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Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

ABOVE AND BELOW: Police tape off a section of Page Avenue in Red Deer. A white cube van appears to have blood smeared above the back tire on the driver’s side. Calgary RCMP Majory Crimes Unit are investigating an incident in Pines and another in Normandeau. Police have not said the two incidents are connected.

Police are being tight lipped on whether a blood-smeared van in Pines is connected to the death of a man found in a city alley.

Red Deer City RCMP were called to a report of a man in distress at an alley around 4:54 a.m. on Wednesday. The man was taken to hospital where he later died.

Police had a street cordoned off in Norman-deau.

The Calgary RCMP Major Crimes Unit were called in to help with the investigation.

Around the same time, one Pines resident looked out his window to see something out of the ordinary unfold on Page Avenue near Pamely Av-enue. The resident did not give his name.

“I just looked out the window and saw the van roll up slowly,” he said. “It was eerie.”

The man said he walked away from the window and when he returned a few minutes later, the white cube van had plowed into a car. He did not want to speculate on what happened.

The white cube van had what appeared to be blood smeared on the driver’s side near the back tire. It appeared to have rammed into a small car.

Details are few as police are continuing to in-vestigate. A section of Page Street was taped off for most of the day as police went door to door to talk to residents.

There was heavy police presence in both neigh-

bourhoods throughout the day.

Pines resident Vickie Lee said she didn’t hear

anything out of the ordinary. She was surprised

to see the police tape down the street from her

home.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

File Photo by MYLES FISH/Advocate staff

Leilani Muir-O’Malley (right) and Judy Lytton pet O’Malley’s dog, Peggy Sue. The two women lived at the Provincial Training School (now Michener Centre) in the ’50s and ’60s, and both would successfully sue the Alberta government in the 1990s for having been sterilized while institutionalized in Red Deer.

Former Michener Centre resident left behind legacy of bravery

Funeral arrangements are being made for a for-mer Michener Centre resident whose personal battle opened a floodgate of lawsuits against the Alberta government.

Leilani Muir-O’Malley, 72, died at her home in Devon this past weekend. She was found by a friend doing a welfare check, says Nicola Fairbrother, di-rector of Edmonton-based Neighbourhood Bridges, a human rights group representing people with intel-lectual disabilities.

While she had suffered some health issues in recent years, there was no outward indication of any serious illness, said Fairbrother, who has worked closely with Muir-O’Malley on a variety of projects during the last 10 years, including the documentary film, Surviving Eugenics.

Muir-O’Malley made Alberta and national histo-ry in the mid-1990s, when she successfully sued the Alberta Government for removing her Fallopian tubes without her consent while she was a resident of Michener Centre, known at the time as the Alberta Provincial Training School for Mentally Defectives.

Unloved and unwanted, according to her auto-biography, Muir-O’Malley had been admitted to the institution by an abusive mother just after her 11th birthday and was discharged as a young adult in 1965.

A year after her discharge, she learned she had been sterilized under the Alberta Sexual Steriliza-tion Act, enacted in 1928 and repealed by the new-ly-elected Progressive Conservatives in 1972.

However, Muir-O’Malley was so terrified of her mother, said Fairbrother, it took another 20 years for her to take action.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWANADVOCATE STAFF

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Chamber CEO hits

back at job claims

Red Deer unexpectedly became the poster child for Alberta’s tanking economy in a speech by Ed-monton’s chief economist on Wednesday.

“Look at Red Deer,” said John Rose, at BUILDEX Edmonton, a large trade building industry show. “What a mess. Over one in 10 jobs has disappeared in 12 months.

“They’ve got real problems,” said Rose, who was drawing from a Statistics Canada employment up-date released last Friday.

News travels fast and it wasn’t long before Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce CEO Tim Creedon had seen a link to the speech and started doing his own investigating.

Statistics Canada’s latest numbers show Red Deer economic region’s workforce dropped to 117,500 from 127,900 over the year ending in February, a drop of 8.13 per cent. The number of employed in the region shrank 11.4 per cent from 121,600 to 107,700.

However, the number of unemployed here rose by only 3,500 workers to 9,800, said Statistics Canada.

“The numbers aren’t the whole picture,” said Creedon.

In January, local businesses were asked what kind of year they were expecting and 60 per cent said same as last year, with almost 24 per cent pre-dicting a slightly better year than last year.

“I don’t see Red Deer as being in a huge mess at the moment. I see it as having some substantial chal-lenges but I’m not getting the feedback that we’re in dire straights.”

Some job migration is expected in the Red Deer region, which has always had a mobile population with many workers who live here but work else-where.

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“No gunshots,” said Lee. “Usually we hear gun shots every once in awhile, but we didn’t hear any-thing. You know what, a lot of trouble happens here because of the Pines, the woods … It’s getting really sketchy in there. I wouldn’t go in there at night.”

K Division RCMP Cpl. Hal Turnbull said investi-gators are not ruling out the possibility the two inci-dents are connected. More information is expected by Thursday morning.

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Ten years after her mother’s death in 1985, Muir-O’Malley successfully sued the province for $740,000, opening the door for hundreds of other peo-ple who were also sterilized without their consent.

“Leilani’s legacy, you know, it’s an account of bravery: Leilani’s steadfast belief that her lawsuit was so justified and necessary, her refusal to have any of the records sealed, that they be made avail-able on the public record,” said Fairbrother.

“(Her lawsuit) opened the door for the class action lawsuits that followed as well as opportunities for Albertans to be more aware of our very unfortunate eugenics history.

“Leilani was keenly aware that one of the most important things that her lawsuit had just addressed was that fact that, even after eugenics became so closely associated with Nazi-ism, Alberta kept truck-ing along, sterilizing people at the same rate they had been prior to the Second World War, up until 1972.”

By the end of 1999, the province had paid out $130 million in compensation to almost 800 of the 2,800

Creedon has been hearing that some workers are moving on, and rising vacancy rates back that up.

However, that worker movement does not neces-sarily mean local jobs were lost.

It is difficult to say whether the bad publicity will have an impact on how the area is viewed.

Creedon said the local economic development or-ganization Access Prosperity is getting the message out that Red Deer is a good place to invest.

“We all accept that oil and gas is in a downturn but (agriculture) is doing extremely well. We’ve been working on some major investment in the Ag sector through Access Prosperity.”

Reg Warkentin, the chamber’s policy co-ordinator, said Red Deer has long been an entry point for busi-nesses’ new people.

“Relatively speaking, it’s always had a bit of tran-sient workforce.”

While losing any number of jobs is not good news, there are many positive economic signs in the re-gion, such as the recent announcement of a $30-mil-lion grain elevator complex in Innisfail and Nova’s recent plant upgrade.

Warkentin certainly wouldn’t call the economic region a mess.

“No doubt, we’re suffering from a cyclical down-turn in commodity prices, but you don’t have to look too far to realize there are a lot of good things going on here too.”

JOBS: Impact of bad publicity unknown

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DEATH: Not ruling out link between incidents

LEILANI: Tireless advocate for people with disabilities

Late 1800s and early 1900s — Eugenics rises in pop-ularity as a result of the social hygiene movement inspired by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Supporters believe traits such as criminality, low intelligence and idle-ness are symptoms of feeblemindedness and can be bred out of society.

1928 — The United Farmers of Alberta government introduces the Sexual Sterilization Act to prevent the trans-mission of undesirable traits. The United Farm Women of Alberta is a powerful lobbying force for sterilization.

1928 — Alberta creates a four-member Eugenics Board to administer its sterilization program and determine who gets sterilized. The board has the power to review cases of patients living in mental institutions and those who are discharged.

1928 — The board is required to have two medical practitioners, nominated by the Senate of the University of Alberta and the Council of the College of Physicians, and two non-medical members are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

1928 — Dr. John Malcolm MacEachran, a philosopher and U of A professor is named board chair. He will serve for nearly 40 years.

1928 — Unanimous consent from the board, along with

consent from the patient, parent or guardian, is required for sterilization.

1937 — 400 sterilizations have been performed since the act passed. Alberta’s Social Credit government amends the act to increase the number of sterilizations by eliminating the need for consent if individuals are consid-ered mental defectives.

1942 — An amendment broadens the application of the act to include non-psychotic individuals with syphilis, epilepsy and Huntington’s Chorea. However, consent from the individual, family or guardian is required for these indi-viduals.

1972 — The Sexual Sterilization Act is repealed by Peter Lougheed’s Progressive Conservative government as involuntary sterilization infringes upon a person’s hu-man rights. About 2,800 sterilizations had been performed during the act’s history.

1995 — The actions of the Eugenics Board come under public scrutiny when Leilani Muir sues the provincial gov-ernment for wrongful sterilization.

1996 — Muir is awarded $740,000.1999 — Sterilization court challenges result in the Al-

berta government paying out over $130 million in compen-sation to almost 800 people.

HISTORY OF STERILIZATION IN ALBERTA

people who were sterilized under the Sexual Steril-ization Act.

Interviewed by the Canadian Press in March of 1998, Muir-O’Malley said she was infuriated to learn that Ralph Klein’s government had introduced a bill that would quash the victims’ right to sue and to lim-it compensation to $150,000 per victim.

Amidst a storm of public protest, Klein — who left politics in 2006 — revoked the bill 24 hours af-ter introducing it, saying his political instincts had failed him.

Muir-O’Malley said she was pleased with the pub-lic response to the bill.

“They tried to take people’s rights away,” she told the Canadian Press.

“This wouldn’t have affected just people steril-ized … it could happen to anyone down the road.”

On Wednesday, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman, NDP MLA for Edmonton-Glenora, said the province has lost a tireless advocate for people with disabili-ties.

“Leilani was the first to successfully sue the prov-ince and obtain justice for those who were treated so wrongly,” said Hoffman.

“Leilani went on to make it her life’s work to give a voice to those unable to speak up, and to bring awareness to survivors of these appalling practises and the unthinkable treatment they endured.

Heritage tree felled to put up a parking lot for casino

A huge stump remains where one of Red Deer’s most beloved trees used to soar more than 18 metres (60 feet) high.

The Siberian Larch was cut down by its Jackpot Casino owners at its site on Wednesday, which is being prepped to become a parking lot at Ross Street and 47th Avenue, east of the casino.

Under the conditions of its development permit, the owner was required to submit a tree preserva-tion plan on the health and long-term viability of the larch tree completed by a certified arborist. It was submitted to the city last June.

Tara Lodewyk, Director of Planning Services, said the owners met all the conditions in the develop-ment permit. The permit was issued for a nine-year temporary parking lot.

She said the report indicated there were cracks in the trees, one crack was about 5.5 metres long, a dead limb and damage to the roots. It determined the long-term viability of the tree was compromised.

The owners were required to come up with an al-ternative proposal for the focal point in the location of the tree after it was removed at any time during the nine years.

Three larger calibre trees shrubs and grasses will be planted in its place, said Lodewyk.

“It’s unfortunate,” she said. “We love our trees and parks and all those green spaces. We want to the best that we could do to preserve that tree. It is a pri-vate tree and as a municipality we are always bound by that legislative framework as to how far we can go. We did the best we could by putting in those con-ditions. It’s unfortunate that the tree preservation plan came back saying what it did.”

Jackpot Casino was not available for comment.Local historian Michael Dawe said the tree was

planted around 1920 by avid horticulturists and pi-oneers Bill and Nellie Botterill. The lots were the former sites of Botterill House and a bungalow until they were demolished in 2013.

Dawe said a larch in the wild would never grow nearly as big as the one that stood on a gardened property. The larch was mentioned in two notable trees of Alberta publications.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said she was extremely dis-appointed to hear the tree was cut down. Preserva-tion of the tree was one of the major concerns when council debated the rezoning on the site last year.

“Mother Nature can sometimes repair itself,” she said. “But it’s just sad when you see a heritage tree like that gone from the community … I am sorry that it couldn’t be saved.”

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Apollo Landscaping workers remove a Siberian Larch tree from the lot just east of the Jackpot Casino. The lot owned by the casino is being cleared for a parking lot.

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Loss of long-term care beds prompts meeting

Sundre will lose its 15 long-term care beds at Sundre Hospital and Care Centre in July.

Long-term care will be replaced with 40 level-four supportive-living beds — the highest care level in sup-portive living — at the new Mountain View Seniors’ Housing facility that opens this summer. Twenty of those beds will be for dementia care.

I n 2 0 1 3 , the non-prof-it Mountain View Seniors’ Housing re-ceived $3.8 million in Af-fordable Liv-ing Support-ive Living Ini-tiative capital g r a n t f r o m the provincial Progressive Conservative government to help build the $12-million, 104-unit facili-ty that will al-so include 46 lodge units at level one and two support-ive living, and 18 indepen-dent living units.

“It is a net gain of 25 new continu-ing care beds in the community. The closure of the long-term care beds has no impact on any of the health services there — acute care, emergency, all of our ambulatory services or lab and diagnostic imaging — there is no plan to change that,” said Cathy McDon-ald, senior operating officer at Alberta Health Services Central Zone.

Sundre hospital has 14 acute care beds.

McDonald said all 15 long-term care beds are filled likely because it’s the only option for those seniors. The sup-portive living and dementia care com-ing to Sundre is currently not avail-able.

“In order to keep people in the com-munity, in smaller communities, peo-ple are put into a higher level of care than they are actually assessed to need because we want to keep them in their home communities as much as possi-ble.”

Supportive living provides sched-uled registered nursing services com-pared to long-term care which has reg-istered nursing services available 24-7 for unscheduled needs.

She said long-term care residents are currently being assessed to deter-mine if supportive living is right for them.

“We’re confident it will be for the majority of folks. But we’re also telling people that we are not forcing any-one out of the community. If they have needs that would require alternate levels of care, we’ll be looking at how to provide that in the community.”

McDonald said that might mean moving them into acute care beds in the hospital.

Jason Dixon, MLA for Rim-bey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, said as many as five people in long-term care may need more care than supportive living can provide and the new plan to eliminate the 15 long-term care beds was unexpected.

“We thought we were going to have 55 beds and now we’re back to 40. So we’ve lost 15 beds. It came as quite a surprise to the community that those beds would be shut down. The commu-nity is very troubled by it. We have a lot of questions,” Dixon said.

He said filling acute care beds with long-term care patients is not the an-swer either. Sundre hospital is a very busy hospital, especially in the sum-mer.

Dixon said there was no community consultation prior to decision to get rid of long-term care so he is hosting a community meeting at Sundre Com-munity Centre at 6 p.m. on Monday to get public feedback and hear the concerns of residents. He said he will provide the comments to Health Min-ister Sarah Hoffman who told him she will take them to AHS on behalf of the community.

Alberta Union of Provincial Em-ployees, which represents 38 employ-ees working in long-term care at hospi-tal, was also surprised by the decision to get rid of long-term care and will be meeting with its members in Sundre on Friday.

“When the government ran on a commitment to create long-term care spaces, I’m afraid that it’s a little dis-heartening to see that they are elim-inating them,” said Karen Weiers, AUPE vice-president.

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University students call for action to cut fentanyl

deathsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — A group of Univer-sity of Alberta graduate students is calling for action to reduce the grow-ing number of people who are dying from fentanyl overdoses.

Student Advocates for Public Health is encouraging support for Health Canada’s proposal to allow people to obtain the drug naloxone — which can reverse the effects of an overdose — without a prescription.

“We see that more than 270 Alber-tans have died needlessly in fentan-yl-related deaths,” said Rhoda Lee, who is working on her masters de-gree in nursing.

“As students we have an interest in public health and healthy public policy and we decided that the fen-tanyl crisis is an issue that needs to be dealt with.”

Fentanyl is an opiod that is many times more powerful than heroin.

The Alberta figure of 270 fentan-yl-related deaths is for 2015 — more than double the previous year.

The Canadian Centre For Sub-stance Abuse estimates that at least 655 people have died across Canada from overdoses where fentanyl was the cause or a contributing cause be-tween 2009 and 2014. A more up-to-date number was not available.

Naloxone kits that include a sy-ringe and vials of the drug are al-ready being distributed in some prov-inces.

The students want the pharmaceu-tical industry and Ottawa to allow the drug to be sold in forms that are easier to use, such as a nasal spray and an auto-injector device similar to an EpiPen.

“We believe that this would help people find an easier way, rather than fumbling with needles and am-pules, to be able to administer this drug quickly,” Lee said.

The group also supports a federal private member’s bill that calls for protecting people who phone 911 to report drug overdoses from facing charges.

Liberal MP Ron McKinnon intro-duced Bill C-224 in the Commons last month and hopes it will come up for debate this spring.

The legislation aims to encourage a person who sees someone having an overdose to call for help immedi-ately.

McKinnon said he is grateful for the student endorsement and hopes other groups across Canada will sup-port the proposed Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.

“I love to hear this,” McKinnon said from his constituency office in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

“We are looking at organizations like cities to come on board. The more people who see this and recog-nize the value of it and speak up the better.”

McKinnon said in the United States, 34 states and the District of Columbia have some form of Good Samaritan overdose immunity law.

Health Canada’s website says the department is seeking public com-ment on a proposal to allow the non-prescription use of naloxone.

The deadline for making a submis-sion is March 19.

Jury deliver not guilty verdict in

fatal shootingBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — A man accused of organizing the death of Sanjeev Mann at the Bolsa Restaurant in 2009 has been found not guilty of first-degree murder by a jury.

Nick Chan was charged with mur-der in the death of Mann who was shot and killed in a gang-related shooting on New Year’s Day, along with associate Aaron Bendle and in-nocent bystander Kenny Su’a.

The Crown’s star witness in the case, known only as G.H., testified that Chan ordered Mann’s death.

G.H. and a number of other gang members were given deals in ex-change for their testimony in the case.

The jury deliberated for five hours before returning a not guilty verdict on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Adam May said they knew that was a possibility.

“I don’t think that it should be lightly forgotten that two of the other shooters involved in this particular crime entered guilty pleas, a number of cases were closed as a result of those immunity deals,” he said.

“I would hope that the pub-lic would keep that in mind when they’re analyzing the decisions that were made.”

Chan is expected back in court in October of 2017 on other charges.

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When Canada lost its bid for a United Nations Security Coun-cil seat to Portugal in 2010 it

was widely seen as a humiliation, an embarrassment, the dagger through the heart of Stephen Harper’s foreign policy.

It was the diplomatic equivalent of a loss to Kazakhstan on the ice.

At least, that was the view of the chattering class. One could argue that it didn’t really bother Canadians, who turned around and awarded a majority government to Harper months later, despite the best efforts of opposition parties to keep the issue on the elec-toral radar.

Wednesday in New York, Justin Trudeau officially announced the country’s bid for a Security Council seat, but one must ask if this is more a matter of returning national prestige — “Canada is Back (again)” — than a sign of the actual value of the seat at the UN inner circle.

