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Metro | Edmonton The Metro Line will not make its latest deadline for full-speed service, and while city officials insist they are close, they are not ready to set a new date. Since the line missed its very first deadline back in April 2014, the city has struggled with signalling system problems that have prevented the train from operating at full speed. Currently, the trains are moving at close to full speed, but have to slow down for several road crossings. The delay on the Metro Line has also forced the main LRT line to slow slightly in certain areas. The city has been pursuing a back-up option that will allow the

line to work at full speed between Churchill and NAIT stations, but that would still lead to some slowdowns where the Metro Line crosses the existing LRT system. Currently the train is running at seven minutes northbound and 12 minutes southbound. Full speed for the train would be six minutes in each direction. City manager Linda Cochrane said new software was installed this past weekend and it seems to be working well, but they’re not quite ready to increase service as they had promised. She said they don’t want to set another deadline the city could miss. “I don’t want to give you a date that disappoints everybody,” she said. “Deadlines have been the story and we are trying to make deadlines not the story.” Coun. Bev Esslinger said she is glad work is going well to improve travel times, but is concerned for businesses in the area. “They’re worried that people are starting now to avoid the area because of the traffic jams,” she said.

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Metro | Edmonton Since launching in February, alcohol delivery app Drizly has delivered a whole lot of alcohol to thirsty Edmontonians. It’s a concept popular south of the border, but Edmonton was their first foray into Canadian territory. The company partnered with Liquor Depot to allow anyone inside the Anthony

Henday to order beer, liquor and wine with the tap of a screen. The data the app collects shows some interesting things about the city’s drinking habits. For one, Edmontonians drink way more beer than our American neighbours. “Overall we’ve seen wine be kind of the major category that is ordered in the states, but Edmonton has way more beer orders,” said company spokesperson Kerin Horgan. “That is the biggest differentiator.” Certain neighbourhoods

have also been quicker to adopt the service according to postal codes most frequently used. Not surprisingly, residents in the large student-friendly apartments on the very steep Bellamy Hill have been quick to jump on the delivery bandwagon. Horgan adds that Edmonton has a much bigger “culture of drinking around sports” that has influenced when people order. Drizly launched in Calgary, its second Canadian market, last week.

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Schools graded on Bill 10 education

Ranked on LGBTQ policy, one gets A+ but some flunk

How the schools were graded These are the six criteria used in Making the Grade. Red Deer Public’s policy hit every point, while St. Albert Catholic hit none. Policy available to the public.

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Metro | Edmonton The report cards are in for Alberta school districts’ sexual orientation and gender identity policies, and the St. Albert Catholic district got a big fat F. Public Interest Alberta ranked four districts across the province and flunked St. Albert Catholic, while Red Deer Public came out on top with an A+. The group based its Making the Grade rankings on six criteria to publicize some of the policies that Alberta Education Minister David Eggen instructed school districts to develop and submit by March 31. “We haven’t seen any analysis or feedback on those policies, so we started to investigate the policies on our own,” said Kristopher Wells, who worked on the project and is also an assistant

making the grade

Addresses needs of students, families, staff Specific supports for transgender and non-binary students Protects student confidentiality and privacy Education Minister David Eggen introduces guidelines for LGBTQ policies last year. Metro File

professor in the department of educational policy studies at the University of Alberta. Wells skipped the big city districts as they have already been broadly discussed, but included Lethbridge Public (B) and Grande Prairie Catholic (D-). He said Red Deer should be held up as a model for the rest

of the province for its “very comprehensive and effective policy” developed through extensive consultation and professional development. He said Edmonton Public’s policy, developed five years ago, needs some updating. “At its time, Edmonton Public was the trailblazer and the pion-

eer,” Wells said. “Now it’s just a matter of revisiting it.” Many districts have not made their policies publicly available, and Wells is pushing for the province to post them all online. Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools Supt. David Keohane said he was disappointed by the

assessment, which was based on a “partial understanding” of his district’s policy framework. He said there are points in his district’s policy that Public Interest Alberta either ignored or did not see. “It’s been an unfair representation of our school jurisdiction,” he said.

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Changes to park-and-ride set for September to $50 a month. Later in the fall some hourly paid parking meters will be introduced to encourage short transit trips. At Century Park, the station at the end of the line, 75 per cent of stalls will now be reserveable though Impark. Across the whole transit system, there are now 1,700 free parking stalls and 2,300 reserved paid stalls. With free parking limited, the city is encouraging riders

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Metro | Edmonton Changes to the light rapid transit’s park-and-ride system, including more reserved paid stalls, will be arriving on Sept. 1. At Belvedere, Century Park, Clareview and Stadium LRT stations the cost for a reserved spot will also go up

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sible redevelopment plans for Northlands Park that could turn it into a community. Iveson said he wanted to put out the idea in advance of the meeting to start the conversation. “I thought it would give some focus to tomorrow’s public hearing,” he said. “I wanted the public to see it. I wanted Northlands to see it. I wanted EEDC to see it. I wanted the province to see it.” Northlands’ original proposal, released earlier this year, involved an outdoor festival site where the racetrack now stands, a concert hall inside the Expo Centre and the reworked Rexall Place. A city report last week rejected all of those ideas, stating there wasn’t a market to support any of them. Iveson has said the ice arena concept is worth further review, but he doesn’t see support for the other components. Iveson said he believes a shared convention business would stop unhelpful competition between the two facilities and make both stronger. “There is a certain amount of race to the bottom right now, rather than going out there and selling our great convention centres to the world.”

