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Metro | Edmonton The Professional Bull Riders will be the centrepiece of a 10-day “western lifestyle” festival set to come to Rogers Place in November, according to the Oilers Entertainment Group. The news could be very bad for Farmfair International — and as a result, Northlands. The event’s announcement Wednesday comes just weeks after the Canadian Finals Rodeo announced it was ending its more than 40-year run at Northlands and decamping to Saskatoon, and a day after Northlands threatened to pull its long-running K-Days festival if city council rejects its Vision 2020 redevelopment plan. Northlands President and CEO Tim Reid said Wednesday that Farmfair International, an agricultural event that always coincided with the CFR, is now also in danger as a result. “Just because we’ve had it for 43 years doesn’t mean it will be here three years from now if we don’t treat it right,” he said. Reid said PBR is a “great event” but so far he has not spoken with the Oilers group on how it can co-ordinate with Farmfair. Mayor Don Iveson has said Farmfair brings $20 million to Edmonton’s economy each year.
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The Canadian Red Cross says have been returning to the $299 million has been raised community to assess the damto help with recovery from the age and rebuild. Sauve said that to date, alFort McMurray wildfire, with some money earmarked for most $200 million has been people who can’t make their allocated for the people of mortgage payments or didn’t Fort McMurray, including dirhave enough insurance. ect cash payments of $84.4 Red Cross CEO Conrad million already handed out Sauve said this “unpreced- to residents. There will be further help ented outpouring of support” included $165 million donated for residents who were unby Canadians to the charity. insured or didn’t have enough The federal government insurance to cover their losscontributed $104 million to es. Money will be available match funds donated made to help people rebuild their by individual Canadians and homes, make rent or mortthe province matched $30 gage payments and to replace million given furniture, apby individual pliances and household Albertans. “Canadians goods. were touched The Red Cross — “The Red by seeing we don’t pass a C r o s s — w e fellow Candon’t pass a adians being judgment on why judgment on evacuated and people need help. w h y p e o p l e n e e d h e l p ,” the fire and Conrad Sauve responded treSauve said. “We mendously,” Sauve said Wed- help those in need — that is nesday. “We have got dona- the humanitarian imperative tions from every part of the of what we do.” country.” Another $50 million will be The total far exceeds the given to charities, including $45 million people donated food banks, which have been in 2013 for the catastrophic helping to feed people in Fort floods in southern Alberta and McMurray and residents who $14.8 million for the rail dis- fled to other communities in aster in Lac Megantic, Que. Alberta. About $30 million is being On May 3 the massive wildfire fire forced the evacuation set aside to help small busiof almost 90,000 people from nesses recover and $12 million the Fort McMurray area. will be spent on community The flames destroyed 2,400 resiliency and fire prevention. homes and buildings, caused Municipal Affairs Minister the shutdown of two key oil- Danielle Laravee said details sands facilities and burned al- on how this money will be most 5,900 square kilometres spent will be released in the coming weeks. of timber. Since early June, residents THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Fundraiser show being held at Rendezvous Pub on Aug. 5 Kevin Maimann
Metro | Edmonton Edmonton’s metal community is coming together to honour a friend whose life was tragically cut short. Local band Kryosphere will reunite for the memorial show and fundraiser on Aug. 5 for Michelle Robinson, who passed away in June at age 35 after a long fight with kidney failure. “She was pretty incredible,” said Kryosphere bassist Stephanie Bell, who was a close friend of Robinson’s. “The things that I’ve been hearing about her lately are, I didn’t know her well but she was always nice and she would always smile and be polite and funny, and it didn’t matter if she knew you — she made you feel like you were family.” The show will also feature prominent local metal acts Quietus and Display of Decay, and will take place at Rendezvous Pub (10108 149 St.), which donated the space. Bell hopes to raise $1,600 to finance a book that Robinson completed about her life shortly before she passed away. Robinson had a kidney transplant at a young age, which led to various health problems
Stephanie Bell’s band Kryosphere will reunite to play a fundraiser show at Rendezvous Pub on Aug. 5 in honour of Michelle Robinson. KEVIN TUONG/FOR METRO
later in life, and she penned the book for other organ failure survivors and their families “to help them understand the crazy emotional whirlwind that it can be,” Bell said. The show will serve the added purpose of raising awareness for the importance of signing organ donor cards. A donation
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greatly extended Robinson’s life and could save others. Although she didn’t play in a band, Robinson was a familiar face at shows and many had no idea how fragile her health was. “Nobody expected it. People knew she was sick, but not everybody knew with what, not everybody knew how bad.
It really came out of the blue,” Bell said. “To be somebody who lives knowing that all that could happen at any moment, she really lived for the moment, and reminded everybody to be thankful for the things that you have.” WITH FILES FROM SAMANTHA POWER
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Prof counters claims flossing is pointless Alex Boyd
Metro | Edmonton Sorry guys, you still have to floss. That’s according to the head of periodontology at the University of Alberta, who says a recent flurry of stories arguing there’s no benefit to the much-hated practice have got it wrong. “It’s ridiculous,” said Dr. Liran Levin, who also teaches dentistry. “It’s having a piece of informa-
tion and taking it the exact opposite way.” The information in question? Studies that say flossing and brushing aren’t much more effective than brushing alone. But Levin said the takeaway isn’t that you shouldn’t floss — it’s that your technique probably needs work. The studies didn’t look at whether people were flossing effectively. Levin said it’s a task most people flunk. “Most people either don’t floss, but even if they do, what
they usually do is just click between the contact point between your teeth, and they go back and forth and that’s all,” he said. “But that doesn’t do much.” That’s why Levin gives his patients instructions on how to floss properly, or has them use special triangular toothpicks that also clean out bacteria between teeth. “It’s like buying a microwave, not plugging it in and then complaining when it doesn’t heat up your food,” he said.
He maintains it’s critical people have a way to keep the spaces between their teeth clean. “Ninety-nine per cent of visits to the dental office are related to either cavities or gum diseases, both disease are caused by bacteria, it’s very simple,” he said, adding that if you can keep the bacteria at bay, your mouth will be pretty much healthy. “Sometimes it amazes me as a dental practitioner how easy it can be and how we’re failing at preventing those diseases.”
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Calgary’s police chief said now more than ever is the time to increase police transparency, but said when police are being investigated by watchdog ASIRT, he is running into barriers in communicating with the public. Chief Roger Chaffin will be raising the issue at a meeting with other Alberta chiefs of police Thursday at their monthly meeting. “The issue around police, use of force and their conduct calls for increased transparency,” said Chaffin. “With things going on in the States and in Canada, there is a huge requirement from the community to increase communication.” Susan Hughson, executive director for the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), said ASIRT has agreements with all the policing agencies they investigate in regards to communications with the public. “If it’s an ASIRT investigation, we do restrict what they
can comment on in respect to the actual critical incident,” she said. Hughson said it’s because ASIRT’s primary focus is to protect the integrity of the investigation — which Chaffin agrees is important. “Commenting publicly on something that happened can taint the information the witness may give us if we haven’t talked to them,” said Hughson. ”We want to make sure when we put out a release we have independently verified the facts and can stand behind that information.” But, Chaffin said his biggest challenge is the implied message that because police are being investigated they won’t comment further. “I don’t think as a chief you can just say, ‘Trust us, it’s being investigated by somebody else,’” he said. Chaffin said he believes it makes it look as though there is a double standard when investigating police. He said CPS gives out much more information when investigating city homicides. “Just because we’re involved in the matter for some reason we have to close the doors,” he said. “I respect that we have to protect the investigative integrity, but, it also tells the public that the rules are different for police — I don’t think as we sit here in 2016 that’s the standard the public want from police.”
