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A chronic shortage of court resourc-es in Red Deer has come under fire after a stay of proceedings was granted for a Sylvan Lake accountant accused of embezzling his former employer.

“It’s an emergency situation, because you can’t just have crim-inal charges, especially the serious charges, just getting thrown out be-cause of delays,” Calgary-based de-fence counsel Paul Gracia said after the proceedings against his client

were stayed because it took so long to schedule his trial.

Sean Keith Brouillette, 45, was charged on Sept. 23, 2013 with theft and fraud. Sylvan Lake RCMP alleged that he stole roughly $71,000 from his former employer, Red Flame In-dustries. Brouillette was committed to stand trial on Oct. 29, 2014 and ar-raigned in the Court of Queen’s bench on Dec. 1 of the same year. His trial was set for April 11-15 of this year.

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École Notre Dame High School Grade 12 student Nathan MacQuarrie makes short work of cutting through a piece of wood as Notre Dame teach Francois Piche hangs on tight. MacQuarrie let the saw dust fly as he cut through the 2x4 in 3.2 seconds during the lumberjack competition on Tuesday. Over the noon hour the French immersion students hosted a Cabane à Sucre event at the school which included live music from the student band Second to Spare, a tug-o-war event, and tire d’érable or maple taffy poured over ice.

Bully who terrorized

neighbours fined $500

A Red Deer man described as a “terror” to his neighbourhood, and who has tied up enforcement re-sources and multiple City of Red Deer departments, has been con-victed of bullying.

In a case that the Crown prosecu-tor admitted was very unique, Rob-ert Charlton, a senior citizen who lives at 3 Scott St. in Sunnybrook, appeared alone in court this week to defend himself during a trial.

A group of about 20 other people who live in the neighbourhood also attended, hoping for a conviction and filling up most of one-half of the

small courtroom.Charlton, a tall man who uses

a large wooden cane to walk, was charged under the bullying section of the city’s Community Standards Bylaw on Nov. 23, 2015. On Monday he was fined $500 by justice of the peace Stafford Gorsalitz.

The case was held in Red Deer traffic court, which deals with nu-merous laws, including City of Red Deer bylaws.

The actual conviction was based on him “yelling and screaming” at two children riding bicycles in front of his house, but neighbours out-lined many other concerns.

BY MARY-ANN BARRADVOCATE STAFF

ROBERT CHARLTON CHARGED UNDER COMMUNITY STANDARDS BYLAW FOR BEHAVIOUR

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Teacher resigns forhumiliating students

A Lindsay Thurber teacher who scrawled reminders on students fac-es and forced them to stand on desks has resigned after pleading guilty to charges of unprofessional conduct.

French immersion teacher Lou-is-Georges Pelletier pleaded guilty to one count of failing to treat students with respect and dignity, and one count of failing to maintain the honour of the profession at an Alberta Teach-ers’ Association disciplinary hearing on Monday.

Pelletier, a long-time teacher, taught most of his career at the dis-trict. Few details were given about Pelletier’s career and tenure at this time at Red Deer Public Schools.

The district said complaints about Pelletier’s teaching methods surfaced in February 2015.

A month later, a professional con-duct complaint was filed to the Alber-ta Teachers Association launching a formal investigation. No specific num-

bers were given on the volume of com-plaints. A hearing convened on Mon-day and is expected to wrap up today or tomorrow.

Through an agreed statement of facts, a professional committee in Ed-monton heard that students dreaded going to Pelletier’s class because they were belittled and humiliated.

Students wrote in their statements that, “if they pronounced a French word incorrectly, Pelletier would make them read sentences over and over in front of the class until he was satisfied,” according to media reports.

Other students reported that one boy was made to stand on his desk be-cause he was too short to be heard by Pelletier. Pelletier wrote the French word for Friday, “vendredi,” on his forehead in marker as a reminder of a deadline.

Complaints about his teaching methods, however, stemmed back to 1994, according to media reports.

Theft, fraud charges stayed due to court delays

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Less government funding for sober and support-ed, affordable housing means Safe Harbour Society will have to evict six people on July 1.

Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing says it’s short $50,000 after the city re-duced provincial funding the society receives to help end homelessness. As a result, the society is being forced to close one of its four houses and reduce the number of tenants to 15 from 21.

Kath Hoffman, Safe Harbour’s executive director, said it’s not about how the city divided the provincial funding among community agencies, but the fact that more money is needed to end homelessness.

“We want to provide the service we’ve been pro-viding successfully for the last 15 years. We want to keep doing what we’re doing. We have lots of people who need us to keep doing what we’re doing,” Hoff-man said on Tuesday.

Instead of helping to end homelessness, Safe Har-bour had to send out eviction notices, she said.

The society’s supported housing program pro-vides a sober environment in affordable housing for people who aren’t quite strong enough.

“They don’t feel quite sturdy enough to be on their own. They want some accountability. They want the staff to support them and the facilitator in the house to help stabilize them,” Hoffman said.

The funding cut also means clients who move out on their own won’t have access to supported housing staff who have been available to them for up to a year in the community.

Tamara Oakes, shelter triage/Safe Harbour Soci-ety housing worker, said clients feel safe in the sup-ported housing.

“They can stay as long as they want. They’re not given a time frame to leave. It’s when they want and when they’re ready. And they have that support after to help them transition into the community on their own,” Oakes said.

The longest a client has lived at a house is five years and the shortest is about one year.

Staff help clients with whatever they need like working on goal planning, developing life skills, ac-cessing resources or detox. Developing a good rela-tionship with staff is also important.

“It takes a lot for our guys to build up trust in us, to be able to depend on us, and trust us that we’re

there to work with them,” said Tina Scott, housing support worker.

Scott said there’s been many success stories and feared for those who are evicted.

“Lots of our guys aren’t at a spot where big change is good. There’s a chance of relapse.”

And she worried about the clients who have moved out but still need contact with supported housing workers.

“It’s leaving them high and dry and setting them up for a fall,” Scott said.

Sarah Cockerill, the city’s director of community services, said providing housing to the longest term

shelter users and those sleeping outside is a new pri-ority to help end homelessness in the city.

She said a review showed that focusing on those groups would have the most impact.

“Based on the new direction a number of agencies were unsuccessful in their RFP (request for pro-posal) process or saw changes to their funding that might change the way they do business. In the case of Safe Harbour, they’re an independent organization and certainly decisions to administer programs are their own,” Cockerill said.

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Six people facing eviction


Safe Harbour Society employees Tamara Oakes, left, and Tina Scott speak with Ron McIsaac who is a client of the Safe Harbour Society and a housing facilitator.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

SAFE HARBOUR SHORT $50K AFTER FUNDING REDUCED

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Council expected to approve trash limit changes in two weeks

A policy change that will see the waste limit re-duced for residential homes passed its first hurdle.

City council gave first reading to a bylaw that reduces the weekly unit limit for residential waste collection to three from five on Monday. The second and third readings will be read in council in two weeks.

The policy change is in alignment with the city’s plan to reduce Red Deer’s per capita disposal rate to 500 kg per capita per year.

Survey data shows that the average number of waste units set out by households in Red Deer is 1.8 units per week with six per cent of residents con-sistently setting out four or more units on a weekly basis.

A unit of waste is defined as a bag or can with a 100 liter capacity.

Recent surveys show that 77 per cent of residents indicated that they would support the limit reduc-

tion following the recent recycling expansion to include all numbered plastics in the blue box pro-gram.

Residents will continue have the option of pur-chasing extra waste tags for $1 per tag, which can be affixed to a garbage bag. Extra units of waste set out without the extra waste tags are simply left behind and can be set out the following week, or taken to the Waste Management Facility.

The bylaw amendment must pass second and third reading before going forward. If approved, the three-unit limit would come into effect approximate-ly two weeks after council’s final approval.

County approves tender for reservoir, treatment plant for Spruce View

Spruce View is getting some water help.On Tuesday, Red Deer County council approved a

$2.5-million tender for a 1,500-cubic-metre water res-ervoir and water treatment plant for the hamlet.

Adding engineering, consulting services and a contingency the total project cost is $3.2 million, about $351,600 below budget. The county plans to use the leftover money to reclaim the land used by the old water treatment plant.

The project is funded through a three-way split with the federal and provincial governments, which will provide $1.2 million each.

A 2012 infrastructure study showed that the ex-isting 227-cubic-metre reservoir was insufficient for future growth. Having more water available will also provide better firefighting protection.

Lacombe County man sentenced to time served for two charges

A Lacombe County man held in custody since March 23 has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to lesser charges.

Taylor Curl was arrested by police who had raid-ed a rural property in search of stolen equipment.

In Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday, Curl pleaded guilty to one count of breaching release conditions and one count of mischief for damaging a telephone at the Blackfalds RCMP detachment. Judge John Holmes ruled that Curl’s sentence had been satisfied by the 26 days he had spent in remand following his arrest.

City collecting public input as it prepares 2017 budget

The official Let’s Talk event may be over but res-idents still have time to provide input on city spend-ing.

For the next three weeks, the city will be collect-ing input from residents as it prepares the 2017 bud-gets.

A budget open house is slated for April 26 at Fes-tival Hall from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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County to waive waiting periodAn 18-month waiting period between develop-

ment applications on the same land can be waived in certain situations Red Deer County council decided on Tuesday.

Mayor Jim Wood said the move gives council more flexibility to make development decisions.

But residents opposed to the change fear it will encourage rejected developers to try their luck at council again and again.

Dale Christian, of the Medicine Flat Aquifer Com-mittee, did not hide her disappointment with coun-cil’s decision.

The group has lobbied the county tirelessly for years to do more to protect water supplies and the environment from gravel pit developments. The 18-month window between applications had been seen as an important measure to stop developers

from re-applying within months after a development application was rejected.

That scenario saw residents opposed forced to gather information and journey over and over again to Red Deer County Centre to voice their opposition.

Wood said under the changes council can waive the 18-month cooling off period only if substantial changes are made to an application.

Simply reducing the size of a proposed gravel pit or multi-lot subdivision application would not be enough.

Council was concerned that as the bylaw previ-ously stood no development application — even one completely different than a previous proposal — could be entertained for 18 months on a property.

For Wood, it’s all about giving council the “ability to make the best decisions.”

There are times when new information or a major change in a proposed use for a site merits a second look, he said.

Coun. Philip Massier said the change allows coun-cil to consider something different for a property, but it must be more than a “tweak” to a previous application.

While council can waive the 18-month waiting pe-riod, it is under no obligation to do that, pointed out Coun. Jean Bota.

Dr. Bill Young, who made a presentation to coun-cil, said it’s important that there is “transparency” in the process and consistency in the criteria council uses to consider waiving the waiting period.

While the change gives council more latitude in making development decisions it could be a two-edged sword when it comes to assessing application changes.

“Everybody will have a different idea as to what is significant or substantial,” he said.

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

Celebrate Earth Day this Saturday

Get the buzz on pollinator parks and celebrate Earth Day early at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Saturday.

The family-fun event features pollinator activities with an ecological design expert, a short talk on pol-linator gardens, workshops on green cleaning as well as Earth-friendly arts and crafts for the kids.

It runs from 1 to 4:30 p.m.Lauren Maris, Environmental Program Specialist,

said this year they will focus on the importance of living in harmony with pollinators at our Earth Day celebrations.

“This is an important topic with the number of pollinators declining across the world,” she said. “We want to encourage residents to not only under-stand the role that bees and other pollinators play in our ecosystem, but also how they can help them thrive in their own backyard.”

The most famous pollinator is the honeybee, but there are several native species of bees, wasps, bee-tles, flies, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds that are busy pollinating our flowers and vegetable gar-dens each year.

The city is working to preserve and enhance polli-nator habitats in four city parks including City Hall Park, Snell Gardens, Maskepetoon Park and Bower Ponds. In these parks, changes have been made to make the parks more inviting for pollinators includ-ing leaving the grass a little longer, using ecological-ly sensitive methods to remove weeds and planting pollinator-friendly flowers.

Red Deer will celebrate Earth Day on Saturday; however, the official Earth Day takes place on April 22 and involves the participation of more than one billion people in over 170 countries.

Visit reddeer.ca/earthday for full event details.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

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Few Canadian governments get this kind of honeymoon gift from the opposition parties. Halfway

into their first year of mandate, the Liberal cabinet and caucus — with its large complement of rookie members — can be confident they will not face any serious challenges to power for at least the next two years.

Unless they create one of their own, of course, which is always possible.

The official opposition Conserva-tives will spend the next year redefin-ing their brand and looking for a lead-er. The NDP will be fronted by a lame duck who has less than half the sup-port of the party for perhaps the next two years, while the party itself rede-fines its entire mission, never mind its public brand or finds a new leader.

Depending on how you read history, the Liberal Party spent perhaps sev-en years in the wilderness (under two different leaders) before sweeping the country in the last election with a new-ly-minted Justin Trudeau. But during

those years, Parliament at least had an effective opposition, led by Jack Lay-ton and by Thomas Mulcair, who was ousted as leader at the NDP conven-tion in Edmonton last weekend.

Since 2011, and until the last elec-tion, the NDP could have called itself a government-in-waiting. Not today. Today, no party can say that, since gov-ernment-in-waiting implies readiness to govern, and that requires a leader.

As for the NDP, government-in-wait-ing will be unavailable to them for a very long time. The party is once again a house divided.

I’m old enough to remember the Waffle. The NDP that good old Tommy Douglas built, bringing us universal health care, was split in the late 1960s by an energetic splinter group, which wanted to fast-track Canada into so-cialist nationalism.

The Waffle pushed a national de-bate on how Canada should grow in-to the future. For years after, high school debating clubs would enter con-tests wrangling over whether Canada should nationalize industries that had been taken over by American firms. (Alternately, we debated the morality of the Vietnam War. Good years.)

The Waffle’s move away from cen-tre-left effectively kept the party far distant from power in Ottawa, though

local conditions and popular leaders would gain them provincial govern-ments.

As in Saskatchewan and B.C. his-torically. As in Alberta and Manitoba today.

As in no place, while the Leap Man-ifesto gains momentum.

Prophets always seem to come from the wilderness, and the centres of pow-er seldom like what the prophets have to say. But what the supporters of the Leap Manifesto have to say, at least needs to be heard.

If our high school debating clubs are not already wrangling over how Canada should be facing a future af-fected by climate change, they should be. (That is, if high schools in Canada still have debating clubs.)

The Leap Manifesto brought to the NDP’s national convention in Edmon-ton proposes a fast-track to an energy future that does not use fossil fuels. Like, at all. It proposes that no govern-ment should approve, much less put money into growth in infrastructure to develop and transport more bitumen, oil and natural gas to market. As for coal, well, those days are over.

Which puts the most recent and popular provincial NDP government, and its new star leader in a serious crimp.

High school debaters should be do-ing this, but no official in the Alberta government is going to seriously con-sider stranding our natural resources for the mere sake of saving the planet on Canada’s behalf. Not going to hap-pen.

Proponents of Leap strive mighti-ly to reinforce that their manifesto is just a discussion document, not a party platform. But calling it a manifesto im-plies future action. It does not wonder aloud what we should be doing or ask for your agreement. It proposes policy.

Thus, it’s totally non grata in a prov-ince that supplies (or could supply) energy self-sufficiency for the whole country. Premier Rachel Notley called the document naive and tone deaf.

One can excuse naiveté in a discus-sion paper. Tone deafness is death to a political party.

The NDP faces real challenges in Manitoba, which will have a provincial election April 19. The Leap Manifesto is, at the very least, trouble for the NDP government in Alberta.

The wilderness beckons the party once again. That’s where the prophets come from.

Good news, for now, for the Liberals in Ottawa.

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GREGNEIMAN

Policy trumps people in removal of trees

There is a certain intangible in nature, that man cannot legislate, polificate, or define. This ‘something,’ or ‘nothing,’ is that which turns a blasé landscape, if one does indeed exist, into an explosion of life and colour.

And we, as observers, need to do nothing to watch the magical transformation. This undefinable characteristic is nothing we can predict, yet when it happens, it is the only thing we need cling to in our efforts to find meaning or pleasure.

Yes, there was a place like this, in Red Deer County.