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History goes high-tech Podcast

Laureate wants to answer your questions about Edmonton Edmonton’s historian laureate launched a new podcast this week to dive into the city’s history — and he’s looking for help. If you’ve got a question about the city, a historical building or even a mysterious event in your family’s past that might have some broader resonance, Chris Chang-Yen Phillips wants to know. Named the new laureate back in April, much was made at the time of his youth and unusual background — he’s worked mostly as a journalist, not a historian — and the new podcast, called Let’s Find Out, melds his interest in history with his storytelling skills. Each episode will see ChangYen Phillips digging into historical questions alongside the people who asked them. What sets his project apart

Hopefully I won’t run through the available supply of Edmontonians with historical questions. Chris Chang-Yen Phillips

Chris Chang-Yen Phillips is Edmonton’s historian laureate.

from other history podcasts is that it’s less about the new information, he said, and more about the process it took to find it. “It’s the ‘how,’ it’s the meth-

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odology that I’m trying to show off, because it’s not always obvious how to find your answers and I also think a lot of people feel nervous about going into the archives and digging

through files,” he said. The first episode has him going through historic newspapers and old GPS maps to trace the history of a struggling Snow Goose festival alongside

a family of first-time birders. The next features local cyclist Bashir Mohamed, who’d wanted to know if Edmonton had ever had a black school trustee. Chang-Yen Phillips hopes that pulling back the curtain on how historians do what they do will eventually inspire people to do the same. “You know how some jobs you try to work yourself out of a job long term?” “Hopefully I won’t run through the available supply of Edmontonians with historical questions, but I am trying to equip people with the tools to go out and solve their own questions.” The first two episodes of Let’s Find Out are now out on iTunes.

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Metro | Edmonton An Edmonton man who claims to have video evidence that photo radar doesn’t work is building a team of anti-speed-trap crusaders. Jack Shultz got 24 motorists to join him last Saturday to scope out photo radar locations and stand in front of them with signs warning other drivers. Supporters have joined him on the roads

every day since, and he has a second event — dubbed Cash Cow Extravaganza 2 — scheduled for Sept. 10 and 11. “The support that I got was overwhelming,” he said. Shultz started railing against photo radar when he worked near 170 Street and spotted several accidents close to locations where photo radar cops were “hiding behind trees.” “Every time a pickup truck is parked at a stop sign or at the side, people are automatically

slamming on the brakes, making it a big hazard,” he said. Shultz set up cameras to watch traffic flow for several hours with photo radar, and then repeated the process when he was holding out signs. He said he has 500 hours of video showing drivers reacted in a more calm, measured manner. Shultz was ticketed for stunting in April while holding out the signs, which fuelled him to take his protests to the next level. He will have a legal team on hand

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Residents upset the downtown arena isn’t delivering enough for marginalized communities will have a new place to voice that displeasure, but that might be all they get. Several community members asked council to consider taking a harder stance on requiring a living wage for arena workers and seeing more social benefits to the community. The arena has a community benefits agreement as part of the deal, which includes a committee that meets regularly to try and address issues. In response to the criticism, council voted Tuesday to have the current community benefit committee look at expanding its membership, to potentially include some of the residents. Boyle Street resident Jordan Reiniger said there are bigger problems to deal with than just parking and litter

and told council they had to think about more. “We have an arena that was put into some marginalized communities and is exacerbating some challenges,” he said. Reiniger said the arena has definitely lifted tax revenues and created a lot of construction and business downtown, but a lot of the residents in surrounding communities are seeing higher rents and other challenges. “People who can take advantage of that revitalization are not the type of people who live in our communities,” he said. Other presenters Wednesday said community benefit agreements in other cities had been far more thorough, requiring local employment and living wages. Mayor Don Iveson said he understands where the community concerns are coming from, but council can’t fix the arena deal retroactively. “It’s interesting, but the deal is signed. The deal is three years old,” he said. Iveson also said the arena can’t be seen as a tool to fight poverty and the city is working on more housing. “One community benefit agreement is not going to fund the inventory of social housing we need to tackle homelessness.”

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Boss must share our values, says Tory Progressive Conservative MLA Richard Starke won’t say if he believes leadership-race rules will spike a bid by MP Jason Kenney to dissolve the party as part of a merger with the Wildrose. But Starke says, regardless, he believes the head of the party will respect and exemplify its core principles. “Ultimately no matter who’s in the race, I’m confident that the next leader of the PC party will be someone who believes in the values of the party,” Starke said Tuesday. In July, Kenney announced he would run for the leadership on a platform to dissolve the party and seek a merger with the fellow right-of-centre Wildrose party. The aim would be for the new conservative coalition to defeat Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government in the next election. Kenney has said that fractured conservative voting is allowing the New Democrats to come up the middle in balloting and implement policies he believes are harmful to Alberta’s economy. PC party directors have approved rules for the race, which include a clause forbidding candidates from doing anything to harm the party or its brand. Starke said that’s a standard backstop clause. But he declined to say if he believes that disqualifies Kenney, or any candidate, seeking to dissolve the party. “That’s not my call to make.” Kenney’s campaign team declined Tuesday to make him available for comment. Starke, a two-term MLA from Vermilion-Lloydminster, reiterated he is still “seriously considering” a run for the leadership. The Canadian Press

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MMPRSoft to handle cannabis sales for CannTrust Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton Alberta is gradually becoming a leader in medical cannabis production, thanks in part to some Edmonton software developers. Edmonton’s MMPRsoft, a

web-based cannabis-operations program, recently secured a deal to handle the end-to-end operations of CannTrust Inc. — Canada’s only pharmacist-controlled licensed producer and distributor of medical cannabis. MMPRsoft manages e-commerce and webstore development as well as facility management, which includes equipment inventory, crop management, customer relationships, health clinic partnerships and dealings with the department of Veterans Affairs. “The feedback I’m getting is that we are the only end-toend system out there, and we

I’m fairly confident we have the best application in the world, actually. Dallas Devam offer more functionality than anybody,” said MMPRsoft owner and president Dallas Devam. “I’m fairly confident we have the best application in the world, actually.” Last week, Aurora Cannabis, Alberta’s only licensed producer, announced plans to build what it is calling the world’s most advanced cannabis production facility. Devam got into the business in 2013, after applying to

become a licensed producer himself. “I drafted up a schema for the database to capture all required data for regulatory purposes, and then I just kept building on it from there,” he said. With federal legislation expected to legalize marijuana for recreational use in the spring of 2017, the company is gearing up to work with smaller producers. Its program is scalable to meet the industrial needs of licensed

producers all the way down to individual designated-growers, and is open to applications from aspiring producers. Devam said MMPRsoft is in talks with more applicants and expects “many more” licensed producers to come on board within the next six months in Alberta. The company is also in talks with producers south of the border. “I think our client base will expand, the pool of potential clients I think will just grow exponentially,” Devam said. “It would be very quick and easy for us to adapt.”

