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Cleanup begins after severe windstorm in B.C.A vicious windstorm on Saturday knocked down trees and caused thousands of people to lose power.

Story on PAGE A5FORECAST ON A2

WEATHER Increasing cloudiness. High 19. Low 7

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

The Red Deer Advocate has a new managing editor.Josh Aldrich officially takes

over the top spot in the edi-torial department today from longtime managing editor John Stewart, who is retiring at the end of September. Stewart has been in the post for six and a half years and an important member of the Advocate news-room for more than 36 years.

Aldrich, 32, should be a fa-miliar face to Advocate read-ers, having spent six combined years in various roles at the paper.

“It is an honour to be given this opportunity to lead a tal-ented group of journalists and editors,” he said. “I

have learned much from John and the experienced group we have in the department. My goal is to con-tinue to put out the best product we can on a daily basis to keep our readers across Central Alberta informed of all the news and information that is im-portant in their day-to-day lives.”

As the new managing editor, Aldrich says there will be some changes to the Advocate, but he has no plans to turn the paper on its head.

One of the big adjustments he has already over-seen is the re-imagining of the Friday Forward pub-lication.

“We do what we do extremely well,” he said. “With an experienced, dedicated staff, we are the undis-puted source for local news in Central Alberta.”

A graduate of the Grant MacEwan College jour-nalism program in 2002, he has had stops as a re-porter and editor at the St. Paul Journal, the Meridian Booster in Lloydminster, the Nanaimo Daily News and is now in his second stint at the Advocate.

At each step along the way, he and the papers he has worked for have earned numerous industry

awards. It’s a standard at the Advocate that he will strive to continue.

“I’m thrilled that Josh will be leading the news team at the Advocate,” said Advocate publisher Mary Kemmis. “His knowledge of the area and connec-tions to our community will ensure that the Advo-

cate continues to be Central Alberta’s most trusted source of local news and information.”

Despite living all over the province while growing up and as an adult — with a stint in B.C. and one in Ontario thrown in — he has always been drawn back to this region.

“There is not much more I could ask for out of a community than what is afforded here in Red Deer — from its location, to its opportunities and most of all the people,” said Aldrich.

“I got into the business to tell the story of those I am covering and to be a voice for the people. Now, more than ever, it is a banner that is increasingly im-portant for newspapers to carry.”

Aldrich takes over as Advocate managing editor

Josh Aldrich

ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Marinolo Tababan tries to avoid a Ricardo Revilla punch during one of 13 friendly boxing matches at the grand opening of the Red Deer and District Boxing Club Saturday evening. The club has moved to a new facility at Unit 5, 4940 5th Ave. and is open from 7-9 p.m. Monday through Thursday for potential members to attend training sessions. The Red Deer and District Boxing Club has turned out a large handful of top-notch fighters, including twins Lester and Lowie Cudillo, who have competed throughout Western Canada and won the majority of their tournaments and various awards during their short careers. Amateur standout Brian Samuel, who won a bronze medal in the 2013 Canadian senior national championships and has now embarked on a pro career, still coaches at the not-for-profit club and leads the workouts most nights. Head coach Dennis Ejack recently retired as the vice-president of Boxing Alberta and is assisted by numerous volunteers. The club’s emphasis is on fun, safety and good sportsmanship and prospective members who are not interested in stepping into the ring are still welcome as workouts will be tailored to various needs.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

An early fall is what Albertans need for smoke-free skies, according to Environment Canada.

Smoke has been streaming into Southern and Cen-tral Alberta from Washington State and a few fires in Southern British Columbia for about five days and will likely continue for another month as the wait continues for precipitation to douse the flames.

Brian Proctor, warning preparedness meteorolo-gist, said September is generally dry, but seasonal transition could occur to bring about fall precipita-tion.

“It can happen in September. It more typically happens in October. So what I’m suggesting is we have the potential to be plagued with smoke for

much of September,” Proctor said on Friday.He said by Sunday the Red Deer area should im-

prove due to a cold front off the B.C. coast moving inland and crossing west central Alberta.

But that won’t be enough to solve the problem, he said.

“What really has to happen is fall has to get here for (firefighters) to start to get a handle on things and some decent amount of moisture onto those fires. For that to happen, we have to slot ourselves into the pattern none of us want to talk about at this time of year where we start looking at some rain and poten-tially some snowfall.”

The air quality health index on Friday was fore-cast to reach a maximum of eight on a scale of 10 in the Red Deer area.


It’s no surprise that an inspiring Red Deer Public teacher wants the money she won for being a top teacher to go towards developing a ‘maker space’ at her school.