It is one of the legacies of the Harp-er era that our historic engagement with the UN was severed. He did ad-dress the General Assembly three

times, but there was the 2009 visit to Tim Horton’s instead of a speech to the General Assembly, and the 2012 speaking engagement blocks from the UN without dropping in. UN envoys who travelled to Canada to study our treatment of indigenous peoples were aggressively given the bum’s rush.

Harper famously vowed Canadian foreign policy would not include court-ing “every dictator with a vote at the United Nations.” He said that 1.5 km from the UN headquarters.

But Harper did effectively shine a light on some of the UN’s inconsisten-cies, its ineffectiveness and its pen-chant, for example, of placing human rights abusers on its human rights council. Forget, for a moment, that the five permanent members of the Se-curity Council — China, France, Rus-sia, the United Kingdom and the Unit-ed States — have vetoes that usually mean inaction, Syria being only the most recent example.

The semi-permanent members are elected to two-year terms and here are some members of the club we want to rejoin:

Angola: According to Amnesty International, it is a country where “freedoms of expression, association and assembly are severely restricted.” Press freedom is restricted, prison-ers of conscience are in detention, security legislation has been passed to allow arbitrary arrest and deten-

tion of peaceful protesters, activities of non-government organizations are restricted by law and the government was globally condemned for convicting human rights defender José Marcos Mavungo and sentencing him to six years in jail.

Egypt: The most recent Human Rights Watch campaign revolves around the sentencing of four Cop-tic Christian teenagers to five years in prison for “blasphemy” after they were filmed mocking a Daesh video. Under the presidency of Abdel Fat-tah al-Sisi there has been a spike in executions and mass trials. Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy was jailed for more than a year on trumped-up charges before his release.

Senegal: According to Amnesty In-ternational, authorities continued to restrict freedom of peaceful assem-bly and use excessive force against protesters. Men and women faced ar-rest because of their real or perceived sexual orientation. Senegal came un-der international scrutiny for the un-fair trial of a former cabinet minis-ter charged with “illicit acquisition of wealth.” Karim Wade was sentenced to six years in a case criticized by the UN.

Venezuela: Under President Nico-las Maduro, opposition leaders have been imprisoned on politically moti-vated charges, others barred from run-ning for office. Venezuela has banned

UN rapporteurs and voted against UN resolutions condemning human rights abuses in North Korea and Syria, ac-cording to Human Rights Watch.

“The Security Council is not com-prised of people you want to have a beer with, it is comprised of people you have to deal with,” says Paul Hein-becker, a former Canadian ambassa-dor to the UN.

Canada has not been on the Secu-rity Council since 2000 — its longest absence ever — and cannot earn a spot until after 2020.

But instead of merely signalling he wants back into the club, Trudeau should leverage his celebrity and in-fluence to push for changes during Canada’s campaign for the seat.

Heinbecker suggests a few changes in when a veto is deemed legitimate, or who gets seats on the Security Coun-cil.

Perhaps it is time for semi-perma-nent places for India, Brazil, Germa-ny, Japan, even Canada. The UN High Commission for Refugees is under-funded and overwhelmed.

Our re-engagement with the UN represents a huge shift in foreign pol-icy under Trudeau, but with this re-en-gagement should come a Canadian message: the status quo is not good enough and we want changes when we get our seat back in this club.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

Trudeau should push for UN reform

OPINION

TIMHAPRER

Nowadays St. Patrick’s Day is thought of as a social occasion characterized by parades, green

beer, celebration and jollity. However, that wasn’t always so. Indeed, there was a time when Toronto was prone to mark the day with a violent expres-sion of the city’s underlying sectarian divide.

Nineteenth century Toronto is often described as Anglo-Saxon, but that’s a misnomer. It was actually Irish. Very much so, in fact.

Looking at the 1851 population, his-torian William J. Smyth goes so far as to call Toronto “the most Irish of all cities in North America.” Whereas around 25 per cent of Boston’s popu-lation were Irish-born, a full 37 per cent of Torontonians were. Add the fact that “probably half as many again had been born in the city of Irish par-ents,” and you have a demographic profile with significant implications for culture, religion, anxieties and an-tagonisms.

And there were antagonisms aplen-ty, derived from the nexus of faith, po-

litical loyalties, and real or imagined historical grievances. The hundreds of thousands of Irish who came to Cana-da in the 19th century didn’t do so as blank slates. While they were certainly looking for a new life and a fresh start, they brought their convictions, prej-udices and ideological baggage with them.

There was also, as Smyth observes, a significant difference between the Irish migration to Canada and that to the United States. South of the border, the ratio was approximately two-to-one Catholic. In Canada, the inverse ap-plied. Numerically, Irish Canada was predominantly Protestant, a religious characteristic further amplified by the smaller immigrant streams from En-gland and Scotland.

While such differences may seem picayune to modern multi-culturalists, they mattered a great deal in the 1800s. And although there was lots of unadul-terated bigotry about, the situation was more complicated than that.

For one thing, religion was more in-tensely experienced, which sometimes translated into a feeling that those of other faiths should be kept at a dis-tance. It wasn’t merely a matter of go-ing to a different place of worship on the Sabbath.

Further, in the world from which the immigrants came, the separation of church and state was still a novel

concept. In most of Western Europe, religious influence bled over into the decisions of secular authorities and political loyalty could often be linked to religion. In the case of Canada’s Irish, it was widely suspected – and not entirely without reason – that the Catholic minority was prospectively disloyal to the Crown and susceptible to political direction from Rome.

Finally, there was simple self-in-terest. For many Protestant first and second-generation immigrants, the Orange Order provided not only ca-maraderie and social assistance but also access to power, patronage and employment preferment. While being an effective vehicle for sustaining the cohesiveness of the tribe and looking after one’s own, the Order also helped to transplant sectarian antagonisms and historical grievances to the new country.

Meanwhile, as Smyth shrewdly notes, Irish Catholics in Canada found themselves “part of a double minority – an ethnic minority within a Catholic Church populated largely by French Canadians and a religious minority within English-speaking regions out-side of Quebec.” And in addition to the related sense of psychological embat-tlement, there were practical effects in terms of significant underrepresen-tation in public employment. Although Catholics accounted for 15 per cent of

Toronto’s 1894 population, they only constituted five per cent of City Hall employees.

There was also an interesting exam-ple of unintended consequences. By and large, Toronto Catholics didn’t ex-perience the kind of residential ghet-toization that their co-religionists in places like Boston and New York did, which seems like a benign thing. But that lack of population concentration translated into a dilution of political power, even producing some electoral cycles with no Catholic aldermen re-turned.

Unsurprisingly, there were times when the sectarian tension boiled over into violence, most notably the St. Pat-rick’s Day riot of 1858.

That riot began with an Orange-man using his horse-drawn cab to dis-rupt the parade, then escalated into a brawl broken-up by the police, and later resumed with a mob assault on a Catholic dinner at the National Hotel. Along the way, a young Catholic man named Matthew Sheedy was stabbed and subsequently died of his wounds.

Green beer may not represent prog-ress, but the modern version of St. Pat-rick’s Day is certainly preferable to its earlier incarnation.

Troy Media columnist Pat Murphy worked in the Canadian financial ser-vices industry for over 30 years.

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No foul play in death of man convicted in Edmonton police officer’s murderEDMONTON — A man convicted in the 1990 death

of an Edmonton police officer has died.Albert Foulston was found dead in his northwest

Edmonton home Tuesday night.Edmonton Police Association president Maurice

Brodeur said Wednesday that drug paraphernalia was found in Foulston’s home and that police sus-pect his death was drug-related.

On June 25, 1990, Const. Ezio Faraone was shot and killed when he approached a vehicle suspected in a bank robbery.

Foulston was in the driver’s seat and Jerry Crews, who was hiding in the backseat, shot Faraone with a sawed-off shotgun.

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Edmonton man arrested in B.C. in 2011 death returning to Alberta

EDMONTON — An Edmonton man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant in a death in 2011 has been ar-rested in British Columbia.

Edmonton police say they found Gordon Shaw, who is 61, in Chase, B.C., where they allege he lived under the alias Bob Stenton and advertised himself as a handyman in the local paper.

Shaw was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder in Chase, B.C., on Monday.

He appeared in a Kamloops courtroom Tuesday and was remanded in custody.

In May 2011, 70-year-old Robert Anderson was found dead in a north Edmonton apartment.

Shaw will be brought back to Edmonton to answer to the charges.

Alberta hires ex-energy exec as point person for plan to transition off coalEDMONTON — Alberta has hired a point person

to work with industry and draw a road map to move the province off coal-fired electricity generation.

Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous says Terry Boston will be paid up to $600,000 and will report by September.

Boston, who is from Tennessee, recently retired as the head of PJM Interconnection, which is the second largest, centrally-dispatched power system in the world.

Bilous says Boston will provide options to transi-tion the system while keeping prices reasonable for consumers.

As part of its climate change plan, Alberta is shut-ting down coal-fired electricity generation by 2030.

Twelve of Alberta’s 18 coal-fired generating units are already expected to be shut down by then, so the focus of Boston’s work will be on the remaining six.

Calgary mayor wants public input on what to do with excess money

CALGARY — There’s an extra $54 million in the City of Calgary’s coffers, and Mayor Naheed Nenshi is looking for the public’s input on what to do with it.

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Oilers 6 Blues 4EDMONTON — For the first time in

a long time, the power play was an ac-tually an advantage for the Edmonton Oilers.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mark Letestu each scored a pair of goals as the Oilers scored four power play goals and snapped a two-game losing skid, holding on for a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday.

Taylor Hall and Leon Draisaitl al-so scored for the Oilers (28-38-7), who have won six of their last 10 games.

The Oilers’ power play had scored just once in their last 32 attempts coming into the game, and Nugent-Hop-kins said is was nice to see it fi-nally click.

“It was really nice to break out in a big way like we did tonight,” he said. “We had five, but four counted. It’s something we’ve been harping on, it hasn’t been good enough lately and tonight we broke out. We won some battles, took some shots and it paid off.”

Connor McDavid picked up a pair of assists with the man advantage.

“The power play was as good as we’ve seen it this season,” he said. “We’ve been getting our chances, but it was good to see some finally go in.”

David Backes scored twice, and Jaden Schwartz and Patrik Ber-glund also re-plied for the Blues (41-22-9), who have lost two straight on the heels of a six-game win streak.

“Their power play was strug-

gling and we let them breathe a little bit and they got to display all their skill with five that they put in, one that was disallowed. That’s not us,” Backes said. “Today we took penalties that were less than disciplined and they

made us pay time and time again.”Edmonton took the lead eight min-

utes into the first with what was at the time a rare power play goal. Patrick Maroon chipped a rebound out in front to Nugent-Hopkins, who sent his ninth of the season past Blues starter Jake Allen.

The Oilers went up 2-0 with six-and-a-half minutes remaining in the open-ing frame as a big rebound came out to Hall, who beat a diving Allen.

The lead was short-lived, however, as Backes beat Oilers goalie Cam Tal-bot with a shot to the top corner just 45 seconds later.

The Blues tied the game six minutes into the second period as Schwartz tipped a Joel Edmundson shot into the net.

Edmonton got another power play goal a couple minutes later as Letestu scored on his own rebound.

The Oilers had what looked to be another power play goal by Draisaitl

called back on a coach’s challenge for being offside, but McDavid fed him again to get the goal back later in the man advantage.

The Oilers got a fourth power play goal to make it 5-2 with two min-utes left in the second period as Nu-gent-Hopkins beat Allen with a quick wrist shot for his second of the game.

St. Louis got a power-play goal early in the third as Berglund fought off a defender to bang in a rebound in tight.

The Blues battled back to 5-4 six minutes into the third as Backes blew a cannon of a shot past Talbot.

Letestu scored into an empty net to cap the scoring.

The Oilers next play host to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday.

Notes — The Blues had already de-feated the Oilers twice this season and came into the game seeking a ninth straight win against Edmonton. The Blues were 13-1-0 in their past 14 games against the Oilers.

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B1SPORTSGetting ready for the

playoffsBY MURRAY CRAWFORD

ADVOCATE STAFF

Evidently the WHL schedule maker wanted to bookend the Red Deer Rebels season with home-and-homes against the Edmonton Oil Kings.

It’s all but certain the Rebels will finish in second in the Cen-tral Division and meet the Cal-gary Hitmen in the first round of the playoffs.

But before then, the Rebels have two games to get tuned up for a gruelling post season run.

Their season will end the way it began, with a home-and-home series against the Edmon-ton Oil Kings.

The Rebels won both of those games 4-1 and 3-2 back in Sep-tember.

In the time between, the Oil Kings won once in Red Deer, back on Dec. 28. The day before, the Rebels won 5-4. The Rebels lead the season series 3-1 with two of those wins happening in overtime.

The next week is a ‘get-right’ time for the Rebels as they tune up for their first round oppo-nent.

“We have two games left and we have to get ready for play-offs,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “Hopefully we have the push we need come playoff time.”

For the Oil Kings, they are clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot, two points up on

the Medicine Hat Tigers. The Oil Kings have a record of 29-34-6-1.

The Oil Kings are coming off a tough loss on the road against the Kootenay Ice, 2-0 on Tues-day.

Brett Pollock, a Calgary Flames prospect, leads the Oil Kings in scoring with 28 goals and 75 points. Lane Bauer is second with 29 goals and 65 points.

Sutter said the focus over the next two weeks is on the play-offs and getting the guys ready for the grind.

“We have to stay ready for playoffs,” said Sutter. “We can’t let bad habits fall into our game.”

The home-and-home series starts tonight in Edmonton at Rexall Place. Puck drop is at 7 p.m.The two will close out the season on Saturday in Red Deer, puck drop then is also at 7 p.m.

Notes: Oil Kings goalies Pat-rick Dea and Alec Dillon, for-wards Kole Gable and Kobe Mo-her and defenceman Ben Car-roll are all listed on the injury report … The Oil Kings have the sixth ranked power play at 22.6 per cent while the Rebels pow-er play is 11th in the league at 21.6 per cent … Oil Kings are the 16th best penalty killers at 77.8 per cent. The Rebels are 19th in the league at 76.8 per cent.

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Frolik’s hot hand leads Flames over Jets


Flames 4 Jets 1CALGARY — Michael Frolik had a goal

and two assists Wednesday night as the Cal-gary Flames scored three times in the first period and cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.

Joe Colborne had a goal and an assist and Mikael Backlund, the third member of that line, chipped in with two assists as the Flames won consecutive games on home ice for the first time since December.

Sean Monahan and Mark Giordano also scored for Calgary (30-25-5).

Drew Stafford scored for Winnipeg (29-36-5). The Jets, who had won two straight, have yet to string together three wins in a row this season.

The Flames took a 1-0 lead at 5:38 when Colborne curled out front and had his bounc-ing pass intended for Backlund carom in off the goal stick of Ondrej Pavelec, which was laying on the ice by the side of the net.

The same trio struck again at 12:48, again benefiting from some good fortune.

Backlund fanned on a slap shot but the wayward direction the puck travelled was right to Frolik at the side of the net and he

steered it in the open side.As the two of them came together to cel-

ebrate Frolik’s 15th goal and fourth in his last two games, they could be seen sharing a chuckle about how the play turned out.

Calgary made it 3-0 at 18:20 when Johnny Gaudreau threaded a pass through the slot to Giordano, who neatly set up Monahan in the slot.

The Jets got on the scoreboard at 10:23 of the second, taking advantage of a mistake by Joni Ortio. The Flames goalie lost the puck to Blake Wheeler behind the Flames net and before he could scramble back into position, Stafford one-timed in his 19th goal.

Ortio finished with 28 stops in his sixth-straight start. Pavelec had 17 saves in defeat.

The Flames lost Dennis Wideman (upper body) in the first period when he went down heavily after colliding with Colborne behind the Jets net, seconds before Frolik’s goal. It was his third game after returning from a sus-pension.

Notes: Freddie Hamilton made his Flames debut after getting called up from Stockton (AHL) earlier in the day. It was his 30th NHL game but the first time he has suited up in the NHL with his younger brother Dougie… Last time Calgary had brothers in the lineup were Robyn and Richie Regehr in December 2006.

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Winnipeg Jets’ Drew Stafford, left, lines up his shot on Calgary Flames goalie Joni Ortio during first period NHL action in Calgary, Wednesday. The Flames downed the Jets 4-1.


St. Louis Blues goalie Jake Allen (34) is scored on by Edmonton Oilers’ Mark Letestu (55) during second period NHL action in Edmonton on Wednesday. THE Oilers held on for a 6-4 win over the Blues.

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Blues

GETS THREE POINTS AND FOURTH GOAL IN LAST TWO GAMES

‘THE POWER PLAY WAS AS GOOD AS WE’VE SEEN IT THIS SEASON. WE’VE BEEN GETTING OUR CHANCES, BUT IT WAS GOOD TO SEE SOME FINALLY GO IN.’

— CONNOR MCDAVID

McPhee and Treliving to lead Team Canada at worlds

CALGARY — George McPhee and Brad Treliving will oversee Team Can-ada at the world hockey championship in Russia this spring.

McPhee, a special adviser with the

New York Islanders, and Treliving, the Calgary Flames general manager, were named Team Canada’s co-GMs. Also on the management team are Doug Arm-strong of the St. Louis Blues and Hock-ey Canada’s Scott Salmond.

Armstrong is also the GM for the Ca-nadian World Cup team.

“Our management group brings to-gether a breadth of NHL and interna-tional experience that will benefit us at both men’s worlds and the upcoming World Cup of Hockey,” said Tom Ren-

ney, Hockey Canada’s president and chief executive officer.

“It was important for us to be able to have a strong management group fo-cused on men’s worlds who could also support the crossover needs we have with the members of our World Cup group.”

Canada was undefeated en route to the gold medal at last year’s worlds in the Czech Republic.

Canada opens this year’s tourna-ment May 6 against the United States.


BOCA RATON, Fla. — The ex-pansion Atlanta Thrashers won just 14 games in their first season, finish-ing last in the NHL with a measly 39 points. They qualified for the playoffs only once in 11 seasons before folding up and moving to Winnipeg.

The NHL is trying to avoid a similar scenario in the future if it chooses to expand again. The league released a framework for a potential expansion draft to general managers Wednesday with the goal of having more competi-tive expansion teams from the get-go.

“If there’s going to be an expansion you want the teams to be a little more competitive than perhaps they’ve been out of the box,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said. “The notion has been that perhaps in the past if the team isn’t competitive enough out of the box there’s an initial enthusiasm and then it kind of wanes until the team re-establishes itself.”

The basic premise for an expansion draft would see teams risk losing one player under a one-team expansion and two players under a two-team sce-nario. The rules for protection of play-ers, however, would be tighter than the last round of expansion in 2000.

Teams under the current frame-work could protect seven forwards, three defencemen and one goaltender or eight skaters and a goaltender. First and second year pros in any league are automatically exempt as are unsigned

draft picks.“They want them to be somewhat

competitive,” Senators general man-ager Bryan Murray said of potential expansion outfits in Las Vegas and Quebec City.

