with the looming loss of the Century Park and Ride, including a new LRT station, a parkade and a shuttle bus.

The city could lose the current park and ride lot as early as 2020 when the lease on the land expires. The developer of the Century Park area has told the city he is not interested in renewing the lease.

Coun. Michael Walters said he believes the city won’t find just one solution to the problem and will have to run a shuttle from the Heritage Valley bus terminal, consider building a new station near 40th Avenue and find a way to replace at least some of the parking on a city-owned piece of land on the site.

Walters said the current park and ride lot was always understood to be temporary.

The city considered building a 1,200-stall parkade at the station, but abandoned those plans.

Walters said whether that 1,200 stall parkade is the right option is up for debate, but something will have to be built.

“Read my lips: we will build some sort of parking facility on the Century Park Site,” he said.

Council may also get other options with a planned rezoning for the site that is coming forward later this year.

The area was initially pitched as a dense, transit-oriented development with multiple residential towers.

Walters said after years of waiting on that project he would like to see the developer move forward.

“We have been through two economic upswings. We have seen 25 per cent population growth in the city. We have had some of the lowest interest rates we have ever seen and still nothing has been built,” he said.

The city’s chief planner agreed the city has waited too long to see movement.

“It has certainly taken longer than we anticipated and hasn’t become everything we hoped for.”

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Councillors think art may make stations more inviting

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Metro | Edmonton City councillors are looking at ways to use art to make the LRT system more inviting and make the stations a better place to be.

The city’s public transit advisory board presented a report to councillors Tuesday, asking them to consider looking at changes to the city’s public art policy that could see art viewed in a more functional way.

Izak Roux, chairman of the group, said it could be as simple as putting design elements into bike racks or benches so that they stand out.

“If you look at it, it can look like a piece of art, but I can sit on it and it’s functional,” he said.

He said instead of adding art onto the system after work is done, the city should look at ways to incorporate it in the beginning.

Based on council’s direction, city staff will look at possible changes to the art policy and will look at ways to bring more art into the existing stations.

Alberta’s police watchdog has cleared an Edmonton officer of wrongdoing in the fatal 2015 shooting of a 31-year-old man following a dramatic exchange of gunfire.

The incident began when police responded to an impaired driving call on May 15 last year and pulled over a driver on Victoria Trail near 118 Avenue. According to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), one officer approached the driver’s side window and driver was belligerent when asked for his licence.

An altercation ensued as they struggled to get the man out of the vehicle and the assisting officer drew a Taser, before the first officer fell. The driver exited the vehicle with a sawed-off shotgun, which he fired at the officer on the ground, shooting him in the lower leg.

The driver ran off with the gun pointed at police, while the assisting officer fired multiple shots – one of which struck the driver in the head. The driver was pronounced dead on scene.

TOP: The city wants to enliven places like the Central LRT station with art. Kevin Tuong/ For Metro ABOVE: The Champ-De-Mars Metro Station in Montreal’s window art. Flickr/ Gilles Beauchamp

Several councillors pointed to stations like Churchill, Central, Stadium and Coliseum on the existing line as in need of a facelift.

Roux said improving the look of the stations encourages people to visit them and that makes them safer.

“We have to provide a pleasant environment and a pleas-

ant environment will improve security.”

Coun. Scott McKeen said many of the city’s stations aren’t inviting and that needs to change if the system is going to continue to grow.

“We need to do some work in making them places that feel good to be in and I think that’s really important.”.

... a pleasant environment will improve security.

Izak Roux, Chairman, public transit advisory board

Police are looking for tips after a suspicious package was found in a downtown fire hall Monday.

Roads were blocked off near Fire Station No. 2, at 102 Avenue and 107 Street, for more than three hours after the package was called in to police around 4:20 p.m.

Edmonton Police Service Bomb Detail members investigated and safely disposed of the package, but a police could not confirm the contents.

“We think we know what it is — or what it was, or what it was alleged to be — but we don’t take any chances,” EPS spokesperson Scott Pattison said Tuesday. “We just dispose of it in a safe and harmless way.”

No arrests were made. Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to call the non-emergency line at 780-4234567. Kevin Maimann/METRO

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Sources state Tory MP will vie for top Alberta PC job The woman who tried to unite Alberta’s two right-of-centre parties says she’d still like to see the province’s conservatives come together, but she’s not convinced federal MP Jason Kenney is the guy to do it.

“It’s going to be an uphill battle for him … because of some of the positions that he has taken on conservative social issues in the past,” said radio host and former politician Danielle Smith.

Two sources said that Kenney will announce Wednesday that he will seek the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives with the aim of merging the PCs and Opposition Wildrose.

Smith has some experience in that arena. In December 2014, she led a mass floorcrossing of Wildrose MLAs to the Tories who were headed by former premier Jim Prentice.

There has to be a fundamental recognition that Calgary and Edmonton are far more progressive on social issues than rural areas.

Danielle Smith

Conservative MP Jason Kenney is scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday that is expected to confirm his intentions to seek the PC leadership. Adrian Wyld/the canadian press

The PCs got clobbered in the May 2015 election. The NDP ended the party’s more than four-decade run in government and the Wildrose retained official Opposition status.

Smith admits she failed to

create a party that resonated with urban and rural voters alike.

“There has to be a fundamental recognition that Calgary and Edmonton are far more progressive on social

issues than the rural areas, whether it’s assisted dying, whether it’s abortion, whether it’s LGBTQ rights, whether it’s pot legalization.”

Two former MLAs who followed Smith to the PCs — Rob

Anderson and Bruce McAllister — are keen to see Alberta’s right unite and believe Kenney is up to the task.

Anderson, who crossed from the Tories to the Wildrose and back again, said the ground is more fertile for a merger now than it was in 2014.

“When you stare socialism in the face for a year, it kind of wakes you up,” said Anderson.