École Barrie Wilson Elementary School teacher Amanda Wilson was one of three teachers to re-cently win the 2015 Canadian Family Great Teacher Award. Each won $2,500 for school programming and supplies.

The ninth annual awards program by the online magazine Canadian Family recognizes outstanding elementary and secondary school educators from across the country.

Twelve semi-finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from among hundreds of nominees. Online voting determined the winners with Wilson receiving the most votes, more than 71,000, during the month-long contest.

Wilson said her winnings will be put toward a maker space which could include toys, like Lego, and tools, like a 3D printer, for students to make things, to play, to be creative.

“We’re hoping to start this year. It’s quite expen-sive to buy all the things that a really good maker space would have. We’re going to put this money towards it and hopefully we can add to it as we grow and budget for it,” said Wilson, 30, of Red Deer.

She teaches a Grade 4/5 split class in a double classroom space with another teacher with a Grade 3/ 4 split class in the new school that opened Septem-ber 2014.

The room has a foldable wall to divide the space, but the two teachers prefer to keep it open.

“It’s been really cool. There’s been lots of col-laboration between her and I, and with other staff. The kids also have a lot of opportunity to collaborate with each other which has been really interesting and a huge learning experience for all of us.”

She said her school focuses on project-based learning and researching real world issues instead of just textbook learning.

“It’s really exciting to teach that way when the kids are so excited to learn about things they want to learn about.”

She was nominated for the award by a parent whose child was in Wilson’s class when she taught at Mountview Elementary School as well as at Bar-rie Wilson. Barrie Wilson principal Chris Good said Wilson is one of those teachers that does a lot of re-search into best practices and spends time building relationships with her students.

“She just has a really engaging classroom. The kids love to be in her room. The parents are ex-cited to have their kids in her room,” Good said. “I can speak as a parent too. My son was ac-tually in her class last year,” the principal said.Wilson said she was very humbled to receive the award.

Award-winning teacher

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Early fall would clear smoke from Central Alberta skies

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ing every day. To be the person picked out to be nominated is pretty surreal.”

Wilson is teaching at the school named after her father, a retired teacher. Her mother was also a teacher.

“I tried to fight the teacher gene a little bit. While I was going to school I coached gymnastics and I realized I really loved coaching gymnastics and I realized that basically was teaching — just sports. I decided that was kind of my passion and went back to get my education degree.”[email protected]

SMOKE: ForecastA score between seven and 10 is considered a

high health risk. At 5 p.m. the health risk hit four, or moderate.

Proctor said within the large-scale smoke plumes very strong, localized concentrations can occur.

“There can be variations in smoke concentration just like there can be variations in temperature dis-tribution across a community,” Proctor said.

On Aug. 24, Central Zone of Alberta Health Ser-vices issued air quality advisory. Residents were warned that they could experience temporary eye and throat irritation and shortness of breath from prolonged exposure to smoky air. The very young, very old, or those with pre-existing respiratory or cardiovascular illnesses, such as angina, heart con-ditions, asthma or emphysema, were at higher risk

for complications. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, medical officer of health for

AHS Central Zone, said the advisory will remain in effect until air quality improves based on current conditions and the forecast. During the week Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre emergency depart-ment did not see a significant increase in the num-ber of patients with respiratory conditions.

“Our hope is by providing advice we’re preventing serious illness in people who would be the most sen-sitive to those impacts,” Hinshaw said.

Air quality in many areas of Alberta is updated regularly on the Alberta Environment and Parks at www.airquality.alberta.ca. Air quality information is also available toll-free at [email protected]

LOTTERIES

Calgary: today, in-creasing cloudiness. High 19. Low 8.

Olds, Sundre: today, increasing cloudiness. High 19. Low 4

Rocky, Nordegg: today, 30% showers. High 18. Low 3.

Banff: today, mix of sun and cloud. High 16. Low 7.

Jasper: today, mix of sun and cloud. High

16. Low 6.

Lethbridge: today, mainly sunny. High 19. Low 10.

Edmonton: today, mainly sunny. High 23. Low 9.

Grande Prairie: to-day, sunny. High 18. Low 8.

Fort McMurray: to-day, sunny. High 23. Low 9.

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WINDCHILL/SUNLIGHT

GRANDEPRAIRIE18/8

JASPER16/6

BANFF16/7

EDMONTON23/9

RED DEER19/7

CALGARY19/8

FORT MCMURRAY23/9

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Increasing cloudiness

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Showers. Low 4. HIGH 19 LOW 7 HIGH 20 HIGH 13 HIGH 13

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UV:5Extreme: 11 or higherVery high: 8 to 10High: 6 to 7Moderate: 3 to 5Low: Less than 2Sunset tonight: 8:25 p.m.Sunrise Tuesday: 6:46 a.m.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Ecole Barrie Wilson grade 4/5 teacher Amanda Wilson is back in the classroom this week preparing for the beginning of the school year. Wilson is a recipient of the 2015 Canadian Family Great Teacher Award.