The NHL last held an expansion draft 14 years ago when Columbus and Minnesota joined the league. Twen-ty-six of 28 teams (recently added teams in Atlanta and Nashville had their entire rosters protected) were permitted to protect either one goal-tender, five defencemen, and nine for-wards or two goaltenders, three de-fencemen and seven forwards.

The process this time will also be different because of the salary cap and contract implications. Deputy commis-sioner Bill Daly stressed what is per-haps the most important factor for fans of NHL teams: “You may lose a good player, but it’s only one,” Daly said of the single-team scenario.

Players with no-trade and no-move-ment clauses may see those protec-tions fade under an expansion draft, a reality Daly said the league would discuss in more detail with the NHL Players’ Association.

The NHL plans to discuss the grand-er plan with the union soon.

General managers, meanwhile, were told to expect a decision regard-ing expansion for the 2017-18 season by the June draft.

Owners continue to deliberate on expansion bids from Las Vegas and Quebec City. The NHL’s executive committee, representing the views of ownership, have the option of recom-mending one, two or perhaps no teams, according to Bettman. The expansion process for the current applicants could continue beyond June, but not for entry into the league for the start of the 2017-18 campaign.

“I know people want answers, but we don’t feel any time pressure to do it,” Daly said. “If we don’t get this re-solved by June and we still want to expand it’s not 17-18 anymore it’s later. It’ll take whatever time it takes.”

The league also informed general managers that the salary cap for next season would rise only slightly, if at all, from the current mark of $73 mil-lion to perhaps as high as $74 million. A sluggish Canadian dollar, Bettman conceded, was a factor but “it’s not as dramatic as some would suggest.”

The NHL commissioner also com-mented publicly for the first time on the reduced suspension of Flames de-fenceman Dennis Wideman.

Asked if that process should be ex-pedited in the future though Bettman seemed to think not.

“Mr. Wideman wound up sitting out 19 games,” he said. “We thought it should be 20 so you’ll have to draw your own conclusion.”

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TAMPA, Fla. — Brett Gardner went 0 for 2 in his first spring training game of the year, Starlin Castro hit a two-run homer and made a nifty defensive play and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 Wednesday night.

Gardner played five innings in left field. He hit a grounder and struck out in his first game since bruising his left wrist in last year’s AL wild-card loss to Houston.

“The results weren’t great, but I felt good,” Gardner said.

Castro hit an opposite-field drive to right off Drew Hutchison and made a running grab in shallow right on Kevin Pillar’s pop fly. Acquired from the Chi-cago Cubs in December, Castro moved from shortstop to second base last sea-son and played 38 games at the posi-tion.

“I think he’s doing pretty good,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “We’ve been pleased with him so far at second base. I think he’s done a really good job, worked extremely hard. The transition for him I don’t think is going to be a problem.”

Hutchison, bidding for the fifth starter spot, allowed two runs and four hits in 4 2-3 innings.

“I think I’ve been throwing the ball well,” Hutchison said. “I’ve been ac-complishing the things I wanted to ac-complish.”

Nathan Eovaldi struck out two and walked two over two hitless innings in his second spring training appearance for the Yankees since his season was cut short after a Sept. 5 start due to right elbow inflammation.

“My arm felt great,” Eovaldi said. “I thought my pitches were good. Worked a lot on the counts.”

STARTING TIMEHutchison and Eovaldi also faced

each other last Thursday. The Toronto right-hander allowed a run and three hits in 2 2-3 innings. “He’s looked very good this spring,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. Eovaldi retired all six batters he faced Thursday.

TRAINER’S ROOMBlue Jays: Marco Estrada (sore

back) was fine, one day after a minor league game in which he struck out four in two innings. Gibbons said it hasn’t been determined if Estrada’s next start will be in a minor or major league game.

Yankees: C Brian McCann missed his second straight game with a bruised left knee but is scheduled to play Thursday against Pittsburgh. … Alex Rodriguez said he was OK after being hit by a pitch on his left foot during the sixth.

TOBACCO-FREEThe Yankees had a sign posted in

the clubhouse offering nicotine re-placement therapy supplies — gum, lozenges or patches — for players and staff. Smokeless tobacco is now banned at stadiums in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. “It’s not healthy, it’s dangerous,” said Girardi, who expects the list of chewing tobac-co-free stadiums to rise.

UP NEXTBlue Jays: Toronto has a split-squad

Thursday with Brad Penny starting against Houston. Scott Diamond will face Team Canada.

Yankees: Masahiro Tanaka will look to extend his spring training stretch of five shutout innings in his third start Thursday against the Pirates. Luis Sev-erino also is scheduled to pitch.

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New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira reacts as he gets out of the way after getting Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista out at first base during the first inning of a spring training baseball game, Wednesday, in Tampa, Fla.

SPRING TRAINING

NHL seeks more competitive expansion teams in laying out expansion draft format

NHL GM MEETINGS

NHL decides against making

changes to draft lottery

BOCA RATON, Fla. — The Ed-monton Oilers are just two points ahead of the last-place Toronto Ma-ple Leafs entering action Wednes-day and stand a fair chance of land-ing the first overall pick for the fifth time in seven years.

But evidently there’s no appetite amongst the league’s GMs to tweak the rules regarding the draft lottery.

“There was no sentiment to make a change right now,” NHL commis-sioner Gary Bettman said.

The NHL shifted the lottery sys-tem two years ago, implementing changes that lowered the odds of lottery success for the league’s worst teams. The process this year will see three lotteries performed for the top three picks.

“There’s no incentive to lose now,” said Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray. “They’re used to be. Now the odds are not necessarily in your favour. You get (a) 20 per cent chance. The Toron-to Maple Leafs, if they happen to be the (last-place) team, they have 20 per cent chance only. I think anybody that questions it now is wrong.”

Some general managers, includ-ing St. Louis’s Doug Armstrong, ex-pressed interest in devising a rule that prevented teams not last in the standings from winning the draft lottery multiple times in a short pe-riod.

“The theory is that if you finish last you always have a chance to win the lottery,” Armstrong told PostMe-dia. “But if you didn’t finish last and win the lottery, you can’t do it again for another five years.”

That would have limited future scenarios such as the one that saw the Oilers, third-last overall last season, land the top prize in Connor McDavid in 2015 after picking first in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

HOCKEY

Raonic rolls into quarter-finals at Indian Wells

Canada’s Milos Raonic advanced to the quarter-fi-nals of the BNP Paribas Open with a 6-4, 7-6 (7) win over sixth-seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Repub-lic on Wednesday.

Raonic, seeded 12th, scored the only break of the game in the first set while saving break point twice to win in just under one hour and 50 minutes. He

racked up eight aces with his potent serve but also committed five double-faults.

Raonic will next face either 13th seed Gael Mon-fils of France or Argentina’s Federico Delbonis.

Raonic reached the semifinals at Indian Wells last year, beating Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals before losing to Swiss star Roger Federer.

Earlier David Goffin upset Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5) to reach the quarter-finals, ending the Belgian’s 14-match skid against top 10-ranked oppo-nents.

Goffin advanced to the quarterfinals, where he next plays No. 10 seed Marin Cilic, who beat No. 8 Richard Gasquet, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 as temperatures reached 91 degrees (32 C) under cloudless skies in the California desert.

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Scott looks to keep hot streak going


ORLANDO, Fla. — Adam Scott went nearly two years without winning and now looks like he can’t lose.

Over three straight weeks, he was runner-up at Riviera, won the Honda Classic and then rallied to beat Rory McIlroy in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. It brought the Australian back into the con-versation of golf’s elite, and it raised a pair of ques-tions going into the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

How long can he sustain this great run?With the Masters less than a month away, is it pos-

sible that Scott has peaked too early?“I don’t really know how long I can keep it up,”

Scott said Wednesday at Bay Hill, where players are raving about the condition of the course. “You’ve got to take advantage of it while it’s there. That’s the big thing and obviously, I feel confident I can play well this week. Nothing feels any different than when I left Doral, and I’d like to get myself in that position to win again this week and keep it running.”

No one had ever won the opening two legs of the Florida swing since Doral began in 1962. Scott went home to the Bahamas last week, where he didn’t touch a club for four days because he needed rest more than practice. Now he goes for a third straight victory.

He couldn’t help but laugh when he mentioned how Tiger Woods kept a hot streak going “for about 10 years.”

Whether he is using up all his great chances be-fore going for another green jacket at Augusta Na-tional is impossible to predict. Fifteen years ago, when there were rumblings that Woods was going through a slump, Woods won Bay Hill and The Play-ers Championship in successive weeks, and then won the Masters.

“I think guys like Tiger and some of the best play-ers of history have shown that they can sustain a high level of golf for fairly long periods of time,” Scott said.

Scott said the Arnold Palmer Invitational is a tournament he would love to win for no other reason than the host.

The 86-year-old Palmer is not as visible this week as in years past, though he has been seen driving a cart and watching his grandson, Sam Saunders, on the practice range. He is slowing down, his speech isn’t as sharp and his hearing not as clear, so he is taping interviews for the telecast this week.

It only deepens the appreciation of all that Palm-er has meant for the game.

“The most dynamic, impactful player in the his-tory of the game,” PGA Tour Commissioner Tim

Finchem said.In some respects, Scott has a score to settle. He

tied records for 18 holes (62) and 36 holes (130) two years ago when he had a seven-shot lead going into the weekend. He closed with a 76 and finished two shots behind.

The field features five of the top 10 in the world, including McIlroy and Jason Day.

McIlroy added Bay Hill to his schedule last year and regrets not coming sooner. His week included lunch and stories with Palmer. McIlroy is coming off a disappointment at Doral two weeks ago, when he lost a three-shot lead in the final round by making only one birdie.

He can appreciate what Scott is going, though.McIlroy won the PGA Championship in 2012, and

then won consecutive FedEx Cup playoff events in Boston and Indianapolis. He won four times and finished in the top five in three other events over his final 10 tournaments of the year. He was even better in 2014 when he won three straight tournaments in a

span of four weeks — the British Open, a World Golf Championship and the PGA Championship.

His philosophy is to grab it while you can.“When you’re in that position, it’s almost auto-

matic that you get into contention,” McIlroy said. “You’re almost on autopilot that you turn up at the tournaments and it’s not like you’re nonchalant or complacent in any way, but if you play your game, you’re going to have a chance come Sunday. Then it’s about being the mentally toughest on the back nine on Sunday to get the job done.”

McIlroy played the final round in Riviera with Scott, who birdied the last two holes and finished one shot behind Bubba Watson. And he played the third round with Scott at Doral.

“He seems very confident with his overall game,” McIlroy said.

Scott will see if it carries over at Bay Hill, where Matt Every is the two-time defending champion. Every has had only one other top-five finish during those two years.

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Adam Scott, of Australia, signs autographs for fans after putting on the ninth hole during a pro-am of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday. Scott has won two dstraight tournaments and is looking to keep up his strong form at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

PGA

Canada has tough road to get

back to Futsal World Cup


It’s been 27 years since Canada made its only appearance at the FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Montreal coach Kyt Selaidopoulos has been tasked with taking Canada back to the world stage for the indoor five-a-side soccer game.

It won’t be easy. Canada will have to beat the U.S. in a two-game aggregate goals series May 5 and 6 in San Jose, Costa Rica, before graduating to the May 8-14 CONCACAF Futsal Champion-ship.

The championship, also in San Jose, will send four teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean to the FIFA Futsal World Cup slated for Colombia later this year.

Wednesday’s CONCACAF draw sends the Canada-U.S. winner into Group B alongside de-fending confederation champion Costa Rica, Curacao and Cuba.

Group A consists of Guatemala, Mexico, Pan-ama and either Honduras or Trinidad & Tobago.

Costa Rica won the 2012 CONCACAF champi-onship in Guatemala in July 2012.

“The draw looks good, it looks very positive,” Selaidopoulos said Wednesday from Costa Rica. “But we have to worry about the Americans and only the Americans for now. On May 6, we’ll wor-ry about everybody else.”

He expects a stiff challenge from the U.S.“It’s going to be a battle,” he said. “The team

with the best mental strength will win the se-ries.”

Selaidopoulos has called up 29 players for a three-day camp that starts Friday in Vaughan, Ont. Of those, 14 will make the cut for the U.S. playoff series.

The camp invitees range from 19-year-old Azi-ah Reid to 42-year-old Giuliano Oliviero, who is four years older than Selaidopoulos. Oliviero, a Vancouver native, is currently coach of the in-door Milwaukee Wave and knows the American team well.

Selaidopoulos, who has spent the last month scouting Canadian talent, says the sport is grow-ing across the country.

“Every province is doing something,” he said. “Now it’s getting everybody together and doing something big for the country and not only doing something for your own province.

“And connecting all those dots for the future so we can even get better and maybe have a league that goes through all the provinces.”

Host Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Iran, Paraguay, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam have already qualified for the world championship which runs Sept. 10 to Oct. 1

They will be joined by seven teams from Eu-rope, three from Africa and four from CONCA-CAF.

Bob Lenarduzzi, current president of the Van-couver Whitecaps and former Canadian national team coach, coached the 1989 Canadian team at the inaugural Futsal World Cup in the Nether-lands.

The Canadian squad, which featured goal-keeper Paul Dolan and Alex Bunbury, Nick De-Santis and Lyndon Hooper among others, went 1-2-0 and failed to advance past the pool stage.

The U.S. has qualified for five of the seven futsal World Cups.

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WHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION

GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pty-Brandon 70 46 18 4 2 310 195 98x-Prince Albert 70 37 25 7 1 214 216 82x-Moose Jaw 70 35 26 7 2 244 232 79x-Regina 70 35 27 3 5 238 246 78Swift Current 70 24 37 6 3 184 241 57Saskatoon 70 25 41 4 0 212 310 54

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

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION

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

70 36 29 3 2 239 219 77

Vancouver 70 23 38 5 4 195 258 55

U.S. DIVISION GP W LOTLSOL GF GA Pty-Seattle 69 43 23 3 0 219 180 89x-Everett 69 38 24 4 3 177 161 83Portland 69 34 30 5 0 220 214 73Spokane 69 31 29 5 4 212 234 71Tri-City 70 33 34 2 1 229 249 69x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division Note: winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column.

Wednesday’s resultsMoose Jaw 4 Prince Albert 1Regina 5 Saskatoon 3Victoria at KelownaSpokane at Everett

Tuesday’s resultsBrandon 6 Swift Current 2Calgary 4 Red Deer 2Kootenay 2 Edmonton 0Seattle 4 Spokane 1

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

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

Saturday’s gamesRegina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Prince Albert at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 Pp.m.Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.Everett at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s gamesKootenay at Calgary, 1 p.m.Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.End of Regular Season

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 70 39 22 9 87 198 171Boston 71 39 24 8 86 215 191Tampa Bay 70 40 25 5 85 191 167Detroit 70 34 25 11 79 176 186Ottawa 71 33 30 8 74 205 220Montreal 71 33 32 6 72 191 200Buffalo 71 28 33 10 66 169 193Toronto 69 24 34 11 59 164 202

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAx-Washington 69 50 14 5 105 221 161N.Y. Islanders 68 38 21 9 85 194 170N.Y. Rangers 69 39 23 7 85 197 181Pittsburgh 69 37 24 8 82 190 174Philadelphia 69 34 23 12 80 181 185Carolina 70 31 26 13 75 171 188New Jersey 70 33 30 7 73 154 178Columbus 69 28 33 8 64 180 215

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GADallas 71 41 21 9 91 229 208St. Louis 72 41 22 9 91 191 185Chicago 71 41 24 6 88 197 176Nashville 70 35 22 13 83 192 179Colorado 71 36 31 4 76 191 199Minnesota 70 32 27 11 75 184 175Winnipeg 70 29 36 5 63 182 209

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GALos Angeles 69 42 22 5 89 190 156Anaheim 68 38 21 9 85 174 160San Jose 69 39 24 6 84 206 181Arizona 69 30 32 7 67 185 211Vancouver 69 27 30 12 66 167 200Calgary 70 30 35 5 65 193 218Edmonton 73 28 38 7 63 177 216NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.x-clinched playoff spot

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

Wednesday’s GamesMontreal 3, Buffalo 2, OTPhiladelphia 3, Chicago 2Edmonton 6, St. Louis 4Calgary 4, Winnipeg 1Colorado 3, Vancouver 1N.Y. Rangers at Anaheim, late

Thursday’s GamesMinnesota at New Jersey, 5 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 5 p.m.Florida at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Nashville, 6 p.m.Tampa Bay at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.San Jose at Arizona, 8 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s GamesOttawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.Nashville at Washington, 5 p.m.Chicago at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Boston at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s summariesFlames 4, Jets 1

First Period1. Calgary, Colborne 14 (Frolik, Backlund) 5:38.2. Calgary, Frolik 15 (Backlund, Colborne) 12:48.3. Calgary, Monahan 24 (Giordano, Gaudreau) 18:20.Penalties — Giordano Cgy (delay of game) 10:21 Ferland Cgy (boarding, served by Bollig) 15:13 Lipon Wpg, Ferland Cgy (fighting) 15:13 Wheeler Wpg (slashing) 16:16.

Second Period4. Winnipeg, Stafford 19 (Wheeler) 10:23.Penalties — None.

Third Period5. Calgary, Giordano 18 (Frolik) 19:56 (pp).Penalties — Myers Wpg (cross-checking) 17:52 Byfuglien Wpg (tripping) 18:13.

Shots on goalWinnipeg 9 10 10 — 29Calgary 9 8 4 — 21Goal — Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 8-12-2). Calgary: Ortio (W, 4-7-3).Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-2 Calgary: 1-3.

Oilers 6, Blues 4First Period

1. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 9 (Maroon, Yakupov) 8:00 (pp).2. Edmonton, Hall 23 (Pakarinen, Oesterle) 13:32.3. St. Louis, Backes 18 (Parayko) 14:17.Penalties — Draisaitl Edm (slashing) 2:33 Edmund-son StL (goaltender interference) 7:07 Draisaitl Edm (stick holding) 8:16.

Second Period4. St. Louis, Schwartz 6 (Edmundson, Lehtera) 6:00.5. Edmonton, Letestu 8 (Sekera, McDavid) 7:42 (pp).6. Edmonton, Draisaitl 18 (McDavid, Letestu) 15:05 (pp).7. Edmonton, Nugent-Hopkins 10 (Maroon, Yak-upov) 18:09 (pp).Penalties — Brodziak StL (delay of game) 6:17 Fabbri StL (tripping) 9:04 Schwartz StL (stick hold-ing) 13:37 Backes StL (slashing) 17:33 Pakarinen Edm (interference) 19:42.