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6 Thursday, August 4, 2016 IN BRIEF Out-of-town judge needed for murder case An out-of-town judge and Crown prosecutor must be brought into a southern Alberta city due to conflict in a child murder case. Tyler Brian Hogan made a brief appearance Wednesday in a Lethbridge courtroom on a charge of seconddegree murder. Police allege he killed a nine-month-old boy, Austin Wright, who was left in his care in April. Police said an autopsy determined the child died of blunt-force trauma. the canadian press
Rescue crews, RCMP search for man in lake RCMP and rescue crews are searching for a man believed to have drowned in a lake in northern Alberta. Police say the man and a friend were fishing on Blackett Lake near Lac La Biche on Monday, when their boat capsized. They say they have notified the man’s family and the search is continuing. the canadian press
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Two Edmonton men have been charged with indecent acts in connection to separate reports of nudity and public exposure in St. Albert. Police say that a 34-yearold male allegedly exposed himself at a Dollarama Store on July 15 at 5:15 p.m. Three police officers were then called to the scene and arrested the man. He is scheduled to appear in a St Albert court on Sept. 19. Meanwhile, a 44-year-old male, who is also a resident of Edmonton, has been charged with two counts of an indecent act, one charge of exposure to a person under the age of 16, and three additional charges of causing a disturbance. St. Albert RCMP say that they responded to a report on June 3rd of a man seen taking off his clothes in the parking lot of an Original Joe’s restaurant. On June 22nd, RCMP say that they received a report of a man allegedly exposing
POLICE The 44 year old man was arrested, but released on bail with a court date in August. He must abide by a curfew and is not allowed in the City of St. Albert except to attend court. Neither of the men charged have been named by police. RCMP say the victims in these cases are receiving support from St. Albert Victim Services. Northlands is asking the city to forgive $47 million in debt on the Edmonton Expo Centre. Kevin Tuong/for metro
his genitals to a 15-year-old girl near the Earl’s restaurant in St. Albert. And on July 6, RCMP responded to a report that a man naked from the waist down had been running in the parking lot of an OJ’s restaurant. metro
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Metro | Edmonton The future of Northlands is on many minds of late, and one local businessperson says it needs to merge with other city organizations in order to stay afloat. Chris LaBossiere, who served on the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation board for four years, told Metro Northlands needs to be absorbed into the development corporation. The reason, he said, is that the EEDC runs the Shaw Conference Centre, which provides similar services to Northlands. “I just think that you can achieve a lot more when you get everyone on the same page about marketing, storytelling and leveraging physical assets to make really amazing festivals and tourism opportunities,” LaBossiere said. “And you can do it for a lot less, which makes both organizations stronger and more sustainable.” LaBossiere’s ideas for Northlands come as the organization faces continuing pressure from Rogers Place and consequently on its revenue.
On Tuesday, the Oilers Entertainment Group announced the Professional Bull Riders will be the main attraction for a new, 10-day “western lifestyle” festival, from Nov. 3-12, which will include NHL hockey and other events while riders compete for a $1 million purse. Recently, Northlands lost the similarly themed Canadian Finals Rodeo event to Saskatoon, along with its revenues. Northlands did not bid on PBR, after its CFR bid with the city fell through. The organization is struggling for revenue after losing the Edmonton Oilers to Rogers Place and now competing with the new venue for big-name acts. On Wednesday, Northlands CEO Tim Reid told Metro he would consider a merger with EEDC.
Conference Centre under a new entity, he said. “One of the things that has never made sense to me in our city is why we have two very large conference, convention and trade facilities that are run under different entities,” Reid said. LaBossiere said it doesn’t make sense for the city to forgive Northlands’ $47 million debt — which is what Reid is asking for, to launch his Vision 2020 redevelopment plan. The reason, he added, is Northlands and EEDC compete for events, while Northlands spends a “disproportionate” amount on management. He said the merger should have happened years ago. Northlands’ 2015 financial statement showed $10.6 million was spent on general adminis-
I just think that you can achieve a lot more when you get everyone on the same page. Chris LaBossiere “If a discussion around a full merger is in the best interest of the City of Edmonton, we’d certainly be willing to entertain that conversation,” Reid said. He said Northlands has worked closely with EEDC over the past year to drive more trade and convention traffic to the city and bring bigger events. Pursuing that path could mean more collaboration in sales and marketing, or “full integration” of Northlands and the Shaw
tration costs. Reid said overhead costs are competitive with the city and other organizations. EEDC spokesperson Adam Sweet said the corporation will continue to collaborate with Northlands, though he would not comment further on a potential merger. Northlands awaits council’s decision on the Vision 2020 plan, expected to come down on Aug. 31.
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Tootoo apologizes for relationship Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo, who cited an alcohol problem for leaving the Liberal caucus and cabinet earlier this year, apologized Wednesday for what he called a “consensual but inappropriate” relationship with an unidentified person. Tootoo, who declared his return to politics late last month after a two-month hiatus to seek treatment for addiction, has been at the centre of persistent rumours that he had been involved with a staff member. He acknowledged the relationship in a videotaped statement that was delivered at
the CBC’s Iqaluit studios and posted to the broadcaster’s regional Facebook page. “I let my judgment be clouded and I also let alcohol take over my life,” Tootoo said, reading from a portfolio on his lap. “I am ashamed and I apologize to all involved, especially the people of Nunavut. I am deeply sorry.” Tootoo said he informed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 31 of the relationship, then promptly quit the party and checked himself into rehab. the canadian press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stops to talk with a mother and her daughter following a child care benefit announcement on July 20 in Aylmer, Que. An internal federal analysis says fewer Canadian mothers work outside home than those in many rich countries.
