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Despite the moisture that July storms have been routinely bringing almost each day, some trees could be in need of extra watering because of drought con-ditions, says the City of Red Deer’s forester.

As Susan Katzell puts it, trees in Red Deer “went to bed fairly dry and woke up dry.” Drought is tough on trees.

A dry fall and winter, followed by a dry spring will have been harder on young trees, which do not have an established root system yet, she said.

Surface root trees in the city such as poplar and spruce are okay now that there’s been rain but the deep-rooted ones could be suffering.

At the same time, younger spruce trees can suffer from dry conditions because they haven’t yet got es-tablished roots systems.

Katzell said that in construction areas she has noticed that the ground is dry a foot below the sur-face so deep-rooted trees could use supplemental watering.

“We were dry until probably the end of June.” Trees such as American elm and green ash, which are deeper rooted trees, are suffering a bit more.

During drought conditions trees should be wa-tered deeply, she said. “Put the hose on them and soak the area around mature trees. Don’t just water around the trunk because the root mass is further out around the tree. But don’t over water new trees because the roots need air too.”

Insects haven’t been any more of an issue this year than usual, Katzell said.

“For tree insects, 99.9 per cent of insects do little damage to your trees. If you do suspect you do have an insect on your tree, it’s good to identify it prop-erly, and save your money … they don’t do too much damage. They’ll eat a few leaves and then they turn into a butterfly or something like that,” said Katzell who much prefers to call bugs insects rather than

pests.Drought is something to be more concerned

about, she said. The recent rains have “staved off the hounds for the moment” from drought but a few days of soaking rain would really help.

The City of Red Deer has almost 30,000 trees in-ventoried that have been formally planted in areas

like boulevards and parks. There is a good mix in the city of planted trees as well as those in the river val-ley and other the forested areas, Katzell said.

Trees are one of the city’s biggest environmental assets as they help to reduce greenhouse gases and they also have a cooling affect, she said.

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A 74-year-old Red Deer senior has carved out his own special weekly newspaper route that brings papers to shut-ins and other people who want news from their hometowns.

About eight years ago, Arnold Mottus began delivering a free rural newspaper based in Leslieville, the Western Star, to people he knew in the city who used to live in the rural area.

Mottus grew up on a farm in the Eckville area. He and his wife Vera moved to Red Deer in 1972. He started informally obtaining copies of the weekly as a “friendship thing”, handing them out to people he knew when he got together with them for coffee or at their homes.

At one point he used to get copies of the paper in the middle of the night on Hwy 2 just outside Red Deer, meeting a driver who was bringing the papers fresh off the press back to Leslieville.

It grew from there and for the last few years he has also been coming to the Red Deer Advocate every week to pick up a variety of Black Press-owned weekly papers to give to people wanting to read about happenings in their hometowns.

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Competitors start the second annual Comfortec Red Deer Duathlon on Saturday morning, commencing at the Crossroads Church. The races comprised of hybrid running and cycling events over various distances, representing wide age ranges. According to organizers, the event is designed to inspire interest in the sport of triathlon.

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Four-year-old Cohen Woodfin, is supported by his uncle, Jamie Woodfin, a local performing artist, along with Jamie’s band on the Ross Avenue patio on Friday night. Forced to go on tour earlier than anyone might have expected, Cohen was recently evacuated from Fort McMurray on his birthday, of all days, avoiding the wildfire. Demonstrating stoicism in the face of adversity, he’s already told his mom, Carleen, that he wants a microphone for his fifth birthday.

Fleeing duo nabbed in Red DeerTwo men were arrested late Thursday evening

in Red Deer after driving a stolen vehicle for miles down QEII Hwy even though police had earlier flat-tened two tires on the vehicle.

The men, one age 19 and the other 23, had fled Edmonton Police (EPS) in the stolen car and were tracked by the EPS helicopter as they drove south-bound on Hwy 2 that night.

RCMP officers from Maskwacis, Leduc, Ponoka and Blackfalds all participated in attempts to stop the car as it made its way down the highway. The vehicle struck a tire deflation device laid by Maskwacis RC-MP at the junction of Meniak Road and QEII Hwy, but it continued to Red Deer despite having both passen-ger tires flattened.

Shortly before 11 p.m. Red Deer RCMP were asked to assist EPS in arresting the men. Red Deer RCMP located the car as it entered the city on Hwy 11A and drove south on Taylor Drive to the Mustang Acres mo-bile home park.

The driver and passenger abandoned the car there and fled on foot into a wooded area. RCMP contained the area and Police Dog Services tracked the suspects who were located walking westbound on 67th Street.

RCMP executed a high-risk takedown because of unconfirmed reports that one of the suspects may have been carrying a firearm. The suspects were tak-en into custody without incident and police did not locate a firearm.

The men are now facing several charges related to the incident.

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CALGARY — Former prime minister Stephen Harper gave an impassioned speech Saturday night supporting his long time friend and political col-league Jason Kenney in his quest to unite-the-right in Alberta.

“He has demonstrated time and again that he is a principled, thoughtful and highly capable conserva-tive,” Harper said to hundreds of supporters at the annual Stampede barbecue held in his southwest Calgary riding.

“And friends I would ask all Alberta members of the Conservative Party of Canada to join me and to work to elect as the next leader of the PC Party of Al-berta the Honourable Jason Kenney.”

Kenney announced last week his plan to leave federal politics, seek the vacant Progressive Conser-vative leadership in Alberta, and facilitate a merger with the rival right-wing Wildrose Party.

Alberta’s PC’s were ousted from office last year by the NDP after more than four decades in power.

Harper was able to unite the right federally in 2003, merging the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives into the Conservative Party and subse-quently toppling the governing Liberals.

“That conservative unity has remained elusive here in Alberta and with terrible consequences,” he said.

“Workers losing their jobs, businesses closing their doors, taxes skyrocketing, families without prospects. That must change my friends.”

Interim leader Rona Ambrose joined Harper in endorsing Kenney.

“I have been, for over a year now, unabashedly supportive of the unite-the-right movement here in Alberta and I will continue to do that,” said Ambrose.

“I’m incredibly proud and happy that Jason has stepped forward to help lead this movement and I’m behind him 100 per cent. I hope that all Conservatives in Alberta get together and do what they need to do to

create a united path to victory.”Kenney’s plan to unite Alberta’s right involves

having the PCs hold a leadership vote in March. If Kenney wins he would negotiate a “framework agree-ment” with the Wildrose on a new united party.

If grassroots members of both parties approve, a new party would be founded in the summer, followed by a leadership race that would wrap up in early 2018.

“I think what we heard tonight was an explicit en-dorsement of exactly the plan that I’ve laid out and I can tell you from my private conversations with Ste-phen Harper — that’s exactly what he believes and he’s encouraged me strongly to go in this direction, as has Rona Ambrose and all of her colleagues in Alber-

ta,” Kenney told reporters.The fact the speech from Harper was likely his last

while in public office, means a lot to Kenney.“It’s actually a bit moving for me because he is also

a friend and I’ve been with him in the trenches for a very long time. I was in the trenches 20 years ago in trying to unite conservatives at the national level,” Kenney said.

“So to hear those words from him in what is prob-ably his last political speech as an MP, is actually for me very touching.”

Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives will elect a new leader in March of next year.

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FORT MCMURRAY — When you’re pounded with the big waves, you’d bet-ter learn to surf.

“The demolition material is going to come in pretty much in a tsunami-like effect,” says Fred Thompson-Brown, manager of Fort McMurray’s landfill. “We’ve been busy throughout and it’s just getting busier.”

The wildfire that ravaged the oil-sands city is finally under control and many of its more than 80,000 evacuees are back in their homes. Services are restored and residents are working to bring life back to normal.

But normal is a long way off for the man at the centre of a mind-bogglingly large and occasionally toxic clean-up still very much under way.

Put this in your garbage truck and haul it: A typical urban home gen-erates between 97 and 175 tonnes of waste after a fire. Fort McMurray lost 2,400 homes and buildings.

Give or take, that’s 338,400 tonnes of ash, soil, concrete, metal and mis-cellaneous bits and bobs — some of it as caustic as oven cleaner or loaded with toxic lead or arsenic. That’s fully a third more waste than the landfill accepted in all of 2015. It’ll take up to 47,000 truckloads to haul it.

If that isn’t daunting enough, con-sider that in June, the landfill took in 11,437 fridges and freezers. All had to be emptied of rotting food, drained of their gas and crushed.

“It’s not a simple commodity,” dead-pans Thompson-Brown, a genial Brit whose ringtone plays The British Gren-adiers.

“And they’re still coming in. It’s 10-years worth in six weeks.”

He’s earned the right to be calm. Throughout the entire blaze, the land-fill was closed for exactly four days, from May 6 to May 10. By the time res-idents began to filter back on June 1, a lot of rubble had already been cleared and homeowners had big, empty bins waiting to haul away waste and let them rebuild.

“There was a bit of a mini-tsuna-mi of that material,” says Thomp-son-Brown, using a word he repeats a lot.

“All of the bins had been left for all the commercial properties that had to be cleared. All the big stores were just churning material in our direction pretty much from the get-go.”

Fort McMurray’s landfill was built

to handle waste from not only the city, but from surrounding communities as well as nearby work camps. So it’s big.

“We’ve got more than enough capac-ity and more capacity down the line,” Thompson-Brown says.

It’s also modern, with a system in place to collect whatever bad stuff that will inevitably leach through. That will go to the municipality’s water treat-ment plant.

But the toxins do create challenges.Landfill workers operate machines

in closed cabs with positive air pres-sure, so no outside air gets in. High-ef-ficiency filters in those cabs are changed daily. Hazmat suits are avail-able and nobody gets on-site without a particulate filter mask.

“Guys not wearing (personal protec-tive equipment) are basically turned around.”

The massive clean-up will also esca-late costs.

Federal money has already bought

new dozers and compactors. Two new scales have been added and approach roads to the landfill have been rebuilt to keep truck traffic flowing. Sampling and testing for toxins will have to be tripled or quadrupled. Staff budgets will be doubled as the landfill moves to 24-7 operation.

“We’re mindful of the pennies, but quite a few dollars are going to have to be spent,” Thompson-Brown says.

“It’s hard to quantify at the present time. The main demolition phase is still an unknown quantity.”

For now, Thompson-Brown finds himself in a lull between tsunamis, af-ter the wave of home clean-up and be-fore the swell of demolition debris. He knows what’s coming, and before long expects to see trucks dumping a load every 60 seconds for weeks — “like Heathrow on a bad day.”

“It’s frenetic,” he says. “But it’s or-derly and it’s going to flow.”

A wave of wasteFORT MCMURRAY LANDFILL EXPERIENCES TSUNAMI-LIKE EFFECT FROM WILDFIRE MATERIALS


Fred Thompson-Brown poses for a portrait amid refrigerators destined for recycling at the entrance to the landfill he manages, in Fort McMurray, on Friday. More than 11,000 refrigerators were destroyed, damaged and thrown out due to the wildfires that ravaged the town — a small part of the tonnes of waste he’s responsible for seeing safely disposed of.

Taking out the trash: A massive amount of garbage after Fort

McMurray’s wildfire

Here are a few quick facts on Fort Mc-Murray’s massive cleanup:

How big? Fort McMurray lost 2,400 homes and structures during a wildfire that swept through the oilsands city in May.

How much waste? Previous urban wild-fires in California and Slave Lake suggest each home generates between 97 and 175 tonnes of ash, soil, concrete, metal and mis-cellaneous waste.

How much landfill? Waste generated by the fire is expected to be at least equivalent to the landfill’s entire 2015 intake of 250,000 tonnes. It could go as high as 440,000 tonnes.

How many loads? Between 20,000 and 47,000 truckloads of waste are expected during the coming demolition phase. A truck will dump a load every 60 seconds.

Canadian soccer fans celebrate Portugal’s

Euro victory over FranceMontreal’s Saint-Laurent Boulevard

was awash in a sea of green, yellow and red Portuguese flags on Sunday as excited soccer fans spilled onto the streets to celebrate Portugal’s 1-0 vic-tory over France in the 2016 UEFA European championship.

Bars and restaurants in the Plateau neighbourhood were full to bursting during the match, while crowds gath-ered on sidewalks outside strained to see the televisions within.

After Portugal won the match in ex-tra time, people surged onto the street, which was closed off for several blocks as fans of all ages waved flags, sang the Portuguese national anthem and danced to beating drums.

A few blocks over on Saint-Denis Street, French fans who had packed into L’Barouf bar left disappointed.

Florian Lay, draped in a French flag, said his team dominated the match but just didn’t manage to score.

“I feel very sad, but very proud too, because I knew they gave their best until the last minute — and maybe next time we’ll win,” he said.

Similar Portuguese celebrations were held in other Canadian cities.

In Toronto hundreds of people flooded the sidewalks in a section of the city where many people of Portug-ese descent live. They cheered, chant-ed and waved Portugese flags.

In Vancouver, video footage post-ed online showed flag-waving fans in honking vehicles waving at crowds lin-ing the city’s sidewalks.And in Edmonton cars and trucks fes-tooned with flags honked their way up and down Jasper Avenue, the city’s main street.

Police search for toy poodle stolen from Burnaby, B.C.,

parking lotBURNABY, B.C. — Police in Burn-

aby, B.C., are searching for a dog-nap-per after a toy poodle was taken from a parking lot.

RCMP say they were called to Lougheed Mall on Saturday evening for a report of a stolen dog.

The Mounties say four-year-old Co-co was snatched from a shopping cart while the dog’s owner was putting gro-ceries in her vehicle.

Police say they have surveillance footage of the incident, which shows

that a man in a four-door Honda Civic grabbed a dog carrier with the small, white dog inside, then sped off.

A female passenger was also in the car.

The Burnaby RCMP say they are ap-pealing to the public to help find Coco and return dog to its owner.

Quarantine zone set up after bird flu detected

in southern OntarioOTTAWA — Food safety officials

have established the parameters of a quarantine zone around an Ontario duck farm where a case of bird flu was detected last week.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the quarantine zone cov-ering a three-kilometre radius has been placed around the farm near St. Catharines.

Last week, the agency announced about 14,000 ducks at the commercial farm would be destroyed because of the H5N2 avian influenza.

A spokesman for the agency said in an email Sunday that a “humane depopulation of birds on the infected premise” had been completed.

The agency says bird flu hasn’t been detected anywhere else in the quaran-tine zone, but officials say they’re mon-itoring for any spread of the disease.

Avian flu doesn’t pose a risk to food safety when poultry products are prop-erly handled and cooked.

Bird flu rarely poses a risk to peo-ple who don’t have constant contact with infected birds.

A highly pathogenic subtype of the same virus caused outbreaks in On-tario and British Columbia last year. Canada had previously been free of notifiable avian influenza since last October.

Halfway house resident wanted by Vancouver police

turns himself inVANCOUVER — A man wanted on

a Canada-wide warrant is back in po-lice custody after turning himself into RCMP in Surrey, B.C.

Police put out an alert Saturday say-ing they were looking for 47-year-old Richard Thomas Galt, who failed to return to his halfway house.

Galt is serving a sentence of three years and eight months for uttering threats, break and enter, failure to comply with his probation and being unlawfully at large.

Police have labelled him a high risk offender who has a lengthy criminal record, including four sexual assault convictions.

Vancouver police say Galt turned himself in on Saturday night.

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Time to Rethink Red Deer?The 2016 municipal census for

Red Deer is completed and Red Deer shrank by 975 residents or by 0.967 per cent. This will be a greater concern if Blackfalds keeps the title of fastest growing community in Alberta and if Penhold sees growth for 2016.

The concern that bothers me is not only that the city is shrinking but the interior migration is getting little at-tention.

If you look at the neighbourhoods on the north side of the river, there is reason for concern. Kentwood, Glen-dale, Normandeau, Pines, Highland Green, Oriole Park, Riverside Mead-ows, Fairview and Johnstone Park which comprised 31.9 per cent of the population in 2015, now in 2016 is down to 31.4 per cent while the south side neighbourhoods went from 68.1 per cent in 2015 to 68.6 per cent in 2016.

The north side lost 2.4 per cent of their population while the south side lost 0.28 per cent of their population. So the north side is losing residents 8.6 times faster than the south. In one year the north side lost 777 residents while the south side lost only 193. If economic factors was the major fac-tor in depopulation would it not have

been expected that the numbers would be reversed.

After talking to some newcomers to Red Deer, and statements like “our re-altor recommended that we not buy on the north side of the river,” citing low-er returns on investment, higher crime rates, poorer air, no high schools and shortage of recreational facilities.

So during an economic downturn, it would be a great time to regroup and take advantage and move to the south side, better returns, less crime, cleaner air and less travelling to high schools and facilities. So it would seem.

So how did we get to this point of having these prejudices against the north side ingrained in our daily lives? Is this depopulation a sign of ghettoiz-ing of the north side, and if so what can we do ensure fairness to all?

As the saying goes: “If you are not growing, you are dying.” I would be interested in seeing about the growth rates of neighbouring communities and whether we should be concerned or if this year’s census is an anomaly, a result of a poor census.