Bryan Sandilands and Dallas Devam’s Edmonton company MMPRsoft is growing Canada’s medical cannabis industry. Kevin Tuong/For metro Energy East

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Pipeline protests hinder debate: Minister Alberta’s energy minister says the violent disruptions at the Energy East pipeline hearings in Quebec are disconcerting and are hindering the debate. But Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Alberta is determined to move forward and will work harder to reinforce its message on the importance of getting oil to the coasts to ship to oversea markets. “We’re just going to keep doing what we’re doing. It’s working. I’m hearing from companies all the time that our climate leadership plan is helping the discussion,” McCuaig-Boyd said Tuesday. “Maybe we have to tell the story more in the east. “(But) it’s the right path. Standing up and yelling and

doing that isn’t constructive in any situation.” Protesters forced the cancellation of hearings this week in Montreal on the TransCanada project. The $15.7-billion line would take oil from Alberta to terminals in Quebec and New Brunswick. On Tuesday, the National

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Energy Board cancelled all further hearings into the project until the board makes a decision regarding two of the three commissioners overseeing the review process. Alberta, and by extension, the Canadian economy, have been dragged down by the prolonged slump in oil prices. Alberta says a pipeline to get oil to overseas markets will mean a higher price for the product, but protesters worry about the environmental damage the pipeline could do. Premier Rachel Notley’s government has taken steps in recent months to remove from the debate any criticism of Alberta’s environmental record in order to give it “social licence” to discuss energy infrastructure projects on

their stand-alone merits. Under Alberta’s climatechange plan, fees on larger-scale greenhouse gas emitters have been increased, there will be a cap on oilsands emissions, and next year a broad-based carbon tax will be levied on home heating bills and gas at the pumps. Opposition Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said the Montreal cancellations prove that Notley’s social licence plan is an expensive failure. “Albertans were told that in exchange for paying $9 billion in carbon taxes over the next five years, projects like Energy East would be given a fair shake by the radical left and its activists within the environmental movement,” said Jean in a news release. The Canadian Press

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In first official visit, PM must get down to business When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Washington D.C. for a state dinner, his job was to dazzle. But on his first official visit to China as prime minister, Trudeau must get right down to business. Where is he visiting? After landing in Beijing around midnight on Tuesday, Trudeau plans to visit Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong Kong before departing on Sept. 7. Who’s travelling with him? The prime minister is bringing his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, and seven-year-old daughter Ella Grace. Cabinet members Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion and International Trade Minister Chrys-

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and daughter Ella-Grace arrive in Beijing on Tuesday. Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS

tia Freeland will also join him. What does he hope to accomplish? G20: Trudeau will attend the G20 summit in Hangzhou, where he will meet with fi-

nance ministers and leaders from all around the world to discuss the globalized economy. Free trade: A free-trade deal with China, Canada’s

second-largest trading partner, would be a big get for Trudeau’s government. Canola: Recent restrictions on the amount of foreign material, such as weeds and other crops, in Canada’s canola exports could mean big losses for farmers. China buys 87 per cent of its canola from Canada, and is asking producers to cut the level of foreign material in deliveries by more than half for health and safety reasons by this Thursday. Spies: Trudeau is expected to bring up Kevin Garratt, a Canadian missionary who was charged with espionage last January and is held in prison in China. Human rights: While many would like to see Trudeau take a stand against China’s human-rights record, it’s a touchy subject and one that will be difficult for him to broach while negotiating economic issues. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

The Canadian Armed Forces says it is making progress in the fight against sexual misconduct in the ranks, but much more work needs to be done. In an update Tuesday, the military said it completed 51 investigations into inappropriate sexual behavior between April and July. As a result, 30 people had received “career-impacting” punishments ranging from fines to outright dismissal from the forces. Three more were referred to civilian authorities while the

perpetrators in four cases could not be identified. Ten cases were considered unfounded. Defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance, who has made the elimination of sexual misconduct a priority, described the results as a “good start.” But Vance acknowledged much work remains to be done after the report showed there were 97 other cases of inappropriate and harmful sexual behaviour under investigation in the same period. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Remains of up to 15,000 Daesh victims found in Iraq Peering through binoculars, the young man watched as Daesh extremists gunned down the handcuffed men and then buried them with a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as Daesh filled one grave after another with his friends and neighbours. The five graves arranged at the foot of Sinjar mountain hold the bodies of dozens of minority Yazidis killed in Daesh’s bloody onslaught in August 2014. They are a fraction of the mass graves Daesh extremists have scattered across Iraq and Syria. In exclusive interviews, photos and research, The Associated Press has documented and mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most comprehensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as Daesh’s territory shrinks.

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Fertilizer companies Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Calgary-based Agrium are in preliminary merger talks to create a Canadian agricultural giant. Both companies issued statements confirming the potential union after their shares were halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They said no agreement has been reached and there is no assurance any transaction will result from these discussions. “It would create a blockbuster agriculture company,” said John Stephenson, president of Stephenson & Co. Capital Management. He said the merged company would have more negotiating clout and supply discipline. The merger talks come as the fertilizer industry struggles with a steep drop in prices in recent years following a rampup of production and the breakup of a Russia-Belarus potash trading cartel in 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Mac & Cheese, Hamburger Helper made similar moves It’s a McNugget mystery of sorts — the ultimate blind taste test that has kept MickeyD fans in the dark. The world’s largest hamburger chain did a recipe reboot of its most kid-friendly food. It’s now lower in calories and sodium, and McDonald’s Canada introduced it — quietly — a month ago. If you’ve eaten the megapopular chicken treat in August then you’ve probably already tried the new version, which is free of artificial preservatives and minus the chicken skin that the giant chain used for flavour and binding. As inventories of the original McNuggets were cleared, most Canadian locations started using the new ones (which are delivered frozen), and over the last two weeks they have been served in all restaurants, the company says. But if it’s a McHealthier move that will especially please parents, why not shout it from the rooftops of the Golden Arches? “I think people know we are doing lots with our menu,” said Nicola Pitman, director of menu management at McDonald’s Canada.4X56

