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Grade 2 student Andrianna Lewis, left, and Grade 1 student Payton Stratichuk sample a sweet treat of maple syrup off the snow during a Carnival d’hiver celebration at École Our Lady of the Rosary Elementary School in Sylvan Lake. The students, staff and parent volunteers took part in a number of winter carnival-themed events including street hockey, dancing, crafts, and other games.

Suspect charged,

held in custody

A 21-year-old Red Deer man is accused of shooting up the down-town RCMP detachment with a replica firearm and allegedly threatening to torch the building.

S h o t s were fired f r o m a p a s s i n g vehicle at the RCMP station at 4602 51st A v e n u e shortly be-fore 4 p.m. o n M o n -day.

T w o second-sto-rey win-d o w s a t t h e d e -tachment were pebbled by the rounds’ impacts but did not shat-ter due to a protective coating.

RCMP said the trouble began with a 3:15 p.m. report that the oc-cupants of a maroon truck were taking potshots at street signs in the Normandeau area. A second call around 3:30 p.m. pegged the location of the truck near the downtown detachment when the two windows were hit.

When the damage was discov-ered, police evacuated the public from the building, and the large windows were checked to make sure they wouldn’t shatter.

BY PAUL COWLEY AND SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

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String of armed robberies nets woman six years in jail

An armed robber who hit four busi-nesses in less than two weeks last spring was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday.

Jennifer Maychak, 35, of Brooks, had earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of armed robbery and one count of attempted robbery during a span from April 18-28, 2015.

Maychak admitted to robbing the Candy Bag Sweet Shop, a Mac’s Conve-nience Store and an Express 24 Food Mart. She also admitted to an attempt-ed, but failed, robbery of a Fas Gas.

During the robberies she was either armed with a screwdriver or a can of bear spray.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald asked Red Deer provincial court Judge Gordon Yake for a sentence of six to eight years, pointing out the robberies

were premeditated and Maychak had weapons and disguised herself.

While no one was injured during the robberies, she was targeting vul-nerable workers at night, she said.

Defence lawyer Paul Morigeau said his client has struggled with drugs most of her life and was high on crystal meth and had barely slept during the time of the robberies.

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Taking out the trash: council to weigh in on cut to bag limit

Residents may soon be taking less trash to the curb.

The Governance and Policy Com-mittee will recommend reducing the maximum residential garbage bag lim-it to three bags from five bags at an upcoming council meeting.

The committee supported admin-istration’s recommendation from the Waste Management Master Plan (WM-MP) on Tuesday.

Mayor Tara Veer said the city had delayed making the change until the

blue-box recycling program was ex-panded.

She said reducing the residential bag limit potentially could have been cost prohibitive for some households without providing the additional diver-sion opportunities.

The city expanded its blue box pro-gram to include the addition of Num-ber 1 to 7 plastics in December 2015.

All of those diversions actually make the bag limit reduction more fea-sible for households, said Veer.


A trash collection truck leaves the Red Deer Waste Management Site after dropping its load Tuesday afternoon. At an upcoming city council meeting, council will hear a recommendation from the The Governance and Policy Committee to reduce the residential garbage bag limit from five bags to three.

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After getting away from its owner this wayward kite flies over the Red Deer Waste Management Site Tuesday afternoon. The man flying the kite lost his grip on it at the off-leash dog park on 40th Avenue. He chased the rogue flyer and found it caught up on a power-line just south of the main entrance to the waste management site where it was flying nicely in a steady breeze.

WAYWARD FLIGHT Auto theft training

for RCMP debuts in Red Deer

About 35 Red Deer RCMP members gathered with officers from around Al-berta and British Columbia for a two-day training session on investigating auto theft in Red Deer on Tuesday.

Hosted by the Insurance Bureau of Canada, it’s the first time Provincial Auto Theft Network (PATNET) train-ing has been available outside the At-lantic region where it began in 2010.

Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod said PATNET will give his officers a chance to network, share strategies and create a more co-ordinated ap-proach to investigating property crime like vehicle theft which has increased significantly over the last three or four years in the city.

Tod said that not only are vehicle owners being victimized, but the ve-hicles are being used to commit other crimes and has raised public safety concerns on the roads.

“When they steal these motor ve-hicles, if we come across them they start to drive erratically. We do our best to ensure public safety and limit any exposure to people being injured through our pursuit policies, but the fact remains once they steal these ve-hicles, they drive differently. The pub-lic’s at risk. They ram police cars so police are at risk,” Tod said on Tues-day.

Dan Service, director of investi-gative services Western and Pacific, for Insurance Bureau of Canada, said even in Central Alberta, auto crime can have an international connection.

“We have vehicles that have been stolen that have not been recovered. The clear suggestion of that would be an organized group, or groups, are op-erating within Alberta and stealing and moving them out of the country,” said Service at Red Deer Sheraton where PATNET training is being held.

He said in 2015 the Insurance Bu-reau of Canada repatriated vehicles from Ghana, Belgium, China, Jamaica and Spain.

And the complexity of the crime is increasing, he said.

“One of the files we investigated in-volved six different vehicles all put to-gether to form a Chrysler 300. We iden-tified that vehicle right down to the seatbelts as to which cars they came from,” Service said.

Guy Ouellette, auto theft investiga-tor with Insurance Bureau of Canada from Nova Scotia, said people can help make it more difficult for vehicles to disappear by locking their vehicles, not leaving keys in the ignition, and not hiding any spare keys.

He said new vehicles are also hard-er to steal.

But he said the thieves work quick.“If they are stolen for the interna-

tional market, within a day they are already away from Canada.”

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

Hospital still cancelling surgeries due to flood

Surgeries continue to be cancelled at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre where flooding closed five out of nine operating rooms on March 1.

Alberta Health Services Central Zone said as of Monday, 136 surgical procedures have been rescheduled since a construction-related flood on the second floor poured down into the

main floor operating rooms.Only urgent and emergency surger-

ies continue at the hospital.Operating rooms still in use are

three theatres used for general sur-gery and a smaller operating room that has always and will continue to be used only for urology surgery.

Normally, an average of 48 surger-ies per day are performed at the hos-pital.

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Aquatic centres hosting Earth Hour swims

Residents are encouraged to turn the lights off at home and head to the Dawe or Collicutt pools for the annual Earth Hour Swim on March 19.

Both the Collicutt Centre and G.H. Dawe aquatic centres will flick off just enough lights to create a fun atmosphere and conserve energy while ensuring a safe recreation environment. For only $2 per person, individuals and families are encouraged to drop in between 8 and 10 p.m. and join the movement that encourages individuals, communities and businesses to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances for one hour worldwide.

Matthew Chambers, a city Environmental Program Specialist, said not only is it a symbol of doing

our part to reduce energy and emissions, but now more than ever it’s an important concept to take just 60 minutes to turn off the TV, the tablet and even the cell phone and simply enjoy the moment.

In addition to the pools at the Dawe and Collicutt, the city will turn off non-essential power on Saturday night in an effort to build on the success of past Earth Hours.

Last year Red Deer saw a 6.77 per cent decrease in power during Earth Hour compared to the same time the previous week.

For more information on Earth Hour, visit reddeer.ca/environment or earthhour.org.

Man stabbed in Riverside Meadows

A 24-year-old man is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after he was stabbed in Riverside Meadows on Tuesday afternoon.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the area near 60th Street and 58th Avenue after Red Deer Emergency Services were called to help the victim.

He was taken to hospital for treatment for what police believe are non-life-threatening injuries.

The victim was conscious and

verbal when police arrived. The victim did not co-operate with police and did not provide any details on the suspect.

If you have any information about this incident, please contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

Property assessment appeals due March 21

Property owners must submit their property assessment appeal no later than March 21.

If property owners believe there is an error on their assessment notice, they should contact Revenue & As-sessment Services at 403-342-8126 and arrange an appointment to speak with an assessor.

If concerns cannot be resolved fol-lowing a conversation with an asses-sor, a formal appeal must be submitted to the Clerk of the Regional Assess-ment Review Board.

Revenue & Assessment Services is located on the fourth floor of City Hall at 4914 48 Avenue. The Clerk of the Regional Assessment Review Board is located on the second floor of City Hall (4914 48 Avenue). Mail should be addressed to Box 5008, Red Deer, Al-berta, T4N 3T4.

Visit www.reddeer.ca/assessment.

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EDMONTON — When Bret Mc-Cann last saw his parents nearly six years ago, they had their motorhome packed and parked in the driveway and seemed excited to be leaving the next day on a camping trip to British Columbia.

McCann testified Tuesday that he played some pool with his father in the basement of their home in St. Al-bert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton, on July 2, 2010. His wife and mother, after checking out some garage sales, came home with a bucket of fried chicken for supper.

McCann said his parents, in their late 70s, had been avid campers for de-cades but had recently stopped their winter trips to the United States be-cause of increasing health insurance costs. They were eager to get back out on the road, he said.

They were going to meet other fami-ly and deliver a present to one of their great-grandchildren in Vancouver.

“They were looking forward to their trip,” McCann told the judge hearing the first-degree murder trial of Travis Vader.

“I think they were kind of pumped … quite positive.”

Lyle and Marie McCann were last seen on surveillance video the next morning getting groceries and fuelling up their motorhome at a Superstore in St. Albert. Three days later, their RV was found on fire about 200 kilometres away near Minnow Lake west of Ed-monton. An SUV they had been towing was found on a nearby rural property about a week later.

Their bodies have never been found.

Vader, 44, has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of the couple.

The Crown is arguing that Vader, once an oilpatch worker who support-ed a wife and seven children, had be-come a crystal meth user who was liv-ing in makeshift camps and was want-ed by police on warrants.

The defence has told the judge that evidence will point to other suspects and there’s not enough proof the Mc-Canns are really dead.

Legal experts say that there’s often a slow piecing together of evidence in murder cases with no bodies to prove a criminal death and rule out other possibilities. Those could include the alleged victims wanting to start a new life somewhere or committing suicide.

Bret McCann, the oldest of the cou-ple’s three children, testified that his parents were active and healthy. His father, a retired long-haul trucker, had some heart and vision problems. His mother’s fingers had become twisted with arthritis and her memory “was starting to slip a bit.”

McCann recalled his dad playing card games such as Rummoli with his mom to try to keep her mind sharp. He also said his dad was in great shape and had recently scrambled up on his roof to cut a tree branch.

His parents did own some guns, he said. His father had four rifles and shotguns, used years earlier for hunt-ing ducks and gophers, and his mother kept a small Derringer pistol by her bedside after she caught a man looking in their window.

The couple never took the guns on camping trips, McCann said, and they were all found in his parents’ home after they vanished.

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EDMONTON — Alberta has intro-duced legislation to expand the right to strike for about 150,000 public-sec-tor employees.

Labour Minister Christina Gray said Tuesday the legislation would bring Alberta into compliance with a Su-preme Court ruling last year.

“It is intended to balance the inter-ests of employers and employees while protecting public health and safety,” Gray told reporters after Bill 4 was in-troduced in the legislature.

“At the end of the day we want to ensure labour disputes are resolved in a timely manner with as little impact on the public as possible.”

Alberta traditionally has banned strikes and lockouts involving pub-lic-sector workers, but the Supreme Court ruled that the right to strike is a fundamental right for unionized em-ployees.

The bill sets out parameters for strikes while keeping essential ser-vices going in areas such as health and police services.

It supports the right to strike for all employees of government, Alber-ta Health Services, agencies, boards, commissions and non-academic staff at post-secondary institutions.

Nurses, paramedics, and correction-al officers would be allowed to strike, but police and firefighters would not.

Police and firefighters will continue to use binding arbitration to resolve impasses in bargaining.

Teachers already have the right to strike.

Under the bill, workers who can strike must first negotiate an agree-ment with the government on the con-ditions of any job action so that essen-tial services could be maintained and public health and safety not threat-ened.

The government would bring in third-party “umpires” to help if both sides can’t reach such an agreement. Those umpires would also rule on any disputes once the deal is reached.

Notley signals small business tax cut coming


EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is signalling that a tax break for small business owners may be coming in the budget.

Notley made the comment Tues-day when asked by reporters about a proposal by the opposition Wildrose party to lower the small business tax from three per cent to two per cent to help out an economy reeling from the plunge in oil prices.

The premier declined to rule out a tax cut.

“On the issue of the small business tax, I would suggest that we simply all stay tuned for the budget.”

The 2016-17 budget will be present-ed by Finance Minister Joe Ceci on April 14.

Ceci and Notley have already said it will have new measures to create jobs and diversify and economy, which has seen more than 80,000 job losses due to the collapse in oil prices.

Ceci has already said the budget is expected to include a $10.4-billion deficit.

The province has already an-nounced close to $2 billion in loan and investment incentives to help new ventures take off and small and medi-um-sized businesses grow and diver-sify.

Earlier Tuesday, Wildrose Lead-er Brian released his team’s 12-point plan to create jobs.

He pointed out that at three per cent, Alberta’s small business tax rate is the highest among the four western provinces.

British Columbia is at 2.5 per cent, Saskatchewan is at two per cent and Manitoba is zero.

The Wildrose estimates that a one-percentage-point drop in the small business tax rate would return a high-end estimate of $150 million to busi-nesses and the economy.

The party said the tax break could replace the NDP’s job creation plan that was announced last year but is now on hold.

That plan would have spent $178 million over two years to fund a por-tion of salaries for new private sector hires up to $5,000 per person.

The NDP had promised the program

would start in 2016 and create 27,000 jobs.

The Wildrose also pitched drawing down more than $1 billion from the Workers’ Compensation Board trea-sury to give employers a temporary break on WCB premiums during the downturn.

The Wildrose said the WCB has about $10.2 billion in its funds against $7.5 billion in liabilities.

Jean said drawing down $1 billion or so would still leave the WCB within its mandated savings zone.

The plan would be to cut premiums in half for the first 100 workers in a company and have no premiums for new employees.

“They will be hired to encourage new employees,” said Jean.

“We feel there’s about 3 ½ year’s worth of surplus funds that are avail-able to lower the tax burden on small businesses.”

Notley mocked the plan, saying while the Wildrose didn’t want the NDP to give $5,000 to hire new employ-ees, it’s OK with giving employers an equivalent amount of WCB money, if not more, with no strings attached.

Son recalls last supper with missing seniors

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Lyle and Marie McCann are shown in an undated handout photo.

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In the lineup of great human en-deavours, sport often muscles in where it doesn’t seem to belong.

How does winning a national vol-leyball title (as the Red Deer College Kings have just done), hosting a Memo-rial Cup in Red Deer in May or even being awarded the Canada Winter Games measure up against life-chang-ing medical discoveries, remarkable works of art, extraordinary engineer-ing feats, or heroic acts of compassion and selflessness?

Sport is a beacon to a healthier life-style, and certainly provides inspiring examples of the strength of individual spirit.

Sporting achievements and the ef-fort to host events increasingly draw our attention. We are intent on divert-ing public money and human resourc-es toward events and venues for sports, large and small.

Red Deer will host the Canada Win-

ter Games in February-March 2019, and a great deal of work is underway to make the event a success. The first steps, to win hosting rights, were taken by volunteers and community lead-ers. The next steps will be taken by a professional team, with yet more help from volunteers, while planners and tradespeople build or renovate the necessary venues.

Millions of dollars will be spent.Principal among the new venues is

a health and wellness centre at Red Deer College that will cost about $88 million. That money is coming from several sources, including government, corporate and private donors, and the college’s students association.

This is a long-overdue teaching fa-cility for an institution aggressively trying to gain degree-granting status. But first, it will be the site of events for the Canada Winter Games. Why do people care that much?

When you are cheering for your favourite team (even the perennially pathetic Edmonton Oilers, say), little else seems to matter. We are heart-bro-ken when an athlete stumbles. We are euphoric when an athlete excels de-spite long odds. When the Brazil Olym-pic Games roll around in August, we will commit to memory the names and

feats of athletes we hadn’t heard of two weeks before.

We will celebrate the fact that, in-creasingly, sports in general and the Olympic movement in particular have knocked down the barriers to sexual and cultural inequality.

And we will be unabashedly un-apologetic about our obsession with all things sporting.

When the World Cup of Hockey takes centre stage in September in To-ronto, we will be patriotic to a fault. Like the Olympic Games, a simple hockey tournament will become the gauge by which many nations, not the least of which is Canada, measure na-tional well-being.

We go about our lives looking for in-spiration and distraction, purpose and contentment, health and vigour.

And part of that is to be reminded, as often as possible, what the commit-ted human can do, what the healthy body can achieve, and what the collec-tive spirit can imagine.