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Out of piles of Lego came helicopters, birds, jets, a space ship, a dragon, and a hot air balloon built by youngsters at Bower Place shopping centre on Satur-day.

Bower Place’s Wild West Club for Kids kickoff event featured Canada’s only Lego-certified builder and attracted enthusiastic Lego fans on Friday and Saturday.

Thomas Puzey, 11, of Red Deer, took home one of three prizes awarded following one of Saturday’s Lego building contests. Twenty contestants were given 30 minutes to build something for the theme ‘it flies.’

“At first I was going to build a duck, but changed it to a chicken because there wasn’t enough pieces,” said Puzey who decided to make both a chicken and a chick.

“The chick just hatched so the chicken was teaching the chick how to fly,” said Puzey who has been building with Lego for years.

Lego-certified professional Robin Sather said the fear was that video games and the digital world would finish tactile toys. But Lego is more popular than ever.

“There’s nothing that beats having those little plastic bricks, those little creations that you made with your own hands. Nothing really replaces that,” said Sather who offered encouraging words to contestants on Saturday as they pieced together Lego bricks.

“People sometimes talk about the demise of creativity and imagination. No, it’s alive and well. With some kids, you need to scrape off a few layers to get them to access it. But once they’ve started, they’re good to go.”

The small, plastic bricks bounced and clattered together as little hands sorted through Lego piles to find just the right pieces.

When the last bricks were in place, some children couldn’t help but play with their flying machines by waiving them in the air.

“I always encourage story building. Not just build a truck — tell a story. It helps them add detail and more interest to a creation,” said Sather, 50, of Abbotsford, B.C.

Sather heads Brickville Designworks and has specialized in creating amazing LEGO models and running Lego-based events full-time for seven years.

“I’ve been playing with Lego since I was a little kid. Professionally, I’m been doing it for almost for 12 years.”

He’s known for creating a giant Lego Egyptian sphinx, about 2.5-metre tall.

On Friday and Saturday, Sather spent about 10 hours building a 1.2-metre tall Lego wall with the Bower Place horse logo that a few Wild West Club for Kids members got to demolish Saturday night.

“I think of them as sandcastles. You enjoy our sandcastle for the day. The tide is going to come in

and wash it away and you’re going to have fresh sand the next day. A whole new castle. A whole new ad-venture,” Sather said.

For more Lego information visit www.brickville.ca and for Wild West Club for Kids go to www.bower-place.com.

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Lego Certified Professional Robin Sather begins work on a Lego replica of the Bower Place sign at the mall’s centre court during the Lego build event kicking off the Wild West Club for kids on Friday afternoon.

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WASHINGTON — The Canadian border got dragged into the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign on Sunday, with a prominent candidate appearing to entertain the notion of building a giant wall on the 49th parallel.

The idea was raised in a talk-show interview with Republican contender Scott Walker, who after being pressed twice by the interviewer appeared to agree it was worth considering.

“Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire. They raised some very legitimate concerns, includ-ing some law-enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town-hall meetings about a week and a half ago,” the Wisconsin governor said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

“So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at.”

Walker didn’t dwell on the issue. He quickly steered the conversation to the Middle East, rebuilding the military, and national security. The exchange about Canada never even made it to air, and was edited out of the inter-view highlights that ran on “Meet The Press” and was simply posted on NBC’s

website.The context for the conversation is

the heated U.S. debate about the Mexi-can border. Occasionally, the debate will fleetingly touch upon the northern frontier.

On those rare occasions that the Ca-nadian border does come up it’s likeli-er to be raised, as was the case Sunday, by political commentators than by the presidential candidates themselves.

That’s because the Canadian bor-der makes a handy polemical tool — a pointy needle for pundits seeking to puncture the conservative logic on the other border.

A textbook example was a piece in Politico magazine last fall headlined, “Fear Canada: The real terrorist threat next door.” Its first 18 paragraphs were about Mexico. Before it even men-tioned the word ”Canada,” it sought to demolish a Republican talking-point about ISIL terrorists supposedly sneaking across the Rio Grande.

