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Metro | Edmonton When glaciologist Martin Sharp walked into one of the freezers custom-built for the world’s largest collection of Canadian ice cores, it felt like a steam room.

“I think every ice-core facility on the planet has the same nightmare,” he said Thursday.

Due to what university officials are calling a “freezer failure,” the temperature inside the facility rocketed into the 40s on Sunday, up from the -30 C or so required, Sharp said.

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The damage includes 15 metres of a sample drilled from Mount Logan, which represented 16,000 years of time. Another core taken from the Penny Ice cap included ice that would have been part of a massive sheet covering North America 22,000 years ago.

Still, he said it could have been much worse.

Most of the cores were supposed to be in the freezer that failed, but a visiting TV crew asked they be moved into another one that had better light for filming.

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Parents call for end to adults-only buildings housing

Coalition says children should be allowed in all apartments Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton A parent group is calling for an end to adults-only buildings in Alberta.

The new Child-Friendly Housing Coalition of Alberta will launch a campaign Saturday to make any building for people 18 and up illegal, except for supportive housing facilities.

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Alberta is the only province in Canada that allows 18-plus restrictions on condos and apartments, but the province is currently reviewing age discrimination in its legislation.

McKague was a homeowner until six years ago when she went through a divorce. She planned to move into an apartment in the city core with her daughter, who is now nine years old, and said she was shut out by about 20 different buildings before she found one that would accept kids.

“I think a lot of us, we just shut up and go away and we think somehow it’s our problem.

But when you start hearing other people talking about the issue, you realize it’s actually a really huge problem,” she said.

McKague said she has heard from moms who had to sell their condos because they got pregnant, and others who have chosen not to have children because they don’t want to be forced to move out.

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Section Five Section Five of the Alberta Human Rights Act states that no one can discriminate against any person or class of persons with respect to any term or condition of the tenancy of any commercial unit or self-contained dwelling unit because of the “race, religious beliefs,

Alan Whyte, executive director of the Canadian Condominium Institute Northern Alberta, said most age-restricted buildings are downtown and the majority of those are specifically geared toward older adults.

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“We believe that adult-only buildings are not only a violation of human rights, but they are very harmful and hurtful to healthy community growth,” said the coalition’s outreach coordinator Jodie McKague.

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He said age-restricted buildings are a minority and the campaign caught his institute by surprise “because it hadn’t been on our radar as an issue.”

Condos don’t have to register as age-restricted, so even the

colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation of that person or class of persons or of any other person or class of persons.”

province does not have accurate numbers on how many buildings don’t allow children.

“There’s just no way of knowing,” Whyte said, adding it could be two per cent or 20 per cent.

He said the institute took a poll of 1,300 condo dwellers and found 75 per cent were in favour of age restrictions.

But he also acknowledged that the problem is growing as fewer couples and young families are able to afford houses.

“It’s more likely that younger couples starting out are starting in a condominium as their first purchase,” he said.

Ruth Adria challenged Alberta’s Human Rights Act in March 2016, claiming seniors are discriminated against when renting or selling. A judge agreed and gave the province a year to rewrite the act to prevent agebased discrimination, which opened the doors for discussion on adults-only buildings.

Jodie McKague is leading a campaign to ban adults-only buildings. kevin tuong/metro

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Access Open Minds will focus on those aged 11 to 25 Kevin Maimann

Metro | Edmonton A new Edmonton clinic will help youth with mental-health struggles transition into adulthood.

Access Open Minds, which marked its official opening Thursday, is part of a national research initiative aimed at improving access to mentalhealth and addiction services for people aged 11 to 25.

It’s one of 12 new facilities across the country and the only one in Alberta.

“We have good children’s mental-health services and we have fairly good adult mental-health services. But when you’re crossing that gap between the two, that’s when we tend to lose people,” said Jill Kelland, director of young

Jill Kelland is Alberta Health Services’ director of young adults and cross-level services with addiction and mental health. Kevin Maimann/Metro Edmonton

adults and cross-level services with Alberta Health Services.

“This is an attempt to try to bridge that gap.”

Continuity of care is a problem for many young adults, as they are forced to transition from pediatric to adult services

when they turn 18 and in the process often lose the programs and counsellors they’ve been working with.

Access Open Minds is located at the Bill Rees YMCA, 10211 105 St. and accepts walk-ins as well as appointment book-

ings and referrals from family physicians.

It will be staffed by three psychiatrists and two clinicians with a background in social work who will determine what services are needed for each client.

“This is really an attempt to try to get people help earlier, easier, and in a more engaging manner. So these staff, their whole motive is not to come at everything from a purely clinical perspective,” Kelland said.

Brandon Kelly, 22, will work at the clinic as a youth adviser to help people who have faced struggles similar to his own.

Kelly was diagnosed with a rare condition called septooptic dysplasia, or Morsier syndrome, following an unexpected episode of severe psychosis last year that led to lengthy hospital stays.

“Because of my experience, I am able to view mental health through a wider lens than before. I now appreciate how quickly life can change, and take less for granted,” Kelly said.

“I was immediately happy to join a clinic that provides help for those who need it in a non-judgmental way.”

According to the Archives of General Psychiatry, more than 75 per cent of mental-health disorders first appear during early adolescence and young adulthood.

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Alberta is investing $10 million on pilot projects for $25 a day childcare.

Premier Rachel Notley says the program will begin at 22 non-profit centres throughout the province.

The centres will offer almost 1,300 childcare spaces and will fill gaps in service such as providing flexible hours and care for specialneeds children.

The centres will support a variety of families, including immigrants and refugees, First Nations and those on low incomes.

About 119 new staff will be hired and it’s expected the program will give 357 Albertans the childcare help they need to enter the workforce.

It’s the first step toward fulfilling the government’s promise to deliver broadbased, low-cost childcare.

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‘People want hope’ David Miller talks to Metro about how people in cities can save the environment May Warren

Metro | Toronto It’s easy to feel hopeless and overwhelmed by the environmental challenges our planet is facing.

From stopping climate change to protecting endangered species, the tasks are daunting.

But that doesn’t mean it’s time to give up.

Everyone has the power to make a difference — in many cases right in their own backyards.

It’s one of the key messages David Miller, president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada, spreads every chance he gets.

Because, as he puts it, “people want hope.”

“They really want to be part of something and know what they can do to make a change,” he said.

“There’s an incredible thirst for this.”

Miller dropped by Metro’s offices to talk about the environmental threats we’re facing and what can be done.

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The urban canopy matters for biodiversity, animals, birds and people.

It’s “extremely important” to provide shade and cool the “urban heat island” that is the concrete jungle.

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How Miller stays green

People need to be inspired “to do their part,” said Miller, and protecting and restoring the urban canopy needs to become a priority in cities across the country.

Think before you cut down a tree in your backyard and plant native trees on your own property where possible.

“When someone wants to cut down a tree in a neighbourhood and people come out en masse, that feeling needs to happen collectively,” he said.

He doesn’t drink bottled water and plants native species in his garden.

He uses Bullfrog Power electricity and gas at home, which uses methane gas from landfills.

He and his wife have sold their car and walk or take transit instead.

Wildlife

Miller warned of a “looming crisis in wildlife” that we’re not paying attention to.

While we’ve been focused on climate change, two thirds of the world’s population of wildlife could be gone by 2020 due to factors like deforestation.

“This is a really serious situation and it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves,” he said.

Miller tries to take the train when he can and avoids flying out of Billy Bishop Airport, which he called “a park masquerading as an airport.”

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Luckily, “nature has the capacity to rebuild if we let it,” said Miller.

Globally, this might mean supporting conservation efforts for animals like the Siberian Tiger or the Snow Leopard.

But you can also make a difference in your own backyard or on your condo balcony.

Planting native species is one way to preserve biodiversity in an urban landscape.

WWF-Canada has programs such as In the Zone Gardens,

David Miller has made his own lifestyle changes to become more environmentally friendly. Eduardo lima/metro

to help with this.

“If you plant something that helps a relatively small species thrive in an urban area, you’re made a real difference,” Miller said.

“Not everything is a panda but they all matter.”

leaders on climate change, Miller said, and “we shouldn’t lose sight” of all the successes.