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Report places Canada ninth among rich countries Fewer Canadian mothers — especially those with young children — participate in the job market compared to moms in many wealthy countries, says a newly released internal federal analysis. The Finance Department briefing note, prepared after the Liberals took power, also found that the workforce par-
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ticipation rates of first spring budget Canadian mothers committed $500 varied considerably million in 2017-18 depending on the toward the frameprovince. work’s creation. Employment rate The document The Liberals have for Canadian explored the link women aged 25 promised the initiabetween child-care to 54 years old. tive would avoid a support and the in“one-size-fits-all” volvement of women national program, in the labour market. and instead consider the apIt was created after last proaches used by different year’s election campaign, dur- jurisdictions across Canada to ing which the Liberals vowed address their respective childto work with provinces, ter- care needs. The government’s detailed ritories and indigenous communities to draw up a national internal analysis, “The imframework on early learning pact of childcare support on and child care. women’s labour force particiThe Trudeau government’s pation,” provides information
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that could add valuable context to such discussions. Based on 2013 data, it said the employment rate for “prime-aged” Canadian women — between 25 to 54 years old — with kids younger than 15 years old was 75 per cent. That number placed Canada ninth among fellow member countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a prominent Paris-based think tank. “Canadian women with children are less involved in the labour market than women in many OECD countries,” said the partially redacted briefing note. THE CANADIAN PRESS
IN BRIEF Man charged with threatening Trudeau A Saskatchewan man has been charged with uttering threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Christopher Hayes appeared briefly in a Yorkton courtroom. RCMP say the 41-year-old allegedly made the threats on social media. Investigators received two complaints about the threats in March and July. Hayes was arrested Tuesday at a home northeast of Regina.
Election shooting suspect not psychotic, expert says Richard Henry Bain was unlikely manic, depressed or psychotic the night he allegedly shot and killed a man outside the Parti Quebecois victory party in 2012, a report by the Crown’s expert witness says. Forensic psychiatrist Joel Watts wrote that Bain was able to appreciate the nature and quality of his alleged acts and knew they were wrong.
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Republican frustrations mount as Trump spins out campaign
Poll numbers, morale sinking in recent spate of offences Their party in crisis, Republicans’ frustration with Donald Trump reached new heights on Wednesday as party leaders on Capitol Hill and inside New York’s Trump Tower scrambled to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale. Party chairman Reince Priebus appealed to the New York billionaire’s adult children to help amid new signs of a campaign in trouble. Trump’s operation has been beset by internal discord, including growing concern about general election preparedness and a lack of support from Republican leaders, according to two people familiar with the organization’s inner workings. One of the people said Trump privately blames his own staff for failing to quiet the backlash from his own party after he criticized an American Muslim family whose son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed in Iraq. The inner tension comes as Priebus and a handful of highprofile Trump allies consider whether to confront the candidate directly to encourage a new approach following a series of startling stances and statements. In the midst of the uproar over his continued criticism
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a campaign town hall at Ocean Center, Wednesday, in Daytona Beach, Fla. AP Photo/Evan Vucci
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of the Khan family, Trump infuriated Priebus and other party leaders by refusing to endorse GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election. The officials, including one with direct knowledge of Priebus’ thinking, were granted anonymity to discuss internal strategy after one of the most tumultuous weeks of Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump on Wednesday dis-
missed suggestions that the GOP frustration was hurting his campaign, even as he openly contemplated an Election Day loss. “Wouldn’t that be embarrassing to lose to crooked Hillary Clinton? That would be terrible,” he said during a campaign stop in battleground Florida. He also insisted, “We’ve never been this united.”
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Instagram unveils abuse filter Rebecca Williams
Metro | Toronto Instagram may be getting flak for “pulling a Melania Trump” with its “stories” option, but another feature rolled out by the platform is attracting some more positive attention. As announced last week by The Washington Post, Instagram has been working on a feature that would allow users to filter out comments
they deem negative. That filter has now been made available to some accounts, mostly celebrities, including Chrissy Teigen. The model shared an image online of her showing the words she had chosen to filter, some funny (Trump) and others not so much (slut). “Our goal is to make Ins t a g r a m a f r i e n d l y, f u n and, most importantly, safe place for self expression,” Instagram’s head of public policy, Nicky Jackson Colaco, told the Post.
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Trump blamed the media — “so dishonest” — for growing criticism of his recent statements and his unwillingness to accept guidance from senior advisers. Privately, however, Trump has concerns about his own team. He was deeply upset when GOP leaders “took the other side” during his ongoing quarrel with the Khan family, one person said. Another person said Trump is irritated that general election planning in battleground states isn’t further along with less than 100 days until Election Day.
resignation A Georgia Republican resigned Wednesday from his role as an elector, hours after saying he can’t vote for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and may not support him as a member of the electoral college. Baoky Vu said in a joint statement with the Georgia Republican Party that his comments on Trump would be “detrimental” to the party.
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Clinton swings at ‘Made in USA’ claim Hillary Clinton is criticizing Donald Trump’s use of outsourcing at his companies, part of an effort to undercut the business record that has formed the basis of his presidential pitch. “What kind of man does business by hurting other people? I am just so determined that we are not going to let him do to America what he has done to small business,” she told several thousand people gathered at in a high school gymnasium on Wednesday afternoon. Clinton highlighted Trump’s use of outsourcing to manufacture some of his branded products, arguing he’s profited from the same foreign labour he now blames for killing U.S. jobs. Most of Trump’s branded neckties, shirts and suits are made abroad, in China and Bangladesh, as are the bulk of the products sold by his daughter, Ivanka. Even his campaign hats, which say they are “Made in the USA,” are not entirely made domestically, according to an Associated Press analysis. “He said: ‘Well, we don’t make that stuff in America. I’m here to tell you Donald, you’re wrong,’’ said Clinton. the associated press
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IN BRIEF Woman killed, five injured in London knife attack A woman has died and five others were injured in a knife attack in a central part of London, the police said Thursday. A statement from the London Metropolitan Police said the attack happened late Wednesday in Russell Square, which is near the British Museum. The statement said one man was arrested, and that a police officer had used a Taser stun gun. Police said that terrorism was a possible motive. the associated press
Hurricane heads for Belize Earl strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday and roared toward a nighttime landfall in the Caribbean nation of Belize as it brushed by Honduras, leaving felled trees and power lines in its wake. The storm dumped rain on nearly all of Honduras, where officials reported a lobster fishing boat was hit by a large wave in the Caribbean and capsized. Most of the 83 people on board were rescued, but the navy was looking for two missing. the associated press
All 300 aboard Dubai airliner survive crash All 300 people aboard an Emirates airliner survived a crash landing in Dubai Wednesday, scrambling down emergency slides before flames consumed the plane in an accident that halted flights for hours at the world’s thirdbusiest airport. One firefighter was killed battling the blaze. The incident was the most serious for Emirates, which has grown at a breakneck pace over the last three decades and turned Dubai into a major international air hub. the associated press
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Advocates want women to speak up Survivor of bad relationship finds hope in announcement Alex Boyd
Metro | Edmonton Had events been slightly different, Amanda Gould might not be alive today. “I do believe I’m a survivor,” she said. Years ago, after Gould left a bad relationship, her former partner turned violent and Gould was forced to move around so much to stay safe that she had to give up her daughter for a time. But she survived, which gave the long-time Edmonton advocate a unique insight into the thousands of indigenous women who have not survived in Canada. Gould said she’s optimistic about new details about the inquiry, announced Wednesday, but she’ll be watching to make sure the voices of families and grassroots activists are heard. “I want to encourage families of the missing and murdered to come forward and be a part of the inquiry as much as they can, and if it hurts too much, to have someone speak on their behalf,” Gould said. Of her own story of survival, Gould said she knows what struggles those who haven’t
‘I want to encourage families ... to come forward and be a part of the inquiry.’ Amanda Gould
Amanda Gould has spent almost a decade pushing for an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women. She encourages people to come forward and be heard. KEVIN TUONG/For Metro
made it have faced. “I couldn’t get into shelters, because there’s a lack of shelters, I know about policing and not being believed, not being able to get a restraining order, so many areas that could be changed that could have helped me,” she said. Many families have spent years searching for answers about their loved ones, and
Gould said it’s especially important that they come forward when the opportunity arises. For Muriel Stanley Venne, founder of the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, Wednesday’s announcement was bittersweet. “It’s a great day for me, but its also very sad. I grieve for the families and the women and
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the loss to their communities,” she said. She also stressed the need to make sure all voices are heard, including men. “If they leave any part — police actions, community, the root causes, or the treatment of indigenous women in society — if they leave any of it out, they won’t have a good report.”