Should we Rethink Red Deer? I think we should.

Garfield Marks Red Deer

Energy gets a bad repI would like to comment on all of

the negative reports of our Oil & Gas or Energy Industry.

There seems to be an impression that we must get rid of or severely cur-tail its operations. The energy industry provides us with transportation to and from work, it brings food to our grocery stores as well as providing the food it-self we eat by providing the farmer en-ergy to plant his/her fields and harvest their produce.

Energy heats our homes in the win-ter and cools our homes in the sum-mer, it provides the plastics we have become so accustom to both in our ev-eryday lives as well as our everyday needs. Without energy there would be no automobiles, no newspapers, no paved roads, no air transportation, no electricity, in short no civilization as we know it today.

The Energy Industry is not, and has not been perfect, there is room for im-provement, just as there has been a tremendous improvement in the indus-try over the last 100 years. As we prog-ress and develop new technology so will the Energy Industry improve and develop new technology.

We need to realize that in order for

our lives to improve we have to devel-op new ways to produce our energy and new ways to get it to market to the rest of the world at a reasonable price so all can afford it.

This is especially true when it comes to pipelines. It is the most af-fordable form of transportation using the least amount of energy and also the safest using today’s technology.

Will the Energy Industry make a profit, yes, with profit also comes prog-ress and with progress comes a better living for all of us worldwide. When we deny the Energy Industry the right to expand we are only hurting ourselves with increased prices for our goods and services as well as the future of our country.

We are a global economy and it is our right and duty to expand what we have to make it available to the rest of the world.

I could continue but I think if we look at it, energy is here to stay, and if we want to maintain our standard of living we must use our resources to do this, and that includes increasing our energy output and developing new markets.

Energy is not a dirty word.Terry Rollinson

Red Deer

CONTROLLED FIRE MAY BE MYSTERIOUS TO HUMANS, BUT UNCONTROLLED FIRE

TERRORIZES USBY BARRY COOPER

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It’s been a couple of months since the fire at Fort McMurray hit the news. The anecdotes and images are still fresh: cars and trucks driving through flames, families separated, pets and ve-hicles left behind, a massive traffic jam down Highway 63.

Who can forget the 301 firefighters from South Africa, hired at $15 a day, not $11.20 an hour? Or StatsCan sus-pending census-taking on May 5th but encouraging residents to complete their forms online or over the phone?

Scientific accounts are by now set-tled. Daniel Thompson, a fire research scientist with Natural Resources Can-

ada, explained that the El Niño cycle led to a dry autumn, thin snowpack and warm spring.

On May 2, the fire was a kilometre west of town and about 1,200 hect-ares in size. The temperature was 33 degrees on May 3, relative humidity around 12 per cent. The fire had dou-bled in size and was heading towards downtown. By mid-morning, it had crossed the Athabasca River. By 2 p.m., evacuation began. Next day, the wind picked up to 72 km/h, creating condi-tions for a perfect wildfire storm.

By May 4, the fire was creating tow-ering pyro cumulonimbus clouds along with lightening. Mike Flannigan, a wildland fire expert at the Universi-ty of Alberta, said that it is rare but not unknown for firestorms to produce their own weather, including lighten-ing.

“But this one generated lightening and then generated new fire starts. That’s the first time I’ve heard of this.”

It was neither the largest nor the hottest fire on record but it was the most traumatic. It destroyed some 2,400

buildings and threatened a major in-dustrial complex. Perhaps more im-portant, as Fire Chief Darby Allen said, was “the way this thing happened, the way it travelled, the way it behaved.”

The speed and intensity with which the fire grew and spread through town brought criticism that the emergen-cy officials did not respond quickly enough. But that was also evidence of what Allen called “the overwhelming nature of the fire.”

Trauma and stress afflicted resi-dents and firefighters alike. Michael Chamberland described his escape from Beacon Hill neighbourhood, which was largely destroyed: “You could feel the wind blowing into the flames and the flames would come to-wards you, almost licking your car, on top of your car. And that’s when you feel the heat.”

The firefighters, Allen said, expe-rienced “one of the most significant events that any firefighter could ever go through.” They experienced addi-tional stress from their helplessness in the face of what so many called “the

Beast.”Allen used as personal a language

as Michael Chamberland. “It did seem to have a brain. It did seem to want to do things that we didn’t want it to do. It seemed to come up with its own plan and fight us at every level.”

Most important may be the symbol-ism of fire — for first responders, evac-uees, and the rest of us. Fire may have first been controlled by a remote ances-tor as much as one million years ago, but it remains mysterious.

It is a chemical reaction but seems alive. It must be tended and fed. It can die. It sleeps in embers and can be brought back to life by breath. It has a voice, from the splutter of hamburg-er fat on a barbecue to the roar of the Beast. It consumes itself into ash and smoke that disappears into the sky.

Controlled fire may be mysterious to humans, but uncontrolled fire ter-rorizes them. That is one more reason why the Fort McMurray fire will live in memory.

Barry Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary.

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OTTAWA — There were signs of progress Sunday in a contract dispute between Canada Post and the union representing 50,000 of its workers as talks resumed and the post office with-drew a threat to lock out its workers.

Canada Post issued a brief state-ment that said it had withdrawn its lockout notice “which will allow both parties to focus their efforts on serious negotiations.”

“We are also expecting the union to honour their repeated public state-ments that they have no plans to is-sue a strike notice,” it said. Assurance from both parties that the postal sys-tem will remain open for business while we negotiate will provide the certainty that Canadians and our em-ployees are looking for.”

The Crown corporation’s news re-lease followed a statement earlier Sunday from Labour Minister Mary-Ann Mihychuk, who encouraged the two sides to continue discussions be-yond a deadline of 12:01 a.m. ET Mon-day that Canada Post had set.

“I am pleased that there has been movement at the bargaining table and that progress is being made,” the min-ister said.

“I remain hopeful that an agree-ment can be reached by the parties.”

Canada Post initially served lockout notice to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for last Friday, but later de-layed the notice until Monday.

The post office and the union were saying little Sunday, leaving the feder-al government to confirm the two sides were back at the negotiating table.

Talks have been deadlocked on the issues of employee pension plans and wage parity.

The two sides have been negotiating over the last seven months, including 60 days of conciliation talks and more

than 30 days with federal mediators.

The union wants changes in how

rural and suburban mail carriers are

paid. They want to be paid by the hour,

like urban letter carriers, not by how

many packages they deliver.

Canada Post says it wants to change

its pension plan to bring it in line with

the private sector. It wants new em-

ployees to be covered under a defined

contribution plan instead of a defined

benefit plan.

Defined contribution plans reduce

costs for companies and shift the risk

for future payouts to employees, who

are no longer guaranteed a set pay-

ment in retirement.

The pension proposal is being

closely watched by other public-sector

unions, which will also be entering

into future talks with the government.


KYIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Ukraine af-ter an emotional visit Sunday to the scene of one of the worst chapters in human history, the Auschwitz-Birke-nau concentration camp, where he warned against intolerance and of-fered a message of love.

The blue skies and sunshine were a sharp contrast to the history of the camp as the prime minister walked past barbed wire fences and surveyed the gas chambers where more than one million people, mostly Jews, were killed in the Second World War.

Trudeau was stone-faced through most of the visit as he was escorted by one of the camp’s survivors, 88-year-old Nate Leipciger. But the prime min-ister couldn’t hold back the tears as he stood before the ruined gas chamber where Leipciger’s mother and sister were murdered more than 70 years ago. The prime minister didn’t speak much during the nearly three hours he spent walking through the camp. But he did leave a message in a guest book kept by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.

“Tolerance is never sufficient,” he wrote. “Humanity must learn to love our differences. Today we bear wit-ness to humanity’s capacity for delib-erate cruelty and evil. May we ever remember this painful truth about our-selves, and may it strengthen our com-mitment to never allow such darkness to prevail.

“We shall never forget.”In an interview af terward,

Leipciger, who has served on differ-ent Holocaust remembrance commit-tees in Canada, said he didn’t think he would survive Auschwitz, let alone show a Canadian prime minister around the concentration camp.

“There was no way that I had any future,” he said. “My future was zero. And I’m coming back 73 years later with the prime minister of a wonderful Canada. An articulate, new leader who is taking the country into a new direc-tion.”

Leipciger said that he tried to con-vey to Trudeau “the tragedy of what men did to men, the hatred which drove on group of people to murder

another.”Such hatred continues to exist in

the world today, he said, with minori-ties still being discriminated against and murdered.

Leipciger said Trudeau received his message to remember the past while working for a better future.

“He cried with me,” he said. “He shed tears with me. That’s the greatest expression of understanding and feel-ings that he could have done to me.”

Trudeau is the third prime minis-ter to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, after Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper. The stop came between the weekend’s NATO summit in nearby Warsaw and his arrival in Ukraine, where he will spend the next few days.

The prime minister remained stoic through most of the visit as Leipciger recalled his experience at the camp, where he was held as a teenager during the Second World War. One stop was in a darkened room where a mound of hair was on display: locks from women and girls killed by the Nazis.

“This is the most difficult for me,” Leipciger told the prime minister. “Maybe my mother’s and sister’s locks are in there.”

Trudeau also laid a wreath on be-half of Canada at a wall where the Na-zis shot hundreds of prisoners. After pausing for a moment of silence, he went to shake Leipciger’s hand but in-stead ended up embracing him before

Leipciger kissed him on the cheek.The prime minister also looked

shaken as he walked through an intact gas chamber.

A visit to the gas chamber where Leipciger’s mother and sister were killed was highly emotional. Both Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Di-on and International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, who were with the prime minister, also wiped away tears at different points.

After visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau, Trudeau flew to Ukraine where he was to express Canada’s solidarity with the country and sign a free trade agree-ment. Trudeau spent Friday and Satur-day in Warsaw, Poland, attending the NATO leaders’ summit.

Canada Post drops lockout threat Sunday


A customer arrives at a Canada Post post office as an ongoing labour dispute between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canada Post continues, on Tuesday.

Trudeau leaves message of love at Auschwitz


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to Auschwitz survivor Nate Leipciger (second from left) as he tours the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with Dr. Piotr Cywinski(left) and Rabbi Adam Scheier and Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion (right) in Auschwitz, Poland Sunday.


SYDNEY, N.S. — A Nova Scotia is-land being touted as a haven for Amer-icans unhappy with the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency has seen more than a threefold increase in traf-fic to its tourism website this year, translating into around 3,500 bookings.

Cape Breton hotels and B&Bs sold 30 per cent more overnight stays in rooms this April compared to the same month last year, according to Nova Scotia tour-ism. Mary Tulle, CEO of Destination Cape Breton, says since the so-called “Trump Bump,” the tourism associa-tion needs at least two full-time staff members just to keep up with online and phone inquiries.

“I think what we’ve really tried to do is seize the privilege we’ve been given,” Tulle said in an interview.

“It really was quite a unique tumble-

weed of activity.”Cape Breton was thrust into the spot-

light in February when local radio host Rob Calabrese set up a website pitch-ing the region as a charming, Trump-free paradise that embraced visitors from the other side of the border rather than putting up walls, a reference to Trump’s proposal to put a wall on the border with Mexico.

The “Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins” site went viral and set off an in-ternational media frenzy, including a video report aired by cable news giant CNN. Tulle says the unprecedented interest in Cape Breton has attracted around 1.5 million page views on the website, about a third of the clicks from curious Americans. The tourism associ-ation even launched a companion site with information on how Americans who wouldn’t want to stay if Trump be-came president can move to Canada and start a new life in Cape Breton.

Cape Breton tourism overwhelmed with inquiries

thanks to ‘Trump Bump’

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TORONTO — Millennials are saying “meh” to tra-ditional lotteries with big money and long odds, but if they never jump into the game en masse, provinces could be the ones missing out on the windfalls.

High jackpots are the main factor that drive strong lottery sales, with billions of dollars from lot-teries each year going to areas such as health care and education.

But whether they see vying for large jackpots as futile, don’t shop where lottery tickets are sold, or long for more instant gratification in their gambling, few young people are playing, and Canadian lottery corporations are looking for new ways to attract them.

In Ontario, where the province relies on the ap-proximately $2 billion in annual revenue from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., OLG recently reported that just seven per cent of adults under 35 play the lottery at least once a week, compared to 45 per cent of all adult Ontarians.

Lottery tickets are not being sold in the same places young people are shopping, the report sug-gests. While OLG launched an online portal in early 2015, the “vast majority” of lottery tickets in Ontario are still purchased in person.

“The majority of Ontario adults under 35 years of age frequently visit supermarkets, big box stores and large retail locations where OLG products are not conveniently located or are currently not offered for sale,” the report said.

OLG is considering expanding lottery sales to those places, including allowing ticket sales in all check-out lanes of a grocery store instead of one stand-alone customer service desk, said spokesman Rui Brum.

Lottery sales in Ontario were down $115 million in the fiscal year 2014-2015, but many lotteries across Canada also reported declines in that period, as there were fewer high-value jackpots and lower na-tional lottery sales of Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49.

Representatives from lottery corporations across the country said the typical lottery does not seem to appeal to millennials. Loto-Quebec, where 18-to-34-year-olds are 27 per cent of the population but just 17 per cent of lottery players, said games of pure chance don’t attract that generation.

Andrea Marantz, a spokeswoman for the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, said the lottery is a “life stage” game, appealing more to middle-aged or older adults.

“Part of that would be they have more discre-tionary income for entertainment purposes, but one thing that we’ve really found here is the most com-mon thing we hear from our winners…is they don’t have to worry about money at all,” she said.

“Maybe when you are young and just starting your professional life…those money worries aren’t weigh-

ing quite as heavily.”About 47 per cent of adults in Western Canada

said they had played a lottery in the past month, compared to 32 per cent for adults 30 and under, Ma-rantz said.

The WCLC and other Canadian lottery corpora-tions are working with the Interprovincial Lottery Corp. to try to develop a new national lottery aimed at people under 35. Work began in 2014, but is ongo-ing, Marantz said.

Attracting younger adults involves more than just putting existing games online, said Jean-Marc Landry, director of customer innovation for the At-lantic Lottery Corporation. One ALC idea that is de-cidedly low-tech is mailing scratch-and-win tickets like a coffee of the month club, he said.

“We tested the idea on our (market research) panel and by far in appeal it scored the highest among 19-34 year olds,” Landry said. “We were so surprised.”

Pro-Line sports betting also does well with that generation, as do games that are more about enter-tainment than seeking financial security, he said.

Jeffrey Derevensky, a McGill University professor

who studies youth gambling problems, said instant

and sports games are most popular with younger

people.

“Whether or not they have sat down and said, ‘The

odds of winning are just unbelievably huge’… What

we find with young people is they’re more interested

in actually the scratch tickets because they’re look-

ing for the immediate gratification,” he said.

“Sports are extremely popular, especially

amongst young males, who believe they know every-

thing about sports,” said the educational and coun-

selling psychology professor.

NDP MP Brian Masse has a private member’s

bill before the House of Commons to legalize single

sport betting. He said billions are going to organized

crime and the provinces could use that money for

health care, education and infrastructure.

But the Liberal government indicated it would

not support it, acknowledging there would be eco-

nomic advantages, but greater concerns about gam-

bling addictions.

Lotteries struggle to attract millennials


OLG recently reported that just seven per cent of adults under 35 play the lottery at least once a week, compared to 45 per cent of all adult Ontarians.

Calgary fire crews have busy time as thunderstorm

rolls throughCalgary fire crews were kept busy on Saturday

night when a wicked thunderstorm rolled through the city.

The fire department says emergency calls about lightning strikes and flooding came in about every two minutes during the height of the rumbler.

The storm also set off alarms in multiple build-ings and each needed to be investigated by crews.

A construction office was severely damaged by a fire possibly caused by a lightning strike, but no in-juries were reported.

Lightning is also believed to have hit a gas line and meter at a house in the city’s northeast.

Two homes were evacuated as a precaution, but crews quickly shut off the gas before a fire could start.

The storm brought with it hail that blanketed front lawns, as well as heavy rain that caused flash flooding, power outages and transit delays.

A spokeswoman for Enmax said the utility provid-er also received a lot of calls over a short time.

“We experienced a momentary outage … that (af-fected) about 3,100 customers … but the power came back on fairly quickly,” said Doris Kauffman Wood-cock.

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OTTAWA — A Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation that has raised millions from mining ex-ecutives has spent far more on salaries and adminis-trative costs than charitable programming in the two most recent years for which numbers are available, according to financial statements from the Canada Revenue Agency.

The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Can-ada), a registered charity based in Vancouver, B.C., devoted $737,441 — amounting to 78 per cent of its expenditures — to management and administration in 2014.

The amount includes spending on office supplies and expenses, salaries and professional and consult-ing fees.

That same year, according to the return filed to the Canada Revenue Agency and published online, the organization devoted $205,419 to charitable pro-grams, accounting for 22 per cent of its expenditures.

A similar ratio — 72 per cent to management and administration costs and 28 per cent to charitable programs — is in the 2013 return.

The Canadian charity strongly defended against any suggestion it is spending too much on overhead.