Kenney “gets it,” he said.

“He understands the idea that as fiscal conservatives we are stronger together than apart. The only difference between the Wildrose and PCs is frankly the jersey colour.” the canadian press

Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton Mounties are investigating after a political billboard near a Spruce Grove church was vandalized.

A sign near the New Testament Baptist Church reading “Amend Bill 10 Protect Parent Rights and Religious Freedom” was spray painted pink last Wednesday night or Thursday morning. It now reads, “Protect LGBTQ+ Kids and End Bigotry,” with a picture of a heart.

An RCMP spokesperson said vandals could face mischief charges but the incident is not being treated as a hate crime: “It was written in a way that the group was asking for support from the church,” said Sgt. Jack Poitras.

Pastor Brian Coldwell, who is a board member with the Parents for Choice in Education group that has rallied against Bill 10, said the vandalism amounts to religious persecution.

“We’re not harassing anybody here and we would expect to have the same respect from the activists that spray-painted our sign,” he said.

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Enforcing safety still a problem: Auditor Alberta’s auditor general says the provincial government is still not doing enough to enforce compliance with workplace safety orders.

Merwan Saher said the Labour Department has made some improvements since an audit six years ago identified problems with occupational health and safety rules, but it hasn’t gone far enough.

“The department is unable to demonstrate, with evidence, that it has a complete set of processes to apply department policies to keep Alberta’s workers safe,” says the report released Tuesday.

Saher repeats a recommendation made in 2010 for the department to improve its planning and reporting.

He also repeated a suggestion that the department clarify and enforce rules it uses when it gives employers more time to fix worksite health and safety problems.

Labour Minister Christina Gray said the report shows the former Progressive Conservative government neglected workplace safety issues.

Gray said the NDP government will work to meet the recommendations in the auditor general’s report.

She said that includes developing a new process to evaluate if the government is doing what needs to be done to identify and prevent workrelated injuries, illnesses and fatalities.

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Rutherford House ready to have you over for Doors Open Samantha Power

For Metro | Edmonton Hidden history is on display this week in Edmonton.

Doors Open, a festival that started in Toronto, runs until Sunday in conjunction with the Historic Edmonton Festival.

Edmonton historic sites, museums and churches are opening their doors to the public to showcase history.

This year’s theme celebrates the anniversary of women obtaining the vote in the province.

Edward van Vliet is the program co-ordinator of Rutherford House, which commemorates Alexander Rutherford, Alberta’s first premier and founder of the University of Alberta.

Metro: What can people expect to learn about Rutherford and his family’s connection to suffrage? van Vliet: We took the opportunity to talk about the way they lived and how they thought of some of these issues. Rutherford believed the University of Alberta should be co-ed. So the idea that men and women should study together was pretty progressive and would align with some of the same goals

Rutherford House is honouring the anniversary of women getting the vote here. Kevin Tuong/For Metro

of the suffragettes, but he never expressly said he was in support.

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How does Doors Open change up a site that Edmontonians might be familiar with?

People think, “Oh, that place is about that story” but there are so many more stories available to the public. Last year’s theme was around private spaces.

We did displays around closets and hidden clothing items. It gets other people

Doors Open changes its theme every year. What stories could be told in the future?

Doors Open ties to larger historical moments. With 2017, is it going to tie to the 150th celebrations? 1917 was the flu epidemic so that might be an interesting opportunity to talk about the impact on society or medical advances.

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Ft. Mac fire now under control A massive wildfire that destroyed parts of Fort McMurray two months ago is under control.

The Alberta government says the fire was given the new classification early Monday.

Wildfire information officer Laura Stewart says firefighters have made great progress and rain over the last few weeks has helped.

The size of the fire is just under 5,900 square kilometres.

The blaze spread into the oilsands capital on May 3 and forced more than 80,000 people from their homes.

It destroyed about 2,400 homes and other buildings — roughly one-tenth of the city.

The evacuation order was lifted a month ago and people started returning to the community.

Stewart says firefighters will continue to patrol the area and put out any hot spots.

“Given the size and scope of the wildfire, they’ll definitely be patrolling it for the extended future,” she said.

The fire began on May 1 and at times had hundreds of firefighters working on it to prevent it from spreading further into the community. THE CANADIAN PRESS

They’ll definitely be patrolling it for the extended future.

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The private sector is increasingly commercializing outer space.

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natural and man-made threats is compounded by the rapid expansion of both the number of space-faring nations and the uses to which space assets are put.”

Department officials note that Canada is “highly dependent” on the network of satellites orbiting Earth for communications and surveillance, weather forecasting, search and rescue, and even urban planning.

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Canadian officials have “serious security concerns” over the increased presence of countries and private companies in the Earth’s orbit, documents obtained by Torstar show.

Global Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion was warned in November that satellites enabling everything from telecommunications to national defence are facing a range of threats — from anti-satellite weaponry to pieces of junk floating around the planet.

“The viability of the space infrastructure is increasingly threatened by potential hostile acts from military or strategic opponents, space debris and space weather,” state the documents, obtained under access to information law and stamped “secret.”

“The challenge of protecting space infrastructure from both

founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.

According to the documents, Canadian officials are concerned about the “dual-use” nature of space technology — meaning tech that can be repurposed from its original intention to perform other, potentially dangerous functions.

Torstar requested an interview with Global Affairs for this article, but no one was available on Tuesday.

Paul Meyer, a fellow at Simon Fraser University who served in Canada’s foreign service for more than three decades, said there appears to be a “revived interest” in the federal government to pursue space security issues.

“Canada used to be quite involved in issues relating to outer space,” Meyer said in an interview Tuesday.

“More recently, (there’s been) advocacy, active advocacy of the non-weaponization of outer space. This is a kind of key concept: yes, there are military uses in outer space, in terms of satellites that have military functions, but up to now it hasn’t become a weaponized environment.”