People would drive by the heavenly range road, 282, near HolmesHus Antiques , and slow down, in appreciation of the tree lined road straight out of a Robert Frost poem. On either side, the centurion sentinels stood guard over a well kept secret.

This is a special place …Yet, for all its solemnity and

solitude, before there were roads, when remnants of the magnificent bison were still visible, this cathedral

of trees was the newborn life in what was a larger forest, a thriving biosphere.

Baltimore Orioles, Robins and Ruffled Grouse called this area home. Moose, Deer, and smaller animals called this biosphere theirs.

The aerial denizens would swoop and fly through the air and give life through their very existence. Their sounds resonated throughout the yards and field. Springtime is when birds claim trees and create nests for their coming young. This year, the robins claimed their territory. The Ruffled grouse, so rarely seen these days, were heard and seen.

This little piece of heaven, this road way, was more than a flat top for transportation of equipment and local inhabitants.

However, despite the best efforts of Manyluck, Range Road 282s peaceful status is no more.

Century old trees are now mulch, and the birds and animals which carried the ‘something’ that transformed this drive into a near mystical experience, are now homeless. The special neighbourhood has been irrevocably destroyed.

Policy has trumped people.And it is a sad day.

Tim LasiutaRed Deer

Downsizing of government led to ill-fated decisions

Re: “Neiman column missed the mark on voter unrest” in Thursday, April 7, 2016 Red Deer Advocate.

I don’t know Bill Greenwood other than the occasional column of his that I read in the newspaper. I do know Greg Neiman personally and enjoy reading his columns. I take exception with some of the points raised by Mr. Greenwood in his letter.

As a former public servant, I don’t accept that “government is bloat-ed and wasteful.” We have just come through an unprecedented downsizing of the federal public service where that kind of thinking led to many ill-fated decisions such as closing ma-ny Veterans Affairs offices that were providing services to veterans. As a cit-izen and taxpayer in Red Deer, I cer-tainly support the efforts of city coun-

cil and various community agencies to address homelessness. I am very impressed with what I see as the City’s efforts to support all members of the community, including those who chose or by necessity walk or ride bicycles as a form of transportation.

It’s obvious that Mr. Greenwood does not like the Alberta NDP, does not support combatting climate change, and any increase in taxes.

With regards to where government debt has led to prosperity, I can think of a few historic examples: building the national railway to bring British Columbia into Confederation, build-ing the Icefields Parkway during the Great Depression which provided employment and draws tourists from around the world, building tanks and ships and airplanes during the Second World War to win the war, building schools for children and hospitals for the sick. I would wager that all of these expenditures involved some financing and we are the better off for it.

I certainly don’t mind paying taxes if I can see the benefits to society as a whole.

Bill FranzRed Deer

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Recovering addict cleaning up downtown


Recovering addict Michael Peever works to cleanup used needles and drug paraphernalia in Red Deer. Here under the CP Rail pedestrian bridge Tuesday morning there was no shortage of used needles.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

Being homeless for about 20 years hasn’t stopped Mike Peever from taking an active role in making his community a better place to live by picking up drug paraphernalia wherever he finds it.

Peever, who recently found housing through Cen-tral Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, moved to Red Deer over a month ago. For many years he has cleaned up drug debris where he has lived.

He is now focused on collecting debris in down-town Red Deer, and carries a container in his back-pack to safely collect syringes.

“I do it everyday. It takes me an about hour, two hours, maybe longer. Some days I branch right out and it takes me half a day,” said Peever, 43, on Tues-day.

He wants to keep children safe who might find a syringe and pick it up before an adult can stop them.

The recovering addict said he knows where peo-ple will go to inject drugs so he knows where to look. He encourages people who inject drugs to pick up after themselves, and for the rest of the community to take an active role in keeping Red Deer clean.

“I don’t think it should stop at needles or drug paraphernalia. I think we should be just more aware and clean up after ourselves.”

So far Tuesday morning, he picked up four syring-es. The most he has found in one day is about 50. He wears gloves for protection and warned drug debris is not limited to the downtown.

“If you’re going to pick up a syringe, pick it up from the right end. Be safe. Not all these syringes are capped,” Peever said.

Kath Hoffman, Safe Harbour’s executive director, said Peever is being a responsible citizen with com-munity spirit.

“I could really see how excited and passionate Mike was about doing his part,” Hoffman said.

Peever said he will continue to clean up debris even though he now has a place to live and doesn’t have to walk around the city without a place to call home.

Without having to car-ry all his belongings, his backpack is the lightest it’s ever been, he said.

“I’ve been looking in windows most of my life. Now I get to look out one. It’s relaxing.”

Peever, who is a pan-handler, said he wished more Red Deerians would acknowledge homeless people they see on the street even if they can’t spare any change.

He recalled how a downtown office worker went out of her way on St. Patrick’s Day to bring him a cupcake.

“I only made about $3.50 that day. When she brought me that she made me feel like a millionaire because she literally took the time and thought of me.”

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Red Deer manwins $250K

He’s going to be able to buy a lot more pizza.

Adam Johnson, a Red Deer man, recently won $250,000 in a lottery.

While he was waiting for his pizza order, he stopped to check his LOTTO MAX ticket and buy a soft drink. That’s when he learned his ticket was worth $250,000 in the March 11 draw.

“I checked a couple of tickets before scanning the winning one,” he said. “I was so excited, I ran out of the store and forgot to get my drink. I couldn’t believe it!”

Johnson plans to buy a house with his winnings. He purchased the winning ticket at the Lottery Stop at Bower Place Shopping Centre.

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LETHBRIDGE — The Crown grilled a father who used naturopathic remedies to treat his tod-dler son before he died from bacterial meningi-tis four years ago.

David Stephan, who is 32, and his wife Collet, who is 35, are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life for their nearly 19-month-old son Ezekiel in March 2012.

Crown prosecutor Clayton Giles suggested that Ezekiel had never fully recovered from what his parents thought was croup despite the natural remedies he had received.

He questioned Stephan’s early testi-mony that his children were never “laid up” as a result of illness due to the healthy regimen they were following.

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Mountie loved life, prized familyBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

COLWOOD, B.C. — An RCMP officer who established herself as an investi-gator in a small town detachment was remembered Tuesday for the impact she had on everyone she met.

Const. Sarah Beckett, 32, who died on duty last week when her cruiser collided with a pickup truck in the Vancouver Island community of Lang-ford, was also described as a loving wife and mother with a quirky sense of humour and a commitment to service.

The 11-year member of the force left behind a husband and two sons aged five and two.

“Goodbye, Sarah,” said former col-league Staff Sgt. Phil Lue in an emo-tional message at the packed Q Centre hockey arena in Colwood. “Your mem-ory will always stay with us and you will be missed.”

Lue said when Beckett arrived at the Port McNeill detachment on the northeast end of Vancouver Island she quickly “established herself as the al-pha dog.”

But even though her skills as a rook-ie officer were impressive, it was her sense of humour and larger-than-life personality that drew people to her, he said.

“She could sound exactly like a seagull,” said Lue, recalling how her calls always drew hordes of birds.

Lue said Beckett was “kind, gener-ous, sweet, loyal and loving.”

Her godfather Jack Hayden said Beckett wanted to become a paleon-tologist — seeing the movie “Jurassic Park” 14 times — before deciding to follow her grandfather and become a Mountie.

“She lived for her family,” Hayden said, adding that besides her love for her two boys and their dog Maximus, Beckett prized her life with her hus-band Brad, who she met and married in Las Vegas.

“You warned me this day may come when we first met each other,” her husband said in a message read by

Hayden. “I would still take this jour-ney 1,000 times with you.”

Hayden said Beckett had an infec-tious laugh and her colleagues nick-named her Backup Beckett after she backed into a fire truck with her cruis-er.

Beckett served at Port McNeill for five years after finishing her training in 2005. She also served with an RCMP investigations unit in Victoria before transferring to the Westshore detach-ment in Langford, a suburban commu-

nity just west of Victoria.She previously pumped gas, man-

aged a Petro-Canada station and worked as a server, often amazed at the great tips she made because she “spilled so many drinks on customers,” said Hayden, who knew Beckett since she was born in Calgary.

Her parents and sister prized pub-lic service, Hayden told the mourners, which included Premier Christy Clark and NDP Leader John Horgan.

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson

described Beckett as smart, strong and fun.

“She loved this job because it played to her strengths: her percep-tiveness, her personal acumen, her confidence, her resolve,” he said.

“She was outraged by injustice and fought to make it right. She had no time for complacency and didn’t abide it. She had a knack for interviews and it followed a gift for engaging people. She was, in short, the archetypal mod-ern Mountie. We will miss her.”

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A RCMP officer holds a stetson in honour of Const. Sarah Beckett during a regimental funeral service at the Q Centre arena in Colwood, B.C. on Tuesday,. Beckett died in a car crash last Tuesday when her RCMP cruiser was broadsided by a pickup truck.

Suicide crisis reverberates on Parliament Hill

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The misery and ne-glect at the root of a suicide crisis on a remote northern First Nation has “shocked the world,” an NDP MP said Tuesday as the cascading tragedy in Attiwapiskat reverberated on the floor of the House of Commons.

No one can understand “how a country as rich as Canada can leave so many young children and young people behind,” said Charlie Angus, whose sprawling northern Ontario rid-ing includes the deeply troubled and isolated aboriginal community.

“Will this minister commit to a total overhaul to ensure that every child in this country has the mental health sup-ports that they need to have hope and a positive future?

Health Minister Jane Philpott said the government must — and will — re-spond.

She pledged to ensure that mental health resources be applied to those who need them, describing the mental health of young people in particular in the troubled communities as “devas-tating.”

Earlier Tuesday, Commons Speaker Geoff Regan cleared the way for a rare emergency debate on the crisis, which has so overwhelmed local leaders that extra police officers have been called in from nearby communities.

On Monday, officials thwarted what

they called a suicide pact by 13 young aboriginal people, including a nine-year-old, after they were overheard making plans to kill themselves.

Attawapiskat’s chief and eight coun-cillors declared a state of emergency on Saturday, citing 11 suicide attempts so far in the month of April and 28 re-corded attempts in March.

“These nightmares and tragedies should serve as wake-up calls that there isn’t time to wait,” Angus said in a letter requesting the debate.

“An emergency debate is required in order to allow parliamentarians to address this crisis and show that as parliamentarians we are willing to work together because the days of shrugging off the tragedies or tinkering with Band-Aid solutions are over.”

Angus himself opened the emergen-cy debate Tuesday evening by saying it wasn’t just about Attawapiskat, “this is about who we are as Canadians and our whole nation.”

He said what’s happening in the community isn’t new, and it’s time to do more than just apply Band-Aids and send in emergency flights.

“I think tonight might be the begin-ning of a change in our country and that’s what I’m asking us all to come to-gether to do,” he said in the emergency debate.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said aboriginal communities need hope, and that should be the mes-sage from the debate.

Hung jury brings mistrial in case of man accused of

drowning wifeKAMLOOPS, B.C. — A mistrial has

been declared in the case of a former New Zealand politician accused of drowning his wife in a British Columbia lake.

The 12-person jury deciding Peter Beckett’s fate returned to court Tuesday evening saying they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

Beckett, 59, still stands accused of the first-degree murder of his wife, Laura Letts-Beckett, who drowned in Upper Arrow Lake near Revelstoke on Aug. 18, 2010.

The jury foreperson passed the court a note on Tuesday afternoon, saying the group was at an impasse, and B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ian Meiklem urged them to continue working, but by evening the mistrial was declared.

The trial spanned four months before jurors began deliberating on April 6.

Letts-Beckett’s death was initially believed to have been an accident, but Beckett was charged one year later.

Budget to include more than $500M for seniors housingEDMONTON — The Alberta

government plans to invest more than $500 million in new funding for seniors housing in Thursday’s budget.

A source has told The Canadian Press that a small portion will be in grants, but the lion’s share will be taken from $4 billion in unallocated money from the capital fund.

Lori Sigurdson, the minister for seniors and housing, would not confirm the figure Tuesday, but said money is coming.

“I will say there’s a significant investment,” said Sigurdson.

She said there’s an estimated $1 billion in deferred maintenance on seniors housing, and that the seniors population is expected to double in less than a generation.

“We have about half a million seniors currently, so we’ll have a million seniors in 20 years. We need to make sure that we have the housing and the accommodation that they need,” she said.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci unveils the 2016-17 budget on Thursday.

Auditor general rips failed school construction

EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general says the former Progressive Conservative government’s grand plan for 100 new schools was built on empty promises, administrative chaos, and almost no money.

Merwan Saher, in a report issued Tuesday, said Albertans during the era of former premiers Alison Redford and Jim Prentice were promised something that had little hope of

succeeding.“I believe the lessons for

ministers are don’t create false public expectations,” Saher told reporters after filing his report to the legislature.

Saher was asked last fall by Rachel Notley’s NDP government to investigate school construction under the previous two premiers after it announced there would be lengthy delays in 101 Tory-announced school projects.

In the decade prior to 2011 the province was building on average 18 schools a year, Saher said.

All changed under Redford’s government when it promised 50 new schools in 2012, but also introduced organizational changes that sowed confusion between the Education and Infrastructure departments with no clear hierarchy of authority, the auditor general said.

“No one was responsible for overall results,” Saher wrote.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean urges debt cut in TV address

EDMONTON — The NDP government’s plan to get Alberta out of the low-oil debt spiral is only going to make things worse, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said Tuesday in a televised, provincewide address.

Jean said the province can’t spend and borrow its way out of the current fiscal crisis.

“Interest payments will soon be the largest expense in government after health, education and social services,” said Jean in the short speech, which served as a rebuttal to last week’s kitchen-table TV address by Premier Rachel Notley.

“Credit rating agencies are taking notice. Large deficits have become the norm over the last decade and it’s just not sustainable.”

Jean’s comments come just days before Finance Minister Joe Ceci unveils the 2016-17 budget.

Family of man burned in bath at a care home disappointed

with reportCALGARY — The family of a

35-year-old Calgary man who died from complications after being scalded in a bath in 2011 says they are disappoint-ed the inquiry into his death had no specific recommendations about staff training and qualifications.

David Holmes was a resident at a home for people with developmental disabilities and had severe cognitive impairment with little or no verbal communication, requiring help from full-time caregivers for all activities of daily living.

The report says the care attendant was working a 12-hour shift alone and had left Holmes alone in the tub to open the door to let in a new worker.

When the attendants were dressing him, they noticed blistering and called supervisors about what to do, but the supervisors didn’t get back to them right way, with about 2 ½ hours pass-ing from when Holmes was scalded to when he was taken to hospital in the personal car of one of the attendants.

Judge Judith Shriar recommended that care attendants be able to make decisions without waiting for the OK from supervisors.

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They accused him of tying up valu-able enforcement agencies with his litany of complaints to the RCMP and City of Red Deer departments includ-ing bylaws, inspections and licensing, animal control, revenue and assess-ment, engineering, parks and environ-mental services.

One neighbour, Tad Ames, who lives at 5 Scott St., directly east of Charlton’s house, testified that between June and October 2015, he documented 23 visits he had from enforcement agencies. He never received a single ticket.

Keith Carriere, who lives at 9 Scott St., said he had problems with Charl-ton since he moved in 12 years ago. He called Charlton a“terror to our neigh-bourhood” and neighbours were tired of the non-stop abuse and bullying.

Carriere, said Charlton uses RCMP and city peace officers to bully the neighbourhood. “There are so many false allegations … it’s a tactic to cre-ate a hardship on our street.”

He said he was on his motorcycle one day and Charlton suddenly came out behind a parked car “and took a swipe at me.”

“I’ve seen him yelling at mothers and school children,” Carriere said.

Charlton, who has a carport, has placed a hand-made No Parking sign in front of his house yet he parks his own vehicle in front of his home, Car-riere said.

Once time Charlton dropped cat fe-ces on Carriere’s front steps. Charlton would tell court he was upset with cats using his flower beds.

Brandi-Lee Kulych-Webber, who lives at 5 Scott St. with Ames and their blended family of five children, said bylaw officers had been at her house so often it was getting to be a weekly or biweekly event.

They moved into the neighbourhood about a year ago and had been doing renovations to the home. Charlton complained about constant construc-tion noise.