While provinces and the feds often talk to each other on climate change and other issues, “cities aren’t seen as partners,” Miller said.

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Nine females attacked while on sidewalk, waiting for bus Philip Croucher

Metro | Edmonton Edmonton police say they only recently learned that the sexual assault of nine females in the northern part of the city — either on the sidewalk or at a bus stop — were related.

On Thursday, police announced charges against a 34-year-old man about numerous alleged incidents that happened between August 2016 and March of this year.

Three of the victims were adult women, police say, and six were under the age of 16.

“Through the investigation, (Edmonton Police Service) detectives recently made the connection to the nine known sex assaults,” the force’s communications adviser Noreen Remtulla wrote in an email to Metro about why the public was only now being made aware of this string of alleged incidents.

“The EPS sent out a news re-

lease back in November and in December 2016. One of those incidents relate to the arrest of this suspect.”

Police say the crimes happened mostly in northeast Edmonton and the victims were either on the sidewalk or waiting at a bus stop.

The incidents reported to police were: March 15 in the area of 131 Street and 112 Avenue.

Feb. 28 in the area of 48 Street and Matheson Way. Feb. 13 in the area of 59 Street and 118 Avenue.

Dec. 2 in the area of 50 Street and 118 Avenue.

Dec. 2 in the area of 64 Street and 118 Avenue.

Nov. 8 in the area of 25 Street and 146 Avenue.

Nov. 8 in the area of 55 Street and 1118 Avenue.

Oct. 14 in the area of 47 Street and 121 Avenue.

Aug. 10 in the area of 97 Street and 75 Avenue.

Police say on March 30 they charged Rodrigo Castro, 34, with nine counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual interference.

The force says there may be more victims in relation to the accused, and are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers.

impasse now the only binding dispute resolution mechanism is a strike or a lockout. We’ve never had to prepare for a strike.”

She noted they need time to build up funds, and create protocols, rules and processes.

The Act to Enhance Post-Secondary Academic Bargaining hasn’t passed yet, but it would bring the province in line with all other Canadian provinces.

It will allow academic staff associations and graduate student associations to strike, while also

Edmonton police raided a home last month, they say they found the baby’s room doubled as a lab to convert cocaine into crack cocaine.

Police say the baby was the biological child of one of the accused. They say the child was removed from the home and three women who are in their twenties face charges.

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extending that right to postdoctoral fellows associations.

Before striking all institutions must negotiate essential service agreements. And, of course, the institutions themselves will now be able to lock workers out.

After tabling Bill 7, Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt said he knows the transition will take time.

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Officials with ALERT, Alberta’s serious and organized crime team, say an 11-month-old baby was brought along on a number of drug transactions. When

Alberta’s post-secondary labourers are getting back what they’d lost somewhere in the shuffle: the right to strike.

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Metro | Edmonton Edmonton Pride organizers are defending their decision to allow police to participate in the parade this year, after representatives from Black Lives Matter Edmonton slammed the festival for not including them in discussions over the topic.

Stephanie Dickie, a spokesperson for Edmonton Pride, said the group conducted “significant consultations” with the community, including LGBTQ community members who are indigenous, or people of colour.

But Bashir Mohamed, with BLM Edmonton, disagree in a public statement Thursday.

“We were never aware of any consultation that was being done on this, or members of

Bashir Mohammed with Black Lives Matter is calling out Edmonton Pride for not including the group in discussions on allowing police at this year’s event. kevin tuong/for metro

the black community,” he said, in a subsequent interview with Metro. “It is extremely troubling. It seems like it was preemptively made so they are in a better political position at the sacrifice of Black Lives Matter.”

The debate around whether

or not to allow police to participate in Pride events--as marchers, as opposed to security--stems from protests at Toronto’s 2016 Pride parade. There, members of Black Lives Matter demanded police be excluded, arguing their presence discouraged marginal-

ized groups from participating.

Now the Edmonton groups have waded into the discussion.

While Mohamed, who is cochair in policing for BLM Edmonton, said the group hasn’t taken a formal stance on whether or not police or military should

march, its members need to be a bigger part of the conversation.

But Dickie countered that they held multiple public open houses that BLM could have attended.

“We asked our entire community and our decision [about policing] arose based on that,” she said.

Still, Mohamed would like the organization to withdraw its statement.

“I would have to challenge Edmonton Pride and say that what they’re doing is not proper consultation and it wasn’t made clear in whether police were included or not,” he said.

Edmonton police confirmed Thursday they were invited to the event.

“We look forward to participating,” wrote police spokesperson Carolin Maran in an email.

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No sirens and no police cars — the Edmonton pride parade will feel a bit different this June.

Edmonton Pride Festival Society spokesperson Stephanie Dickie said Thursday organizers are allowing police to walk and patrol this year, but they won’t be able to bring their police service vehicles.

That means no sirens, she said.

“That’s what our community felt most comfortable with,” Dickie said.

“The siren can be really triggering for people.

“So we wanted to really make sure the pride parade is a celebration and is there to celebrate gender diversity in the city.”

The parade will take place on Whyte Ave on June 10 and go from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. jeremy simes/metro

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Edmonton

Event listings

Here are a few things to do in YEG

WHAT: Adam Paananen Enjoy a walk along Alberta Avenue and take in a set of acoustic rock with singer/songwriter Adam Paananen at The Carrot.

It’s a great choice for fans of City and Colour or Matthew Good, and the $5 price tag works for every budget.

WHEN: Friday, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

WHERE: The Carrot Community Arts Coffee House, 9351 118 Ave.

WHAT: Saptak Indian music is highlighted at Saptak: A Musical Journey of Seven Notes at the University of Alberta’s old arts building at 7 p.m. Free admission allows everyone to enjoy singers and ensembles using the sitar, piano, guitar, harmonium and darbuka. It’s a modern rendition of Indian classical music.

WHEN: Saturday at 7 p.m.

WHERE: Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta

WHAT: Easter market If you’ve never tried making Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter Eggs), now’s your chance. The ACUA Gallery and Artisan Boutique has an Easter market Saturday with Easter supplies (wax, dye, baskets etc.) plus vendors with all things Easter on offer.

WHEN: Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: ACUA Gallery and Artisan Boutique, 9534 87 St.

WHAT: Fringe preview Is it too early to think about summertime and Fringe Fest?

Nope. Alex Sparling and Dion Arnold, The Sons of Tremendous, present a tale of love and deceit, lust and betrayal called So I Was at a Threesome Last Week. Tickets are $10 on site.

WHEN: Sunday at noon WHERE: El Cortez Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar, 8230 Gateway Blvd.

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people celebrating natural hair.

It isn’t a problem to be fixed, or what Disney or stereotypes say is the definition of beautiful hair — blonde, straight, etc. So it’s about promoting positive self-image too,” said Eweka, whose speaker line-up includes natural hair care specialist Nichola Lorimer.

Lucy “Sometimes people want to Haines know why one part of their For Metro | Edmonton hair is kinky, and another Hair matters to most people, part straight or why a beard but for those with naturally is patchy. We have a forum curly, coily locks, there can to share these concerns with be more at hand likeminded people, and than how to prethat’s emvent breakage or provide needed powering and Globally, and moisture in the confidencedry Alberta cli- even in the black building,” she mate. community, Afro- said.

Osas Eweka, Ab o u t 4 2 textured hair — the vendors will organizer of this weekend’s non-relaxed, non- offer hair care second annual straightened hair products and Edmonton Nattips to the 400ural Hair Show, — isn’t regarded as plus visitors exsays the event is pected at the beautiful. as much about April 8 and 9 Osas Eweka embracing what event, along makes someone with fashions, unique and naturally beautiful accessories and speakers/workas it is to offer products and shops—men’s grooming, kids resources for hair care. hairstyles and professional “Globally, and even in the looks for the workplace are black community, Afro-tex- all on the schedule too. tured hair — the non-relaxed, Edmonton Natural Hair goes non-straightened hair — isn’t from 10-4 April 8 and 9, Show regarded as beautiful. I started MacEwan University’s Robbins this to show people, and espe- Health Learning Centre, 10910 cially kids, a large gathering of 104 Ave.