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Parents of children suffering from epilepsy say a recent move

by Canadian border agents to seize shipments of medical marijuana oil from an American company could have a catastrophic effect on their children’s health.

The families have sent letters to the federal government pleading for the border to allow shipments of Charlotte’s Web, a type of marijuana oil that has been touted by some researchers as an effective therapy for hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy.

Charlotte’s Web — named after a Colorado girl with epilepsy — has very low levels of

the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, but is high in cannabidiol, or CBD. The families say they have been purchasing the oil from CW Hemp, a company based in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized in 2014. But the company notified the families late last month that it had stopped accepting Canadian orders after “a drastic” increase in the number of shipments seized at the border.

Canada Border Services Agency said it is simply enforcing the law because marijuana is still illegal in Canada.

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Khan, a Canadian permanent resident, of any involvement in the attack in which 22 people were killed, 18 of them foreign nationals.

Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack and its media branch published grotesque photographs of attack victims, A student from the University of according to the monitoring Toronto is still in police custody group, SITE. The Bangladeshi after surviving a hostage crisis government, however, has and terrorist attack at a café in blamed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh last weekend, his a domestic Islamist group. The cousin told Torstar. home minister insisted Daesh Tahmid Hasib Khan, has no presence in 22, has been held at a Bangladesh and could police station in the not have guided the capital Dhaka since he attack. was detained for ques“After such incitioning more than 72 dents usually people hours ago, when securare taken to the hospiity forces stormed the tal, but this wasn’t the Holey Artisan Bakery Tahmid Hasib case,” said Ishtahim, to end an 11-hour Khan Facebook.com adding that his family hostage crisis, Khan’s does not know why cousin Rasheek Ishtahim said Khan has been detained so long. in an interview Tuesday.

“I think the police might While Khan has spoken with think he was a threat because his parents by phone, no family he was of the same age,” he has been allowed to see him, said. “We are trying our best Ishtahim said. The family is to get him out.” calling on Ottawa to help clear TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Canada Post rivals plan for boom as lockout looms Many Canadian businesses that rely on mail orders have been scrambling for weeks to prepare for a potential delivery shutdown at Canada Post.

The Crown corporation said Tuesday it had issued a 72-hour lockout notice to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), raising the spectre of a work stoppage by Friday.

The parcel delivery business has been a major contributor to Canada Post’s revenues in the past few years, with volumes growing by 10 per cent in 2015 year-over-year.

Many of those deliveries are from e-commerce businesses that have been forced to make alternative plans to deliver their goods to customers. They’re also worried about the long-

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The Toronto-based company’s planned makeover is part of a broader strategy to rebuild the business that was left in shambles after last summer’s security breach, which exposed the personal dealings and financial information of millions of purported clients.

“In 2016, the world is vastly different than it was in 2010,” said parent company Avid Life Media’s new CEO, Rob Segal.

The company found that roughly 45 per cent of Ashley Madison users are single and the balance were “looking for other experiences and other types of things” besides the infidelity trumpeted under the previous regime, including polyamory, he said. He gave few details about how it aims to appeal to women.

Avid is also looking to purchase other dating sites in an effort to expand, said the company’s new president, James Millership. The company has invested millions in security over the past year, hiring Deloitte to monitor its systems around the clock and striving to achieve the top level of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance, a benchmark Millership said only a handful of dating sites have reached.

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ON QUESTIONS NO ONE’S ASKING MOMS

Obscured beneath predictable, vapid chatter about baby weight are questions I would desperately like to ask new mothers There’s a certain societal assumption that women with babies aren’t very interesting.

Useful, perhaps, in a zookeeper kind of way. But not so much intellectually stimulating. Having revealed themselves to be the owner of a working uterus, they tend to be thought of only as a uterus, or perhaps a being transformed by virtue of her uterus into a slave finely tuned to the rhythms of eating, sleeping and soiling.

Unless, of course, they’re a celebrity.

In that case, they become very interesting on one particular point: How did she lose the baby weight!?!?!

I will admit that watching a wealthy woman yo-yo in size from spherical to cylindrical does raise the question. But it’s very, very, very easily answered. Like anybody who loses any weight, ever, women lose baby weight via a combination of diet, exercise and God-like force of will. (I guess some might get surgery. Probably some do.)

But it’s actually always the exact same story, with a few rotating details that obscure the likely use of starvation. And as a slice of self-help advice, it’s a story completely devoid of usefulness to most women who are too busy working and child-rearing to work out eight hours a day, and too poor to pay for a personal chef and personal trainer/ baby-weight-loss enforcer, plus a Kim K-endorsed corset.

What is glorious?

What is brutal? Tell me every detail that blows away the large, grey fog of ‘it’s all worth it.’

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to fit your wardrobe from nine months ago, obviously, especially if it’s full of clothes you actually like. Having never given over my body to the growth and needs of an alien being, I clearly can’t relate to the havoc that experience wreaks on far more than waistlines.

my Twitter feed not far behind a CBC News tweet about the model Molly Sims and — you guessed it — her baby weight.

Thorpe’s story doesn’t mention calorie counting.

It’s far more devastating than bootcamp regimes.

It reads like a kind of wail from a woman who both loves her children and feels

Tell me every detail that blows away the large, grey fog of “it’s all worth it” and “hardest job ever” and “you don’t need sleep” and “best part of your life” — the platitudes and cheap lines that might feel real and right to parents who use them, but offer no insight, no form, no shape or colour, no edges hard or soft.

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW Please, please, Kim, tell us how you managed to lose the all-important baby weight. the associated press

But headlining new-mom stories with baby-weight woes is a simple, retrograde way to suggest the only priority for new mothers is to be damn hot. As if they could assert their old independence by looking as they once did, and so we never need ask more about the earthquake that is parenthood.