Nicola Pitman, director of menu management at McDonald’s Canada, shows their new, healthier McNuggets made in a test kitchen at McDonald’s headquarters. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Established fast food chains have been scrambling to step up the image of their food amid stiff competition from smaller rivals promising wholesome alternatives. Kraft Heinz successfully made a similar move when it announced last March that it had quietly stripped its signature Mac & Cheese dinners of artificial flavours, preservatives and dyes three months earlier from the 79-year-old neon orange noodles — and virtually no

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The cost of buying a home in Vancouver grabs most of the headlines, but it’s an equally dogeat-dog world out there for renters. Rosemary is in Vancouver all week, reporting on the major issues facing the city. Today: housing. It is, in the context of Vancouver’s mad open houses of late, a tame event. A half-dozen rental hunters, a modest one-bedroom suite for $1,300 in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, with a closetsized kitchen from the 1970s and plenty of natural light. Not, notes the property manager, the typical showing. “My vacancy is near zero. When I put an ad out, I get 80 responses,” he tells the small group I’ve joined (strictly, thank God, in an observer’s capacity), in a borderline brag. Like we need the reminder. The cost of buying a home in Vancouver grabs most of the headlines, but it’s an equally dog-eat-dog world out there for renters. “It’s insane,” one woman at the open house tells me. She saw a place at 9 p.m. one night last week, and it was rented by 8 a.m. the next morning. Some landlords expect thousands of dollars in rent on the spot. One apartment she looked at had jumped from $800 a month to $1,300 a month in two years. Another woman had been away from the city for a year, only to return to the skyrocketing rent prices. “I came home, and I was like, ‘What the hell happened?’” There’s no time to make a decision, the first woman adds, but you want to make sure you like the place you choose, because God forbid you have to move out any time

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soon and face another surge in rent. As a result of all this, the property manager — a soft spoken but chatty man who’s been in the business for decades — says he’s fielding applications for some highpriced condos from the highly

expenses). The story is the same in Victoria. One friend witnessed a guy “who took a zillion applications at an open house and then let the final chosen ones price-bid each other. Makes me want to barf.” From another renter’s point

SO MANY UNITS, SO FEW VACANCIES The Vancouver rental market is the forgotten real estate disaster in a city full of them. MEtro file

unqualified, who are hoping to carry a $2,500 monthly rent with a student loan. “People are applying who can’t afford it. What are you doing here? You can’t afford this!” he says. Then, among the more qualified, there’s the pressure to pay above-market prices. One Metro colleague spent weeks searching via open houses with dozens of other renters, a.k.a. competitors (he even found himself relieved that one man with a cane would probably be cut from the list). His “happy” ending: He now pays 30 per cent more in rent than he used to, and that’s after he was forced to fork over his first payment a month early, to secure the lease (he’s also renting out his old place on Airbnb to cover his increased monthly

of view: “Victoria is rife with opportunistic scum.” “I listed my condo in Victoria this month and got over 100 emails,” noted another friend and Victoria landlord. “The market is insane,” There’s even a Nanaimo rental crunch, and the story of a woman who had to resort to Airbnb listings to find a longterm rental. Meanwhile, as my colleague Wanyee Li reports today, some are buying condos especially to rent them out on Airbnb. One former condo owner told Metro that she was shocked to find her old unit, which she had sold weeks earlier, listed on Airbnb by someone who had a dozen other properties. But the chatty property manager at this showing would likely be unsurprised

about such a hustle. With all the costs that go along with being a landlord, he says, including unexpected expenses for new building regulations and rising property taxes, with only a fixed 3 or 4 per cent annual rent increase allowed, “you’re not making a profit. That’s a fact.” “(Rent control is) limiting the revenue, and your expenses are going up. So what do people do? They dump the property. “Ten or 15 years ago, there was a lot more vacancies downtown because people were buying condos,” he added. Now those once potential buyers have become reluctant renters, pushing up demand, prices, and the sense of desperation. “Tenants have a sense of entitlement: I deserve to only pay this much rent,” he says. ”That’s kind of what it is,” Some, perhaps. Many would just like rent to cost the 30 per cent of income that affordability experts tell us it should. And while some rents might not be keeping up with the property taxes, neither are many people’s incomes. Landlords might feel stuck by leases, but renters feel stuck with few options. And while being a landlord is a choice, finding a place to live? Not so much. Which is why, if I had to place my sympathies with cash-strapped landlords or cash-strapped renters, I’d find it an easy choice. The women at the open house agree affordability is a pipe dream, and they — like everyone else — take a threepage rental application. The stove might hail from the disco era, but the bathroom is new, and there’s new wallto-wall carpet, plus a balcony (next to the dumpster). All in all, for Vancouver, not too shabby. Tomorrow: Lessons from the front lines of the fentanyl crisis

Harjit Sajjan’s office offered me an interview with the defence minister. This was more than a week ago now, after Sajjan landed in Vancouver from a week-long visit to Africa. And if you want the truth of it I sat on the interview for days because I wasn’t entirely sure what to make of it. After our conversation, Sajjan and two other ministers announced Canada will contribute 600 soldiers and $450 million over three years to United Nations peacekeeping. The sound of self-congratulation from some corners has been hearty. But a lot of what Sajjan told me stands as a useful corrective. Please stow the noble image of blue-helmeted soldiers, sternly guarding a neat line between two carefully separated armies somewhere. Those days are gone and they are not coming back. “This is not the peacekeeping of the past,” Sajjan told me. “There’s no peace to keep.” Traditional peacekeeping was a relic of 19th- and early 20th-century industrial war, when massed armies would hurl themselves at one another in ways that actually made them relatively easy to separate. Latter-day asymmetric combat, led in many cases by ragtag groups of militants armed with a few trucks and sidearms, follows no neat lines. Civilian and paramilitary groups intermingle, as do friendly and unfriendly armies. Allegiances shift. It’s hard to even know where to send the blue helmets. Sajjan and his colleagues need to make up a new way for Canadians to be helpful in Africa. That’s the work he