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Edmonton

Fate of coliseum building in limbo sport

City believes Hockey Canada are best bet to take over venue Jeremy Simes

Metro | Edmonton The city is recommending Hockey Canada take over the aging Northlands Coliseum, after determining the organization was the best contender for the site’s future success.

Upon reviewing bids from 15 organizations, the city’s report released Thursday shows Hockey Canada would bring a hockey sports school with four sheets of ice, a 200-metre athletic track, and a dry-land training area.

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The city announced the change Thursday, after officials say they found about half a million extra dollars in property assessments.

“In this little bit of extra good news, it’s a little more growth of property that can share the tax burden and lighten the load for everyone,” Mayor Don Iveson told reporters Thursday.

This year’s increase is slated to pay for neighbourhood renewal (1.5 per cent), the Valley Line LRT (0.6 per cent) and operations (0.75 per cent).

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But Iveson said he doesn’t expect there will be significant modifications to make that happen. “Council can always amend the budget,” he said.

Team Canada celebrates a goal during last year’s World Cup of Hockey in Toronto. The city has suggests Hockey Canada take over Northlands Coliseum. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

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“I’m really glad we heard not “But there’s a ticking clock just from Hockey Canada, but and you need to repurpose a from 15 different organizations,” plan or you need an exit stratMayor Don Iveson told repor- egy. I still think there’s a lot of ters Thursday. “The most en- love for the idea of a repurpose couraging is and around amateur remains Hockey sports with ice Canada.” as one of the The city also principle uses.”

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Edmonton

Beer-league team makes pitch sports

Hope Hockey Canada will consider their Olympic bid Lucie Edwardson

Metro | Calgary

A Calgary men’s beer-league team is throwing their name in the mix with the hope that Hockey Canada will consider them to represent Canada at the next winter Olympics in South Korea.

Calgary’s Canadian Citizens said after they heard that the NHL had made the decision not to allow their players to participate in the games, the team jokingly began tossing around the idea that it would be great for some “average joes” to represent Canada on the world stage (traditionally for the globe’s elite athletes).

In a letter penned by team member Kyle Kemp, he explains they were disappointed by the NHL’s decision, but that their “division 9” beer league

Calgary’s very own division 9, beer-league team, the Canadian Citizens. Contributed

team who finished seventh this past season would “proudly represent their country” and are “ready to make the jump to international competition.”

“We’ve all grown up with various aspects, whether that’s ball hockey, street hockey or ice hockey — every Canadian kid at one point has the life

long dream to play hockey, right? So it’d be pretty cool.”

In their letter , the Citizens said since they all already reside in Calgary, Hockey Canada would save on travel costs and training camp.

“In fact, training may not be necessary, as our current warmups consist of unorthodox drills

like ‘winded from walking to the ice,’ ‘the broken windmill,’ and ‘who hit Pat in the head?’

(FYI — Pat is our goaltender),” they wrote.

The team has gained some support online, with many people retweeting the team’s letter—and most recently the team has been challenged by

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another beer league team of Olympic hopefuls in Virginia known as the ‘Cluster Pucks,’ made up of 15 male and female players ranging in age from “late 20s to somewhere on either side of 50, depending on who shows up that week.”

The Cluster Pucks said their pre-game rituals include “pregaming in the parking lot, some with cigarettes, most with beer or other alcoholic libations.”

“Once we make it to the ice, we excel in aimlessly skating around in circles and shooting pucks in the general direction of an open net. Sometimes we even hit it,” wrote team member Aaron Risdal in response to Kemp’s letter.

Kemp said the Canadian Citizens have yet to hear back from Hockey Canada, but should the opportunity to travel to South Korea in 2018 for the Olympics arise?

“I expect we’d all be there in heartbeat,” he said. “With that said we’ve planned a team golf tournament every summer for the last 10 years and it’s fallen through every time, so you know, this might be different given the scope of things.”

Elizabeth Cameron

For Metro | Calgary When Lindsay Chadderton heard the story of a Calgary girl hoping for a last-chance liver transplant in the U.S., he felt compelled to act.

Three-year-old Greta Marofke has hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer that typically affects young children.

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In the two months since the family launched a GoFundMe to help with finances (Greta’s treatment costs in the U.S. are not covered by insurance), nearly $200,000 has been raised, and Chadderton hopes to raise an additional $100,000 at the event.

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Give the snoops the slip

Canada

How to protect your cellphone data on Parliament Hill

Ryan Tumilty

Metro | Ottawa News Parliament Hill and other downtown areas have been the target of cellphone tracking technology should encourage people to use encrypted apps to keep their private information private, experts say.

The CBC reported this week the discovery of three IMSI catcher devices operating in the downtown area. The machines could potentially be used to intercept phone calls and texts.

The devices mimic cellphone towers and essentially fool mobile phones into connecting to them. Nathan Freitas, is the director of the Guardian Project, an initiative that offers open-source tools to protect privacy. He’s also a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He said the catchers are fairly easy to acquire and can be used to listen to calls, read texts and implant malware on mobile phones.

“For $2,000 anyone can get a laptop-sized device that is a cell tower that will operate as an actual cell tower,” he said.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said this week that the RCMP and CSIS confirmed to him that they were not using the devices. He said the agencies

Parliament Hill and other downtown areas have been the target of cellphone tracking technology. Contributed

are now investigating.

Freitas suggested that those who want to keep what’s on their cellphones away from prying eyes and ears should consider using encrypted messaging apps like Signal and the most recent version of WhatsApp, which he himself uses even for routine communications with his wife.

“Everything we say, whether it’s shopping for milk or organizing date night, is encrypted,”

Freitas said. “It’s not about spycraft and secrecy, it’s about making sure the conversation you and I are having is between you and I.” He said that, just as information on the internet became more secure over time, the security of mobile communications must tighten up.

“There was a time on the internet when we only encrypted credit cards, and now we encrypt everything,” he said. “We need

It’s not about spycraft and secrecy, it’s about making sure the conversation you and I are having is between you and I. Nathan Freitas

to do that for mobile phones as well.”

The government has not issued any specific warnings or instructions to Hill staff, but Scott Bardsley, Goodale’s press

secretary, said confidential or secret information is not shared over phones.

“It’s been publicly known before this incident that cellphones are not secure.”

Newfoundland

Hungry polar bear airlifted away from village by helicopter

Residents of a village in northeastern Newfoundland say they were shaken when a polar bear wandered close to their community, but wildlife officers were quick to tranquilize the big animal and cart it off using a sling under a helicopter.

Dennis Broderick says he left his home in St. Brendan’s to shovel snow when he spotted

the wayward bear, which ran off to eat a seal on the sea ice near his property.

“He just took the seal and ate it, just like someone was eating cookies,” Mayor Veronica Broomfield said in an interview Thursday.

Such sightings are common at this time of year along the coast of northeastern New-

foundland, where the large predators follow seals headed south on ice floes.

However, Broomfield says polar bears don’t usually amble into residential areas. The large amount of pack ice this year has made it easier for them to get around, she said.

The decision to call wildlife officers was made because

residents felt the bear posed a threat to people in the village.

“You got kids going to school, older people in their homes by themselves, and you got people out for a walk,” said Broomfield. “Everybody was scared.”

The officers circled the bear in the helicopter before shooting it with a tranquilizer dart,

radio station VOCM reported.

The capture in St. Brendan’s was the latest in a series of polar bear sightings in the area.

A week ago in Wesleyville, N.L., Jessica Power took a photo of a polar bear that looked as if it was praying to a large cross that was staked on an nearby island.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Senate

Beyak says her removal ‘a threat’ to free speech

Sen. Lynn Beyak says her removal from the Senate’s committee for indigenous people is “a threat to freedom of speech,” and claims she is supported by a “silent majority” of Canadians.

The Conservative party leadership booted Beyak from the Senate Committee of Aboriginal Peoples on Wednesday, Lynn Beyak stating that her controversial speech last month about an “abundance of good” in the country’s widely maligned residential school system doesn’t jibe with the Tory position.

In a statement Thursday, Beyak bemoaned how it is becoming “difficult” to have a “balanced, truthful discussion” about all issues in Canada.

“Political correctness is stifling opinion and thoughtful conversation that we must be allowed to have if we are to truly improve our great country,” the statement said.