We want to find lessons we can ap-ply to the most mundane of lives, to give us direction, structure and reason. At the very least, we need a little jolt once in a while that takes us to the completion of a task.

We want to see our favourite ath-

letes redouble their efforts in the face of adversity and succeed. We want them to exert their superiority when it’s obvious, or thrive against all odds. Because that’s how we want to see our-selves.

That’s how we want to see our com-munities and our province and our na-tion: exceptional in any circumstances. That’s what we see as the best in the human condition, Canadian style: the ability to shrug off disappointment and push on.

On the local level, having the RDC Kings win a national title helps to il-luminate the institution’s quest for excellence, in academics and sports. Earning the right to host the Canada Winter Games gives Red Deer an im-mediate tourism and economic boost, and will provide it with a legacy of public facilities — and the opportunity to come together as a community with a common goal.

If all of that helps a community or a nation to flex its muscles, and individ-uals to be healthy and engaged, then sport has served our endeavours well.

Troy Media columnist John Stewart is a born and bred Albertan who doesn’t drill for oil, ranch or drive a pickup truck – although all of those things have played a role in his past.

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JOHNSTEWART

Our passion for sports unifies us

BY MICHAEL TAUBESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Canadians have watched the wild, crazy and circus-like political at-mosphere in the U.S. with great

amusement.Many of us are floored at the pros-

pect of businessman Donald Trump becoming the Republican Party nom-inee over well-established politicians like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. We’re also surprised that former First Lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having so much trouble winning the Democratic Party nomination over Vermont Senator Ber-nie Sanders, a 74-year-old “democratic socialist.”

Yet in the midst of this amusement over the turmoil in one of the world’s great democracies, we’re missing the big picture. Our nation should be spending far less time laughing and a great deal more time thinking about the future of Canada-U.S. trade rela-tions.

Barring any unforeseen mishaps, Trump and Clinton will most likely be the presidential nominees of their respective parties. Who would be the

best choice to manage the U.S. econ-omy? Although Trump often pays lip service to the glory of capitalism, many observers believe Clinton would be the safer choice.

Here’s one example.Barron’s executive editor John

Kimelman wrote on March 7 that, “Clinton is the more investor-friendly of the two.” He notes that “[w]e are not endorsing Hillary Clinton for pres-ident of the United States,” and “[n]or are we saying that she would be the best president for investors from among the current crop of candidates.” Regardless, this free market oriented publication believes, “Clinton’s mod-erate political instincts and left-center policy goals suggest a president who wouldn’t stand in the way of the finan-cial markets.”

As for Trump, Kimelman acknowl-edges that his “tax-cutting initiatives could potentially help both the econ-omy and markets.” At the same time, the controversial businessman’s “tax cuts coupled with his adamant refus-al to address ballooning entitlement costs, such as medicare and social se-curity, would expand the national debt to the breaking point.”

Here’s something else to think

about.Trump’s call for “heavy tariffs

against China,” wrote Kimelman, “could cause a trade war that would devastate the world economy.” As he mentions, Barron’s wrote last fall that “Trump’s tariff plans were reminis-cent of the protectionist policies of the 1920s and early 1930s that plunged us into the Great Depression.”

This should worry Canadians, at least on the surface.

Trump has been more solidly in the camp of fair trade over free trade for many years. (He went as far to use the unusual term “free and fair trade” in his 2011 book, Time to Get Tough.) He said, “I think NAFTA has been a di-saster. I think our current deals are a disaster” on CNN in June 2015. He also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership a “… horrible deal … that is going to lead to nothing but trouble” during last November’s Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate.

The U.S. has long been a major trad-ing partner for Canada. The success of these trade agreements and proposals directly involve and affect our coun-try’s economy, too.

Trump’s positions on the campaign hustings aren’t conducive to maintain-

ing healthy Canada-U.S. trade rela-tions. In contrast, Clinton’s opposition to big business and capitalism has been, at this stage, more rhetorical than harmful.

Now, could Trump change some or all of his positions before the presi-dential election? Of course. He’s flip-flopped on so many political and eco-nomic policies in the past it would on-ly make sense that he keeps following this pattern.

Then again, maybe he won’t.This sort of energetic nationalist

fervor against international trade and the loss of American jobs appeals to Trump’s broad base of supporters, in-cluding right-leaning isolationists as well as traditional working class Dem-ocrats. For those of us who believe in the free market economy, trade liber-alization and private enterprise, this type of backward economic thinking is extremely troubling.

Just some food for thought for Cana-dians who can’t stop laughing at Amer-ica’s political landscape.

Troy Media columnist and politi-cal commentator Michael Taube was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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“I’m not going so good,” sighs the 42-year-old Strang. “Anyways … I’m just giving up on life.”

The first detailed profile of home-less people across the country shows that stories like Strang’s are common on Canadian streets: Addiction, phys-ical health, mental health and family strife push people into poverty and homelessness — and, in many cases, are what keeps them there.

Thunder Bay is ground zero, a place where all the elements of homeless-ness come together in a frightening storm that led to 17 deaths on the street last year alone.

New numbers, part of a federally organized “point-in-time” census of homeless people, show the problem is at its worst in Thunder Bay, and that addiction is the No. 1 cause, followed by mental health issues and family strife.

Addiction pops up in other cities, including three in New Brunswick: In Saint John, 15 per cent of those surveyed in the federally organized point-in-time count said addiction was the reason they were homeless, sit-ting third behind family conflict or do-mestic abuse (32 per cent) and having spent time in jail (17 per cent).

In Moncton, addiction was again the third most common cause cited at 19 per cent, with family conflict at 45 per cent. Fredericton was the exception: There, family conflict came in at 36 per cent, job loss at 15 per cent and illness at 12 per cent.

In other words, the broken beer bot-tles along Thunder Bay’s waterfront park are more a sign of the norm, rath-er than the exception.

And when they can’t get — or can’t afford — alcohol, they turn to alterna-tives.

“I’m not going to lie to you. I drank mouthwash, hand sanitizer, hair spray, sometimes straight out of the bottle, too,” says Clayton Mawakeesick, who is now part of what’s known as a harm-re-duction program in Thunder Bay.

Instead of drinking non-beverage alcohol — or “babash juice,” as it’s known in Ojibway slang in Thunder Bay — Mawakeesick consumes six ounces of wine every 90 minutes as part of the program in order to manage his addiction and keep him healthier than he was before.

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Bessie Strang pauses as she tells her story while sitting with other homeless friends, Friday, March 4, 2016 in Thunder Bay, Ont.


THUNDER BAY, Ont. — The smash of a plate breaks up Brandon Meredith’s train of thought.

The 19-year-old looks over at the source of the sound, just like the dozens of others in the cafeteria of Thunder Bay’s largest homeless shel-ter. Shelter House can feed up to 200 people at lunch and then again at dinner daily — Meredith is usually here for both.

The meals at the shelter, Meredith says, ensure he can spend less on groceries “until you’re fully capable of it and you can just live off of here. It’s free, it’s open for anybody.”

Meredith and his companion Clairissa Cole, 16 — Cole will only say she ran away from home because of “personal parenting problems” — don’t know where they see them-selves in five or 10 years. Meredith talks about getting enough welfare money to pay rent and eventually save up enough to get out of Thunder Bay.

The raucous benches give a glimpse into how many people in this city cannot afford to feed them-selves easily. Some come in through the back door with empty margarine tubs, taking food to go. They walk into the cold night air without gloves or a warm hat, but a warm meal in hand.

Donations of food are always needed — not Kraft Dinner, there’s more than enough of that in the pan-try — because it’s not just Thunder Bay’s homeless who need a meal.

Ron Rogalski from the city’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day

Saints says he has relatives who are seasonal workers who sometimes de-pend on the soup kitchen for food.

Will there ever be a day when he and other church members won’t have to volunteer their time to pre-pare meals for homeless people? Ro-galski doubts it.

“Some of them, I get the feeling that might be the only meal that they’re going to have for the day,” he says.

“We’re happy to do the work. It gives us a lot of joy, so whatever the circumstances are, you know, we just roll with everything here.”

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The success of the program over the past four years, and similar programs in places like Ottawa, have led local officials to look into opening a super-vised injection site similar to Insite in Vancouver that could replace the bags of clean syringes, filters, alcohol swabs, and cookers — used for smok-ing crack cocaine — the city’s largest shelter hands out regularly.

The preferred drug of the moment is a cycle not unlike a ferris wheel: one rises to the top, and then another takes its place, says Dr. Stephen Hwang, one of the country’s top researchers on homeless health from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.

Fentanyl is on everyone’s minds, the cause of a high number of deaths with lawmakers scrambling to get it under control. Before that it was Oxy-contin, a prescription painkiller that led to break-ins at pharmacies.

Other common street drugs in use include morphine, its synthetic equiv-alent, Dilaudid, and other prescription painkillers.

North America is one of the biggest prescribers of painkillers, with Ontar-io one of the highest on the continent and Thunder Bay highest in Ontario, says Dr. Ella Goodman from the city’s NorWest Community Health Centre.

“Unfortunately, there’s always some diversion of medications as well too, meaning that the people that are sup-posed to be taking the medications in the way it’s prescribed — it’s not hap-pening.”

Research into the homeless popula-tion has shown they frequent emergen-cy rooms for help, have worse health outcomes than the general population and can have multiple health issues at one time like the 54 per cent of home-less people in Vancouver who report-ed so last year.

In Toronto, a street survey from 2013 found “homeless people are fre-quent users of health and treatment services,” including emergency room visits. In Hamilton, the point-in-time count showed 38 per cent of homeless people reported a chronic health con-dition, double the number in the over-all Canadian population.

While the health problems may seem self-evident, the new research shows that they are also intractable.

Hwang says there hasn’t been a dramatic change in the health of the homeless population over the past five to 10 years even though they have more access to health care.

In some cases, people like Strang avoid hospitals and doctors entirely. Strang, who says she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, says she’ll go to the hospital when she wants to.

There’s an additional layer to Strang’s case that is common across the country: she is aboriginal, a group various studies say makes up one-third

or more of that national homeless population. In Thunder Bay it is it 73 per cent, according to the most recent homeless survey, the first of its kind in the city’s history.

They may carry with them the trau-ma of residential school experiences, or carry “inter-generational trauma” by virtue of being the children of sur-vivors, becoming cut off from services and ending up homeless, says Brad King, the operations manager at Thun-der Bay’s largest shelter, known as Shelter House.

Strang says she went to the Poplar Hill residential school in northern On-tario. She stops at the recounting of a memory and breathes heavily. She removes her glasses and wipes tears from her eyes. She says she thinks some days about hanging herself or overdosing.

Those who leave their reserves to be closer to schools, hospitals and po-tential jobs head to cities like Thun-der Bay, Winnipeg, Edmonton and

Vancouver, hoping for a better life. Once in the city, they are cut off from the supports they have back home. A 2014 review of research into aboriginal homelessness in Canada found some homeless aboriginals use reserves as an economic safety net, returning when they run into financial hardships in the city.

And some see no reason to leave the city, even if they are living on the street.

Some people go back home, then end up back in Thunder Bay and get “stuck again” and wind up back at the shelter, says Hazel Cripps, an Ojibway from Eagle Lake First Nation in On-tario.

“I would never move back to my re-serve,” Cripps says. “There’s nothing there for me.”

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OTTAWA — Key figures on shelter usage and homelessness from Canadi-an communities:

33: Percentage of shelter users in Kelowna in 2014 who were aboriginal

12.3: Percentage of shelter users in Peel Region who are immigrants

18.6: Percentage of women ex-periencing episodic homelessness in Prince George, a higher percentage than men — an anomaly in most com-munities outside the North

17: Number of homeless deaths in Thunder Bay in 2015

3,016: Number of homeless people in Montreal, based on a 2015 count of the homeless population

77: Percentage of homeless people in Hamilton who said they didn’t have enough money to pay for housing

45: Percentage of people in Monc-ton, N.B., who said they were home-less because of family conflict or do-mestic abuse.

Source: National Homelessness In-formation System, Lakehead Social Planning Council, City of Montreal, City of Hamilton, Saint John Human Devel-opment Council

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Hazel Cripps, an Ojibway from Eagle Lake First Nation in Ontario, consoles homeless friend Evelyn at the Shelter House, Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Stabbing suspect cited Allah: policeBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A man who allegedly said Allah instructed him to kill was charged Tuesday with stabbing and wounding two uniformed soldiers at a north Toronto military recruitment centre a day earlier.

While investigators were probing possible terror links, the city’s police chief said there didn’t appear to be any connection to terrorist groups, al-though it seemed the man had deliber-ately targeted military personnel.

“To date, there is nothing to indi-cate the accused is working with any-one or in concert with any organiza-tion,” Chief Mark Saunders said. “It will take some time to have a complete picture.”

The incident occurred mid-after-

noon Monday, when a man walked into the government building that houses a Canadian Armed Forces recruitment centre on the ground floor.

He walked into the office with a “large knife” in hand and began strik-ing a uniformed master corporal, who fell to the ground, Saunders said. The soldier was able to get to his feet, at which point the suspect slashed his right arm.

As military personnel moved civil-ians to safety, investigators said the man tried and failed to slash a female soldier before other soldiers were able to subdue him and hold him for police. Another military member was injured as the suspect was apprehend-ed.

Court documents identified the vic-tims of the attack as Ryan Kong, Jesus Castillo and Tracy Ann Gerhardt.

“While at the scene, the accused stated that ‘Al-lah told me to do this Allah told me to come here and kill people,”’ Saun-ders said.

F o l l o w i n g the arrest, the accused became “ n o n - r e s p o n -sive,” Saunders said, meaning he refused to answer any po-lice questions.

Two soldiers needed treat-ment for minor injuries.

Police named the suspect as Mon-treal-born Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27, who

moved to Toronto in 2011. At one point, they also spelled his first name as Ayanie, but offered no explanation for the mistake.

Ali was charged with a total of nine counts, according to court documents: three attempted murder, two aggra-vated assault, three assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.

The accused hung his head and looked down at the floor for most of a brief court appearance Tuesday, say-ing his name quietly when asked to do so. He was remanded until Friday.

“He just seems very scared right now and of course very, very unhap-py to be in the position he finds him-self in today,” his lawyer, David Burke, said outside court. “It’s a very, very difficult situation.”

AYANLE HASSAN ALI


OTTAWA — The federal Conserva-tives are calling on the Trudeau gov-ernment to make a serious effort to recover up to $72 million in overpay-ments to contractors, many of them in the defence industry.

Procurement critic Steven Blaney says the Liberals owe it to taxpayers to recover the money and to diligently reform the system along the lines of an independent report that was originally commissioned by the Harper govern-ment.

“On cost recovery, we started this process and we expect the government to get serious and recover money ow-ing to taxpayers,” Blaney said Tues-day.

A series of internal audits have found that Ottawa is routinely over-charged by its contractors — to the tune of tens of millions of dollars — in a practice that has been going on for decades.

NDP defence critic Randall Garri-son set his sights on both the Liberals and the Conservatives, saying the sys-tem has been mismanaged.

“It’s the responsibility of the gov-ernment to ensure that Canadians get value for money on procurement,” Gar-rison said in an email Tuesday.

Trudeau faces tough campaign Canada seeking UN Security Council seat


OTTAWA — The Liberal govern-ment faces a longer, tougher election campaign, this one worldwide, if it wants to win a UN Security Council seat, say the people who helped Cana-da win its last bid.

It’s not enough for Canada to be “back,” the government needs a plat-form outlining what it wants to accom-plish on the world stage and it has to make up for a decade of UN neglect under the previous Conservative gov-ernment, they say.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce Wednesday in New York

that Canada plans to seek a non-per-manent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

Trudeau will be meeting Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, whom he host-ed last month in Ottawa. That’s when Trudeau first mentioned the plan to seek a council seat. Canada lost its last bid for a seat in 2010 after a string of six terms on the council dating back to the late 1940s.

It is not clear when Canada could seek a new term, because the slate of candidates in the UN’s Western and European and Others Group, to which Canada belongs, is full until at least 2020.

But campaigns for the council typi-

cally take years and involve much dip-lomatic horse-trading, something the previous Harper government consid-ered to be a compromise.

“It’s important to have an agenda, so you’re giving people a reason to elect you,” said Paul Heinbecker, Can-ada’s ambassador to the UN during its last stint on the council in 1999-2000. “It’s not enough to say we’re Can-ada and we’re nice and we’re back and therefore elect us.”