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MMIW inquiry’s powers outlined Families who believe investigators gave short shrift to their lost loved ones cases hope to have a second chance at justice as the next phase in the national inquiry murdered and missing indigenous women and girls begins. Canada’s first indigenous attorney general, Jody WilsonRaybould, said the five-person commission can recommend to law enforcement that a criminal investigation be launched. There is flexibility, under the inquiry’s mandate, for the commissioners, led by B.C. indigenous judge Marion Buller, to figure out how justice can be achieved for the families, said Wilson-Raybould, a former B.C. regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations and a member of the We Wai Kai Nation. “But it also speaks to their ability in hearing the lived experiences of the families and the survivors, the ability to refer specific cases to the appropriate authorities, be it the police or the attorneys general of the provinces or territories, referring the case in terms where there may be the need for more investigations or more findings,” said Wilson-Raybould.
Witnesses can be compelled to testify before the inquiry and to summon all documents needed, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said. However, the inquiry does not have power to conduct its own criminal investigation. Cases must be referred to the police for that to happen, she said. “The families who feel the death of their loved ones were called a suicide or an accident or an overdose as opposed to a murder, those patterns are the kinds of things the commissioners will have to look into,” Bennett told a press conference at the Canadian Museum of History on Wednesday. But criminal examinations can’t take place in the inquiry itself because it “is not a criminal court,” said Bennett. Some families are upset, however, that the inquiry was not given the teeth needed to reopen cases. “This is the problem. Families wanted inquiry to re-open,” indigenous activist and lawyer Pam Palmater told the Star via Twitter, referring to sending cases back to provincial or territorial authorities. torstar news service
From left, commissioners Marion Buller, Qajaq Robinson, Marilyn Poitras, Michele Audette and Brian Eyolfson at the announcement of the inquiry. Justin Tang/the canadian press
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ON WHY THE MMIW INQUIRY MATTERS
What we know about the problem is not nearly detailed enough. This independent inquiry is designed to provide the fullest picture possible, in the greatest detail. Action requires specificity. It will be a two-year foray into one of our country’s darkest shames. The launch of the longpromised inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls was a powerful moment for many, and a pivotal announcement. One with the potential to change Canada. This inquiry is the right move for grieving families. Fundamentally, it’s not about what white Canadians want (though we stand to greatly benefit). It’s about what indigenous families, communities and politicians are demanding. As Manitoba NDP MLA Nahanni Fontaine told the CBC: “This journey for some families started 30 years ago, so for today to actually occur is first and foremost a testament of families’ resiliency and determination and courage.” Even so, critics argue, this inquiry is a waste of time and money because what we need now — what indigenous Canadians deserve — is action. We already know the root causes of violence against indigenous women and girls, they argue. We already know about the devastating rates of poverty, suicide, incarceration, children in government care, sexual violence, third-world living conditions and poor education outcomes that indigenous Canadians face. Some, including Kyle Kematch, whose sister Amber Guiboche went missing in 2011, suspect one grand PR move on the part of the Liberals, where action should be. I disagree on all fronts.
Mainstream Canada has looked the other way while indigenous women have been murdered.
To begin with, if this country already had everything it needed to repair relations with indigenous Canadians and offer fairness, justice and equality, we’d be doing it. Where governments are concerned, action is not born of facts. It’s not always born of necessity. It can come long after it was due. It can seem to never arrive. There are two plausible
indigenous commissioners — is designed to collect data and information in an unbiased fashion. To hear stories as yet untold. To offer the fullest picture possible in the greatest detail. This is important because action requires specificity. You can’t say you’re going to fight racism in the police force, for example, and leave it at that.
VICTIMS’ FAMILIES TO THE FRONT Lorelei Williams holds an eagle feather as she wears a T-shirt with pictures of her cousin Tanya Holyk and aunt Belinda William during the missing and murdered women inquiry announcement. THE CANADIAN PRESS
reasons why this called-for “action” — amorphous and rarely well defined by many critics — hasn’t been taken. One is that we have been indifferent. The second is that what we know about the problem is not nearly detailed enough. And if we believe, as we should, the families of victims, both are true. The data collected and published by the RCMP has proved suspect. A Toronto Star investigation into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls found data that conflicted with the RCMP’s public report, raised questions about how cases were categorized and drew suspicion over redactions in the released information. This independent inquiry — consisting of an indigenous chairwoman and four other
You need to understand how that racism functions in order to design a plan to remove it. You need to understand how sexism is perpetuated in communities and government agencies in order to address it. Yes, the problems for indigenous Canadians in broad strokes are well known. But their intricacies have been roundly ignored. Even if this were not the case — even if we already knew all that we needed to — the public will to change the fate of indigenous Canadians has been lacking. Safe in our more comfortable lives, unaffected by racism and the effects of the Indian Act and residential schools, mainstream Canada has looked the other way while indigenous women
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Things to know about the inquiry
It’s already over budget
The federal government had originally budgeted $40 million for the inquiry over the next two years. The federal government disclosed Wednesday the commission will need more money to fulfil its mandate. Some critics say they fear the final price tag could end up being even higher than $53.8 million.
have been murdered at a rate 4.5 times higher than the general female population. This inquiry could change that. We know the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has already begun to. Polls show it has improved mainstream Canadian sentiment and sympathy toward indigenous peoples. Any real action will require that sentiment, because it will require sacrifice from all of us. It could demand money, land, resources, rising taxes. This inquiry could build more appetite for the substantial collective effort that will truly bring change. Finally, this inquiry, along with the TRC, could offer indigenous Canadians something that’s been lost for more than a century: some level of trust in our governments, and some level of faith in the joint experiment that is our society. That is why all still basking in colonialism’s benefits must grip it and wring it and demand of it every last ounce of insight and compassion. As for where this commission may fall short, and where it may fail: I’d listen to any criticism from any family member of a missing or murdered indigenous woman, or any critic inside the Assembly of First Nations, the Native Women’s Association of Canada, or other indigenous political, grassroots or community organizations, or any indigenous Canadian. Everyone else: I don’t care if you think it’s a waste of time and money. The status quo is a devastating waste of lives. Proof of the inquiry’s effectiveness for families will lie in what ought to come after the report is published: dramatic improvement to indigenous women’s lives and fulsome efforts to solve their deaths and disappearances. But it takes blind privilege to believe nothing meaningful can be learned from the voices of the oppressed.