“Too often, on a broad range of issues, a vocal minority cries foul and offence whenever a point of view is raised that does not align with their own.”

Meanwhile, in the foyer of the House of Commons, New Democrat MPs denounced Beyak’s latest statement. Romeo Saganash, a Cree MP from Quebec who attended residential school, repeated his call for her to resign her Senate seat.

“Any person that celebrates genocide, because this was genocide, has no place either in Parliament of the Senate,” he said.

“Removing her from the committee is not enough. She needs to resign, and the sooner the better.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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World

U.S. blasts Syria base with missiles Military

Assad condemns attack as an act of ‘aggression’ The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles Thursday night in fiery retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.

President Donald Trump cast the U.S. assault as vital to deter future use of poison gas and called on other nations to join in seeking “to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria.”

It was the first direct American assault on the Syrian government and Trump’s most dramatic military order since becoming president just over two months ago. The strikes also risk thrusting the U.S. deeper into an intractable conflict that his predecessor spent years trying to avoid.

Announcing the assault from his Florida resort, Trump said there was no doubt Syrian President Bashar Assad was responsible for the chemical attack, which he said employed banned gases and killed dozens.

“Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children,” Trumped declared.

The U.S. strikes — some 59 missiles launched from the USS Ross and USS Porter — hit the government-controlled Shayrat air base in central Syria, where U.S. officials say the Syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off. The U.S. missiles hit at 8:45 p.m. in Washington, 3:45 Friday morning in Syria. The missiles targeted the base’s airstrips,

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. Alex Brandon/ASSOCIATED PRESS

hangars, control tower and ammunition areas, officials said.

Trump approved the strikes without approval from Congress or the backing of the United Nations. The White House said about two dozen lawmakers from both parties were briefed on the actions.

Syrian state TV reported a U.S. missile attack on a number of military targets and called the attack an “aggression.”

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High stakes as Chinese president arrives in U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his Florida estate Thursday for a high-stakes summit, with the urgent threat of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and tensions over trade on the agenda for the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies.

Xi and his wife were greeted by the president and first lady Melania Trump at the Mar-aLago estate before making their way to dinner. The White House said the location was selected to give the two days of discussions a more relaxed feel, but the meeting kicked off amid suggestions the Trump administration was considering military action against Syria as it deliberated on how to respond to a chemical attack.

Still, Trump appeared lighthearted as he greeted Xi, gesturing and pointing to journalists as they tussled to get a shot of the two leaders together for the first time. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on his way

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a dinner. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

to the summit, Trump said he thinks China will “want to be stepping up” in trying to deter North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

While Trump would not say what he wants China to do specifically, he suggested there was a link between “terrible” trade agreements the U.S. has made with China and Pyongyang’s provocations.

The president has said that if China doesn’t exert more pressure on North Korea, the U.S. will act alone. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Trump’s many tentacles When he was elected president, we all knew his adult children were part of the deal.

Rosemary Westwood

From the U.S. When Donald Trump moved to the White House, everyone understood the entire adult Trump clan was moving in, too. The Trumps are conjoined like an octopus, with a patriarchal head and a slew of second-generation tentacles, the entire beast of which is pathologically hungry for money.

It was quaint of Trump, before he took office, to offer up a theatrical presentation of piles of papers and folders to convince Americans and the world that Trump’s entire business would be legally excised from him during his presidency.

It was quaint, too, of Ivanka Trump to claim that, after modelling her entire life after her father’s predilections and

the enlargement of the Trump brand, she’d keep out of his business just as that business became taking on the most powerful position in the world. We knew both were lying, the way we know the sun will come up tomorrow.

But now there’s proof.

ProPublica revealed this week that Trump’s trust documents have been amended to allow him to withdraw money from his businesses any time he likes, with no need to tell anyone. Trump’s lawyer responded that Trump has never not been allowed to withdraw money, even though that stipulation was left out of a version of the trust widely scrutinized in late January.

The full details of the trust are contained in a document that won’t be released, ProPublica reported.

Oversight of Trump’s finances, and therefore his

conflicts of interest, remains paltry, given that he still hasn’t released his tax returns.

His bet that enough people wouldn’t care whether he’s seeking to enrich himself as president seems to continue to pay off, if only partly because the administration is engulfed in so many simultaneous controversies that this most basic one — who is he really working for? — has been obscured.

Ivanka, meanwhile, has decided to become an unpaid employee in the West Wing, an “assistant to the president,” with an office and an amorphous goal to influence her father’s agenda on “women’s empowerment” (as she told CBS). She’s going to exert her special powers on an administration hell-bent on destroying the planet, defunding Planned Parenthood, gutting health care, and, simultaneously,

making the Trumps richer.

“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit,” she said, before admitting: “I don’t know what it means to be complicit.”

Quite. But complicit might as well be the name of our Trumpian octopus. Or, perhaps, nepotism. As Eric Trump pointed out helpfully this week, nepotism is a “factor of life.” For evidence, see son-inlaw Jared Kushner, “senior advisor to the president,” whose foreign diplomacy efforts have sent him to Iraq and saddled him with a Middle East peace deal. Meanwhile, Trump’s sons are busy expanding the hotel business domestically and abroad, for which U.S. taxpayers are forking over millions of dollars in secret service detail costs. When you get the one, you get them all.

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Humans love heat. Humans love light. And clearly, the sun isn’t enough for us. So what if we could just make another one — a miniature version of the star that powers all the life on Earth? It sounds crazy. But it’s not science fiction. It’s called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and it just might hold the cure for our energy woes.

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the project ITER is under construction in the south of France. Once completed, optimistically around 2035, it will have two purposes: scientific research and acting as a test-run for the electricity plant of the future — fusion reactors.

Estimated price tag: $20 billion US; the most expensive scientific instrument ever made. 35 countries are pitching in to the project, which has been plagued by budget problems and delays since its inception in the 1980s.

The machine

The ITER fusion reactor is called a tokamak. The actual reaction will take place within plasma that is suspended in the air in a donut shape by enormous, negatively-charged magnets.

These would keep the negativelycharged helium ions inside, but allow the super-hot neutrons to escape through the machine’s walls into water-filled cooling towers. In future fusion plants, this heated water will be used to power turbines and alternators, generating electricity the same way a coal plant does. Except fusion produces four million times more energy than coal.

the chemistry The sun is powered by nuclear fusion: two hydrogen atoms fusing into one helium atom. ITER would replicate the same reaction.

First a powerful electric current heats hydrogen gas, transforming it into plasma.

Cranked up to an out-of-this-world temperature of 150,000,000 C, the plasma churns around fast enough that it’s possible for two hydrogen ions, which would normally repel each other like mismatched magnets, to crash into one another and stick.

This produces one atom of helium and one neutral particle called a neutron, as well as a whole lot of energy in the form of heat.

The goal for the future would be an unplugged, self-sustaining version of the reactor. The only input needed

would be the hydrogen fuel, in two different forms: deuterium (plentiful in seawater) and tritium (scarce but can be made from lithium, an abundant metal).

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Voiced by Demi Lovato, Smurfette ponders her place in the world in Smurfs: The Lost Village.

The new movie is the first time other female Smurfs are introduced. contributed

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For Metro Canada The all-animated Smurfs: The Lost Village aims to reintroduce the little blue creatures of Smurf Village to a new generation. It’s the first time more than one female Smurf exists in the community.

Featuring the voices of Demi Lovato, Joe Manganiello and Michelle Rodriguez, it trades on its inherent cute factor and nostalgia for much of its appeal.

There are some good messages for kids woven in and the animation is relentlessly adorable but is there anything here for anyone over the age of five?

In what may be the most adult plotline in Smurf history, it’s a hero’s journey, a character’s search for purpose. It’s Joseph Conrad via Smurf Village.

Smurfette’s Heart of Darkness.

As voiced by Lovato, Smurfette ponders her place in the world. All the other perky pint-sized blue creatures have descriptive names — Clumsy Smurf (Jack McBrayer), Jokey Smurf (Gabriel Iglasias) and Baker Smurf (Gordon Ramsey) — but what exactly, she wonders, is ‘ette’ supposed to mean?