Third Period8. St. Louis, Berglund 8 (Schwartz, Tarasenko) :58 (pp).9. St. Louis, Backes 19 (Pietrangelo, Jaskin) 5:48.10. Edmonton, Letestu 9 (Hendricks, Oesterle) 19:42 (en).Penalties — Maroon Edm (roughing) 9:48 Lehtera StL (holding) 9:48 Brouwer StL (game misconduct) 14:04 Brouwer StL (boarding major) 14:04.

Shots on goalSt. Louis 8 7 13 — 28Edmonton 8 14 5 — 27Goal — St. Louis: Allen (L, 24-14-3). Edmonton: Talbot (W, 18-24-4).Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 1-3 Edmonton: 4-6.

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

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

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

Sunday Major midget female hockey: PAC Saints at Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 2:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre Arena

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 45 21 .682 —Boston 39 29 .574 7New York 28 40 .412 18Brooklyn 19 48 .284 26 1/2Philadelphia 9 58 .134 36 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 39 28 .582 —Atlanta 39 29 .574 1/2Charlotte 38 29 .567 1Washington 32 35 .478 7Orlando 29 38 .433 10

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 48 19 .716 —Indiana 36 31 .537 12Detroit 34 34 .500 14 1/2Chicago 33 33 .500 14 1/2Milwaukee 29 39 .426 19 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBy-San Antonio 57 10 .851 —Memphis 39 29 .574 18 1/2Houston 34 34 .500 23 1/2Dallas 34 34 .500 23 1/2New Orleans 25 42 .373 32

Northwest Division W L Pct GBOklahoma City 46 22 .676 —Portland 35 33 .515 11Utah 32 35 .478 13 1/2Denver 28 40 .412 18Minnesota 22 46 .324 24

Pacific Division W L Pct GB

y-Golden State 60 6 .909 —L.A. Clippers 43 24 .642 17 1/2Sacramento 26 41 .388 34 1/2Phoenix 18 49 .269 42 1/2L.A. Lakers 14 54 .206 47y-clinched division

Tuesday’s GamesIndiana 103, Boston 98Orlando 116, Denver 110Brooklyn 131, Philadelphia 114Toronto 107, Milwaukee 89San Antonio 108, L.A. Clippers 87Sacramento 106, L.A. Lakers 98

Wednesday’s GamesCleveland 99, Dallas 98Oklahoma City 130, Boston 109Washington 117, Chicago 96Charlotte 107, Orlando 99Atlanta 118, Detroit 114Minnesota 114, Memphis 108L.A. Clippers 122, Houston 106New Orleans 123, Sacramento 108New York at Golden State, late

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

Friday’s GamesOklahoma City at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Cleveland at Orlando, 5 p.m.Boston at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.Sacramento at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Portland at New Orleans, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.Golden State at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Major League Baseball Spring Training

AMERICAN LEAGUE W L PctToronto 10 3 .769Texas 9 4 .692Houston 9 5 .643Detroit 10 6 .625Los Angeles 8 6 .571Minnesota 8 6 .571Chicago 7 7 .500Oakland 6 6 .500Seattle 8 8 .500Kansas City 7 10 .412Cleveland 6 9 .400Tampa Bay 6 9 .400New York 5 8 .385Boston 5 10 .333Baltimore 3 11 .214

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctArizona 11 3 .786Los Angeles 10 3 .769Washington 10 3 .769Philadelphia 11 4 .733St. Louis 7 5 .583Milwaukee 7 6 .538Colorado 8 7 .533New York 6 6 .500Cincinnati 7 8 .467Miami 5 8 .385San Francisco 6 10 .375Pittsburgh 5 9 .357San Diego 4 10 .286

Atlanta 4 11 .267Chicago 4 11 .267NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings games against non-major league teams do not.

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

Wednesday’s GamesAtlanta 8, St. Louis 8, tieWashington 4, Miami 2Detroit 7, Houston 3Baltimore 9, Pittsburgh 3Kansas City 10, Chicago Cubs 0L.A. Angels 6, Cleveland 3Milwaukee 5, Chicago White Sox 2L.A. Dodgers 7, Colorado 3Seattle 9, San Francisco 6N.Y. Yankees 2, Toronto 1Minnesota 9, Boston 4Cincinnati vs. Arizona, late

Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Mets vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

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

Friday’s GamesBoston (ss) vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.Detroit vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m.Minnesota vs. Boston (ss), 11:05 a.m.Miami vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.Houston vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m.Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.Oakland vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (ss) vs. Kansas City (ss), 2:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Texas (ss) vs. Seattle, 2:10 p.m.Colorado vs. L.A. Angels (ss), 2:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m.Washington vs. N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m.Baltimore vs. N.Y. Yankees, 4:35 p.m.Kansas City (ss) vs. Texas (ss), 6:05 p.m.San Diego vs. San Francisco, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Sports TransactionsMajor League BaseballAmerican LeagueBALTIMORE — Optioned LHP Chris Jones and OF Henry Urrutia to Norfolk (IL) and RHP Jason Garcia to Bowie (EL). Reassigned RHP Hunter Harvey, Cs Jonah Heim and Chance Sisco, INF Ozzie Martinez and Trey Mancini and LHPs Cesar Cabral, Andy Oliver and Ashur Tolliver to minor league camp.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHPs Daniel Webb and Brandon Brennan to Charlotte (IL). Re-leased 3B Mike Olt.DETROIT — Assigned RHP Joe Jimenez, LHP Kevin Ziomek and Cs Austin Green and Kade Sciv-icque to minor league camp.HOUSTON — Optioned RHPs Juan Minaya and Danny Reynolds to Fresno (PCL) and Joe Mus-grove and David Paulino to Corpus Christi (TL). Re-assigned INFs Alex Bregman and J.D. Davis, OFs Derek Fisher and Jon Kemmer and RHPs Brady Rodgers, Brendan McCurry and Chris Devenski to minor league camp.OAKLAND — Placed RHP Jarrod Parker on the 60-day DL. Claimed RHP Andrew Triggs off waivers from Baltimore and optioned him and RHP J.B. Wendelken, INFs Renato Nunez, Rangel Ravelo and Joey Wendle to Nashville (PCL) and RHP Raul Alcantara to Midland (TL). Reassigned LHPs Daniel Coulombe and Dillon Overton, C Beau Taylor, INFs Richie Martin and Josh Rodriguez and RHPs Ryan Doolittle, Chris Smith and Taylor Thompson to mi-nor league camp.SEATTLE — Claimed C Rob Brantly off waivers from the Chicago White Sox. Placed RHP Ryan Cook on the 60-day DL. Optioned OF Guillermo He-redia to Jackson (SL). Reassigned Cs Marcus Lit-tlewood and Steve Lerud, INFs Benji Gonzalez and Tyler Smith, OFs Mike Baxter and Dario Pizzano and LHPs Paul Fry, Brad Mills and Danny Hultzen to minor league camp. Released INF Gaby Sanchez and RHP Justin De Fratus.TAMPA BAY — Optioned LHP Blake Snell, RHP Jacob Faria and 2B Ryan Brett to Durham (IL) and RHP Taylor Guerrieri to Montgomery (SL).National LeagueL.A. DODGERS — Optioned RHP Jharel Cotton to Oklahoma City (PCL). Reassigned OF Alex Hassan, C Kyle Farmer and RHPs Lisalverto Bonilla, Chase De Jong, Caleb Dirks, Jacob Rhame and Chris An-derson to minor league camp.MIAMI — Optioned RHPs Lemdu Flores, Nick Wittgren and Scott McGough to New Orleans (PCL) and 2B Jake Esch, RHP Austin Brice and LHPs Tim Berry and Jarlin Garcia to Jacksonville (SL). Reassigned OFs Yefri Perez and Kenny Wilson, RHP Dylan Axelrod, C Sharif Othman and INFs Dan Black, Tommy Medica, J.T. Riddle, and Brady Shoemaker to minor league camp.N.Y. METS — Released INF Ruben Tejada. Op-tioned OF Brandon Nimmo, RHP Seth Lugo and 2B Dilson Herrera to Las Vegas (PCL) and LHP Josh Smoker and RHPs Gabriel Ynoa, Jeff Walters and

Robert Gsellman to Binghamton (EL). Reassigned LHP Duane Below, RHP Stolmy Pimentel, OF Travis Taijeron and INFs Gavin Cecchini, Dominic Smith and Marc Krauss to minor league camp.PHILADELPHIA — Optioned RHPs David Buchan-an and Alec Asher to Lehigh Valley (IL).PITTSBURGH — Designated LHP Jesse Biddle for assignment.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationL.A. CLIPPERS — Signed F Jeff Ayres for the re-mainder of the season.MEMPHIS — Signed G Xavier Munford to a 10-day contract.MILWAUKEE — Signed G Jared Cunningham to a 10-day contract.NEW YORK — Signed G Tony Wroten.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueARIZONA — Agreed to terms with G Evan Mathis on a one-year contract.ATLANTA — Signed OT Tom Compton and LB LaRoy Reynolds.BUFFALO — Signed TE Jim Dray.CHICAGO — Signed LS Aaron Brewer to a one-year contract.CINCINNATI — Re-signed DT Pat Sims.CLEVELAND — Terminated the contracts of LB Karlos Dansby and WR Dwayne Bowe. Signed LB Demario Davis.HOUSTON — Signed S Antonio Allen.JACKSONVILLE — Signed OT Kelvin Beachum to a two-year contract.MIAMI — Re-signed QB Matt Moore.MINNESOTA — Re-signed RB Matt Asiata.OAKLAND — Agreed to terms with OT Donald Penn on a two-year contract. Signed S Brynden Trawick.PHILADELPHIA — Agreed to terms with WR Chris Givens on a one-year contract.SAN DIEGO — Agreed to terms with OL Chris Hair-ston on a two-year contract.TENNESSEE — Agreed to terms with LB Sean Spence on a one-year contract.WASHINGTON — Re-signed LB Junior Galette and OL Josh LeRibeus.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCALGARY — Recalled F Freddie Hamilton from Stockton (AHL) on an emergency basis.NASHVILLE — Assigned Fs Gabriel Bourque and Eric Nystrom to Milwaukee (AHL) on long-term injury loans.American Hockey LeagueALBANY DEVILS — Signed D Paul Geiger to an amateur tryout agreement.BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Recalled G Ty Rim-mer from Norfolk (ECHL).SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Assigned D Justin Hamonic to Fort Wayne (ECHL).STOCKTON HEAT — Returned D Mike Vernace to Brampton (ECHL).

The Mccomish boys led Wells Furniture over the Vikings in Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball action.

Jon Mccomish had 17 points and Dave Mccomish had 13 to lead Wells Furniture 50-44 over the Vikings. Jon was named player of the game for Wells Furniture.

For the Vikings Nathan Klosse had 14 points and Mark Vos had 12 and was named player of the game.

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CurlingCurling2016 World Women’s Curling ChampionshipSchedule of play for the Women’s World Curling Championship, to be held Saturday through Mar. 27 in Swift Current, Sask.:

ROUND ROBINCountry (Skip) W LCanada (Carey) 0 0Denmark (Nielsen) 0 0Finland (Kauste) 0 0Germany (Driendl) 0 0Italy (Apollonio) 0 0Japan (Fujisawa) 0 0Russia (Sidorova) 0 0Scotland (Muirhead) 0 0South Korea (Chi Gim) 0 0Sweden (Sigfridsson) 0 0Switzerland (Feltscher) 0 0U.S. (E.Brown) 0 0

Saturday, Mar. 19First Draw, 2 p.m.United States vs. Switzerland, Japan vs. Finland, Russia vs. Italy, Canada vs. Denmark.Second Draw, 7 p.m.Italy vs. Japan, Scotland vs. Sweden, Germany vs. South Korea, Russia vs. Finland.

Sunday, Mar. 20Third Draw, 9 a.m.

Denmark vs. United States, Canada vs. Switzer-land.Fourth Draw, 2 p.m.Sweden vs. Germany, Finland vs. Italy, Japan vs. Russia, Scotland vs. South Korea.Fifth Draw, 7 p.m.Switzerland vs. Denmark, Germany vs. Scotland, South Korea vs. Sweden, United States vs. Canada.

2016 Women’s World Curling Championship rosters(in order of team, skip, third, second, lead, alternate and coach):CANADAGlencoe Curling Club, CalgaryChelsea Carey, Amy Nixon, Jocelyn Peterman, Laine Peters, Susan O’Connor and Charley Thomas (coach).DENMARKLene Nielsen, Stephanie Risdal, Isabella Clem-mensen, Charlotte Clemmensen, Madeleine Dupont and Ulrik Schmidt (coach).FINLANDOona Kauste, Milja Hellsten, Maija Salmiovirta, Marjo Hippi, Jenni Räsänen and Tomi Rantamaki (coach).GERMANYDaniela Driendl, Analena Jentsch, Marika Trettin, Pia-Lisa Schöll, Maike Beer and Thomas Lips (coach).ITALY

Federica Apollonio, Stefania Menardi, Chiara Oliv-ieri, Maria Gaspari, Claudia Alvera and Brian Gray (coach).JAPANSatsuki Fujisawa, Chinami Yoshida, Yumi Suzuki, Yurika Yoshida, Mari Motohashi and J.D. Lind (coach).RUSSIAAnna Sidorova, Margarita Fomina, Alexandra Rae-va, Nkeiruka Ezekh, Alina Kovaleva and Svetlana Kalalb (coach).SCOTLANDEve Muirhead, Anna Sloan, Victoria Adams, Sarah Reid, Rachel Hannen and David Hay (coach).SOUTH KOREAUn Chi Gim, Seul Bee Lee, Min Ji Um, Yoon Jung Yeom, Ji Sun Kim and Dong Ho Shin (coach).SWEDENMargaretha Sigfridsson (skip, throws first rock), Maria Prytz (throws fourth), Christina Bertrup, Maria Wennerström, Agnes Knochenhauer and Fredrik Hallström (coach).SWITZERLANDBinia Feltscher, Irene Schori, Franziska Kaufmann, Christine Urech, Carole Howald and Al Moore (coach).UNITED STATESErika Brown, Allison Pottinger, Nicole Joraanstad, Natalie Nicholson, Tabitha Peterson and Ann Swis-shelm (coach).


CALGARY — John Morris will miss the rest of the 2015-16 curling season to undergo hernia repair surgery.

Morris confirmed the surgery in a statement Wednesday. The 37-year-old served as vice-skip on Team Canada at this year’s Canadian men’s curling championship.

“I’ve been playing through some significant pain this season, and the timing is right to deal with these issues,” said Morris, who curled a career-high 90 per cent at the Tim Hortons Brier.

Morris said he will also be undergoing treatment for associat-ed hip pain.

“By taking the time now to focus on my physical health and use the extended off-season to recover, I expect to return to the ice stronger and better than I’ve ever been in the fall,” he said.

Morris has been on three Brier champions and was part of Kevin Martin’s team that won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olym-pics.

John Morris to miss rest of season to undergo hernia

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Toronto to host Invictus Games, Prince Harry, in 2017


TORONTO — Prince Harry will be bringing an international sports competition for wound-ed troops to Toronto next year.

The Invictus Games, founded by the 31-year-old royal, will be hosted by Canada’s largest city in the fall of 2017.

“I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Invictus legacy will continue when Toronto hosts the third Invictus Games,” Harry said in a video statement. “It’s also the year when Can-ada will commemorate its 150th anniversary of Confederation. I can’t think of a better way to mark this milestone than by paying tribute to the soldiers and veterans who have served their country so bravely and to support them along their journey to recovery.”

The Invictus Games is a sporting competi-tion for wounded, injured and sick troops and includes both current and veteran members of the forces. It aims to use sport to inspire recovery and draw awareness to the physical and psychological injuries suffered by service members.

Harry founded the games after a 2013 visit to the U.S.-based Warrior Games, a domestic sporting competition for ill and injured Amer-ican service members and veterans. Looking to establish an expanded version of those games, Harry set up the Invictus Games, named after the Latin word for unconquered. The games were first held in London in 2014 and involved

more than 400 competitors from 13 countries.The Toronto games, set for September 2017,

will feature more competitors and more sports than the event has had before, Harry said.

“It will even involve competing on ice, be-cause this is Canada after all,” he said.

Harry will be heading to Toronto in May to officially launch the city’s games before travel-ling to Orlando, Fla., where this year’s Invictus Games will be held.

Bruno Guevremont, captain of Team Canada for the upcoming games, said taking part in the event in Canada will mean a great deal.

“Competing in the Invictus Games on home soil will provide me and my fellow military competitors with the pride and confidence needed to push our minds and bodies beyond what we thought was possible — to represent our country shoulder-to-shoulder, as we once did.”

The Invictus Games Foundation says To-ronto won the rights to the 2017 event because it demonstrated “a real understanding of the core concept and vision” of the games. It also noted that the city recently hosted the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.

Toronto Mayor John Tory said the city was looking forward to welcoming the event.

“Sport has the unique power to change lives,” he said. “The service men and women who participate in these Games deserve to be honoured and Toronto is proud to be the stage on which they will stand as they step into the world spotlight.”

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PM sets sights on Security Council seatBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

NEW YORK — Canada launched its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council with the diplomatic equivalent of boisterous election ral-lies on Wednesday, as large crowds turned out to watch the campaign-er-in-chief.

A cellphone-photo-snapping throng of diplomats showed up to hear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announce-ment in the foyer of the UN Headquar-ters, a rarely used venue last set aside for Pope Francis.

The crowds got bigger over the course of the day.

The prime minister announced the intention to compete in 2020 for a two-year term, which could potentially end the longest spell Canada has ever gone without a seat on the influential, deci-sion-making body.

He followed that up by speaking to a forum on women’s rights, where he drew enthusiastic ovations from the standing-room-only auditorium while proudly branding himself a feminist and describing the work that went into recruiting the women who later formed his gender-parity cabinet.

The next event was a boardroom meeting with Ban Ki-moon where the UN Secretary General joked about the larger-than-normal gang of photogra-phers: “I don’t know why you are so popular.”

Trudeau replied: “These guys are here for you. I’m sure they’re here ev-ery day.”

Several UN staff insisted that this was, in fact, not normal for a Canadian politician. One said Hillary Clinton or Vladimir Putin might draw a bigger crowd, but a female UN staffer said there is unusually high interest in a young leader who goes around calling

himself a feminist: “It’s like Beatle-

mania … It’s a huge deal.”

The actual substance of Canada’s

ambitions at the UN have yet to be laid

out, other a renewed commitment to

peacekeeping. Foreign Affairs Minis-

ter Stephane Dion said the specifics

are still being worked out on locations

for such Canadian efforts, but he add-

ed that the troop numbers will be low-

er than in previous eras, because de-

veloping countries have since become

more involved in peacekeeping.

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Stepan Poltorak (R), Minister of Defence of Ukraine and Harjit Singh Sajjan (C), the Minister of National Defence of Canada, attend military training at the International Center for Peacemaking and Safety on the Yavoriv military training center near Lviv, Ukraine on Tuesday. The two heads of defence discussed the implementation of existing programs of military cooperation between Ukraine and Canada. Canadian instructors demonstrated to Ukrainian servicemen the exercises on small arms handling and rendering of first aid in combat.