Trudeau doesn’t have to do that Wednesday in New York, Heinbecker said, but his government has to soon “create a platform, because it is an election.”

Government looks at improving review of border agency


OTTAWA — The Liberal govern-ment says it is looking for ways to improve scrutiny of Canada’s border agency amid mounting calls to create an independent watchdog for the orga-nization.

The office of Public Safety Minis-ter Ralph Goodale said Tuesday the government “is examining how best to provide the Canada Border Services

Agency with appropriate review mech-anisms.”

The statement came as civil rights groups and refugee lawyers decried the second death of someone in the border agency’s custody in less than a week.

The agency holds people who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public and those whose identities cannot be confirmed.

In 2013-14, it detained 10,088 immi-grants — almost one-fifth of them ref-

ugee claimants — in a variety of facili-ties, including federal holding centres and provincial and municipal jails.

On March 7, the border services agency was notified by the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Cor-rectional Services that an individual in immigration detention at the Toron-to East Detention Centre had died.

On Sunday, the border agency was advised by the Ontario ministry that a person detained at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex had died.

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The truck’s driver was soon identi-fied and with help from the public po-lice tracked the vehicle to the Bower subdivision. Two men and two women were taken into custody after a “high-risk arrest” near Boyce Street and Be-atty Crescent about 4 p.m.

Police took all four into custody and recovered a BB pistol believed to have been used to fire the shots.

Cory Daniel Picard has been charged with using an imitation fire-arm in the commission of an offence, possession of a weapon for a danger-ous purpose, mischief damage to prop-erty over $5,000, and uttering threats.

RCMP said he was alone in the back seat of the truck. The driver and two other passengers were released without charges but the investigation continues.

Picard made his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday morning. Dressed in blue prison cov-eralls, the messy-haired man listened attentively as the charges were read.

After the court clerk read the last charge, for uttering threats in connec-tion with an accusation that he told a police officer he wanted to burn down the detachment, Picard was asked if he understood.

“Yes, can I say something about it?” he started before Judge Gordon Yake cut him off and told him to listen to the proceedings.

Duty counsel Amna Qureshi told the judge that Picard is under the le-gal adult guardianship of his mother. Guardians are given legal authority to make decisions on behalf of someone who may not be capable themselves.

While Picard’s mother was not pres-ent on Tuesday, she will be involved in all future legal decisions involving her son.

The case was adjourned until March 22 when a hearing may be held to de-termine if Picard will be released on conditions.

Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod called the shooting a dangerous and serious event even though it turned out that the weapon was allegedly a BB pistol.

Morigeau pointed out that she had no prior criminal record and took re-sponsibility for the robberies after she was caught by police.

Standing a little over five-feet-tall (1.5 m), Maychak is hardly imposing and made no effort to use the screw-driver or bear spray during the robber-ies, said Morigeau.

She only made a few hundred dol-lars from the crimes, some of which was shared with an accomplice in at least one case.

“These were very unsophisticated crimes,” said Morigeau, who sought a sentence in the two- to four-year range.

Maychak expressed her remorse for her crimes.

“I’m not a career criminal,” she told the judge. “What I did was really wrong. I’m living the repercussions.

“I’m not a big threat to anybody but myself.”

Yake sentenced Maychak to three years in prison on each of the armed robbery charges, one of which is to be served concurrently. The attempted robbery charge netted a one-year con-current sentence.

She was given 51 days credit for previous jail time, leaving her with a five-years and 314 days to serve. She must provide a sample of her DNA to a national database and faces weap-ons prohibitions when she gets out of prison.

Janet Whitesell, the city’s waste management superintendent, said the average household sets out 1.8 bags of waste per week.

She said some households may have more garbage at certain times of year.

The change is about encouraging the use of its diversion programs and moving towards the waste reduction targets, she said.

“It’s achievable with our diversion programs and what we observe what our residents are doing at the moment, ” she said. “The five bag limit was nev-er intended to always stay at five. It was always something that was in our plans and discussions.”

A 2011 survey indicated that 53 per cent of residents would support lower-ing the weekly limit. Of those respon-dents, 57 per cent supported a

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ROBBERY: Crimes unsophisticated

TRASH: Average is 1.8 bags weekly

“We’re seeing a lot of these replica weapons used in offences. The disturb-ing thing is that they resemble a real firearm and it’s very hard for officers to make that call whether it’s a repli-ca or not. We don’t have the luxury to make that analysis when faced with it,” Tod said.

He said the shooting was still a threat to the community.

“It’s a threat to the police office and the public that’s in the police office. Thankfully the glass didn’t shatter and didn’t drop on anybody. I’m just very proud of my members, how quickly we apprehended them,” Tod said.

As an isolated incident, residents shouldn’t be too concerned, he said.

three-bag limit; 23 per cent support a two-bag limit and 20 per cent support a four-bag limit.

Findings from the 2013 WMMP pub-lic consultation suggests 77 per cent of residents were in support of lowering the bag limit when linked to increasing the types of plastics accepted in the blue box program.

The bag reduction is part of the city’s overall strategy to reduce Red Deer’s per capita disposal rate to 500 kg per capita by 2023.

Nearly 75,000 tonnes of waste from Red Deer was disposed at the Red Deer Waste Management Facility in 2011, the most current data. That trans-lates to 812 kg per capita. By compari-son, the Canadian average is 777 kg per capita, and the Alberta average is 1,122 kg per capita.

Council will debate the recommen-dation in the coming weeks. If it passes three readings, the service change may go into effect as of April 25.

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Trump wins Florida, loses OhioBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump scored victories Tuesday in three states, including the big-prize Florida, but lost Ohio to the state’s governor, John Kasich, as the billionaire con-tinued to move ahead in his stunning campaign for the Republican presi-dential nomination. Hillary Clinton won at least three states, dealing a se-vere blow to Bernie Sanders’ bid to slow her march toward the Democratic nomination.

Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who staked his once-promising cam-paign on winning in his home state, dropped out of the presidential race shortly after the polls closed. That leaves Kasich as the last true estab-lishment candidate running against Trump and arch-conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Trump, the brash and controver-sial reality TV star, has upended Re-publican politics by winning most of the state-by-state competitions for delegates who will choose the party’s nominee. He has seized on Americans’ anger with Washington politicians, dis-comfort with immigration and fears of terrorism, attracting voters with his blunt talk and simply worded promise to make America great again.

Tuesday’s votes in five states had been viewed as a pivotal moment in the Republican presidential cam-paign. For the first time, two states — Ohio and Florida — had winner-take-all contests. A Trump sweep could have given him an insurmountable lead in the delegate count.

Trump won the biggest prize — all 99 Florida delegates — as well as win-ning North Carolina and Illinois, and

was locked in a tight race with Cruz in Missouri. He told a victory rally in Florida, “This was an amazing night.”

But Kasich’s win, capturing all of Ohio’s 66 delegates, was crucial to keeping alive the hopes of mainstream Republicans trying to stop Trump.

While Trump had amassed the most delegates going into Tuesday, he’s won

fewer than 50 per cent of them. If that pace continues, he would fall short of the majority that he would need to as-sure him the nomination at the party’s convention in July. The result could be a contested convention, creating an unpredictable outcome.

This was the first victory for Kasich, whose upbeat message and long re-

cord of government service has had little resonance as his rivals seized on voters’ anxiety and disdain for Wash-ington. While he could benefit from Rubio dropping out, he remains an extreme longshot for the nomination, though he could help keep Trump be-low the 50 per cent threshold.

Cruz said at a Houston rally that the battle for the Republican presidential nomination battle was a “two-person race” between himself and Trump. He did not mention Kasich by name.

Trump now has 619 delegates. Cruz has 394, Kasich 136 and Rubio left the race with 167. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

In the Democratic race, Clinton’s victories in Florida and North Caroli-na were expected, but Sanders, a Ver-mont senator and self-described dem-ocratic socialist, had hoped to take the industrial state of Ohio, which Clin-ton won. He has criticized the former secretary of state for her past support for trade deals. Sanders is unlikely to overtake Clinton in the delegate count, but his victory last week in Michigan underscored the unease that many party voters have about her candidacy.

Clinton narrowly led in Illinois, while Sanders was slightly ahead in Missouri.

With her wins Tuesday, Clinton put herself in a commanding position to become the first woman in U.S. history to win a major party nomination.

Overall, Clinton has at least 1,488 total delegates including superdele-gates, who are elected officials and party leaders free to support the can-didate of their choice. Sanders has at least 704 delegates when the count in-cludes superdelegates. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday.

Manitoba court grants wish for doctor’s aid in death

WINNIPEG — Manitoba has become the latest province to have a court grant a patient the right to die with the help of a doctor.

Chief Justice Glenn Joyal made the ruling after a hearing Tuesday during which the patient’s application was unopposed. Joyal also granted a request not to identify the patient or any health-care professionals involved.

“The applicant has satisfied the court that the applicant is competent to request physician-assisted death,” Joyal said. “The applicant clearly consents to the termination of life … and has a grievous, irremediable medical condition that causes the applicant enduring suffering that is

intolerable.”The Supreme Court last year struck

down a law that prohibited medical aid in dying. In January, it gave the federal government more time to craft new legislation, but said anyone who wants an assisted death sooner can apply to a judge.

Neither the patient nor any of the patient’s family was in court. The patient issued a written statement following the ruling indicating peace with the decision to die.

Notley promises changes to remove secrecy around future

NDP fundraisersEDMONTON — Alberta Premier

Rachel Notley says her party is making changes to avoid the appearance of secrecy around future fundraisers.

Notley said Tuesday she will act on recommendations made by ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler and ensure future events are well advertised and made known to the public.

Trussler has cleared Notley and the NDP of allegations they violated conflict-of-interest rules at two events last month.

One was a Feb. 23 fundraiser at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. The main ticket cost $250 and was advertised on the party’s website.

But some donors were phoned or emailed and invited to a smaller pre-fundraising event that promised one-on-one access to Notley and her ministers for an extra $750. The add-on never went ahead after Trussler launched her investigation.

The ethics commissioner said the structure of the fundraiser was OK, but both events should have been advertised on the NDP website.

“The perception that only a chosen few are being invited is best avoided,” Trussler wrote in her report.

Alberta MLA first denies, then admits to flipping bird

in house at oppositionEDMONTON — A backbench NDP

member has apologized to the Alberta legislature for making an obscene ges-ture at an opposition member and then for misleading the house when he was caught.

“I made an inappropriate gesture to members opposite, which I regret and for which I apologize,” Michael

Connolly, the member for Calgary Hawkwood, said Tuesday morning in the chamber.

“My actions were not befitting of this chamber and the dignity herein.”

It was last Thursday during heated debate over the government’s jobs pol-icy that the Wildrose Opposition said Connolly “flipped the bird” in their direction.

Connolly initially denied it at the time, saying he was just waving his hand.

But he admitted to it Tuesday af-ter a table officer in the house later reported he saw Connolly make the gesture.

“When this matter was raised at the time I sought to minimize the matter instead of taking full responsibility,” Connolly told the house Tuesday.

“To be clear, my actions were not acceptable, and my apology and expla-nation were not good enough.”

Outside the house, Connolly told reporters he made the gesture out of frustration because he felt the Wil-drose was refusing to answer questions on social policy.

“I leaned back and I threw up a ges-ture out of frustration and immediate-ly regretted it because I had realized what I had done,” he said.

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Minister takes shine to cleanup pitchBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A proposal to use federal infrastruc-ture funds to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta — with the aim of spurring employment in the ailing industry — has the thumbs-up of the province’s energy minister.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada announced Monday that it made the $500-million pitch to Ottawa earlier this month. The sum would cover a small fraction of the work needed to decom-mission the 75,000 wells across the province that are no longer producing.

“Good on them,” Energy Minister Marg Mc-Cuaig-Boyd said of PSAC’s move.

“That is one way to get Albertans back to work in the interim and it isn’t unprecedented,” she told reporters after speaking at an energy conference in Calgary on Tuesday.

McCuaig-Boyd referred to the Alberta govern-ment’s $30-million contribu-tion to the province’s orphan well fund during the last downturn in 2009.

While Alberta does have a polluter-pay policy that makes companies responsi-ble for well decommission-ing, McCuaig-Boyd says the province also has big eco-nomic problems.

“I think we could put a lot of folks to work in a fairly quick time (with the feder-al money) because the skills are out there right now and it is an issue that needs to be dealt with,” she said.

“It will provide some jobs.

No solution is going to provide jobs for everybody, but we need to look at how we can get as many Al-bertans back to work as we can.”

The Saskatchewan government made a similar federal pitch last month.

That province’s proposal would cost Ottawa $156 million and would generate an estimated 1,200 jobs over the next two years.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he’s not heard back from Ottawa yet on his proposal, but that he’ll be watching next week’s federal budget “very, very closely.”

“We’re hopeful (the PSAC ask) helps … provide some momentum to our request and that the federal government would indeed go with our request,” Wall said in a phone interview during an election cam-paign stop in Saskatoon.

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Drug giant watches stock value dissolve in trading


MONTREAL — Valeant Pharmaceuticals, once one of Canada’s most valuable companies, saw its stock plunge to its lowest level in more than three years on Tuesday after reporting fourth-quarter earnings below expectations and lowering its out-look for 2016.

Shares in the Quebec-based drug giant lost more than 47 per cent of their value after three hours of trading, hovering at C$48.30 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At its peak last August, Valeant stock was worth nearly C$350.

“Our business is not operating on all cylinders,” CEO Michael Pearson said in a conference call. “But we and I are committed to get it back on track.”

The company said it had a net loss of US$336.4 million in the final quarter of 2015 — rather than a net profit of US$462.6 million as analysts had expect-ed — largely due to costs associated with restructur-ing and acquisitions.

After adjustments, Valeant says it earned US$875.7 million or $2.50 per share. Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings of US$942.8 million, or $2.61 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Valeant’s revenue for the fourth quarter was just under US$2.8 billion, which was in line with analyst estimates, but the company reduced its previous sales and adjusted earnings estimates for the first quarter of 2016.

“In a sense, we’ve botched a quarter,” Pearson said.

There could be more bad news on the horizon.The drugmaker has delayed filing its 2015 annual

report with regulators while it investigates its for-mer relationship with Philidor. Questions arose last October after a report revealed Valeant’s previous-ly undisclosed relationship with the Pennsylvania mail-order pharmacy. Valeant has since launched an internal investigation into the matter.

The company risks defaulting on its debt if the 2015 annual report is not filed by April 29. Pearson said he hopes to file the report next month.

Also last month, Valeant announced that it had to restate its financial results for 2014 and 2015 after finding that about US$58 million of sales to Philidor were recognized at the wrong time.

Its efforts to regain confidence may have taken a hit Tuesday when it overstated its forecast of adjust-ed pre-tax operating earnings EBITDA over the next four quarters. Valeant later issued a corrected news release.

Pearson said he accepts responsibility for Valeant’s poor performance and miscommunication about its strategy.

“We have to earn back the credibility,” he said. “It’s a bit of a starting-over point at this point for me and the company and clearly if we don’t deliver, then that’s on me.”

Valeant is facing allegations of drug-price goug-ing, accusations it has denied. It is also under in-vestigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney’s offices in Massachusetts and New York, as well as Congress, as part of their probes into price hikes for certain drugs.

Housingmarketdefies

outlook


OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Associa-tion raised its outlook for home sales this year as the Vancouver and Toronto markets continued to charge ahead of expectations in contrast to other cities.

CREA said Tuesday it had expected the market to cool this year with smaller price gains in B.C. and Ontario.

“However, many of the defining themes among Canadian housing markets last year have persisted, and in some cases intensified, in early 2016,” it said in its updated forecast.

CREA said it now expects sales this year to grow by 1.0 per cent compared with earlier expectations of a 1.1 per cent contraction.

“Canadian resale housing market trends this year are expected to resemble those apparent in 2015, with very tight supply leading to strong price gains in British Columbia and Ontario — particularly in the Lower Mainland and in and around the Greater To-ronto Area,” the forecast said. “Price gains in these regions are expected to continue to stand in sharp contrast to moderate price declines among housing markets whose prospects are closely tied to oil and other natural resource prices.”

B.C. and Ontario are expected to drive the nation-al average price up eight per cent to $478,100 in 2016, according to the forecast.

The revised outlook came as CREA reported home sales in February were up 18.7 per cent from a year ago, driven by sales in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Vancouver and Toronto also helped pump up the national average price for a home sold in February to $503,057. Excluding those two markets, the average price was $355,235, up 8.7 per cent.