Smurf aficionados will know she is the only female Smurf,

created by wizard Gargamel to sow the seeds of jealousy in Smurf Village. With the help of Papa Smurf she became a beacon of sweetness-and-light and the love interest of Smurfs everywhere.

That’s quite a backstory and her quest for purpose is certainly noble, even if her beginnings weren’t. The character was first introduced in Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou in 1966 as a marketing tool. According to writer Hal Erickson the comely Smurfette was created as a means to “bow to merchandising dictates” and “appeal to little girl toy consumers.”

It worked and in the decades that followed Smurfette became

the most sought after toy from Smurf Village.

The Smurfs are big business, in addition to this weekend’s big screen animated feature, the “three apples tall” characters have been translated into 30 languages (en français: Les Schtroumpfs, in Dutch: De Smurfen) to create an estimated worth of $4 billion, but not

all Smurf related marketing has been successful.

Remember Smurf-Berry Crunch? At the height of 1980s Smurf mania Post Cereal released a sugary breakfast cereal they claimed tasted, “like crunchy Smurf Berries… In berry red and Smurfy blue.”

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For Jack Black Smurf-Berry Crunch also brings back some bad memories. The Kung Fu Panda actor remembers his

second professional gig, a breakfast food commercial. “Being in a Smurf-Berry Crunch cereal ad and being pulled along in a red wagon…?” he says, too humiliated to finish the sentence. “My stock plummeted at school.”

I was a bit too cynical to buy into the North American Smurf craze of the 1980s — they were so popular one writer called them “kiddie cocaine” — but now in 2017 I see them as something other than an hour-and-ahalf advertisement for Smurfs Are Us. The new incarnation is a sweet kids movie designed for little ones but with just enough grown-up material to keep parents interested.

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For Metro Canada Female pro-wrestling has come a long way since it was a gimmicky ‘90s novelty that featured women in bikinis whacking each other in pillow-fight matches.

With a recent metamorphosis in philosophy and intent, the sport has been improving the image of female wrestling with less-sexualized stunts and higher profiles. Now, it’s even getting a modern makeover in pop culture.

In February, Dwayne Johnson announced he’s producing a biopic about WWE superstar Paige while Orange Is New Black creator Jenji Kohan debuts a hotly-anticipated women wrestling Netflix series called Glow in June.

First however, the comedy Chokeslam is about to enter the ring, hitting theatres across Canada this weekend as it gets its wide release.

“Something so mainstream like a movie is huge because it’s going to put eyes on an industry that a lot of people didn’t know about,” said B.C.born pro-wrestler Chelsea Green, who plays a small role in the film. “It’s awesome to see everybody start to turn and become women wrestling fans rather than see women as kind of side pieces.”

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“They did a good job when they wrote the character of not doing that,” admitted Crew.

Not a lifelong wrestling fan herself, the 30-year-old star of HBO’s Silicon Valley researched the role and uncovered that life beyond the mat deserves a respect equal to any vocation.

“The wrestling industry is not a cushy experience,” said Crew, who also had WWE icon Mick Foley (another pro playing a smaller role), to lean on for real-life insight into the sport. “It reminds me a lot of acting careers — just keep your eye on the prize. It’s a lot of grind with not a lot of payback but you do it because you love it.”

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ring in that outfit, I was surprised at how I wasn’t insecure at all,” admitted Crew, who spent many hours training for the movie which was shot in Lumsden and Regina, Sask. in late 2015.

“I was proud of myself, proud of my body, of what I could do and I felt the most empowered I’ve ever felt.”

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The Game is Changing “It used to be bra and panty matches and evening gown matches and things like that and it’s just not anymore,” admits Chelsea Green (pictured above with Chokeslam director Robert Cuffley) about women wrestling’s image. “People are starting to realize that slowly.”

The Empowerment of Pain “Its hard to explain if you haven’t done it,” said Green

of her love of wrestling.

“But the mix of performing with playing a sport; with entertaining everyone — there’s so many aspects to it that all wrestlers relate to.

That’s what they love.”

The Wrestling Challenge “I didn’t grow up watching wrestling,” says Amanda Crew. “But I was really excited (by) the idea of playing such a physical character in a physical role.”

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Ten-year-old Mckenna Grace joins seasoned actor in Gifted Chris Evans glows around his new leading lady, who makes no secret of her excitement at hanging out with Captain America.

She gushingly talks up his talents (“He can tap dance!”), yet is just as quick to keep him honest when he says something questionable.

She also travels with a selection of stuffed animals, including a plush seal in a pink dress.

Evans’ latest co-star is 10-yearold actress Mckenna Grace. They star together in Gifted, a family drama opening Friday about an unassuming single guy raising his math-prodigy niece, determined not to let her brilliance interfere with her childhood.

Though Evans is an uncle in real life (his eldest sister has three kids, ages 3, 5 and 7), he says he bonded in a different way with Mckenna: as colleagues. Evans and Gifted director Marc Webb (The Amazing

Mckenna Grace as Mary Adler and Chris Evans as her father Frank in the film Gifted. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Spider-Man) saw dozens of girls read for the role, and Mckenna stood out with her childlike charm yet old-soul maturity.

“She might as well have an apartment,” he said. “I’m telling you, I’ve met lesser pros in adults.”

The 10-year-old actress— also a regular on TV’s Designated Survivor — is the kind of professional who asks if she can bring her stuffed seal along while promoting her new film. She also has a plush cat with her at this interview, noting she’s allergic to real cats.

Mckenna says she isn’t a math whiz like her character in Gifted. Instead, she feels like she’s gifted with a great family and amazing lifestyle.

“This experience is so wonderful and it makes me so thankful for my life. I’m gifted that I have my family here to support me and that I’m here right now with Chris,” she said, adding, “Well, every job could be my last, you know?”

As for Evans’ gifts? Mckenna’s got that covered, too.

“He has lots of secret talents,” she said. “He can tap dance!

Though he still has not tap danced for me.”

Evans sheepishly admits that

yes, he does tap dance.

“I’m looking to tap dance in a movie,” the actor said. “I want to find one! Maybe a nice Gene Kelly biopic.”

“He can sing and he can tap dance,” Mckenna declared, putting a point on the subject like a manager might.

The two did a lot of singing on set between takes, she said — mostly 1990s pop-rock.

“Her dad grew up listening to the Presidents of the United States of America, a band back in the ’90s,” Evans said, “so we would sing Peaches a lot, which

was one of their better songs.”

Looking at Mckenna warmly, he added: “She couldn’t actually hear all of their songs because some of their songs have bad words.”

Mckenna said she and her dad also love watching Marvel movies together, so she already knew about Captain America before working with Evans.

“He’s so much more than Captain America,” she said.

“Civil War is always (playing) on the plane. And I look at it and I’m like, ‘Hey, I know him!”’

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Casting delivers success Webb spins a sweet classic Director Marc Webb, who elevated romance-comedy to zenith heights in making 500 Days of Summer (2009) so sweet and sad and funny and real, does the same with Gifted.

Webb tugs at the heart strings in a film about a directionless young man locked in a legal battle with his mother over the future of the niece he’s been raising since she was an infant.

Casting is a huge part of the film’s success, beginning with a flawless performance by Chris Evans as Frank, just scraping by but sacrificing much in order to give his niece a regular childhood. The other star turn comes from young Mckenna Grace as Mary.

Those seeking familyoriented drama with intelligence and a warm heart will amply rewarded. torstar news service

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The inspiration behind Lynch’s artistry documentary

Doc dives deep on influences that have driven master director Steve Gow

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David Lynch’s iconic Twin Peaks is being given a TV reboot by Showtime this month. contributed

When the reboot of Twin Peaks premieres on Showtime next month, it’ll mark a quarter of a century since David Lynch became a household name.

The talented creator behind the hit series had already established himself with such arthouse hits as Eraserhead and Blue Velvet, but Peaks exposed a mainstream audience to the surrealist genius.

“Sometimes you forget what a master he is,” said filmmaker Jon Nguyen. “I think it’s both the gift that he was born with and the nurturing that he received.”

And Nguyen should know.