was pursuing when he visited Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Congo and Uganda. “This trip was about getting the direct facts,” he said. “Because you need to get a really good, deep understanding of what’s really going on.” Great. Going on where? Africa is three times the size of Canada, with more than 30 times its population. “I’ve been quite honest about my approach on this,” Sajjan said. “Just because I visit an area doesn’t mean we’re going to be contributing troops (there). And just because I didn’t visit an area doesn’t mean we’re not going to be contributing troops.” So: Canada is sending up to 600 soldiers, plus some number of civilians, to provide expertise and services. Sajjan just doesn’t know where yet. This makes more sense than it seems to. In 2001, it was clear where Canadian troops were going: Afghanistan. They then spent a decade learning the regional politics and the infernally complex tribal sociology that affected soldiers’ work every day. Sajjan wants to front-load the homework, and pick a mission later. Sajjan’s agenda may offer hints. Four of the countries he visited are big donors to UN peace operations. Uganda has about as many soldiers in the field as Canada is offering, Ethiopia 14 times as many. But the Democratic Republic of Congo has fielded only 20. But a UN force of 20,000 has been stationed in the DRC since 2010. It’s a tricky business. All told, 102 soldiers have been killed in that operation. Let’s hold off on the selfcongratulation until we know what our soldiers are getting into. Paul Wells is a national politics columnist for the Toronto Star. Philosopher Cat by Jason Logan

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Tried and tested school lunches Sandwiches get old quick — here, some ideas to inspire Short of telling your kid, “Eat what I make or else starve,” there are ways to fuel them for the day with help from dietitians who have seen countless children of different appetites, as well as parents with go-to recipes that their kids devour when it’s time for them to head back to school next week. One of the best ways to broaden a child’s horizons is to simply get the kids involved in making their lunches. “It’s not even the meal prep, it goes all the way to the grocery shopping and planning your meal” says Richmond Hill, Ont.-based registered dietitian Mahsa Esmaeili. “When they’re involved, no matter what they’re preparing they’re more likely to eat it.” One mom from the Facebook group Bento Lunch Box IdeasCanada told me she makes her own buns using a bread machine and her kids choose the fillings whether it’s zucchini and chicken, or most recently, ham and egg. She says it gives the kids a

sense of pride in having a say in their creations. If kids don’t like sandwiches, switch the vessel. Once a month, Ottawa dad Craig Stewart bakes a large batch of mini-quiches for his twin 13-year-old daughters. “I’ve done spinach, ham, mushroom, asparagus, sautéed onion, peppers, leftover roast chicken, different cheeses, basil, chives. It’s anything you think your kids will like or if you want to sneak some stuff in there, they tend to eat it,” he says. To serve, he takes a few quiches out of the freezer and throws them into his daughters’ lunch bags with an ice pack. “You also want to incorporate different flavours, textures and colours,” says Esmaeili. “If you’re used to packing baby carrots, it can get boring. If it’s fruit, add something soft one day, then crunchy the next ... Kids like dipping things so if you have a healthy dip like hummus or a yogurt-based dip, it makes all the difference.” Spices and herbs are also an important component in introducing new foods to children. Depending on the family’s cultural background, many parents already have their kids salivating for sweet curries, fragrant jollof rice, zesty tzatziki and tangy kimchi at an early age. However, if that’s not the

This recipe comes courtesy of Craig Stewart, an Ottawa father of two. Find boxes of pre-made tart crusts in the frozen section of the supermarket (Tenderflake is the most common brand). Use the egg and milk mixture as the base and substitute with fillings of your choice. Ingredients: • 4-5 strips of bacon • 24 frozen mini tart shells • 4 large eggs • 2 cups (500 mL) milk • 1/2 cup (125 mL) finely chopped broccoli • Salt and pepper, to taste • 1 cup (250 mL) shredded old cheddar

2. Arrange tart shells on a lined baking sheet. Set aside. 3. In a skillet over mediumhigh heat, fry bacon until browned and crispy. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature on a plate lined with paper towel. Chop bacon into small pieces. 4. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, bacon and broccoli. Season with salt and pepper.

6. Let cool for five minutes before serving or let cool to room temperature before freezing up to 3 months.

Chickpea, feta and tomato salad

This Martha Stewart salad recipe is recommended by Toronto legal assistant Vanessa Medina. She doesn’t have any kids herself, but she does make larger batches of

this for her coworkers and it checks off all the marks of a good school lunch: protein, healthy fats, a hint of spice, no nuts and can be made a day or two in advance. Ingredients: • 1/4 cup (60 mL) canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained • 1/2 cup (125 mL) cherry tomatoes, quartered • 1/4 cup (60 mL) crumbled feta • 1 tbsp. (15 mL) lemon juice • 2 tsp (10 mL) olive oil • 1/4 tsp (1 mL) Italian seasoning or dried oregano • Salt and pepper, to taste Directions: 1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until well incorporated. Pack in a reusable food container and refrigerate until ready to eat.

Cumin-spiced tofu tacos

This recipe comes courtesy of Torstar Life editor Mary Vallis who for months now has been swearing that her daughter scarfs these down every time. Make this tofu mix ahead of time and use as much as you need to for the tacos. Ingredients: • 1 tbsp (15 mL) olive oil

• 1 350g-brick extra firm tofu, drained and crumbled • 2 tsp (10 mL) ground cumin • 1/2 tsp (2 mL) chili powder, or more to taste • 1 cup (250 mL) canned black or kidney beans, drained and rinse • 1/2 cup (125 mL) fresh or frozen corn kernels • Salt and pepper, to taste • Grated old cheddar, to taste • 8 hard or soft taco shells Directions: 1. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add tofu, cumin and chili. Sauté until tofu starts to turn golden brown. Add beans and corn. Continue to cook until corn starts to brown. Add salt and pepper to taste. Adjust seasoning as needed (ask your child for input). Remove from heat and transfer to plastic food container. Let flavours marinate for 10 minutes. If not using immediately, let cool to room temperature before refrigerating for up to a week. 2. To make tacos, fill each taco shell with about 1/2 cup tofu filling. Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store in a hard plastic food container. torstar news service

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How bias keeps women out of the science field DIVERSITY