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There’s money for victims services $16.2 million over the next four years goes toward victims services and to create liaison units to assist families. The measures are designed to ensure families feel connected to the inquiry process as it proceeds.
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It will be up to indigenous leaders to work with commissioners. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde said he’s confident the chiefs will be willing partners.
The final report will be non-binding While they will be able to compel witnesses during their work, as stipulated in the Inquiries Act, they will not be able to force governments to comply with their findings.
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Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s microblading It’s not just celebrities putting a lot of effort into their brows: sales of eyebrow makeup grew by 42 per cent in Canada in 2015, according research firm NPD Group. Can you name these famous eyebrows? Clockwise from top left: Emily Ratajkowski, Sabrina Carpenter, Priyanka Chopra, Chloe Moretz, Hawa Diawara, Amanda Peet, Kylie Jenner, Cara Delevingne. all photos getty images style trend
How eyebrows became the most important beauty canvas Genna Buck
Metro Canada Don’t look so surprised. Seriously, don’t. Plucked, highly arched eyebrows are a beauty faux pas now. They’ve
been replaced with a perfectly sculpted, full and natural look. As one salty Internet meme scolds: “Don’t let anybody with bad eyebrows tell you sh-t about life.” Putting aside the harms inherent in unattainable beauty standards, when did eyebrows become so important? Recently, it seems. According to the market research firm NPD Group, sales of eyebrow makeup grew by 42 per cent in Canada in 2015, handily outperforming the 18 per cent growth in makeup sales overall. It’s not just pencils anymore:
Eyebrow gels, tints, and powders and the services proffered by “brow bars” — beauty salons that focus mostly or entirely on eyebrows — are booming too. One such growing business is Winnipeg’s Brows by G, which specializes in microblading, a type of semi-permanent cosmetic tattooing sometimes called “eyebrow embroidery” that has taken off in the last few years. The owner, Giovanna Minenna, spends much of her time teaching other beauty professionals how to do the soughtafter service. The women driving the boom,
explained Cara Dveris, Brows by G’s studio manager, have serious eyebrow regret. In the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, everyone had that really thin brow,” she said. “We’re getting a lot of clients in their 50s and 60s now who over-plucked back in the day. And their hair never grew back.” Priyanka Jain, a 31-year-old public health specialist who drives 40 km from Toronto to see her trusted “eyebrow lady” in Oakville, Ont., suggested another reason for the eyebrow explosion: The growth and influence of communities where eyebrows
have long been a cornerstone of many women’s beauty routine. “It’s a new cultural phenomenon in terms of the mainstream, but if you were a South Asian girl growing up, you’ve been doing your eyebrows for a very long time,” she said. “When I go to a new city, it’s the first thing I ask a friend: ‘Where do you get your eyebrows threaded?’” Jain is one of those consumers clamoring for eyebrow makeup. “When I fill in my eyebrows, I get so many compliments. People go “Wow.’ I look like I’m put together.”
Claudia Coelho, a Torontobased freelance makeup artist, attributes society’s growing fascination with eyebrows in part to U.K. actor Cara Delevingne, who “put the big, bold brows on the map.” In her business, “When it comes to bridal, beauty and prom clients, it’s definitely all about the brows,” she said. “It’s definitely social media driving it.” Beauty gurus on YouTube and Instagram have elevated eyebrow sculpting (and makeup in general) to a hobby, even an art form, she explained: “It’s just a different canvas.”
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Comedy tackles racism in the U.S. THE SHOW: Superstore, Season 1, Episode 3 (Global/NBC) THE MOMENT: The racism seminar
The racism seminar in Superstore is a micro event for the macro things happening across the U.S. today. contributed
Several employees of the superstore Cloud 9 (think Wal-Mart) have crossed a racist line: Mateo (Nico Santos), who is Asian, was pretending to be Mexican. Chastising him, Amy (American Ferrera, whose parents are Honduran) did a racist Asian accent. Jonah (Ben Feldman) helped an elderly lady who turned out to be a white supremacist. Their
boss Glenn (Mark McKinney) lectures them on sensitivity. “Anyone can be a racist,” Glenn says. “I was not being racist,” Amy insists. “I was making a comment about racism.” “Helping people because they’re white is almost as bad as discriminating against them if they’re not white,” Glenn tells Jonah. “It’s exactly as bad,” says Garrett (Colton Dunn), who is black. “I helped that lady because
she was old, not because she was white,” Jonah says. “Ageism is just as racist as racism,” says Mateo, who dislikes Jonah. “Are racist jokes OK again?” asks Dina (Lauren Ash). “Did you hear the one about the Jewish bird?” Showrunner Justin Spitzer previously wrote for The Office, so workplace-comedy comparisons are inevitable. The overlapping quips, and Amy and Jonah’s will-they-won’t-they attraction,
feel familiar. But while the earlier series explored the minutia of behavior among people trapped in dull jobs — small things writ large — this new one cracks the world open. It’s big stuff — immigration, ethnic tension, corporate greed — writ funny. Johanna Schneller is a media connoisseur who zeroes in on pop-culture moments. She appears Monday through Thursday.
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Books
Tragedy felt like war for gay community interview
Cristodora captures the devastation of AIDS crisis Sue Carter
For Metro Canada Two weeks ago at a meeting for Gays Against Guns — a New York City activist group that immobilized in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting — more than 100 concerned citizens showed up to plan future protests, among them, novelist and journalist Tim Murphy. Gays Against Guns’ grassroots direct-action strategy brought Murphy back to the 1990s, when the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP took to the streets fighting for meaningful policy change and medical research. “It feels like an activistic-charged moment for gay people,” he says. The LGBT centre where the meeting was held is the same one that Murphy uses as a location in his new novel, Christadora, which captures, over three decades, how AIDS devastated the community, and continues to act like a malevolent ghost over the families, friends and lovers of those affected by the epidemic. “It’s crazy that something I wrote about as a period thing, something lost in time that I tried to recapture, is suddenly, unexpectedly become part of my life,” Murphy says. Christadora is the name of an apartment building in the city’s Lower East Side, where upper-middle-class artists Milly and Jared live with their adopted son Mateo, who was born to a young woman who died from AIDS. It’s also home to Hector, a burned-out activist whose personal grief manifests as a crippling drug addiction. The epic story and its broad cast of characters captures several other defin-
This was an emotional book for me. Author Tim Murphy
ing themes from Murphy’s own life: mental illness, the compulsion to create art, and how a supportive creative community can transform into family. It’s also a homage to New York and the dramatic changes that have occurred to the cityscape over the past 30 years. “The city has be-
come this hall of ghosts and memories, and the past and present and future bleed into each other,” he says. Murphy, who is 47 years old, wrote two novels while in his 20s, but after recovering from depression and addiction, found an outlet in journalism, mostly writing
about AIDS-related issues. “At the time I thought, why keep writing fiction? It’s silly, with so many grievous things happening in the world,” he says. But by 2009, he felt a deep need to write fiction again, and to respond to the fact that, despite the introduction of life-saving drugs and attitudinal shifts, people are still dealing with lingering depression and isolation and addiction. “It felt like everyone had been through a war or tragedy and there hadn’t been much written that ad-
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Potter script sells 2M copies in two days Not even Hamilton can keep up with these numbers. The script to the London stage production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of publication, Scholastic announced Wednesday. That’s well below the 8.3 million copies sold in 2007 for the
first day of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling’s then-presumed finale for her fantasy series. But it’s still among the fastest-selling works in history and a remarkable number for the script to a play and for a project that only partially involved Rowling. A text edition of Hamilton has also been a bestseller this year. Meanwhile, the British pub-
lisher Little, Brown Book Group announced that over 680,000 print copies sold in the first three days in the United Kingdom. Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper said in a statement that no hardcover had sold so quickly in the U.K. since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009. Reviews for the Cursed Child
book have been mixed, but the new Potter has topped the bestseller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com and brought in readers worldwide last weekend for midnight store parties celebrating the release. Several previous Rowling books also reached high on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble lists in recent days. the associated press
dressed or processed it,” he says. “It really coloured the gay world, and a generation, really.” Many of the characters that appear in Christadora are composites of people from Murphy’s own life or who were involved in the original AIDS movement. He weaves in intensive research, including the often-overlooked fact that many women were also
affected by the disease. “I think that putting it into characters and into narrative makes it vivid in a way that non-fiction can’t,” Murphy says. “This was an emotional book for me. It felt like a way of figuring out what was going on deeper in my heart.” Sue Carter is the editor at Quill & Quire magazine.