After spending three years hanging around Lynch at his Hollywood home, Nguyen has deconstructed the director in David Lynch: The Art Life — a

new documentary that aims to enlighten audiences to the influences that shaped the auteur.

“A lot of people go ‘you don’t really talk about his movies in the film’,” said Nguyen. “But what they don’t understand was our goal, the whole time, was to talk about his films — just in a more obtuse way.”

The doc certainly isn’t a standard hagiography nor does it even spotlight memorable scenes from Lynch’s films. Rather it’s an intimate investigation of the mind behind an incredible 40-year expanse of work of which we can only begin to highlight: Eraserhead “Eraserhead represents his early artistic days — a period when he was still struggling and kind of forming who he was,” said Nguyen of Lynch’s 1977 dystopian debut. The drama about

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From the first twang of main subject John B. McLemore’s Alabama accent — “Some’ns happ’ned!” — the listener might be inclined to dub STown a kind of Serial: Deep South.

The podcast, narrated by longtime This American Life producer Brian Reed, was inspired by an email sent by ancient-clock restorer John B. McLemore from Woodstock, Alabama. Woodstock is an unassuming small town outside of Birmingham in Bibb County, but McLemore prefers to call it “S--t Town,” hence the podcast title.

Here are seven reasons to listen to the new seven-part podcast, which has already been downloaded more than 16 million times since March 28, faster than any podcast ever.

1. John B. McLemore’s brilliant rants “I’ve about had enough of S--t Town and the things that goes on,” he tells Reed in episode one. And he’s just getting started. Much of STown is made up of phone calls where McLemore goes off on fascinating tangents about climate change, Darfur, acid reflux, Facebook and his S--t Town.

7 good reasons to listen to S-Town The twisty-turny podcast from the producers of Serial that’s a little hard to define

S-Town is hosted by Brian Reed (inset with headphones), who’s normally This American Life’s senior producer. He’s been working on this story for more than three years. instagram

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2. To gape at the crudeness of Trump’s America McLemore writes to Reed to decry murder, child molestation and police corruption in Woodstock and requesting the investigative rigour of the This American Life team.

When Reed visits the backroom of a local tattoo parlour to investigate a murder, the town’s prejudice is as enlightening as it is disturbing.

3. You’ll learn more than you thought you wanted to about horology That’s the study of time and clock-making — McLemore’s trade. The podcast opens with a description of a horologist’s mazelike task of fixing a broken ancient clock.

The intricate machines become a metaphor for life through McLemore’s eyes. At one point, he quotes from a sundial inscription: “Life is tedious and brief.”

4. You’d spend time on John B.’s property too When Reed makes his way to S--t Town and gets to know McLemore, he learns the man is in his late forties and lives with his elderly mother on a 128-acre property, where he takes in stray dogs and prunes an elabor-

Actor keeping low profile Brad Pitt has made a somewhat rare public appearance since his split with Angelina Jolie by showing up at the Hollywood premiere of Lost City of Z. The actor (below) looked noticeably thinner when arriving at the Arclight Cinemas on Tuesday night. Although he was pelted with questions from reporters, Pitt gave a wave and said only, “Hi. Good to see you all.”

Pitt has kept a low-profile since Jolie’s divorce filing in September. He showed up at a few premieres last fall for his war drama, Allied, which turned out to be a box office disappointment. He also introduced a clip for eventual Best Picture winner Moonlight at the Golden Globes in January. the associated press

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ate hedge maze, when he’s not fixing clocks or obsessively researching climate change. After finishing STown, you’ll want to give the maze a go.

5. It’s a murder mystery McLemore had heard that a kid ended up dead in a fight and that someone has been going around Woodstock bragging about the murder.

That’s just the spark that sets off the greater story that’s difficult to define and becomes much more than a southern whodunit.

6. It’s a treasure hunt When a central character brags of being “unbanked,” you’ll wonder if you should start converting all your assets into gold and wrap it

up in a towel in the freezer before cutting out the golddiggers in your life.

7. S-Town is not what you think it is It’s not really a true-crime podcast, though it mimics much of Serial’s twisty-turny structure. But it’s still a riveting investigation, if not as deeply into murder as it first appears, then into the life of one Alabama man. At times S-Town goes so deep that some have accused Reed and his team of invasiveness.

If they go too far, it’s because there’s a lot to mine from a man as fascinating as McLemore, the self-proclaimed black sheep in the community that he so despises but won’t leave. torstar news service

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A link you’ll remember forever golf

Northern Ireland’s idilyc courses are a golfer’s dream Brian Kendall

For Metro Canada “Don’t look up until you hear the ball dancing in the cup,” my caddy whispered. “Make this and it’ll be a fine thing to remember all your days.”

My putt for an eagle three at the par-five ninth hole at Royal Portrush Golf Club was the most thrilling moment of a week-long tour of Northern Ireland’s famous links courses, including Royal County Down, Portstewart and Ardglass.

Setting up nervously over my ball, I could almost feel the crash of the Atlantic against the towering sand cliffs that define this ruggedly beautiful and windblown stretch of coastline. Now largely free of the Troubles that once frightened tourists away, Northern Ireland is drawing record numbers of golfers to its more than 90 courses.

Anticipation is already building for the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush, which will be the first Open hosted by the British province since Englishman Max Faulkner lifted the Claret Jug at this same course in 1951. As many as 200,000 visitors are expected at the biggest sporting event to ever be staged here in terms of prestige and global media

With the Irish Open set for summer and the Open Championship coming in 2019, Northern Ireland is one of the hottest destinations in golf. Left: Royal Portrush is home to one of the most challenging links courses in the world. Right: Portstewart Golf Club was founded in 1894 and redesigned in the 1920’s. contributed

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And this summer Rory McIlroy will return to his native soil to defend his title at the European Tour’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. Played at Portstewart Golf Club July 6-9, the tournament will showcase a magnificent — though sometimes underrated — north coast links that twists through massive sand dunes and alongside a tranquil estuary of the River Bann.

Outside Belfast, Northern Ireland is almost all green and rolling countryside, with farms and villages linked by a spidery network of roads. Establish a base and you can reach almost any golf course within a couple of hours.

Absolutely not to be missed is Royal County Down, the iconic Old Tom Morris design set on a long sweep of Dundrum Bay, an hour’s drive down the Irish Sea coastline from Bel-

fast. Vast swathes of gorse and heather line fairways that tumble through sand hills, while tussock-faced bunkers defend approach shots to subtly contoured greens.

Conveniently nearby is Ardglass Golf Club — a course I love more with each visit. Skirting the Irish Sea, Ardglass begins and ends in the middle of a fishing village once occupied by Vikings. Looming over this idyllic setting is the world’s oldest club-

house, an imposing if slightly threadbare castle-like structure built in the 14th century.

Despite the stiff competition, it’s 2019 Open host Royal Portrush that has naturally grabbed most of the attention.

Two new holes are being built to accommodate huge tournament grandstands on a links that spills down a hillside to seaside cliffs in the north coast town of Portrush.

Royal Portrush’s most famous

hole is the 14th, Calamity Corner, a par three demanding a heroic carry to a cliff-top green.

But the defining moment of my trip came at the ninth, where not even three jittery putts that turned an eagle into a routine par could spoil a day of golf on one of the world’s outstanding links.

For more golf stories, visit Brian’s website at canadiangolftraveller.com

travel notes tracking black bears, Paula Deen plans new seafood restaurant, exhibition: Queer british art

Paula Deen is opening a seafood restaurant on the same waterfront property outside Savannah where Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, an eatery she co-owned, closed in 2014. The celebrity cook plans to open Paula Deen’s Creek House in June on Whitemarsh Island. Uncle Bubba’s was at the centre of a workplace discrimination suit that hurt Deen’s rep after she admitted to having used racial slurs the past. the associated press

LGBTQ art at the Tate

A portrait of Oscar Wilde that once hung above the writer’s fireplace is on display at London’s Tate Britain gallery along with the door to Wilde’s prison cell.

The items are part of the Tate exhibition Queer British Art, which charts work “that relates to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer identities” in the century before homosexuality was partially decriminalized in 1967. The show runs until Oct. 1. the associated press

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Wildlife enthusiasts can now follow the daily journey of Yosemite National Park’s black bears from their laptops and smartphones, tracking the animals as they lope around the park.