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Metro Canada Jim Woodgett, director of research at Toronto’s LunenfeldTanenbaum Research Institute and one of Canada’s leading cell biologists, is fed up with the patchwork system of awarding funding grants for scientific research. He says it leaves scientists lurching from project to project, not able to rely on steady work or take advantage of “serendipitous” discoveries — scientific lucky breaks — whose applications may not be obvious until years later. He also thinks long training times are preventing “some of the brightest minds” from getting into science, especially women and young people. His new manifesto, published on Medium.com, outlines how he thinks society as a whole — and funding agencies in particular — can “protect and nurture the best and most promising science and scientists” in Canada. This comes at the beginning of an independent review of the way the federal government funds fundamental science. He spoke to Metro about his call to action. You want the scientific funding system to promote diversity. How could that be done in a fair way? I think we’re being unfair right now. Where’s the scientific rationale if, when five female and five male scientists applying for funding, you don’t get equal success rates for both? If not, there’s something wrong. Among our students, about 65 per cent are female. Postdocs, it’s about 50/50. Junior professors, it starts to drop so there are more males than females. Among professors, it’s more like 70/30. Likewise with junior scientists. If 20 per cent of applicants are junior scientists, then 20 per cent of grants awarded should go to junior scientists. If not, what’s going to happen when older scientists have retired? We need to even the playing field. The U.S. National Institute of Health has adjusted its grant competition system to make sure the people success-

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fully getting grants look like the people applying for grants. What’s the practical benefit of having gender balance? If there isn’t a gender balance, that probably means very talented women are not doing science. It doesn’t maximize our intellectual abilities as a nation. I think a lot of that is unconscious bias. It also has to do with things like maternity leave. You believe becoming a scientist takes too long. What’s the problem with that? We used to put people through quicker. Thirty years ago, my Ph.D. took three years and I did three years of postdoctoral studies. Nowadays it takes five to seven years to do a Ph.D. and five to seven years to do a postdoc. Do they really

If there isn’t a gender balance, that probably means very talented women are not doing science Jim Woodgett

come out as better scientists? I don’t think that’s the case. I say this as somebody who has contributed to the problem: We’ve made a cheaper workforce in science, because the students take longer. This is especially a problem in cities like Toronto and Vancouver. We pay $25,000 or $30,000. There are a lot of students who can’t afford to do their Ph.D. Your income and your family’s ability to support you has no relationship to your intellectual capacity. If we really want the best people to be doing science, we should be reducing the barriers. You wrote that some of the most important recent discoveries didn’t have a clear application at the time. How do you think the science funding system can capture that value? The dirty truth is a lot of major findings that have a huge impact are serendipitous, they’re not planned. If you look at an application for funding for something that is totally off-the-wall, it’s not going to get funded. So people ask for funding for things that are straightforward. Then they get distracted from the original plan. That’s essential. The funding agencies want

to be predictable, they want to hold people accountable. But (they shouldn’t) force scientists to do what they say they’re going to do. That’s how you crush novelty.

MANIFESTO Researcher Jim Woodgett wrote a nine-point plan for how Canada can promote science and train better scientists. Here are a few of his ideas: Merge federal systems for funding science. There are at least 20 different government programs for health research alone. Support a base level of funding for scientists instead of having them rely on grants. It shouldn’t be determined by oversimplified measures like the number of papers published. Support smaller centres, outside of bit cities, through partnerships with major research institutions that get the lion’s share of funding.

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terior is a button that changes how the Plug-in prioritizes how it saves fuel. A hybrid mode uses the gas and battery mode together, while an EV mode puts priority on utilizing the electric motor to its fullest and depleting the big battery before firing up the internal combustion engine. A third mode uses the internal combustion engine like a generator to charge the battery and can be activated by holding the HEV button. In addition to the different drivetrain modes, there’s a drive mode selector that modifies the steering and responsiveness of the car. Unlike the normal Sonata Hybrid, there is no Sport mode, which is fine because the Plugin feels more powerful than the normal Hybrid model. The slim lithium polymer battery pack of the Plug-in is now five times larger than its hybrid counterpart and the electric engine is 32 per cent more powerful, too. Unlike other fuel-friendly cars, the Plug-in feels lively when pressed. Driving dynamics are typical of the mid-size segment, which is to say it drives easily and sedately. It’s not razor sharp like the Mazda6 and skews closer to the Toyota Camry in terms of handling and comfort. Like our experience in the Sonata Hybrid, the Plug-in is very refined, smooth and quiet. The transition from gas-electric hybrid mobility from pure EV is hardly noticeable and the regenerative brakes aren’t overly grabby. Not just a toy or proof of concept, the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid is fully featured.

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After revealing his Top 10 Star Cars, Jeremy Clarkson has now done the opposite. The former host of Top Gear has listed his stinkers, cars that he just absolutely did not enjoy driving in the last year or so. Despite having a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine with 197 horsepower, Clarkson didn’t have much nice to say about the Vauxhall Astra, for example. “I still had to cobble together some thoughts on the Vauxhall ... It was red and turbocharged and it would be fine for anyone who needed four wheels and a place to sit down when moving out. And now I’m out of space, which is probably a good thing, because I have nothing else to say about it.” jason Siu/Autoguide.com

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AutoGuide.com Hyundai is on an ambitious journey, spinning off its Genesis and Equus sedans into the foundation of a standalone premium brand. And while much of that campaign will take place in Hyundai showrooms in the U.S. and beyond, the Canadian market will play host to a direct sales approach à la Tesla, where cars will be available for purchase through online sales and downtown retail and shopping mall locations across the country. In Vancouver for the launch of the 2017 Genesis G90, the brand’s flagship model and the first to go on sale later this year, AutoGuide.com sat down with Canadian director of Genesis Motors, Michael Ricciuto, to get some insight into how the premium brand plans to operate. The Genesis and Equus were pretty well received; how do you build on that success with a spin-off premium brand? In 2009 we won North American Car of the Year

with Genesis and that was our first attempt at playing in that premium segment. Then with the Equus — which to me was wonderfully executed — we’ve proven that we can build products that can compete against the world’s finest premium brands. What makes the Genesis brand a viable venture for the Hyundai Motor Group? From a business perspective, obviously we have the mass market brands, so we can leverage the economies of scale from that and design premium products that are a notch above. Plus, it also allows us to develop technologies that the premium segment will pay for, and then those technologies will work their way down into the mass market brands. Without that platform how do you develop things like head-up display? Because you’re never going to do