BOOK BRIEF Oprah ‘blown away’ The Underground Railroad Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free territory is an actual train. Winfrey said during a recent telephone interview that she knew from the first sentence she would want to share her passion with her audience, an impulse she has relied on with uncommon success for 20 years. “I was blown away by it,” Winfrey said. “‘Blown away’ is an often-used expression, but with this book it was to the point of sometimes putting it down and saying, ‘I can’t read anymore. I don’t
want to turn the page. I want to know what happens, but I don’t want to know what happens.”’ The Underground Railroad was scheduled to come out in September, but after learning of Winfrey’s decision, Doubleday moved up the release date to Tuesday and more than doubled the announced first printing, from 75,000 to 200,000. An interview with Whitehead appears in the September issue of Winfrey’s magazine, O, which comes out next week. Winfrey’s website, Oprah.com, will include a reading guide and Winfrey’s comments, and Underground Railroad will be featured on the social media site Goodreads (Goodreads. com/OprahsBookClub). the associated press
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Toronto-shot lesbian love story gets fest premiere Director April Mullen’s “bold, uninhibited” lesbian love story Below Her Mouth, shot last fall in Toronto using an all-female crew, will have its world premiere at TIFF in September. Written by Stephanie Fabrizi, the drama stars Canadian actress Natalie Krill as Jasmine and Swedish gender-bending model Erika Linder as Dallas, in the story of two Toronto women caught up in a passionate love affair that changes both their lives. “We think the world is ready
for this love story,” said producer Melissa Coghlan, who describes the drama as “a mainstream film where the two characters falling in love just happen to be women.” The film also pays homage to Toronto by showcasing the city, Coghlan said, adding the TIFF premiere slot was “our dream” for the filmmakers. Below Her Mouth will be in theatres around Valentine’s Day. TIFF announced its slate of Canadian films, screening in a variety of programs at the Sept. 8-18 festival, on Wednesday. Also making its world debut is Deepa Mehta’s drama Anatomy of Violence, based on the 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a New Delhi bus. Matt Johnson’s and Jay McCarrol’s Nirvana the Band the
Show, which screens in the return of the festival’s TV-based Primetime program and Bruce McDonald’s 1976-set blackand-white Weirdos, about a teen runaway and his girlfriend hitting the road in Nova Scotia, will have World Premieres at TIFF. Also in the Canadian lineup are documentaries about legendary actor Gordon Pinsent (The River of My Dreams, directed by Brigitte Berman), government manipulation of the internet (Black Code, directed by Nicholas de Pencier), basketball dreams in Africa (Hubert Davis’s Giants of Africa) and the unlikely journey of Sunny Leone, raised in a strict Sikh home in Sarnia, who went from adult films to Bollywood success (Mostly Sunny directed by Dilip Mehta).
Fred Peabody’s doc All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone explores how investigative journalists like Glenn Greenwald are changing the news business by breaking global stories outside mainstream media. Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary about the court challenge over the quality of child and family welfare services for First Nations children, We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice, has its World Premiere in the Masters program. Festivalgoers will also be able to see the North American premieres of films from Xavier Dolan (It’s Only the End of the World), Nathan Morlando (Mean Dreams) and Kim Nguyen (Two Lovers and a Bear). torstar news service
Cheryl Hines was already a pro at handling animals going into the filming of Nine Lives, out Friday. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star plays the ex-wife to Kevin Spacey’s character Tom, who winds up trapped inside the body of a cat he buys for his daughter (Malina Weissman). Co-stars include Christopher Walken as a mysterious petshop owner, Jennifer Garner as Tom’s current wife, and Toronto native Robbie Amell as his son. Hines felt right at home with the star feline: growing up in Florida, her family had as many as 17 outdoor cats at a time in their suburban backyard playhouse. “There were times when we would have to put ribbons around the kittens’ necks and
then put them in a wagon and take them around the neighbourhood to try to get rid of the kittens,” she says. “Really, looking back on it, the neighbours couldn’t have loved it.” These days, Hines doesn’t have cats but she does have two dogs (including a puppy), an emu and five tortoises. She says her daughter and her husband, environmental activist and author Robert Kennedy Jr., are huge animal lovers. The emu lives outdoors. “Although our bigger dog knows how to open the back door,” says Hines. “So he opens the sliding-glass door and then the emu likes to come inside. “It’s just a circus at my house.” the canadian press
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Want to experience a real slice of British life in Edmonton? Want to sample the best �ish and chips place in the city as rated by Google, Yelp and TripAdvisor? Twenty �ive years ago, a British couple worked diligently to bring the authentic taste of Britain to Alberta in the form of Sir Winston's Fish & Chips. This fact didn't go unnoticed by local entrepreneurs and current owners Jay Patel and Kevin Critchell who have maintained the same "original British secret recipe" while expanding to a pub restaurant capable of seating 75 people. Under their ownership Sir Winston's Fish & Chips and Pub has been revolutionized without straying from tradition or compromising taste, with everything from coleslaw and tartar sauce made fresh in house to the cod, halibut, salmon and haddock �illets which are fried to perfection in light crispy batter and paired with chunky freshly cut chips. Add a dollop of signature slaw and some of their famous curry sauce and you will
experience the delightful and true taste of Britain. Or choose the ultimate comfort food and indulge in their new baked pies and pasties. Sir Winston's doesn't just taste like Britain, it feels like it too. Aside from boasting a �ine collection of imported on-tap beers and beverages, every corner of the restaurant has history. New renovations mean the place now also has a funky, trendy feel. Adorning the walls are art works of British icons and a coat of arms. Another focal point displayed alongside the tartan tablecloths is the quirky tea towel collection contributed by British and Irish patrons over the last 25 years. All sporting tastes are catered for, so come and watch the game while enjoying amazing food and a cold one, or play darts while hits from the '70s and '80s play. Sir Winston's is also an active supporter of the arts in Edmonton, opening its walls to young artists while hosting open mic and social painting nights. It's fair to say Sir Winston's is more than just a �ish and chips pub.