BMO chief economist Doug Porter said the nation-al figures don’t mean much given the big differences between cities.

“Talking about averages in Canada’s housing mar-ket is like saying the weighted average temperature between the fire on my gas stove and the ice in my freezer is a mildly warm 22 degrees — it’s meaning-less,” Porter said. “The Canadian housing market remains a tale of three solitudes — the uber-strength in Vancouver and Toronto (and surrounding cities in both regions), ice-cold conditions in markets ex-posed to oil prices, and the just-right middle markets in almost every other region.”


A trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays the Valeant Pharmaceuticals logo, Tuesday. Valeant Pharmaceuticals cut its estimates for 2016 and said it could default on some of its debt if it does not complete required financial statements by late April.

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U.S. bars Atlantic drilling as Obama builds environmental legacy

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling off America’s Atlantic Coast, a move cheered by en-vironmentalists and consistent with the president’s aggressive steps to combat climate change.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said the decision “protects the Atlantic for future generations.” She said the administration had listened to thousands of people in coastal communities from Florida to New England who said, “Now is not the time to start leas-ing off the Atlantic Coast.”

However, business groups and most Republicans criticized it as another example of what they call ex-ecutive overreach.

Despite a surge in oil and natural gas production in the past seven years that has helped push gasoline prices below $2 a gallon, Republicans and industry groups have criticized Obama for imposing what they say are unnecessary regulations on drilling, es-

pecially on federal lands. Most of the drilling boom has occurred on state and private lands and in the Gulf of Mexico, long the centre of U.S. offshore oil production.

The decision reverses a proposal made last year in which the administration floated a plan that would have opened up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling. That January 2015 proposal would have opened up sites more than 50 miles off Virgin-ia, North and South Carolina and Georgia to oil drill-ing no earlier than 2021.

President Barack Obama, in his final year in of-fice, is working to build an environmental legacy that includes a global agreement to curb climate change and a plan to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. Obama also has imposed limits on smog-causing pollution linked to asthma and has rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The proposal on Atlantic drilling is likely to be-come an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign. Both Democratic candidates oppose it, while Repub-licans vow to expand drilling.

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, declaring that the administration’s next five-year offshore drilling plan “protects the Atlantic for future generations.”

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 119.24ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.30BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.53BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.51Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.140Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.36Cdn. National Railway . . 80.83Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 169.88Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.16Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.05Cervus Equipment Corp 12.66Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.19Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.19Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.16Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.14General Motors Co. . . . . 31.05Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.32Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.69SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.63Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.25Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.16Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.01Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.44

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 135.64Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.08Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.58Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.22

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.78Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.64Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.09WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.94

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.98Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.60First Quantum Minerals . . 7.65Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.43Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.46Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 3.96Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.39Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.45Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.940Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.34

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.76Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 25.84Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.21Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.82Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.53Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 35.42Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.99Canyon Services Group. . 3.78Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.50CWC Well Services . . . 0.1800Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.28Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.82Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 34.99High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.36Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.43Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.85Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.270Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.270Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.74Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.76Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.560Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.72Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 39.54Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.54Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.36CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.51Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 35.41Great West Life. . . . . . . . 23.92IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.41Intact Financial Corp. . . . 88.18Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.64National Bank . . . . . . . . . 41.90Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.60Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.42TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.39

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Oil absorbent booms are set up near cargo ship Istra Ace, where oil sheen was visible in the Wilmington Marina in the East Basin of the Cerritos Channel in Los Angeles Harbor on Monday. Cleanup efforts are under way after a large cargo ship leaked an unknown amount of oil in the harbor.

MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — Falling pric-

es for oil and other commodities pushed the Toronto stock market into the red for a second consec-utive session Tuesday while also driving the Canadian dollar more than half a cent lower.

The S&P/TSX compos-ite index closed down 77.23 at 13,400.31 after starting the week with a 44-point decline on Mon-day.

Base metals miners, industri-als and energy companies were among the day’s losers, although the relatively small health-care sector suffered by far the biggest sector decline.

It fell 11.69 per cent after shares in Valeant Pharmaceuti-cals (TSX:VRX) plunged $46.44 or almost 51 per cent to $45.14 in response to a severely dis-appointing earnings report and outlook. Volume was four million shares, more than five times the issue’s daily average.

The commodity-sensitive loo-nie lost 0.53 of a U.S. cent to 74.84 cents US.

In commodities, the April contract for benchmark North American crude oil sank 84 cents to US$36.34 a barrel after losing $1.32 on Monday.

This week’s downturn in oil prices has come in the wake of weekend comments by Iran’s oil minister dismissing the idea of a production cap suggested by major producers Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar.

The idea is to reduce output in hopes of boosting global crude prices if other major producers can agree. But Iran has been unwilling to go along, saying it wants to greatly ramp up output after years of sanctions imposed over its nuclear program that greatly hampered production.

Allan Small, a senior adviser at Holliswealth, says the over-supply on the production side

does not bode well for a big in-crease in prices in the near term.

“Keep in mind, there is so much oil out there that if the price of oil does run up, people will start turning back on the taps and start producing more again,” Small said.

“I think that’s why the price of oil will be depressed for some time because it’s going to be ma-nipulated, people turning on and off the taps whenever they see fit.”

Elsewhere in commodities, April natural gas added three cents to US$1.85 per mmBtu, while April gold fell $14.10 to US$1,231.00 a troy ounce and May copper shed a penny to US$2.23 a pound.

In New York, indexes were narrowly mixed in advance of Wednesday’s policy-rate state-ment from the U.S. Federal Re-serve.

The Dow Jones industrial average rebound from a small loss to post a modest advance of 22.40 points to 17,251.53. The broader S&P 500 declined 3.71 points to 2,015.93 and the Nas-daq composite index was down 21.61 points at 4,728.67.

While few expect the U.S. central bank to raise rates at the conclusion of its meeting, inves-tors will be closely watching it views on both the U.S. and world economies.

The Fed raised rates in De-cember for the first time in al-most a decade, but left them un-changed in January.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Tues-

day at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 13,400.31, down 77.23 pointsDow — 17,251.53, up 22.40

pointsS&P 500 — 2,015.93 down

3.71 pointsNasdaq — 4,728.67, down

21.61 pointsCurrencies:Cdn — 74.84 cents US,

down 0.53 of a centPound — C$1.8907, down

0.57 of a centEuro — C$1.4841, up 1.17

centsEuro — US$1.1107, up 0.09

of a centOil futures:US$36.34 per barrel, down

84 cents(April contract)Gold futures: US$1,231 per

oz., down $14.10(April contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$21.338 oz., down five cents$686.02 kg., down $1.60

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: May ‘16 $0.90 higher

$467.30 July ‘16 $1.60 higher $468.90 Nov. ‘16 $2.50 higher $470.70 Jan. ‘17 $2.50 higher $474.20 March ‘17 $2.40 higher $476.70 May ‘17 $2.40 higher $476.00 July ‘17 $2.90 higher $476.00 Nov. ‘17 $2.90 higher $469.60 Jan. ‘18 $2.90 higher $469.60 March ‘18 $2.90 higher $469.60.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $176.00 July ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $180.00 March ‘17 unchanged $180.00 May ‘17 unchanged $180.00 July ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $180.00 March ‘18 unchanged $180.00.

Tuesday’s estimated vol-ume of trade: 409,140 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (West-ern Barley). Total: 409,140.


TORONTO — It’s a kerfuffle Loblaw didn’t relish.

The grocery chain announced Tues-day it was reversing its decision to pull French’s ketchup from store shelves following a social media uproar.

“We’ve heard our Loblaws cus-tomers,” Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, said in a statement.

The company said French’s ketchup never disappeared from its shelves en-tirely and it will restock the product as soon as possible.

Earlier, Loblaw said it decided to stop carrying French’s regular ketch-up due to low sales over the past year. But it continued to sell French’s two flavoured varieties, Buffalo ketchup and garlic ketchup. The popularity of French’s ketchup soared after a man’s Facebook post lauding the U.S.-based company for its commitment to buy to-matoes from Canadian farmers.

Brian Fernandez posted a photo of a French’s ketchup bottle in late Feb-ruary and said his family would no lon-ger buy Heinz ketchup since the com-pany closed its Leamington, Ont., plant and cost the community about 750 jobs.

French’s regular and flavoured ketchup use 100 per cent Canadi-an-grown tomatoes, according to its website. French’s did not respond to request for comment.

Fernandez’s post was shared more than 132,000 times and prompted a member of the Ontario legislature to ask for the Queen’s Park dining room and cafeteria to switch to French’s ketchup.

Demand for French’s increased fol-lowing the publicity. Fernandez later posted that a Zehrs in Orillia, Ont., sold out of 10 cases of the condiment on the same day it received them. Oth-ers weighed in with similar stories from their local grocers. Groh said he hopes the enthusiasm shown for the product on social media and in the news will translate to in-store sales.

Ketchup kerfuffle LOBLAW TO RESTOCK STORES WITH FRENCH’S

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Alberta hopes to grow low-carbon economy with U.K. agreement: energy minister

CALGARY — The Alberta govern-ment has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom that focuses on creating jobs and working together on low-carbon technology.

Energy Minister Margaret Mc-Cuaig-Boyd says the two governments plan to bring together industry, inno-vators and other stakeholders.

The aim is to increase renewable energies, promote energy efficiency and reduce harmful emissions.

Howard Drake, British high com-missioner to Canada, says the U.K. wants to help Alberta meet its environ-

mental challenges. He says, in return, his country will take advantage of Alberta’s regulatory and performance standards in areas such as shale gas development. Neither McCuaig-Boyd nor Drake could specify what kinds of jobs could grow out of the agreement.

Couche-Tard rolling out Circle K banner throughout

southeastern U.S. this springAlimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says

its Circle K brand will be in place at hundreds of additional U.S. stores by this spring as the Quebec-based com-pany moves to adopt a global identity for its convenience stores and gas stations. Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) says it’s on track to put the new image on more than 400 stores in the south-eastern United States by the end of its financial year, which concludes in April. In total, it expects to rebrand more than 1,000 stores in the region as it integrates the Pantry chain into its network of stores and filling stations.

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B1SPORTSRebels come up short against Hitmen

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

Hitmen 4 Rebels 2If this was a preview of the Red

Deer Rebels first round playoff series, it won’t be a very long series.

Two days after routing the Le-thbridge Hurricanes and get within striking distance of top spot in the Cen-tral Division, the Rebels came up short against the visiting Calgary Hitmen, losing 4-2.

“Maybe the group was satisfied to finish second and they want Calgary in the first round,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

“I wasn’t pleased with our game, the coaching staff wasn’t pleased with our game.

“We had guys tonight whose game, in 48 hours, dropped off significant-ly. The toughest thing about tonight’s game was you had to push to get some-thing out of the group. It shouldn’t have been that way.”

Sutter said he expected the group to throw everything they could at the next few games and maybe catch Leth-bridge.

“I thought some of our top players tonight weren’t very good. Probably our most consistent line throughout the night was the (Jeff) de Witt (with Braden Putrill and Austin Pratt). The other lines were very sporadic in their play.”

The Hitmen got on the board less than 30 seconds into the game after a point shot from Radel Fazleev was redirected past Trevor Martin by Jack-son Houck. Houck finished the night with a goal and an assist.

For the Rebels, Luke Philp set up both goals while Adam Helewka scored his 40th goal of the year.

“Our specialty teams tonight hurt us more than they helped us,” said Sutter. “We gave a power play goal and a short handed goal.

“I didn’t like our game that much.”A power play in the first proved to

be less than beneficial for the Rebels. A three-on-two odd man rush the other way, after Adam Helewka fanned on a point shot, led to the Hitmen’s second goal, a short handed marker. Then in a nasty collision, Michael Spacek sus-tained an injury and was writhing in

pain on the ice. He left the bench, but was back on the bench before the peri-od was out.

A tripping minor to Brandon Hagel set up a Hitman power play, which led to their third goal. Jakob Stukel chipped in Houck’s pass through the crease into an empty cage.

After going down 3-0, the Rebels re-sponded four minutes into the second frame. With Helewka streaking down into the slot and took a feed from Luke Philp from behind the net. Helewa’s wrist shot got past Hitman goalie Cody

Porter.Grayson Pawlenchuk got the Rebels

closer after he tipped Nelson Nogier’s shot to cut the deficit to 3-2. The come-back would be cut off from that point forward.

Beck Malenstyn sealed the winwith an empty netter with 10 seconds to go in the game.

The Rebels close out the season with a home-and-home series with the Edmonton Oil Kings. That starts Thurs-day night in Edmonton at 7 p.m. before coming back to Red Deer on Saturday.

Notes: Two new Rebels appeared on the injury report this week. Forward Evan Polei has an upper body injury and is out week-to-week and forward Taden Rattie has a day-to-day upper body injury. Forward Reese Johnson, defence Josh Mahura and goalie Rylan Toth remain on the injury report … Porter left the game after taking a shot on goal that hit him in the shoulder. Nik Amundrud was brought in to re-place Porter.

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Red Deer Rebel Adam Musil checks Calgary Hitmen Tyler Mrkonjic during second period action at the Centrium on Tuesday. The Rebels lost to the Hitmen 4-2.


Raptors 107 Bucks 89MILWAUKEE — Even though lead-

ing scorer DeMar DeRozan was given the night off, Kyle Lowry and some of the lesser-known Toronto Raptors made sure they had little trouble with Milwaukee.

Lowry had 25 points and 11 assists, and rookie Norman Powell scored a season-high 17 in a 107-89 victory over the Bucks on Tuesday.

“It just shows how much depth we have on the bench, when your star player can have a rest game and we still have a dominating game like that,” said Powell, who played 34 min-utes after averaging just 7 per game coming in.

Bismack Biyombo, starting for in-jured centre Jonas Valanciunas, had 12 points, 13 rebounds and two big

blocks in the decisive third quarter, when Milwaukee missed 16 of 22 shots.

Toronto led 81-66 after three, allow-ing coach Dwane Casey to rest Lowry in the fourth.

“It was just our activity (on de-fence),” Lowry said. “Biz got two big blocks and that just sparked us. When he protects the rim we need to make sure we do something on the other end and reward him. It was a complete team effort.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists in 35 minutes for Milwaukee, just missing a triple-double.

DeRozan, who averages 23.8 points per game, was in uniform but didn’t play after starting each of the team’s first 65 games and playing 39 minutes in a loss to Chicago on Monday night.

Valanciunas was held out as a pre-caution after bruising his left hand against the Bulls.

Toronto took control by scoring the first eight points of the second half to open a 62-49 lead. The Raptors then scored seven consecutive points mid-way through the third quarter to make it 71-55 on Lowry’s 3-pointer with 6:07 left.

Milwaukee never got within single digits again.

“The ball didn’t move,” Bucks coach Jason Kidd said of his team’s third-quarter woes.

“I think we got a little frustrated. We have to do a better job shooting outside the paint.”

Lowry made five of nine shots from the field and 11 of 13 free throws as Toronto won for the fourth time in five games.

The effort came one night after he had 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in the loss to the Bulls.

Casey said before the game his team could start resting players in antici-

pation of the playoffs. Toronto is se-cure in the second spot in the Eastern Conference, and the game against the Bucks was the Raptors’ third in four days.

Antetokounmpo had four tri-ple-doubles in his last 11 games before Tuesday night. Kidd pulled him with 2:47 left, one assist short of another triple-double.

Jabari Parker also scored 18 points for the Bucks.

Lowry had 20 points in the first half and Toronto led 52-49 at halftime.

D-LEAGUE DEVELOPMENTCasey said Powell’s time in the

D-League helped his development im-mensely. Powell averaged nearly 25 points in eight games before being re-called on March 4.

“He went down and got in rhythm, having a feel for the game, understand-ing time-score situations,” Casey said.

Carey looks to lead Canada to world titleBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chelsea Carey is about to live out her ultimate dream but understands it won’t be easy.

Carey will skip Canada’s rink at the women’s curling world championship that begins this weekend in Swift Cur-rent, Sask. The daughter of former Bri-er champion Dan Carey says it’s been a lifelong aspiration to don the Ma-ple Leaf and represent her country in competition, but this tournament will be a challenge.

“It’s been my dream since I was seven years old, I don’t know how to phrase it any better than that,” said Carey, who won her first Scotties Tour-nament of Hearts, and the right to rep-resent Canada at the worlds, on Feb. 28. “My first dream was to represent my province and I didn’t achieve that until I was 29.

“To then turn around two years lat-er and wear the Maple Leaf, which was always the ultimate dream, is beyond words. I still don’t think it’s fully sunk in, but every day I wake up and it hits me a little bit more.”