“It is incorrect to look at one-year expenditures in a vacuum,” the charity wrote in an emailed state-ment in response to a request for an interview.

The Canadian charity was founded by Frank Gius-tra, a Canadian philanthropist and mining financier who raised more than $16 million in pledges for the initiative at a star-studded 2008 fundraising gala in Toronto, where former U.S. president Bill Clin-ton spoke to more than 1,000 guests from Hollywood, Bay Street and the mining industry.

It was set up primarily so that Canadians could receive a charitable tax receipt for supporting the work of a Clin-ton Foundation initiative that bears the same name.

That initiative is currently focused on creating sustain-able business opportunities in the developing world, such as helping peanut farmers in Hai-ti or providing sales training to women in Peru.

The Canadian charity said it would be more accurate to look at the aggregate numbers for the period from 2010 to 2014, because its work involves projects whose funding is spread out over time.

Those overall numbers show that spending on charitable programs and gifts to other charities was 84 per cent, whereas 14 per cent was spent on management and administration and two per cent on fundraising, the charity said — calculations verified by The Canadian Press.

It also said that so far this year, it has committed a total of US$4.3 million to charitable programs, US$3.2 million of which has been disbursed.

The 2014 return shows revenues of $157,154 from charitable gifts that year — significantly lower than the $6.8 million it received in donations in 2010, for example — but the charity explained it is currently focusing on program delivery rather than soliciting new funds.

The charity said its 2015 financial statement has not yet been audited or reported publicly, but does not expect there to be any “major differences” in the ratio between money spent on charitable programs and management and administration from what was seen in 2013 and 2014, when it said ongoing charitable programs were funded by money disbursed in previous years.

CGEP Canada also defended the money spent on management and administration.

“These expenditures — far from being overhead — are critical to the operational success of CGEP’s

work, and help maximize the impact of CGEP’s programs ensure that more people are reached and that these programs are run in an effective way,” the statement said.

The charity said its staff in Canada — four full-time positions in 2014, according to the return — works on “partnership development and marketing, investor prospecting, and finance” in co-ordination with the American-based team.

The Canadian charity would not provide the name of the spokesperson who communicated by email with The Canadian Press.

It also emailed a letter from Toronto-based lawyer David S. Brown, who said the charity firmly expects the facts in its response would be reported to the public in a way that is accurate, forthright, not misleading and “does not tarnish the good charitable works in which our client is engaged”.

The issue of so-called overhead spending — and

whether charities should be judged or compared by how much of it they have — is a hot topic in charitable giving circles, with many arguing that more attention should be paid to the impact an organization has than to how much it pays its employees.

The Canada Revenue Agency says it has no rule on what constitutes an ideal ratio.

“Overall, with respect to any charity, we would look at the whole of its operations to determine if it continues to comply with the requirements of the Act,” CRA spokeswoman Jelica Zdero wrote in an emailed response to questions.

Mark Blumberg, a Toronto-based lawyer who specializes in charity law, said an organization should anticipate questions about its finances, especially when it deals with politically sensitive people and issues, and go beyond the minimum requirement of a financial statement published on the CRA website.

CGEP Canada came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed it had not disclosed the identities of roughly 1,100 donors.

This was controversial because in 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed an ethics agreement with the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama that it would reveal the identities of all its contributors as a way to avoid the perception of conflicts of interest when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state.

Canadian charity affiliated with Clinton Foundation defends high overhead costs

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Frank Giustra, a Canadian businessman, speaks as former President Bill Clinton looks on during a news conference in New York to announce the Clinton Foundation’s launching of a new sustainable development initiative in Latin America, in 2007.

“THESE EXPENDITURES — FAR FROM BEING OVERHEAD — ARE CRITICAL TO THE OPERATIONAL SUCCESS OF CGEP’S WORK, AND HELP MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT OF

CGEP’S PROGRAMS ENSURE THAT MORE PEOPLE ARE REACHED AND THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE RUN

IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY”

— CGEP CANADA STATEMENT


Some of the papers include the Eckville Echo, Sylvan Lake News, Lacombe Express, Rimbey Review and Ponoka News.

It’s a social event for him to deliver the papers to people, Mottus said. “They love it.”

“Let’s put it this way. He likes to treat people,” Vera said. Every week when he shows up at the Advocate he also treats front desk staff to coffee. He’s been an Advocate subscriber for over 40 years.

Mottus delivers papers on Thursday and also on Fridays when he meets with people he knows to hand off more of the papers.

Delivering them lets him stay in touch with relatives such as cousins in the city, and friends, a lot who are from Eckville.

One of the people he delivers several papers to every week in Red Deer is 85-year-old Jack Pallo, who is mainly housebound now.

Mottus also brings him a coffee each time. Pallo is a second cousin to Mottus.

Before he retied, Mottus was a skilled master electrician who worked at Canada Packers from 1969 to 1991, and also at the military bunker out at Penhold before it closed.

“I’m also known as the egg carton man.” Mottus gathers about 120 flats of the cartons from the kitchen at the seniors home they live in. He then delivers them to the Burnt Lake Auction Cafe to a friend, and they end up making their way to a Hutterite colony.

He gets a nice meal at the cafe and sometimes some great peanut butter squares in return.

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A pair of American White Pelicans fly over the Red Deer River at Great Chief Park, Wednesday afternoon. The large birds can often be seen soaring over the river and rafting up in large groups as they feed on the river.

SOARING ABOVE THE CITY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA — Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of two black men and the sniper attack that left five officers dead in Dal-las. Some departments ordered officers to pair up or more generally said they were heightening security.

Authorities have said the Dallas gunman, who also wounded seven other officers and two civilians, wanted to “exterminate” whites in the aftermath of the killings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Al-ton Sterling in Louisiana. And a man who killed one person and wounded three others — including an officer — in Tennessee apparently told investigators he was motivated by the recent killings of black men by police.

Since then, threats ranging from generic promis-es of violence to specific video postings have been made, only heightening fears of further attacks. In Dallas, authorities received an anonymous threat Saturday, prompting police to tighten up security. Officers swarmed the department’s headquarters, searching for a reported suspicious person in a ga-rage before finally issuing an all-clear.

While some threats have been unspecific and not credible, other promises of violence have been more targeted. In Louisiana, a man was accused of posting a video online showing him in his vehicle behind a police car, saying he wanted to shoot and kill an offi-cer. Police say Kemonte Gilmore flashes a handgun in the video and talks about the slayings of Castile and Sterling.

Police also say a Wisconsin man posted calls on social media for black men to gun down white offi-cers, and a woman in Illinois is accused of threaten-ing in an online video to shoot and kill any officer who pulled her over.

In Mississippi, Waveland Police Chief David Al-len was responding to threats of gunfire attacks that were phoned in and announced on social media.

“No problems have yet materialized, thank heav-ens,” Waveland Police Chief David Allen said in an email Sunday night to The Associated Press. “While we haven’t made any arrests, we are running down numerous leads given to us by the public.

“We been supplementing our shifts with more people and going to calls in groups.

“The outpouring of offers for help and shows of support from the public has really energized my en-tire department. At least in my area, police-public relations are strong and healthy.”

Mawuli Davis, an African-American attorney and activist in Atlanta, said what’s happening is a con-tinuation of events in recent years because there has been no serious dialogue over issues of race and po-lice encounters with black people.

Davis and his associates insist on peaceful pro-tests as a means to an end, and indeed, most protests across the U.S. have gone on without a hint of vio-lence.

But until that serious discussion happens, he said he fears “we’re going to continue to see this kind of tragic incident” like the Dallas attack.

“From an activist perspective, you’re seeing a lev-

el of frustration and anger that very well may be at a tipping point,” he said.

Tensions between police and African-Ameri-cans have been on the rise in recent years amid the high-profile deaths of several black men at the hands of law enforcement. The deaths have foment-ed unrest from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and heightened calls for greater accountability of police, particularly in the urban, majority-black neighbour-hoods they patrol.

While race has not necessarily been a factor in every case, the deaths have become a rallying cry for groups such as Black Lives Matter who are calling for solutions to problems that plague African-Amer-ican communities, from poor educational opportuni-ties to joblessness to high incarceration rates.

Organizations that monitor hate groups con-demned the Dallas attack, with the Southern Poverty Law Center calling it “an act of domestic terrorism.”

The gunman, Micah Johnson, followed black militant groups on social media.

Ryan Lenz, online editor and senior writer at the SPLC, told The Associated Press that the number of black separatist groups nearly doubled in 2015, mir-roring a similar increase among white hate groups that has come against the backdrop of police killings that make frequent headlines.

While some committing violence may be influ-enced by hate groups, many who become radicalized do so without direct ties to the groups. Instead, they surf the web and allow their anger to grow in private at home, Lenz said.

“In the last couple of years we’ve seen this vio-lence become an ever-present reality in our lives,” Lenz said. “We are in a polarized political climate right now where the ‘us-versus-them’ mentality has started to reign supreme.”


DALLAS — A Texas woman who was wounded when she threw herself over her son during the attack on a Dallas protest march said Sunday she would go to another demonstration to show her boys that she’s not a quitter.

Shetamia Taylor, who attended the march with her four sons, also thanked Dallas police for protect-ing her in the chaos that erupted Thursday night. She says officers shielded her as bullets whizzed through the air around them.

“They had no regard for their own life. They stayed there with us. They surrounded my son and I,” she said.

Taylor, in a wheelchair with her right leg immo-bilized, told a news conference at Baylor University Medical Center that she always held police officers “in a very high place” and notes that her youngest

son wants to be a cop.“I never had an issue with police officers,” she

said. “If anything it made my admiration for them greater.”

Taylor, who is black, said she went to the march to protest the killings of black men by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and outside St. Paul, Minnesota, and previous encounters between blacks and police.

She said the attack on the march in Dallas, which killed five officers and injured seven other officers, wouldn’t deter her from demonstrating again. She wants her sons — ages 12, 13, 15 and 17 — to know it was an isolated incident.

“I don’t want them to think that I am a quitter, be-cause I am not,” she said.

Taylor said she and her sons were getting ready to leave the march when they heard two shots and saw an officer fall.

“As he was going down, he said, ‘He has a gun. Run,”’ she recalled.

As they fled, she felt a bullet hit her in the back of the leg.

She said she tackled her 15-year-old son, Andrew, and “laid on top of him.”

An officer then jumped on top of them. “And there was another one at our feet. And there was another one over our heads. And there were several of them lined against the wall,” she said. “And they stayed there with us. And I saw another officer get shot right in front of me.”

Two of her other sons escaped through a parking garage, while the fourth fled the gunfire with anoth-er woman he didn’t know.

Taylor suffered a bad fracture of her tibia just below her right knee, one of her doctors said. It was repaired with a plate and screws, but it will be two to three months before she can put weight on her leg.

Taylor says she wonders where the country is go-ing to go from here.

“I’m just a mother and a wife,” she said. “I’m not an activist. I’m not a politician. I just want to protect my family.”

She stressed that most police officers deserve praise and not all of them are “out to get us.”

“These are the people you call when you’re in a situation. You gotta remember that,” she said. “What are we gonna do if they stop policing? What are we gonna do? … Who are you gonna call?”

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Dallas Police Officer Rebecca Tristan, left, is comforted by a supporter on Sunday, July 10, 2016 outside Dallas Police headquarters in Dallas.

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Tourists take in the views from the newly opened Glacier SkyWalk near the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park,. When guests come to Alberta, it’s almost always to see the spectacular mountain vistas. But Travel Alberta hopes to promote other destinations and bring an $8.3 billion tourist industry to $10 billion by 2020.

BY IAN BICKISTHE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta’s Rocky Mountains are once again bursting with visitors in what could be another banner year, but the government is hoping to get more tourists spending in other areas of the province as well.

“The Rockies are often the hook to get those international travellers to come,” says Shelley Grollmuss, vice-president of industry develop-ment at Travel Alberta.

“And then we work very hard with our industry partners to try and build road trips or other itineraries, where they can go into other areas of the province and explore.”

It’s all part of the province’s plan to boost tourist spending from the $8.3 billion in 2014 to $10 billion by 2020, and to increase jobs in the industry as it works to further diversify an econo-my that has been heavily reliant on oil and gas.

Last week, Premier Rachel Notley

announced $33.5 million in funding for an expansion of the Fort Edmonton historic site as part of the Alberta jobs program.

“Our government will expand tour-ist sites to bring in more visitors from around the world, the rest of Canada, and Alberta,” Notley said.

The new Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie, has al-ready seen 100,000 visitors in its first 10 months of operation.

The older Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum in Drumheller, has already topped 135,000 visitors since the start of April, while it set an attendance record last year with 479,000 visitors from more than 130 countries.

Grollmuss says tourist numbers are helped by a low dollar that makes trav-

elling abroad for Canadians more ex-pensive than a few years ago when the loonie was higher.

Similarly, the loonie’s fall helps make Canada less expensive and more attractive to international visitors.

An increase in direct international flights is also helping, Grollmuss says.

Hainan Airlines recently launched a direct flight from Beijing to Calgary at the end June, while WestJet started flying direct to London in May.

“We do have more tour operators and online travel agencies globally selling Alberta now than we’ve ever had before,” Grollmuss says.

But attendance at national parks in Alberta is making other attractions pale in comparison.

Banff saw an eight per cent jump to

3.9 million visitors, Jasper was up five per cent to 2.3 million, and Waterton Lakes rose 16 per cent to 486,000 vis-itors for the financial year ended in March.

Lake Louise at Banff National Park was so busy on the Canada Day long weekend that police temporarily shut down access to the town to everyone but residents and those with reserva-tions at hotels.

Dave Kaiser, head of the Alberta Hotel and Lodging Association, says most of province’s tourism industry has been hit hard by the recession, but the resorts are seeing strong results.

“You wouldn’t know we’re in the same province,” Kaiser says.

He said hotels in Alberta outside the Rockies in the past year have seen a 25 per cent drop in revenue per room, but in the mountain resorts, rev-enue is actually up 12 per cent.

“We just need to find ways to get some of those tourists to not only go to Banff and the mountains, but to get them travelling to other parts of the province as well,” said Kaiser.

Travel Alberta hopes to spread tourism success around

Tourism high in the RockiesTourism high in the Rockies

The new Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie, has already seen 100,000 visitors in its first 10 months of operation.

The older Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum in Drumheller, has already topped 135,000 visitors since the start of April, while it set an attendance record

last year with 479,000 visitors from more than 130 countries.

BY TERRY PEDWELLTHE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A recent fatal crash involving a semi-autonomous car has transport authorities in Ontario thinking twice about how to regulate so-called driverless cars — and experts are questioning whether auto makers should better educate their customers about the pitfalls of new driving technol-ogies.

Ontario’s ministry of transportation says it’s keep-ing a close eye on an investigation launched last week by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a Florida collision between a Tesla Model S and a transport truck.

Tesla said sensors connected to its autopilot sys-tem failed to detect the white truck as it turned into the path of the car in May, killing the driver.

While investigators have revealed few details about the exact circumstances of the crash, there have been reports that the driver, 40-year-old Joshua Brown, may have been distracted by a movie playing in his car.

Still, as the Ontario government moves toward testing of driverless cars on the province’s roadways, officials want to know how the Tesla’s driver-assist functions operated in the seconds before the crash.

“The Ministry of Transportation takes the safety of all road users very seriously and will closely fol-low the results of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigation into the col-lision and the role automated technology may have played,” said a statement provided by spokesman Bob Nichols.

But experts closely involved in the evolution of driverless technologies in Canada say the crash re-vealed some clear gaps in the regulation of vehicles as they evolve from semi-autonomous systems to ve-hicles that truly drive themselves.

The onus is on governments and automotive man-ufacturers to ensure that drivers know how to use the new technologies, but also to know their limita-tions, said Jeremy Laliberte, a professor at Carleton University’s mechanical and aerospace engineering department.

“Those kind of technologies should be worked into things like driver training curriculum,” said Laliberte.

Transport Canada is proposing stringent train-ing and testing of another blossoming technology: drones that can be operated remotely or on autopi-

lot. But there are no such regulations in the works for automated ground vehicles.

“With things like (unmanned aerial vehicles) the proposal is that every couple of years you’ll have to do an updated test to show that you’re aware of the latest rules and regulations and technologies,” Lal-iberte explained.

“We have nothing like that for automobiles. You get your license and off you go.”

Auto makers should also be required to offer some basic amount of supplemental training on new driving gadgets to their customers, he added.

Ontario officials say the province doesn’t plan to retrain or retest drivers based on new semi-autono-mous features on vehicles, and won’t mandate driver education by manufacturers.

But provincial authorities should do just that, said Barrie Kirk of the Canadian Automated Ve-hicles Centre of Excellence supports, who voiced concerns about companies such as Volvo, which has pledged to have a “crash proof” car on the market by 2020.

“The long term vision is that cars shouldn’t crash,” Volvo spokesman Jim Trainor told CNN ear-lier this year.

Statements like that give drivers a false sense of what cars that are hitting the market today are capa-ble of doing, and that can put others in danger, said Kirk.

Over the past decade there have been dramatic developments by various automakers of new colli-sion-avoidance mechanisms.