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Bouchard bounced out in first round Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard made an early exit from the U.S Open after losing 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 to Katerina Siniakova on Tuesday in New York. Bouchard appeared to struggle with her serve in the third set after having her foot bandaged during a medical timeout. The native of Westmount, Que., was broken three times by Siniakova in the final set. Overall, Siniakova had 19 break-point opportunities in the match. Bouchard saved 15 of them. “I feel like I didn’t play really well,” Bouchard said. “My opponent played really well, I think. I tried my best, I fought my hardest so I have no regrets in that sense. But I wish I had better feeling on the court and Matt Wieters of the Orioles is congratulated by Manny Machado after hitting a two-run homer off of Blue Jays reliever Jason Grilli on Tuesday. Mitchell Layton/Getty images

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Catcher comes through with winning homer in 8th inning Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter considered taking Matt Wieters out of the game after the catcher took a hard foul ball off his mask in the fifth inning. That proved to be a gamechanging decision.

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Wieters hit a go-ahead, tworun homer off Jason Grilli in the eighth to lead the Orioles to a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. Baltimore pulled within three games of the first-place Jays, who had a four-game winning streak snapped. Toronto

won the first of three games 5-1 on Monday. “It’s a big game,” Wieters said. “We’re going to be playing a lot of teams in the division, so there are going to be a lot of big games. I think the key is to be able to enjoy this one and move on tomorrow. We’ve got to come back and win another one tomorrow.” Michael Saunders drilled a two-run shot off Orioles starter Ubaldo Jimenez that tied the game 3-3 in the seventh. In the eighth, Jonathan Schoop walked and Wieters

homered off Grilli (4-2), his 12th of the season. Brad Brach (8-2) picked up the win with 1-1/3 scoreless innings. Zach Britton got his league-leading 39th save. Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ fell short of tying Boston’s Rick Porcello for the major-league lead with 18 wins. Happ allowed three runs and six hits with three strikeouts over 6-1/3 innings. Aaron Sanchez (12-2, 2.99 ERA) will be recalled from ClassA Dunedin to start for the Jays on Wednesday. The Canadian Press

Longoria homer stings Red Sox Evan Longoria broke a tie with a solo homer in the eighth inning, clearing Fenway Park’s Green Monster and rallying Tampa Bay to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night. Luke Maile of the Rays hit a two-run homer with two outs in the seventh. It was just the second career homer for Maile,

who drove a 1-2 pitch from Drew Pomeranz out to left to restore the tie after Boston had taken a 3-1 lead. Pomeranz and Tampa Bay starter Jake Odorizzi both pitched well but didn’t factor in the decision as both bullpens struggled to hold a lead. Enny Romero (2-0) pitched a scoreless seventh with two

strikeouts and got the win. Alex Colome survived a hit and a passed ball in the ninth while picking up his 29th save. Former starter Clay Buchholz (5-10) took the loss, pitching the eighth and allowing Longoria’s solo shot. Boston remains two games behind Toronto for the lead in the AL East. The Associated PRess

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served better.” The early exit was another setback for Bouchard, who hasn’t been able to find her form consistently since the 2014 season that saw her make the Wimbledon final and reach her peak ranking of No. 4 in the world. At last year’s U.S. Open, Bouchard withdrew from her fourthround match due to a concussion. The Canadian Press

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DeVos at the helm of national development Former Canadian international experience in and knowledge Jason deVos has been named of soccer development in the Canada Soccer’s director of formative years.” development. “We could not have chosen a more pasIn the newly created role, deVos will sionate soccer adOn tap be responsible for vocate to lead Canadian socthe overall manDeVos has cer’s change nearly 20 years agement, direcof experience as a tion and demanagement,” velopment of player, including a Montagliani coaching and stint as captain of the said Tuesday in grassroots deCanadian national a release. velopment proteam. Earlier this grams across Canyear, Montagliani ada. said Canada Soccer’s Canada Soccer president primary focus between Victor Montagliani called deVos this year and 2018 will be inthe “ideal candidate” for the vestment in technical leaderjob based on his “extensive ship. The Canadian Press

IN BRIEF Bridgewater dislocates knee and tears ACL The Minnesota Vikings say quarterback Teddy Bridgewater will miss at least this season after suffering a dislocated left knee and complete tear to his ACL. The Vikings made the announcement on Tuesday night, hours after Bridgewater went down in practice and rode an ambulance to a local hospital. The Associated Press

Goalkeeper Solo takes remainder of season off Hope Solo has decided to end her season with the Seattle Reign of the National Women’s Soccer League. The beleaguered goalkeeper, who was handed a six-month suspension and saw her contract with U.S. Soccer terminated last week, announced her departure from her professional club team in a statement Tuesday. The Associated press

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Delay on new goalie gear nhl

Manufacturing hold-up means trimmer outfit may arrive late NHL goalies won’t look as trim as expected this season because of delays to an ambitious redesign of their bulky equipment. NHL officials at the general managers’ meetings in March said the league and the NHL Players’ Association were planning to introduce equipment more befitting of a goaltender’s actual size this fall, perhaps even in time for the World Cup of Hockey. Now it’s appearing likely that only some pieces of new gear will be ready for the upcoming season. A complete overhaul isn’t expected to be finished until the 2017-18 campaign. “I wish no one said that we were going to have this ready for this season because I think that was an aggressive timeline to say that we would have that done,” Mathieu Schneider of the Players’ Association said in an interview with the Canadian Press. “Given where we are now and given some of the challenges we’ve had to face, I’m 100 per cent confident that we’re going to achieve our goal, but I’m not sure if and what parts we’re going to be able to try to implement this year.” “It’s been a real battle to get this change put in,” Colin Campbell, senior vice-president and director of hockey oper-