The website Keep Bears Wild shows where select bears fitted with GPS collars are heading. The goal is to draw in the public so they know to slow down while driving and properly store food when they visit the park. the associated press

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A superior tour of the greatest lake Oceanic vistas and stunning scenery on 2,000 km tour It might not have the cachet of California’s Highway 101, of South Africa’s Garden Route or of the Rockies. Yet a voyage around the world’s largest freshwater lake, the big sea they once called Gichigami, reveals a sublime and in-your-face spectacular wonderland unrivalled anywhere.

The 2,000-kilometre Circle Tour is to be savoured like a Group of Seven painting the area north of Lake Superior inspired.

“It’s like every piece of shoreline is different and unique,” says Dan Bevilacqua, executive director of Superior Country. “It goes for the communities as well.”

There are the Ontario city splendours of Sault Ste. Marie or Blues Fest in Thunder Bay. At its most westerly point, travel Bob Dylan Way through a charming Duluth, Minn., near where the famed poet-singer hails.

In between, find out where a cub named Winnie-the-Pooh began a long journey to liter-

ary fame, check out the motel where pianist Glenn Gould would get away from it all, or take in the striking monument where a cancer-stricken Terry Fox gave up his one-legged trans-Canada run.

Stop and admire the revamped main street of Terrace Bay, or on the south shore — which Americans call the north shore — meander through picturesque Marquette or breeze past Christmas on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Mostly, however, it’s about a lake that splits its sparkling waters between Canada and the United States. Indeed, as the largest of the Great Lakes, Superior offers seemingly boundless shoreline — log-strewn beaches, gentle river mouths, pristine sunbathing sands, rock cliffs and waterfall trails — all with oceanic vistas. In fact, it would be easy to confuse the greatest of the lakes for an ocean were it not for glass-clear water that on serene summer days makes for a bracing, salt-free swim.

At other time that water can turn ferocious — with steely-grey waves two or three storeys high.

Moodiness and power both awesome and breath-taking. Stop and look out over where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a November gale in 1975 just a

IF YOU GO...

Plan stops and carry a passport if crossing the border Check out the Circle Tour guide at superiorcircletour.com Get provincial park info atontarioparks.com/ parksguide

Fractures in the bedrockhe at Aguasabon Falls and gorge near Terrace Bay, Ont. date back almost 2.6 billion years. the canadian press

few kilometres from safety — a tragedy immortalized in song

by Canadian singer-songwriting legend Gordon Lightfoot.

Getting a sense of scale is hard. At its longest, Lake Superior stretches some 560 kilometres as the eagle flies, abutting one province and three states.

By some counts, if you poured

out its water, it would flood the entire continents of North and South America to a depth of 30 centimetres. The shoreline of twists and turns that runs to about 2,780 kilometres offers stunning views and unsurpassed magnificence — not to mention stupendous motorcycling or driving territory for the enthusiast.

Everywhere there are surprises, some steeped in indigenous history that traces back as far as 10,000 years, such as the Ojibwa pictographs at Agawa Rock. There is the delight of Old Woman Bay, where river meets lake, or places whose very names are the lure: Rabbit Blanket Lake, Pinguisibi Falls or Kakabeka Falls,

nicknamed Niagara of the North.

Hunt or fish. Walk or cycle trails. Camp out in well-equipped provincial or federal parks, or stop at hotels, motels, inns or lodges along the way. But mostly, says Bevilacqua, talk to locals for their advice on what secret treasures their communities offer.

“There’s lots of little hidden gems,” says Bevilacqua, whose Superior Country not-for-profit puts out a Circle Tour guide full of ideas. This year, Superior Country has revived a “passport” program for both lake and auto travellers. Visitors can collect stamps along the way and, ultimately, a certificate of completion if they get all the way around. the canadian press

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United Communities is introducing two new communities this fall, and it’s building under a new name, Anthem United. Anthem United’s new name and new look is the natural progression of a company that understands building great spaces is their most important achievement.

Expect the same quality, exceptional planning and attention to detail. Anthem United is a land development and homebuilding company that strives, solves and evolves to build better spaces and stronger communities.

Anthem United has deep roots in Alberta. It began more than 80 years ago, in 1934, when a

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young man named Jack Singer teamed up with Avrum Belzberg to form United Management.

The company exploded out of the starting gate, buying up properties across the province, including strip malls in the 1950s. United’s most famous acquisition was the Hollywood Centre Studios in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where Singer reportedly went to get an autograph, and ended up buying a studio.

By the 1990s, United Management began to concentrate almost exclusively on land

development. The company rebranded for the �irst time. United Management became United Communities, and building great communities became its focus.

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Carlson’s vision was to increase its exposure in Alberta, secure a strong Alberta talent pool, add residential land development as a core strategic asset, return to its roots as a land developer and gain a foothold in the U.S. market through the Sacramento operation. In order to bring four companies, in four different cities,

together under one name, United Communities has now rebranded as Anthem United. Together with Anthem, the two companies are now a combined team of 300, with 190 projects under its belt, including more than 10,000 homes, 6.2 million square feet of commercial space and 5,000 acres of land for future development. Anthem United is investing in Alberta, Northern Calif. and B.C. Anthem United is also expanding in Edmonton. There are �ive communities under development in the city and surrounding area, with two new communities starting this fall, Kinglet Gardens in North West Edmonton and Glenridding Ravines in the South West.

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Thawing out old memories Sean Plummer Canadians are proud of our hockey players. Maybe it’s because many of us spent hours on the ice as kids, feeding the dream that we might one day play in the big leagues. And goals, normally so few and far between, punctuate that love and can become cherished cultural moments.

Certainly Canadians have scored some memorable ones.

Take 1972’s Summit Series in

Moscow between Teams Canada and Russia, where Paul Henderson scored “the goal heard around the world.”

The teams would meet 15 years later and provide the amazing sight of Mario Lemieux taking a rush from Wayne Gretzky and roofing it into the Soviet net.

Marie-Philip Poulin secured Olympic gold for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, netting the winning goal in OT to defeat the U.S. 3-2.

Even pop star Justin Bieber has gotten in on the action, showing off his puck-handling skills at the NHL All-Star Game this past January and scoring an empty netter during the Celebrity Shootout. Hockey makes Beliebers of us all.

Team Canada’s Paul Henderson lies sprawled out in front of the Russian net with a Soviety defenceman wrapped around his legs after scoring the winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series.

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Making a big splash Sure, we have most of the Great Lakes (the greatest by far is the aptly named Lake Superior, which contains 10 per cent of the world’s fresh water and has more water than all the other Great Lakes combined).

But Canada can lay claim to a whole bunch of Really Good lakes, too — as many as two million of them, in fact.

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Finn-ishing touch Hockey

Canada ousts Finland, eyes gold against archrival U.S. World championships scarce lately for the Canadian women’s hockey team, they’re getting another chance to end their drought.

Friday’s final against the United States marks the 18th time in 18 championships the archrivals have clashed for gold.

Winner of three in a row, the American women intend to have their storybook ending on home ice with a fourth.

Canada has won 10 times and the U.S. seven. The Americans have beaten Canada in six of the last seven, including last year’s 1-0 overtime victory in Kamloops, B.C. Canada hasn’t claimed gold since 2012 in Burlington, Vt. Over a third of the current team hasn’t experienced victory in a world final.

“It’s hard to put into words, but we really want it,” forward Brianne Jenner said. “It would mean a lot to a lot of us here.”

Canada blanked Finland 4-0 and the United States shut out surprise semifinalist Germany 11-0 on Thursday to advance.

The Canadians edged the Americans 3-2 in an overtime thriller to win Olympic gold in 2014.

But the U.S. women running the table of world titles heading into 2018 is not a comfort-

Canada’s Rebecca Johnston flattens Anna Kilponen of Finland on Thursday in Plymouth, Mich.

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able prospect for the Canadian women.

“We’re on a mission right now,” Canadian captain MariePhilip Poulin said. “We want to bring it back home.”

Poulin scored a goal and an assisted on another in the span of two and a half minutes to put Canada up 3-0 after two periods Thursday.