Adaptive cruise control can slow a car down to match the speed of vehicles ahead, blind-spot detec-tors now watch for oncoming vehicles and camera systems warn drivers when they drift out of their lane or appear to be nodding off. Tesla’s autopilot function goes further, assisting the driver in con-trolling the vehicle’s movement within lane markers.

But until the technology is improved to the point where a steering wheel is no longer needed, drivers must continue to be fully alert, said Kirk.

Ontario watching US investigationof driverless car technology

Elon Musk says he has another secret ‘masterplan’

Motors CEO Elon Musk, under pressure after a fatal crash involving one of his electric cars, went on Twitter Sunday to say he’s working on another “Top Secret Tesla Masterplan.” He said he hoped to pub-lish details this week.

The tantalizing message echoes an August 2006 blog post, titled “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me),” in which Musk unveiled the cars that became the Tesla Model S four-door family car and the Tesla 3 sports sedan.

Tesla and Musk have been hit with a recent string of bad news.

Federal officials are investigating a May 7 crash in Florida that killed a man after his Model S’s cameras failed to detect a turning tractor-trailer and did not au-tomatically activate the brakes.

Tesla also said last week that shipments to cus-tomers fell in the past three months, making it unlikely the California-based firm would meet expectations for delivering 80,000 to 90,000 vehicles this year.

Musk ran into criticism for Tesla’s bid of up to $2.5 billion last month for the financially troubled firm Solar-City, which installs solar panels and is run by Musk’s cousin, Lyndon Rive. Tesla stock is down nearly 15 per cent since late April.


In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Google’s new self-driving prototype car is presented during a demonstration at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. A recent fatal crash involving a semi-autonomous car has transport authorities in Ontario thinking twice about how to regulate so-called driverless cars.


SHANGHAI — China’s commerce minister said Saturday the outlook for the global economy remains grim de-spite its gradual recovery from the im-pact of the financial crisis.

Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng’s comments underscored growing con-cerns about the global economy, which have deepened since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, raising fears of a global recession.

“In the past few years through our shared hard work, the global economy emerged from its previous low and is developing in a good direction,” Gao said. But at the same time, “the deep effects of the global financial crisis can still be felt.”

Gao did not mention Brexit in his opening remarks at a meeting of trade ministers in Shanghai on Saturday held in the run-up to China’s hosting of the G20 summit later this year. He said

governments should work together to find ways to revitalize growth.

“The revival and growth of the glob-al economy is still lacking in strength,” Gao said. “Low levels of global trade and investment have not recovered to their pre-financial crisis levels.”

Last month, the World Bank cut its forecast for the global economy this year, predicting it will expand 2.4 per cent, down from the 2.9 per cent it ex-pected in January.

Low commodity prices continue to vex many developing countries whose economies depend on exports of those commodities. And advanced econo-mies are still struggling to gain mo-mentum as they contend with aging workforces and lacklustre productivity growth.

Meanwhile, China faces pressure to shrink bloated industries including steel, which its trading partners com-plain is flooding their markets with unfairly cheap exports, hurting their producers and threatening jobs.

Trade ministers from the G20 na-tions have called on their governments to roll back anti-trade measures that have become more pervasive than any time since 2009.

Following a two-day meeting in Shanghai, the ministers said in a joint statement on Sunday that they were “concerned” about rising protection-ism around the world and “significant-ly slowed” trade growth figures.

They backed a set of nine core prin-ciples for global investment policy-

making ahead of the September G20 summit in Hangzhou.

The ministers also said they recog-nized that excess steel capacity is a global issue that requires “collective response” and pointed to government support of producers that have led to “market distortions.”

China, among other producers, has been accused by the U.S. and U.K. of dumping cheap steel and driving down global prices.

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BY LAURA KANETHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — The owner of the Mount Polley mine in British Colum-bia’s Interior has sued two engineer-ing firms for damages over a disas-trous dam collapse two years ago.

Imperial Metals (TSX:III) has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court alleging negligence and breach of contract by Knight Piesold and AMEC, now Amec Foster Wheeler.

None of the allegations has been proven in court and neither company has filed a statement of defence.

The lawsuit alleges a flawed tail-ings storage facility was designed and monitored by Knight Piesold from the late 1980s to 2011, and then by AMEC until its collapse in August 2014.

“Each of the defendants failed to undertake necessary, proper and reasonable investigation of the sub-surface conditions underlying the (tailings storage facility) prior to and during its phased construction and op-eration,” the suit says.

As a result, the suit alleges, the fa-cility had an inadequate safety stan-dard, despite both companies repeat-edly providing Imperial Metals with reports that claimed it was safe.

“Those reports were in error,” the suit contends. “The conduct of each of the defendants was negligent, was in breach of the applicable contracts and caused the ultimate failure of the (facility).”

The dam failed on Aug. 4, 2014,

spilling 24 million cubic metres of

waste and water into nearby lakes and

rivers and forcing the gold and copper

mine to close until recently.

A spokeswoman for Amec Foster

Wheeler said the company could not

comment on a matter that is before the

courts.

“We continue to work with industry

partners, professional organizations

and regulators to ensure that the fu-

ture of British Columbia mining pri-

oritizes safety, accountability, and en-

vironmental responsibility,” said Lau-ren Gallagher in an email.

Knight Piesold did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

B.C.’s mines minister said last month that senior staff had authorized the mine to go back into full produc-tion, one year after it was approved for restricted operations.

In January 2015, an independent en-gineering panel appointed by the B.C. government concluded the dam failed because the strength and location of a layer of clay under the dam wasn’t taken into account during the design process.

The lawsuit was also launched on behalf of the Mount Polley Mining Corp., of which Imperial Metals is the parent company.

The company doesn’t specify the amount of damages sought, but alleges it continues to incur losses as a result of the dam failure, including lost prof-its, the costs of laying off employees and reduced share values.

The lawsuit says the province has already found the Mount Polley Min-ing Corp. liable to pay $3.2 million to cover the costs of the engineering pan-el and spill clean-up, and wants com-pensation from the two companies.

Another independent investigation into the disaster, led by the B.C. Con-servation Officer Service, is still on-going. The RCMP and federal Depart-ment of Fisheries and Oceans are also part of the investigation.

Mine owner sues engineering firmover tailings pond collapse


Contents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. on August, 5, 2014. The owner of the Mount Polley mine in British Columbia’s Interior has sued two engineering firms for damages over a disastrous dam collapse two years ago.

China sees a grim global outlook; claims US and UK dumping steel

BY JONATHAN J. COOPERTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Frustrat-ed by the rising cost of prescription drugs, California health advocates hope sunlight and a dose of shame will discourage drugmakers from raising their prices too quickly or introducing new medications at prices that break the bank.

They’re promoting legislation that would require drugmakers to provide advance notice before making big price increases. Pharmaceutical com-panies have come out in force against the measure, warning it would lead to dangerous drug shortages.

Attention to prescription drug pric-ing has mounted since Turing Pharma-ceuticals bought an old drug common-ly used with HIV patients and raised the price from $13.50 per pill to $750. The company’s combative chief execu-tive, Martin Shkreli, was widely casti-gated for the price hike.

“Yes, they should make a profit, but not so much they gouge the public at the expense of the consumer and the taxpayer,” Sen. Ed Hernandez, a Dem-ocrat from Azusa who wrote the legis-lation, said of drug companies.

“There needs to be a balance.”Vermont passed the nation’s first

drug price transparency legislation earlier this year, and similar measures were introduced in at least five other states, including California.

California voters also will decide in November on a ballot measure that would prohibit the state — which cov-ers millions of poor people, inmates and government retirees — from pay-ing more than the U.S. Veterans Ad-ministration for drugs. The VA’s mas-sive negotiating power allows it to se-cure some of the lowest rates for drugs.

Both presumptive presidential nominees have cited drug prices in their campaigns. Republican Donald Trump suggested ending a restriction on Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices. Democrat Hillary Clinton has slammed drug pricing she labels pred-atory.

Drug costs represent about 10 per cent of overall health care spending and about 19 per cent of costs for em-ployer-sponsored health plans, accord-ing to the Kaiser Family Foundation. After several years of modest growth in drug spending, which even de-creased in 2010 and 2012, pharmaceu-tical spending spiked 11.4 per cent in 2014, according to the Kaiser’s analysis

of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Estimates for 2015 suggest prices rose 6.8 per cent.

Experts attribute the recent rise in drug spending to the proliferation of new specialty drugs, many of them used to treat cancer, and fewer patent expirations that allow for generic com-petition.

Sovaldi, which can cure Hepatitis C without the excruciating side effects of earlier treatments, debuted in 2014, at a shocking cost of more than $80,000 per course of treatment. The price has since come down.

California’s SB1010 would require pharmaceutical companies to provide advance notice to drug purchasers be-fore increasing the price of a drug by 10 per cent or $10,000 a year. For ge-nerics, the threshold is $100 a month or 25 per cent. Insurance companies would be required to report data on drug prices to state regulators, includ-ing the portion of premiums attribut-able to pharmaceuticals.

Proponents hope the advance no-tice will give governments, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers a chance to negotiate.

But drugmakers warn it could cre-ate regional shortages of some drugs if large pharmacy chains or distributors

horde medications to beat the price in-crease. That would create an environ-ment for speculators to drive prices up, not down.

Drug manufacturing is a highly reg-ulated industry with complex supply chains that relies on predictable de-mand, said Brett Johnson, director of state and local policy for the Califor-nia Life Sciences Association, an in-dustry group.

“This isn’t an industry where they can really react quickly to surges in demand,” Johnson said. “So that cre-ates complications when we’re talking about things like price signalling.”

Drugmakers also say the transpar-ency requirements would create a dis-torted view of drug pricing, failing to account for negotiated discounts or price decreases.

The bill’s supporters dispute the risk of shortage, noting many of the specialty drugs that would trigger the notification have a short shelf life and require careful handling, making it difficult to stockpile them.

The measure has cleared the Sen-ate and is moving through the Assem-bly, which tends to take a much more skeptical view of business regulations.

Can public shaming keep drug prices down?

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RAONIC FALLS IN FINALBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Milos Raonic blasted a first serve at 147 mph, the fastest deliv-ery of the entire tournament, only for the ball to come rifling back across the net. Not only did Andy Murray make the return, he went on to win the point with a cross-court backhand passing shot.

It was that kind of day for Raon-ic, who could never get the upper hand against Murray in the Wimble-don final, losing in straight sets in the 25-year-old Canadian’s first Grand Slam title match.

Murray broke Raonic only once, but never lost his own serve and dominat-ed both tiebreakers to win 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2), securing his second Wimbledon title and third major championship.

“This one’s going to sting,” Raonic said after accepting the runner-up tro-phy.

The 6-foot-5 (1.98-meter) Raonic, one of the top servers in the game, came up short against one of the top returners and defensive players in tennis.

Raonic came into the final with a tournament-high 154 aces, averaging more than 20 per match. But he fin-ished with just eight on Saturday, one more than Murray. The second-seeded British player repeatedly managed to make returns off serves of more than 130 mph and 140 mph — including that 147 mph delivery at 4-all in the first set.

“Every single time you play him, you know he’s going to get more re-turns back than anybody else, along-side with Novak (Djokovic),” Raonic said. “That’s what these two guys, espe-cially, do.”

Raonic also struggled in rallies to break down Murray, who chased down shots in the corners to keep the ball in play, and hit a series of cross-court passing winners off the backhand wing.

“I tried to put the things together,” Raonic said. “I tried coming forward, putting pressure on him. He was play-ing much better than me off the base-line. He was more effective there. I was keeping up with him. But then when it counted, I wasn’t able to get on top.”

That included the second-set tie-breaker, when Raonic missed an easy

forehand volley on the first point and then failed to put away a smash to fall behind 4-1.

“I missed that ball, the short ball, on the first one,” Raonic said. “Wasn’t even close. Missed into the middle of the net. Then I had an overhead that I didn’t make the most of on my serve. I’ll sort of look back at that with not too much joy.”

Then, in the fifth game of the third set, Raonic had his first, and only, chance to break. With Murray serving at 2-2, Raonic ripped a forehand win-ner off an 82 mph second serve to give him two break points at 15-40.

But Raonic couldn’t handle a deep first serve on the first and netted a forehand return. On the second, he hit a backhand into the net. Murray followed with a backhand passing shot and a 117 mph serve winner to hold. Raonic never saw another break point.

“Obviously it does come down a lot of the time to a few important points,” he said. “That was probably the most clear look I had. I had a sense that if I could have gotten ahead there, maybe I could have turned it around a bit.”

Raonic was seeking to become the first player representing Canada to win a Grand Slam title. The only other

Canadian, man or woman, to get to a

major final was Eugenie Bouchard, the

women’s runner-up at Wimbledon in

2014.

Looking ahead, Raonic said he will

take strength from his five-set semi-

final win over seven-time champion

Roger Federer.

“I stepped up,” he said. “I did a

great thing there. Came back from two

sets to love down, which is a first time

for me. I showed guts. I showed vigour.

I got to carry that through to the next

events.”


Milos Raonic of Canada plays a return to Andy Murray of Britain during the men’s singles final on the fourteenth day of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday.


Portugal 1 France 0 SAINT-DENIS, France — Portugal’s

players crowded around Cristiano Ronaldo as he sat on the turf, but their tearful captain couldn’t withstand the pain of his injury any longer.

The Portuguese had to win their first major trophy the hard way on Sunday, stunning France 1-0 after ex-tra time in the European Champion-ship final - having played without Ron-aldo from the 25th minute.

Two hours after being carried off on a stretcher, the three-time world play-er of the year returned a champion for the first time with his country.

“I had bad luck because I had a small injury in the beginning of the game, but my colleagues did their part — they run, they fight,” said Ronaldo, who has already won every major club honour. “Nobody believed in Portugal but we won”.

An unlikely scorer secured the pre-tournament outsiders a title at last.

It could be an uncomfortable few months ahead for Eder, the unher-alded striker who will return shortly to French club Lille after breaking French hearts with his 109th-minute goal.

“The ugly duckling became beauti-ful,” Portugal coach Fernando Santos

said.A second-half substitute, Eder

scored only his fourth goal in 29 ap-pearances for Portugal with a low shot from 25 metres (yards) past goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

“Cristiano told me I would be scor-ing the winning goal,” Eder said. “He gave me strength and positive energy.”

In doing so, Portugal denied the French a third final victory on home soil to add to Euro ‘84 and the 1998 World Cup.

“Football can be very cruel,” said Lloris, France’s captain. “The overrid-ing emotion is a lot of sadness.”

Twelve years after losing to Greece on home soil in their last appearance in the final, it was Portugal’s turn to spoil the host nation’s party. And they achieved it after winning only one of their seven games at Euro 2016 inside 90 minutes, and after losing the inspi-rational Ronaldo midway through the first half.

“It was tough because we lost our main man and we had all our hopes pinned on him because he’s a player who can score a goal at any minute,” Portugal defender Pepe said. “When he said he couldn’t go on, I tried to tell my teammates that we have to win it for him. That we were going to fight for him.”

It was a mostly dull and stodgy final but the record books will only show that Portugal went from third-place in its group to champion, and with little help from Ronaldo in its last match.


Jays 6 Tigers 1TORONTO — R.A. Dickey believes

this year’s edition of the Toronto Blue Jays is in better shape than last sea-son’s.

The knuckleballer tossed seven in-nings of one-run baseball on Sunday afternoon as the Blue Jays defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-1, allowing five hits while striking out five and walk-ing two as Toronto won for the eighth time in its past 10 games. Still, Dickey (7-9) thinks the Blue Jays have more momentum heading into the all-star break than last year’s team, which won the American League East crown and got to the American League Champion-ship Series.

“I’d say we’re certainly in a better position now, than we have been in the past,” said Dickey.

“The thing that’s so encouraging to me is (Jose) Bautista is not with us and Edwin (Encarnacion) wasn’t in there today so the streak we’re in right now, and the way that we’ve been playing, doesn’t feel fluke-ish.”

Josh Donaldson belted a three-run home run and Josh Thole drove in a pair for Toronto (51-40). The Tigers (46-43) have dropped three of their last four heading into the break.

The Blue Jays starting rotation fin-ished the first half of the season lead-ing the American League in earned-run average (3.64) and innings pitched (579.1).

“It’s fun to watch guys grow,” Dick-ey said of the rotation. “Grow up and grow as human beings and pitchers. I’m watching (J.A.) Happ, (Aaron) San-chez and Stro (Marcus Stroman) all kind of grow up from being toddlers in the big leagues to kind of graduating into their adolescence here and it’s fun to watch.

“That dynamic is not something I really take for granted ‘cause its rare.”

Donaldson broke the game open with a three-run home run in the fourth inning to give Toronto a 5-0 lead. The Blue Jays third baseman put

Anibal Sanchez’s 0-1 fastball into the seats in left-centre field for his 23rd homer of the season.

Donaldson became just the sixth player in AL history to score 80 runs and hit 20 home runs prior to the all-star break.

The others were Lou Gehrig (1936), Ted Williams (1946), Reggie Jackson (1969), Frank Thomas (1994), and Alex Rodriguez (2000).