Kulych-Webber said her children “were very afraid of Mr. Charlton” and he had taken photos of the children and her, and of things such as vehicles on the street.

She said he had once entered her house without being invited. “I just want this to stop.”

Ames said when he moved into the neighbourhood, people forewarned him of Charlton. So he made a point of going over to meet the senior, and gave him his cell phone number to call any-time he had a concern.

Ames said when he was building a fence, Charlton called the city to com-plain it was too high. It was still under construction and the posts had not yet been topped off.

He said he asked Charlton why he would call a third party instead of him directly when he had a concern. “He refused to answer.”

City of Red Deer Peace Officer Danielle Everson testified that she at-tended a parking complaint on Nov. 23 from Charlton about a vehicle blocking his driveway. “There was no vehicle blocking the driveway.”

“He was using us as a medium to harass his neighbours.” She then gave him the bullying ticket.

Everson said peace officers had at-tended 14 complaints over two years, three of them recently, from Charlton.

“I’ve never seen people tell so many lies in my life,” Charlton testified.

He said he has lived in his house for 46 years and the street has gone down-hill with new people moving in.

“I haven’t been bullying,” he said, and the two children were riding their bikes on his lawn between driveways. “I don’t tell lies.”

When Charlton showed some photos he had taken of vehicles on his street to the court, Crown prosecutor Jason

Superintendent Stu Henry did not speak specifically to the decades old complaints or any former disciplinary actions against Pelletier.

According to Henry, generally when there are complaints there are action plans involving monitoring and follow ups with parents and stu-dents to fix the issue.

“So often in cases like this, where there were one-off is-sues raised over the years, the schools would say they felt the issues were dealt with at the time and things had improved,” said Henry. “The differ-ence in this last year was just the vol-ume of the concerns that were raised all at the same time. It really brought some issues to light.”

The agreed statement of facts in-cluded 30 statements and documents from students and parents, and anoth-er seven statements from school dis-trict employees.

The district did not disclose how many complaints it had received about Pelletier but confirmed there were no complaints during this school year. Support has been offered to students, parents and Pelletier.

“There isn’t a policy but there comes a point where you realize you are dealing with more than a one-off concern that you can deal with a con-versation or small action place,” said Henry. “I think last year it became very evident to us it had become a big-ger issue that needed to be dealt with with other supports.”

Board chair Bev Manning said this issue is a very unfortunate situation but she believes in the process and the system. She said the board is deeply concerned with ensuring all students affected have services provided to them.

Manning said she appreciates the work the ATA does to ensure its pro-fession is accountable to students and the community.

Asked about the guilty plea, Man-ning said it speaks to the character of the teacher.

“We all walk through life and we all face different challenges and at some point you have to just step back and say this is what has occurred,” said Manning. “I appreciate it when a teacher will stand up and take respon-sibility and accountability for what they have done.”

The trial opened on Monday before Edmonton-based Justice Donna Read, with Gracia seeking a judicial stay of proceedings because of the delay.

Read announced on Tuesday that she would grant the stay because the delay had breached Brouillette’s right to a fair trial, which is guaranteed un-der Section 11B of the Canadian Char-ter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read laid the blame directly onto the chronic shortage of resources in Red Deer.

“Longstanding as these problems are, the limited resources available in Red Deer cannot affect the accused’s right to a trial within a reasonable pe-riod of time,” said Read.

“This finding begs the question of whether an earlier trial date for this five-day trial could have been found in Red Deer’s overcrowded docket. The delay in bringing this matter to trial has been long — too long.”

Outside the courtroom, Gracia said he anticipates that Read’s ruling will encourage other defence counsel to make similar applications. While his client waited 16 months from arraign-ment to trial, lengthier trials in Red Deer are now being scheduled 18 months out. In arraignments on April 4, a number of Queen’s Bench trials were set for the fall of 2017.

“Scheduling trial dates 18 months

CHARLTON: Used RCMP, bylaw officers to harass residents

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Buttuls asked him if any showed his driveway being blocked. “Not directly, no,” Charlton said.

Buttuls said he had 21 separate statements from people in the neigh-bourhood about Charlton, and the Nov. 23 false report “is the one that put it over the top.”

“Is not the city part and parcel part of the problem?” justice of peace Gor-salitz said at one point.

“It’s clear there’s an issue between you and probably everyone in the neighbourhood,” he told Charlton, adding the numbers suggested he was the problem.

Gorsalitz said that given the allega-tions, Charlton could have been facing criminal charges including stunting, vandalism and trespassing.

He said that it was Charlton’s yell-ing at the children on their bikes that resulted in the bullying conviction.

When Charlton said maybe his problems would go away if he moved, Gorsalitz told him: “Your other option is you can try and get along with your neighbours.”

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Bruce Buruma, Director of Commu-nity Relations, said in many ways he was a well loved and respected teach-er to some and others had some very deep concerns that brought them to where they are today.

“That’s one of the challenges you face in these situations,” said Buruma. “People go into teaching for the love of teaching children. There are different perspectives that are on it.”

Henry said the school has been very instrumental in working with the par-ents and the students.

“This ATA hearing is not something apart from the work that we are do-ing,” he said. “We are very much sup-portive of it and we have been part of it. This is part of how we are trying to address it.”

The ATA has the ability to repri-mand, fine, suspend or recommend cancellation of a teaching certificate if a teacher is found guilty of unprofes-sional conduct.

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out … is too long and it’s unaccept-able,” said Gracia.

“The excuse of not having enough judges or courtrooms is not a good ex-cuse. It’s an excuse that the Supreme Court of Canada has specifically con-sidered and specifically rejected.”

He said an urgent message needs to pass through the Crown prosecutor’s office to the Minister of Justice and on to Premier Rachel Notley.

“They should expand this court-house, or find some temporary space to hold their trials,” said Gracia.

Red Deer lawyer Chris Rickards, president of the Central Alberta Bar Association, said on Tuesday that his group has spent years lobbying the province for improved court facilities. Mayor Tara Veer and City Council have joined the effort, with limited re-sults so far.

Key to their push is a land-swap proposal, in which the City would as-sume control of courthouse property in exchange for the former RCMP building, located on 49th Street, across from the downtown library. A new courthouse could then be built on that site. The existing courthouse does not have enough foundation to support an expansion.

Expanding into temporary facilities would not be desirable, said Rickards. There has been significant confusion since traffic court was moved to the Baymont Hotel, a few blocks south of the courthouse. That confusion would only increase if more facilities were opened at other locations, said Rick-ards.

Veer said on Tuesday that their ef-forts are still holding “at the one-yard line.”

A report commissioned under for-mer Premier Jim Prentice has not been released, so the local group has no idea what sort of recommendations it contains or how high Red Deer sits in terms of priorities for courthouse expansion, said Veer.

The city and province were “very close” to signing off on a land swap when the election was called and there was a change in government, she said. Since then, Veer has had some meetings with the new Justice Minis-ter, Kathleen Granley, and has found that she is familiar with the problems facing Red Deer.

The mayor has been invited to at-tend the province’s budget announce-ment on Thursday, and is hopeful that it will include some movement on courthouse expansion in Red Deer.

At the very least, she hopes that the province will finally commit to the land swap, which would lay the foun-dation for courthouse expansion.

A regional hub, Red Deer’s court-house serves 350,000 people in Central Alberta, said Veer.

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City of Red Deer councillors Paul Harris and Ken Johnston were joined by their fellow councillors Tuesday afternoon as they picked up litter east of Gaetz Avenue on Red Deer’s north hill. The annual city-wide Green Deer spring cleanup program brings residents, groups and businesses together to take on the task of picking up litter and ensuring Red Deer is clean and green.

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OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is scheduled to deliver an eagerly await-ed assessment Wednesday: its take on just how much of a lift it expects the economy to get from billions in federal government spending commitments.

The analysis will be released as part of the central bank’s quarterly update to its economic projections. The report will also coincide with the bank’s latest announcement on its benchmark interest rate.

It will be the Bank of Canada’s first monetary policy report since the Lib-eral government tabled its March 22 budget, which contained billions of dollars worth of spending measures and tax relief.

To help fund the plan, the budget projected five-straight annual defi-cits totalling more than $110 billion, starting with a $29.4-billion shortfall in 2016-17.

The Finance Department estimat-ed the Liberal budget, which includes measures to boost infrastructure in-vestments and tax relief for middle- and low-income households, will gen-erate economic growth of 0.5 per cent

this year and one per cent in 2017-18.The document also predicted the

measures to create or maintain 143,000 jobs over the next two years.

But some experts, including the federal budget watchdog, have called those numbers a little optimistic.

A report last week by the parlia-mentary budget office said the mea-sures are more likely to create or maintain 86,000 jobs over the next two years, while boosting growth by 0.5 per cent this year and 0.8 per cent in 2017-18.

The last time the Bank of Canada updated its economic forecasts was in January, when the economy appeared to be in weaker shape.

At the time, it downgraded its 2016 growth projection to 1.4 per cent from its fall forecast of two per cent and predicted the economy to expand by 2.4 per cent in 2017.

On that day, which also featured an interest rate announcement, governor Stephen Poloz said senior bank offi-cials had considered making another cut to the already-low rate of 0.5 per cent to help the economy.

But Poloz said the eventual decision to stand pat came after they mulled over what he considered a key factor:

the Liberal vow to inject billions into infrastructure projects.

Since January, however, conditions have apparently already started to im-proved for the overall Canadian econ-omy.

Wednesday’s assessment comes amid growing evidence that the econ-omy, battered by the oil-price shock since late 2014, has been gathering strength — helped, in part, by the weakened dollar and low interest rates.

In recent weeks, indicators have shown unexpectedly robust numbers for areas such as economic growth, employment as well as retail and man-ufacturing sales.

As a result, many private-sec-tor economists have increased their growth projections for 2016.

For example, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research is now predicting the Bank of Canada will raise its growth forecast for this year to two per cent and 2.8 per cent in 2017.

“Canada’s economy was battered and bruised in 2015, but already it seems to be exiting its slump briskly,” Bank of America economist Emanuel-la Enenajor wrote this week in a note to clients.

“These elevated growth rates sug-gest the (Bank of Canada’s) appetite for any further rate cuts has substantially diminished.”

Still, Robert Kavcic, senior econo-mist with BMO Capital Markets, said this week that he doubts Poloz will want to sound too upbeat in its assess-ment of Canada’s economic perfor-mance and its near-term prospects, “for fear of launching a much stronger loonie and nipping export momentum in the bud.”

Analysts, meanwhile, are not ex-pecting the bank to move the interest rate Wednesday.

But despite improvements in the data, other experts remain more skep-tical that such a rebound in Canada is underway.

On Tuesday, the International Mon-etary Fund dropped its growth projec-tions for Canada and the world, citing slowing global oil exports, low crude prices and weak demand for non-oil commodities.

The IMF is now projecting Canada’s economy to grow 1.5 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent next year. In Janu-ary, the IMF predicated the country’s growth would be 1.7 per cent in 2016 and 2.1 per cent in 2017.

BoC TO ASSESS IMPACT OF BUDGET


VANCOUVER — British Colum-bia’s trees could hold the key to un-earthing the whereabouts of promis-ing new mineral deposits hidden in remote and inaccessible regions of the province.

A provincial science group has re-leased the results of an innovative pilot project that collects and studies samples from the tops of spruce trees for trace amounts of precious miner-als in order to help mining companies hit pay dirt.

“It’s a bit of a holy grail,” said Bruce Madu, vice-president for min-erals and mining with Geoscience BC, an independent public agency.

“Imagine if you can only sample the vegetation to learn about what’s in the soil, as opposed to actually hav-ing to dig holes.”

Conifers have long been known to absorb metals and other elements from the surrounding soil and con-centrate them in their twigs, bark and needles.

Analyzing the tree elements over a large region and mapping them out could offer a glimpse into the types and abundance of commercially valu-able materials deep beneath their roots, Madu said.

“We know that mineral deposits are getting harder to find. They’re lower grade and they’re more deeply buried,” Madu said.

“So we’re forced to try to find new techniques to see them, to discover them.”

Over six days last June, workers travelled by helicopter and collect-ed samples from near the tops of 421 trees located about 1.5 kilome-tres apart and scattered across a 1,000-square-kilometre plateau region in central B.C.

The samples were analyzed over several months to reveal trace con-centrations of 52 elements, from gold and silver to thallium and molybde-num.

“This is a raw-data release, so the final judgment of the success of the program will be by the resource sec-tor,” Madu said.

“We hope that this is actually an-other useful tool to help explorers find those more deeply hidden and maybe even lower-grade deposits that are currently a real challenge to dis-cover.”

The new sampling method offers another way for mineral-exploration companies to quickly study regions that are otherwise difficult to access and is intended to supplement other techniques.

Traditional methods of prospect-ing include flyovers to detect aberra-tions in the magnetic field beneath the earth, or chemical analysis, which includes studying surrounding rocks, soil and streams.

The treetop method isn’t cheap be-cause of helicopter costs, but its ben-efits include speed and relative ease.

The initiative is part of a $4-million Geoscience BC project designed to investigate the geology and mineral potential of a 24,000-square-kilometre area in the province’s Interior.

The agency aims to attract invest-ment to the province and to inform resource decisions.

Mining sector eyes treetop needles, bark for help with

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A new study released by a B.C. science group shows that the tops of some trees contain trace amounts of precious minerals.

Enerplus selling non-core assets in northwest Alberta

for $95.5M in cashCALGARY — Enerplus Corp. (TSX-

:ERF) says it has an agreement to sell some non-core assets in northwest Al-berta, including its Pouce Coupe asset, for about $95.5 million in cash.

The deal, subject to closing adjust-ments, is expected to be completed in the second quarter.

Enerplus says it is using its 2016 divestment proceeds, which will total $288.5 million upon the closing of this latest deal, to reduce outstanding debt, including repurchasing a portion of its senior unsecured notes. Enerplus says it is maintaining its 2016 production guidance range of 90,000 to 94,000 bar-rels of oil equivalent per day despite the divestment as a result of continued strong operational performance.

Concord Development confirms plans for newly purchased Molson lands

VANCOUVER — Property develop-er Concord Pacific is the new owner of a prime piece of real estate on the south side of Vancouver’s False Creek, but its plans for the land may run into zoning trouble.

In a release, Concord Pacific se-nior vice-president Peter Webb con-firms the purchase of the Molson Coors (TSX:TAP.A) brewery lands has been finalized, while media reports list the price as $185 million.

Webb says Molson will lease back the property while it builds a new brewery elsewhere in the Vancouver area. The release from Webb does not mention condo construction, but says Concord will use that time to work with the community, city and regional officials on plans for a mixed-use de-velopment on the three hectare parcel.

Concord, which also operates an IT company, local telecom company and a firm creating green power proj-ects across Canada, says its long-term vision for the property is to attract knowledge-based local and global tech companies. The land is currently zoned for industrial use and Jag Sand-hu, a spokesman for the City of Van-couver, says that zoning is not expect-ed to change.

DavidsTea reports increase in net profit sales up 22.7% to

$75.8MMONTREAL — DavidsTea (Nas-

daq:DTEA) says net income almost doubled to $14.8 million in its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter from $7.9 million in the comparable year-earlier period.

However, earnings per share slumped to 57 cents on a fully diluted basis from 64 cents in the 2014 period when there were fewer shares.

Adjusted net income,, which ex-cludes IPO-related and other non-cash, one-time costs for the three months ended Jan. 30 was $11.8 million or 45 cents per share compared with $11.4 million or 46 cents in the fourth quar-ter of fiscal 2014. The Montreal-based retailer of specialty tea and acces-sories reported after markets closed that sales increased 22.7 per cent to $75.8 million from $61.8 million in the prior-year quarter, while comparable store sales were up 6.6 per cent.

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TORONTO — Loblaw said Tuesday it is planning to build 50 new stores and renovate 150 others this year in its latest effort to adapt to a rapidly evolv-ing food retail sector.

The grocery and pharmacy giant said the $1.3 billion revamp and ex-pansion project would cover stores of various banners.

It is not yet releasing information on where the new stores will be locat-ed.