Sarah Potomak, Emily Clark and Rebecca Johnston scored

their second goals of the tournament. Shannon Szabados earned her second shutout with 23 saves.

Noora Raty stopped 31 of 35 shots for Finland, which beat Canada for the first time ever 4-3 in the preliminary round.

The Canadians were quicker to, and harder on, the puck Thursday than they’d been five days earlier.

“Even from before the drop of the puck, our girls were ready to go and ignited,” head coach Laura Schuler said.

“I think today’s game was important in our habit and our details and that’s what we’re going to have to bring tomorrow.”

Canada will have a few more

hours of recovery having played the afternoon semifinal, but the U.S. didn’t overtax themselves thumping Germany.

The Finns, who beat Sweden 4-0 in Tuesday’s quarter-final to gain a rematch with Canada, lacked the ferocity and sharpness of their preliminary-round victory.

The Finns were scoreless on six power-play chances, while Canada went 1-for-4.

The Finns and Germans will play for bronze Friday prior to the championship game at USA Hockey Arena.

Russia, last year’s bronze medallists, edged Sweden 4-3 in a shootout to finish fifth.

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Curling

Gushue completes perfect round robin Canada’s Brad Gushue is the first to admit his St. John’s side is not known as a high-scoring team.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at the scoresheet at the Ford World Men’s Curling Championship.

The veteran skip locked up the first seed in the playoffs and capped an undefeated roundrobin Thursday at the Northlands Coliseum. Gushue (11-0) dumped Italy’s Joel Retornaz 9-2 in the morning and topped Norway’s Steffen Walstad 8-4 in the evening.

“We basically try to control the scoreboard,” Gushue said.

“We’re more than happy being tied up with the hammer coming home. So this week has been a little bit odd for us to have these lopsided games.”

Gushue’s last eight victor-

ies have been either routs or comfortable wins. He hasn’t really been tested since an 8-6 win over Sweden’s Niklas Edin last Sunday.

The 2006 Olympic champion has scored a whopping 94 points on the week against just 35.

Gushue, third Mark Nichols, second Brett Brad Gushue Gallant and The Canadian Press l e a d G e o f f Walker will have hammer in Friday’s Page playoff 1-2 game against Sweden.

Third-seeded Swiss skip Peter de Cruz (8-3) will play American John Shuster (8-3) in the Page 3-4 game on Saturday.

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IN BRIEF Leafs spoil opportunity at clinching playoff berth The Toronto Maple Leafs will have to wait a little longer to try and clinch a playoff berth.

The Leafs couldn’t secure their first trip to the postseason in four years on Thursday night, downed 4-1 by the Tampa Bay Lightning.

A victory would have sealed a spot for Toronto. There is only one spot remaining in the Eastern Conference after Ottawa punched its ticket by beating Boston in a shootout. The Canadian Press

Beckie goal spurs Canada to victory over Sweden Facing its biggest challenge since last summer’s Olympics, Canada dispatched Rio runner-up Sweden 1-0 in a women’s soccer friendly Thursday.

Janine Beckie’s 34thminute strike proved to be the difference on a cold, windy day before a crowd of just over 2,000 in Trelleborg, Sweden.

Canada wraps up its European tour Sunday against world No. 1 Germany. The Canadian Press

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Montreal vet, 37, will fight Brazil’s Thiago Alves at UFC 210 At 37, Patrick Cote still enjoys climbing into a cage to fight.

“For sure, if not I’d probably be at my home now drinking wine and having a barbecue,” the Montreal MMA veteran said with a laugh. “This is why I’m still here. Because I’m still enjoying it.

“I don’t make all those sacrifices — diet, the training, the injuries, leaving home every morning, leaving my little girl behind to get into the gym two, three times a day — if I’m not having fun and not enjoying it.”

Cote (24-10-0) returns to action Saturday night after a 10-month absence to take on Americanbased Brazilian Thiago (Pitbull) Alves (26-11-0) in a welterweight bout on the main card of UFC 210 in Buffalo. It’s Cote’s first fight since being dominated by Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone last June in Ottawa.

It’s also the first of four fights on what he says is his last UFC contract.

Daniel (DC) Cormier defends his light-heavyweight title against No. 1 challenger Anthony (Rumble) Johnson in the main event at the KeyBank Center. Former middleweight champion Chris (The All-American) Weidman,

I don’t want to fight until 40.

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Patrick Cote, right, defeats Ben Saunders during UFC Fight Night 81 last year in Boston. MADDIE MEYER/GETTY IMAGE

THE NOTORIOUS M&M It’s not yet a sure thing but the oncescoffed-at boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor can still become a reality. Nevada Athletic Commission executive director Bob Bennett said in an interview with MMAfighting.com on Thursday that Mayweather vs. McGregor in boxing would be an “approvable” bout. More to come. METRO

currently ranked fourth among 185-pound contenders, takes on No. 5 Gegard Mousasi in the comain event.

Cote, who made his UFC debut in 2004, is an athlete who has long planned his exit strategy from his gruelling sport. When

not fighting, he does Frenchlanguage commentary for UFC events and serves as an MMA analyst on Quebec TV and radio.

A Canadian army veteran, Cote also works with the military on close-combat instruction. In addition, he is an ath-

letes’ mentor for the Canadian Olympic Committee and has a real estate company.

“I don’t want to fight until 40,” he said.

“We’ll see if I’m going to finish that contract,” he added. “But you know what, I’m well-prepared to take my retirement when the time comes. But like I said, I’m still enjoying it. I still think that I have a couple of good fights in me. But when the time comes, I’m not going to make the fight I’m not supposed to.”

Cote has always been a smart fighter, one who realized when he had to change up his game or drop from middleweight (185 pounds) to welterweight (he is 5-2-0 since dropping to 170 pounds).

But the Cerrone fight was illadvised, at least in hindsight.

The prickly lightweight-turnedwelterweight floored Cote twice, took him down twice and had a 73-46 edge in significant strikes when the bout was stopped midway through the third round.

“He’s one of the best fighters in the world so ... when you are not at your best, you’re going to pay the price and that is exactly what happened,” Cote said.

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Charley Hoffman has the largest first-round lead at Augusta National in 62 years.

Hoffman’s 7-under 65 in windy conditions gives him a four-shot edge over William McGirt heading to Friday’s second round of the Masters.

That’s the largest since the 1955 Masters, when Jack Burke Jr. opened with 67 and was four shots ahead of Julius Boros and Mike Souchak.

But, in a reminder that the tournament is never won on Thursday, Burke followed with a 76 that turned his big lead into a six-shot deficit against Cary Middlecoff, who went on to capture the green jacket in a romp.

How tough were the conditions in the opening round of the Masters?

Only 11 players broke par

Thursday.

It’s the fewest players to break par in the first round of the Masters since only nine manDustin Johnson aged to do it in 2007.

GETTY IMAGES Lee Westwood shot 70 and eight other players are at 71, a group that includes Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose, Jason Dufner and Sergio Garcia.

Meanwhile, Dustin Johnson was forced to withdraw before his 2:03 p.m. tee time.

The world’s No. 1-ranked player suffered a lower back injury less than 24 hours earlier in a freak fall at the home he was renting for the week.

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Marchand gets two games for spearing The Boston Bruins are going to be without leading scorer Brad Marchand for the rest of the regular season.

The Bruins forward who has 85 points (39 goals, 46 assists) was suspended two games by the NHL on Thursday for a spearing incident against Tampa Bay defenceman Jake Dotchin in a 4-0 Bruins win on Tuesday.

Boston, which clinched a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs with that win, hosted Ottawa on Thursday night and will wrap up the regular season against Washington on Saturday.

Marchand was given a fiveminute major penalty for spearing and a game misconduct at 19:20 of the first period Tuesday after he lifted his stick with force into Dotchin’s groin area while battling in front of the

Lightning net.

“It was definitely very, very selfish and undisciplined,” Marchand said.

“But you can’t Brad Marchand do anything about it now, GETTY IMAGES and the most important thing is we’re in the playoffs.”

In issuing the suspension the league said in an explanatory video that Marchand’s history affected its decision. Marchand was suspended four times for 12 games total prior to this punishment. He was also fined three times, including $10,000 for slew-footing Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall in January.

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