Worse is this: Obscured beneath that inane, predictable, vapid chatter are myriad questions I would desperately like to ask new mothers.

Enter “Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid” by Rufi Thorpe. The essay, which was published by Vela, an online magazine of writing by women tumbled down

imprisoned by them.

“There is a deep, almost suffocating solitude to my days, and yet there is also the California ocean, the flowers, the breeze. It is lovely; it is intolerable; it is both,” Thorpe writes.

“I have tried to say it to my husband; I have tried to say, ‘I hate my life.’ I have tried to say, ‘I need help.’ I have tried to explain why I am finding being a mother so difficult, but in the face of his questions, my explanations collapse,” she goes on. As a writer who’s hoping to one day have children, and who’s utterly terrified of what that will mean, this is what I want to hear from mothers. What is glorious? What is brutal?

meantime, we have a whole segment of our population, some of them the most vulnerable and the most in need of support, who are Before I was elected, I forever stuck in a situaworked as a real estate tion where they will never agent for many years. I also be able to own their own volunteered with the City home. This in turn makes it of Edmonton Non-Profit more difficult for them to Housing Corporation. So I build equity that they could spent a lot of time talking transfer to their children with people from all walks — which makes it more difof life, and from every wage ficult in turn for their chilbracket and profession. The dren to own property. It’s a one thing that everybody recurring issue with no end has in common is the need in sight. for a home, and the need to I don’t think for a minute provide for themselves and that increasing the minfor their families. imum wage Another thing I’ve seen We have a whole will, by itself, in the more segment of our fix the houssituathan 30 years population who ing tion faced by I’ve spent in the real estate are forever stuck in low-income industry is the a situation where Albertans.

There are sharp increase they will never be many other in house and condo prices able to own their things at play was well. But When I started, own home. it will help people worktheir lives. It ing in lowwill give working Albertans income jobs had at least a who make minimum wage slim chance of getting into a hand up as they struggle a starter home. That isn’t to support their families. the case anymore. When If they are prudent, it will the average house price is allow them to put some up over $400,000, there’s money away in savings for no way now that anyone retirement, and it will alearning minimum wage low them to support their can hope to afford even the children’s education as mortgage payment, much they improve their chances less the down payment and of making a decent living. the other expenses associatAs someone who was born ed with living in a house. and raised here, I’ve seen We suffer from an onthe disparity in incomes ingoing lack of affordable crease over time. I am firmhousing. ly behind the government’s This is something that small move to correct that. our government is working to correct, but it will be years before the investments we’re making now Lorne Dach is the MLA for come to the market. In the Edmonton-McClung

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In her essay, Thorpe notes a series of recent articles “that argue that there is an inherent conflict between motherhood and artistic work,” an argument at which many creative mothers may or may not bristle. An argument that seems hyperbolic, and exactly the kind of dialogue I am seeking.

Thorpe’s essay has an uplifting ending, but that’s almost beside the point.

Indelicate questions have been asked, by one mother, of herself, and there’s nothing self-help about it.

It’s only one view, but it’s more illuminating than decades of tabloid talk. A single window into motherhood, sans dress size.

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A look at plant-based diets leads to a lesson in labels Genna Buck

Metro Canada People come into Kupfert & Kim, a vegan take-out joint with six locations around Toronto, for all sorts of reasons.

Some are looking for a substantial lunch that’s healthier than typical fast-food fare, while others are seeking lactose- and gluten-free options, said staff member Jesus Rodriguez. But most have one thing in common, he added: They don’t call themselves vegan.

All the items on the restaurant’s menu are free of meat, fish and animal by-products like milk, butter and eggs — what’s conventionally understood to be vegan. But almost everyone who was at the busy downtown location on Tuesday said they didn’t identify with any dietary label at all. Just two were vegetarian.

The customers were “vegan” that day only incidentally or occasionally. Their reasons for choosing an animal-free lunch or snack ranged from, “It’s really fresh and really good,” as one

DEFINITIONS Vegan Someone who abstains from foods made from animals or animal by-products like dairy, eggs and honey. Many vegans say it extends beyond diet to a philosophy that aims to minimize animal suffering in every way.

Plant-based diet Broadly, this could refer to anyone who mostly eats foods that come from plants.

But more recently, “plant-based” refers to people who follow a diet identical to what vegans eat, but who don’t choose to adopt the broader philosophy of veganism.

Fruitarian An extreme vegan who follows a high-carbohydrate, lowfat, low-protein diet consisting almost entirely of fruit. This is discouraged by doctors.

Staff member Jesus Rodriguez shows off some vegan fare available at Toronto’s Kupfert & Kim. LIZ BEDDALL/METRO

woman grabbing a blueberry smoothie said, to, in the case of customer Jeff Mcleod, simply because he really likes the coffee.

In the eyes of many self-identified vegans, there’s no such thing as an occasional vegan.

“An occasional vegan … that’s like … let me think ... that’s like saying you’re an occasional Buddhist,” said Toronto-based life coach Kimberly Carroll, who has been vegan for 10 years.

“Veganism is a philosophy. It’s

about eliminating harm to animals as much as possible. It goes beyond diet.”

Carroll doesn’t wear silk (from caterpillars), fur, wool or leather, and doesn’t go anywhere animals are used for entertainment, like zoos or aquariums.

Within the vegan community, the term “plant-based diet” is more commonly used to describe the choice to abstain from all animal products, but not identify with the vegan lifestyle, Carroll

explained. (Confusingly, many people who eat animal products once in a while, but are mostly vegan or vegetarian, also say they follow a “plant-based diet.”)

The precise definitions of all these terms, it turns out, are hotly contested.

Oakville, Ont. food writer Angela Liddon learned that the hard way last year. She cooks vegan meals for her family and features them her site, Oh She Glows. But her husband isn’t a vegan, and,

she explained in a blog post, her infant daughter Adriana won’t necessarily be either.