Canadian troops train amid rising attacks in war-torn Ukraine


OTTAWA — A fresh contingent of Canadian troops has arrived in eastern Europe to take part in NATO exercises meant to reassure jittery allies and the deployment follows a spike in violence between Ukrainian forces and Rus-sian-backed separatists.

More than 100 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, the Royal 22e Regiment of Valcartier, Que., will conduct training in Poland and Romania — far from the eastern front lines — and are sepa-rate from a U.S-led training mission in western Ukraine.

Senior American officials have expressed “deep concern” about the

number of ceasefire violations report-ed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in break-away regions of Ukraine.

The Canadian commander, Maj. Er-ic Beauchamp, says his troops don’t necessarily feel the tension, but they get a clear sense eastern European soldiers are happy to see them.

“Even if we are a small detachment that is going to train with them, they appreciate this and they want the world to know we are there,” he said in a recent interview with The Canadi-an Press. “Because of the tension, the effect we have here is really tangible and we see it.”

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and his parliamentary secretary, Liberal

MP John McKay, are in the region this week, meeting officials in Ukraine, Germany and Poland.

The trip is seen as a political reas-surance mission on top of the military contribution.

In a conference call from Germany late Wednesday, Sajjan said that Rus-sia’s partial withdrawl from Syria will not mean a softening of Canadian poli-cy — or sanctions imposed in the wake of the annexation of Crimea, which began two years ago Wednesday.

“Our support for Ukraine remains solid,” he said. “I’m hopeful — as I mentioned to my counterparts in Ukraine — that Mr. Putin would make a similar statement about withdrawing troops from Ukraine.”

Experts ponder size of deficit


OTTAWA — It’s become the multi-billion-dollar question — how big, ex-actly, will the federal deficit be?

Analysts have made predictions leading up to next Tuesday’s spring budget on the magnitude of Ottawa’s shortfall, which is already poised to reach tens of billions.

The Liberal government has ac-knowledged the deficit could rise above $20 billion as it fulfills election vows and introduces economy-boost-ing measures, such as infrastructure spending.

The government has kept mum on the final figure, but many experts an-ticipate Ottawa will be $30 billion in the hole in 2016-17 — at least.

Some have even recommended how large — or small — the government should allow the deficit to grow in its budgetary blueprint.

The C.D. Howe Institute is the latest to weigh in with the release today of its annual “shadow” budget, a document that urges the Liberals to show some spending restraint.

The think-tank suggests a fiscal ap-proach that will produce deficits of $15.3 billion and $12.2 billion over the next two fiscal years — levels signifi-cantly lower than other observers.

On the other end of the spectrum, a couple of big banks and the left-lean-ing Canadian Centre for Policy Alter-natives have recommended the gov-ernment inject even more fiscal stimu-lus, which will create a deficit as high as $40 billion in 2016-17.

TD Bank, meanwhile, has said the federal government is on track to run $150 billion in budget deficits over the next five years.

The projections come as the govern-ment prepares its maiden budget at a time when the economy is struggling with the negative consequences of low commodity prices, particularly oil.

The country’s economic situation darkened in the months that followed the October election, which prompted Finance Minister Bill Morneau to take the rare step last month of releasing a fiscal update only weeks before the budget.

The document revealed the trea-sury was projected to produce a short-fall of at least $18.4 billion in 2016-17, a projection that didn’t account for roughly $10 billion in Liberal spending commitments.

The updated numbers also predict-ed a $15.5-billion deficit in 2017-18.

The projections also included an additional $6 billion per year for eco-nomic prudence that the government argued was necessary to account for risk.

In November, shortly after they were elected, the Liberals predicted shortfalls of $3.9 billion in 2016-17 and $2.4 billion in 2017-18.

The Liberals made a counter-intui-tive promise during the election cam-paign when they vowed to run deficits over the next three years in order to pay for infrastructure projects to stim-ulate the weak economy.

They had pledged to cap annual shortfalls at $10 billion over that span, a vow they are now poised to break.

Population now tops 36 million people

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 36 million this year for the first time.

The agency estimated Canada’s population at 36,048,500 on Jan. 1, up 62,800 from on Oct. 1, 2015.

Population growth slowed slightly to 0.95 per cent in 2015 compared with 1.04 per cent in 2014.

The increase in the fourth quarter was due in part to 95,300 births compared with 67,900 deaths, based on preliminary estimates.

Net international migration was 35,400, up 600 from the same quarter in 2014.

Population growth was positive in all provinces and territories, except the Yukon.

Palliative care cash must be down payment on a larger repair project: advocates

OTTAWA — The federal govern-ment needs to ensure there is money for palliative care in the budget next week as part of a down payment on a much larger repair project, health ad-vocates say.

The Canadian Cancer Society said the Liberal government needs to ur-gently address the glaring holes in end-of-life care.

The debate following the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on assist-ed death has shown people often fall through the cracks of the health-care system and improvements are needed to address the patchwork of care avail-able, said Gabriel Miller, the society’s public issues director.

During the election campaign, the Liberals promised to spend $3-billion over the next four years to improve access to home care, including family and palliative care.

Miller said the cancer society ex-pects to see the government follow through on this investment, but he warned money cannot be used just to camouflage the biggest cracks in the

system.The funding needs to signal more

than just temporary relief, he added.

Cancelling arms deal would hurt Canada’s ability to do

global businessNEW YORK — Justin Trudeau says

Canada’s ability to conduct business around the world would have been jeopardized if his Liberal government had cancelled a $15-billion arms contract with Saudi Arabia signed by the previous Conservative regime.

The prime minister says other countries and companies around the world need certainty that contracts OK’d by one Canadian government will be honoured by a new government.

If there was a perception that contracts were only good for the life cycle of a particular government, Trudeau says that would make it well-nigh impossible for Canada to conduct business in the world.

The Liberals have faced criticism for refusing to cancel the contract for the sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, given that country’s abysmal human rights record and its military intervention in Yemen.

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Female suicide bombers kill 24 at Nigerian mosque

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Two female suicide bombers killed at least 24 worshippers and wounded 18 in an attack during dawn prayers Wednesday on a mosque on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials said from the birthplace of Boko Haram.

One bomber blew up inside the mosque and the second waited outside to detonate as survivors tried to escape, said co-ordinator Abba Aji of the civilian self-defence Vigilante Group.

Those injured totalled 18. An earlier AP toll of 23 injured had double-counted those rescued.

President Muhammadu Buhari sent condolences to families of victims, said the attack exposed the perpetrators as “mere criminals who have no place among civilized people,” and promised that “the fi-nal end of Boko Haram is in sight.”

It was the second attack in five months on the Mo-lai-Umarari mosque. Twin suicide bombers in Octo-ber killed six people.

“Do you know that among those in the mosque, only the chief imam survived” on Wednesday, said resident Adam Modu. The second bomber had her back to a child when she exploded, blowing the kid into pieces, he said.

The mosque was closed after the October attack and had only reopened three days ago, residents said.

Umar Usman said he escaped because he was late: “We were just a few meters away from the mosque when a loud bang erupted and all we could see was dark smoke and bodies littered around.”

The mosque is on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the city that is the military command centre of the war against Boko Haram.

Several suicide bombers have exploded recently at roadblocks leading into the city, preventing at-tackers from reaching crowded areas.

Bomb blast kills 15 in northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani police say a bomb blast has ripped through a bus carrying gov-ernment employees in northwestern city of Pesha-war, killing 15.

Police official Abbas Majeed Marwat says the Wednesday morning bombing happened in an army area of the city.

He says nearly 40 other people were wounded.Marwat says an improvised explosive device was

planted under a seat in the bus.No one has claimed responsibility. Suspicion like-

ly is to fall on the Pakistani Taliban and their allied militants, who have been waging a war on the state for more than a decade, killing tens of thousands of people.

North Korea sentences US touristto 15 years in prison

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Re-public Of — North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion on Wednesday, weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.

Otto Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia under-graduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in North Korea’s Supreme Court.

The U.S. government condemned the sentence and accused North Korea of using such American detainees as political pawns.

The court held that Warmbier had committed a crime “pursuant to the U.S. government’s hostile pol-icy toward (the North), in a bid to impair the unity of its people after entering it as a tourist.”

North Korea regularly accuses Washington and Seoul of sending spies to overthrow its government to enable the U.S.-backed South Korean government to take control of the Korean Peninsula.

Tensions are particularly high following North Korea’s recent nuclear test and rocket launch, and massive joint military exercises now underway be-tween the U.S. and South Korea that the North sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed new U.S. sanctions on North Korea in response to what the White House called “illicit” nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

Breivik to address court inhuman rights trial

SKIEN, Norway — Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in bomb-and-gun attacks in 2011, is set to take the stand on second day of his human rights case against the Norwegian government.

The 37-year-old right-wing extremist has sued the government, saying his prison conditions are “inhu-man” and violate the European Convention Human Rights. The government has rejected his claims.

For security reasons the trial is being held in Skien prison where Breivik is serving his sentence for the July 22, 2011, attacks on the Norwegian gov-ernment headquarters and a summer camp for left-wing youth activists.

After Breivik addresses the court, the judge and lawyers from both sides are set to inspect the high-security unit of Skien prison where Breivik is being held, isolated from other prisoners.

Court: Inmate who survived ’09 execution can be put to death

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court says the state can try again to execute a condemned killer who survived a 2009 botched execution.

The court ruled 4-3 Wednesday to reject argu-ments by death row inmate Romell Broom that giv-ing the state prisons agency a second chance would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and dou-ble jeopardy.

The state stopped Broom’s 2009 execution after two hours when executioners failed to find a usable vein following 18 attempts to insert needles.

The 59-year-old Broom is only the second inmate to survive an execution in U.S. history and the only via lethal injection.

The state said lower courts properly determined that any mistakes happened during execution prepa-rations, not the actual procedure.

Broom still has federal appeals pending.

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Rally around me — orexpect voter riots: Trump


WASHINGTON — Republican leaders spent Wednesday wavering between grudging acceptance and deep denial about Donald Trump’s likely ascent to the party’s presidential nomination. An embold-ened Trump warned that if the party tried to block him, “You’d have riots.”

With at least three more states in his win col-umn, Trump is now the only candidate with a path to clinching the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July. But he still must do better in upcoming contests to get the necessary 1,237 dele-gates, leaving some opponents with a sliver of hope he can still be stopped.

In the U.S. primary system, voters in each state determine how many delegates each candidate re-ceives and the delegates then vote for the nominees at the conventions where each party selects its can-didate.

“I still think it’s a very realistic chance that no-body’s going to have a majority of the delegates,” said Henry Barbour, a senior Republican National Committee member who worked on Marco Rubio’s delegate strategy until the Florida senator exited the race Tuesday.

Barbour said Trump “doesn’t deserve to be pres-ident,” but also said he could ultimately support the billionaire if he “can convince me that he’s presi-dential material.”

Trump cautioned that his supporters would revolt if he falls just short in the delegate count and loses in a rules fight.

“If you just disenfranchise these people, I think

you would have problems like you’ve never seen be-fore,” Trump said on CNN’s New Day.

Despite the deep concerns about Trump within the Republican Party, there was little tangible ac-tion Wednesday that indicated a way to stop the real estate mogul’s march toward the general election.

There was no rush among party leaders or donors to coalesce around Ted Cruz, the only candidate in the race with even a long-shot chance of overtak-ing Trump in the delegate count. A small group of conservatives moved forward with plans to meet Thursday to discuss the prospect of rallying behind a third-party option, but no candidate had been identi-fied to lead that effort.

Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clin-ton set her sights on a November showdown with Trump. Her sweep of Tuesday’s five primary contests was a harsh blow to rival Bernie Sanders, giving Clinton what her campaign manager described as an “insurmountable lead” in the delegate count.

“We are confident that for the first time in our na-tion’s history, the Democratic Party will nominate a woman as their presidential nominee,” Robby Mook wrote in a memo to supporters.

Clinton has at least 1,599 delegates to Sanders’ 844. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

Trump urged Republicans to view the party’s nominating contest with the same sense of clarity. During a round of calls to morning television shows, he said some of the same Republican senators who publicly criticize him have called him privately to say they want to “become involved” in his cam-paign eventually. He also picked up an endorsement Wednesday from Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Obama nominates Garland to high courtBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nom-inated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the cen-tre of an election-year clash over the future of the nation’s highest court.

Obama cast the 63-year-old Garland as “a serious man and an exemplary judge” deserving of a full hearing and a Senate confirmation vote, despite Republican vows to deny him both. Standing in the White House Rose Garden with Garland, Obama argued the integrity of the court was at stake and appealed to the Senate to “play it straight” in filling the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

“It’s supposed to be above politics,” Obama said of the high court. “It has to be. And it should stay that way.”

Republican leaders, however, held to their refus-al to consider any nominee, saying the seat should be filled by the next president after this year’s election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

spoke with Garland by phone but did not change his position that “the American people will have a voice.” He said he would not be holding “a perfunc-tory meeting but he wished Judge Garland well,” a spokesman said.

Others in the GOP ranks were less wedded to the no-hearing, no-vote, not-even-a-meeting stance — a sign that Republicans are aware the strategy could leave them branded as obstructionist.

Unlike McConnell, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said he is open to meet-ing with Garland in the coming weeks, as did five other Republican senators — Rob Portman of Ohio, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Kelly Ayotte of New Hamp-shire. Others vowed to give his record a close look. The judge will begin visiting with Democratic sen-ators on Thursday at the Capitol, before the Senate breaks for a two-week recess.

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It has been my dream to watch and photo-graph mountain goats. When I read about a thriv-ing population of goats in the mountains along the Snake River in Wyoming, I decided that a road trip was in order. In mid-February, I was

thrilled to be able to spend a couple days there in the company of these beautiful bovine s.

For the first day, we had to content our-selves with distant views of a band of goats high in the mountain tops. Through bin-oculars, we watched them nimbly skip across rock faces, sip at small waterfalls and doze on precipitous outcrops.

Late on the second afternoon, we were finally treated to some spectacular goat watching when a small band (one

single individual and three nannies with kids) moved down close to the road.

Mountain goats are not true goats, but are closely related to antelope and do-

mestic cattle. Denizens of the mountain-ous regions of North America, they are remarkably well adapted to living in harsh alpine environments. Their long glittering white coats, which are shed in the summer,

offer camouflage and protect them from bit-ing winter winds. Equipped with powerful forelimbs, they are at equal ease climbing

straight up or nimbly descending cliff faces. Their cloven hooves can spread to brake a descent or squeeze to gain purchase, with

textured foot pads providing extra traction. Remarkably, goats can jump nearly 3.5 m in a single leap!

Life for mountain goats is a tradeoff be-tween food (open, grassy areas where they are

vulnerable to cougars, wolves and other pred-ators) and security (cliffs and ledges where food is relatively sparse). Fortunately,

they can survive on pretty much any plant ma-terial— from mosses, lichens and roots to flow-ers, leaves and bark.

Nannies isolate themselves for about two weeks in the spring while they give birth. Incred-ibly, the kids can stand and nurse within about 45 minutes, follow their mother within two to three days, and start feeding on vegetation at the age of one week! The kids are weaned at about four months but remain with their mothers until the following spring, when she gives birth again.

Mountain goats utilize mineral licks. These licks, which they will visit several times a year, provide them with minerals such as sodium and magnesium, and digestive compounds such as carbonates and clay. How interesting it was to watch the Snake River goats flick their jet black tongues along the salt-splashed rocks near the road, some even stretching up on their hind legs to lick the rock faces.

It was a great experience to finally be afford-ed the opportunity to view these remarkable creatures close up; over the space of just a few hours we were able to watch them eat snow, nib-ble at sparse vegetation, lick the rocks, interact with each other, paw their way through chest-deep snow, and negotiate narrow cliff ledges with the greatest of ease.

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Warm weather encourages people to get outside and garden. It is also a good time to plan the garden and gath-er the materials needed; seeds, corms and tubers.

When planning, think back to the last few years noting what worked and what didn’t. Note that some plants ability to thrive is dependent on the weather while others will thrive re-gardless of the amount of heat and rain. If a bright colorful flowerbed or good harvest is important, choose de-pendable plants.

For those that want a challenge are willing to take a risk, plant the more delicate or long season plants.

Be realistic in the amount of work involved and the time available to complete and maintain the garden. It is better to have a simpler garden as opposed to one that looks neglected.

Pots are beautiful when well main-tained. Most require daily watering unless they are on an irrigation sys-tem. Pots over 14 inches, (35 cm) do better but by the end of the season their root mass is large enough to re-quire more water and fertilizer.

When putting in a vegetable garden, know what amount can be consumed fresh or stored for winter. Growing ex-tra is great if can be given or sold to others. Gardeners tend to all have an excess of one type of fruit or vegeta-ble at the same time making it hard to distribute extra produce. Ever try to give away zucchini in August? Excess produce that rots in the garden or on the compost pile is a waste of time and energy.

When planning to succession plant, seed at different intervals throughout the spring or summer, be sure to pur-chase enough seed now. It becomes hard or even impossible to purchase seed as the season progresses, espe-cially for late summer planting.

Planting spinach in late August can result in greens until the first snow fall. On years with a mild winter the

plants will grow and produce in early spring.

Seeds can either be purchased lo-cally or from catalogues. Large grow-ers grow and harvest the seed selling to numerous seed houses giving con-sumers many choices for seed that was grown in the same area.

Exceptions occur with heritage seeds, some organic seed and organi-zations that advertise that the seeds are locally produced.

Seed that is openly pollinated, will produce plants that are less uniform that ones that were developed through controlled pollination.

Seeds that are called hybrids or F1 or F2 will produce great plants but don’t plan to save the seed. Chances are that the next generation will revert back to a parent plant which may not be desirable.

Looking for Gladiola corms or Dahl-ia tubers?

They are available in stores but to get the best quality plan to attend the annual sale held by the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiola Society.

This group brings in top quali-

ty Gladiola corms that produce huge spikes that last as a cut flower or in the garden for a couple of weeks. At fifty cents a corm the value for the money can’t be beat.

Many of the tubers that the club sells have been grown locally and are acclimatized to the area. Colors, size and shape of flowers available are fan-tastic with many not available else-where. At five dollars a tuber they are an excellent deal.

Another bonus is that the sellers are experience growers and are very willing to answer questions and pro-vide growing tips.

The Alberta Gladiola and Dahlia Society will be selling in Lacombe on March 24 and at the Bower Place Shop-ping Center on April 9th from 10 until 2. For more information email [email protected] or visit their web site www.albertadahliaand-gladsociety.com

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at [email protected]

For several years now I’ve been thinking that the Sundre area, rath-er than Vancougar Island, is the true mountain lion capital of Canada. Cer-tainly the cat tales from the Island seem to have fallen off, while those from the west – central Alberta area just keep on coming. Perhaps the long – suffering Islanders have finally ex-terminated sufficient of the varmints to bring back a modicum of bucolic peace to the place.