Carey was born and raised in Win-nipeg and represented Manitoba in national competition until the 2014-15 season when she moved to Edmon-ton. In the spring of 2015 she moved south to Calgary, taking over as skip for two-time Canadian women’s cham-pion Heather Nedohin’s rink. With Carey at the helm that team won the Alberta playdowns and went on to win a national title at the Tournament of Hearts.

That run of success is what has led

Carey, third Amy Nixon, second Joce-lyn Peterman, lead Laine Peters and alternate Susan O’Connor to Swift Cur-rent and a shot at a world champion-ship.

But Carey cautions fans the com-petition will be tough. Canada has not

won gold in the event since Jennifer Jones’s rink was crowned in 2008 and former world champions Eve Muir-head of Scotland and Binia Feltscher of Switzerland are both in this year’s field, among other tough opponents.

“I think curling in Canada is no dif-

ferent than hockey … everybody still expects Canada to win the gold, that expectation never went away despite the fact that the parity is there,” said Carey in a conference call with report-ers Tuesday. “I definitely think that’s the level of expectation.

“But certainly the world has come on very strong and you can see that from the bit of a drought we have from gold medals. We usually medal and do well but the lack of winning the past few years would certainly show how the rest of the world has become a powerhouse.”

Coach Charley Thomas also empha-sizes the competition will be steep at the worlds.

“I think all the teams that have had this international experience and ex-perience playing on Grand Slam con-ditions (are top competition),” said Thomas. “Team like Muirhead from Scotland, (Anna) Sidorova from Rus-sia, (Maria) Prytz from Sweden.

“Luckily for the girls they’ve played a lot of those teams and had good suc-cess against them.”

Carey also believes home ice will give her team an advantage, with packed houses expected at the event in Swift Current’s Credit Union i-Plex from Saturday to the final on Sunday, March 27.

“I couldn’t have dreamed of a better place to play,” said Carey. “Everybody keeps saying ‘Don’t you wish you were going somewhere like Switzerland?’ I would much rather not. I’m really happy.

“I couldn’t ask for more in my first worlds to be Team Canada in Canada, small-town Saskatchewan.”

Photo by CURLING CANADA/ANDREW KLAVER

Team Alberta, left to right, Laine Peters, Red Deer’s Jocelyn Peterman, Amy Nixon and Chelsea Carey pose after winning the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian Womens Curling Championships, Grande Prairie. Carey is looking to lead her team to a world championship title this week in Swift Current, Sask.

Lowry scores 25 points to lead Raptors past Bucks

TSN host Duthie keynote speaker for RDC

scholarship breakfastA familiar face to many sports fans,

James Duthie highlights the 13th annu-al Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast this month.

The award-winning TSN host has broadcast many memorable Canadian sports moments including Olympics, World Junior Hockey Championships and the NHL on TSN.

He has also authored two books: The Day I (Almost) Killed Two Gretzkys and The Guy on the Left.

On March 24, he will be the keynote speaker at the scholarship breakfast that creates a way for student athletes to pursue their dreams of sports and education.

Since the first scholarship break-fast, the event has raised more than $280,000 for athletic scholarships.

The event, held at the RDC Arts Centre 100 College Blvd., starts at 6:30 a.m. with registration, from 7 to 8 a.m. is the breakfast and from 8 to 9:30 a.m. is the presentation.

For tickets and other details visit www.rdc.ab.ca/breakfast.

Lundall leads Funk to playoff win over Big Ballers

A busy playoffs for Red Deer Wom-en’s basketball saw Funk, Storm, Hoosier Daddy and the Shooting Stars emerge victorious.

In Pool A action, the Funk defeated Big Ballers 61-26. Allison Lundall led

the Funk with 22 points and Jessica Siegrist was named player of the game. Gib Gallers got eight points from Mor-gan Richardson and Jamie Vanden-berg was their player of the game.

The Storm topped the Rampage 46-38 with top scorer and player of the game Colleen Braithwaite leading the way with 13 points. Rampage’s top scorer was Marlene Flatla with eight points while player of the game Kesley Wilson had seven points.

Hoosier Daddy defeated the Spar-tans 51-41 on the strength of Mallory

Jones’s 25 points, she was named their player of the game. For the Spartans their player of the game was Tracy Klasen and top scorer was Carla Stew-art with 13 points.

In Pool B action the Shooting Stars beat Triple Threat 45-40. Cheryl Chase had 16 points to lead the Shooting Stars and was named their player of the game. Kendra Campbell was Tri-ple Threat’s player of the game and Tamara Mckelvie was the team’s high scorer.

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Thursday● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 2 p.m.● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 7 p.m. (The Drive)

Friday● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 10 a.m. Semi-finals at 6 and 8 p.m.● Men’s AAA senior hockey: Stony Plain Eagles at Bentley Generals, 8 p.m.,

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Saturday● High school 4A boys and girls basketball provincials at Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Games start at 9 a.m. Finals at 5 and 7:30 p.m.● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Sunday● Major midget female hockey: Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs at PAC Saints

WHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION

GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pty-Brandon 70 46 18 4 2 310 195 98x-Prince Albert 69 37 24 7 1 213 212 82x-Moose Jaw 69 34 26 7 2 240 231 77x-Regina 69 34 27 3 5 233 243 76Swift Current 70 24 37 6 3 184 241 57Saskatoon 69 25 40 4 0 209 305 54

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Ptx-Lethbridge 70 45 23 1 1 293 211 92x-Red Deer 70 43 24 1 2 249 202 89x-Calgary 70 40 26 2 2 235 212 84Edmonton 70 29 34 6 1 194 227 65Medicine Hat 70 29 36 3 2 216 276 63Kootenay 70 12 52 6 0 148 309 30

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Ptx-Victoria 69 47 16 3 3 266 159 100x-Kelowna 69 46 19 4 0 250 207 96x-Kamloops 70 36 25 5 4 231 217 81x-Prince George

70 36 29 3 2 239 219 77

Vancouver 70 23 38 5 4 195 258 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Ptx-Seattle 68 42 23 3 0 215 179 87x-Everett 69 38 24 4 3 177 161 83Portland 69 34 30 5 0 220 214 73Spokane 68 31 28 5 4 211 230 71Tri-City 70 33 34 2 1 229 249 69x — clinched playoff berth Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W col-umn a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

Tuesday’s resultsBrandon 6 Swift Current 2Calgary 4 Red Deer 2Kootenay 2 Edmonton 0Spokane at Seattle

Monday’s resultsNo Games Scheduled.

Wednesday’s gamesSaskatoon at Regina, 7 p.m.Prince Albert at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s gameRed Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday’s gamesMoose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.Seattle at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.Victoria at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 19Regina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 Pp.m.Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 20Kootenay at Calgary, 1 p.m.Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.End of Regular Season

Tuesday’s summaryHitmen 4, Rebels 2

First Period1. Calgary, Houck 20 (Fazleev, Bean) 0:22.2. Calgary, Ta.Sanheim 6 (Tr.Sanheim, Twarynski) 15:07 (sh).Penalties — Helewka RD (unsportsmanlike con-duct) 6:40 Tr.Sanheim Cgy, Helewka RD (roughing) 11:07 Harmsworth Cgy (high-sticking) 14:02.

Second Period3. Calgary, Stukel 33 (Houck, Bean) 2:07 (pp).4. Red Deer, Helewka 40 (Philp) 3:19.5. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 22 (Nogier, Philp) 7:20.Penalties — Hagel RD (tripping) 1:49 Houck Cgy (check to the head), Kanzig Cgy, Doetzel RD (fight-ing) 4:22.

Third Period6. Calgary, Malenstyn 8, 19:49 (en).Penalties — Houck Cgy, Fleury RD (roughing) 5:34 Martin Cgy (hooking) 15:16.

Shots on goalCalgary 9 13 11 — 33Red Deer 11 11 7 — 29Goal (shots-saves) — Calgary: Porter (W, 25-11-1-1)(21-19), Amundrud (10:33 second 8-8) Red Deer: Martin (L, 16-8-1-1).Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 1-2 Red Deer: 0-3.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 70 39 22 9 87 198 171Boston 70 39 23 8 86 213 188Tampa Bay 70 40 25 5 85 191 167Detroit 70 34 25 11 79 176 186Ottawa 71 33 30 8 74 205 220Montreal 70 32 32 6 70 188 198Buffalo 70 28 33 9 65 167 190Toronto 69 24 34 11 59 164 202

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Washington 69 50 14 5 105 221 161N.Y. Islanders 68 38 21 9 85 194 170N.Y. Rangers 69 39 23 7 85 197 181Pittsburgh 69 37 24 8 82 190 174Philadelphia 68 33 23 12 78 178 183Carolina 70 31 26 13 75 171 188New Jersey 70 33 30 7 73 154 178Columbus 69 28 33 8 64 180 215

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Dallas 71 41 21 9 91 229 208St. Louis 71 41 21 9 91 187 179Chicago 70 41 23 6 88 195 173Nashville 70 35 22 13 83 192 179Minnesota 70 32 27 11 75 184 175Colorado 70 35 31 4 74 188 198Winnipeg 69 29 35 5 63 181 205

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 69 42 22 5 89 190 156Anaheim 68 38 21 9 85 174 160San Jose 68 38 24 6 82 203 179Arizona 69 30 32 7 67 185 211Vancouver 68 27 29 12 66 166 197Calgary 69 29 35 5 63 189 217Edmonton 72 27 38 7 61 171 212NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.x-clinched playoff spot

Monday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 3, Florida 2Los Angeles 5, Chicago 0Calgary 7, St. Louis 4Nashville 3, Edmonton 2Winnipeg 5, Vancouver 2Anaheim 7, New Jersey 1

Tuesday’s GamesPittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SOWashington 2, Carolina 1, OTPhiladelphia 4, Detroit 3Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 1Florida 4, Montreal 1Ottawa 3, Minnesota 2, OTLos Angeles 5, Dallas 2Boston at San Jose, late

Wednesday’s GamesMontreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.St. Louis at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.Winnipeg at Calgary, 8 p.m.Colorado at Vancouver, 8 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesMinnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.Detroit at Columbus, 5 p.m.Florida at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Nashville, 6 p.m.Tampa Bay at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

NHL Scoring LeadersThrough March 14 GP G A PTSPatrick Kane, Chi 70 38 51 89Jamie Benn, Dal 70 34 43 77Tyler Seguin, Dal 70 33 39 72Erik Karlsson, Ott 70 12 58 70Sidney Crosby, Pit 67 29 40 69Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 68 26 43 69Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was 68 20 49 69Joe Pavelski, SJ 68 32 34 66Joe Thornton, SJ 68 16 50 66Nicklas Backstrom,Was 65 18 45 63Alex Ovechkin, Was 66 41 21 62Brent Burns, SJ 68 25 37 62Artemi Panarin, Chi 68 25 37 62

Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Optioned OF Bryce Brentz, INF Sean Coyle, LHP Edwin Escobar and RHP Pat Light to Pawtucket (IL), and LHP Williams Jerez to Portland (EL). Reassigned 3B Chris Dominguez and C Ali Solis to their minor league camp.CHICAGO WHITE SOX —Announced the retire-ment of 1B-DH Adam LaRoche.KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the contract of RHP Dillon Gee from Omaha (PCL). Placed LHP Mike Minor on the 60-day DL.National LeagueSAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned OF Manny Mar-got to El Paso (PCL).FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS — Re-signed S Charles God-frey. Signed S Damian Parms, WR Aldrick Robinson and CB DeMarcus Van Dyke.BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed WR Mike Wallace to a two-year contract.BUFFALO BILLS — Named John Blake defensive line coach.CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DT Paul Soliai to a two-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed CB Adam Jones.DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LB Rolando Mc-Clain.DENVER BRONCOS — Matched Miami’s four-year contract offer to RB C.J. Anderson.INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Agreed to terms with RB Robert Turbin.MIAMI DOLPHINS — Agreed to terms with QB Matt Moore.MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Re-signed TE Rhett Elli-son and CB Marcus Sherels.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Traded DE-LB Chandler Jones to Arizona Cardinals for G Jonathan Cooper and a 2016 second-round draft pick. Re-signed DB Nate Ebner.OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed WR Andre Holmes.PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Agreed to terms with CB Nolan Carroll on a one-year contract.PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed OT Ryan Harris to a two-year contract.SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Agreed to terms with OL J’Marcus Webb on a two-year contract.WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Re-signed CB Will Blackmon to a two-year contract. Signed S David Bruton.Canadian Football League

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Tevin Reese.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNHL — Suspended Columbus D Dalton Prout one game for punching an unsuspecting opponent, Tam-pa Bay F Nikita Kucherov, during a March 13 game.CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Trevor Carrick from Charlotte (AHL).American Hockey LeagueSPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Signed F Hunter Fejes to an amateur tryout contract. Released G Josh Robinson from a professional tryout contract.ECHLECHL — Suspended Allen’s Spencer Asuchak four additional games for an unpenalized slew foot and Missouri’s C.J. Ludwig three additional games after being assessed a major penalty and game miscon-duct for clipping during a March 9 game.READING ROYALS — Announced F Justin Cran-dall was returned to the team from Chicago (AHL). Released D Rich Botting from is amateur tryout agreement.SOCCERMajor League SoccerNEW YORK RED BULLS — Waived M Chris Thorsheim.

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 45 21 .682 —Boston 39 28 .582 6 1/2New York 28 40 .412 18Brooklyn 19 48 .284 26 1/2Philadelphia 9 58 .134 36 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 39 28 .582 —Atlanta 38 29 .567 1Charlotte 37 29 .561 1 1/2Washington 31 35 .470 7 1/2Orlando 29 37 .439 9 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 47 19 .712 —Indiana 36 31 .537 11 1/2Chicago 33 32 .508 13 1/2Detroit 34 33 .507 13 1/2Milwaukee 29 39 .426 19

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBy-San Antonio 57 10 .851 —Memphis 39 28 .582 18Houston 34 33 .507 23Dallas 34 33 .507 23New Orleans 24 42 .364 32 1/2

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 45 22 .672 —Portland 35 33 .515 10 1/2Utah 32 35 .478 13Denver 28 40 .412 17 1/2Minnesota 21 46 .313 24

Pacific Division W L Pct GBy-Golden State 60 6 .909 —L.A. Clippers 42 24 .636 18Sacramento 25 40 .385 34 1/2Phoenix 18 49 .269 42 1/2L.A. Lakers 14 53 .209 46 1/2y-clinched division

Monday’s GamesDallas 107, Charlotte 96Chicago 109, Toronto 107Miami 124, Denver 119Houston 130, Memphis 81Oklahoma City 128, Portland 94Washington 124, Detroit 81

Phoenix 107, Minnesota 104Golden State 125, New Orleans 107Utah 94, Cleveland 85

Tuesday’s GamesIndiana 103, Boston 98Orlando 116, Denver 110Brooklyn 131, Philadelphia 114Toronto 107, Milwaukee 89San Antonio 108, L.A. Clippers 87Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, late

Wednesday’s GamesDallas at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Oklahoma City at Boston, 5 p.m.Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m.Orlando at Charlotte, 5 p.m.Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m.New Orleans at Sacramento, 8 p.m.New York at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesToronto at Indiana, 5 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m.Brooklyn at Chicago, 6 p.m.Memphis at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.Denver at Atlanta, 6 p.m.Portland at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at Utah, 7 p.m.