In response to the reader question, “Will you raise your daughter a vegan?” she wrote, “I want her to be able to try any food that she wants to, including the food her dad and family members eat,” whether it’s vegan or animal-based.

What followed was a deluge of “hateful and threatening” comments accusing her of be-

ing not vegan enough and not doing for the vegan movement, Liddon wrote in a follow-up post.

The experience scared her off the word “vegan” altogether.

“I will keep on doing my thing, but without a personal label,” she wrote.

Judgemental attitudes, like what Liddon experienced, are troubling to Sandra Veljovic, incoming president of the Veg Club at the University of Toronto.

Though she’s a strict vegan herself, Veljovic said being militant about labels “makes us seem a lot less accessible and perpetuates the stereotype of vegans being super extreme.”

No one is 100 per cent successful at being vegan, Carroll said, because it’s nigh on impossible to go through life without causing any animal suffering at all.

Case in point: “I did stomp on a centipede once,” she confessed.

“I felt bad about it.”

Although she is extremely conscientious personally, Carroll wants as many people as possible to identify with and feel welcome to join the vegan and vegetarian movements, even if their adherence is not perfectly pure.

“The more folks identify as vegans, the better for vegans,” she said, because it will expand the options available and reduce the amount of animal products used. Ultimately she said, “I want animals to not suffer.”

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Better than takeout Simply brush a store-bought, thin pizza crust with olive oil and lay a single layer of sliced heirlooms, added stripes of prosciutto, minced garlic, basil leaves, crumbled feta, salt and pepper. It’s filling, light-tasting and ready in 20 minutes from start to finish.

Heirloom Tomato Pizza Makes one pizza.

Ingredients: • 1 store-bought, ready-made thin pizza crust • Olive oil • 1 garlic clove • 1 to 2 medium heirloom tomatoes, thinly sliced • 3 to 4 slices prosciutto • Freshly torn basil leaves • 1 tbsp crumbled feta • Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 425 F (220 C) or temperature indicated on pizza instructions.

2. Rub garlic clove all over pizza crust. Lightly brush crust with olive oil. Mince garlic clove and sprinkle evenly over crust.

3. Arrange sliced tomatoes in a single layer around crust.

Top with prosciutto, basil and feta. Brush more oil. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Place pizza directly on the middle rack of the oven; bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until prosciutto and tomato edges begin to crisp and brown. Remove from oven and serve. torstar news service

Sawine (left) is a Trinidadian dessert of buttery toasted vermicelli cooked in sweet milk then topped with nuts and dried fruit while Kahk is a very old dessert eaten by Egyptians during Eid. karon liu/torstar news service

After the fast, now it’s time for a feast recipe

End of Ramadan opens the door to the dessert delights of Eid As Ramadan comes to an end, Muslims are celebrating Eid alFitar, a day of feasting following a month of fasts. As with any global holiday, the treats vary from place to place. The Somalis have buskud (shortbread); Pakistanis make sheer khurma (vermicelli cooked in sweet milk); and the Turkish and Bosnians bake baklava.

Here’s a glimpse into some other home-made Eid treats Canadians are digging into this week.

Trinidadian Sawine

(Makes 8 to 10 servings) Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago make up just about 10 per cent of the population, but Eid is a public holiday and families take the day off to don new clothes, visit the mosque (Trinidad has 85 and Tobago has two) and cook up a storm, says Lazina Aziz, 77, who was born in Trinidad before coming to Canada 20 years ago. Aziz makes a sweet puddinglike dessert called sawine. Thin vermicelli noodles are toasted to a golden brown in butter, then cooked

in sweetened milk flavoured with spices, nuts, dried fruit and other toppings.

Ingredients: • 2 tbsp (30 mL) unsalted butter • 1 1/2 cups (375 mL) cut vermicelli • 1 cinnamon stick or 1 tsp (5 mL) ground cinnamon • 6 whole green cardamon pods • 2 cups (500 mL) each: boiling water, evaporated milk • 1/2 cup (125 mL) sweetened condensed milk • Raisins, for garnish • Chopped toasted almonds, for garnish Directions: 1. In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.

Add vermicelli, cinnamon and cardamon. Stir constantly, covering noodles in butter and toasting until fragrant, about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick and cardamon pods.

2. Add boiling water; continue to cook on medium until noodles are tender and most of the water has evaporated, about 10 to 15 minutes.

3. Reduce heat to low. Stir in evaporated and condensed milks until warm.

4. Divide into bowls. Top with raisins and chopped almonds.

Serve immediately.

Egyptian Kahk

(Makes 36 cookies) In Egypt, the essential dessert for Eid is kahk (pronounced “ka-hk” with a strong emphasis on the H), a crumbly cookie stuffed with a sweet paste and covered in powdered sugar.

“My grandma would spend hours kneading the dough, but this was before the days of the KitchenAid,” says Nora Hindy, 33, a teacher.

Ingredients (for the walnut filling): • 1/2 cup (125 mL) each: water, all-purpose flour, honey, toasted sesame seeds • 3/4 cup (180 mL) crushed and toasted walnuts • 1 tbsp (15 mL) rosewater Directions: 1. In a small pan over very low heat, whisk water, flour and honey together until well incorporated and smooth. Fold in sesame seeds and walnuts; stir in rosewater if using. Remove from heat.

2. Let mixture cool to room temperature to form a paste.

Ingredients (for the dough): • 4 cups (1 L) all-purpose flour • 1 1/4 cups (310 mL) ghee or clarified butter • 2 tsp (10 mL) powdered sugar, more for dusting cookies • 1 tbsp (15 mL) ground mahaleb

• 1/2 tsp (2 mL) each: ground aniseed, ground fennel seed • 1 1/2 tbsp (2 packets) instant dry active yeast • 1/2 cup (125 mL) water • Walnut filling

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Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 375F (190C).