That’s what Sunday’s exchange was about. In a week when Walker himself raised the terrorists-from-the-south theme, and amid a Republican pri-mary in which the poll-leader, Donald Trump, wants to deport 11 million il-legal migrants and build what he calls the Great Wall of Trump, an interview-

er asked: Why Mexico and not Canada?It was the interviewer who twice

raised the Canadian border. NBC host Chuck Todd challenged Walker to ex-plain the focus on the south and, in do-ing so, he referenced terrorists coming from Canada.

It’s unclear whether he was refer-ring to the repeatedly debunked ca-nard about the 9-11 hijackers. The most famous incident of a terrorist crossing from Canada was failed millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, although sev-eral American political figures over the years have repeated the erroneous claim about the 9-11 hijackers coming from the north.

Todd asked the governor: “The most famous incident that we had of terror-ists coming over our border was on our northern border. Why aren’t you talking about securing the northern border?”

Walker replied that he favoured se-curing borders in general but said the more rampant current problem was on the southern border. Todd pressed him again, prompting Walker to men-tion the northern frontier, in passing. It was reminiscent of an exchange a few days earlier. Once again, it was a media personality who raised Canada as a point of comparison while chiding

a conservative about the other border.The why-not-Canada question was

posed in that case by the most famous Spanish-language journalist in the U.S., prominent Trump nemesis Jorge Ramos.

The anchor on the Univision net-work, who was momentarily expelled from a news conference after he con-fronted Trump, raised it in an inter-view with a Fox News host.

He asked Sean Hannity: “You’re go-ing to do it at the border with Mexico, but how about the 5,000 miles between the U.S. and Canada?” The conserva-tive TV host replied: “I would do it up there, too. I would do it up there, too.”

That kind of chatter — as idle as it might be — can make Canadians jit-tery given that more than one-third of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product in-volves trade with the U.S., and that the tightened border after the 9-11 attacks caused a ripple-effect that still hasn’t completely subsided.

Canada’s defence minister weighed in when asked about Walker’s remarks Sunday, although he said he hadn’t yet heard them. In response, Jason Ken-ney said Canada would protect what he called the largest bilateral trading relationship in economic history and outlined security steps already taken.


MONTREAL — Stephen Harper’s political opponents are calling on the prime minister to take time off the campaign trail and concentrate on se-curing the release of jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

An Egyptian court sentenced Fahmy to three years in prison on Saturday and the foreign affairs critics for both the New Democrats and the Liberals lashed out at Harper for failing to in-tervene earlier in the case.

They both called on him once again to phone Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to personally demand the Al-Jazeera journalist’s release.

“Very concretely, we are asking Ste-phen Harper to put aside the election campaign for a moment and call Presi-dent al-Sisi directly and ask him to send Mr. Fahmy home,” NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Paul Dewar told The Ca-nadian Press.

Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic Marc Garneau told The Canadian Press Harper should contact al-Sisi and “reg-ister Canada’s strongest disapproval, and in fact to make it very clear that

the relationship between Canada and Egypt, which has been a good one, is in jeopardy if Mr. Fahmy has to go back to jail.”

Fahmy faced widely denounced ter-ror charges and spent more than a year in prison before a successful appeal of an earlier conviction resulted in a retrial that culminated in Saturday’s verdict, where Fahmy was sentenced for failing to register with the coun-try’s journalist syndicate, bringing in equipment without security approval, and broadcasting “false news” on Al-Jazeera.

Both Dewar and Garneau accused Harper of failing to take strong action in the Fahmy case. Garneau said it was “very clear” the Harper government’s response was “inadequate” consider-ing Fahmy’s colleague at Al-Jazeera, Peter Greste, was successfully deport-ed to his native Australia because of “direct intervention” on the part of Australian Prime Minister Tony Ab-bott.

Dewar said Harper’s Conservatives, in contrast with the Australian prime minister, decided to “stand on the sidelines and really not step up and do their job.”


OTTAWA — Canada’s police chiefs want legal authority to seize mail in transit to stem the flow of illicit drugs, fake medicine and weapons through the postal system.

In a recently passed resolution, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police say contraband is being sent through the mail “with impunity” be-cause the law forbids officers from swooping in until a parcel arrives at its destination.

This poses a “significant challenge” for police, who must find “alternative ways to work within or around” the sys-tem to apprehend criminals, the chiefs say. The resolution calls on the govern-ment to amend the legislation govern-ing Canada Post to provide police with the ability to obtain a judge’s approval to “seize, detain or retain parcels or

letters” in the mail stream.Canada Post delivered more than

nine billion parcels and letters to some 15 million addresses in Canada last year. International mail flows through large plants in the Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal areas.

A November 2012 report the RC-MP prepared for the chiefs’ organized crime committee revealed that fire-arms, grenades, a rocket launcher, stun guns, dangerous chemicals and drugs including cocaine, heroin and mari-juana were sent through the mail.