NBA LeadersScoring G FG FT PTS AVGCurry, GOL 63 648 300 1918 30.4Harden, HOU 67 559 616 1913 28.6Durant, OKC 60 578 371 1679 28.0Cousins, SAC 55 516 412 1509 27.4Lillard, POR 61 523 331 1568 25.7James, CLE 64 607 305 1592 24.9Davis, NOR 59 542 317 1435 24.3Westbrook, OKC 67 563 399 1606 24.0DeRozan, TOR 65 517 477 1549 23.8George, IND 66 494 373 1540 23.3Butler, CHI 50 368 321 1111 22.2Thompson, GOL 64 515 168 1407 22.0Thomas, BOS 66 473 369 1448 21.9Anthony, NYK 61 479 298 1335 21.9Lowry, TOR 64 440 334 1389 21.7

Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT AVGDrummond, DET 67 330 673 1003 15.0Jordan, LAC 63 226 658 884 14.0Howard, HOU 56 200 478 678 12.1Whiteside, MIA 58 189 492 681 11.7Cousins, SAC 55 138 492 630 11.5

Major League Baseball Spring TrainingAMERICAN LEAGUE

W L PctToronto 10 2 .833Houston 9 4 .692Texas 9 4 .692Detroit 9 6 .600Chicago 7 6 .538Los Angeles 7 6 .538Minnesota 7 6 .538Oakland 6 6 .500Seattle 7 8 .467Cleveland 6 8 .429Tampa Bay 6 9 .400Kansas City 6 10 .375Boston 5 9 .357New York 4 8 .333Baltimore 2 11 .154

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctArizona 11 3 .786Los Angeles 9 3 .750Washington 9 3 .750Philadelphia 11 4 .733St. Louis 7 5 .583Colorado 8 6 .571Milwaukee 6 6 .500New York 6 6 .500Cincinnati 7 8 .467Miami 5 7 .417San Francisco 6 9 .400Pittsburgh 5 8 .385Chicago 4 10 .286San Diego 4 10 .286Atlanta 4 11 .267NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

Monday’s resultsAtlanta 5, Tampa Bay 0Pittsburgh 3, Boston 1Minnesota 5, St. Louis 3Washington 1, Houston 1, tieDetroit 9, N.Y. Mets 2Baltimore 8, Philadelphia 7Cleveland 4, Texas 2San Diego 10, Chicago Cubs 2Kansas City 9, Chicago White Sox 3L.A. Dodgers 6, Milwaukee 2

L.A. Angels 10, Cincinnati 2Colorado 6, Seattle (ss) 4Arizona 8, Seattle (ss) 3Oakland 10, San Francisco 3

Tuesday’s resultsWashington 6, Houston 4Detroit 10, Atlanta 6Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 2N.Y. Mets 8, Miami 6Toronto 6, Baltimore 6, tieChicago White Sox 8 L.A. Dodgers 6Texas 5 Cleveland 4Cincinnati 4 Kansas City 2Seattle 4 L.A. Angels 4Colorado 6 Oakland 2Chicago Cubs 11 San Diego 1N.Y. Yankees 6 Boston 3

Wednesday’s GamesDetroit vs. Houston, 11:05 a.m.Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.Washington vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.St. Louis vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.Chicago White Sox vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.Colorado vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m.Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees, 4:35 p.m.Boston vs. Minnesota, 5:05 p.m.Cincinnati vs. Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesTampa Bay vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.Houston (ss) vs. Atlanta (ss), 11:05 a.m.Baltimore (ss) vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.N.Y. Mets vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.Toronto vs. Houston (ss), 11:05 a.m.St. Louis vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.N.Y. Yankees vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.Atlanta (ss) vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.Kansas City vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.Minnesota vs. Baltimore (ss), 5:05 p.m.Arizona vs. Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m.Milwaukee vs. Texas, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco vs. San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

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NHL general managers say a rule designed to curtail hits to the head is working as intend-ed. ,The NHL implemented rule 48, which pe-nalized illegal checks to the head, nearly five years ago. It was added to curtail a then-rising tide of dangerous hits, particularly from the blind side, amid a sporting climate that has be-come increasingly sensitive to concussions.

Gathering this week in Boca Raton, Florida, the league’s general managers sought to ad-dress Tuesday morning whether the rule was working effectively or needed tweaks. They ultimately deemed it an effective addition to the game.

“The consensus for our group was we’re comfortable with the way the rule is and not looking to make any changes,” Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman said.

General managers watched video of various incidents of the rule’s enforcement and were

satisfied with the manner in which it was being called. They also addressed the effectiveness of the boarding penalty.

“The one hit you don’t see a lot of anymore and it is a good thing, is the players coming across the blue line and releasing a shot and being exposed and getting hit,” said Yzerman. “Those hits are really devastating hits so that check for the most part seems to be eliminated and for the general health of the player that’s a big thing.”

GMs were split into three groups for much of Tuesday’s session with one group studying rule 48 and boarding and another discussing ideas to increase scoring. A third group explored more random topics such as situational occur-rences in a game like the net being pushed off its moorings.

One idea that bounced around to increase scoring would see short-handed teams no lon-ger able to ice the puck, which would seem-ingly give power-plays a greater advantage to score. Another idea would see teams get a full two-minute power-play regardless of how many goals were scored.

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DUNEDIN, Fla. — Chris Tillman allowed two runs and didn’t make it out of the second inning in Tuesday’s shaky spring debut for the Baltimore Ori-oles, who tied the Toronto Blue Jays 6-6.

The former All-Star served up four hits in the first, including a second-pitch leadoff double to Kev-in Pillar and RBI singles to Jose Bautista and Chris Colabello.

The right-hander then yielded a double to pros-pect Darrell Ceciliani to open the second and con-secutive two-out walks to AL MVP Josh Donaldson and Bautista before being lifted with the bases load-ed.

“I would have like to have made some better pitches,” Tillman said.

“I made a lot of good pitches with my fastball and could have stuck with that a bit more. But I wanted to get that feel for the breaking ball, which they made contact with.”

Tillman, who missed two weeks recovering from a strained flexor muscle in his right hip, gave up five hits, walked three and struck out one.

“It felt good to be back out there, get the butter-flies going and the adrenaline,” he said. “That makes it a lot of fun. It’s hard to do that on the back fields, but you know, there’s nothing like getting those but-terflies going in-game and having your guys behind you.”

Pedro Alvarez drove in a run for the Orioles with a single off Toronto starter Jesse Chavez in the first. And Baltimore’s Alfredo Marte hit a two-run homer in the eighth as part of a four-run inning.

Dalton Pompey tied it on a solo shot in the ninth for the Blue Jays.

STARTING TIMEBlue Jays: Chavez, a candidate for the fifth spot

in the rotation, gave up two earned runs on five hits in three innings. The righty, who was acquired in a November trade from Oakland, also walked one and struck out one.

“I felt good, I felt normal - just a little bit off and I could tell by the contact,” he said. “One hard hit off the wall, but other than that, I look at the swings and I look at the contact, then that will tell me if I’m pro-gressing or not the way I want to.”

FLASHING THE LEATHER

Blue Jays slugger Troy Tulowitzki was robbed of an extra-base hit in the second by Nolan Reimould on a towering fly ball to the right-field fence with the bases loaded and two outs. After making a leap at the wall and a quick juggle of the ball in his glove, Reimould held on to get the Orioles out of the jam.

An inning later, Ceciliani took away a hit from Al-varez with a head-first diving grab in shallow right.

TRAINER’S ROOMOrioles: C Matt Wieters was relieved that the

results of the MRI exam on his right elbow showed no structural damage. It’s not clear when he’ll play again. “Now, it’s a matter of just dealing with the symptoms, get them treated and get back out there,” Wieters said in Sarasota. … LHP Brian Matusz, who hasn’t pitched since March 1 because of a back inju-ry, threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session, but manag-er Buck Showalter said there is no timetable for his return.

Blue Jays: 1B/DH Edwin Encarnacion will be shut down at least a week with a “minor oblique problem,” manager John Gibbons said. The two-time All-Star has missed more than two weeks recovering from an abscessed tooth that was pulled Feb. 28. … RHP Marco Estrada said he had no limitations from his sore back after a minor league game Tuesday in which he struck out four in two innings. He said he expects to make his exhibition debut soon. “I think the toughest part was just sitting down, waiting for the inning to end and then getting back up and go-ing,” he said. “But once I got out there and got loose, I felt pretty good.”


BOCA RATON, Fla. — NHL goaltenders may look a lot smaller beginning next season.

Goalies across the league will be required to wear equipment better suited to their body size when the 2016-17 season begins or face suspension. A presen-tation of the new initiative, led by the NHL’s Kay Whitmore, was delivered Tuesday at the annual GM meetings.

Reductions will be made to the pants and upper body of the equipment, thus cutting down on unnec-essary “fat” which didn’t serve to protect goalten-ders, only help some gain an unfair advantage.

“If it takes a little more skill to play the position so be it,” Whitmore said. “Does this make scoring go up? I don’t know. That’s to be seen and that’s not the reason why we did it. This was (done) because we felt there was inequities within the goalies them-selves and the best goalies have come out and said that. And that’s what’s driving the bus here.”

Some of the league’s top goaltenders pushed for the change, including the Devils’ Cory Schneider and Capitals’ Braden Holtby. They, among others, would like the goaltending position to be more about skill and less about the puck simply caroming off enor-mous equipment.

“The best goalies in the league don’t want big stuff,” Whitmore said. “They actually want to put this to bed forever and say ‘We’re great no matter what we wear.”’

Goalies will face a two-game suspension for non-compliance, a rule that’s already in effect, but one that will be enforced more rigidly next season. Colin Campbell, the NHL’s executive vice president and director of hockey operations, said there was too much grey area previously to enforce the rule effec-tively.

Informed of the changes, which are subject to final approval from the league’s board of governors and the competition committee, general managers wanted confirmation that offenders would indeed be punished to which Campbell replied, “When your goaltender gets suspended don’t fight it’.”

“If you cheat, you pay the price,” Montreal gen-eral manager Marc Bergervin said. “If we all agree now, all 30 of us, and it happens in October none of us should be crying about it … if you live by the rules you should be fine.”

It will be Whitmore’s duty to enforce that reduc-tions in equipment are maintained, a process he said has yet to be fully scoped out. He said officiating crews might be involved in enforcement.

Goaltending equipment has mostly grown over the past two decades, from a point when goaltenders looked like thin rails between the pipes to now, where they almost resemble football linebackers.

In recent years the league demanded shorter leg pads, but those reductions are likely to pale in comparison to the new changes, especially in the reduction of upper body equipment. More padding saw some goaltenders lean less on skill and more on simply blocking the puck.

“It’s something that’s been going on for a long time and it’s not an easy topic because the goaltend-ing equipment is so vague in every area,” Campbell said.

Co-operation between the league and NHL Play-ers’ Association helped spur the changes, as did the support and involvement of equipment manufactur-ers. Whitmore said the manufacturers previously didn’t make enough sizes to fit the ranging height and weight of goaltenders.

Whether the changes lead to more scoring re-mains to be seen. Scoring has been declining for years as the league searches for answers. Among the ideas bounced around Tuesday was a potential (though unlikely) rule that would see short-handed teams unable to ice the puck.

While uncertain of the effect the changes would have on scoring and goal-tenders, Whitmore said the changes were driv-en by their involvement. Schneider, Holtby and the Wild’s Devan Dubnyk, among others, wanted a more level playing field within their ranks.

“They want to look at the other end of the rink and feel that the guy down there looks appropriate for his size,” Whitmore said. “So if a guy’s 6-4, 250 he should look that big.

“You don’t want the puck just hitting guys,” he added. “And I think that the goalies themselves felt that there should be a bigger gap between the greatest goalies in the league and the other guys.”

The new equipment is expected to be made available to goaltenders this summer, giving them an opportunity to test it.

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Red Deer set to host provincialsBY MURRAY CRAWFORD

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The Lindsay Thurber girl’s basketball team is heading into the biggest weekend of their season as the top-ranked local team for the 4A provincial tour-nament.

Red Deer is welcoming teams from across the province as hosts for this year’s version of Alber-ta’s March Madness and all the action will start on Thursday. There is a triumvirate of host venues that includes Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame High Schools. Some games will also be played at Camille J. LeRouge School.

It’s been a busy week for Terence McMullen, tour-nament chair, who said all the schools are working on different elements of the tournament. Hunting Hills is designing the banners and draw boards and opening ceremonies, Lindsay Thurber is getting the programs and webcasting together and Notre Dame is getting the banquet together.

The 12th-ranked Lindsay Thurber girls hit the hardwood at 2 p.m. on Thursday, taking on fifth-ranked Spruce Grove at Lindsay Thurber. Hunting Hills, ranked 14th, takes on the third-ranked West-ern Canada at 2 p.m. at Hunting Hills also on Thurs-

day.On the boys side, 13th-ranked Notre Dame

squares off with fourth-ranked Lethbridge Collegiate Institute at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Notre Dame while 14th-ranked Lindsay Thurber faces third-ranked Raymond on Thursday at 4 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber.

In other boys action on Thursday:#1 Archbishop O’Leary of Edmonton faces #16

Charles Spencer of Grande Prairie at 4 p.m. at Hunt-ing Hills

#2 Harry Ainlay of Edmonton faces #15 Lloydmin-ster at 8 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber

#5 Bishop McNally of Calgary faces #12 Foothills Composite of Okotoks at 8 p.m. at Hunting Hills

#6 Lester B. Pearson of Calgary faces # 11 M.E. Lazerte of Edmonton at 8 p.m. at Notre Dame

#7 Cardston faces #10 St. Francis of Calgary at 8 p.m. at Hunting Hills

#8 Notre Dame of Calgary faces #9 Holy Trinity of Edmonton at 4 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber

In girls action on Thursday:#1 St. Francis of Calgary faces #16 Lloydminster at

4 p.m. at Notre Dame#2 Jasper Place of Edmonton faces #15 Charles

Spencer of Grande Prairie at 6 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber

#4 Catholic Central of Lethbridge faces #13 Foot-hills Composite of Okotoks at 6 p.m. at Hunting Hills

#6 Lethbridge Composite Institute faces #11 Paul Kane of St. Albert at 6 p.m. at Notre Dame

#7 St. Albert Catholic faces #10 St. Mary’s of Cal-gary at 6 p.m. at Hunting Hills

#8 Bishop Grandin of Calgary faces #9 Cardston at 2 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber

Semi-finals are scheduled for Friday at 6 and 8 p.m. at Notre Dame for the girls and at Lindsay Thurber for the boys with the finals set for 5 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Lindsay Thurber.

In 3A basketball provincials action, to be held in Olds this weekend, Central Alberta is represented by the hosts and Wetaskiwin on the girls side, who play each other to start the tournament. On the boys side, Olds plays St. Peter the Apostle from Spruce Grove, to start.

Lacombe’s Central Alberta Christian High School’s girls basketball team competes at 2A pro-vincials in Picture Butte. They start against Glen-mary.

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It sounds like science fiction: Snip out a bad gene, insert a good one and stop cancer in its tracks. But this fall, a British baby named Layla Richards made history when doctors used genet-ic engineering technology to knock out the cancer that threatened her young life.

Layla had a severe and unusual form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Diagnosed at 14 weeks, the baby girl received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant. But her cancer was aggressive and resisted treatment. Layla’s parents asked doctors to try anything — and physicians at Lon-don’s Great Ormond Street Hospital turned to a technique never before used against cancer in humans: gene editing.

The gene-editing technology, so new that it had been studied on-ly in mice, removed a gene from the spreading cancer cells that protected them against destruction by Layla’s immune system, and it beefed up can-cer-fighting immune cells in her sys-tem so that they could seek out and de-stroy the now-vulnerable cancer cells. The beefed-up immune cells also had genes edited into them that were able to protect them from the drugs Layla

was taking. Soon after her first birth-day, Layla received the infusion.

For three months, the enhanced im-mune cells roamed her body, wiping out her cancerous cells. Layla then had a successful bone marrow trans-plant. Doctors announced in Novem-ber that she is cancer-free, calling it “almost a miracle.”

Gene editing is a fast-moving field that holds promise for improving health in many ways. A few weeks before Layla’s story made headlines, the Cleveland Clinic, where Dr. Mike is Chief Wellness Officer, named a gene-editing technique to the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2016. The list is usually reserved for breakthroughs that doctors and patients can currently use. But gene editing has such amazing potential to change clinical care in 2016 that the Clinic’s physicians voted it a top-10 spot.

Someday soon, gene editing could

help wipe out illnesses that are caused by a single, inherited gene — diseas-es like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia or breast cancers triggered by one of the BRCA genes. And it may help to edit out problem genes that develop later in life, called somatic mutations. It’s also exciting because the ability to ed-it genes lets researchers learn more than ever about problems made worse by multiple genes, such as heart dis-ease, diabetes and obesity.

Scientists have several gene-ed-iting tools at their disposal. Layla’s treatment used one called TALENs; another has the catchy name “zinc fingers.” We think the future is very bright for one called CRISPR. It us-es a protein that knows how to locate specific genes, then edit or snip them out. It’s cheap (as little as $30), fast and precise. That’s important, because the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human genome contain 30,000 genes.

That is some of the good work that’s already underway. Here’s a short list of some other exciting projects:

Obesity gene: Researchers at Har-vard University are looking at whether CRISPR can be used to snip out an “obesity gene” that governs the metab-olism of fat cells.

Pancreatic cancer: Stanford Univer-sity researchers are using CRISPR to study how this quick-spreading, hard-to-treat cancer develops.

High blood pressure: Lifestyle choices play a big role in blood-pres-sure problems, but your genes are in-volved, too. University of Iowa scien-tists are zeroing in on specific genes in hopes of learning how to edit out those that promote high blood pressure.