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Ford is sticking all kinds of EcoBoost engines into its compact cars, but this one isn’t the hairy, rally-inspired Focus RS you’ve heard all about, and it’s certainly not the tailhappy Focus ST that lights up the track.

While those two turbocharged versions of the Focus are all about speed, the one I’m testing is the polar opposite.

With its force-fed three-cylinder engine, you need to take it slow and steady. And if you drive this car slow and steady, it will reward the driver with extra miles per gallon.

Ford and the EPA suggest that the best the 1.0-litre EcoBoost can do in the Focus is a whopping 35 mpg. It might not be as exciting as what the Focus RS and Focus ST can do, but for some people, this frugalness can be a thrill in its own right.

First seen in the U.S. on the Fiesta, the engine makes 123 hp and 125 lb-ft of torque and is paired to a six-speed transmission, either an automatic or a manual. Manual models are capable of getting 35 mpg combined, while automatics earn just 32 mpg combined. Automatic start-stop helps improve things in traffic. Canadians get

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The car feels pretty responsive in the mid-range, making it surprisingly fun to drive in slow to medium-speed traffic. Ask much more of it, say, passing on the highway, and you’re going to be wanting more power and for it to arrive much sooner. And while you can jump through traffic lights with a bit of gusto, doing so comes at the cost of fuel economy.

This 1.0-litre EcoBoost needs you to take things a bit slowly.

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Despite the requirement to be driven sedately, the car is quite fun and responsive to drive. The steering feels tight and well weighted, giving a confident feel to the driver.

The interior and exterior haven’t been radically changed this year. The car avoids looking too stale thanks to a new bumper and LED daytime running lights. The interior has also been updated, with Ford offering the new Sync 3 infotainment system and USB ports that are said to help charge your devices twice as quickly as the old units.

There are some issues to address. For starters, it’s not easy to achieve the car’s advertised fuel economy numbers, and doing so requires some unrealistic driving habits.

If you’re going to get an EcoBoost Focus, you should either get a fun one like the ST or RS, or else stick with the naturally aspirated model.

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If you want to drop the top on a Ferrari, you might be surprised to hear what the F355 is worth today. The 1997 Ferrari F355 Spider is currently worth $90,100 in top condition, a noticeable increase from its January 2016 value of $77,500. But this particular model is on the rise, considering in January 2015 it was worth around $51,000! An excellent-condition one is worth around $68,900.

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1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SL Perhaps the Ferrari is too flashy and you prefer something more classy. The 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SL is a primary candidate, and its value is quickly rising. Currently a top-condition model will run you around $75,700. It’s also one of the biggest jumps on the list, since the 1987 Mercedes-Benz 560SL was valued around $32,500 in January 2015.

1990 BMW M3 But the car seeing the biggest jump in the past year is the 1990 BMW M3. You might be shocked to hear that a top-condition model begs a price of $121,000 in today’s world and even an excellent-condition has a price tag of around $76,100. It has been on the rise since January 2015, when a top condition was valued around $69,000. In January 2016, Hagerty says, it would fetch around $115,000.

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Vanquish Zagato revving up Aston Martin

Concept coupe becomes reality

Future Leaf to increase range

The stunning Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato is heading to production.

Limited to 99 units, the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato first debuted as a concept last month at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Lake Como, Italy. Under the hood will be a V12 engine with 590 horsepower, allowing the coupe to accelerate from zeroto-60 mph in 3.5 seconds.

A Nissan engineer let slip that the new Leaf electric car will have over 200 miles of range.

Nissan’s global director of electric vehicle engineering, Kazuo Yajima, told Autoblog that a new 60-kWh battery pack is coming in the next Leaf that will allow it to travel between 210 and 220 miles on one charge.

Yajima wouldn’t say when the next Leaf will arrive, but it’s expected to be a 2017 model car.

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DRIVE BRIEF Jeep Compass, Patriot production ends in winter Jeep will continue to build the small Compass and Patriot models until the end of 2016, which means they will be sold as 2017 model year vehicles.

The two small Jeep models will be replaced by a single model, which will be

built in Mexico starting in late January 2017, according to Automotive News.

The current Compass and Patriot will continue to be built in Belvidere, Ill., until Dec. 23, 2016.

The new model will slot in between the Renegade and the Cherokee, though it will be built on

a widened and stretched version of the Renegade platform.

Production at the Belvidere plant will pick back up in May of 2017 with the assembly of the Cherokee, making space for the Toledo, Ohio plant to build the Wrangler family.

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Apparently water and electric cars can go together.

It’s understandable to think an electric car driving through a flood would have terrible results, but one Tesla Model S owner in Kazakhstan drove through a flooded tunnel, and CEO Elon Musk approved. Naturally, this isn’t something Musk recommends, but he doesn’t hesitate to claim that the Model S “floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time.�

By no means is the Tesla Model S an amphibious car, but it does bring up another benefit of electric-battery power compared to a standard combustion engine. Standard gasoline engines that use an intake would have disastrous results once water hits the engine bay, but the Model S churns on despite being submerged in quite a bit of water.

It also seems that Musk has an interest in creating a car that can be submerged underwater. In a follow up tweet, he references a “TSWLM car,� pointing to James Bond’s Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me that could transform into a submarine.

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VW announced its future plans last week, stating its intention to build an onslaught of electric vehicles along with investing in ride-sharing services and autonomous driving. Billions of euros will be needed to fund the new plan, as Volkswagen tries to re-establish itself as a green-car leader by 2025.