The number of new stores an-nounced is not unusual, said Edward Jones analyst Brittany Weissman, though Loblaw (TSX:L) plans to reno-vate slightly more outlets than before.

Loblaw made a similar announce-ment early last year, when it said it would build 50 new stores and improve more than 100 others.

Later, in July 2015, Loblaw said it was closing 52 locations across Canada that had fallen short of expectations — more than the 10 to 15 stores it would typically shut down.

“They close some stores each year,

they open some new stores each year,” Weissman said.

Catherine Thomas, Loblaw’s direc-tor of external communications, said in an email that the expansion would add about 5,000 new store employees while creating roughly 15,000 construc-tion jobs.

The new jobs would beef up Loblaw’s employee base by 2.6 per cent.

Loblaw employs about 192,000 full- and part-time workers, according to its most recent annual information form.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 113.95ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.84BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.51BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.05Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.350Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.55Cdn. National Railway . . 79.93Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 183.94Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.45Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.92Cervus Equipment Corp 11.38Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.62Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.33Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 20.20Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.48General Motors Co. . . . . 29.71Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.87Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.68SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 46.46Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.94Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.96Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.24Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.16

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 134.42Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.70Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.70Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.15

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.82Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.74Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.80WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 20.83

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.87Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 15.87First Quantum Minerals . . 7.19Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.65Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.38Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.69Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.58Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.64Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.770Teck Resources . . . . . . . 11.10

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 19.62Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.45Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 41.23Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.76Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 22.67Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.50Canyon Services Group. . 3.81Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.11CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.84Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.660Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.35

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.66High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 16.78Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.74Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.670Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.320Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.24Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.89Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.390Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.00Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 37.16Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2000

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.28Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.54CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.14Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.30Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.13IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.51Intact Financial Corp. . . . 61.20Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.81National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.17Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.300Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.74Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.68TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.97

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MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — Positive sen-

timent continued to run high in Toronto and New York on Tues-day, where both the TSX and the Dow finished with healthy three-digit gains and the Cana-dian dollar bounced to levels not seen in nearly nine months.

The loonie advanced for a third consecutive trading day, climbing 0.85 of a U.S. cent to 78.38 cents US. The last time the loonie closed above this level was on July 14 when it finished at 78.49 cents US.

John O’Connell, chairman and chief executive at Davis Rea Investment Counsel, said a weakened U.S. dollar coupled with higher commodity prices are the main reasons the currency — up more than two cents in the last three days — is enjoying its recent boost.

He said traders have been too bullish on the greenback and now that that it is declining amid burgeoning oil prices, the loonie is reaping the benefits.

“We actually think the Cana-dian dollar is getting a cyclical bounce here based on commodi-ties,” said O’Connell.

“(It’s) mildly overvalued here because Canada still has prob-lems. But it’s a country that is viewed as a safe haven from a geopolitical perspective and so currencies when they move, they can move rather dramatically.”

The May contract for North American benchmark crude rose $1.81 to US$42.17 a barrel, end-ing the day at a level not seen since November.

Investors were encouraged

after Russia’s Interfax news agency reported that there was a possible the deal between Rus-sia and Saudi Arabia to freeze oil output. The news comes days ahead of a highly-anticipated meeting between OPEC minis-ters on Sunday in Doha, Qatar.

The aim of the meeting is for a deal to be reached between the oil-producing countries to freeze production in hopes of boosting prices. Crude has fall-en sharply since trading at more than US$100 a barrel in 2014.

O’Connell said the “shift in sentiment” on oil prices is help-ing drive up the Canadian dollar, but some factors need to change if positive energy prices are to be sustained.

Energy stocks were also credited with helping provide support to the S&P/TSX com-posite index in Toronto, as it rocketed 158.66 points to 13,581.42.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Tues-

day at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 13,581.42, up 158.66 pointsDow — 17,721.25, up 164.84

pointsS&P 500 — 2,061.72, up

19.73 pointsNasdaq — 4,872.09, up

38.69 pointsCurrencies:Cdn — 78.38 cents US, up

0.85 of a centPound — C$1.8205, down

1.56 centsEuro — C$1.4534, down

1.77 centsEuro — US$1.1391, down

0.14 of a centOil futures:US$42.17 per barrel, up

$1.81(May contract)Gold futures: US$1,260.90

per oz., up $2.90(June contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$21.782 oz., up 27.8 cents$700.29 kg., up $8.94

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: May ‘16 $5.70 low-

er $473.90 July ‘16 $5.80 lower $479.50 Nov. ‘16 $4.90 lower $478.40 Jan. ‘17 $5.50 lower $483.20 March ‘17 $5.40 low-er $485.00 May ‘17 $5.40 low-er $485.30 July ‘17 $5.40 lower $485.50 Nov. ‘17 $5.40 lower $477.90 Jan. ‘18 $5.40 lower $477.90 March ‘18 $5.40 low-er $477.90 May ‘18 $5.40 lower $477.90.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 un-changed $174.00.

Tuesday’s estimated vol-ume of trade: 432,080 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (West-ern Barley). Total: 432,080.


Canada’s “Achilles heel” is the country’s lagging labour productivity, and while governments can help turn that around, it’s ultimately up to the private sector to boost it, Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter said Tuesday.

During the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Calgary, Porter said Canada’s ongoing slide in pro-ductivity behind its global peers is a major problem that needs to be addressed.

“In this role I talk to leading politicians and cabinet ministers, I talk to university presidents, and they are all keenly aware that we have a productivity issue in this country,” Porter said following the meeting.

“We have to be focused on innovation if companies are going to succeed, if we’re going to create good jobs for young Canadians here.”

His comments touch on a problem that has mys-tified policy-makers and the private sector alike for years.

Last month, Statistics Canada reported that the la-bour productivity rate growth contracted 0.2 per cent in 2015, by far its weakest result in three years.

The issue has captured the attention of Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who has set up an economic ad-visory council in an effort to find solutions.

Porter also highlighted what he perceives to be a “disconnect” between the skills that many graduates possess and those that employers look for.

“We see the effects of this at Scotiabank where we have a growing need for digitally savvy employees, such as specialized programmers, engineers and data scientists,” Porter said.

“More and more companies, regardless of the indus-try, are chasing this same talent pool.”

Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) has shifted its focus to de-veloping the kind of talent it is looking for, including through partnerships with Western, Queen’s and St. Mary’s universities, Porter said. The company has also boosted its investment in technology to more than $2.4 billion and has been partnering with financial tech-nology startups in an effort to meet clients’ changing needs, he added.

One example Porter cited is a partnership with Sen-sibill, a Toronto-based upstart that allows customers to digitize their receipts in an effort to simplify tax filing and record-keeping.

Canada’s ‘Achilles heel’ is lagging

productivity: Scotiabank CEO

Calgary commercial real estate vacancies hit 19.5%

as layoffs continueCALGARY — A new report says

Calgary’s downtown offices got a bit emptier in the first three months of the year as vacancies rose 2.2 percentage points from last quarter.

The Barclay Street Real Estate Ltd. report says vacancies rose to 19.5 per cent as about 938,000 more square feet were on the market. It said by 2018 the vacancy rate could be close to 24 per cent.

The increased vacancies come as energy companies continue to an-nounce layoffs and consolidate opera-tions due to low oil prices.

According to the Barclay Street re-port, MEG Energy is trying to sublease more than 300,000 square feet, Shell Canada is offering more than 183,000 square feet and Penn West Energy has 73,000 square feet available.

It says vacancies are at historic

highs, with eight million of the down-town area’s 41 million square feet of office space available and subleases making up close to half of what’s on offer.

Quebec businesses told to do better job of promoting

Energy East PipelineTORONTO — Quebec business-

es have not done a good enough job promoting the economic benefits the Energy East project would bring to the province, the president of Quebec Manufacturers and Exporters said Tuesday.

It’s up to Quebec’s business lobby to step up and make the pipeline hap-pen in a province where it faces strong opposition, Eric Tetrault told a panel discussion in Toronto.

“Business gets it now and it’s going to step forward and make our govern-ment support those projects,” Tetrault said at an investment symposium hosted by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

The Energy East Pipeline, which would bring 1.1 million barrels of oil daily from Alberta through Quebec and into New Brunswick, has been criticized by many mayors and resi-dents in Quebec.

BusinessB R I E F S

Pats 6 Rebels 3Turns out the Regina Pats can score

at even strength.After going two games with on-

ly power play goals, it wasn’t until halfway through the second the Pats scored their first even strength goal of the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference semifinal against the Red Deer Rebels.

In game 3 on Tuesday, the Pats scored three at even strength, two on the power play and one short-handed. The Rebels mustered three goals all game and lost 6-3. The Rebels lead in the best-of-seven was cut in half to 2-1.

Rebels assistance coach Steve O’Ro-urke pointed to a lack of discipline, which he said hurt the team Tuesday night.

“It wasn’t good enough tonight,” said O’Rourke. “We managed (our dis-cipline) through the Calgary series, but we gave the Pats seven power plays to-night. It’s just unacceptable. The pen-alties are not good penalties, they’re 200 feet away from our net.

“We clean that up we can slow them down a little bit with momentum, just by not putting them on the power play.”

Though the score was tied halfway through the third period, the Pats had several opportunities and had hemmed the Rebels in their own zone. The Pats peppered Rebels goalie Trev-or Martin with 40 shots, 18 coming in the second and 14 in the third.

Two goals in 12 seconds in the third period iced the game for the Pats. Con-nor Hobbs point shot on the power play gave the Pats the lead and then Rykr Cole tipped in a point shot from Zborovsky to give the Pats the 5-3 lead. Hobbs’ goal was the game winner.

“In the third period they had the push and we didn’t,” said O’Rourke. “We got away from our game and they pushed the pace and dictated it that way. We didn’t respond.”

The offensive outburst from the Pats overshadowed an effective game from Michael Spacek, a Winnipeg Jets draft pick, who had a hand in every Rebels goal. He scored the second goal

and assisted on the first and third.Spacek’s goal came early int he sec-

ond period when a generous bounce off the end boards from a Brandon Ha-gel landed right on his stick. With Pats goalie Tyler Brown out of position, Spacek buried the puck in the wide open cage to give the Rebels a 2-1 lead.

“It’s his first time playing North American playoff hockey and it’s taken him a little longer to see what it takes to play here,” said O’Rourke. “Here, our sports are all based on playoffs. Here you’re measured by your play-off success and he’s starting to under-

stand it and how much it takes to play every night. Tonight he was our best forward.”

For the Pats Austin Wagner and Jake Leschyshyn both had a goal and an assist while Chase Harrison and Sergey Zborovskiy both had two as-sists.

Game 4 of the series goes Wednes-day night at the Brandt Centre in Re-gina. Puck drops at 7 p.m. and can be heard on the Drive. The loss means the Rebels will have at least another home game this series as game 5 is sched-uled for Friday at the Centrium.

Notes: Despite a postseason best power play (31.3 per cent), the Pats penalty kill is the worst of the teams left at 73.7 per cent. Similarly the Red Deer Rebels power play is third at 25 per cent while their penalty kill is 13th at 75.8 per cent … NHL Central Scout-ing released its final rankings. Jeff De Wit was the highest ranked Red Deer Rebel North American skater at 80th, Brandon Hagel was ranked 104th and Colton Bobyk was tanked 204th. Rylan Toth was ranked 16th among North American goaltenders.

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B1SPORTSRebels run over by Pats

Yankees edge Blue Jays in series openerBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Yankees 3 Blue Jays 2TORONTO — A look at the Toronto

Blue Jays’ stat sheet offers some re-vealing numbers.

Troy Tulowitzki is batting .107 on the season. Chris Colabello is hitting at a .067 clip and Russell Martin isn’t much better at .087.

The bullpen has also been suspect at times. Brett Cecil was the latest re-liever to turn in a mediocre perfor-mance, giving up the go-ahead run in a 3-2 loss to the New York Yankees on Tuesday night.

Cecil came on in the seventh inning in relief of starter Aaron Sanchez. He gave up a lead-off hit to Chase Head-ley, who later scored on a Jacoby Ells-bury single.

The New York bullpen took care of the rest in the opener of the three-game series at Rogers Centre.

“He’s going to be fine,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of the lefty reliever. “I thought he looked pretty good in spring training to be honest with you.

“But I mean he’s off right now. There’s no secret about that.”

This is mid-April baseball and ma-ny players still don’t quite have their timing down.

But the Toronto bullpen has con-tributed to four losses already this sea-son while the Blue Jays have dropped five of six overall.

New York’s relievers, meanwhile,

gave up just two walks after starter Ma-sahiro Tanaka wrapped up his five-in-ning effort.

Dellin Betances fanned Jose Bautis-ta with a runner on second base to end the seventh inning and he added two more strikeouts in the eighth. Andrew Miller worked a perfect ninth inning for his second save.

Toronto managed just three hits on the night. Bautista drove in both runs with a double in the third inning.

“We’re not too far off,” said Mar-tin. “I think we believe that we have a great team offensively. Overall I feel like we have a great team. The hits are going to come.

“We’ll start loosening up a little bit and we’ll start playing like we know how we can play.”

Brian McCann hit a solo homer in the sixth inning for New York and re-liever Johnny Barbato (1-0) worked an inning of relief for his first career win.

Cecil (0-2) shouldered the loss. One of the team’s strongest relievers last season, his earned-run average cur-rently sits at 10.13.

“It was kind of the same scenario last year,” Martin said. “He was a little bit slower to start and then he picked up as the season went along. I’m prob-ably expecting the same thing from him this year.”

The two starters had similar lines.Tanaka allowed three hits, two

earned runs and gave up four walks while striking out six. Sanchez gave up three hits, two runs (one earned), three walks and struck out five.

Pottinger says returning players will have to fight for roster spot

BY DANNY RODESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

If need be Clayton Pottinger could have most of his roster set for next season.

The RDC Kings basketball head coach could have nine players return-ing if everything works out.

“We have a lot of potential for re-turning guys, which is always a good thing, but we’re not going to be com-placent,” he said.

“The guys coming back are going to have to fight for a spot. It will truly be an open tryout. We’ll see who’s out there and who we can get. That cou-pled with some of the recruiting we’ve already done and there will be a fight for spots.”

Pottinger will lose outstanding

guards Matt Johnson and JP LeBlanc as well as all-star forward Anthony Ottley.

“There are a couple others still up in the air, but those three are gone for sure,” said Pottinger, who could have an outstanding inside game with six-foot-six Matt Matear, six-foot-nine Shayne Stumpf and six-foot-eight Dal-las Hancox returning. Matear, an all-star, was the top rebounder in the di-vision last year while Hancox led the league in blocked shots. Stumpf came at Christmas and admitted it took him most of the second half to fit in and is anxious for next season to start.

Pottinger has also received a com-mitment from six-foot-six Dillan Sutherland out of Memorial Comp in Stony Plain and six-foot-five Jabin Binnedyk could also be back up front.

The Kings could have two import slots filled if guards Rodney Teal and Kelvin Omojola both return, although Pottinger will head to the States in early May to run at least two camps.

Guards Michael Gini, Khurram Sul-

tan and Spencer Klassen could also all be back, while guard Cody White out of Notre Dame has also committed for next season.

Pottinger held a high school ID camp on the weekend and has also offered a spot to six-foot-four Tyrell Lindgren out of provincial 4A champi-on Calgary Notre Dame.

“We’ve made some offers to a few other kids, but we’ll know more in the next few weeks,” he said.

“The recruiting window in basket-ball is long. In an ideal world we’d be finished in June, but I expect once again it will take until July before we know for sure.”

What Pottinger would love to have is to add the top kids out of Central Alberta. He already has White and is looking seriously at TK Kunaka of Lindsay Thurber and six-foot-four Kev-in Szymanek of David Thompson.

“Kevin played with our club pro-gram last year and we like his desire and work ethic. We would love to have him here if he wants.

“It would be exciting to have those three local kids along with Dallas, Spencer and Shayne and we’d have six kids from here who will be around during the summer and could work out together.”

Over the years Pottinger, along with several other Alberta Colleges Athlet-ic Conference teams, have recruited heavily out of Ontario.

That may change, said Pottinger.“Recently the Ontario provincial

government basically said that any household that kids come from that makes $50,000 of less would receive ba-sically a free education. If that’s a fact it would change the recruiting land-scape for a lot of institutions. There won’t be the pipeline as before if the students have to stay in Ontario.