“I think the 80 runs, that has some-thing to do with the guys behind me driving me in,” said Donaldson.

“The fact of the matter is, I feel like I do a pretty decent job on the bases: taking an extra base, stealing a bag every now and again, but that doesn’t always necessarily lead up to 80 runs. Eddie’s hit some homers, (Michael) Saunders hit some homers — bats be-hind me have been hitting some hom-ers.”

Anibal Sanchez (5-10) allowed five runs on eight hits while striking out six and walking a pair over five innings of work.

Dustin Molleken, a native of Regi-na who spent 13 seasons in the minor leagues, pitched 2 2/3 innings of score-less relief for the Tigers. He struck out three and walked one while surrender-ing three hits in his second career big league appearance.

“It was unbelievable,” Molleken said. “It was a very special time today, especially being at home. I’m happy I got to throw with my family and my friends here.

“I showed today I belong up here.”Thole got the Blue Jays offence

started in the second inning, slapping a single to right field to score Troy Tu-lowitzki and Kevin Pillar.

The Tigers broke up Dickey’s shut-out in the fifth as Mike Aviles led off with a triple and later scored.

Saunders added to the Blue Jays lead in the eighth, delivering an RBI single.

Note: Blue Jays DH Edwin Encarna-cion rescinded the appeal of his one-game suspension and served it on Sun-day.

Donaldson leads Blue Jays

past Tigers


Portugal’s Eder, left, celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Euro 2016 final soccer match between Portugal and France at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.

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The championship’s first 24-team tournament became a reality over the last month, but the quality of football deteriorated. Such a sterile showpiece — the first European Championship final to be scoreless after 90 minutes — seemed a fitting climax.

“We weren’t clinical enough,” said France coach Didier Deschamps, who lifted the World Cup in the sta-dium as a player in 1998. “We weren’t cool-headed enough.”

Even France forward Antoine Griezmann, the tournament’s leading scorer, couldn’t rise to the big occa-sion. There was no seventh goal of Euro 2016 from the Atletico Madrid forward, who also lost out in the Cham-pions League final six weeks ago to Ronaldo’s Real Madrid.

Griezmann was the first player to find the target, but his header was tipped over by Rui Patricio, who was formidable in the Portugal goal. When an inviting cross from Kingsley Coman was delivered in the 66th, Griezmann missed with a free header.

Only once was Patricio beaten, when Andre-Pierre Gignac’s shot hit the inside of the post but it came back

out.Luck was on Portugal’s side, and

Eder was able to strike the decisive blow.

It didn’t seem to be going Portugal’s way in the ninth minute when Dimitri Payet’s right knee clattered into Ron-aldo’s standing left leg.

Ronaldo went down in agony — writhing, grimacing and screaming. He was able to return, but this was one injury he could not run off.

Ronaldo fell to the turf again in the 17th. One of the moths infesting the national stadium fluttered over Ronal-do’s tearful right eye. Teammates tried to help in vain to help, with Nani tend-ing to the knee.

Ronaldo watched the game forlorn-ly on the touchline as strapping was attached before dragging himself back onto the field. But Ronaldo’s mobil-ity was restricted. Battling through the pain, regularly reaching down to check on the injury, Ronaldo realized there would be no miracle recovery. The clock hit 23 minutes and Ronaldo ripped off his captain’s armband and tossed it on the turf. Slumping to the ground again, Ronaldo was consoled by Nani, who embraced his former Manchester United teammate as the armband was transferred.

The stretcher came on and in the

25th minute Ronaldo became a spec-

tator. But thanks to Patricio’s array of

saves and dogged defending, Ronaldo

left a champion.STORY FROM PAGE B1

EURO: Fitting climax


WORLD 11 UNITED STATES 3SAN DIEGO — Boston Red Sox

farmhand Yoan Moncada hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth inning and Eloy Jimenez added a three-run shot in the ninth to help the World beat the United States 11-3 in the All-Star Futures Game on Sunday.

The World team snapped a six-game losing streak in the showcase of top mi-nor league talent.

With Raimel Tapia of the Rockies aboard on an error, Moncada, a Cuban who plays for Double-A Portland, hit a line shot to left off Anthony Banda of the Diamondbacks to give the World a 4-3 lead.

Moncada was named Futures Game MVP. The Red Sox agreed to give Mon-cada a $31.5 million signing bonus — with a $31.5 million tax imposed by Major League Baseball — in March 2015, the highest bonus ever for an in-ternational amateur. Cuban authori-ties allowed him to leave in 2014.

Moncada wore eye black in the co-lours of the Cuban flag.

Jimenez’s three-run homer to left highlighted the seven-run ninth. The Cubs prospect also doubled in the World’s first run, in the sixth, and made a spectacular catch of Dylan Coz-ens’ long foul ball against a fence near

the right-field stands to end the sev-enth.

For the U.S. team, Chance Sisco homered and Alex Bregman finished a home run shy of the cycle.

Sisco, who plays for the Baltimore Orioles’ Double-A affiliate Bowie, homered to left-centre off Francisco Rios of the Blue Jays’ high Class A Dunedin to give the United States a 3-0 lead with one out in the fourth inning. Sisco has one homer in 251 at-bats with Bowie.

Bregman, of Triple-A Fresno in the Houston system, tripled in the first, doubled and scored in the third and singled in the fourth. He fouled out in the seventh and struck out to end the game.

The World closed the gap to 3-2 in the sixth before Josh Naylor (Marlins) was thrown out by David Dahl (Rock-ies) trying to score the tying run from second on a single by Carlos Asuaje (Padres) to end the inning.

Padres farmhand Manuel Margot of the World team reached above the fence in right-centre to rob Car-son Kelly (Cardinals) of a home run in the sixth. World starter Alex Reyes of Triple-A Memphis (Cardinals) hit 101 mph. He allowed two hits in 1 2/3 scoreless innings while striking out four and walking one.

Joe Musgrove (Astros), who pitched for Grossmont High in suburban El Ca-

jon, threw a perfect first inning for the

United States.

The teams wore jerseys in the mus-

tard and mud colour scheme the Pa-

dres used in the 1980s.

Former Padres All-Star closer Trev-

or Hoffman managed the U.S. team.

His staff was heavy with ex-Padres,

including Fred McGriff, Garry Temple-

ton, Billy Bean and Mark Loretta, plus

San Diegan and former big leaguer

Mark Prior, the Padres’ minor league

pitching co-ordinator.

Moises Alou, now a special assistant

in the Padres’ player development de-

partment, managed the World.

Moncada homers to lead World to win


World Team’s Amed Rosario, of the New York Mets, right, high fives teammate Dilson Herrera, of the New York Mets, after scoring on an RBI base hit by Raimel Tapia during the ninth inning of the All-Star Futures baseball game, Sunday.

ALL-STAR FUTURES GAME

RAMPAGE FALL TO REBELS

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate Staff

Red Deer Rampage’s Devin Sheridan fires a shot on Fort Saskatchewan Rebel goalie Zachary Yopek Stabel during their game on Sunday. The Rampage lost to the Rebels 10-9 in overtime to close out their regular season in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League Junior B Tier I North Division. The Rampage finish the season in second place with a 10-7-1 record.

CALGARY — A weary and worn out U16 Rage softball team came back to Red Deer Sunday night with silver medals.

They closed out softball provincials, held over the weekend, with a 9-2 loss to the Lloydminster Liners in the fi-nals.

The game was their third one on Sunday. They started the day with a 5-4

loss to the Liners, but rebounded with

a 12-9 win over the Calgary Adrenalin

2000 in a slugfest.

The tournament also included a 13-2

win over the Edmonton Warriors and

a 7-6 win over the Adrenalin on Satur-

day and wins over the Calgary Kaizen

2001 and the Calgary Kaizen 2000 on

Friday.

U16 RAGE


MANILA, Philippines — Canada’s men’s basketball team saw its dreams of playing in the Rio Olympics dashed.

The Canadians lost 83-74 to France in Sunday’s heartbreaking final of FI-BA’s last-chance Olympic qualifying tournament.

Toronto Raptors guard Cory Joseph had 20 points and six assists to lead the Canadians, who were hoping to make their first Olympic appearance since the 2000 Sydney Games.

Melvin Ejim added 19 points, while Tristan Thompson, fresh off an NBA championship victory with the Cleve-land Cavaliers, had a team-high seven rebounds.

Tony Parker topped France with 26

points.Canada trailed by five points go-

ing into the fourth quarter of a fierce back-and-forth battle.

Parker drilled a three-pointer with five-and-a-half minutes to play to put France up by eight points, but an An-thony Bennett three and a bucket from Tyler Ennis pulled the Canadians to within three points.

Parker hit a dagger three-pointer with just over two minutes to play, however, that stretched the gap to six points. The deficit proved too big for Canada overcome, spelling more Olym-pic heartbreak for the Canadian men.

Canada led by five points to end the first quarter. A Boris Diaw three-point-er at the buzzer sent France into the dressing room at halftime with a 39-36 lead.


SAN MARTIN, Calif. — Just when it seemed as if the U.S. Women’s Open would come down to the final hole of the three-hole playoff, a rules violation changed everything and helped deliv-er Brittany Lang her first major title.

Lang was the beneficiary of a de-layed, two-stroke penalty called on An-na Nordqvist on Sunday, as she won the title she was so close to seizing when she was runner-up 11 years ago as an amateur.

“You never want to win with a pen-alty or something like that happen, especially to Anna, who is a friend of mine and a great player and a classy girl,” Lang said. “But it’s unfortunate. It’s part of the game and it happened that way.”

Lang made par on all three holes of the aggregate playoff and Nordqvist was given a two-stroke penalty for touching the sand with her club in a fairway bunker on the second playoff hole, helping deliver Lang the title.

The players were not told of the penalty until they were in the middle of playing the final hole, after officials reviewed replays in the latest contro-versy at a USGA event after the de-layed penalty called in the final round on eventual men’s U.S. Open winner Dustin Johnson last month.

“Seemed kind of unreal that it hap-pened, but it does,” Nordqvist said. “It wasn’t any reason to question it. But I’m certainly disappointed of the tim-ing of it.”

Lang then sealed the win with a short par putt on the final playoff hole, while Nordqvist made bogey to lose by three shots.

Lang shot a 1-under 71 to finish with a 6-under 282 for the tournament at CordeValle for her second win in 287 tournaments on the LPGA Tour. She survived a bogey on the 17th hole that led to the playoff before recovering in the playoff for a breakthrough win at age 30.

“I think this is absolutely huge, a huge momentum builder to say you won the U.S. Open,” Lang said. “I think this is a huge, a huge step in the right direction for my career.”

Both players made pars on the first hole of the playoff, which was played on the final three holes of the course. Then things got interesting on the next hole after Nordqvist hit her tee shot into a fairway bunker.

While preparing to hit the shot, Nor-dqvist’s club barely touched the sand. She did not realize it and both players made par on the hole, heading to the final playoff hole seemingly tied.

But after seeing a replay, broadcast-er Fox asked the USGA if there was a violation. That led USGA official John Bodenhamer to go to the television truck to see a replay which showed the violation that was not evident on the live broadcast or to the official watch-ing the hole in person.

Bodenhamer then said he decided to immediately tell the players but the news got to Nordqvist after she hit her third shot at 18 and before Lang did. Nordqvist said she would have been more aggressive going for the pin if she knew she needed birdie. Lang changed clubs for a safer approach shot, know-ing a par would win the tournament.

“It certainly changed her game plan,” Nordqvist said. “But, you know, hopefully we can all learn from it and hopefully we can all get better.”

Canada’s men’s basketball team falls to France

Penalty on Nordqvist delivers US Women’s Open to Lang


LAS VEGAS — Brock Lesnar re-turned from a 4 ½ -year UFC absence with a unanimous-decision victory over Mark Hunt, and Nunes took the bantamweight title from Miesha Tate with a stunning first-round stoppage at UFC 200 on Saturday night.

Jose Aldo also won a competitive decision over Frankie Edgar to claim the interim featherweight title on the UFC’s star-studded landmark show.

Daniel Cormier dominated a deci-sion over Anderson Silva, who took the fight on two days’ notice after Jon Jones was dropped from the main event for failing a drug test.

While Brazil’s Nunes shocked Tate in the main event, the hulking Lesnar (6-3) was the greatest curiosity on the card. The pro wrestler earned his first mixed martial arts victory since July 2010, dominating Hunt with wrestling skill and sheer mass.

“I’m older, and when I decided to make this comeback, it was a hard de-cision,” the 39-year-old Lesnar said. “I’m glad I did. This goes to show for everybody out there, if you don’t stick your neck out, you’ll never get ahead.”

UFC 200 capped three fight cards over three days for the world’s dom-inant MMA promotion, which used a golden canvas for its first event in T-Mobile Arena, the spacious new en-tertainment venue just off the Las Ve-gas Strip.

The UFC stacked the card with com-pelling matchups, and while every fight wasn’t a classic, the underdog Nunes’ victory was a stunner.

“Everybody knows that I respect Miesha a lot, (but) I’m the new cham-pion,” said Nunes, also the first openly gay champion in UFC history. “For years I’ve been working hard for this moment. I feel amazing.”

Nunes (14-4) became the fourth different fighter to hold the UFC’s 135-pound belt in the last eight months since Ronda Rousey lost it to Holly Holm. Holm lost the belt to Tate in March, but Nunes dominated Tate (18-6) from the start, stunning her with multiple big shots.

Tate was bloodied and unsteady by the time Nunes sunk in a rear naked choke and ended it 3:16 into the first round.

“When I saw she was hurt, I con-trolled myself, because I know she can come back,” Nunes said. “I made sure she couldn’t come back anymore.”

Lesnar made a UFC-record $2.5 million guaranteed purse for his first bout since late 2011, returning to the sport where he won and lost the heavy-weight title during a meteoric MMA career. Although he walked away after consecutive losses and serious health problems, he couldn’t stop thinking about a return while racking up easier money in the WWE.

The main-event star of UFC 100

seized the opportunity to be on an-other landmark show, and his per-formance showed that his inimitable athleticism hadn’t diminished. Lesnar never wandered into trouble against the famously heavy-handed Hunt, re-peatedly taking down his veteran op-ponent and keeping him pinned to the canvas.

“I wanted to finish the fight, but the guy’s got a coconut head,” Lesnar said. “My ground-and-pound, I’m sure he’s going to feel it tomorrow, just as I’m going to feel his punch tomorrow.”

Lesnar dominated the final three minutes, punishing a prone Hunt with his cartoon-sized fists. All three judges scored the bout 29-27 for Lesnar, who sounded tentatively interested in an-other MMA bout — after he performs for the WWE this summer.

“It’s really too soon, and I have no idea (about continuing in the UFC),” said Lesnar, who turns 39 on Tuesday. “I believe any man can do whatever he wants to if he puts his mind to it. I’ve been out of this game for five years, and I trained for six weeks. … I think I’m top 10. That puts me right back in the game.”

The 41-year-old Silva (33-8) stepped up to fight the UFC’s light heavy-weight champ after Jones was ruled out Wednesday night. Although Silva is 45 months removed from his last victory — and seven weeks removed from gallbladder surgery — he gamely took a shot at Cormier, who was denied a lucrative, career-defining rematch with the troubled Jones.

Cormier (18-1) had little trouble with one of his heroes, largely keeping Silva pinned to the canvas on his back. Silva goaded Cormier into a few strik-ing exchanges, and he even hurt Corm-ier slightly in the final minute, but the champ won 30-26 on all three cards.

“I appreciate the UFC for getting me this fight,” said Cormier, who still made half of the guaranteed $1 million he would have earned against Jones.

Aldo put on a masterclass in his re-turn, cutting Edgar in the first round and tormenting him for four more rounds. Aldo reclaimed one version of the belt he held until his 13-second knockout loss to Conor McGregor in December — and he’s also likely to get the lucrative next shot at McGregor whenever the 145-pound champion fi-nally returns to their division follow-ing his second bout with Nate Diaz next month.

The Irish star stood amid the floor crowd at cageside when the fight be-gan. Afterward, Aldo put on his belt and immediately made threatening gestures at McGregor, who shouted back at his most bitter rival.

“I have one goal left, and that’s to beat this guy,” Aldo said.

The pay-per-view card opened with former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez brutally stopping Travis Browne in the first round of a bout that could have headlined many other UFC cards.

The oft-injured Velasquez (14-2) had fought just once since October 2013, losing his belt to Fabricio Werdum

a year ago. He showed vintage form against Browne (18-4-1), who got wob-bled by a spinning wheel kick and then battered to the ground repeatedly.

Velasquez finished his heavy-weight-record 10th knockout victory with 3 seconds left in the round.

Title contenders T.J. Dillashaw,

Kelvin Gastelum and Julianna Pena

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the undercard. The first three fights at

UFC 200 ended with first-round stop-

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EDMONTON — In the moments be-fore his 200-metre final, Brendon Rod-ney broke down and cried.

Looking back on a frightening few weeks that saw him almost lose his mom, and ahead to hopefully his first Olympic Games, he was a mixed bag of emotions.

Then he laid down the race of his life.