Heart disease: The Montreal Heart Institute is leading an international ef-fort to pinpoint culprits and how they work. They can edit one gene-or a fam-ily of genes-to see if that helps to elim-inate heart disease.

Alzheimer’s disease: Some genes boost risk for early Alzheimer’s, while another — a variant of the APOE4 gene carried by one in five of us — doubles the risk for this dementia later in life. Massachusetts General Hospital re-searchers are looking to gene editing to replace that APOE4 gene and find other ways to treat this form of demen-tia.

The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen of Cleve-land Clinic, are authors of YOU: Los-ing Weight. For more information, go to www.RealAge.com.


CALGARY — Researchers at Cal-gary’s Rockyview General Hospital be-lieve the human heart provides valu-able data when it comes to predicting oncoming illness and the information could help reduce the frequency of post-surgery complications.

Dr. David Liepert, the hospital’s di-rector of perioperative medicine, says a lack of variability in a heart rate is an indicator of medical stress.

“When you’re healthy, your heart rate is always going up and down all the time in response to your life, in response to your body, in response to what you’re doing at the time,” says Liepert, the lead investigator of the

study.“The sicker you get, the less your

heart rate varies because it becomes rigid, it becomes fixed, it becomes fo-cused on dealing with the sickness.”

Liepert says a racing heart rate or a relatively slow heart rate do not nec-essarily indicate impending issues, it’s the lack of fluctuation in time between beats, no matter the measure beats per minute, that bring cause for concern.

The idea of utilizing heart rate vari-ability (HRV) data as a predictor of illness came to Liepert following the floods that ravaged Calgary and other parts of southern Alberta in 2013.

While assisting with flood relief, Liepert says he contracted a cardiac virus which damaged his heart. Prior to the diagnosis, he had detected a

change in his heart rate.“I knew something was going on be-

cause I have always had a very vari-able heart rate,” he says. “It goes up when I breathe in and it goes down when I breathe out and that’s normal.”

Acting on his hunch, Liepert ap-proached Biotricity, a medical tech-nology firm, and the organization de-veloped a monitor that samples a heart rate 1,000 times in a second.

“From beat to beat, the distance between the beats gives you a differ-ent heart rate for every single heart-beat. Heart rate variability is moni-toring those miniscule differences in the length of time between individu-al beats to actually give you, what we call, the instantaneous heart rate.

“If you’re not resolving on the mil-

lisecond level, you’re not going to be able to pick up the same resolution of data.”

Liepert says his research team in-tends to develop a perioperative well-ness monitor that will follow a patient from pre-surgery, through the proce-dure, and throughout the recovery pro-cess.

“The important thing is the 30 days after surgery,” says Liepert. “

Monitoring your return to full well-ness, getting back to normal activity, and getting back to normal life.”

The research team believes the monitor could result in a reduction of post-surgery complications including wound infections and blood clots.

Can heart rates predict illness?CALGARY HOSPITAL RESEARCHING POSSIBLE CONNECTION


WASHINGTON — Scientists are racing to create a Zika vaccine, and while they’re starting from scratch against a poorly understood disease, copying shots for similar viruses of-fers a head start.

A variety of potential candidates are being pursued: Simple DNA vac-cines, made with only a few genes from the virus some made from killed or inactivated virus, much like a stan-dard flu shot others made with live but weakened virus.

“We believe we can get a vaccine,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the National In-stitutes of Health, said.

He’s optimistic that the first small safety tests of at least one kind could begin by early fall.

But that doesn’t mean a vaccine could come in time to help with the outbreak now rapidly spreading through Latin America.

Here are some questions and an-swers about Zika vaccine research:

Q: Why the optimism?A: It’s technologically feasible,

since vaccines against other viruses in the same family as Zika, including yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue, already exist. Also, the NIH created an experimental vaccine for West Nile virus that showed prom-ise during safety testing.

Q: Why is the Zika research only now getting underway?

A: Zika hadn’t been considered enough of a problem to warrant a vac-cine until Brazil reported an appar-ent link to babies born with unusually small heads, which can signal under-lying brain damage.

Q: What vaccines are first in line?A: It’s too early to know. But a DNA

vaccine could be the fastest to devel-op, said Dr. Barney Graham, of the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and In-fectious Diseases, who is leading work to do just that by essentially swap-

ping Zika into the NIH’s experimental West Nile vaccine.

For that approach, researchers in-sert viral genes into a “plasmid,” a ring of DNA that, when injected, can prompt a cell to produce what looks like the virus’ outer shell.

That puts the immune system on guard without any risk of infection. DNA vaccines are being studied for a variety of illnesses, some promis-ing and others that haven’t triggered a strong enough immune response, but Graham said the technique is safe enough that potential candidates for Zika could be tested quickly.

Q: What about longer-term pros-

pects?A: Because birth defects appear

to be Zika’s biggest threat, the ulti-mate goal is a vaccine given in child-hood that’s strong enough to persist through the childbearing years, Gra-ham said.

After all, scientists fought rubel-la’s devastating birth defects by creat-ing a childhood vaccine made of live but weakened virus that triggers a long-lasting immune response — one option being researched for Zika.

But multiple options are needed, because live vaccines aren’t recom-mended for pregnant women, Graham noted.

Q: Who’s doing the research?A: The World Health Organization

estimates that more than a dozen re-search institutes and companies are doing some initial work.

The biggest company is vaccine gi-ant Sanofi Pasteur, which is exploring whether its live attenuated dengue vaccine that recently won approval in Brazil offers a good model for Zika, as well as other options.

At Brazil’s Butantan Institute, di-rector Jorge Kalil says researchers are prioritizing an inactivated vac-cine, a kind pregnant women could use.

Q: How would scientists know if an experimental vaccine works?

A: Fauci’s goal of an initial safe-ty test starting in the fall is only one step. An early clue to a candidate’s effectiveness may come from a hu-man challenge study, which the NIH is planning with Johns Hopkins Uni-versity.

A small number of volunteers would agree to be given a dose of the virus after vaccination, while hos-pitalized in case of problems, to see whether they’re protected.

Ultimately, learning whether any candidate shot really protects re-quires large studies, and how fast those could be done depends in part on whether Zika still is spreading widely in 2017.

After all, the 2014 Ebola epidem-ic in West Africa had begun to ebb by the time major studies of poten-tial vaccines got underway, making it difficult to tell whether those shots worked.

Q: Can vaccine development ever get ahead of the next infectious threat?

A: The NIH has paused research into other needed vaccines to focus on Zika, the latest in a series of emerging infections in recent years.

While there’s no way to tell what bug will strike next, better investment in vaccine technologies “could allow us to be more prepared so that it’s not quite such a big scramble when these kinds of things happen,” Graham said.

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An Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. Scientists are looking at all their options in developing a Zika virus vaccine.

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NEW YORK — Indiana Jones is swinging back in-to theatres with Harrison Ford reprising the iconic role and Steven Spielberg directing.

The Walt Disney Co. an-nounced Tuesday that the fifth film in the action ad-venture series will open July 19, 2019. The last Indi-ana Jones movie was 2008’s poorly received Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which co-starred Shia LaBeouf as Indiana’s son. It followed a nearly 20-year gap in the franchise after 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Another Indiana Jones film has long been rumoured, occasionally with whispers of different actors taking over the role from the 73-year-old Ford. But Spielberg has repeatedly in-sisted Ford would never be replaced. The actor’s return as his famous fe-dora-wearing archaeologist comes shortly after reprising his equally iconic Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“Indiana Jones is one of the great-est heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” said Alan Horn, chair-man of the Walt Disney Studios. “It’s rare to have such a perfect combina-tion of director, producers, actor and

role, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Har-rison and Steven.”

The film, not yet titled, will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Matthew Perry to portray Ted Kennedy in miniseries

NEW YORK — Former Friends star Matthew Perry will play Ted Kennedy in the forthcoming miniseries The Ken-nedys — After Camelot.

Reelz cable channel on Tuesday an-nounced his casting for the four-hour project, a follow-up to the miniseries

The Kennedys. The new film will begin production in May, to air in spring 2017.

Perry portrays Ted Kennedy in the years following the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby as he tries to continue the Kennedy legacy.

Katie Holmes will reprise her role as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from The Kennedys, which aired on Reelz in 2011.

Perry, who starred for a decade in the comedy Friends, is currently appearing on the London stage in his playwriting debut, The End of Longing. His CBS sitcom, The Odd Couple, begins its second season in April.

Actor relishes chance to revive Breaking Bad villain for prequel


TORONTO — There was precious little to glean from Breaking Bad about one of its greatest villains, Hector (Tio) Salamanca.

But with just one appearance on Better Call Saul, we’ve already got a taste of a rich backstory that adds some shading to later storylines.

Warning: read no further to avoid spoilers for either AMC series.

Actor Mark Margolis was surprised when he heard his cartel character was being revived for the Breaking Bad prequel, which focuses on the origins of Bob Odenkirk’s slippery lawyer character Saul Goodman.

But he relished the chance to return to New Mexico and reteam with cre-ator Vince Gilligan, who killed Tio off with a spectacular TV death that also took out vengeful drug boss Gus Fring, played by Giancarlo Esposito.

Wheelchair bound, mute, and pos-sibly brain damaged, Tio Salamanca commanded his murderously loyal nephews with just the tap of a bell.

On Monday’s episode of Better Call Saul — which takes place roughly six years before the events of Breaking Bad — he turned up able-bodied, En-glish-speaking and sharp as a tack. He strongly encouraged former dirty cop Mike Ehrmantraut (played by Jona-than Banks) to help spare his nephew Tuco some jail time.

Margolis, whose other dark roles have included an assassin on Scar-face and a prison-bound Italian mob boss on HBO’s Oz, chatted recently by phone about revisiting his “mon-strous” character.

Mark Margolis: Where are you in Canada?

The Canadian Press: I’m in Toronto.Margolis: In the summer I was there

for a month working on My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.

CP: Yes, I was going to ask you about that.

Margolis: They are the same cast from the original movie. I’m an addi-tion who comes over from Greece…. I don’t even know if I should reveal that much. I’m in the last third of the mov-ie, but I have a very important part. A Greek character named Panos who’s a brother of one of the main characters.

CP: And for once are you not play-ing a heavy?

Margolis: See, people always say that to me. If I sat down with you and we had like an hour I would show you that in my whole life I probably have 150 things, played 21 heavies and the

other 129 were not heavies. But that’s the way everybody seems to see me.

CP: You make an impact.Margolis: Yeah, but I don’t want to

be known as a heavy, I never thought of myself that way. Like, there are peo-ple who also think I only play Mafia guys and in my whole life I’ve only do-ne five of those. But I guess I’m stuck with what I’m stuck with…. I just want to be known as pert and perky and sweet.

CP: On Better Call Saul we get to hear Tio Salamanca speak English for the first time, albeit with a thick Mex-ican accent.

Margolis: The first episode (of Breaking Bad) I was ever in they thought I was kind of catatonic or brain dead sitting in front of a TV with a novela playing, and Jesse and Walt were conspiring to poison my nephew. Granted, a lot of what’s going on I can see visually but they were also speak-ing about what they wanted to do. So you could make an assumption that I do understand some of what they’re saying as well.

CP: It must be nice to know your character is guaranteed to survive this series.

Margolis: But at any moment (Vince)

can have me fall over and be complete-ly without the ability to speak and I’m sure he has that in mind somewhere. With Vince it can happen at any mo-ment … I could be struck by a bullet, I could be hit by a car, I could have a sudden stroke, a seizure, lightning might come down and strike me from heaven.

CP: Tell me about learning Tio would be killed.

Margolis: I had contacted (Vince) months and months before about a way in which I thought he could kill me off…. I had some idea for Giancarlo Esposito’s character to take me out into the hills and crucify me…. I men-tioned it to Vince and then, it must have been about eight months later, I got this call. And I think I immediately said, “You’re calling because you’re going to kill me.” And he said, “Yeah, but wait until I tell you how we’re go-ing to do it!”

CP: And it was pretty spectacular. One of the great TV deaths.

Margolis: People always talk to me about killing myself. And I say, I wasn’t really killing myself, I was killing Gus and I happened to be collateral dam-age. But it was worth it.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Tio Salamanca, played by Mark Margolis, in a wheelchair, with Daniel Moncada as Marco Salamanca, standing left, and Luis Moncada as Marco Salamanca in a scene from the third season of ‘Breaking Bad.’

BETTER CALL SAUL

Vegas a challenging market for The King


LAS VEGAS — For decades, Las Vegas has loved Elvis Presley tender — and loved him true — but the King’s presence in modern day Sin City has lately been diminishing, one imper-sonator at a time.

“Vegas really is, ironically, a chal-lenging market for Elvis,” said Jack Soden, CEO of Elvis Presley Enter-prises, which runs the Graceland at-traction in Memphis, Tennessee, and manages many of the official business deals on behalf of the estate.

The group had loaned hundreds of artifacts to a much-hyped, months-old Elvis attraction at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino. Graceland Presents Elvis closed in February after failing to draw in many visitors to the museum exhibit, wedding chapel and theatre.

The off-Strip property is now hold-ing the valuables against the will of the estate, as Westgate battles with the attraction’s third-party operator over a leasing dispute. The estate has since filed a lawsuit to get those items back.

The fallout at Westgate is not the first Elvis-related spectacle in Las Vegas to leave the building too soon. Low attendance numbers were also to blame when the Viva Elvis Cirque du Soleil show at the Aria casino-hotel was cancelled in 2012 after a two-year run. That’s a much shorter shelf life than most of its sister shows. The lon-gest-running one, Myste’re, started on the Strip more than two decades ago.

It’s left the Strip’s largest casino operator, MGM Resorts Internation-al, without any Elvis-themed shows, attractions or weddings. Rival Cae-sars Entertainment Corporation still hosts tribute acts and weddings, but a spokeswoman said few of those getting hitched ever choose the official Elvis packages.

It’s a stark turn for a city that has for so long thrived in its association with “The King.” The rise of Elvis coin-cided with the rise of Las Vegas as an entertainment capital, said Cory Coo-per, an Elvis historian.

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CASAVANT Leo Feb 16, 1950 - Mar 7, 2016Please see Leo’s memorial page at:

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The Enjoy Centre101 Riel Drive

St. Albert, AlbertaThe Park Room will be open to Leo’s family and friends

from 1 to 4 p.m.

PARFENIUKJeanette (Jean)June 21, 1927 - Mar. 11, 2016Jean passed away with her daughter, Karen, by her side on Friday, March 11, 2016 at the age of 88 years. Jean is lovingly remembered by her daughter, Karen Tiffi n, (Steve); four grandchildren, Shane (Nicole), Kerry (Kevin), Myka, and Travis; and six great-grandchildren, Noah, Jonah, Sola, Mikayla, Jake, and Mackenzie. A celebration of Jean’s life will be held at City Chapel, 5850 Kerrywood Drive, Red Deer, AB on Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Light lunch to follow.

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SANDERS (nee ROY)Denise Mathilde Sanders of Innisfail, Alberta passed away on March 11, 2016 on her 71st Birthday. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario on March 11, 1945. She received her invaluable education from life’s experiences and her belief in the word of God. Denise had 5 children and moved from Ottawa to Wetaskiwin, Alberta in 1979 and settled in Innisfail, AB in 1990 when she married Cliff. Mom loved gardening, reading, and spending time with her family and friends. Thank you to her wonderful family in the Living Church of God. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband Clifford Sanders, her sister Claudette Roy, her children; Cheryl (Allen) Berry, Jimmy (Kathy) Albert, Yvonne (Brian) Peebles, John (Tania) Albert, Ricky (Miyuki) Albert, many grandchildren, great grandchildren, and family in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. Denise was predeceased by her parents Hector Sr. and Yvonne Roy, her siblings; Hector Jr., Jean Louis, Suzanne, and Richard, step-daughter Tara, granddaughter Vanessa, and great grandson Jonathan. A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm. at the Baptist Church of Innisfail at 5204 Woodland Road, Innisfail. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Heartland Funeral Services Ltd. Please send condolences to www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

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Brett Kendall Buit May 1981 - March 2013

Partings come and hearts are broken,

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Mom and Dad, Brandi and Joe, Shantel and Cory,

Shannon and Ward, nieces and nephews.