What prevents Sundre and area from taking the title is a lack of focus and attention to detail in the stories and a complete missing of too many points by the mainstream media.

For example, Alberta and nation-al newspapers have been ensnared for two weeks now over the story that two golden eagles and 15 cougars have been caught in snares set on baits in the Sundre area to “cull” wolves. Sole survivor, apparently, was one of the golden eagles. Focus of the stories is condensed in a headline of the March 12th Globe and Mail: “Snares caught in an ethical debate,” by Mark Hume, of Vancouver.

Hume’s present residence may have affected his usual thorough research and objectivity, evidenced here in the snare research and trapper angles, but completely lacking – conflict of inter-est, perhaps? – in anything that might threaten the Island’s cougar kudos ti-tle.

Not one of the half – dozen major stories I have studied mentions the total number of snares, total area, or a time period, all matters essential to the setting of records. More important-ly, there is no mention of the number of wolves, the target varmint, snared in the same time period, or no listing of other victims, deer, moose, maybe, fe-ral house cats, and domestic dogs, etc.

My suspicion is that the facts, statis-tics, and numbers are scarce is that the by – catch number of cougars killed in these snares exceeded the wolf kill. Depending on the time period, and ar-ea, 15 is a big catch of cougars; Alberta expects 30 – 40 cougars a year to be snared province – wide in wolf snares. This could be more proof, along with

the volume of cougar complaints from area residents, of my long – standing belief that there are far too many cou-gars in the Sundre area, all the way north-east to my Stump Ranch area south of Rocky Mountain House.

Other than the amazing number, I have to confess that my next response to the story was “Great! Fifteen few-er to worry about.” But long – time readers will know that I suffer from a highly specific form of gatophobia or ailurophobia: I dislike all cats, but have an entirely rational dislike of and fear cougars.

That said, I also have little use for, dislike, perhaps even fear snares, one of the few “conditions” for which there seems to be no specific word, but “ophidiophobia” may come close enough, for the way snares strike, like snakes. Considerable contemporary research shows that the best of mod-ern snares fall far short of their bill-ing as quick killers and are, basically, an inexpensive reincarnation of inhu-mane trapping, replacing very expen-

sive quick – kill traps.Snares are also condemned as in-

discriminate catchers and occasional killers of all manner of non – target wildlife. In a strange way, that lack of discrimination may be an aid in the es-sential control of cougar numbers. Un-der Alberta’s laws and quotas, hunters with dogs are able to select and shoot only the treed trophy toms. In gentle nature, the toms eat cougar kittens and sometimes even mature females, thus providing an essential population con-trol; in the absence of enough toms, snares will take a toll of females and young

Again, the facts are few about the location of the snare on each of those 15 big cats, and the condition of their corpses, but the odds are that a dozen of them died long, agonizing deaths. I cannot condone inhumanity to any creature, even one that tends, like all cats, to toy with its food while eating it alive. I have heard that going on twice in my fairly recent past, and could not take it. The only thing worse than be-

ing caught by a cougar is being mauled by a grizzly.

Our Stump Ranch land is highly potentially dangerous because of the number of cougars on it and in the near vicinity, but we prefer dealing with their presence in ways other than ever permitting a snare to be set on the land.

CODA. The best fishing dog I ever knew of, or owned was also the only cat I ever liked: a barn tomcat down on the ranch, pitch black, green – eyed; he sneezed a lot, so I named him Fever, short for Hay fever. He took to stak-ing me out by sleeping in my canvas creel hung by the back door, and when I evicted him to take the creel fishing, Fever would follow up the creek and wait patiently until I caught a chub and threw it to him for lunch. Some-how Fever figured this out all on his own.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Amazing Tom Ulrich shot of a cougar doing its own fishing from “Cougar,” by Paula Wild.

VR ON THE CHEAP: HOW TO WATCH WITHOUT A

HEADSETBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Hollywood studios, news outlets and consumer brands are all dabbling with virtual reality. Many everyday folks will soon join them us-ing 360-degree cameras coming soon from Samsung and LG.

But headsets to view VR video can cost more than $1,000 once you include a high-end personal computer with fast-enough graphics. And while smart-phone makers are designing cheaper headsets — Samsung’s Gear VR is $100 — you need a compatible phone. Re-placing your current phone might cost you hundreds of dollars.

Fortunately, there are plenty of free, or at least cheap, options that rely on your existing phone or PC. The experience isn’t as smooth as what you’d get with Gear VR or upcoming headsets from LG, HTC, Sony and Facebook’s Oculus business. But you won’t go broke, either.

GOOGLE CARDBOARDIt sounds like a joke, but it works.

Google Cardboard is essentially a piece of cardboard folded into a box that’s slightly shorter than a brick. You slip in an iPhone or Android phone that’s no larger than 6 inches diagonal-ly. You run Google’s Cardboard app, and voila.

Models certified by Google are available for as low as $15 at https://www.google.com/get /cardboard/get-cardboard. Many companies are also giving them out for free The New York Times sent one to its print sub-scribers in November, for instance. And you can build your own with card-board, lenses, magnets, Velcro and a rubber band find your own parts or buy kits for a few dollars on eBay.

With an Android phone, you can watch 360-degree videos of news events, rollercoaster rides and more on YouTube. You can find some by searching with the hashtag “360Vid-eo.” Hit the Cardboard icon on the lower right, insert the phone into the contraption and look through Card-board’s lenses — remember those old View-Masters?

Turn your head around to see what’s behind you. Look up, look down, look to the side. The phone’s acceler-ometer senses where you head is, and the phone’s screen shows you the right perspective — in 3-D through Card-board’s lenses.

The YouTube capability isn’t avail-able on iPhones yet. But you can get

other Cardboard apps through the iP-hone or Android app store. The Times’ NYT VR, for instance, has segments on travel, politics and war. Google’s Street View offers 360-degree views of Machu Picchu and other places you might have only dreamed of getting to. Other apps let you play games, drive race cars or walk with dinosaurs.

One drawback: With most Card-board models, the eyepiece isn’t ad-justable, which could mean double vision or other discomfort. Cardboard also typically doesn’t come with a strap, so you have to hold onto it as you watch and move around. Cardboard can also be challenging for those with glasses. Pricier headsets offer greater comfort, and ones from Oculus, HTC and Sony promise more sophisticated apps.

ON SMARTPHONESYou can get a VR-like experience

without bothering with Cardboard. Ma-ny of the same apps noted above also let you view 360-degree videos with just a smartphone. For YouTube on iPhones, this is your only option. In-stead of moving Cardboard, just move

the phone left, right, up or down. In some cases, you move around the video by sliding your finger on the touch screen.

With this approach, you can also get 360-de-gree videos on Facebook. Again, use the hashtag “360Video.” While Face-book supports viewing on the Gear VR (which Samsung makes in partner-ship with Facebook’s VR business), Facebook doesn’t offer its video for use with Cardboard. You watch Face-book’s 360-degree video right on the screen through Facebook’s app.

One drawback: The experience isn’t as immersive as using Cardboard or a regular VR headset. Part of what makes VR VR is the ability to tune out

your surroundings. You don’t get that with smartphone viewing unless you’re in a dark room.

ON TRADITIONAL PCSThis is the least satisfying ap-

proach, but it will do if you don’t have a smartphone. You basically use your mouse to shift the perspective left, right, up or down. It only works with certain Web browsers Google’s Chrome is among them.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Virtual reality is big at South by Southwest Interac-tive, the annual Austin, Texas, tech festival that wrapped up Tuesday. It’s a big technological development, a business opportunity — and also just a big experiment, as everyone tries to figure out how to use it.

All around Austin, companies like Samsung, Google, The New York Times and even McDonald’s were showing off their virtual reality ef-forts. Because it basically immerses viewers in an artificial world, VR can reach an audience in more di-rect and fundamental ways than oth-er media. Companies and creators are still feeling their way with the new technology.

“Part of what’s so exciting about it is that there are no rules and no best practices, it’s still really unclear what this is for and how best to use it,” said New York Times editor Sam Dolnick.

“We’re shaping that at once in re-al time.”

Facebook’s long-awaited Oculus Rift begins shipping to the public later this month, and new headsets from HTC and Sony are also on their way. All that is creating a tidal rush of enthusiasm and hype for the new technology.

The opportunity could be big: De-loitte Global predicts that virtual re-ality will have its first billion dollar year in 2016, with about $700 million in hardware sales and the remain-der from games and other VR “expe-riences.” It estimates headset sales of 2.5 million units this year.

And audiences appear to find VR especially engaging, at least so far. Take, for instance, 360 degree vid-eos, which are typically shot by mul-ticamera setups that capture images in every direction. Viewers can then choose to look at anything in their field of view, as if they were standing where the camera is.

People are 7.5 times more like-ly to share such videos compared to fixed-frame video, VR journalist Sarah Hill said during a packed SX-SW panel discussion on VR storytell-

ing.At the moment, it’s a challenge to

walk around Austin without stum-bling across a VR presentation. The New York Times took over the Easy Tiger bar on Austin’s main drag, 6th Street, to host panels and parties that promoted its VR efforts.

It provided swivel chairs and headsets for people to watch its vir-tual reality projects, including “The Displaced,” a 10 minute piece in which viewers follow three child ref-ugees in different nations through their daily lives.

Google threw a VR party to show-case its Tilt Brush 3D VR painting app. At its Google Fiber Space in Austin, animator Chris Prynoski cre-ated a painting wearing a VR head-set while the image itself appeared on a large screen above him. And there was a 360 degree photo booth, where party goers created 360 imag-es of themselves viewable via Goo-gle’s Cardboard headset.

Samsung’s showcase used mov-ing chairs and Gear VR headsets to let festival goers take a bumpy VR ride on a roller coaster via a vid-eo it developed with Six Flags. The company also brought virtual reality headsets for festival goers to try out, assuming they were willing to tweet the hashtag “VRondemand” and then send Samsung their location.

At McDonald’s Loft near the Aus-tin Convention Center, the fast-food giant offered festival goers snacks, live music, and VR. Specifically, that is, the chance to use an HTC Vive and its controllers, due out lat-er this year, to paint a colorful mu-ral on a Happy Meal box and throw paintballs in a virtual world. “It’s an emerging technology that has in-teresting potential applications,” said DeLu Jackson, a McDonald’s vice-president of global digital en-gagement.

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Perhaps the only thing more boring than watching paint dry would be to watch something rust.

The oxidation of metal does not happen rapidly unless a supplied concentration of O2 is very high; an example would be a cutting torch. In most all cases, rust is nothing to set the headlines of the media on fire. Two re-searchers from Stanford Universities Material Science and Engineering de-partment may have discovered some-thing that will change the status quo of such a tedious topic.

In an attempt to address the world-wide demand for power with alternate sources, they wanted to tackle the inherent issues with photovoltaic solar panels intermittent production. No sun, no power. Photo-voltaic cells use silicon to convert a small portion of visible and ultraviolet light into electricity and with recent improvements in efficiencies said photo-voltaic panels are rapidly becoming “normal” and utilized around the world in increasingly substan-tial arrays.

With the intermittent energy production of pho-tovoltaics being an issue, research into storage is

ongoing, and huge inroads are being made into practical and viable solu-tions. What if, though, we could make “solar” panels that produce, store, and generate power when required?

That is exactly what Professors Nicholas Melosh, and William Chueh have attempted to focus on, and inter-estingly enough their scientific que-ries have led them to metal oxides, including the one we are most familiar with, rust.

The potential for metal oxides to produce solar power has been delved into for a number of years but efficien-cies were very low as when compared to silicon’s ability to directly generate electricity.

These Stanford researches discov-ered how to use the entire visible spec-trum as well as the infrared spectrum of light, which is not utilized by silicon based photovoltaics. This infrared por-

tion of the spectrum is used to heat the metal oxides and “capture” the photons of light, which then release electrons and in turn split water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. These solar cells achieve higher efficiencies as temperatures rise, as opposed to a drop in efficiencies of photovoltaic cells. Stored, the hydrogen and oxygen can be recombined to generate elec-tricity later, or be utilized in powering vehicles.

Iron oxide, or rust, is one of three metal oxides they have investigated with encouraging results. Bismuth va-nadium oxide, and titanium oxide, was also tested at converting photons to electrons; with the bismuth vanadium oxide having the highest efficiencies. Currently other metal oxides are being tested in an effort to track down the best metal oxide / optimum tempera-ture combination for peak efficiency

With laboratory results encourag-ing research, the quest will continue for “solar cells” that can produce fu-el for transportation and heating, as well as generating electrical power. The produced hydrogen will address carbon emissions, as combustion of hydrogen does not add carbon to the atmosphere, and as such would make a significant contribution to a “carbon neutral” energy cycle.

Perhaps one day a solar array on your property will power your home and provide you with fuel for heat and transportation.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a com-pany that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: [email protected].

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With this abundance, it’s easy to take water for granted. Many of our daily rituals require its life-giving force. Yet do we recognize our good fortune in having clean, safe water at the turn of a tap?

Not everyone in Canada is so lucky. On any given day, more than 1,000 boil-water advisories are in place across the country. Imagine having to walk to your local church every morn-ing to fill plastic jugs with clean drink-ing water for your family. Or having to drive to your town’s fire station or community centre to collect bottled water.

Imagine having to boil water for ev-erything you do at home — cooking, cleaning, washing. This is the sad real-ity for people who live in communities with boil-water advisories, some for decades at a time.

Water problems are dangerous. In May 2000, bacteria in Walkerton, Ontario’s water supply caused seven deaths and more than 2,300 illnesses. A public inquiry blamed the crisis on flaws in the province’s approval and inspection programs, a “lack of train-ing and expertise” among water-sup-ply operators and government budget cuts.

In 2001, nearly half of North Battle-ford, Saskatchewan’s 14,000 residents became ill from contaminated water. An inquiry concluded provincial over-sight was inadequate and ineffective.

Indigenous communities continue to face a widespread drinking water crisis, with people on First Nations reserves 90 times more likely than oth-er Canadians to lack access to clean water.

Health Canada reports that 131 drinking-water advisories were in ef-fect in 87 Indigenous communities at

the end of 2015, not including British Columbia. Places like Shoal Lake 40, Grassy Narrows and Neskantaga have been under boil-water advisories for decades. In B.C., the First Nations Health Authority reports that 28 drink-ing-water advisories were in effect in 25 Indigenous communities as of Janu-ary 31, 2016.

How can this continue in a wa-ter-rich country like Canada?

Canada recognized the right to wa-ter at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012. Yet our government has failed to live up to its commitment. As a 2015 UN report points out, “The global water crisis is one of governance, much more than of resource availability, and this is where the bulk of the action is re-quired in order to achieve a water se-cure world.”

We are the only G8 country, and one of just two OECD countries, without legally enforceable national drink-ing-water-quality standards. Federal water policy is more than 25 years old and in dire need of revision. We have

no national strategy to address urgent water issues and no federal leadership to conserve and protect water. Instead, we rely on a patchwork of provincial water policies, some enshrined in law and some not. Meanwhile, highly in-tensive industrial activities, agribusi-ness and pollution are putting water supplies at risk.

The federal government will deliver its first budget on March 22 — World Water Day. The David Suzuki Founda-tion’s Blue Dot movement is also tak-ing a stand on World Water Day, help-ing communities across Canada call on the federal government to make good on our human right to clean water by enacting a federal environmental bill of rights.

Canada’s environment and climate change minister has a mandate to “treat our freshwater as a precious resource that deserves protection and careful stewardship.” The government could take a big step toward accom-plishing this by recognizing our right to a healthy environment, including our right to clean water.

The government should also imple-ment legally binding national stan-dards for drinking water quality equal to or better than the highest standards in other industrialized nations, and set long-term targets and timelines to reduce water pollution. And it should fulfil our right to water by addressing the drinking water crisis in Indigenous communities and establishing a Cana-da Water Fund to foster the clean-wa-ter tech industry and create a robust national water quality and quantity monitoring system.

Committing to these actions would help ensure all Canadians have access to clean, safe water for generations to come.

On World Water Day, help protect the people and places you love by join-ing the Blue Dot movement.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcast-er, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with con-tributions from David Suzuki Founda-tion Blue Dot Communications Specialist Amy Juschka. Learn more at www.david-suzuki.org.

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For three seasons, The Americans, FX’s beautiful, ambitious drama about Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), deep-cover Soviet spies raising their children in the United States, has been the best show on television. It’s no mistake that it’s also one of the most ethically seri-ous shows airing anywhere in any me-dium, a series that’s not content with the easy cynicism that’s come to define prestige drama.

I’ve written in the past that The Americans is one of the more remark-able depictions of any religious faith anywhere in mass media, a series that managed to make Paige Jennings’ (Hol-ly Taylor) conversion to Christianity a radical act that set her on a collision course with her parents. The Ameri-cans has always been a morally pre-occupied show, comparing the Soviet Union and the United States without asserting a false equivalency and ex-amining the toll it exacts on individu-als who take it on themselves to carry out evil acts in service of what they believe to be a greater good. But if the third season of The Americans involved Paige getting saved, the fourth grap-ples with what it means to bear the weight of the sins you can’t extirpate.

For some characters, that burden is only beginning to dawn on them. In an early scene, Martha (Alison Wright), the FBI secretary who clandestinely married Clark, one of Philip’s aliases, learns that she’s been saved from the investigation into a pen recorder she planted in her boss’ office, but at a ter-rible price. Her face twists as she tries to comprehend what has happened, and what sort of person she has be-come.

After Paige revealed her parents’ secret to Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin) at the end of last season, she has to con-front the fact that living by the tenets of her new faith may have led her to harm her family. “I’m not a liar, Mom.

I told you that,” Paige protests at one point. “You put me in this position. You did this to me.”

This focus on sin might seem to cut against the cold, utilitarian calcula-tions of Soviet ideology. But it also ex-poses the inadequacies of the Ameri-can culture of self-help.

Philip goes back to EST in hopes it will help him deal with his pervasive guilt, both about his job and an inci-dent of violence from his youth, but the EST instructor can’t even begin to fath-om the depths of his torment.

Afterwards, former neighbor San-dra Beeman (Susan Misner) encourag-es Philip to accept the absolution he’s been granted, telling him “He’s not saying that if you forgive yourself, that means that you think beating a kid up is OK. He’s just saying that spending the energy pushing it away is what’s making you angry … You need more support.”

What neither of these Americans comprehend is the possibility that Philip’s guilt might not be out of pro-portion to his crimes. He is suffering, but that suffering, that refusal of ab-solution, is a great deal of what makes Philip a deeply sympathetic character. If he were a typical anti-hero, Philip’s lethal competence would be the thing that draws the audience to him in spite of ourselves. What makes The Amer-icans distinct is that Philip’s skills damn him.