The 24-year-old from Hamilton won the 200 metres at the Olympic track and field trials, running a blistering 19.96 to become just the second Cana-dian in history to dip under the 20-sec-ond barrier.

“I was just filled with emotions,” said Rodney, dressed in a solid white singlet and shorts, a heavy gold cross around his neck. “I’m proud, and my mom’s going to be proud.”

Rodney’s time had jaws dropping, not only because of it came after a 90-minute rain delay on a chilly af-ternoon, but also because of who he beat. Aaron Brown of Toronto finished second, while Canadian record-holder Andre De Grasse was third. They both finished in 20.32, requiring a photo fin-ish to determine the outcome.

And suddenly, Canada has another sprint star.

“We’re just showing the world that Canada’s back, and we’re ready to run,” said Rodney, who was the fast-est qualifier in Sunday’s semifinals. “I’m happy for Andre, happy for Aar-on, everybody’s been working hard and training well, we’re coming into shape when it counts.”

Rodney’s victory comes after a few scary weeks. He almost lost his mom Nerissa to a brain aneurysm. He trav-elled home from Long Island Univer-sity to be with her, but she insisted he leave to race in the NCAA champion-ships, where he would win bronze.

He flew to Eugene, Ore., for NCAAs the day of her surgery, not knowing if she would pull through. It was touch and go, doctors told him.

“My mom is my everything, so when that happened, I wanted to stay with my mom, and she was ‘Brendon, go go go.’ Her believing in me, and wanting me to do it is what pushed me,” he said.

“That was one of the things that was really hard to deal with, but I made it through, and she made it, she’s strong. And I finished strong today, so I think I’m getting strength from her.”

The men’s 200 was a highlight of an afternoon that saw world silver med-allist Melissa Bishop race to victory in the women’s 800, Crystal Emmanuel add a victory in the women’s 200 to the 100-metre title she won the previ-ous night, and Phylicia George win a hotly-contested women’s 100-hurdles final.

The women’s 200 runners were about step into the starting blocks when a torrential downpour sent the athletes and spectators running for cover, and led to the long rain delay.

Temperatures plummeted to 13 C, making for tough conditions on the athletes, who had to keep warm not knowing when they’d run.

“For me, I just think in my mind, ‘What if at the Olympics it rains?”’ said Emmanuel, a 24-year-old from Toron-to. “I can’t let the weather get to me.’ I just thought: the weather’s nothing, just run.”

Emmanuel ran 22.83 to win the women’s 200, narrowly edging Kim Hy-acinthe, who crossed in 22.88. Emman-uel let out a shriek after crossing, and screamed “Yes! Yes! Yes!”

Asked about her confidence she said “I didn’t have this confidence, it didn’t just come. I went out there and see my competitors with a world of confidence and I’m so scared, so I just put my head up one day and poked my chest out and starting walking like ‘Yo! I’m fast too!”’

Bishop, meanwhile, who was fortu-nate to get her race in before the rain, pulled away from the field with 200 metres to go. She broke into a grin with 10 metres to go, crossing the finish line in 1:59.32, two triumphant arms raised.

“I’m going to Rio,” she said excited-ly, knocking a television camera mic. “Sorry!” she said.

The 27-year-old from Eganville, Ont., talked about a mix of relief and excitement.

“It’s a little bit of pressure off your shoulders, because this is hard part, making the team is the hard part,” Bishop said. “When we get there, it’s just about showcasing your talent, and training that you’ve been doing lead-ing up to this.”

Brandon McBride, a 22-year-old from Windsor, Ont., ran 1:45.25 to book a ticket to his first Olympics.

McBride said the turning point in his season was last month’s NCAA championships, where he was out-kicked by Texas A&M rookie Dona-van Brazier, who ran an NCAA record 1:43.55.

“That really motivated me and kept me working hard… now I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in my life, it was right on time,” said McBride, who just completed his senior season at Missis-sippi State. “It was a kick to the ego a little bit, but it helped me, and it’s go-ing to help me long term.”

George, from Markham, Ont., ran 12.88 to win the hurdles and earn a trip

to her second Olympics. Toronto’s Nik-

kita Holder was second in 12.94, while

36-year-old Angela Whyte, who was

sixth in the 2004 Olympics, was third

(13.06).

The trio booked their spots on Can-

ada’s Olympic team, which will be

named Monday in a ceremony at Ed-

monton’s City Hall.

Rodney wins 200 metres at Canadian Olympic trials


Brendon Rodney leads Gavin Smellie of their heat in the senior men 200m semifinal during the Canadian Track and Field Championships and Selection Trials for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Edmonton, on Sunday.

Lesnar beats Hunt, Nunes stuns Tate for titleUFC 200


Brock Lesnar, top, fights Mark Hunt during their heavyweight mixed martial arts bout at UFC 200, Saturday,

Canadian teen Shapovalov beats De Minaur to win boys’ title

at Wimbledon

LONDON — Canadian teen Denis

Shapovalov won the Wimbledon’s boys’ title on

Sunday, defeating Australia’s Alex De Minaur

in three sets.

The 17-year-old Shapovalov, from Richmond

Hill, Ont., bounced back from a 6-4 loss in the

first set to take the next two, 6-1, 6-3 respective-

ly.

Shapovalov was the fifth seed at the tourna-

ment. De Minaur was seeded seventh.

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Local SportsLocal SportsBaseballBaseball

FootballFootball

SoccerSoccerUEFA Euro 2016At Sites in France

PLAYOFFS

QUARTER-FINALSSunday’s resultAt Saint-Denis, FranceFrance 5 Iceland 2Saturday’s resultAt Bordeaux, FranceGermany 1 Italy 1(Germany advances 6-5 on penalties)Friday’s resultAt Lille, FranceWales 3 Belgium 1Thursday’s resultAt Marseille, FrancePoland 1 Portugal 1

(Portugal advances 5-3 on penalties)

SEMIFINALSWednesday’s matchAt Lyon, FrancePortugal 2 Wales 0Thursday’s matchAt Marseille, FranceGermany 0 France 2

CHAMPIONSHIPSunday, July 10At Saint-Denis, FrancePortugal 1 vs. France 0 ET

PORTUGAL WINS EURO 2016

European Championship Finals

2016—Portugal 1, France 0, ET, Paris2012—Spain 4, Italy 0, Kyiv2008—Spain 1, Germany 0, Vienna2004—Greece 1, Portugal 0, Lisbon2000—France 2, Italy 1, ET, Rotterdam1996—Germany 2, Czech Republic 1, ET, London1992—Denmark 2, Germany 0, Gothenburg1988—Netherlands 2, Soviet Union 0, Munich1984—France 2, Spain 0, Paris1980—West Germany 2, Belgium 1, Rome1976—Czechoslovakia 2, West Germany 2, ET (Czechoslovakia wins 5-3 on penalties), Belgrade1972—West Germany 3, Soviet Union 0, Brussels1968—Italy 2, Yugoslavia 0, Rome1964—Spain 2, Soviet Union 1, Madrid1960—Soviet Union 2, Yugoslavia 1, ET, Paris

Sunday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Jason Garcia to Bowie (EL).BOSTON RED SOX — Activated RHP Brad Ziegler. Placed RHP Sean O’Sullivan on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 9.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP Chris Beck to Charlotte (IL).

American AssociationJOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed OF Mark Krueger and LHP Wander Perez.SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed RHP Lance

Fairchild.Can-Am League

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed INF Luis Gon-zalezSUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Traded LHP Jarret Martin to Ottawa for a player to be named.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationCHARLOTTE HORNETS — Re-signed F Marvin Williams to a multiyear contract.PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed G Gerald Hen-derson.

FOOTBALL

Canadian Football LeagueEDMONTON ESKIMOS — Acquired a 2018 eighth-round draft pick and a negotiation list player from Saskatchewan DT Cedric McKinley and a negotia-tion list player.

HOCKEYECHL

READING ROYALS — Signed a multiyear exten-sion of their affiliation agreement with Philadelphia (NHL).

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

COLUMBUS CREW SC — Transferred M Emil Larsen to Lyngby Boldklub (Danish Superliga).

Today● Senior mens baseball: Phantoms at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks, 6:30 p.m.; Printing Place Padres at Gophers, 7 p.m.; and Canadian Brewhouse Ballers at Play It Again Sports Athletics, 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park● Ladies Fastball: U16 Rage vs. Stettler and Bandits vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m. and Badgers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Tuesday● Senior mens baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends at Gophers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park● Ladies Fastball: Stettler vs. Panthers and Bandits vs. Badgers, 7 p.m. and U16 Rage vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park● Sunburst Baseball League: St. Albert Tigers at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Wednesday● Bantam baseball: Red Deer AAA Bantam Braves vs. Calgary Cubs, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park

● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Calgary Dino’s Black, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park● Ladies Fastball: U18 Rage vs. Bandits, 7 p.m. and U18 Rage vs. Badgers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Thursday● Senior mens baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Phantoms, 6:30 p.m; North Star Sports at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks, 7 p.m.; and Canadian Brewhouse Ballers at Lacombe Stone and Granite, 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park

Saturday● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park

Sunday● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park

TransactionsTransactions Canadian Football League East Division

GP W L T PF PA PtOttawa 3 2 0 1 99 76 5Toronto 3 2 1 0 75 73 4Montreal 2 1 1 0 35 42 2Hamilton 3 1 2 0 69 76 2

West Division GP W L T PF PA PtB.C. 3 2 1 0 62 46 4Calgary 3 1 1 1 80 68 3Edmonton 2 1 1 0 76 81 2Winnipeg 3 1 2 0 64 82 2Saskatchewan 1 0 1 0 53 69 0

WEEK THREEBye: Montreal

Friday’s resultsCalgary 26 Ottawa 26 (OT)Edmonton 39 Saskatchewan 36 (OT)Thursday’s resultsWinnipeg 28 Hamilton 24Toronto 25 B.C. 14WEEK FOURBye: CalgaryWednesday’s gameOttawa at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.Thursday’s gameEdmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.Friday’s gameHamilton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Saturday, July 16B.C. at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

SwimmingSwimmingMARLINS SWIM CLUB

FORESTBURG — The Red Deer Marlins Swim Club had impressive results at the Forestburg Aqua-nauts Invitational Swim Meet on July 9, 10 and 11 with several young swimmers performing well.

Aggregate point winners include: Gold — James Bellmore (six and under boys), Sara Maetika (11/12 girls), Madison Kohut (13/14 girls) and Erik Sveinson (15-17 boys). Silver — Coery Ovie (7/8 girls). Bronze — Hanna Mateika (9/10 girls), Emma Wrench (13/14 girls), Jack Walton (13/14 boys) and Keelan Armstrong (15-17 boys).

First place finishes in events included: Kee-lan Armstrong (15-17 boys) — 50 metre butterfly and 200 metre individual medley; James Bellemore (six and under boys) — 25 metre freestyle, 50 metre freestyle, 25 metre backstroke, 50 metre backstroke and 25 metre flutter; Saryn Jacques (9/10 girls) — 200 metre freestyle; Madison Kohut (13/14 girls) — 400 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, 100 metre breaststroke and 50 metre backstroke; Hanna Mateika (9/10 girls) — 50 metre breaststroke; Sara Mateika (11/12 girls) — 200 metre individual med-ley, 100 metre butterfly, 100 metre individual medley and (12 and under girls) 400 metre freestyle; Erik Sveinson (15-17 boys) — 100 metre breaststroke, 100 metre individual medley, 100 metre freestyle and 200 metre freestyle; Jack Walton (13/14 boys) — 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre breaststroke; Marin Walton (11/12 girls) — 50 metre freestyle and 50 metre breaststroke; and Emma Wrench (13/14

girls) — 50 metre breaststroke.Second place finishes in events included:

Keelan Armstrong (15-17 boys) — 50 metre back-stroke; Hailey MacRae (7/8 girls) — 25 metre flutter; Hanna Mateika (12 and under girls) 400 metre freestyle; Kolby Orriss (7/8 girls) — 25 metre breast-stroke; Cameron Ovie (11/12 boys) — 100 metre backstroke; Corey Ovie (7/8 girls) — 50 metre back-stroke, 100 metre individual medley and 50 metre breaststroke; Julia Richards (15-17 girls) — 50 me-tre butterfly; Jack Walton (13/14 boys) — 200 metre individual medley and 200 metre freestyle; and Emma Wrench (13/14 girls) — 50 metre backstroke, 50 metre freestyle and 50 metre butterfly.

Third place finishes in events included: Kee-lan Armstrong (15-17 boys) — 400 metre freestyle; Saryn Jacques (9/10 girls) — 100 metre freestyle and 50 metre freestyle; Eleena Kidd (11/12 girls) — 50 metre freestyle and 100 metre butterfly; Chad Lantz (15-17 boys) — 100 metre individual medley; Havanna MacRae (six and under girls) — 25 metre flutter; Hanna Mateika (9/10 girls) —25 metre butter-fly; Kolby Orriss (7/8 girls) —50 metre breaststroke; Cameron Ovie (11/12 boys) — 100 metre breast-stroke and 400 metre freestyle (12 and under boys); Corey Ovie (7/8 girls) — 25 metre flutter and 25 metre butterfly; and Haven Pendle (9/10 girls) — 50 metre breaststroke.

Ladies FastballLadies Fastball WINS LOSSES TIES POINTSBandits 11 5 1 23Panthers 8 5 2 18Badgers 8 5 2 18U18 Rage 7 6 0 14U16 Rage 5 7 1 11Stettler 2 11 0 4

Today’s gamesU16 Rage vs. Stettler, 7 p.m.Bandits vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m.

Badgers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m.

Tuesday’s gamesStettler vs. Panthers, 7 p.m.Bandits vs. Badgers, 7 p.m.U16 Rage vs. Panthers, 8:45 p.m.

Wednesday’s gamesU18 Rage vs. Bandits, 7 p.m.U18 Rage vs. Badgers, 8:45 p.m.

MLBAMERICAN LEAGUE

East Division W L Pct GBBaltimore 51 36 .586 —Boston 49 38 .563 2Toronto 51 40 .560 2New York 44 44 .500 7½Tampa Bay 34 54 .386 17½

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 52 36 .591 —Detroit 46 43 .517 6½Kansas City 45 43 .511 7Chicago 45 43 .511 7Minnesota 32 56 .364 20

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 54 36 .600 —Houston 48 41 .539 5½Seattle 45 44 .506 8½Oakland 38 51 .427 15½Los Angeles 37 52 .416 16½

Saturday’s GamesDetroit 3, Toronto 2Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 2Boston 4, Tampa Bay 1N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 6, 11 inningsOakland 3, Houston 2Kansas City 5, Seattle 3Minnesota 8, Texas 6Sunday’s GamesToronto 6, Detroit 1

N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 7Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 2Boston 4, Tampa Bay 0Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0Houston 2, Oakland 1, 10 inningsSeattle 8, Kansas City 5Minnesota 15, Texas 5Friday’s GamesTexas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.Kansas City at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.Toronto at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.Houston at Seattle, 810 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 54 36 .600 --New York 47 41 .534 6Miami 47 41 .534 6Philadelphia 42 48 .467 12Atlanta 31 58 .348 22½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 53 35 .602 --St. Louis 46 42 .523 7Pittsburgh 46 43 .517 7½Milwaukee 38 49 .437 14½Cincinnati 32 57 .360 21½

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 57 33 .633 --

Los Angeles 51 40 .560 6½Colorado 40 48 .455 16San Diego 38 51 .427 18½Arizona 38 52 .422 19

Saturday’s GamesChicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 1San Francisco 4, Arizona 2Miami 4, Cincinnati 2Pittsburgh 12, Chicago Cubs 6L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 3Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 1Colorado 8, Philadelphia 3Sunday’s GamesMiami 7, Cincinnati 3Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 2Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 5Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1Philadelphia 10, Colorado 3L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 1San Francisco 4, Arizona 0Friday’s GamesTexas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:05 p.m.Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.Colorado at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.Miami at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

GolfGolfU.S. Women’s Open Championship

At Cordevalle Golf ClubSan Martin, Calif.

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EDMONTON — Miran-da Ayim scored 15 points off the bench as Canada’s senior women’s basketball team beat China 74-62 on Sunday in Game 2 of the Edmonton Grads International Classic.

Nirra Fields added 12 and Katherine Plouffe scored nine for Canada. Sun Meng-ran and Huang Si-jang each had 15 points for China.

Canada defeated China 82-63 in Game 1 of the event on Saturday, but this game was much tighter, with neither side leading by more than six until midway through the fourth, and no more than four points separating the teams for nearly all of the second and third quarters.

“We were talking about this last night: China’s a good team and they had literally just travelled from China to come play here,” Ayim said. “They weren’t exactly them-selves last night and we knew that they were going to come back and give us a better game today and that’s what we need. We need a challenging game and lots of pressure so we know what to do when we see that at the Olympics.”

Canada assisted on 25 of its 27 field goals. Shona Thorburn led Canada with eight assists, while Fields, Lizanne Murphy, and Miah-Marie Langlois each had four. Canada also forced China into 25 turnovers.