This will lead to the company cutting more than 40 current vehicle models, according to German newspaper Handelsblatt. A spokesperson from Volkswagen confirmed at least some of the info to Automotive News, saying “a decision on how many models will be phased out or ceased has not been taken yet.�

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Switch to the fast(er) lane Track and field

De Grasse takes world-class training into Olympic trials

Andre De Grasse races to victory in the men’s 100 metres during a Diamond League event in Oslo, Norway, on June 9. VIDAR RUUD/AFP/Getty Images MLB

Bringer of Rain being a Royal pain Less than an hour after being named to the American League all-star team for a third straight season, Josh Donaldson continued to prove he belongs among the game’s elite.

The Blue Jays third baseman hit two home runs and scored four times to back a solid start from R.A. Dickey as Toronto beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3 on Tuesday.

It was Donaldson’s eighth career multi-homer game and fifth with the Blue Jays (47-39).

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His four runs scored gave him a Blue Jays pre-all-star game record of 77.

Troy Tulowitzki, with a three-run shot, and Ezequiel Carrera also went deep for Toronto. The Canadian Press

When Andre De Grasse lines up against the world’s fastest men at the Rio Olympics, it will be the punctuation mark on a season that was written in countless training runs down the track at a small college in Arizona.

The Canadian sprint star raised some eyebrows when he upended his training environment just six months out from the Rio Olympics.

The 21-year-old swapped what was essentially a two-man training group at the University of Southern California to become just one of over 100 world-class athletes from 30 countries working with the Altis training centre in Phoenix.

Training against the best in the world on a daily basis, he said, will stand him in good stead when he lines up in Rio. “Before it was just me

and my training partner BeeJay (Lee, his USC teammate),” De Grasse said. “But we both came here, and the atmosphere ... we have guys who are just as fast as us, that push us every day.

“It’s really good for us competitively because before you didn’t really know where you were at, in practice. But now you can tell, if you’re with your training partner or you’re near him doing a rep, you know you’re in pretty good shape.”

The Markham, Ont., sprinter will be the headliner at this week’s Canadian Olympic trials in Edmonton, and he has his eyes on a medal at the Rio Olympics.

He’ll also be one of about a dozen Altis athletes, including sprinter Justyn Warner and long jumper Christabel Nettey, competing in Edmonton.

Paradise Valley Community College, the Altis training base, sits in the shadow of Camelback Mountain in a sleepy Phoenix neighbourhood. The giant cacti

outside the chainlink fence could pass for onlookers against the glare of the sun.

The athletes arrive in waves — smaller groups make for more effective coaching. They paint a global mosaic in their various national team gear, from Great Britain, India, Japan, Australia, Saint Lucia, Samoa and Canada.

Damian Warner, Canada’s world silver medallist in the decathlon, travelled to Phoenix several times this season to work with Altis.

“The main thing I like about this program is just the atmosphere, and the coaches,” Warner said during a break between sessions.

“The atmosphere is a little different from what I’m used to. I can pole vault and I’m pole vaulting with a guy (Steve Lewis) who is the British record holder.

Then I look over and there’s the world record holder in the hurdles, Aries Merritt (of the U.S.).

It’s just kind of a cool atmosphere, and everybody here is focusing on their own goals, and focusing on Rio, and you can tell, and you can feed off that energy.” The Canadian Press De Grasse could be pushed by Aaron Brown, who recently became just the second Canadian in nearly two decades to run a sub-10-second 100 metres. Getty images file

Wimbledon

IN BRIEF Trio of Blue Jays named American League all-stars Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson was among three Toronto Blue Jays named to the MLB all-star game roster on Tuesday.

Designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion will make his third all-star game appearance after a strong first half to the season while right-hander Marco Estrada was named to the team for the first time after a career-best start to 2016.

Redblacks tandem earns weekly award again Ottawa quarterback Trevor Harris, Redblacks teammate Chris Williams and Calgary running back Jerome Messam are the CFL’s top performers of the week.

Harris and Williams were also named top performers last week.

Ottawa beat Montreal 2813 on Thursday.

Messam rushed for 137 yards, including a 53-yard dash, as the Stampeders downed Winnipeg 36-22.

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Williams sisters advance to semis The Williams sisters could be headed for another meeting in a Grand Slam final.

Venus Williams made it back to the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, while defending champion Serena Williams advanced to her 10th final four at the All England Club.

Five-time champion Venus, 36, beat Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 7-6 (5), 6-2, advancing to the semifinals for the first time since 2009 and first time at any

I want her to win so bad — obviously not in the final if I’m there.

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major since the 2010 U.S. Open.

A short while later, Serena beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-4, 6-4.

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UFC 200 standout storylines The MMA promotion’s much-hyped event has grown so big that a single fight card can’t contain it. So the UFC is putting on shows on three consecutive nights in Las Vegas this week culminating Saturday night in UFC 200

Nightly title fights Lightweight champ Rafael Dos Anjos defends against Eddie Alvarez Thursday, while strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk takes on Claudia Gadelha Friday. On Saturday, Jose Aldo has an interim featherweight title fight with Frankie Edgar, bantamweight champion Miesha Tate defends against Amanda Nunes, and light-heavyweight kingpin Daniel Cormier meets interim champ Jon Jones again.

Big bad Brock Along with the legitimate competitive reasons to buy UFC 200, there’s also the biggest spectacle in MMA: Brock Lesnar, the former heavyweight champ and current professional wrestler. Nearly five years after his last fight, and a year after saying he was done with MMA, the UFC 100 headliner returns to the cage to fight knockout artist Hunt. Lesnar will get a big payday for taking the enormous risk, and the UFC will get another boost from the biggest pay-perview draw in the sport’s history.

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Conor McGregor’s rematch with Nate Diaz isn’t on UFC 200 anymore but the charismatic Irishman and his Californian conqueror will make their presence felt at International Fight Week. They’re scheduled for a news conference Thursday to promote their meeting at UFC 202 on Aug. 20. And it will feel like a fight: the UFC is holding the event at T-Mobile Arena, and it’s open to the public.