“But really there’s a lot of good local talent in Alberta and we’ll just have to find new ways to recruit.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate re-porter who can be reached at [email protected]. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Kevin Pillar is force out at second as New York Yankees’ Starlin Castro makes an errant throw to first trying to turn the double play during action in Toronto, Tuesday.

Ottawa fires head coach Cameron and staff

Pierre Dorion wasted no time mak-ing his first move as general manager of the Ottawa Senators. Head coach Dave Cameron and assistants Andre Tourigny, Jason Smith and Rick Wams-

ley were all fired Tuesday, just two days after Dorion took over as GM from Bryan Murray. Smith was offered another position within the organiza-tion. Ottawa missed the NHL playoffs after posting a disappointing 38-35-9 record. Cameron completed his first full season as Ottawa’s head coach, posting a 70-50-17 overall record.


EDMONTON — The Edmonton Es-kimos have finalized their coaching staff for the upcoming season, add-ing Demetrious Maxie as linebackers coach and Carson Walch as receivers coach on Tuesday.

Maxie had a 13 year CFL career as a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Stallions, Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughrid-ers and Calgary Stampeders. He was a member of three consecutive Grey Cup championship teams (1995-97) and won a fourth Grey Cup in 2008 with Cal-gary, where he was assistant director of player personnel.

Maxie later transitioned into coach-ing as a defensive line and linebackers coach at his alma mater, the Universi-ty of Texas El Paso, in 2010. From 2012 through 2015, Maxie was the defensive line and strength and conditioning

coach at Desert Ridge High School in Mesa, Ariz.

Walch was an All-American, all-re-gion and all-conference running back, receiver and return specialist for Win-ona State University from 1996 to 1999. He spent three seasons coaching at his alma mater as a student coach, wide receivers coach and passing game co-ordinator.

Walch worked as the offensive co-ordinator at Dakota State Universi-ty from 2003 to 2005, and served the fol-lowing season as special teams co-or-dinator and running backs coach at the University of St. Thomas.

He joined the Montreal Alouettes as an offensive assistant in 2010 and won a Grey Cup championship. He was named the Alouettes’ wide receivers coach after two seasons.

Walch also worked with the Chicago Bears from 2013 to 2014 as an offensive quality control coach.

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Raptors slam Sixers in final home gameBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raptors 122 76ers 98TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors

still have one game left in the regu-lar season, a meaningless contest in Brooklyn on Wednesday night. For all intents and purposes, the playoffs started for the Raptors on Tuesday evening.

The Raptors took care of business in their final home game of the regular season, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 122-98. More importantly, with Indi-ana winning in New York against the Knicks and the Pistons losing at home to Miami, the Raptors are now guar-anteed to play the Pacers in the first round, which kicks off on the weekend.

In both of the last two seasons, the identity of the their first-round oppo-nent was a mystery until the final day of the season. Now, the Raptors get a head start on the scouting process.

“We can start preparing for it. We’ve got a team coming in in the play-offs that’s really good,” Raptors guard Kyle Lowry said after the game. “Paul George is unbelievable. Monta Ellis is unbelievable. George Hill is unbe-lievable. They’ve got some good bigs. We’ve got to start preparing for them. We’ve got one more game, and then we’ve really got to lock in.”

Added coach Dwane Casey: “They’re a good team, a team that’s been there before. Paul George is one of the elite players in the league.”

The Raptors won three out of the four regular season meetings between the two teams, including both games at Air Canada Centre. Most encourag-ingly, DeMarre Carroll looks ready to

contribute in the playoffs, even if it is at a lower level than the Raptors antic-ipated when they signed him in July.

Carroll played in his third game since missing 42 straight because of arthroscopic knee surgery. His 21 min-utes Tuesday were the most he has played since his return, including several in the third quarter that had him as the team’s de facto power for-ward alongside the Raptors’ other four starters. From the time he entered the game in that frame, the Raptors went on a 25-6 run, turning a close game into a blowout.

Carroll ended with eight points and finished with a game-high plus-minus of 30 — Carroll’s favourite statistic, he said. Carroll felt so good that he asked the Raptors’ management to play in Brooklyn all Wednesday. He said he was turned down.

“I’ve got to respect what they say,” Carroll said. “Sometimes as an athlete you really don’t think. I guess I wasn’t thinking, they said.

“It just felt good to be able to get out there, especially with some of the guys who start, get my feet wet.”

The series against the Pacers will necessitate Carroll’s health. In George, the Pacers have one of the most dy-namic wing players in the league. He is averaging 23.2 points per game. In four games against the Raptors this year, Paul averaged only 16.3 points per game on 30.8 per cent shooting from the field.

“Love it,” Carroll said of the match-up against the Pacers. “Playing against Paul George, one of the top players in the league, it’s not my first rodeo against him. I played against him in Atlanta. It’s going to be great to go out

there and compete and play at a high level. It’s a great feeling.

“Back in training camp, this is what you practice for every day. It’s a great opportunity for us, and we just have to be ready to take advantage of it.”

Norman Powell scored 18 points to lead the Raptors against the 76ers. Co-ry Joseph and Patrick Patterson did not play, as Casey opted to rest them. Lowry and DeMar DeRozan were lim-ited to 26 and 22 minutes, respectively.


Toronto Raptors centre Jonas Valanciunas (17) moves the ball past Philadelphia 76ers forward Christian Wood (35) and 76ers forward Robert Covington (33) during first half NBA action in Toronto on Tuesday.

Bentley rolls to big win in Allan Cup opener

ROAD HOCKEY

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Bentley 8 Stoney Creek 2STEINBACH, Man. — A natural hat

trick from Matt Stefanishion led the Bentley Generals to an 8-2 victory over the Stoney Creek Generals in their opening game at the Allan Cup tour-nament.

Stefanishion’s three goals all came in the third period started at the 1 minute mark and finishing 11:30 into the frame.

Bentley jumped to an early 1-0 lead at 8:27 of the first period when Adam Huxley connected on a pass from Alex MacLeod. Once Bentley got the lead they never looked back. Carrying a 1-0

lead into the first intermission and a 4-2 lead into the second, a four goal explosion in the third period sealed the win.

Jesse Todd’s two goals book-ended a back and forth second period while Curtis Austring contributed with two assists and Kyle Bailey chipped in with a goal and an assist.

Goalie Thomas Heemskerk made 24 saves for the win.

For Stoney Creek, Matt Smith had two power play goals in the second period.

The win vaults Bentley into a tie in the second division with the Ile-des-Chenes North Stars. Bentley plays the North Stars on Wednesday in round robin play.

Eskimos hire Maxie, Walch to round out coaching staff ahead of season


With no Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs, commission-er Gary Bettman has said he hoped viewers in this coun-try would still tune in to the post-season to watch talented Canadian players on Ameri-can teams.

With that in mind, here’s one Canadian to watch from each playoff team:

Pittsburgh - Kris LetangSuperstar Sidney Crosby

will draw a lot of attention, but Letang deserves consid-eration. The Montreal native missed the 2015 post-season with an injury, but he’s back and healthy for the Penguins this spring.

He’s also coming off the best season of his career, a definite Norris Trophy con-tender with career-highs in goals (16), assists (51) and points (67). Drawing close to 27 minutes per night and per-haps more in the post-season, Letang will be hard to miss.

Washington - Justin WilliamsWilliams always makes

himself noticed in the play-offs, only this time he’ll do so as a member of the Capitals. Now 34, the Cobourg, Ont. na-tive remains a productive part for the Eastern Conference fa-vourites. Williams finished the regular season with 22 goals and 52 points.

Detroit - Mike GreenIt’s still odd to see Green in

a Red Wings sweater after a career spent in the U.S. capi-tal, but the Calgary native is indeed an important part for Detroit. He isn’t the same star who scored 31 goals in 2008-09, but Green can still skate like few others on the back-end and remains a helpful power-play piece for the Red Wings.

Los Angeles - Jake MuzzinMuzzin will never attract

the same spotlight as team-mate Drew Doughty, but he plays a huge role for the Kings. Only Doughty played more minutes for Los Ange-les this season than the Wood-stock, Ont. defenceman, who quietly posted 40 points and terrific puck possession num-bers in another effective regu-lar season.

Nashville - Ryan EllisSometimes forgotten

in Nashville, the former Windsor Spitfires star has carved out a huge role for the Predators. Ellis posted a career-high 10 goals and 32 points this season while averaging a career-high 21 minutes alongside Mattias Ek-holm on Nashville’s sec-ond pair. A swift skater and feisty personality, the Hamilton native plays in every situation for the Predators.

St. Louis - Jaden SchwartzSchwartz comes from

the tiny Saskatchewan town of Wilcox, but the 23-year-old can be a real, big difference-maker for the Blues this post-sea-son. Schwartz missed most of the year with an ankle

injury, but returned to score eight goals in only 26 games. He’s got good speed and could add a helpful boost in yet an-other post-season with high expectations for St. Louis.

New York Islanders - Matt MartinMartin will make sure

you notice him this spring. The Windsor, Ont., wing-er has led the league in hits for five years running, an al-ways-bruising presence on the Islanders fourth line. Martin can add the odd goal, too. He had 10 this season for New York.

Minnesota - Jared SpurgeonThe NHL’s smallest regu-

lar defenceman (five-foot-nine, 176 pounds), Spurgeon is nonetheless a huge piece for the Wild. From Edmonton, Spurgeon plays huge minutes

on the Wild top pair (nearly 23 per game), chips in offensive-ly (11 goals), blocks a ton of shots (Minnesota’s team lead-er), and garners ice-time in ev-ery situation. He’s not big in terms of physical stature, but he’ll make an impression this spring.

Chicago - Andrew LaddThe long-time Jets captain

ended up back in Chicago af-ter a mid-season trade from Winnipeg. He won a Cup with the Blackhawks in 2010 and could be an influential pres-ence in them doing so again this spring. You’ll see Ladd alongside Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa on the Black-hawks top line.

Philadelphia - Wayne SimmondsScoring a career-high 32

goals for the Flyers this sea-

son, Simmonds powerful pres-ence is key to the Philadel-phia attack. He’s especially potent around the net on the power-play, scoring 13 goals there this season, a mark best-ed by only five players.

Dallas - Cody EakinIf Tyler Seguin isn’t ready

to start the post-season be-cause of an Achilles injury, it could be Eakin dishing pucks to Dallas captain Jamie Benn. A Washington Capitals third-round pick and Winnipeg na-tive, Eakin is a feisty compet-itor who’s scored at least 16 goals in each of the past three seasons. His energetic game and bright red hair will make him hard to miss this spring.

Florida - Reilly SmithComing over to the Pan-

thers in a summer trade from Boston, Smith scored 25 goals

in Florida this season. The Panthers top line of Aleksand-er Barkov, Jaromir Jagr and Jonathan Huberdeau will be the main draw this spring, but after that the player to watch might just be Smith, a Toronto native who was among those dealt from Dallas to Boston in the famed Tyler Seguin trade of 2013.

New York Rangers - Kevin KleinRangers captain Ryan Mc-

Donagh likely won’t be avail-able to start the club’s first round series against Pitts-burgh meaning more will be expected from the 31-year-old Klein. Formerly of the Nash-ville Predators and hailing from Kitchener, Ont., Klein chews up big minutes on the New York defence, even more so if McDonagh remains out versus the Penguins.

San Jose - Logan CoutureJoe Thornton should draw

Hart Trophy consideration for his 82-point season as a 36-year-old, but if the Sharks are to somehow overcome the Kings in the first round a huge contribution from Cou-ture will likely be necessary. Hurt for much of the regular season, the Sharks second line centre from Birr, Ont., has 14 goals and 32 points in his last 41 playoff games.

Tampa - Jonathan DrouinThe Lightning won’t have

injured captain Steven Stam-kos this spring. They’re hop-ing Drouin, a skillful winger from Saint-Agathes-des-Monts, Que., can offer some kind of offensive boost in his place. Drouin had a turbulent sec-ond season in Tampa, with a trade demand, demotion and team-imposed suspension all making noise. But he can make folks in Florida forget all that with an impactful playoff performance.

Anaheim - Jamie McGinnHailing from the small On-

tario town of Fergus, McGinn was a trade deadline pickup for the Ducks who could pro-vide some pop this spring. An imposing 205-pound presence, McGinn scored eight goals in 21 games after the trade from Buffalo. He currently owns a spot alongside Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on Anaheim’s top line.

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No Canadian teams puts focus on playersCANADIANS TO WATCH IN NHL PLAYOFFS


Pittsburgh Penguins’ Kris Letang shoots the puck during a practice session for the NHL playoffs against the New York Rangers, Monday, at their practice facility in Cranberry, Pa. With no Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs, commissioner Gary Bettman has said he hoped viewers in this country would still tune in to the post-season to watch talented Canadian players on American teams.

Chartier, Rockets edge Royals in

Game 3 of playoff series

KELOWNA, B.C. — Rourke Chartier scored one goal and assisted on the others as the Kelowna Rockets edged the Victoria Royals 3-2 in Game 3 of their Western Hockey League playoff series on Tuesday.

Tomas Soustal, with the eventual winner midway through the third period, and Dillon Dube had the other goals for the Rockets, who trail the best-of-seven, second-round series 2-1.

Matthew Phillips and Alex Forsberg scored for Victoria.

Kelowna goaltender Michael Herrington stopped 30 shots. Coleman Vollrath made 35 saves in the Royals’ net.

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scored three goals and assisted on two more to power the Warriors over Brandon in Game 3 for their first win of the series.

Tanner Jeannot had a goal and three help-ers for Moose Jaw, which trails the best-of-sev-en series 2-1. Nikita Popugaev scored once and tacked on two assists and Brayden Point and Brett Howden rounded out the attack.

Tim McGauley had the lone goal for the Wheat Kings.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DUBLIN — A mixed martial arts fighter from Portugal died Tuesday, three days after being hospitalized with injuries from a fight.

Total Extreme Fighting announced the death of Joao Carval-ho. It didn’t disclose the nature of Carvalho’s injuries, and said formal hospital medical reports and procedures are still being carried out.

The 28-year-old Carvalho was knocked out in the third round of a welterweight fight against Charlie Ward at the National Sta-dium in Dublin on Saturday. TEF said Carvalho was assessed by doctors and medical staff at the onsite medical office “as per normal procedure,” before being taken to the hospital.

“We extend our most sincere condolences to the family of Joao Carvalho and his teammates in Team Nobrega,” said Cesar Silva, CEO of TEF. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them.”

Silva said his organizing body has been in contact with Car-valho’s family.

On Sunday, Silva said in a statement that three doctors and paramedic staff were at the fight, which “ensured that the se-riousness of Joao’s condition was recognized and swift action taken.”

“The promotion and fighters followed (the) best regulatory practices,” he said.

Ward is a member of Team SBG Ireland, the same camp as Ultimate Fighting Championship star Conor McGregor.

John Kavanagh, Ward’s coach, said on Twitter it was “with heavy hearts that we mourn the passing of Portuguese fighter Joao Carvalho.”

Kavanagh said the Irish Amateur Pankration Association, which represents mixed martial arts fighters, “is working dil-igently with TEF to gather and evaluate all relevant facts and event processes and will participate in any investigation.”

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WHL 2016 PlayoffsSecond Round

DIVISION FINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEEast DivisionBrandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3)(Brandon leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultMoose Jaw 7 Brandon 1Saturday’s resultBrandon 5 Moose Jaw 2Wednesday’s gameBrandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Friday’s gameMoose Jaw at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Apr. 17x-Brandon at Moose Jaw, 4 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19x-Moose Jaw at Brandon, 7 p.m.

Central DivisionRed Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1)(Red Deer leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultRegina 6 Red Deer 3Sunday’s resultRed Deer 4 Regina 3Wednesday’s gameRed Deer at Regina, 7 p.m.Friday’s gameRegina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Sunday, Apr. 17x-Red Deer at Regina, 4 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19x-Regina at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DivisionVictoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2)(Victoria leads series 2-1)Tuesday’s resultKelowna 3 Victoria 2Saturday’s resultVictoria 3 Kelowna2Thursday’s gameVictoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Friday’s gameKelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.Sunday, Apr. 17x-Victoria at Kelowna, 6 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19x-Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

U.S. DivisionSeattle (1) vs. Everett (2)(Series tied 1-1)Sunday’s resultSeattle 3 Everett 1Friday’s resultEverett 3 Seattle 0Wednesday’s gameSeattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.Friday’s gameSeattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.Saturday, Apr. 16Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.Monday, Apr. 18x-Seattle at Everett, 8:05 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19x-Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.x — played only if necessary.