Game 2 started much like

the previous night’s contest, with points hard to come by in the early going. Ayim provid-ed a spark for Canada with six points in the first quarter, but China came away with an 18-13 lead after 10 minutes. Can-ada scored the first six points of the second period to go in front by one and maintained a lead for most of the quarter, ending the first half with a 36-33 advantage.

China pulled even early in the second half and the teams went back and forth during a spirited third quarter that featured several ties, multi-ple lead changes, and ended with Canada held a 51-50 lead. Canada started the fourth on a 9-2 run, jumping ahead 60-52 in what to that point had been the biggest lead of the game for either team. China would get no closer than eight as Canada was able to seal the victory.

“China definitely played better, so it forced us to have to be better and it’s so benefi-cial to be in a tight game like that,” said Canadian coach Lisa Thomaidis. “We want to be forced to execute and han-dle a little bit of pressure and things like that, so we prob-ably did play better than we did last night.”

Canada and China con-clude the EGIC with Game 3 on Monday.

Ayim leads Canada past China 74-62 at Edmonton

Grads International Classic

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL


ARCALIS, Andorra — Through hail, heat and constant pressure from some of his main rivals, Chris Froome rode strong during the toughest stage in the Pyrenees of the Tour de France on Sunday. The British rider’s furious pedaling in an uphill finish padded his lead over several opponents and put him in control with the yellow jersey entering the race’s first rest day.

“That was a tough stage and the weather made it even tougher,” Froome said. “One min-ute we were pouring water over our heads and ice packs down our backs and the next minute there was ice falling from the sky. We were just trying to ride face down so the hail didn’t hit our faces,” added Froome, who took the yellow jersey with a downhill attack and stage win a day earlier. “It was pretty difficult out there.”

Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin won the ninth leg with a solo breakaway on the beyond-cate-gory finishing climb.

Froome crossed 11th, 6:35 behind Dumoulin, right behind fellow British rider Adam Yates and immediately ahead of top rival Nairo Quin-tana of Colombia.

“In the back of my mind I was waiting for (Quintana’s) attack all the way up the last climb,” Froome said. “I thought he was saving it for one big one. But that never came. I would like to think he was on his limit. It was a tough day out there. He just stuck to my wheel like glue.

“He seems to be going well but right now he’s not showing any more than anyone else,” Froome added.

In the overall classification, Froome holds a 16-second lead over Yates, with Dan Martin of Ireland third, 19 seconds behind, and Quintana fourth, 23 seconds back.

“It’s a very open race at this point but I’m very happy to have the lead going into the first rest day,” Froome said.

Two-time champion Alberto Contador pulled out with a fever midway through the stage. An-toine Duchesne of Chicoutimi, Que., finished the stage in 101st place.

Among those who couldn’t keep up with Froome on the final climb were French favou-rite Romain Bardet, top American hope Tejay van Garderen and Fabio Aru of Italy.

Bardet is sixth overall, 44 seconds behind, Van Garderen is 11th with a gap of 1:01 and Aru

is 13th at 1:23.Still, Froome hasn’t fully shaken Yates, Mar-

tin and Quintana.“I feel that this is going to be the biggest

battle of my career,” said Froome, who won the Tour in 2013 and 2015. “By no means did I ex-pect this to be easy and that I would ride away from everyone. The level is higher.”

Part of an early breakaway, Dumoulin at-tacked with 12 kilometres remaining in the 184.5-kilometre (115-mile) leg from Vielha d’Aran, Spain, to Arcalis in the principality of Andorra.

“A few days ago if you said I would win may-be the hardest day in the whole Tour de France this year, I would say you were crazy,” said Du-moulin, who was sick last week. “But sometimes it all comes together and the legs were feeling good today.

“I’m a time trialist so if I have a gap it’s diffi-cult to close it on me,” Dumoulin added.

The stage featured five demanding climbs, including an uphill, beyond-category finish in Arcalis.

“We went through all states,” Bardet said. “In the valley, the heat was suffocating. Then in the finale it was apocalyptic.”

On Team Giant-Alpecin, Dumoulin won the opening time trial in this year’s Giro d’Italia and wore the overall leader’s pink jersey for six stages before withdrawing midway through the race with saddle sores. He also won two stages in last year’s Spanish Vuelta. Approaching the finish line Sunday, Dumoulin turned around to make eye contact with his team director in a car behind him and then, on the verge of tears, stuck his tongue out and raised his arms in cel-ebration.

Rui Costa, the former world champion from Portugal, crossed second and Rafal Majka of Po-land was third, each 38 seconds behind.

Contador crashed in each of the opening stag-es and had already dropped significant time to the other overall favourites. He was in 20th position at the end of Saturday’s eighth stage, 3 minutes, 12 seconds behind Froome.

“It was quite a surprise to hear on the radio that he was in the car,” Froome said. “It’s a shame. He’s a great rider and he would have only added to what is already quite an exciting race.”

Through hail and heat, Froome stays in control of Tour

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MOVE OVER, KALE, WE’RE

MAKING CHIPS WITH

ZUCCHINITHIS SUMMER

BY MELISSA D’ARABIAN

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It all started with the kale chip. I fell in love the texture of the thick, green leaf

made thin and so delicately crisp by baking that it felt almost flaky, with just enough thickness to im-part a satisfying little crunch before nearly dissolv-ing into salty-grassy goodness on the tongue.

And I wasn’t alone: healthy-conscious eaters crowned the kale chip its unofficial sweetheart and suddenly they were available not just in health-food stores, but in mini-marts, airports and gas stations.

Which led me to ask: What else might we chip-up in a dehydrator or oven? And what other flavours might we add? My daughter’s all-time favourite pota-to chip is BBQ flavoured, so that became my mission — a baked veggie chip that mimicked the BBQ potato chip flavour, with all natural ingredients.

In mixing up various spice rubs, we were sur-prised by how much brown sugar we needed to em-ulate that characteristic flavour. And then we struck gold: what if we used a naturally sweet vegetable, which would allow us to reduce the added sugar down to nearly nothing?

And thus, the baked BBQ zucchini chip was born! It was a huge hit with the BBQ-potato-chip-lovers

in my house. And here’s the really good news: You don’t need any special equipment to make this hap-pen.

If you have a dehydrator, great — you probably al-ready have a strong veggie-chip game going. For the rest of us: your oven on low will work great for this recipe. And, you don’t even need a mandoline for slicing. I have one, but almost never use it ever since

n i p p i n g off a bit of fin-ger years ago on an episode of Ten Dollar Din-ners.

Use a knife and slice relatively thin, and that’s fine. In fact, the slices are better and sturdier when they aren’t too thin anyway.

I do recommend using a baking rack, only because the chips will dry out faster and more evenly. But, even this is optional equipment — just use parch-ment paper on a tray, cook a little longer, and flip the chips halfway through cook time if you don’t have a rack.

And besides, whose backyard garden isn’t just a few short weeks away from producing more zucchini than you could stir-fry or bake into cakes for a whole year?

With this recipe, you could actually be moved to use your whole garden’s prduction this year. And if you haven’t planted zucchini this year, kindly accept some from your neighbours. Just return a bit in the form of these chips.

Kale chip, move over.

BAKED BBQ-FLAVORED ZUCCHINI CHIPS Start to finish: 2 ½ hours Yield: serves 4 2 teaspoons smoked paprika 1 teaspoon chipotle or ancho chili powder (or

plain chili powder)

1 teaspoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 large zucchini 2 teaspoons olive oil

Preheat oven to 200 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together the smoked paprika, chili powder, brown sugar and salt and set aside. Slice the zucchi-ni thinly, about 1/16th of an inch, but not paper thin.

You can use a mandolin, but slicing by hand is just fine. Don’t worry if you can’t quite get the slices super thin. Place the zucchini slices in a large bowl, and blot with a paper towel to remove excess mois-ture.

Drizzle with olive oil and toss the slices to coat. Sprinkle with the spice mixture and toss to coat. Line two or three large baking sheets with baking racks, and spray briefly with nonstick spray. Spread out zucchini slices and bake until dry and slightly crispy, about two hours. Allow to cool on rack before removing. Best eaten the same day.

NOTE: Instead of a baking rack, you may instead line the baking trays with parchment paper, in which case flip the chips about one hour into cook-ing, and note that chips will require about 30 extra minutes of bake time.

Nutrition information per serving: 54 calories 24 calories from fat 3g fat (0 g saturated 0g trans fats) 0 mg cholesterol 513mg sodium 7g carbohydrate 2g fiber 5g sugar 2g protein.

Food Network star Melissa d’Arabian is an expert on healthy eating on a budget. She is the author of the cook-book “Supermarket Healthy.”

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It’s amazing how the weather dictates what we want to eat, isn’t it? Even if you’re not consciously trying to cook with the sea-sons, you want braises and stews when it’s cool out, and food that is lighter and bright-er when it’s warm.

This decidedly warm-weather salmon is bathed in an olive-oil-and-herb mixture and cooked at a fairly low temperature to let it cook through without browning, and give it a very tender texture.

Then it’s perched on a pile of spring-y greens — you can use any baby lettuce mix you like, or create your own. Mix that with a pile of additional fresh herbs, toss with some fresh lemon juice and good olive oil, and the whole thing tastes like late spring has willed itself into a meal.

Would I eat this in November? Sure. But I am craving it now.

Sometimes I like salmon to be browned and crispy, but in this case I was going for a more delicate, poached texture so the herbs would retain their colour, and the whole dish would be soft and gentle.

Summer is peak season for wild Alaskan salmon, which has a more pronounced salmon fla-vour than farm-raised I used Coho salmon here, with a deep, rich, reddish-orange colour. Grab it when you see it.

You could cook the salmon ahead of time and let it cool to room temperature. Then dress and assem-ble the salads just before cooking, which makes this a great recipe for a relaxed summer lunch.

Herbed Salmon SaladStart to finish: about 35 minutesServings: 4Salmon:4 6-ounce salmon fillets5 scallions, white and light green parts only, cut

into 1-inch pieces1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

3 tablespoons fresh dill sprigs¼ cup fresh parsley leaves½ teaspoon coarse or kosher salt, plus

more to tasteSalad:2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oilKosher salt to taste6 cups baby salad mix, or a mix of purs-

lane, butter lettuce, Boston lettuce and mache, for example

½ cup whole fresh parsley leaves¼ cup sliced chives1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees Fahren-

heit. Spray a baking pan with nonstick spray, or lightly oil the pan. Place the salmon filets in the pan.

2. In a small food processor, blend togeth-er the scallions, 1/3 cup olive oil, dill, ¼ cup parsley leaves, and ½ teaspoon salt. Spread the mixture over the salmon, and bake for about 16 to 18 minutes, just until the salmon is barely cooked through and flakes easily. Let cool for a few minutes in the pan, until just warm.

3. For the salad, in a large bowl, mix to-gether the lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of olive oil, plus salt to taste. Add the lettuces, ½ cup parsley leaves and chives, and toss. Di-

vide the salad between 4 plates and place a piece of salmon atop each pile of greens, removing the skin if you wish. Serve while the salmon is warm, or at room temperature if you prefer.

Nutrition information per serving: 483 calories 292 calories from fat 33 g fat (5 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 106 mg cholesterol 384 mg sodium 6 g carbohydrate 3 g fiber 1 g sugar 39 g protein.

Herbed salmon over a healthy green salad


A fillet of salmon smothered in an herb marinade served over a tender green salad. This warm-weather recipe combines salmon bathed in olive oil and herbs with spring-y greens and salad. It’s the kind of lighter, brighter meal we tend to want during summer.

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TOKYO — Japan’s ruling coalition scored a stronger-than-expected victo-ry in parliamentary elections, results showed Monday, as voters chose sta-bility and hopes for economic reviv-al over opposition pleas to stop the prime minister from building a more assertive military.

Half of the seats of the less pow-erful upper house, or 121 seats, were up for grabs in Sunday’s vote. There had been no possibility for a change of power because the ruling coalition, headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, al-ready controls the more powerful low-er house, but the balloting was a key gauge of how much support Abe’s coa-lition has among the public.

The Liberal Democrats won 56 of the 121 seats, official results showed on Monday. The party’s coalition part-ner Komeito won 14 seats. The total of 70 seats was far better than the goal of a combined 61 seats set by Abe.

That number may grow if indepen-dent candidates join the coalition, common in Japanese elections, and if there are defections from the soundly defeated opposition, less common but what analysts are predicting might happen. Abe appeared before TV cameras at party headquarters late Sunday to pin red flowers, indicat-

ing confirmed wins, next to his candi-dates’ names written on a big board.

“I am honestly so relieved,” he told NHK, promising new government spending to help wrest the economy out of the doldrums in a “total and aggressive” way. He declined to give details.

With their pro-business policies, the Liberal Democrats have ruled Ja-pan almost continuously since World War II, and until recently enjoyed solid support from rural areas. The few years the opposition held power coincided with the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated northeastern Japan. The opposition fell out of favour after be-ing heavily criticized for its feeble reconstruction efforts.

Robert Dujarric, professor and di-rector of the Institute of Contempo-rary Asian Studies at Temple Uni-versity Japan in Tokyo, said the win reflected voters’ disenchantment with the opposition, rather than their ex-citement about Abe’s policies.

“The public is old. It doesn’t want change,” he said. “It doesn’t want what Japan really needs — more structural reform, less money for the old, and more funding for families and children.”

Combined with other conservative politicians, the coalition has a two-thirds majority in the upper house, which is needed to propose any ref-erendum to change the constitution,

written by the U.S. after Japan’s de-feat in World War II. The constitution has a clause that limits Japan’s well-equipped army, navy and air force to self-defence.

Many members of Japan’s military don’t anticipate becoming involved in overseas wars, expecting their work to be limited to disaster relief. But some Japanese increasingly agree with Abe’s views on security because of growing fears about terrorism, the re-cent missile launches by North Korea and China’s military assertiveness.

Tetsuro Kato, professor of politics at Waseda University, said Abe won’t rush to change the constitution, saying he needs better timing because the re-cent strengthening of the yen — a mi-nus for exports — and concerns about global economic growth.

Yukio Edano, the legislator who ran the campaign for the main opposi-tion Democratic Party, acknowledged that while the public agreed with his party’s message that Abenomics wasn’t working for regular people, he told NHK that the “… people felt we did not offer enough of an alterna-tive.”

Abe during the campaign that his “Abenomics” program, centred on easy lending and a cheap yen to en-courage exports, was still ongoing and that patience was needed for results. He downplayed the constitutional question during the campaign, saying only that discussion was needed.

Japan’s voters opt for stabilityin parliamentary elections


SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A brush fire that burned to the edges of homes in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains north of Los Angeles was nearly 50 per cent contained Sunday and was no longer threatening resi-dences.

Crews were taking advantage of calmer winds and building a perime-ter around the smouldering blaze that consumed about 1.7 square miles of thick chaparral in a rugged canyon.

About 2,000 people sent fleeing from about 750 homes in the Steven-son Ranch area of the Santa Clarita Valley on Saturday were allowed to return after nightfall.

“It was a little scary,” resident Jessica Leone told KCAL-TV, prais-ing the quick actions of firefighters. “They did such an amazing job.”

Aerial photos showed the flames came to the property line of a ridge-top home that was covered in fire re-tardant.

Crews contended with winds gust-ing up to 25 mph Saturday as the blaze

burned close to Interstate 5, the main artery connecting Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.

“The flames were jumping in cir-cles around our house,” Victor Roman told the Los Angeles Daily News after packing his valuables and making a speedy exit with his wife.

He said he saw a car crash over the side of the road at the outset of the fire and suspected the wreck sparked the flames.

However, fire officials said the cause of the fire has not been deter-mined

Evacuations lifted as California wildfires coming under control


HELENA, Mont. — The Lewis & Clark Humane Society is caring for nine dogs a South Korean woman said she saved from being killed for meat.

Two dog farms near Seoul have closed as a result of Humane Society International’s efforts that resulted in the rescue of 80 dogs, Humane Society director Gina Wiest said.

Several groups, including Free Korea Dogs and Humane Society In-

ternational, worked with Jinoak Oh, who rescued the dogs from a chick-en farm that planned to sell them for meat production, the Lewis & Clark Humane Society said. The other dogs were sent to other shelters.

The humane society plans an open house Tuesday to showcase the dogs from Korea, Wiest said. The animals don’t yet understand English com-mands.

The dogs were transported from the Gin Oak Shelter, operated by Oh in South Korea, to Montana. Oh asked

shelters in the United States on her web page for help, saying the dogs desperately needed help and were not being cared for.

The dogs were cleaned up at the Montana shelter and given a micro-chip if they get lost after being adopt-ed.

An adoption price hasn’t yet been set, although it is typically $120 for a dog, which pays for spaying or neuter-ing, vaccinations and time spent at the shelter pending adoption.

Dogs raised for meat on Korean farm rescued

CLUSTER BOMB MADE IN TENNESSEE SHATTERED LIVES IN YEMEN’S CAPITAL

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SANAA, Yemen - The 15-year-old boy had entered his neighborhood mosque to attend morning prayers. The bak-ery worker was asleep in his attic apartment with his wife and child. And the civil servant was getting ready for work.