Grand finale

Everyone’s a star

UFC 200 alone features nine fighters who have held titles. Former heavyweight c h a m p Cain Velasquez, former bantamweight champ T.J. Dillashaw and former welterweight champ Johny Hendricks are all in difficult bouts. Also included are former contenders Cat Zingano, Mark Hunt and Diego Sanchez and crowd-pleasers like Joe Lauzon and Jim Miller.

The festivities come down to Jones’ second meeting with Cormier. A win would be redemption for Jones (22-1), widely considered the top pound-for-pound MMA fighter.

He had his title stripped last year after his involvement in a hitand-run accident, but returned earlier in 2016. Cormier (17-1) has never lost to anyone but Jones, but he was outclassed in their first meeting. the Associated Press

Tour De France

Stage 4 winner a ‘mega happy’ man German rider Marcel Kittel claimed the fourth and longest stage of the Tour de France after a mass sprint on Tuesday.

Kittel, who returned to the Tour with a new team after injuries and illness ruled him out last year, began his final surge for the line a little too early for comfort. But he just managed to hang on and edge French rider Bryan Coquard in a photo-finish.

It was Kittel’s ninth stage win at the Tour.

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“I feel very emotional right now, it feels like my first stage win again,” Kittel said. “I’m mega, Marcel mega happy. I’m Kittel very proud, beGetty Images cause the team was really fighting for this win.”

World champion Peter Sagan finished third and kept the yellow jersey.

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End product is only concern for Portugal Don’t let CrisEuro,” Santos tiano Ronaldo’s said. “We have devilish grin a goal and we SEMIFINAL SETUP and chiselled are doing all we torso fool you. can to achieve Portugal is the undisputed ugly it. We are not here to play duckling of the four teams pretty or ugly. left standing at the European “We are going to take on an Championship. excellent opponent, which has W h i l e s e m i f i n a l r i v a l more victories and scored more Wales, along with Germany goals than we have, but we and France, have all im- believe we are going to win.” pressed with big wins How Santos’ side has to deservedly reach this managed to reach its stage, Portugal has only fourth semifinal appearance in the last joined them after barely squeaking through each five continental comround. petitions is something of a mystery.

And unless Ronaldo can rediscover his scorPortugal has yet to ing touch, Portugal will beat an opponent in 90 struggle to find a way Fernando minutes of regulation past an attack fuelled Santos play after five matches

by Gareth Bale when it Getty Images at Euro 2016. plays Wales at the Stade Portugal limped into de Lyon on Wednesday. the round of 16 after three Portugal coach Fernando draws, finishing third in Group Santos, however, doesn’t care F behind Hungary and Iceland. about style or statistics.

It then needed an extra-time “I would be bothered if I goal from Ricardo Quaresma was at home and they were to see off Croatia 1-0 in one saying Portugal had played of the poorest matches of the well but was no longer at the tournament. Next came a quarter-final against Poland that Portugal claimed in a penalty Tourney Notes shootout following its finish at 1-1 after 120 minutes.

Pepe yet to get the OK All told, Portugal has been in Coach Fernando Santos the lead for a total of 22 minsays his team will make a utes over the course of more match-day decision as to than eight hours of football whether central defender in France.

Pepe is fit to play against Yet, here they are, one win Wales. away from the final in Paris on Sunday.

Safety, not cuteness, first Understandably enough, PorUEFA says it is cute but not tugal’s players are focusing on safe for players’ children the product, not the process. to join in post-match “Criticism gives us more celebrations on the pitch. motivation,” said midfielder Danilo, who is likely to start Security gets high marks against Wales for the susUEFA’s tournament pended William Carvalho. director Martin Kallen says “It’s not easy, we see it in he is “very satisfied” with the news but it motivates us. It security operations ahead makes us determined to prove of the last three matches. them wrong.”

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Basketball

IN BRIEF Wild sign Kuemper for $1.5M The Minnesota Wild have signed goalie Darcy Kuemper to a one-year, $1.55 million contract.

The Wild announced the signing on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old Kuemper went 6-7-5 with a .915 save percentage and a 2.43 goals-against average for the Wild last season.

He has played in 84 games over the past four seasons with the Wild and is 3-1-1 with 2.13 goalsagainst in nine playoff starts. The Associated Press

SOCCER

Women’s sevens to open against Japan in Rio The Canadian women’s rugby sevens team will open its Olympic campaign against Japan before facing host Brazil on the opening day of competition.

The Olympic rugby match schedule was released Tuesday. The women play Aug. 6-8 while the men go Aug. 9-11, both in Rio. The three-seed Canadians beat 10th-seeded Japan both times they met this season.

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Canada starts Rio qualifier with win Toronto Raptors point guard Cory Joseph led Canada to a 77-69 win over Turkey on the opening day of the FIBA Olympic basketball qualifying tournament.

Joseph led the Canadian attack Tuesday with 21 points, five assists and three rebounds.

Canada outshot Turkey from the floor, hitting 42 per cent of its field-goal.

A win over Senegal on Wednesday will secure Canada a spot in the semifinals.

Canada’s Thomas Scrubb defends against Turkey’s Ali Muhammed on Tuesday.

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For Metro Canada Do your prep in the morning so your chops can spend the day in the fridge marinating. Come dinner time you’ll just spend another 10 minutes grilling and this glorious meal will be all yours.

Ready in Prep time: 2 hours Cook time: 15 minutes Ingredients • 2 cups water • 1/4 cup Dijon mustard, divided • 4 thin-cut boneless pork loin chops • 2 teaspoons extra-virigin olive oil • 2 granny smith apples, cored and quartered • 2 tablespoons goat cheese • salt and freshly ground pepper

Directions 1. In a large, plastic storage bag, combine water, 3 tablespoons mustard, 1 tablespoon salt and pork chops. Shake well and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours; drain well and discard brine.

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