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Women off to Olympic flyer as Harnett sets a medal target It was a dramatic start for Canada at the Rio Summer Games on Wednesday. Janine Beckie scored the quickest goal in Olympic soccer history as the Canadian women’s soccer team earned a dramatic 2-0 win over Australia in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Beckie opened the scoring just 20 seconds into the match as Canada secured the victory despite playing short-handed for 71 minutes after Shelina Zadorsky received a red card. The women’s preliminary soccer schedule began two days before the Games are scheduled to officially open. After plenty of anxious moments for the Canadians, veteran captain Christine Sinclair cemented the win in the 80th minute. Sinclair also made her presence felt early, intercepting Laura Alleway’s pass to defensive partner Alanna Kennedy in front of the penalty box. And when Alleway rushed out at the Canadian captain, Sinclair coolly rolled a perfect pass through her legs to Beckie who tapped the ball past Australian goalkeeper
Lydia Williams. But the Canadians lost Zadorsky in the 19th minute, leaving Canada a player short for the remainder of the contest to nurse the slim lead. Zadorsky grabbed an Australian attacker by the shoulder, forcing her down. Williams stopped a Beckie penalty in the 73rd minute after what was deemed an Australia handball in the box. But Sinclair earned the insurance goal for Canada, beating Williams to a long ball from Fleming and then knocking it into an empty net. She celebrated with verve, clenching her fists. Canadian coach John Herdman said his team dug deep. “The game had a bit of everything,” he said. “It was great to watch.” The Olympic flame is now in Rio, ready for the lighting of the cauldron Friday. The torch relay, which began with a ceremonial lighting in Ancient Olympia, Greece in April, hitched a ride on a tour boat to reach the first city in South America to host the Olympics. The Canadian Olympic Committee also held its traditional kickoff news conference Wednesday. The overriding theme was “Canada is ready” after its
athletes registered 34 top-five world championship performances in the past year after a strong showing at last summer’s Pan Ams in Toronto. The international results, says Canadian chef de mission Curt Harnett, show Canada is on pace to reach its goal of a top-12 finish in the final medal standings. “Our athletes’ performances on the international stage have been incredible, and have kept our athletes on track with this goal,” said Harnett, a three-time Olympic cycling medallist. “It has been such an honour to see them in beast mode over the last few months on the road to Rio.” Harnett believes Canada’s 314-member team will win in the range of 19-plus medals, which would be one more than the Canadians brought home four years ago from London. Topping 20 medals would be a significant accomplishment for the Canadian squad — the last time that happened was 1996 (22 medals). The Canadian medal run is expected to be anchored by a track and field team that made a historic eight marches to the podium at last summer’s world championships. The associated press
It has been such an honour to see them in beast mode over the last few months on the road to Rio. Canada chef de mission Curt Harnett
Janine Beckie scored just 20 seconds into Canada’s match against Australia in Sao Paulo. MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP/Getty Images
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Broncos WR gets good news on granny Demaryius Thomas used the Denver Broncos’ celebratory White House visit in June to deliver a handwritten note to U.S. President Barack Obama thanking him for commuting Thomas’ mother’s drug sentence last year and then asked him to do the same for his grandmother. The Broncos wide receiver is ready to pen another thank you note after he was told the president fulfilled his wish. Minnie Pearl Thomas was among 214 federal inmates whose sentences were cut short Wednesday by Obama.
“I’m kind of jacked up right now. I don’t really know what to say,” Thomas said after the Broncos’ morning workout. “I kind of just want to talk to my granny. I haven’t talked to her in a couple of weeks. I’m excited for her.” Thomas’ grandmother, who was serving life for a drug offence, is to be released on Dec. 1. Last year, Obama commuted the sentence of Thomas’ mother, Katina Smith, as part of his push to reduce the prison population of non-violent drug offenders. She was in attendance
when the Broncos defeated Carolina 24-10 in Super Bowl 50, and she was on Thomas’ mind when Demaryius Obama hosted the champions Thomas Getty Images in June. After briefly talking with the president, Thomas had a sense his grandmother had a chance to have her sentence shortened. “I still remember when we were at the White House, I was talking about my mom and I was
saying thank you,” Thomas said. “The fact that he mentioned my grandmother, I knew something was going to happen.” Smith was convicted on drug trafficking charges for her role in a crack cocaine ring she and her mother operated out of their Georgia home. Minnie Pearl Thomas, 60, and Smith shared a cell in a federal prison in Florida before Smith’s sentence was commuted last summer. Smith spent time in a halfway house before being released in November. The Associated Press
Olympic leaders approved the addition of five sports to the program of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, including the return of baseball-softball and the introduction of youthoriented events such as skateboarding and surfing. The International Olympic Committee voted to accept the five-sport package, which also includes karate and sport climbing. The five, which were proposed for inclusion last year by Tokyo, were approved unanimously by the IOC members. Under new IOC rules, local organizers can propose the inclusion of at least one additional sport for their games. The new sports will add 18 events and 474 athletes to the program. The Tokyo Games will now feature 33 sports and about 11,000 athletes, compared to the usual number of 28 sports and 10,500 athletes. The IOC said the package presents a mix of traditional and youth-focused sports. “This will help make the games one of the most innovative games in our history,” IOC vice-president John Coates said. Organizers hope skateboarding will catch on with viewers as halfpipe in snowboarding did in the Winter Olympics. “There are more participants in skateboarding than most sports so I feel like they (the Olympics) need our credibility and they need our excitement level in their Summer Games,” skateboarding icon Tony Hawk said recently. the associated press
IN BRIEF Cardinals lock up Mathieu The Arizona Cardinals and All-Pro defensive back Tyrann Mathieu have agreed to a five-year contract extension, a rich reward for a player once considered a high-risk draftee. A person with knowledge of the agreement says the contract totals $62.5 million, with $40 million guaranteed. Mathieu, known as the “Honey Badger” to fans, sent a tweet that said simply, “blessed.”
Fury hit with doping ban World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury was provisionally suspended in June after testing positive for a banned substance, Britain’s anti-doping body said Wednesday. However, UKAD said that Fury and his cousin Hughie, a heavyweight boxer who was also suspended, have had their bans lifted “pending full determination of the charges.” The boxers were charged over the “presence of a prohibited substance.”