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Third Period7. Regina, Hobbs 2 (Williams, Sanford) 10:26 (pp).8. Regina, Cole 2 (Zborovskiy, Leschyshyn) 10:38.9. Regina, Wagner 3 (Brooks) 14:43 (sh).Penalties — Fleury RD, Brooks Reg (roughing) 5:40 de Wit RD (goaltender interference) 9:18 Steel Reg (slashing) 13:58 DeBrusk RD (cross-checking), Hagel RD (double roughing), Brooks Reg (roughing) 16:39.

Shots on goalRed Deer 10 10 8 — 28Regina 8 18 14 — 40Goal — Red Deer: Martin (L, 6-2) Regina: Brown (W, 5-3).Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 1-3 Regina: 2-7.

2016 Stanley Cup PlayoffsFirst Round

DIVISION SEMIFINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionFlorida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1)Thursday’s gameN.Y. Islanders at Florida, 6 p.m.Friday’s gameN.Y. Islanders at Florida, 5:30 p.m.Sunday’s gameFlorida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 20Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3)Wednesday’s gameDetroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.Friday’s gameDetroit at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.Sunday, Apr. 17Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Metropolitan DivisionWashington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2)Thursday’s gamePhiladelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.Saturday’s gamePhiladelphia at Washington, 5 p.m.Monday, Apr. 18Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 20Washington at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3)Wednesday’s gameN.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Saturday’s gameN.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral DivisionDallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2)Thursday’s gameMinnesota at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s gameMinnesota at Dallas, 6 p.m.Monday, Apr. 18Dallas at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 20Dallas at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3)Wednesday’s gameChicago at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.Friday’s gameChicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Sunday’s gameSt. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Pacific DivisionAnaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1)Friday’s gameNashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.Sunday’s gameNashville at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 19Anaheim at Nashville, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Apr. 21Anaheim at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3)Thursday’s gameSan Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.Saturday’s gameSan Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.Monday, Apr. 18Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 20Los Angeles at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

ALLAN CUPCanadian Men’s Senior AAA Championship

At Steinbach, Man.

ROUND ROBINDivision ATeam GP W L T GF GA PtWindsor 1 1 0 0 4 3 2South East 2 1 1 0 6 4 2Shellbrook 1 0 1 0 0 3 0

Team GP W L T GF GA PtBentley 1 1 0 0 8 2 2Ile-des-Chenes 1 1 0 0 8 3 2Stoney Creek 2 0 2 0 5 16 0

Tuesday’s gamesGrand Falls-Windsor 4 South East 3Ile-des-Chenes 8 Stoney Creek 3South East 3 Shellbrook 0

Wednesday’s gamesBentley vs. Ile-des-Chenes, 3 p.m.Grand Falls-Windsor vs. Shellbrook, 7 p.m.End of Round Robin

PLAYOFFSThursday’s gamesQuarter-finalsSecond A vs. Third B, 3 p.m.Second B vs. Third A, 7 p.m.Friday’s gamesSemifinalsFirst A vs. Quarter-final Winner, 5 p.m.First B vs. Quarter-final Winner, 9 p.m.

Teams: Bentley Generals (Pacific), Shellbrook Elks (Saskatchewan), Ile-des-Chenes North Stars (Man-itoba), Stoney Creek Generals (Central), Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts (Atlantic), South East Prai-rie Thunder (Host).

BasketballBasketballNational Basketball Association

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBz-Cleveland 57 24 .704 —y-Toronto 55 26 .679 2x-Miami 48 33 .593 9x-Atlanta 48 33 .593 9x-Boston 47 34 .580 10x-Charlotte 47 34 .580 10x-Indiana 44 37 .543 13x-Detroit 43 38 .531 14Chicago 41 40 .506 16Washington 40 41 .494 17Orlando 35 46 .432 22Milwaukee 33 48 .407 24New York 32 50 .390 25 1/2Brooklyn 21 60 .259 36Philadelphia 10 71 .123 47

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBz-Golden State 72 9 .889 —y-San Antonio 66 15 .815 6y-Oklahoma City 55 27 .671 17 1/2x-L.A. Clippers 52 28 .650 19 1/2x-Portland 43 38 .531 29x-Memphis 42 38 .525 29 1/2x-Dallas 42 39 .519 30Houston 40 41 .494 32Utah 40 41 .494 32Sacramento 33 48 .407 39Denver 33 48 .407 39New Orleans 30 51 .370 42Minnesota 28 53 .346 44Phoenix 22 59 .272 50L.A. Lakers 16 65 .198 56x-clinched playoff spot

y-clinched divisionz-clinched conference

Monday’s GamesCleveland 109, Atlanta 94Orlando 107, Milwaukee 98Washington 120, Brooklyn 111Charlotte 114, Boston 100Houston 129, Minnesota 105Chicago 121, New Orleans 116Oklahoma City 112, L.A. Lakers 79Dallas 101, Utah 92Sacramento 105, Phoenix 101

Tuesday’s GamesIndiana 102, New York 90Toronto 122, Philadelphia 98Miami 99, Detroit 93San Antonio 102, Oklahoma City 98, OTMemphis at L.A. Clippers, late

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Chicago, 6 p.m.New Orleans at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Indiana at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.Sacramento at Houston, 6 p.m.San Antonio at Dallas, 6 p.m.Detroit at Cleveland, 6 p.m.Toronto at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.Miami at Boston, 6 p.m.Atlanta at Washington, 6 p.m.Orlando at Charlotte, 6 p.m.Memphis at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.Utah at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.Denver at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

BaseballBaseballMajor League Baseball

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBBaltimore 7 0 1.000 —New York 4 2 .667 2 1/2Boston 3 4 .429 4Tampa Bay 3 4 .429 4Toronto 3 5 .375 4 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 5 2 .714 —Kansas City 5 2 .714 —Detroit 4 2 .667 1/2Cleveland 2 3 .400 2Minnesota 0 7 .000 5

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 5 4 .556 —Los Angeles 4 4 .500 1/2Oakland 4 5 .444 1Houston 3 5 .375 1 1/2Seattle 2 6 .250 2 1/2

Monday’s GamesPittsburgh 7, Detroit 4Baltimore 9, Boston 7Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota 1Houston 8, Kansas City 2L.A. Angels 4, Oakland 1Texas 7, Seattle 3

Tuesday’s GamesDetroit 8, Pittsburgh 2N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 2Baltimore 9, Boston 5Tampa Bay 5, Cleveland 1Kansas City 3, Houston 2L.A. Angels 5, Oakland 4Texas 8, Seattle 0

Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Angels (Shoemaker 0-1) at Oakland (Surkamp 0-0), 1:35 p.m.Texas (Griffin 1-0) at Seattle (T.Walker 0-0), 1:40 p.m.Detroit (Greene 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Vogelsong 1-0), 5:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-0) at Toronto (Happ 0-0), 5:07 p.m.Baltimore (Jimenez 1-0) at Boston (Kelly 0-0), 5:10 p.m.Cleveland (Carrasco 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 0-1), 5:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Rodon 0-1) at Minnesota (Hughes 0-1), 6:10 p.m.Kansas City (Ventura 0-0) at Houston (Feldman 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesDetroit at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.Baltimore at Texas, 6:05 p.m.Kansas City at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.White Hou 8 25 3 13 .520BMcCann NYY 5 18 10 9 .500Trumbo Bal 7 28 6 13 .464JMartinez Det 6 25 3 11 .440Eaton CWS 6 24 2 10 .417Machado Bal 7 29 8 12 .414SCastro NYY 6 23 3 9 .391HRamirez Bos 7 29 3 11 .379Mauer Min 7 24 3 9 .375Kinsler Det 6 27 8 10 .370Home RunsCano, Seattle, 4 Donaldson, Toronto, 4 9 tied at 3.Runs Batted InFielder, Texas, 10 White, Houston, 10 SCastro, New York, 9 Donaldson, Toronto, 9 Ortiz, Boston, 9 Beltre, Texas, 8 BHolt, Boston, 8.PitchingSale, Chicago, 2-0 AnSanchez, Detroit, 2-0 Hamels, Texas, 2-0 Brach, Baltimore, 2-0 MBarnes, Boston, 1-0 Lewis, Texas, 1-0 Gallardo, Baltimore, 1-0.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 5 1 .833 —Miami 3 3 .500 2Philadelphia 3 5 .375 3New York 2 5 .286 3 1/2Atlanta 0 7 .000 5 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 6 1 .857 —Cincinnati 5 2 .714 1Pittsburgh 5 3 .625 1 1/2St. Louis 4 3 .571 2Milwaukee 3 4 .429 3

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 6 2 .750 —Los Angeles 4 4 .500 2Colorado 3 4 .429 2 1/2Arizona 3 5 .375 3San Diego 3 5 .375 3

Monday’s GamesPittsburgh 7, Detroit 4San Diego 4, Philadelphia 3St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 1Washington 6, Atlanta 4Miami 10, N.Y. Mets 3Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 3

Tuesday’s Games

Detroit 8, Pittsburgh 2Arizona 4, L.A. Dodgers 2Washington 2, Atlanta 1Philadelphia 3, San Diego 0Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 1San Francisco 7, Colorado 2

Wednesday’s GamesMiami (Conley 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Verrett 0-0), 11:10 a.m.Atlanta (Wisler 0-0) at Washington (Strasburg 1-0), 5:05 p.m.Detroit (Greene 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Vogelsong 1-0), 5:05 p.m.San Diego (Rea 0-0) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 0-1), 5:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Simon 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Lackey 1-0), 6:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Ch.Anderson 1-0) at St. Louis (Leake 0-1), 6:15 p.m.San Francisco (Peavy 0-0) at Colorado (Lyles 0-1), 6:40 p.m.Arizona (R.De La Rosa 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesDetroit at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m.San Diego at Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m.San Francisco at Colorado, 1:10 p.m.Atlanta at Washington, 2:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Hazelbaker StL 7 19 5 10 .526DMurphy Was 6 20 3 10 .500LeMahieu Col 7 26 7 12 .462Fowler ChC 7 22 7 10 .455Gennett Mil 7 22 5 9 .409AGonzalez LAD 8 32 6 13 .406Cervelli Pit 7 25 4 10 .400Prado Mia 6 20 2 8 .400Posey SF 7 23 3 9 .391Segura Ari 8 31 6 12 .387Home RunsStory, Colorado, 7 Suarez, Cincinnati, 4 Brown, San Francisco, 3 Carter, Milwaukee, 3 Gennett, Milwau-kee, 3 Goldschmidt, Arizona, 3 CGonzalez, Colora-do, 3 Kemp, San Diego, 3 Segura, Arizona, 3.Runs Batted InStory, Colorado, 12 Kemp, San Diego, 10 Rizzo, Chicago, 10 Bruce, Cincinnati, 9 Goldschmidt, Ari-zona, 9 Suarez, Cincinnati, 9 Pence, San Francisco, 8 Spangenberg, San Diego, 8.PitchingPhelps, Miami, 2-0 Ohlendorf, Cincinnati, 2-0 Arrie-ta, Chicago, 2-0 Cueto, San Francisco, 2-0 Treinen, Washington, 2-0 Clippard, Arizona, 2-0 Lester, Chicago, 1-0.

TransactionsTransactionsTuesday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALLCOMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Atlanta RHP Alger Hodgson (Dominican League Braves) 72 games and San Francisco RHP David Graybill (AZL Giants) 50 games for violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.American LeagueDETOIT TIGERS — Placed C James McCann on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of C Bobby Wilson from Toledo (IL).HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned 3B Matt Duffy to Fresno (PCL). Reinstated C Evan Gattis from the 15-day DL. Sent RHP Lance McCullers to Corpus Christi (TL) for a rehab assignment.National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Assigned RHP Kyle Drabek outright to Reno (PCL).ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Joel De La Cruz to Gwinnett (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Jhoulys Chacin from Gwinnett (IL). Transferred LHP Andrew McKirahan from the 15- to the 60-day DL.CHICAGO CUBS — Sent SS Javier Baez to Iowa (PCL) for a rehab assignment.LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed INF/OF Scott Van Slyke on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 10. Reinstated C Yasmani Grandal and INF Howie Ken-drick from the 15-day DL.PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Released RHP John Holdzkom.BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationMIAMI HEAT — Signed F Dorell Wright.PHOENIX SUNS — Purchased the Bakersfield Jam (NBADL) and are relocating the team to Prescott

Valley, Ariz. to be known as the Northern Arizona Suns.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueNFL — Suspended Washington RB Silas Redd has been suspended indefinitely for violating the league’s policy for substances of abuse.BUFFALO BILLS — Signed LB Lorenzo Alexander and S Colt Anderson.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed RB LeGarrette Blount.Canadian Football LeagueWINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Jerrel Jernigan.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned G Anton Khudo-bin, C Michael Sgarbossa and RWs Stefan Noesen and Corey Tropp to San Diego (AHL).ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned Fs Laurent Dau-phin and Eric Selleck, D Alex Grant and G Marek Langhamer to Springfield (AHL).OTTAWA SENATORS — Fired coach Dave Cam-eron and assistant coaches Andre Tourigny, Rick Wamsley and Jason Smith.TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed D Matt Spen-cer to a three-year, entry-level contract.American Hockey LeagueAHL — Suspended Bridgeport D Matt Carkner one game.ROCHESTER AMERICANS — Recalled D Matt Prapavessis from Elmira (ECHL).SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released D Derik Johnson from a professional tryout agreement.

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TORONTO — There are a few things Orphan Black fans can expect when the clone saga returns Thursday — immi-nent peril for its street-smart heroine Sarah Manning, an increased sense of paranoia for her band of identical “se-stras,” and even more clones.

Online teasers have already intro-duced spoiler-hungry fans to a brand-new clone character who goes by the name of M.K., as well as the return (via flashback) of demised cop Beth Childs.

The show’s co-creators, Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, say the fourth season takes a few steps back-ward in order to move ahead — all the way back to that moment on the train platform when Sarah saw her doppel-ganger Beth leap to her death in the first season.

In alluding only indirectly to M.K., the spoiler-averse duo also admit they couldn’t help but add to star Tatiana Maslany’s ever-growing character list.

“Every year we sort of get togeth-er with Tat at the beginning and rub our hands together a little bit and go, ‘What do we need? What are we look-ing for, who do you got?’ And we start thinking of new clones,” Manson says.

“We’re a clone show — we love our clones.”

“And,” Fawcett interjects, “expand-ing the mythology of the show and deepening the characters that we al-ready have and bringing new elements of the mystery in.

“And often that is about discovering new clones — whether naive or self-aware.”

So far, none of it has fazed the chameleon-like Maslany, whose ev-er-growing list of Orphan Black roles includes tightly wound soccer mom Alison, former assassin Helena, termi-nally ill science geek Cosima, and the villainous Rachel.

She says Manson and Fawcett have been generous in letting her help de-termine character traits of new look-alikes, noting her fan-favourite blond alter-ego Krystal started with an im-promptu on-set impression.

“They’re pretty great about pitching some sort of core of the character and then are really open to my suggestions or my kind of collaborative input,” says Maslany, also careful not to spill the beans on new episodes.

“But I love being surprised by what they bring to me because it’s never what I expect and it’s never what I would have wanted for myself. It’s cast-ing me in a part that I never would have gotten to play otherwise.”

When last we saw Sarah, she was hiding out in Iceland with her daugh-ter Kira and foster mom Mrs. S, who was newly revealed to be the daughter of the original clone, Kendall Malone.

But familial bliss does not last long — Maslany notes they will soon be on the run again as dark forces gather.

All the clones, in fact, have big chal-lenges ahead.

“They’re all on a big shifting stage — Alison is juggling everything under the sun and now has a pregnant Hel-ena staying with her,” Maslany says, rattling off a roll call of her various cloned characters.