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Wednesday, Gene Luen Yang ended his 10-issue run on writing the Man of Steel, as Superman’s 50th issue hits newsstands virtual and physical.

The writer and two-time National Book Award finalist (American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints) said that the experience of writing a monthly super-hero book was demanding, particular-ly because he comes from the world of graphic novels, yet indelibly fulfilled a longtime professional dream.

“It was really a challenge, but also a learning experience,” Yang said. “I didn’t go in on my own. I was a part of a team with editors and writers who are much more experienced with (Su-perman) than I was. That was huge. That was an incredible help.”

Yang — who wrote the superhero graphic novel The Shadow Hero as an extended project — emphasized that the quick pace of writing a monthly comic was a drastic change from the pace at which he can create his ac-claimed epics and other longer-form comics.

“It’s definitely more fast-paced than the graphic-novel world,” Yang said. “Monthly superhero comics run on this really crazy schedule. My graphic-nov-el stuff, I’ll finish the script, then I’ll do the art, and a year later it shows up on the shelf. With superhero comics, the turnaround is much quicker, and I have to say “hats off” to the editors for being able to juggle all of that.

“I’m surprised editors can last more than five years at their job, just be-cause things are so quick,” said Yang, laughing.

The speed at which Yang had to write his Superman scripts also pro-duced a beneficial effect.

“There’s a theory that creativity is a muscle that responds to constraints, and having the constraints of the monthly schedule I think does unleash a certain kind of creativity. It makes you think on your feet,” Yang said. “I think it makes your subconscious work a little harder. I’ve had times when I’ve been working on Superman where I’ll go to sleep thinking about a prob-lem, and when I wake up, a solution will be there.

“I really felt like, in terms of my creativity, it was definitely a workout.”

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Gene Luen Yang got a creative workout during his 10-issue run on Superman.

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Deal with the devil

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Deborah Ann Woll is braced for the dark fate that might await Karen Page, her character on Marvel/Net-flix’s “Daredevil.”

Woll did a deep-dive into Kar-en’s various comic-book storylines, and though some of those pages led her to brutal, even fatal places, she became convinced that there are endless possibilities for her role on “Daredevil,” which offers up its sec-ond season Friday.

“I definitely read (the comics), because at least in the beginning, I didn’t know how closely we’d be sticking to the comic-book stories,” Woll said. “It’s almost like she’s been different people at different points.

“In a way, it kind of freed us up, because there was nothing we were tied to,” Woll continued. “Karen could be anything because she has been everything. It was good to read it and know that we had opportunity and we had space.”

And so from page to screen, craft-ing their Karen Page became a team effort.

“I’m very happy so far with what the writers have come up with,” the Brooklyn-born actress said. “This Karen can really be mine, it can be ours, it can be (producers) Doug (Petrie) and Marco’s (Ramirez). It can be our own story.”

Season 2 finds Karen becoming more comfortable as a legal assistant to Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Hen-son). Their small office has fostered warm bonds — even a romantic one between Page and Cox’s lawyer/su-perhero. But Karen is haunted by the murder she committed last season. She had to take down a baddie to es-cape a no-win situation, and she’s yet to share the horrid experience with her two colleagues/friends, despite how close they’ve become.

Woll said that Karen’s secret is slowly taking its toll on the charac-ter.

“It is eating away at her. I think with the arrival of Frank Castle (the Punisher), who is essentially on a more conscious, intentional level do-ing what Karen did,” Woll said. “She gets her identity caught up in (vigi-lante) Frank Castle and what he rep-resents, and that may be dangerous.

“Foggy and Matt mean more to her

to anyone in the world, and I don’t know how you reveal the deepest, darkest, most shameful part of your-self to someone that you care that much about,” she continued. “You should, so that there is nothing be-tween you two, but you risk them leaving you forever. We see Karen and Matt get closer, but there’s al-ways going to be this distance be-cause she’s not being fully honest with him, and he’s not being fully honest with her.”

Honesty and deceit play out sig-nificantly in “Daredevil’s” new sea-son. Matt has yet to reveal to Karen that he is Daredevil — probably fear-ing that such knowledge would en-danger her. He also fails to mention when his sexy, martial-artist ex-girl-friend Elektra returns to Hell’s Kitchen.

Karen’s secret even begins tug-ging at her subconscious when she tries to defend the Punisher’s execu-tion-style methods to Matt.

Matt, despite being a masked vig-ilante, has one rule: no killing. So Karen’s strong opinions begin to af-fect a quickly blooming romance. Af-ter all, who suspected that if anyone was going to have the most in com-mon with the Punisher, it would be Karen.

“I think the writers hit on some-thing really interesting. In order for Matt to feel good about what he does, he has to believe that Frank Castle is

a vicious, murdering psychopath — he has to believe that in order to feel good about his decisions” as Dare-devil, said the 31-year-old USC the-ater grad.

Perhaps Matt can’t see a gray area with Frank. “But Karen can,” Woll said. “Because if Frank Castle is a monster, then maybe that means Karen is a monster. So she has to fight for him. So she has to say: ‘I may not like what you do, I may not agree with it, or maybe I do, but I understand it. I understand that just because you do something that I find distasteful, or despicable or even terrorism, you are a human being with motives. You are not just a mon-ster.’ “

Woll said that Matt and Karen’s debate over the Punisher is one of her favorite scenes in “Daredevil’s” second season, in part because she sees it as the first time that Karen re-alizes she’s siding with the Punisher.

“It suddenly just pops out of her mouth that she might think that (the Punisher’s) way works,” Woll said. “That his way is right, and then re-alize after the fact that that might be an awful thing to think. And then look at the person across from her who she loves, and who she wants to love her back and respect her more than anything, and see his disap-pointment. See that she has fallen in his esteem, and how heartbreaking that would be.”

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Things begin to heat up between Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) despite both keeping a secret from each other in ‘Daredevil’s’ second season on Netflix.

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BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

Food truck Thursdays and paid parking could be coming to Sylvan Lake.

Town council is considering bylaw changes to expand a mobile vending pilot project that was given a test drive last summer and was called a success in a follow-up review by staff.

Among ideas to improve the initia-tive was to close off a portion of 50A Avenue to create a food truck plaza ev-ery Thursday. The former hotel site at Lakeshore Drive at 50th Street would also be turned into a mobile vending draw by taking down fencing and open-ing the area up.

Also being considered is a move to reduce the number of vendor sites in Centennial Park to concentrate them in fewer areas.

“This year, we’re promoting the density of vendors,” said town com-munication officer Joanne Gaudet. An art vendor plaza near the beach is also being created as an overall effort to create visitor-drawing attractions.

In response to feedback, council is also considering reducing mobile vending permit fees and allowing monthly or seasonal permits.

Council approved first reading to the necessary bylaw changes on Mon-day and the issue will go to a public hearing on March 29 before second and third readings.

The town is also looking at intro-ducing paid parking for visitors in the lakeshore area. The goal is to create more turnover among choice spots and to generate revenue to maintain the

park and enforce bylaws.Paid parking would be in place

from May 15 to September 15, along Lakeshore Drive, Centennial Street and Centennial Park parking lot as well as several other streets close to the beach. Residents will park for free everywhere and assigned two spots on their street with two more windshield permits available at an extra cost.

Gaudet said the changes would not come into effect until next year and council is keen on hearing from the public and local businesses be-fore making a decision. A public open house to discuss the proposal is set for March 30 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the town hall.

Allowing mobile vending did not sit well with some local businesses when first introduced and Nomads owner Mark Pritchard remains opposed to commercializing the park.

“I really hope they pull (mobile vending) out of the park,” he said.

Pritchard said the introduction of vendors noticeably reduced foot traffic to his store at a prime Lakeshore Drive location next to the Big Moo Ice Cream Parlour run by his father.

“I felt the effect last summer,” he said, adding mobile vending allows “cherry picking” choice locations by business owners without the overhead of a bricks-and-mortar presence.

The paddle board rental side of his business declined 80 per cent when a pair of competitors began renting on the beach.

As far as paid parking, he sees it as another unnecessary cost foisted on visitors that will do little to generate more business.

The town could just as easily im-

prove parking turnover by putting time limits, such as four hours, on prime spots.

A local businessman, who owns a number of Lakeshore Drive buildings, said that it’s encouraging the town is trying to give its downtown a boost but

doubts paid parking will help much.Dropping the mobile vending per-

mit prices will be “pretty annoying” considering the amount landowners, merchants and restaurant owners pay in property taxes and other expenses, he said.

MOBILE VENDING REGULATIONS RELAXEDSYLVAN LAKE

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Mark Pritchard of the Nomads and Big Moo stores in Sylvan Lake sits outside his store on Wednesday afternoon.

Derek, what should I do with my tax return?

After filing your taxes, you may discover that you are expecting mon-ey back from the government in the next few weeks. The anticipation of this new found money often leads to daydreaming about what one could do with the extra cash. While there is temptation to spend it as quickly as it comes in, it may be best to consider what could move you further ahead financially.

In the case of where you made a contribution to your RRSP, it is im-portant to understand that the tax will eventually need to be paid again. The reality is that at some point, the money in your RRSP will be withdrawn as taxable income. With a little planning and foresight, the RRSP funds will be withdrawn at a lower tax rate. That said, there will likely be tax owing on the money you withdraw. The point being therefore is the refund you’re getting today may have to be repaid to some degree in the future.

Many investors relish the op-

portunity of getting a refund because they use the funds to invest back into their RRSP or Tax-Free Savings Ac-count (TFSA). If the money goes back into an RRSP you’ll get another tax-slip and possibly a refund for the next year – this strategy could carry on for many years. In the case of the TFSA, you won’t get a tax-slip, but all the in-terest will accumulate tax free. The point being, investing your refund is a prudent and wise decision. However, how you invest the refund is an entire-ly different topic and in either case, it’s best to discuss your choices with a qualified advisor.

Another consideration is to use your tax refund to pay down debt. If you have a mountain of credit card debt and loans you may want to use

this unexpected windfall to help get your finances under control.

The real strategy would be to pay down this debt and commit to making sure it doesn’t get back to the same level. Perhaps plan out your expenses, create a budget, and stick to it.

This refund may be a start to chang-ing your habits.

Some investors use their refunds to help save for their kids’ education. The RESP (Registered Education Sav-ings Plan) can be a great tool for this. Depending on the age of the children you may even be able to get some grant money added to the plan from the gov-ernment.

In short, this strategy uses money you’re getting back from the govern-ment and in turn gets you even more money from the government.

Easing the financial burden of edu-cation may be a wonderful gift to your children.

To understand the RESP further, please contact a qualified advisor.

As a wealth advisor I lean towards saving your tax refund, but the realist

in me also understands that we should all treat ourselves from time to time. I

f your financial house is in order, perhaps it’s time to use that refund to create a special memory for you and your family.

While indeed there may be more sound financial decisions, enjoying the fruits of one’s labour can be rewarding on many levels – after all, memories can be more valuable than money in the bank.

Before running off to the travel agent or car dealership with your re-fund cheque in hand, take some time to understand your options.

Perhaps there is a way that this money can work even harder for you based on some long-term decisions made today.

Happy investing.Derek Fuchs is a Senior Wealth Advi-

sor with Scotia Wealth Management in Red Deer and holds the designations of Chartered Investment Manager, Certified Financial Planner, Financial Manage-ment Advisor, and is a Fellow of the Ca-nadian Securities Institute.

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DEREK FUCHS

A tax return offers many financial options


OTTAWA — With its maiden bud-get just days away, the new Liberal government is facing pressure to ex-pand how much Canadians can spend on products shipped or mailed from abroad without paying duty.

Last week, a U.S. senator urged at least one Trudeau cabinet minister in Washington to bump up Canada’s duty-exemption limit from its current level of $20, a business source told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

The Liberals’ election victory last fall — and next Tuesday’s release of its first budget — have led to a re-newed push on the issue by American officials and industry.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen raised the subject directly with Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains while he was in Washington as part of the delegation that accompanied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his official visit, said the source who was not authorized to discuss the mat-ter publicly.

The source added that the sub-ject was brought up again “in a big way” Tuesday in the American capital during a Canada-U.S. interparliamen-tary meeting.

In addition to the lobbying efforts in Washington, eBay Canada released new numbers on the issue Wednesday

to The Canadian Press. The figures suggest that increasing the duty-free exemption limit would benefit Can-ada’s small- and medium-sized busi-nesses, consumers, as well as Ottawa’s bottom line.

For exam-ple, on goods v a l u e d b e -tween $20 and $80, the feder-al government spends roughly $160 million to collect only about $40 mil-lion in reve-nue, said eBay Canada man-aging director Andrea Stairs.

The com-pany, which hired law firm Sidley Austin to run the economic models, is hoping Ottawa will raise the limit — also referred to as the de minimis threshold — next week.

“Certainly, I would love to see it in budget 2016,” Stairs said in an inter-view Wednesday. “I think that this gov-ernment is looking to lean into parts of the economy that are working well and trade by small and medium businesses is certainly a bright spot.”

Stairs said eBay has been working internationally on de minimis issues

and helped encourage the U.S. gov-ernment to raise its threshold. Last month, U.S. President Barack Obama signed a bill that quadrupled the American duty-free exemption limit to US$800 — now more than 40 times the Canadian level. For Canada, she said the numbers show that lifting the limit would help consumers and businesses save cash on duties, taxes and broker-age fees. The figures, to be released in a full report later this year, also exam-ine the impacts of hiking the threshold to $80, $100 and $200.

“It’s one of a few changes that the government could make that is actual-ly a win-win-win,” Stairs said.

In the lead-up to the budget, the Liberal government is also hearing op-position to any such changes.

Karl Littler, a vice-president for the Retail Council of Canada, said increas-ing the limit would put Canadian busi-nesses at a tax disadvantage between five and 15 per cent in favour of for-eign competitors, such as American companies.

“That makes it exceedingly diffi-cult for Canadian entities to compete,” said Littler, who noted that retail em-ploys more Canadians than any indus-try. Right now it’s a lobby driven by some fairly large entities that would like to sell more goods from outside into Canada or would like to get paid to be the freight carriers.”

Littler considers the de minimis is-sue a top concern for the Retail Coun-cil and it featured prominently in the group’s pre-budget submission to the government.

Duty-free dilemma OTTAWA FACES RENEWED CALLS TO LET CANADIANS SPEND MORE WITHOUT PAYING DUTY

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MEDICINE HAT — Trican Well Ser-

vices has announced it’s cutting about

100 jobs in southeastern Alberta.

Employees at the company’s Red-

cliff base near Medicine Hat were told

today that the company was scaling

back operations in the area.

Rob Cox, Canadian region vice-pres-

ident, says while a core group will still

be based out of Redcliff, there will no

longer be trucks conducting field oper-

ations from the office.

Cox says he wishes things could be

different, especially as it affects good

people.

Two weeks ago, another area com-

pany, Calfrac put 500 people out of

work.

The Canadian Association of Oil-

well Drilling Contractors has estimat-

ed that 100,000 industry jobs have been

lost since the downturn took hold.

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CALGARY — One of the world’s largest supplies of shale natural gas is sitting beneath an area spanning the British Columbia, Yukon and North-west Territories boundaries, according to a new study.

But with dismal commodity prices and no immediate way to export the gas to global markets, the prospect of a development bonanza in the Liard Basin is far from certain.

The study was a joint effort by the National Energy Board, the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, the Yukon Geo-

logical Survey, the Northwest Territo-ries Geological Survey and the British Columbia Ministry of Natural Gas De-velopment.

The NEB said Wednesday that the Liard is Canada’s second-largest known gas resource after the Mont-ney, which straddles B.C. and Alberta. Globally, it ranks ninth, according to the federal energy regulator.

It’s estimated to contain 219 trillion cubic feet of marketable natural gas — enough to meet all of Canada’s de-mand for 68 years at 2014 consumption rates.

Mike Johnson, technical leader of hydrocarbon resources at the NEB,

said it was the first detailed look at the Liard and he was taken aback by its size.

“We expected big,” he said. “It was bigger than we thought it was going to be.”

The bulk of the Liard marketable resource — 167 trillion cubic feet — is in British Columbia, with 44 tcf in the Northwest Territories and eight tcf in the Yukon segment.

“This report shows our long-term prospects are stronger than before and that the Liard Basin can create eco-nomic activity and jobs in our prov-ince for a very long time to come,” said Rich Coleman, B.C.’s natural gas devel-

opment minister.There are already pipelines in the

region, but links would need to be built to connect that gas to its logical outlets: liquefied natural gas terminals planned for Prince Rupert or Kitimat, B.C., which would enable exports to Asia. However, it’s unclear whether the companies behind those export proposals — whose price tags can run into the tens of billions of dollars — will ultimately decide to go ahead.

Chevron Canada and Australia’s Woodside Petroleum have teamed on a project to develop gas, mostly from the Liard Basin, and liquefy it at a termi-nal planned for the Kitimat area.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.16ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.30BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.40BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.43Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.150Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.67Cdn. National Railway . . 79.95Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 167.00Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.42Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.90Cervus Equipment Corp 12.56Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.66Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.31Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 19.01Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.20General Motors Co. . . . . 31.69Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.45Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.77SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.89Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.47Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.87Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.85Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 48.15

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.55Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.13Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.25Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 72.95

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.80Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.69Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.99WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 19.99

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.93Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.04First Quantum Minerals . . 8.47Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.30Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.73Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.15Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.44Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 24.25Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.86

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 18.86Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.10Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.90Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.93Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 19.47Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.22Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 10.08Canyon Services Group. . 3.77Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.63CWC Well Services . . . 0.1650Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 7.94Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.670

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 82.87Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 35.47High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.45Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.21Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 45.27Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.300Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.260Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.95Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.12Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.510Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 1.72Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.62Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.46Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.43CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.12Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.50Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.45IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.09Intact Financial Corp. . . . 87.75Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.44National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.06Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.330Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 74.62Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.37TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.42

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MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — A dovish

tone in the latest statement from the U.S. Federal Re-serve sent Toronto and New York stock markets higher Wednesday, as the central bank decided to hold its key interest rate unchanged amid an uncertain global economy.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 77.82 points to 13,478.13, aided by ris-ing energy, metal and gold stocks.

The loonie spiked against a weakening greenback, gaining 1.37 U.S. cents to 76.21 cents US.

In a statement after its two-day policy meeting, the Fed said the U.S. economy has shown signs of moder-ate growth but that it is still concerned about global eco-nomic risk. As a result, Fed officials now expect to raise interest rates two times this year instead of four. Most economists don’t expect the first hike to occur until at least June. On Wall Street, investors seemed to be re-assured by the Fed’s dovish comments regarding grad-ual, moderate rate increas-es. The Dow Jones indus-trial average was up 74.23 points at 17,325.76, while the broader S&P 500 composite index advanced 11.29 points to 2,027.22 and the Nas-daq composite gained 35.30 points to 4,763.97.

Since raising its key rate from a record low in Decem-ber, the Fed has held off on raising rates again.In a nod to the financial market tur-bulence that hit in the begin-ning of the year over con-cerns about falling oil prices and weakness in China, the Fed statement said: “Global economic and financial de-velopments continue to pose risks.”