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Orioles swoop on starter as Texas lose out in a tough one Cole Hamels left himself vulnerable for only an instant, and the Baltimore Orioles quickly took advantage of his very rare lapse. Using a three-run first inning and a solid pitching performance from Kevin Gausman, the Orioles beat Hamels and the Texas Rangers 3-2 on Wednesday night. Matt Wieters had two RBIs for the Orioles, whose 39-16 record at home is the best in the majors. Baltimore will seek to complete a three-game sweep on Thursday in a series between first-place teams. The Orioles took control by using three hits and two walks to jump out to a 3-1 lead in the first inning. Hamels (12-3) steadied himself after that, but by then Baltimore had all the offence it needed. “You want to be able to go out there and get ahead,” Hamels said. “Sometimes you are not able to find it in that first inning and that will definitely cost you. More times than not, you can try to scratch out a win, but it’s definitely my fault, with not being able to establish a strike zone in those key situations.” Gausman (3-8) gave up two runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out seven and walking one. The right-hander had won only two of his 18 starts this season and was coming off a horrid outing in which he allowed three homers and six runs over three innings at Toronto. And still, he was good enough to outpitch Hamels.
“You can give in to what conventionality says it should be like, or you can compete and look at it as an opportunity to present yourself real well,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “It wasn’t like we beat (Hamels) up or anything. We had one shot at it and we took advantage of it. And our pitching made it hold up.” Darren O’Day worked a perfect eighth and Zach Britton finished for his 33rd save in 33 tries. Carlos Beltran homered in his second game with Texas since being obtained in a trade with the Yankees on Monday. New catcher Jonathan Lucroy also picked up
We had one shot at it and we took advantage. Buck Showalter
his first RBI with the Rangers, and closer Jeremy Jeffress — obtained in the trade with Milwaukee that landed Lucroy — spent the night in the Texas bullpen after arriving earlier in the day. After Beltran hit his 23rd homer in the first inning, Baltimore took the lead for good in the bottom half. Mark Trumbo hit an RBI groundout and Wieters added a two-run single for a 3-1 lead. Lucroy delivered an RBI single in the second to get Texas within a run, but there was no more scoring by either team. Gausman — like the Orioles — seems to perform better at home. He’s 0-7 on the road but has won his last three starts at Camden Yards. “I just feel comfortable pitching here,” Gausman said. the associated press
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Another first as new red Ricketts seals it Tosaint Ricketts already had one favourable memory at BMO Field. He added another one on Wednesday night. The Edmonton native scored his first MLS goal in just his third league appearance as Toronto FC topped Real Salt Lake 1-0. BMO Field is also where Ricketts scored his first international goal for Canada during a friendly against Ecuador in June 2011. “It felt like my first goal
for Canada here at BMO,” said Ricketts, who signed with TFC on July 20. “This is a special place for me. I love to play here. I’m waiting for those chances, those balls in behind. I couldn’t sleep for a few nights after hitting the post a couple weeks ago.” The victory allowed Toronto (9-7-6) to extend its win streak to a season-high three games and moved the Reds into sole possession of second place in the East. the canadian press
Orioles second baseman Jonathan Schoop throws to first base to complete a double play after forcing out Elvis Andrus at second on Wednesday in Baltimore. Nick Wass/The Associated Press
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IN BRIEF Young guns make Impact Montreal Impact lost 2-0 against Italian giants A.S. Roma in an international friendly on Wednesday, but there were flashes of good things to come from the Impact’s up-and-coming talent. Goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau and forwards Balou Jean Yves Tabla and Anthony Jackson-Hamel stole the show from superstars Francesco Totti, Daniele De Rossi and Didier Drogba. Edin Dzeko and Radja Nainggolan scored for A.S. Roma. the canadian press
Josh Donaldson hit two home runs, and Marco Estrada threw seven solid innings and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Houston Astros 3-1 Wednesday night. Jose Bautista hit his second home run in as many nights in the sixth as he and Donaldson went back-to-back. Donaldson led off the fourth with a home run to right field before hitting his 27th home run of the season in the sixth. It was Donaldson’s third multihomer game this season. Estrada (7-4) won his second straight start, allowing one run and four hits with seven strikeouts. Josh Estrada has Donaldson allowed four getty images runs or fewer in each of his past 12 starts. Joe Biagini escaped a one-out jam in the eighth, inducing a flyout from Jose Altuve and striking out Carlos Correa to strand runners on second and third. Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth for his 23rd save. Marwin Gonzalez, who had missed the past four games with a right hand injury, had a double in the sixth. Altuve followed with an RBI double to cut the lead to 3-1. Houston has lost five of its past six games. Collin McHugh (7-8) allowed three runs and six hits with 10 strikeouts in six innings. The right-hander, who allowed a season-high three home runs, was coming off his worst outing of the season Friday when he allowed eight runs in 1 2-3 innings of a 14-6 loss to Detroit.
City bring in Brazilian tyro Manchester City signed one of Brazil’s most highly rated forwards on Wednesday to continue the club’s recruitment drive under new coach Pep Guardiola. Gabriel Jesus, who is the top scorer in the Brazilian league with Palmeiras and a member of Brazil’s Olympic team, completed his move to City for a reported 27 million pounds ($36 million). It took City’s off-season spending to more than $130 million. the associated press
King Khan on top, tames English bats England was bowled out for 297 on the first day of the third test against Pakistan on Wednesday after Sohail Khan took five wickets in his first test match for five years. Gary Ballance (70) and Moeen Ali (63) hit fighting half centuries, but Sohail’s 5-96 vindicated his captain Misbahul-Haq’s decision to bowl first after winning the toss at Edgbaston. Ballance shared half-century stands with James Vince (39)
and Moeen before being caught down the leg side off leg-spinner Yasir Shah. The 32-yearold Sohail Sohail Khan took two wickgetty images ets in each of the first two sessions before wrapping up the innings by trapping James Anderson leg before wicket. the associated press
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RECIPE Muffaletta
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For Metro Canada Spend a few minutes in the morning assembling this gorgeous beast of a sandwich and come home just long enough to grab it and head back outside for a picnic dinner. Ready in Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 8 hours Ingredients • 1 loaf of bread • 1 Tbsp olive oil • 2 Tbsp black olive tapenade • 1 cup roasted red peppers, sliced into strips • 2 cups mozzarella, sliced • 2 handfuls of fresh basil • 8 to 10 pieces of thinly sliced ham or prosciutto • 1 or 2 tomatoes, thinly sliced • 1/2 cup green olives, sliced Directions
1. Use a serrated knife to cut off the top third of the loaf of bread. Tear away the interior bread leaving about one inch, including the crust. Brush the inside of the top and bottom pieces with olive oil. Spread the tapenade on the underside of the top and set aside. 2. Begin layering. You can’t go wrong. First lay down the red peppers. Next, lay down the mozzarella and cover with basil. Ham could come next, then olives and tomatoes. When you’re done, place the top on and gently press down. 3. Wrap in cling film and place on a plate with something heavy on top. Put it in the fridge overnight. When you’re ready to serve, unwrap your sandwich and cut into the loaf with a serrated knife. for more meal ideas, VISIT sweetpotatochronicles.com
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