“Helena’s pregnant and so her world is shifting in a very different way for her. Cosima has lost (girl-friend) Delphine and so we get to see her going through that and sort of throwing herself head first into her work and the mystery of where Del-phine is. And Rachel is in a place of extreme vulnerability, not being in on what’s happening around her, which is very counter to how she was raised — always in the know, always the one with the information. And Sarah is back in familiar places with new ques-tions.”

Jordan Gavaris, who plays younger foster brother Felix, assures that it’s all geared towards getting closer to who the sisters are and why they exist.

“We’re back on the A train heading

toward the end of the tunnel,” he says.There will be big ramifications for

his character, too, he adds. Sent reel-ing by news that Sarah and Mrs. S are blood-related, Felix goes on the hunt for tidbits about his own roots.

“I can’t say what those things are, (but) I can say that it’s a major charac-ter point for him this year, that inves-tigation. And I don’t think audiences will be disappointed. I know I wasn’t,” teases Gavaris.

As for the show’s star, Manson and Fawcett freely admit they have no qualms about loading Maslany with an ever-increasing acting workload.

“The great thing about Tatiana is that she loves a challenge and she is always up to try new things. And so whenever we can give her really twist-ed complex acting challenges it inevi-tably pays off in spades,” says Fawcett.

“The more we can give her, honest-ly, the better our show is.”

Orphan Black returns Thursday to Space.

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Copyright case cleared

for trialBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — A trial is needed to determine if Led Zeppelin’s Stair-way to Heaven copies its opening notes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Friday that lawyers for the trust-ee of late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe had shown enough evidence to support a case that Stairway to Heaven copies music from the Spirit song Taurus.

Taurus was written by Wolfe in ei-ther 1966 or 1967, years before Led Zeppelin released Stairway to Heav-en in 1971. Klausner wrote that while the songs have some differences, law-yers for Wolfe’s trustee may be able to prove they are substantially similar.

Led Zeppelin and Spirit performed at some concerts and festivals around the same time, but not on the same stage. Klausner wrote that the evi-dence presented so far represented a circumstantial case that Led Zeppelin may have heard Taurus performed be-fore Stairway to Heaven was created.

After-hours phone and email mes-sages sent to Helene M. Freeman, Led Zeppelin’s attorney, were not imme-diately returned. Experts hired by the band contend both Stairway to Heaven and Taurus use notes that have been used in music for centuries.

Francis Alexander Malofiy, attor-ney for Wolfe’s trustee Michael Skid-more, praised the ruling. He said while many copyright cases are an up-hill battle, Klausner’s ruling brings his client one step closer to getting Wolfe credit for helping create one of the most recognizable song introductions in rock history.

Skidmore was able to overcome statute-of-limitations hurdles to sue over Stairway to Heaven because the song was remastered and re-released in 2014.

A jury trial is scheduled for May 10 in Los Angeles. Klausner’s ruling removed Zeppelin band member John Paul Jones from the case. Bandmates Robert Plant and Jimmy Page remain defendants in the case.

A trial would represent the third time in recent months that a Los An-geles federal jury has heard a copy-right-infringement case involving a hit song. In March 2015, a jury found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied a Marvin Gaye song to cre-ate their 2013 hit, Blurred Lines and awarded Gaye’s children $7.4 million. A judge trimmed the award, and the verdict is under appeal.

Later in the year, another jury was empaneled to determine whether the Jay-Z hit Big Pimpin’ copied the work of an Egyptian composer, but a judge ruled in the rapper’s favour.

Send in the clones STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN


Tatiana Maslany appears in a scene from ‘Orphan Black.’

TATIANA MASLANY ON THE CHALLENGES OF HER ‘ORPHAN BLACK’ CHARACTERS

Movies with impact: Cineplex plans its first 4DX immersive

movie theatreTORONTO — Lights! Fog! Action!Those are just a few of the promises

so-called 4D technology will bring to Canadian cinemas this summer when movie exhibitor Cineplex opens its first 4DX auditorium.

Designed to make high-octane blockbusters even more appealing, the new theatre replaces traditional seats with motion chairs. Other devices in the theatre recreate environmental effects, like wind, snow and bubbles.

It’s the latest cutting-edge technology being adopted by Hollywood in hopes of keeping moviegoers buying tickets — but the experience comes at a richer price.

While Cineplex hasn’t decided how much it will charge customers, it says

4DX will be the most expensive ticket on its menu, which means it will run upwards of $24.

The company plans to open its first completely redesigned 4DX theatre at Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas and VIP in downtown Toronto.

Quantico star wins prestigious India award

NEW DELHI — Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who has won global acclaim for her role as FBI agent Alex Parrish on ABC’s Quantico, received a prestigious award from India’s president on Tuesday for her contribution to the Indian cinema.

Dressed in a lime-green sari, Chopra received India’s fourth-highest civilian honour from President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.

The former Miss World ventured into Hindi cinema in 2003 with the film The Hero: Love Story of a Spy and Andaaz, and also has a singing career.

Chopra, 33, who flew to India from her Baywatch shoot in Los Angeles to receive the award, said it was “the best award I have ever received.”

In her role on Quantico, she plays an Indian-American whose fledgling FBI career and freedom are in jeopardy after a New York terrorist attack.

Despite her role in the U.S., she says has no intention of abandoning her film career back home.

Sketch-comedy series ‘MADtv’ returning to TV,

satire intactLOS ANGELES — The sketch

comedy series MADtv is making a comeback.

The CW network said it will air eight new one-hour episodes. The show’s format will include its signature pop-culture parodies and “politically incorrect humour,” the network said Monday.

Cast members were not announced, but CW said the reincarnated MADtv will star up-and-coming comedy voices. The show’s hosts will be cast members from the original late-night series, which aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009.

Episodes from that 14-season run are available to stream on CW Seed, the CW’s digital network. Among the many celebrities who appeared on the show: Jack Black, Halle Berry, George Carlin and Jay Z.

A premiere date for the new MADtv was not announced.

Gilmore Girls producer sues for fees on Netflix episodesLOS ANGELES — A producer of

the Gilmore Girls is suing over plans to revive the series for a short run on the streaming service Netflix.

Producer Gavin Polone filed

a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging he is owed nearly $200,000 for the upcoming four-episode run.

Polone was one of the producers on the original series, which aired on the WB and CW networks before ending its 153-episode run in 2007.

Netflix is reviving the series with several of the original actors, including Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel.

An after-hours message sent to Warner Bros. seeking comment was not immediately returned Monday.

Manuscripts among rare Hemingway items shown at

JFK libraryBOSTON — Ernest Hemingway and

John F. Kennedy never met, but the author’s most extensive personal col-lection is housed at JFK’s presidential library and is now on public display.

The exhibition opening this week in Boston includes original manuscripts of some of his most famous literary works letters to other major literary figures of his time photographs and other personal mementos.

Billed as the most extensive muse-um exhibition devoted to the Nobel Prize winner’s life and work, Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars, en-joyed a three-month run at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum last year.

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It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to Sharon Irene Johnston (nee Kanten) of Rimbey, Alberta. Sharon passed away in the early hours of Friday, April 8, 2016 at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre at the age of 71 years, after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. She spent her fi nal days in the excellent care provided by the staff of the Rimbey Hospital, for which we are all grateful. Sharon was born in Edmonton, but lived in Halkirk, Alberta for her

preschool years. She then moved to Sylvan Lake where she attended school at what is now H.J. Cody School, and then high school at Lindsay Thurber in Red Deer. After high school, Sharon took nursing courses in Calgary, and later worked at the Holy Cross Hospital and the Calgary General, as well as the Red Deer Regional Hospital. The last 21 years of her career were spent taking care of those less fortunate at Michener Centre in Red Deer. The retirement years found Sharon on a hobby farm, where she enjoyed working with cattle and horses. She enjoyed outdoor activities and traveling. “Sharon will always be remembered by the friends she has made during her time with us.” Sharon will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by her husband of 37 years, Ron Armstrong of Rimbey; and three children: her son, Darrell (Chris) Johnston of Lacombe and their family, Cassandra and Haley; her daughter, Teresa (Perry) Ronca of Winfi eld and their family, Hayden and Jared; and her son, Jason (BettyAnn) Johnston of Victoria, B.C. and their family, Madison and Ashley. She will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by two sisters: Susan (Wally) Penner of Lethbridge and their family, Kelly and Allison; and Coreen (David) Frey of Spruce Grove and their family, Josh, Andrew and Amy; and one brother, Randy (Gloria) Kanten of Blackfalds and their son, Chris; in addition to other close relatives, and many cherished friends. Sharon was predeceased by her parents, Adolph and Verona Kanten. With respect for Sharon’s wishes, no formal Funeral Service will be held. Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Sharon’s Memory may be made directly to the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre - Administration, Box 440, Rimbey, Alberta T0C 2J0. Condolences to the Johnston Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_refl [email protected] Arrangements for the Late Sharon Irene Johnston

(nee Kanten) entrusted to the care ofOBERHAMMER FUNERAL CHAPELS LTD.

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DONALDTerry David Donald of Rimbey, Alberta passed away at the Rimbey Hospital and Care Centre on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at the age of 49 years. Terry will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his parents, Ruth and Dan Donald of Rimbey; and his wife, Tara and their two children, Joseph and Evelyn, all of Sylvan Lake. He will also be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his two brothers, Tim (Colleen) Donald of Innisfail; and Todd (Amy) Donald of Calgary; his three nieces: Avery, Kaylyn, and Sadie; his nephew, Joshua; as well as numerous other relatives and many close friends. Terry was predeceased by his paternal grandparents, David and Gida Donald; and his maternal grandparents, Roy and Audrey Carruthers. A Public Memorial Service in Celebration of Terry’s Life will be held at the Rimbey United Church, Rimbey on Friday, April 15, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. with the Reverend Deborah Laing offi ciating. Cremation took place at the Central Alberta Crematorium, Red Deer. If friends desire, memorial tributes in Terry’s Memory may be made directly to the Trust Funds for Terry’s Children, Joseph and Evelyn Donald, c/o Investors Group, Attention: Ryan Metzger, #200, 4909 - 49 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1V1; or to the Canadian Cancer Society, #101, 6751 - 52 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4K8 ( w w w . c a n c e r . c a ) . Condolences to the Donald Family may also be expressed by e-mail to: special_refl [email protected] and Cremation Arrangements for the Late Terry David Donald entrusted to the care of

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BARGAda 1930 - 2016Mrs. Ada Elizabeth Barg (nee Burkholder) of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at Harmony Care Home, Red Deer on Monday, April 11, 2016 at the age of 85 years. Ada was born on June 20, 1930 at Markham, Ontario, the daughter of Amos and Fanny Burkholder. She moved out west; and taught school in Northern Alberta. After marrying her husband, Philip, she moved to British Columbia where they farmed at Chilliwack and also at Vanderhoof. After fi nally moving to Red Deer in 1999, Ada kept busy volunteering at the Golden Circle, Potter’s Hands, the Red Deer Food Bank and sewing baby blankets for Ronald McDonald House. Ada will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Katherine Barg and her favorite son-in-law, Jeff Pennington. She will also be sadly missed by her sisters-in-law, Edna Barg, Anna Barg, and Evelyn Burkholder; as well as several nieces and nephews. Ada was predeceased by her beloved husband, Philip in 1997. A Celebration of Ada’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, April 15, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of fl owers, Memorial Donations in Ada’s honor may be made directly to the Potter’s Hands Ministry at PO Box 27093, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 6X8 or to the Red Deer Food Bank Society at 7429 - 49 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 1N2. Condolences may be sent or viewed atwww.parklandfuneralhome.com

Arrangements in care of PARKLAND FUNERAL

HOME AND CREMATORIUM6287 - 67 A Street

(Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040 or 1.800.481.7421

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ALLISONLois KatherineSept. 11, 1939 - Mar. 26, 2016 Lois passed away early March 26, 2016, at the Red Deer Regional Hospital after her fi nal battle with lifelong diabetes. Lois was born in Bentley, Alberta, to Ernie and May Koski. She attended school in Nordegg, AB, and Red Deer at Lindsay Thurber High School where she met her high school sweetheart, Gary, who became her husband May 16, 1959. Lois is survived by her husband, Gary, of 57 years, daughter, Susan (Jim), son, Joe (Juanita), granddaughters; Lindsay (Jason), Lauren (Robert) and Danielle (Peter), and grandson, Darcy. She will also be sorely missed by her sister, Linda (Frank), sisters-in-law; Diane (Albert) and Linda (Robert), good friends; Arlene and Gerrit Visser and Marylynn Foote and Paul Kane, and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She recently was made a most proud great- grandmother with the arrival of Danielle’s (and Peter’s) son, Jackson. Lois was always working at some project-she was a fi ne knitter and would perfectly sew anything you could want. She was a great cook and baker and her Christmas recipes shall live on through her children. Always “if something is worth doing it’s worth doing right” was her motto, whether crafting, cooking or bookkeeping-her fi nal profession before retirement. We will miss her. The family would like to thank Dr. Johan Viljoen and Dr. Kim Jim and the staff on Unit 31, as well as many neighbors for their kind acts and compassionate care. At Lois’ request no formal service will be held. Family and friends are invited to join us for a memorial tea on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at the Radisson Hotel on 67th Street, Red Deer, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.comArrangements entrusted to

EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL

4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.Phone (403) 347-2222

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HERDERJudy Anne (nee Parker)Aug. 2, 1944 - Apr. 6, 2016Judy passed away peacefully with her family by her side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, after a very courageous battle with cancer. Judy was born to Albert & Ruby Parker in High River, AB. She moved to Red Deer and met the love of her life, her handsome prince, Robert W. Herder, and married in January of 1963. Together they raised Jim (Lisa) Herder and Kim Reno (Craig), welcomed Danielle (Kevin) Silo. Grandchildren followed; Joel Reno, Rayelle (Mike) Byzitter, Colby, Grayson, Teryn Herder, Ryan and Ben Silo, and two very precious great-grandchildren; Mason and Ariel Byzitter. Survived by sisters-in-law; Betty Tisdale, June Hedemark, brother-in-law, Charlie Herder, and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. She lived a very active life. She sang in the Red Deer Musical Theatre, sang in the Sylvan Lake Sympathy Band, along with weddings, funerals, lodges, and nursing homes. She often sang “Oh Canada” at Rodeos with her grandchildren in tow. She was a lifetime board member of the Red Deer Westerner and was the entertainment Director of the exposition. She was a founding member of the Sylvan Lake Food Bank and the Care & Share. Judy was also the Sylvan Lake Welcome Wagon hostess for many years as well as hosting the welcome wagon bridal and baby showers. She was the hostess and Director for the Shaw Cable’s Sylvan Showcase. She received numerous awards including Sylvan Lake’s Citizen of the year twice, Farm Family of the year, KG & CKRD Country Citizen of the Day. Judy was also a member of the Kinnettes and the Red Hat Ladies. The door was always open for anyone. Special thanks to Dr. Bahlis at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Unit 32 Nurses and Doctors at the Red Deer Regional hospital. A Celebration of Judy’s Life will be held at the Harvest Centre, Westerner Park, Red Deer, on Monday, April 18, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Donations in Judy’s honor may be made directly 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

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MOOREBrian KennethIt is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our father, Brian Kenneth Moore, on April 5, 2016 at the age of 67 years. Brian was predeceased by his parents; Arnold and Gertrude Moore of Red Deer, and brother, Darcy Moore. He leave behind four children; Nicole (Matt) Wyntjes, Christie (Andrew Mardell) Moore, Robert (Tawnee) Moore, and Justin Moore, as well as six grandchildren. A Graveside Service will be held at Alto Reste Cemetery, Hwy 11 East, Red Deer County, on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

Arrangements entrusted toEVENTIDE FUNERAL

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Phone (403) 347-2222

In Memoriam

DONNA RUSSELL1940 - 2011

Still With Us

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow;

I am a diamond glint on snow.I am the sunlight on ripened grain;

I am the gentle autumn rain.When you awake

in the morning hushI am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling fl ight.I am the soft star shine at night.

Do not stand by my grave and cry.

I am not there... I DID NOT DIE.