At that moment, a warplane from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia dropped an American-made cluster bomb over their densely packed enclave. The device, banned by scores of countries but not the United States or Saudi Ara-bia, sent explosive spheres the size of baseballs raining down. The civil servant miraculously escaped death. The bakery worker was severely injured.

Essa Al-Furasi, the teenager, was killed.The United States is playing a quiet but lethal role

in the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians in Yemen’s civil war. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has pur-chased U.S. fighter jets and other American-made weap-ons in deals worth billions of dollars, and the Pentagon has provided the coalition with training, aerial refueling sup-port and intelligence as it attacks targets in Yemen.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest has defended the Obama administration’s backing of Saudi Arabia and the other members of the coalition, calling them “effective national security partners.”

But criticism is growing over the U.S. involvement in the war. Human rights groups and some American lawmakers have urged a ban on weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia, saying the airstrikes have had a devastating impact on ci-vilians and violated international laws.

The kingdom has denied targeting civilian areas and has called United Nations estimates of casualties from air-strikes exaggerated.

In late May, though, reports surfaced that the White House had quietly blocked the transfer of more cluster bombs to Riyadh in apparent concern about the human-itarian toll. But Congress last month voted to continue selling the weapons to the kingdom, citing a desire not to “stigmatize” the munitions.

Washington’s support has had unintended consequenc-es. In a nation that is a front line in the war against terror-ism, animosity toward the United States has increased.

“No one knows why our area was targeted,” Taher Al-Khadami, the imam of the mosque, said on a recent day.

He pointed at a spot on the ground inside the mosque, steps away from the gate. That’s where he found Essa Al-Furasi.

A few blocks away in a poor area with crumbling build-ings, fragments of the cluster bomb tore through the corru-gated tin roof of Shakir Ghaleb Ahmad’s attic apartment.

“I woke up and saw blood all over me,” the bakery work-er recalled. Asleep in another room, his 3-year-old daugh-ter and wife escaped harm.

“If the bomb had dropped around the time children were heading to school, it would have been a great ca-tastrophe,” said Gen. Ahmed Abdullah Al-Tahiri, the ar-ea’s police commander.

“These are the gifts of Saudi Arabia and America,” he declared as he looked at the remnants of the bomb that were being stored in his unit’s compound.

Cluster bombs have been deployed in numerous con-flicts, including Vietnam, Iraq, Syria and Libya. So far, 119 nations have joined an international convention adopted in 2008 to ban their use.

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Pieces of the US-made cluster bomb pierced the roof of Shakir Ghaleb Ahmad’s apartment. “I woke up and saw blood all over me,” recalled the bakery worker. Asleep in another room, his 3-year-old daughter and wife escaped harm.

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BY LINDSEY BAHRTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — It’s a good time for animated animals at the box office. The Secret Life of Pets follows Zootopia and Finding Dory as the latest success this year, opening to a massive $103.2 million according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures film cost only $75 million to produce, and features the voices of comedians like Louis C.K. and Kevin Hart. Pets has been warmly received by critics and audiences, who gave the film a promising A- CinemaS-core.

Going into the weekend, analysts predicted it would earn only around $70 million, which would still have been a big success.

Not adjusting for inflation, Pets earned the title of best opening ever for an original animated property. The previous record-holder was Disney

and Pixar’s Inside Out, which opened to $90.4 million last year.

It’s a big moment for Illumination Entertainment — the shop behind the hugely successful Despicable Me series and Minions. They’re not quite Pixar yet, but working toward that sort of recognition.

“Illumination has been building a consistency of vision, and now they have become what every studio cov-ets — a draw,” said Paul Dergarabedi-an, senior media analyst for box office tracker comScore. “They’re building that brand reputation with every mov-ie.”

The main draw, though, was likely in the simple and appealing premise: What do your pets do when you’re not around?

“I think this movie resonates among all people,” said Nick Carpou, Univer-sal’s president of Domestic Distribu-tion. “It’s a very charming way in for everyone to have fun with the concept of imagining their pets that way.”

Pets effectively unseated Finding Dory from its three-week run in first

place. The little blue fish actually fell to third place with $20.4 million, be-hind The Legend of Tarzan which took in $20.6 million in its second weekend in theatres.

Even with the drop, Dory this week-end surpassed Captain America: Civ-il War to become the top film of 2016 domestically, with its $423 million in grosses. It helped push The Walt Dis-ney Studios to reach $5 billion globally in record time. Much of that was pro-pelled by the success of its family fare including “The Jungle Book.”

“Family films have generated so much money this year,” Dergarabe-dian said. “That’s an audience who is always looking for content in a world filled with options for entertainment.”

While Disney is celebrating its over-all box office, there is one dud on the books. The studio’s The BFG fell a gi-ant 60 per cent in its second weekend. The movie, which cost around $140 million to make, has earned a dismal $38.7 million to date.

There were also a fair number of adults looking for something new to

see this weekend without the kids, helping the raunchy R-rated comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates sur-pass expectations with an estimated $16.6 million for a fourth place debut. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, cost $33 million to make, and stars Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick.

Purge: Election Year rounded out the top five with $11.7 million.

The year is still up 3 per cent from last summer, despite a string of un-derperformers lately. But there are still some would-be blockbusters on the horizon, including the new Ghost-busters, which opens next weekend.

“The hope is that the momen-tum created by The Secret Life of Pets will carry over to Ghostbusters, Ja-son Bourne and Suicide Squad,” Der-garbedian said. “We’re running out of track. It’s almost the end of summer, and there’s a lot of ground to make up, but one movie can make all the differ-ence.”

Cartoon animals rule the summer screens


VULCAN, Alta. — A south-ern Alberta town that shares the name of Spock’s home planet wel-comed beings of all kinds on the weekend at its annual convention celebrating all things Star Trek.

The Vul-Con event started with a small group of individuals who travelled to the rural community of Vulcan every year.

But it’s becoming a “must-do” destination for anyone who loves the Star Trek franchise.

Adam Nimoy, son of the late

actor Leonard Nimoy who played Spock in the original TV se-ries, unveiled a commemorative plaque on Saturday to kick off the two-day convention.

It was the junior Nimoy’s first time at Vul-Con.

His father made an appearance six years ago to much fanfare and adoration.

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Nearly 50 years since Gordon Light-foot’s Black Day in July hit the air-waves, the once-controversial tune is providing fresh inspiration for a new work by a Canadian visual artist.

Timothy Schmalz created a bronze work of Lightfoot that was unveiled in the music legend’s hometown of Oril-lia, Ont., last October.

Now, the figurative artist from St. Jacobs, Ont. is adding to his creative tribute to Lightfoot. He has created a sculpture inspired by the singer-song-writer’s Black Day in July, which ad-dressed the 1967 race riots in Detroit.

The incident was ignited by a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar. Clashes ensued between residents of largely black neighbourhoods and po-lice, and members of the state police and National Guard were brought in as the protests and violence escalated.

The riots lasted five days, leaving 43 dead. Hundreds were injured and thousands arrested, with businesses left looted and burned.

Black Day in July was released in 1968. Lightfoot’s lyrics described “Mo-tor City madness” and the chaos that followed proved to be too incendiary for some at the time, with a number of American radio stations banning the track.

“Gordon Lightfoot really is a role model to artists because he had the courage to sing or write about some-thing that other people wouldn’t even want to talk about,” said Schmalz.

The artist’s one-metre high sculp-ture inspired by Black Day in July is cast in bronze and will be displayed on a granite pedestal with the song title carved into the face of the stone. It’s the latest addition to the Gordon Light-foot Trail in a park in Orillia named for the Canadian icon. The sculpture was officially unveiled on Sunday.

The sculpture is a Maple Leaf that

features a scene from Detroit, with smoke rising from the city transform-ing into clouds. Within the clouds, two outstretched hands — one black, one white — reach out to clasp the other. Hovering above the clouds is a dove.

“It’s really a sculpture that’s meant to bring healing and peace, and I think one of the first steps to that is acknowl-edging the actual event happened,” said Schmalz.

Schmalz said an exact cast of the piece is bound for Detroit. He plans to have the second sculpture permanent-ly installed in a yet-to-be-determined location in the city next year to com-memorate the 50th anniversary of the riots.

With the recent police shooting deaths of two black men — Alton Ster-ling and Philando Castile — in the U.S., and the discussion around the Black Lives Matter movement at To-ronto’s Pride Parade, Schmalz said the themes explored in Lightfoot’s lyrics remain as relevant as ever.


Black Day in July by Timothy Schmalz is seen in this undated handout photo. The figurative artist from St. Jacobs, Ont., was inspired to create the piece based on the Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name which addressed the 1967 race riots in Detroit.

50 years later, Black Day in July gains a new relevance

Monday, July 11CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Giorgio Armani,

82; Lil Kim, 42; Lisa Rinna, 53THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Expect a frantic day, full of live-

ly connections and conversations.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sociable and articulate, you have

the power to influence others — so make sure it’s in positive ways. The next 12 months is the time to combine passion with persistence.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Use your Aries energy to fire up projects – and then follow through with plenty of passion and purpose. But resist the urge to blurt out something totally inappropriate, especially at home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Enjoying good times ñ and delicious meals — with family and friends is highlighted today. But don’t be dismayed if a recalcitrant relative divulges some-thing that would be better left unsaid.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will be a bit of a roller coaster as you get an exciting project up-and-running. But pace yourself and be careful you don’t blurt out the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You need to be extra patient and diplomatic with someone today — especially at work. If you say exactly what’s on your mind, then things may go off in a totally unpredictable direction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Communication and travel are the buzz words as your restless side kicks in. Uranus boosts your multi-tasking skills, but avoid taking on too much and scatter-ing your energy in all directions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Expect to feel on edge today Virgo, as Uranus revs up your over-sensitive nervous system. So do all you can to worry less; wind down and relax more. Your “to-do- list” will still be there tomorrow.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Libran Moon boosts your confidence levels, and youíre keen to help solve everyone elseís problems. Don’t talk things up though — and end up promising more than you can actually deliver.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you need to increase cash flow? Focus on boosting your finances in practical and hands-on ways. Perhaps you could set up an online store; tutor others; or start a mini- business from home?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Curiosity, restless-ness and nervous energy are high. Don’t skim the surface — there’s more going on than you realize. Take the time to investigate issues properly otherwise you’ll miss important details.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t limit yourself Capri-corn! The wider your circle of family, friends, neighbours, work

colleagues and acquaintances, the more influence you will have in the big wide world outside your door.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re easily bored today but resist the temptation to spark things up by being contrary, upsetting others and rocking the boat. Find less disruptive ways to add spark and interest to your day!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stop procrastinating Pisces and start doing! It’s a good day to take inspiring creative ideas and turn them into practical, productive long-term projects. But resist the urge to be rash with cash.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Dear Annie: I had a falling out with my elder brother.

It happened when the whole family had gotten together for Thanksgiving dinner. My husband, Kurt, had been laid off about a month prior and hadn’t yet found a new job.

My brother kept telling Kurt what he “should” do and how no company would want him if he were to be unemployed for too long. Kurt was polite through the unsolicited career counseling session.

After dinner, we quickly excused ourselves and went to the other room to play with my niece. At one point, Kurt went to use the bathroom and overheard my brother telling my dad that he doesn’t think Kurt has any ambition. Kurt whispered the incident to me, and I flipped.

I was livid with my brother. I told him that he did not have the right to judge anyone and that he was being a total and complete jerk. We left, and I hav-en’t spoken to my dad or brother since.

However, none of this had anything to do with my sister-in-law or niece (my brother’s daughter). I miss her, and I’d like to be around my niece more often. I feel stuck. I don’t want to put her in an awkward situation, but I also don’t want her to think that I am angry with her or that she is part of this turmoil. — Sister-in-Limbo

Dear Sister: Blood runs thicker than water. It’s wonderful you value your relationship with your sis-ter-in-law, but your relationship with your brother is even more important.

Imagine how regretful you’d be if something hap-pened to him and you’d left things on a sour note. It’s time for you two to reconcile. Find a middle ground; perhaps agree to disagree about Kurt’s job situation. Though you’re the little sister, you’ll have to be the bigger person.

Dear Annie: I got good grades in high school to get into a good college. While in college, I did intern-ships over the summer to get a job after college.

At my first job after college, I did well enough to get promoted.

I got promoted so that I could get into graduate school.

I did well in graduate school to get a better job after graduation.

I did well enough in that job to get promoted.

Now what?I am 33 years old and have always had a carrot in

front of me. Now I feel as though there is no direct, linear path. It used to be, “Do well here to get there.” Now I feel as if there are no paths. It’s wide-open.

My career is important to me, but I am not sure what to do. I could switch jobs, but after the novelty of the new gig wears off, I will be back to where I am today.

I could start my own company but am not sure that’s exactly what I want to do. People talk about finding meaning and being happy, and I want those things but just feel so lost. I wish there were another carrot to go after. — Thirty-three and Floundering

Dear Thirty-three: Pause. Soak in all you’ve ac-complished — great grades, jobs, promotions, a mas-ter’s degree — and all the great experiences you’ve had so far. Forgive yourself for not having all the answers. Practice mindfulness meditation. Learn to embrace the joy of just being.

As John Lennon put it, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

So pay attention. Instead of going after another carrot, cherish the one you’re chewing today. It’s the only source of true nourishment.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to [email protected].

You’ve got to reconcile with judgmental brother

DEAR ANNIE

ANNIELANE

BY RYAN NAKASHIMATHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

L O S A N G E L E S — B e w a r e : “Pokemon Go,” a new smartphone game based on cute Nintendo charac-ters like Squirtle and Pikachu, can be harmful to your health.

The “augmented reality” game, which layers gameplay onto the physi-cal world, became the top grossing app in the iPhone app store just days after its Wednesday release in the U.S., Aus-tralia and New Zealand.

And players have already reported wiping out in a variety of ways as they wander the real world — eyes glued to their smartphone screens — in search of digital monsters.

Mike Schultz, a 21-year-old com-munications graduate on Long Island, New York, took a spill on his skate-board as he stared at his phone while cruising for critters early Thursday. He cut his hand on the sidewalk after hitting a big crack, and blames himself for going too slowly.

“I just wanted to be able to stop quickly if there were any Pokemons nearby to catch,” he says. “I don’t think the company is really at fault.”

The game was created by Niantic Inc., a San Francisco spinoff of Google parent Alphabet Inc. that previously became known for a similar augment-ed-reality game called “Ingress.”

To play, you fire up the game and then start trekking to prominent local landmarks — represented in the game as “Pokestops” — where you can gath-er supplies such as Pokeballs.

Those are what you fling at online “pocket monsters,” or Pokemon, to capture them for training. At other lo-cations called “gyms” — which may or may not be actual gyms in the real world — Pokemon battle one another for supremacy.

Naturally, the game has also in-duced people to post pictures of them-selves on social media chasing crea-tures in all sorts of dangerous situa-tions.

Zubats and Paras have appeared on car dashboards. Caterpies have been spotted at intersections. Police in Darwin, Australia, have even asked players not to waltz into their station, which of course is a Pokestop in the game.

“You don’t actually have to step in-side in order to gain the pokeballs,”

the Northern Territory Police Fire and Emergency Services says on its Face-book page.

Ankle injuries, mishaps with revolv-ing doors and walking into trees have been among the painful results.

Kyrie Tompkins, a 22-year-old free-lance web designer, fell on the side-walk and twisted her ankle while wan-dering in downtown Waterville, Maine, on Thursday night.

“It vibrated to let me know there was something nearby and I looked up and just fell in a hole,” she says. Her parents had to drive her and her fian-ce home.

As an upside, players get more ex-ercise than usual and can learn more

about the historical landmarks incor-porated into the game as Pokestops. Digital signposts describe their signifi-cance in the real world.

And players are actually meeting face to face, despite the fact they ar-rived at nearby high schools, water towers and museums by staring at their screens.

Lindsay Plunkett, a 23-year-old waitress in Asheville, North Caroli-na, made a point on Friday of parking six blocks away from the restaurant where she works, instead of the usual three. “Just so I could get some more Pokestops on the way,” she says.

She’s still nursing a bruised shin from the previous night, when she and

her boyfriend spent hours wandering downtown in the rain. She tripped over a cinder block that had been used as a doorstop at a local women’s muse-um.

But she’s got something to look for-ward to. Soon, she’ll be travelling cross country to California with a friend. That means more chances to encoun-ter Pokestops and Pokemons “the whole way,” she says.

At least the game has one failsafe — you can’t hatch digital eggs while driving. That requires slower in-per-son movement in the real world. “It doesn’t count as walking if you’re go-ing more than 20 miles per hour, so that’s good, I guess,” Plunkett says.

Risky playPEOPLE IN VIRTUAL POKEMON WORLD BUMPING INTO REAL WORLD PAIN


Pokemon Go is displayed on a cell phone in Los Angeles on Friday. Just days after being made available in the U.S., the mobile game Pokemon Go has jumped to become the top-grossing app in the App Store. And players have reported wiping out in a variety of ways as they wander the real world, eyes glued to their smartphone screens, in search of digital monsters.

red deer advocate, july 11, 2016

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