It noted that inflation has “picked up in recent months”

but remained below the Fed’s desired two per cent target.

Craig Jerusalim, a port-folio manager at CIBC As-set Management, says the risk with resuming rate hikes too quickly is that it will slow growth in the U.S., which can eventually lead to a global recession. Alternatively, the risks with waiting too long is that inflation can ramp up more quickly than people ex-pect.

“It sure does help stock markets,” he said. “Compa-nies are able to borrow mon-ey and invest in their busi-nesses, make acquisitions, buy back shares, all which are stimulative for stock pric-es. There’s also the alterna-tive factor. If you’re not being paid to save money, you’re going to go out and invest.”

On commodity markets, the April gold contract closed $1.20 lower at US$1,229.80 a troy ounce, but after-mar-ket trading saw bull ion soar as much as US$33 an ounce. Meanwhile, May copper was unchanged at US$2.23 a pound. The April crude contract climbed $2.12 to US$38.46 a barrel and April natural gas added two cents to US$1.87 per mmB-tu. Commodities, which are priced in U.S. dollars, are typically seen as more attrac-tive to holders of other cur-rencies when the American dollar falls in value.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close

Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite In-

dex — 13,478.13, up 77.82 points

Dow — 17,325.76, up 74.23 points

S&P 500 — 2,027.22, up 11.29 points

Nasdaq — 4,763.97, up

35.30 pointsCurrencies:Cdn — 76.21 cents US,

up 1.37 centsPound — C$1.8727,

down 1.80 centsEuro — C$1.4737, down

1.04 centsEuro — US$1.1231, up

1.24 centsOil futures:US$38.46 per barrel, up

$2.12(April contract)G o l d f u t u r e s :

US$1,229.80 per oz., down $1.20

(April contract)Canadian Fine Silver

Handy and Harman:$21.276 oz., down 6.2

cents$684.02 kg., down $2.00

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Fu-

tures Canada closing prices:Canola: May ‘16 $2.90

higher $470.20 July ‘16 $4.80 higher $473.70 Nov. ‘16 $5.10 higher $475.80 Jan. ‘17 $4.60 h igher $478.80 March ‘17 $4.60 higher $481.30 May ‘17 $4.60 higher $480.60 Ju-ly ‘17 $4.60 higher $480.60 Nov. ‘17 $4.60 higher $474.20 Jan. ‘18 $4.60 high-er $474.20 March ‘18 $4.60 higher $474.20 May ‘18 $4.60 higher $474.20.

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

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 394,980 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). To-tal: 394,980.

FILE PHOTO by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A customer douses her french fries with ketchup at the Saco Drive-In in Saco, Maine. A leaked internal memo sent to some Loblaw employees said the grocery chain decided to stop stocking French’s ketchup because it was “cannibalizing” sales of its in-house President’s Choice variety.

Seeing redBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

A leaked internal memo sent to some Loblaw employees said the gro-cery chain decided to stop stocking French’s ketchup because it was “can-nibalizing” sales of its in-house Presi-dent’s Choice variety.

Loblaw confirmed the memo’s exis-tence but said it wasn’t an official one.

The memo addressed to grocery managers and retailers said it intended to explain why French’s ketchup was being pulled from store shelves.

“We are in the process of delisting French’s ketchup because it is canni-balizing the sales of PC ketchup and has had little impact to Heinz ketchup,” reads the memo.

The Canadian Press obtained a pho-to of the memo from someone who says they are a Loblaw employee.

The employee, who wished to re-main anonymous due to fears of work-place reprisal, identified the sender of the memo as a senior director at the company.

Loblaw, however, described the sender as a mid-level employee who is a member of the company’s operations team for a group of stores.

“The memo was unofficial, misin-formed and sent by a staff member prior to (Tuesday’s) decision to re-stock French’s ketchup,” Kevin Groh, vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, said Wednesday in a

statement.“Customer preference was the single

reason the product was removed from our shelves, and the single reason it is back.”

Loblaw announced Tuesday it was reversing its decision to discontinue selling French’s ketchup following so-cial media outcry.

French’s ketchup became an In-ternet darling after a man’s Facebook post lauded the U.S.-based company for using 100 per cent Canadian-grown tomatoes. Other Canadians answered the call to support local farmers and demand for French’s increased. People shared stories of their local grocers be-ing unable to keep French’s ketchup in stock due to high demand.

The memo indicates Loblaw was concerned about French’s ketchup eating into its President’s Choice prof-its, but Groh reiterated his company’s position that French’s ketchup simply wasn’t selling.

“In past, French’s ketchup has not come close to matching the sales of the other brands — even when discount-ed,” Groh said.

The leaked memo also says that social media buzz didn’t necessarily translate to actual sales.

But the memo does take issue with the notion that French’s ketchup is a Canadian-made product.

It says French’s ketchup contains Canadian-grown tomatoes, but it is made in the U.S.

FRENCH’S KETCHUP WAS ‘CANNIBALIZING’ SALES OF PC BRAND, LOBLAW MEMO SAYS

Report: huge gas resource in B.C., Yukon and NWT

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Brent (Nev) NEVILLEOct. 5, 1984 - Mar. 17, 2006

It’s been 10 years since Brent’s life and future was stolen. Every day in some small way memories of Brent come our way. Though absent, Brent, you are always near, still missed, loved and forever dear. A part of us died with Brent on that dark Friday morning. Our hearts will bleed forever. On March 17th, 2006 (his Mom’s birthday) Brent was killed by an impaired driver in Calgary. Brent was 21. Brent’s death put our family into a spiral of grief that countless

other victims’ families can relate to. For all the families suffering the loss of someone you love, you don’t get over it; you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t “get better”; it just gets different. For those who understand, No explanation is needed, for those who do not understand, No explanation is possible. For those who knew Brent “Take a Moment” to refl ect on his memory and who he might be today. In time we found the strength to put one foot in front of the other and keep going forward knowing that we will one day meet again and always “Keep the Faith”!The Neville family has created a registered charity for Brent to keep his memory alive and to make sure his short life is not in vain. Nev Foundation has a “NEV SUITE” to honour Brent at the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, Brent’s charity supports MADD Canada programs and Educational Scholarships. www.nevfoundation.com.

Mom, Dad, Shelley, Ryan, extended family & friends.

KENNEDYSandyApr. 21, 1960 - Mar. 7, 2016Sandy Kennedy passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on Monday, March 7, 2016 with loved ones by her side. She is survived by her two sons; Tyler and Brandon Kennedy, mother, Lily Wilkie, aunt and uncle; Ester and Gary Jason, as well as many other loved family members. Sandy spent the last few years living life to the fullest possible and making many great memories with friends and family. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, March 18, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Sandy’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6 or to the Canadian Cancer Society, 101-6751 52 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4K8. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted toEVENTIDE FUNERAL

CHAPEL4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

WEBSTERVance AlfredFeb. 27, 1963 - Mar. 14, 2016Vance passed away suddenly at the Red Deer Hospital on March 14, 2016. Vance is survived by his beloved wife, Alana; his children, Kayla, Paige and Cody; granddaughter, Addison Webster; mother, Eleanor Webster; sister, Gwen DeMaere (John Kroesch); brothers, Derek (Diane) and David (Cheryl); stepchildren, Autumn Reiter and Chad Oakman; step-granddaughter, Brooklynne Reiter; as well as his nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his father, Gordon Webster in 1984. Vance attended his school years in Claresholm, Alberta. Upon graduating, he joined the Canadian Navy and served for 14 years. Vance enjoyed fi shing and darts, as well as spending time with his family and dogs. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 19 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made directly to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com

Arrangements entrusted toRED DEER FUNERAL

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Obituaries

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

http://tinyurl.com/hlxtzccA celebration of his life will be held on March 19, 2016 at:

The Enjoy Centre101 Riel Drive

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

from 1 to 4 p.m.

TARVESBlair 1925 - 2016Mr. Blair Dalton Wesley Tarves of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at his home on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the age of 90 years. Blair was born on July 24, 1925 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He has been a long time resident of the Michener Centre and will be dearly missed by his caregivers and many friends. Cremation entrusted to the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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again someday. From Joni, Grant and Murray

In Memoriam

George (Buster) HousemanMarch 17, 2009

Marguerite HousemanMarch 22, 2014

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Scientists warning Arctic sea ice approaching record

low winter maximumBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Scientists warn that the area covered by this winter’s Arctic sea ice could turn out to be the lowest ever measured.

The news comes on top of a long season of freakishly warm weather at the top of the planet, including above-freezing days at the North Pole and a months-long string of temperature records.

“The winter, overall, has been extremely warm in the Arctic,” said Ted Scambos, a glaci-ologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.

Scambos said the ice season still has a week or so to go and a sudden frosty surge could bring ice levels above the previous record low, set last year.

“It would not be surprising at all to have a late growth.”

But most years, the sea ice maximum has al-ready been reached by this point.

“(Sea ice) has been quite low,” Scambos said. “Most of the days in February were records for that day.”

Sea ice extent is now slightly under the pre-vious satellite-era record low maximum of 14.54 million square kilometres. Most of the ice loss has occurred north of Siberia.

Canadian waters such as Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea are about average or slightly above it for sea ice. The Gulf of St. Lawrence, which is included in the centre’s estimations, is largely ice-free.

Arctic sea ice is a crucial part of the northern ecosystem, relied on by organisms from algae to polar bears.

But it’s also a significant factor on weather for the rest of the planet. An ice-free Arctic has al-ready been linked by some studies to multi-day rains or storms in more southerly latitudes.

And so far, there’s been less of it around this

winter than ever before.February’s average ice cover was the lowest

since satellite records began. So was January’s.And the nine months between May 2015 and

January 2016 saw the highest values for average global temperatures ever seen. January’s tem-perature was above normal by the highest mar-gin of any month on record.

“Right at the turn of the year there was a very unusual warm event in which you had these at-mospheric rivers that basically piped warm air from the Azores right to the Barents and Kara Sea and even to the North Pole, where you had above-freezing conditions for a day or so,” Scam-bos said.

“Even a station near the North Pole briefly recorded above-zero conditions, which are very unusual, if not unprecedented.”

Although an unusually strong El Nino created warm winters in many areas this year, Scambos said that weather system didn’t have much to do with the balmy Arctic.

“If there’s a relationship, it’s fairly tenuous,” Scambos said.

“Past El Ninos have not had this kind of an impact on the Arctic. The fact we’re surpassing the record by fairly significant amounts in Jan-uary and February has to do with the profound Arctic warming that we’re seeing in addition to the El Nino pattern.”

It’s not clear, however, what impact the low winter coverage will have on the coming sum-mer. Low winter maximums are always followed by equally low summer minimums and much de-pends on what happens in June, said Scambos.

Arctic sea ice has been declining at the rate of about 12 per cent per decade since satellite monitoring began in the late 1970s.

The Arctic has been warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe and is now about four degrees warmer than it was before climate change.


This 2014 photo provided by NOAA shows the Arctic ice coverage. Vanishing sea ice is creating a whole new Arctic for both people and places. Scientists are warning that this winter’s Arctic sea ice could turn out to be the lowest area ever measured.

Study raises concerns over pesticide effects on ability of bumblebees to learn


OTTAWA — A new study co-authored by a Canadian scientist is raising serious concerns about the impact on bumblebees of exposure to pesticides.

The study, published in Functional Ecology, found that even low exposure to pesticides can hinder the ability of bumblebees to learn the skills they need to collect nectar and pollen.

While several studies have been conducted on the effects of pesticides on the honeybee population, the findings released today are the first to explore how the chemicals may affect the

ability of bumblebees to forage from common wildflowers.

University of Guelph professor and senior author Nigel Raine says if exposure to low levels of pesticide affects their learning function, bees may struggle to collect food.

That could impair their ability to pollinate both crops and wild plants, which can ultimately harm the food supply.

The new study, co-authored by Dara Stanley at Royal Holloway University in London, found that, while bumblebees exposed to pesticides in the open collected more pollen than control bees, control bees were able to learn to extract nectar from complex flowers after fewer visits.

Gunmen kill colleague of slain Honduran environmentalist

Unidentified gunmen killed a colleague of environmentalist leader Berta Caceres, who was slain almost two weeks ago in similar circum-stances, Honduran authorities said Wednesday.

Two men shot Nelson Garcia to death Tues-day after he returned home from helping evicted Indians move their belongings. Police had re-moved the Indians from land they were squat-ting on not far from Garcia’s home in the hamlet of Rio Chiquito, 120 miles (200 kilometres) north of Tegucigalpa.

A police statement called the killing an “iso-lated” act of violence unrelated to the slaying of Caceres. But the organization that both Caceres

and Garcia belonged to described Garcia’s death as part of “the government’s constant harass-ment” of Indian groups. Both activists were Len-ca Indians and belonged to the Indian Council of People’s Organizations of Honduras.

The council said in a statement that “repres-sion, intimidation and threats against colleagues who are fighting to recover lands to plant and preserve nature have worsened in recent days.”

There are about 400,000 Lencas in Honduras and neighbouring El Salvador.

Caceres won the 2015 Goldman Environmen-tal Prize for her role in fighting a dam project on a river that the Lencas consider sacred.

The Dutch development bank, known as FMO, announced Wednesday that it is suspending its operations in Honduras because of the killings. The bank finances about $86 million worth of projects in Honduras.

“Given the current situation, with ongoing violence, FMO decided to suspend all activities in Honduras, effective immediately,” the bank wrote in a statement.

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Thursday March 17CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon is in Cancer so some people will be extra moody today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are ex-pressive and enthusiastic. The next 12 months is the time to take on a personal project that stretches your Piscean tal-ents in exciting new directions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re in a contrary mood and, if you’re not careful, you’ll just stir things up and court controversy. Instead, put energy into nur-turing your body with healthy food and a fun form of exercise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re keen to communicate with like-minded people in your local community. You have many Taurean talents to offer, but don’t accept information at face value. Take the time to check the facts first.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Moon’s in Cancer and you have much to learn from your zodiac neighbour. Like not being afraid to get in touch with your

feelings, or of showing the world your caring and sharing side.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do you feel as if you’re being manipulated or misunderstood? Power plays and guilt trips will get you nowhere. If you have concerns, then muster the courage to speak up in a direct and honest way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many Lions are feeling somewhat listless - there is so much going on in your life at the mo-ment!

So put aside some special solo time to slow down, calm down, re-charge your batteries and regenerate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you surround yourself with family and friends who support your goals and encourage your dreams? Steer clear of negative thinkers today. Make sure the people around you are a positive influence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Family issues take centre stage today Libra, as you struggle to navigate your way through a domestic minefield.

Aim to be handle problems in a proac-tive and extra compassionate way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Trying to manipulate loved ones and control outcomes will just cause problems today. So smart Scorpios will swap sulking, sar-casm and temper tantrums for clever cooperation and cool compromise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians are in the mood to mix and mingle to the max, as the stars jump-start your sociable side.

But you will need to be extra under-standing with a troubled child, teenager or close friend.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ex-

pect conflict between personal, profes-sional and relationship responsibilities today. Creative projects and further ed-ucation are favoured, as you strive to be the best Capricorn you can be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may surprise others with your unpredict-able antics today.

You long for unusual and exciting experiences and, if you cant find them elsewhere, you’ll create them within your local environment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid making unpredictable money moves to-day Pisces. If a friend or family member offers you financial advice, then don’t listen. You need nothing less than pro-fessional guidance at the moment.

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Dear Annie: My ex-daughter-in-law’s brother would have been sleeping on the streets for the past two years if it weren’t for my husband. He’s been paying rent for “Gary,” who has not received any help from the other mem-bers of the family.

Gary has been unemployed for five years. He was living with my ex-daughter-in-law, her boyfriend and my granddaughter in the basement of their home. But when my ex-daughter-in-law broke up with her boyfriend, she moved into an apartment where Gary could not follow because he is a registered sex offender. This also makes it harder for him to find a job. I don’t know the whole story, but some of it sounds like his ex-wife was look-ing for revenge.

My husband has driven Gary to ma-ny job interviews and has sought help from local agencies, with no luck. We have exhausted all avenues. At the moment, Gary collects cans for recy-cling and does odd jobs when they are available, but it’s not enough to pay

rent, so he uses the money for grocer-ies.

My husband is retired and I am re-tiring at the end of the year. We cannot afford to keep paying Gary’s rent, but we also don’t want to abandon him. Do you know of any agencies that can help find him an affordable place to live? — Worried in Illinois

Dear Worried: It is difficult for ex-of-fenders of any kind to find employ-ment, which then creates difficulty with living situations and increases the risk of recidivism. Sex offenders also have restrictions on where they can live, so this makes things doubly hard. You and your husband seem like caring and compassionate people. Here are a few resources that we hope

can help:National HIRE Network (hirenet-

work.org) offers referrals to local re-sources for ex-offenders; Sex Offender Resource (sexoffenderresource.com) can steer you toward local state re-sources; Re-Entry Illinois (reentryilli-nois.net) might help with housing; and sexoffenderjobs.com is a blog that pro-vides various suggestions, as well as offering emotional support.

Dear Annie: I feel compelled to give a different perspective about the let-ter from “Married to a Kvetch,” who said her husband complains constantly about various aches and pains. You were right to recommend that he see his doctor.

In my late 40s, I began experienc-ing transient pain. Every day, the pain was in different places with different intensities. Several years later, I re-quested a test for rheumatoid arthritis, because there was a family history of the disease. The test came back nega-tive.

I thought I was going crazy, and peo-

ple assumed I was some kind of hypo-chondriac. Nobody could be in this much undiagnosed pain. Guess again. I changed insurance companies and needed another complete physical. At age 50, I had a positive test with full-blown RA. — Damage Done

Dear Damage: So sorry it took so long for you to get the correct diagno-sis, but it proves we are all our best medical advocates.

Annie’s Snippet for St. Patrick’s Day:

May the Irish hills caress you.May her lakes and rivers bless you.May the luck of the Irish enfold you.May the blessings of St. Patrick be-

hold you.Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy

Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

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The European Starling first brought to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts in the nineteenth century, European Starlings are now among the continent’s most numerous songbirds.

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London base jumper leaps safely off EU’s tallest

buildingLONDON — Witnesses say a base

jumper has safely parachuted from the European Union’s tallest building, the Shard in London, and evaded police by jumping on the subway.

Passers-by captured the stunt on so-cial media Saturday.

Video footage and photographs showed the man with green chute de-ployed floating from the Shard onto a street near the London Bridge station.

They say the unidentified man fold-ed his chute, handed it to an accom-plice, and ran into the station minutes before police arrived.

It’s the first documented base jump since the 2012 completion of the Shard, a spire-shaped skyscraper that stands 95 stories and 1,016 feet (310 metres) high.

Base jumpers did film themselves leaping from the structure when it was still under construction.

The finished building has no exter-nal rooftop viewing platform.

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