Love from your family

LIEBIG - ROYAug. 1, 1945 - Apr. 13, 2011In loving memory of Roy -

Husband, Father,Grandfather, Great-Grand-

father who passed away fi ve years ago today.

We sadly miss you along life’s way,

You are quietly remembered everyday.

Even though you are not in our lives to share,

You are in our hearts and always there.

We treasure the pastWith memories that will

always last. Deeply missed and loved

forever, your family

BARBARIAN CELEBRATIONS

Celebrating her 80th Birthday is BARBARA Swinton Her family is gathering from Western Canada

to celebrate at Sherwood Park in May. In the picture she is holding her good friend

Dr. IAN Younger marking the 70th anniversary of his graduating M.D with honors

from the University of Alberta.

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It was painting day at the Pani-ni shop. As of right now I seem to be bathing in a slew of Panini’s so you will have to deal with yet another sand-wich-store related rambling. We had decided to scrimp a bit in the paint department since our bay has outland-ishly high ceilings. We didn’t want to be spending a small fortune on paint, so we chose the cheapest orange (The Hot Wire’s logo colour) paint we could find.

I was pumped and I just knew it was going to be spectacular!

However after the fourth applica-tion of paint I began to get a little per-turbed. By perturbed I mean sobbing hopelessly on the ground asking the thin air in front of me why I could still see every damn brush stroke and flaw that this stupid wall had to offer.

I asked Jamie to go ask the paint shop people across the street what we could possibly be doing wrong. I would have gone myself but lately I’ve been trying this “kindness” thing on for size and let’s just say I wasn’t in a particu-larly kind mood at that moment.

It turns out orange is one of the most difficult paints to apply. Right from the beginning this detail in combination with our super insanely cheap paint was a cocktail for the perfect disaster. These were the “expert’s” exact words to Jamie when he explained our paint-ing plight.

Would have been nice to know when we were in there yesterday buying all of this contemptible orange paint—but okay, thanks for the tip Tips.

Things started looking up however after applying the fifth and final coat to the walls. I was feeling good un-til I looked at the time to find that I had about seven minutes to get to the kids’ school to pick them up. Now if you know me, you know that this would have sent my emotions reeling. I had to get across the city in seven minutes or else I was going to be late. Me? Late? NEVER!

As I spotted my car I

contemplated doing the whole jump and slide over the hood spectacle but envisioned myself simply body slam-ming into the side of it as a feeble al-ternative. I’d probably dent it up pretty bad and end up smearing the still wet paint from my clothes all over its white exterior too. It would be a mess. So I just walked around to the driver’s side instead.

I was making good time until that sweet little elderly woman cut me off.

“Be calm Lindsay, it’s just a little further. Stay calm.” The ninety year old was topping her motor vehicle out at a whopping 30 kilometers an hour. I had what was adding up to be a damned convoy behind me of angry motorists some of who were even flipping me the bird.

I was about to throw down some pretty creative language myself when I remembered my “Quest for Kindness”. Earlier that day my friend Janelle and I were talking about how we wanted to actively bring more kindness into our lives and the lives of others. I’ve said that before, but I actually meant it this time—I swear. So I curled down my middle finger and gently put my hand back on the wheel.

Eventually I got to school. I wasn’t even late…by that much. It actually killed me a little inside.

On our way home the kids asked to stop at the park. As much as I just want-ed to get home and wash the remnants of that dastardly orange paint off of my skin I agreed because I’d rather them blow off steam in the open fields of the park than in the small confines of our car.

Moments after sitting down I noticed a few of the surrounding parents star-ing at me.

Some of them were having full out conversations and I seemed to be their subject matter.

If I were in a bad 90’s movie I would have said something catty like, “take a picture it lasts longer.”

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“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”

– Cicero, Roman statesman, and ora-tor

“How?” he asked. “How could I have worked so hard yet have failed so utterly?”

I was speaking with a client about building self-esteem. I knew he had worked hard over the years to over-come a number of personal issues and to resurrect his badly damaged self-es-teem. As of late, he had fallen into a deep depression and had grown in-creasingly despondent.

“What is it that you fear?” I asked, “more than anything else in the world?”

He looked at me for a few moments. “Mistakes. I fear to make mistakes.”

“And how do you feel when you make mistakes? Does it upset you?”

“Upset me?” he replied and laughed. “It kills me. It destroys me.”

“When you make a mistake,” I be-gan, leaning nearer, “do you learn something from it or do you feel, in-stead, that it’s a confirmation of your inadequacies – your lack of personal value?”

The greatest fear of most people with low self-esteem is making a mis-take. That’s because fear and anxiety are the main beams that support a poor self-image. It was certainly the case with me and not surprisingly is for most people who come to see me for self-esteem coaching.

Based upon our early childhood experiences, we develop a sense of how and where we fit in the scheme of things. It is typically during our forma-tive years that we decide whether we are competent, worthy and lovable, or incompetent, unworthy and unlovable. If we buy into the negative view, then we move through life constantly on guard, prepared for disappointment.

Like many people growing up in my generation, it was undesirable and un-wise to disappoint my parents, my fa-ther in particular. Though a forthright and honourable man, he could be a harsh taskmaster. Explanations were brief and punishment for mistakes were at times crushing. This was not

always the case but often enough that I became frightened of making mistakes and developed a controlling, perfec-tionistic approach to life, especially in the workplace.

For years, I viewed mistakes as a confirmation of my own ineptitude and lack of personal worth and value, proof that I was a failure. It took me years to retrain my brain to look at mistakes as a growth opportunity and a natural consequence of living, learn-ing and evolving.

Fear has a way of permeating every aspect of our life. When we’re fright-ened of a potential outcome, it’s diffi-cult to make good decisions, to remain open, hopeful and positive, and to de-liver the best possible results for our efforts. It also makes it tremendously difficult to bounce back from disap-pointments and perceived failures or to expect anything better in the future.

Now I should point out that some fear of mistakes is a good thing – it helps us to improve our performance. Most of us want to do well in our en-deavours and that’s a reasonable and admirable expectation. Our employers certainly hope the number of mistakes we make are few and far between. We hope the surgeon or airline pilot

doesn’t make a mistake. We would hope the bookkeeper doesn’t make a mistake and shortchange us on our paycheque. It is only when we become obsessively and irrationally focused on avoiding mistakes that it becomes an issue.

In my own self-work and from the time I’ve spent working with others, I’ve isolated four common fears that plague those of us who fear making mistakes resulting from low self-es-teem.

The fear of doing something wrong and thus confirming our own insuffi-ciency.

The fear of being perceived as inad-equate and thus a failure in the eyes of others.

The fear of re-experiencing humili-ation, disappointment, devastation or despair.

The fear of disappointing others and being faced with rejection or dis-approval.

The good news is, through perse-verance and a genuine commitment to building self-esteem, many of these fears will gradually disappear or be reduced to more manageable levels.

Allowing yourself to make mistakes

EXTREME ESTEEM

MURRAY FUHRER

“Let’s go to the corner.”Although it was long ago and I was

but a child, not yet old enough to drive a car, but old enough to ride my bike using no hands all the way there, I hear the words in my mind.

All the way there was probably not much more than a few city blocks, but it was a gravel road and to get to the cor-ner you had to cross a highway, which even in those days, if memory serves me correctly, was busy.

I think of those words, “let’s go to the corner,” every time I drive by that old corner store, which I do quite often as it is in route to my daughter’s house.

The store is falling down, sticking out like a poor wounded appendage on the prairie landscape, a desolate eyesore, interrupting the fresh face of spring as it slowly springs to life, nod-ding and quivering and shaking itself free of winter’s clutches.

Some of its windows are gaping holes, others are boarded up and the whole place cries of desolation and loneliness.

But, it wasn’t always like that.And every time I drive by, I see, in

the camera lens of my mind, the flash of a memory and the way it was.

It was a busy store, thriving and al-ways full of customers. It seems to me that the door had a bell that jingled when you walked in and I think there were stools around a short counter.

They must have sold newspapers there, because I remember the store-owner saying my brother could tear a newspaper apart like nobody he ever knew, reading it from cover to cover.

I remember thinking, “is that a good thing? Should I be proud or embar-rassed?”

The store also had a meat counter with a glass case, which, for some rea-

son, I found quite fascinating.In those days you could buy a bottle

of pop and a chocolate bar for less than a quarter if you were lucky enough, of course, to have a quarter.

The corner store was part of the small town I grew up in. The town should probably be referred to a ham-let as it had not much more than one street and pretty much all of us lived on that one street.

To me, at least, the hamlet boasted some, if not all of the necessities of life.

It had a school. The school, when I was growing up, only went to Grade 6 and then, all kids, even those of us who were less than brave and did not want to, had to go to this great big high school.

The great big school housed all the kids from all the little one-street towns nearby as well as all the farm kids who lived in-between.

They called it amalgamation.I didn’t like it. I liked coming home

for lunch and playing catch with my dad or my brother in my front yard, which, with a little imagination, could easily be turned into a ball field.

The town also had two grain eleva-tors, at least it did until one of them burned down, and then, a few years later, the second one disappeared too, along with the railroad tracks and the station house.

The general stores were probably the last to go. But in my mind’s eye, I see it all again. The way we were.

The store, alive and full of custom-ers, my brother, sitting inside, the pag-es of a newspaper scattered in front of him, and me, riding my bike, no hands, down a gravel road on my way to the corner. And then the image is gone, and I’m back to the present.

But I remember. And I can only hope I will always remember.

The way we were!Treena Mielke lives in Sylvan Lake and

is editor of the Rimbey Review. She has been a journalist and columnist for more than 25 years. Treena is married to Pe-ter and they have three children and six grandchildren.

Memories of the corner store

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Trying out this kindness thing

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Do your best to be compassionate, caring and creative.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a strong need to succeed, and work very well in lead-ership roles.

But you must find ways to relieve your stress levels. July and August are lucky months for love and romance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Although you’re desperate for a heavenly holiday, a new job cycle has started that requires hard work and involves extra responsibilities. Stay the course and you’ll travel in style later on!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many cre-ative Taureans are in the mood for some delicious daydreaming, as you escape into your own private fantasy world — invitation only! Solitude is definitely soul food for you at the moment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Optimism is high and there is the potential to do very well. But don’t spoil success by being slap-

dash and careless with others. Take the time to absorb important details

along the way today Twins.CANCER (June 21-July 22): With the

Moon visiting your sign today, it’s time to indulge your senses through good food and wine plus art, music and convivial company. And single Crabs are ready for some fabu-lous flirting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today’s star pat-terns increase your desire to party in person, plus boost your social networking profile. But don’t languish on the sofa for too long Lions — some vigorous physical activity is a must.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attached Virgos — find ways you can add some extra romance and pizzazz to the partnership. Sin-gles — give philanderers the flick.

Look for love with someone who is cre-ative, kind and compassionate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Close rela-tionships are complicated at the moment but Venus encourages you to swallow your pride, slap on a happy smile, and hold out the olive branch of peace.

Feel the love Libra!SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you are

patient today, you’ll muddle through. But avoid getting drawn into petty power plays. Single Scorpios — you need a partner who you can have a decent conversation with.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re a popular person, as the planets fire up your social zones and you’re keen to con-

verse and chat; mix and mingle. But make sure you think things through

before you talk, text and tweet.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A cre-

ative and compassionate approach works well with a confused child, teenager or close friend.

Don’t assume you know what the prob-lem is though. Listen carefully to what they have to say.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The po-tential is there to make some beneficial new connections today — both in person and online.

So use your natural entrepreneurial skills

to search out new opportunities before they actually happen.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may have to let go of a relationship that’s no lon-ger working, which will give you the freedom to move forward.

Single Fish — love is likely with some-one from another country or culture.

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Overcoming a fear – such as making mistakes– involves dissecting our be-lief system. Sure, some mistakes have dire consequences, but most are mi-nor and the outcome negligible. How often have you concluded that making a mistake will lead to dreadful con-sequences that can’t be undone like being fired, or that making a mistake will result in ridicule? Think about it – how often has the outcome of a mis-take been far less than you imagined? When you expect the worst and react emotionally to that expectation, you create stress and anxiety for yourself.

Here’s a little exercise I’ve used to calm myself down and bring things back into perspective. When I become fixated on a potentially negative out-come, I grab a pen and piece of paper and write down the fearful thought. Sometimes, when I see the thought on paper, it becomes apparent just how negative and distorted it is, and how unlikely. Then I begin to write down alternative outcomes – the more likely ones – and I look for the lesson and the learning. This breaks my tendency to assume that everything I think is fact when (in fact), it’s just a thought.

Keep in mind that anytime you ex-plore new territory or try something new, you’re going to make mistakes. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re likely not taking enough risks. And if you’re not taking risks, you’re most surely stalling your progress and your evolution.

Perhaps American writer and phi-losopher Elbert Hubbard expressed it best when he wrote, “The greatest mis-

I was worn down from a wretched day. Sodden in sweat stained clothes and crappy orange paint. My hair was whipping about wildly as I had lost my tie somewhere in the midst of it all. I probably looked homeless. No wonder these jerks wanted to style a few verbal jabs in my direction. I gave them a friendly/awkward smile and a wave. They looked shocked that I had acknowledged them and that made me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside.

Perhaps that’s why I then yelled in the grimiest of voices, “Come’n kids! Uncle Toenail gets out on parole today and it’s our turn to pick him up!”

And it occurred to me that some-times kindness can be as simple as giving the judgmental strangers on the next bench over something interesting to talk about.

Lindsay Brown is an Alberta mother of two and freelance columnist.

BROWN: Jabs

take you can make in life is to be con-tinually fearing you will make one.”

Give yourself permission to make the occasional mistake and, when you do, instead of projecting a fearful out-come or becoming overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, consider it an op-portunity to learn, grow and succeed – tuition paid to the learning institution called life.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His most recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Fac-tors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

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Dear Annie: I am a young lady in my 20s, and I think I’ve found the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. I want to start a family and build a life with him, but I don’t know how that’s going to happen.

“Jonathan” takes care of his mother and father.

They are on disability, even though they aren’t truly disabled.

They don’t drive, but can do any-thing other people do. It’s just hard for them.

His parents are wonderful people and I love them to death, but Jona-than drops everything to tend to them, whether it’s going to the grocery store or lending them money.

It’s hard for me to think we could have a family of our own when he al-ready has one, and it’s a big responsi-bility.

Jonathan works hard every day and can never say no to his parents, and his father would give him plenty of atti-tude if he did. I would do anything for my parents, but when is it too much? — The Young Lady

Dear Lady: Most people on disabil-ity have a reason, so when you say his parents are not “truly disabled,” you could be wrong.

The things that are hard for them, along with their inability to drive, could make their lives more difficult than you realize.

And a man who takes such good care of his parents might make an ex-cellent husband and father.

However, if you think his parents are somehow scamming the system and taking advantage of their son, you might want to back away from this re-lationship.

Jonathan is unlikely to curtail his level of responsibility and would re-sent you if you forced the issue.

We hope you will have a serious talk

with Jonathan about this, so you can see where his priorities are, and how deeply they conflict with yours.

Dear Annie: “A Frustrated South Dakotan,” says he has epilepsy with “very minor seizures,” and is unhappy that his mother restricts his activities. Your recommendation of the Epilep-sy Foundation website is excellent. There are a couple of specific points I would like to address:

1. States have regulations against people driving when they may have a sudden loss of consciousness for any reason (seizures, narcolepsy, low blood sugar).

This is for the protection of every-one on the road and sidewalk. If a per-son who knowingly has uncontrolled seizures causes an accident, he may be at risk for criminal charges. At the very least, his insurance rates will go up.

2. Seizures often occur without warning, making some activities dan-gerous, including bathing or swimming without a close observer, being the only adult in charge of small children,

etc. One goal of seizure treatment is to be able to do what others do, and this goal can be achieved with proper plan-ning and modifications. “Frustrated” should work with a neurologist to get the seizures under control.

3. If “Frustrated” had a seizure and fell, he could get frostbite in the win-ter or heatstroke in the summer. None-theless, he could walk alone by agree-ing on a route and calling home when he reaches his destination.

I suggest that “Frustrated” and his mom explore the EFA website, then draw up a contract they can both live with — one that will keep him safe and reduce Mom’s anxiety. — Dr. B.B., Neu-rologist

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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