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Dawnine (DJ) JACKSONJune 14, 1967 - March 16, 2011

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Love Your “Cuz”Jeanine and Hal

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At a moment when a lot of Ameri-can television seems to want to make us feel as grim as possible, Jane the Vir-gin, the CW show about a young woman (Gina Rodriguez) whose life is turned upside down when she is accidentally artificially inseminated, feels like an optimistic pop of colour and good in-tentions in a grim landscape.

Rather than following the conven-tions of anti-hero dramas or crime pro-cedurals, Jane the Virgin, is an Ameri-can riff on the telenovela, a genre with a long history everywhere else in the TV-watching world but that’s made almost incremental progress here. In its second season Jane the Virgin is a great example of why telenovelas are a welcome addition to the TV landscape — but also of how easily they can fall apart.

When ABC adapted Ugly Betty for an American audience in 2006, the American telenovela was still fairly new to network TV. The series, based on the Colombian telenovela, Yo Soy Betty, la fea, was also the first bonafide hit of the fledgling subgenre. It bor-rowed the absurd plots of its source material — kidnappings, sneaky pater-nity schemes, nefarious business deal-ings — but it also managed a gravitas and sensitivity that seemed distinct from other American soap operas.

Ugly Betty functioned more like a

nighttime drama than a daytime soap, even when factoring in its sillier ma-terial — and that seemed to set a prec-edent for how American telenovelas would be handled in the future: they wouldn’t be melodramatic, just dra-matic. They’d endeavor to strike some balance between serious acting and zany narrative twists.

In its first season, Ugly Betty showed remarkable promise. It became an unlikely critical darling and its star, America Ferrera, who’d long toiled in supporting roles, finally seemed poised for stardom.

But something began to break down in season 2: the show started to go big-

ger and wilder with its soapy plots. Celebrity guest appearances took pre-cedence over strong storylines. And though the show still had spunk and heart, that began to be overshadowed by an upped-ante of wackiness.

Fast forward to nearly a decade after Ugly Betty’s debut to The CW’s unveiling of Jane the Virgin in 2014. The new American telenovela was im-mediately reminiscent of Ugly Betty, with an actress — Gina Rodriguez — as capable of balancing zaniness and emotional resonance as Ferrera was and first-season plots that someone managed to toe the line between ab-solute absurdity and breathtaking vul-

nerability.The first season of Jane the Vir-

gin felt near-flawless to me when I binge-watched it last summer, but as I neared the finale, I worried over the show’s ability to maintain its momen-tum. I’d been through this before, af-ter all, and when early promos for the second season boasted a big song and dance number with Britney Spears and a guest appearance by Kesha, I grew even warier.

As it turned out, I didn’t have to fret too much about celebrity stunt cast-ing in Jane the Virgin’s second season; the show hasn’t overdone it. But its premise and plotting are showing oth-er signs of wear this year.

Between the prolonged love tri-angle with Michael (Brett Dier) and Rafael (Justin Baldoni), the strange choice to add to more babies to the cast via Petra’s (Yael Grobglas) insem-ination and delivery of twins, the on-going underworld storyline with the Solano family, a stalking storyline with Rogelio, and the increasing improba-bility that Jane would still be so resis-tant to sex after childbirth, given how much physical intimacy she’s desired and welcomed, it’s tough to know how the show will be able to maintain the thoughtfulness and heart of its first year.

Jane the Virgin has just been re-newed for a third season — and that’s fantastic news. Season two has set the show up with narrative arcs that could be satisfyingly resolved in a third year. It might be best for Jane the Virgin if the show goes out at a high point, and if it teaches American audiences that too much of a good thing can turn it bad.

Elvis played here more than any-where else, selling out hundreds of shows, year after year.

Cementing his ties to Sin City were his hits, the Viva Las Vegas song that gave the town its anthem, and the mov-ie by the same name that showcased its glitzy persona.

There was a time when Elvis fans across the country made the pilgrim-age to Las Vegas to see his concerts, and following his death in 1977, to indulge in the many tribute shows,

impersonators and nostalgic memories from his heyday.

It also became a staple of Las Ve-gas kitsch to see Elvis impersonators — though they prefer to be known as “tribute artists” — on the many tour-ist-friendly corners of town and at the quickie wedding ceremonies Vegas was known for.

Elvis impersonator Ted Payne, 54 said business has slowed dramatically since he started taking photos with tourists for tips just six years ago.

“When I first started out, I wouldn’t get out of a bed unless I (could) make at least $150,” he said. “Now, these days, $50 is a great day.”

These days, Elvis registers only briefly in the consciousness of Melanie Casas, 22, of Phoenix. On her first trip to Las Vegas recently, she identified him as the singer of Hound Dog who was also featured as a character in the Forrest Gump movie.

“I know of him but I don’t know any-thing about him,” Casas said, shrug-ging.

This generational divide could be blamed for the apparent lull in inter-est in the iconic performer. Others say the market was oversaturated by Elvis impersonators for so long that the ap-peal burned itself out here, even as Elvis’ reach grows internationally.

The Elvis brand is one of the most active and successful entertainment estates. Forbes magazine, in its annual list of earnings by dead entertainers, said Presley’s estate earned $55 mil-lion for the year ending October 2014 — second to Michael Jackson.

Soden said Graceland mansion, where Elvis lived, sees a growing num-ber of visitors and is expanding with a new Elvis-themed hotel nearby.

Elvis fans are not aging out, he said, because nearly 40 per cent of Graceland visitors were born after

Elvis’ death. Soden also said the es-tate has been successful in many of its business deals, particularly in the Mid-dle East, U.K., Asia and Australia.

He in large part blamed the West-gate closure on Vegas’ lack of interest in exhibits overall. “Vegas hasn’t seen the last of Elvis. Giving it a rest is not all that bad,” Soden said of a future comeback.

Meanwhile, Vegas tourism only con-tinues to reinvent itself. Once focused as an entertainment capital, it veered momentarily in an attempt to be a fam-ily-friendly destination before settling on its latest persona: the overindulgent playground of the young and wealthy.

“I think the problem with Vegas is Las Vegas is trying to escape from itself, either rewrite history or make new history,” Cooper, the historian, said. “All these properties that started Las Vegas, nothing’s there anymore.”

ELVIS: Business slowed dramatically

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Spies like usBY KATHERINE BRODSKY

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Although the FX series The Ameri-cans has been praised for its nuance, it creates a cloak-and-dagger world where tools never fail, master plans almost always work out and the best spies always win.

Real spies know that world is make-believe. Still, when they’re done lurking in shadows — or typing away in their cubicles, more likely — they often come home and turn on the show about Soviet sleeper spies (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) posing as a married couple, which returns for a fourth season on Wednesday. Spies recognize that the show exaggerates, but they also mostly praise the ways in which it rings true — and even the ways it doesn’t.

“It’s kind of an open secret that ma-ny people in the intelligence commu-nity are some of the most avid readers of spy novels and most avid watchers of spy shows and movies,” says Doug Patteson, a former CIA officer with extensive overseas experience, now living in New Hampshire. “It gives you this idealized view of the intelligence world that’s very different from the practical aspects of day-to-day life. The truth is that often, real-world in-telligence can be a bore, a drudgery.”

Emily Brandwin is a former CIA officer in Los Angeles. She appreci-ates escapism as much as the next per-son, but when it comes to espionage, she watches with a critical eye. Kief-er Sutherland’s Jack Bauer? He’s es-caped death way more than real spies, who mostly never see action. Homeland gets a lot right, although Carrie would have never been hired due to her mul-titude of emotional issues.

Then there’s Alias, filled with out-rageous, campy costumes. “I go: ‘Why can’t I look like Sydney Bristow?’ You see her and she’s scaling down a build-ing in a black catsuit and a hot wig and she looks amazing,” Brandwin says. “And here I am with a bad wig and a pregnancy belly and I look horrible.”

But The Americans has won Brand-win over. “There are such nuggets of authenticity that you don’t see in other shows. Everything from gadgets to sur-veillance is done with great care and authenticity, and you can feel that it’s not over the top, it’s really core to the characters,” she says.

After all, the series’ creator and co-showrunner Joe Weisberg has first-hand experience. Lured in by the spy world of John le Carré novels, Weis-berg spent 3 ½ years working for the CIA.

The series is often praised for using

authentic tradecraft. That was the rel-atively easy part.

“The thing (that interested me) about espionage wasn’t so much about stealing secrets or operations per se,” he explains. “It was about the lives of officers and how they felt.”

Weisberg was fascinated by the idea that intelligence officers lie to their kids about what they do and one day might have to confront them with the truth. That human side, to him, made it the drama special. “Can you take the spy out of it, and still make it work?” he says.

Leading a dual life can have a real tension on relationships. “The reality of espionage is that, yes, some of it can be exciting, but it can also be a very dark, very lonely job,” says Brandwin, who had to maintain a cover identity for her friends and dated fellow CIA officers. “When you’re trained to be a professional liar and you’re dating other trained liars, it is a very bizarre thing.”

Before becoming a field officer, Brandwin began her career in the CIA as a disguises officer. (Yes, that’s an actual position.) “What I really appre-ciate is that the disguises are never a joke, it’s really a part of how the char-acters pull off their operations, so it’s essential,” she explains about the se-ries. “It’s not just about someone slap-ping on a wig, but the care and details of crafting a persona every day.”

In one scene, Martha, an FBI secre-tary that Rhys’s character’s alter ego, Clark, seduces to glean information, observes that he is wearing a toupee. Clark thinks his cover may be blown, but he soon realizes that Martha attri-butes the hairpiece to vanity and hair loss, not a faux identity. She doesn’t question Clark’s authenticity, because the rest of his disguise is so complete, such as his nerdy, slightly nervous manner of speaking.

But the show doesn’t get everything right. “The murder and mayhem on the show is probably more the Hollywood

part of it,” Brandwin says.“Violence leaves forensic informa-

tion and can be seen by witnesses, in-creasing the risk of detection,” Pat-teson says. “It’s great for the storyline but would never happen so frequently to such valuable assets as these two illegals. In the real world, if you get involved in a violent incident, you are likely on the first plane home.”

Illegals, a term used for Russian sleeper agents, would also not be like-ly to be used so much in real life given that they are expensive to train and run. “The more you use them, the high-er the risk of exposure — the more you risk your investment,” says Patteson.

Accuracy aside, pop culture depic-tions of espionage have long helped recruit new spies. “Lots of people who joined would say that the thing that got them intrigued with the intelli-gence community was James Bond or Jason Bourne or a good novel or a good show,” Patteson says.

WHAT’S REAL AND FAKE IN ‘THE AMERICANS,’ ACCORDING TO REAL-LIFE INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

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Soviet sleeper spies (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) poses as a married couple in the critically acclaimed show, ‘The Americans,’ which returns for a fourth season on Wednesday.

Jane the Virgin showing signs of wear in Season 2

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Gina Rodriguez as Jane and guest star Britney Spears on The CW’s ‘Jane the Virgin.’

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1989 -al at World Figure Skating Championship. 1915 — Second Canadian Division begins to arrive in England for service in World War I. 1870 — British Columbia assembly begins “The Great Confederation Debates 1855 — George-Etienne Cartier passes his Militia Act, constitutes all males between 18 and 60 as military forces of Canada; all men under 40 to be mustered once a year;1843 — James Douglas starts construction of

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TODAY IN HISTORY

Wednesday March 16, 2016CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:

Jerry Lewis, 89; Erik Estrada, 66; Lauren Graham, 48

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars favour education, travel, psychology and re-generation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are a wonderful combination of being imaginative and realis-tic.

2016 is the year to worry a lot less and dream much more.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be given the opportunity to lead and/or influence others in some way today so don’t waste it. Others are looking for you to come up with the goods so get cracking Rams and don’t disappoint!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Lady Luck is on your side today and friendships are also favoured, as you link up with pals from home and far away.

The day will work best if you share your good spirits with those around you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Venus visiting your career/volunteering zone until April 5, it’s the perfect time to consult closely with colleagues or beautify your office space. Love and work are also linked in lucky ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to reach out and help others, both within your circle of family and friends and within your local neighbourhood.

The community connections you foster now will prove beneficial in the future.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re in the mood to socialize and pamper yourself today, as you enjoy compatible conversation and life’s little luxuries.

For some lucky Lions, a creative idea is

set to boost your bank balance.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re keen

to make connections with others, as the plan-ets highlight your friendship and networking zones.

So it’s a wonderful day to initiate ideas and create waves within your circle of influ-ence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When it comes to a family matter, avoid quick fixes. Success will come if you are patient and do all the homework or research that’s required. Look for facts that are hidden deep beneath the surface.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Group ac-tivities and social networking are highlighted today, as you expand your contacts to include an international new crowd.

Travel and study opportunities are also shining on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Jupiter/Pluto trine is fabulous for work, study, business, travel and financial matters. Lady Luck is definitely on your side as you make

positive changes and accept exciting new challenges.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With Venus now visiting your neighbourhood zone, there is much to do — and much satisfaction to be gained — through contributing to caus-es within your local community. Capricorn to the rescue!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Financial luck is waiting in the wings via a new job, a bonus or a gift. Don’t be bashful though.

Use your networking skills to drum up work, and don’t be afraid to ask others for assistance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): All types of partnerships are given a welcome boost today, as Jupiter and Pluto increase optimism and help you rescue and reform a rickety relationship that’s been experiencing some problems.

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Dear Annie: Many years ago, I was separated from my husband for sever-al years. At the tail end of our separa-tion, I discovered he had been cheat-ing on me.

About a week after I learned this, I was approached by the husband of a woman I knew who was quite ill. He said she had given permission for the two of us to sleep together. Because my husband’s affair was fresh in my mind, I agreed to this, although now I can see it was misguided. I assumed my hus-band and I would be getting a divorce, and I was hoping this new relationship would lead somewhere.

After a while, I realized I was being used and ended it. My husband found out and he forgave me. In fact, we rec-onciled and are still together.

Here’s the problem: Although my daughters have forgiven me, my son continues to make disrespectful re-marks about me on social media. I have tried talking to him about it. To my face, he acts as though everything is fine, but his online comments can be

seen by all our family and friends.Obviously, he has never gotten over

my affair, but he lives across the coun-try, so it’s not as though we can go to counseling together. I’m not sure how to handle this and I’ve had enough. My heart is hardening toward him. — Hurt Mom

Dear Mom: Apparently, your son holds you to a higher standard than he does his father.

His nasty comments on social media are childish.

He is trying to punish you. If you have not yet sincerely apologized to your son for causing him pain, please do so. It costs you nothing and it might be what he needs to settle down.

You also can ask his father or sis-

ters to intercede and make him see that this is counterproductive and could damage the relationship per-manently. Otherwise, we strongly urge you to stop reading his posts. Such vit-riol only hurts you repeatedly. Ignore what you can, and get counseling for yourself if you need help letting go.

Dear Annie: I, too, was “Married to a Kvetch,” and have some suggestions on how to handle the irritation.

My husband wasn’t sick, but he enjoyed broadcasting his health ail-ments.

His favorite hobby was going to the doctor.

Telling him to get a thorough check-up would not change anything. We had good health insurance, so I indulged him. I listened, made suggestions and worked on keeping him distracted with activities and hobbies.

I knew he wouldn’t suddenly stop complaining.

He was simply a hypochondriac. He was a middle child, and I think this is how he always managed to get atten-

tion from his family. In spite of his con-stant complaints and “poor health,” he lived to age 94.

“Married to a Kvetch” says her hus-band is otherwise a good guy.

I would tell her to love him, and to try to understand the reason for his behavior.

It makes all the difference in toler-ating it. — Understanding Widow

Dear Widow: Some people enjoy their maladies and like the attention (even negative attention) that com-plaining brings.

But in case it is a genuine undiag-nosed medical problem, it should al-ways be checked out.

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Son won’t forgive mother for affair

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This snowshoe hare seems to be wondering where the snow is going? Not all wild hares change color at the same time. Its a survival mode nature has in place for weather variations.

Toys “R” Us Canada names 12-year-old as new ‘chief play officer’

MONTREAL — Emile Burbidge loves to jump and a pogo stick is his favourite toy.

So it’s not surprising it was the first thing the 12-year-old boy from St-Bru-no, Que., tried after being selected as “chief play officer” for Toys “R” Us Canada.

Burbidge was plucked from hun-dreds of potential Canadian candi-dates, with the field narrowed to 11 finalists before he was chosen.

So what did he do upon hearing of his good fortune? Jumped for joy of course.

“It’s really cool,” Burbidge said in a lunchtime interview from his house. “It’s like being (elected) the president of good fortune.”

Burbidge’s job is to try out products — sometimes even being the first to do so — make recommendations and take part in media appearances and events.

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