The Capitals’ Braden Holtby is one of the players who has asked for a more level playing field. Justin K. Aller/Getty Images

ations with the NHL, added co-ordinating production of the the new equipment to be ready in a separate interview. “And new equipment with various for testing at some point this hopefully we’ll get it done.” manufacturers. The two sides, summer, but it took until July Reductions were to be steered by Kay Whitmore from before the two sides had even made to the pants and upper the NHL and Rob Zepp from the a suitable prototype. It was sent body equipment, but it’s now NHLPA, were relying on manu- to a handful of goalies, who ofthought that only the pants facturers to design new models fered only mixed reviews. stand even a chance of being with the proposed reductions, a Campbell says the NHL ready when the regular season process riddled with disappoint- should have produced an gets underway in mid-October. ment and frustration. “exact design” itself for the Certain elements of the altered The hope initially was for manufacturers to implement. chest protect“ We w e r e or gear may be I’m 100 per cent confident that h o p i n g t h e y take the available later we’re going to achieve our goal, would ball and run in the year. but I’m not sure if and what parts with it,” he said. Both Campbell and Campbell said we’re going to be able to try to Schneider said CCM is the lone implement this year. the biggest equipment group Mathieu Schneider of the Players’ Association challenge was to produce any-

thing that’s been acceptable to date. “The most important thing is we need co-operation from everybody,” said Campbell. “The PA needs to support us, support this process, even when they get one or two players calling them up and yelling at them. We need to be more vigilant ourselves at the NHL; the managers need to be behind (the proposed changes). And so everybody needs to be together in this to do what’s best for the game.” Campbell suggested there’s been some resistance from the goaltending community, as well as teams and their personnel. Goalie pads have already been reduced in size. It’s thought that the reproduced pants will be less challenging for goalies to adjust to. They may be available at World Cup training camps and could be ready for full use by the start of the NHL regular season. There’s hesitation, however, about altering the chest protector equipment mid-season, lest goalies and their teams be affected unfairly. Changes have been urged by some of the league’s top goaltenders — including the Devils’ Cory Schneider and Capitals’ Braden Holtby — who want a more level playing field. Bigger equipment was thought to be providing an unfair advantage. The NHL still intends to enforce rules governing goalie equipment more closely this season. Those failing to conform will be punished with two-game suspensions.

IN BRIEF Schuler back as Canada women’s hockey coach Laura Schuler is returning as head coach of Canada’s women’s hockey team. The Toronto native will be joined by assistants Dwayne Gylywoychuk and Troy Ryan and goaltending coach Brad Kirkwood. It’s Schuler’s second season behind the bench after leading Canada to a silver medal at the world championship in Kamloops, B.C., earlier this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS Carolina Hurricanes extend GM’s contract The Carolina Hurricanes have signed general manager Ron Francis to a contract extension through the 2018-19 season, the team announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. “I appreciate the fact that (owner Peter Karmanos Jr.) is willing to give me the extension,” Francis said. “We’re going in the right direction, so it’s exciting to help continue that.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS England breaks world record in routing Pakistan England smashed a world record-breaking 444-3 in an emphatic 169-run victory over Pakistan on Tuesday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match one-day international series. Opening batsman Alex Hales hit England’s highest individual ODI score with 171. The Associated Press

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Arsenal bolstered its striking and defensive options by signing Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia defender Shkodran Mustafi on the next-to-last day of Europe’s transfer window, while England goalie Joe Hart’s departure from Manchester City grew closer on Tuesday. British media reported Lucas will cost Arsenal about 17 million pounds ($22.3 million) while highly-rated German international defender Mustafi will cost over double that at 35 million pounds. Arsenal was also among the top English teams attempting to trim their squads in the final hours of the transfer window. England defender Calum Chambers was in Middlesbrough to complete a loan move from Arsenal to the promoted Premier

Tim Tebow crushed a batting- the University of Southern Calipractice fastball with a confident fornia’s Dedeaux Field for over left-handed swing, sending it into an hour, confidently chasing a the trees next to the scoreboard dream deferred for 12 years. beyond right field. Declaring his football career esThe Heisman Trophy-winning sentially over, Tebow insists he quarterback only paused an in- is serious about becoming more stant to apprecithan a baseball ate his shot, and curiosity. then he went “The goal right back to would be to work on the un- The goal would be have a career in likely next chap- to have a career in the big leagues,” ter in his unique said. “I the big leagues. Tebow just want to athletic story. Tim Tebow Tebow took be someone to his first big pursue what I swings at a baseball career Tues- believe in, what I’m passionate day, showing off a powerful bat about. A lot of people will say, and other developing skills dur- ‘But what if you fail? I would ing a workout in front of dozens rather be someone that could of major league scouts and re- live with peace and no regret porters. The 29-year-old aspiring than what-if, or being scared.” outfielder went through drills at THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

League club, and Chelsea loaned France striker Loic Remy to Crystal Palace for the rest of the season. Hart was on Lucas Perez the verge of leavGetty images ing Man City on loan, too, having landed in Italy to tie up a move to Torino for the remainder of the season. Hart has slipped to third-choice goalkeeper at City, behind new signing Claudio Bravo and Willy Caballero. Hull signed three players: England midfielder Ryan Mason from Tottenham for an undisclosed club-record fee, Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall from second-tier team Cardiff, and striker Will Keane from Manchester United. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow smiles during a work-out for baseball scouts and the media during a showcase in California on Tuesday. chris carlson/the associated press

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Cancer June 22 - July 23 Just accept the fact that the next month will be full of mistakes, transportation delays and misplaced items. You’re not losing it, and this is only temporary. You will survive.

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 It is Mercury retrograde now, which is frustrating for many signs. However, for Libras, you have a great chance to do research and find answers to old problems.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 Old flames are back in your life, which might be fun or horrific. Creative projects will be slow to get off the ground. Past issues with children might resurface.

Leo July 24 - Aug. 23 Use the next few weeks to wrap up old money issues and deal with loose ends. Money that is coming to you might be late in the mail or delayed. Grrrr.

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Friends from the past are back in your life again. This could be reassuring, because it’s always nice to have history with others.

Gemini May 22 - June 21 Because your ruler Mercury is retrograde, family might be camped on your doorstep and eating you out of house and home. This will continue for several weeks. Have courage.

Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 Mercury is retrograde in your sign now, which hasn’t happened for a few years. This brings people from your past, especially expartners, back into your world.

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Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Some of you might be in touch with parents or authority figures you haven’t seen for a while. You also might be able to successfully pitch an old idea to a boss.

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