“These items represent a significant threat to postal workers and Canadi-ans,” say the chiefs, who passed the resolution this month at their annual conference in Quebec City.

“It is imperative that Canada Post and the law enforcement community develop ways to effectively work to-gether to stop the transmittal of con-traband through the postal system.”

Harper should take break to help Fahmy: NDP, Liberals

Build a wall with Canada?HOW U.S. DEBATE ABOUT MEXICO PUTS FOCUS ON AMERICA’S OTHER BORDER

Police chiefs want power to seize mail

MS BIKE TOUR


Cyclists put their pedals-to-pavement early Saturday morning for the 21st annual MS Bike Tour. The event saw riders bike up to 160 km throughout Central Alberta over the course of Saturday and Sunday in support of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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C E N T R A L A L B E R T A ’ SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R

If a home is not cleaned and cared for, it will become rundown and less habitable or even unlivable. It’s no dif-ferent with our broader surroundings, from the immediate environment to the entire planet.

If we disconnect from the natural world, we be-come discon-n e c t e d f r o m who we are — to the detriment of our health and the health of the ecosystems on which our well-being and sur-vival depend.

Understand-ing that we’re part of nature and acting on t h a t u n d e r -standing makes us healthier and happier, and encourages us to care for the natural systems around us. A growing body of science confirms this, including two recent studies that explore the ways nature benefits human health.

A Toronto-based study, published in Nature and co-authored by a team including University of Chicago psy-chologists Omid Kardan and Marc Ber-man and David Suzuki Foundation

scientist Faisal Moola, examined the relationship between urban trees and human health. According to Neighbor-hood greenspace and health in a large urban center, people living in areas with many trees, especially large trees, report feeling healthier than people in areas with fewer trees.

The other study, published in Eco-system Services and co-authored by scientists from the U.S. National Oce-anic and Atmospheric Administration, reviewed a range of previous research to explore “observed and potential connections among nature, biodiver-sity, ecosystem services and human health and well-being.” The authors of Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and hu-man health and well-being concluded, “the significance of biodiversity to hu-man welfare is immense.”

According to the Toronto study, adding 10 or more trees to a city block offered benefits to individuals equivalent to earning $10,000 more a year, moving to a neighbourhood with $10,000 higher median income or being seven years younger. As well as self-reporting of health and well-being, the study also found reduced rates of heart conditions, cancer, mental health prob-lems and diabetes in areas with more trees.

The NOAA study delved even deep-er into specific physical and mental

health outcomes, finding that people living in areas with abundant green space live longer and experience low-er rates of “anxiety and depression (especially), upper respiratory tract infections, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), severe intestinal complaints, and infectious disease of the intestine” than people deprived of nature.

The researchers concluded that in-creased exposure to nature “can have positive effects on mental/psychologi-cal health, healing, heart rate, concen-tration, levels of stress, blood pressure, behavior, and other health factors.”

They also found that, although eval-uating nature according to the services it provides to humans “may lead to a human-centric view of the biosphere,” preserving these ecosystems and natu-ral biodiversity for our own benefit will improve ecosystem health and the natural services other species need to survive and thrive.

As noted in a Toronto Star article, the Toronto research also found that, “within cities, urban tree lines often follow the fault lines of social, econom-ic, political and ecological disparity.” In other words, protecting and increas-ing green spaces and improving access to them is a social justice as well as a health issue.

This isn’t news to anyone who gets outside regularly. People who spend at

least 30 minutes a day in nature for 30 consecutive days as part of the David Suzuki Foundation’s annual 30X30 Na-ture Challenge report numerous ben-efits, including improved mood and vitality and a greater interest in the natural world. It’s why the Founda-tion is launching the Back to School Superhero Challenge on Sept. 21 to encourage kids, families, students and teachers to get outdoors, learn about environmental issues and make a dif-ference.

Science is giving us a better under-standing of the many ways preserving, caring for and restoring natural spaces can improve the lives of humans and other beings — and how connecting with nature increases our desire to protect and reduce our negative im-pacts on our surroundings.

Earth is our only home. But it’s more than that. We’re a part of the natural systems that make up our planet and its atmosphere, and what we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves — as I con-veyed in my book The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature. It’s our duty to care for our immediate environment and all of the planet.

Doing so will make us healthier and happier.

Scientist, author and broadcaster Da-vid Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsu-zuki.org.

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A long list of questionsabout leadership failure

I have designed an easy Canada quiz for Jim Sutherland after reading his comment column (Red Deer Advocate, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015).

Hint: there is only one correct an-swer.

● Who prorogated Parliament in 2008 to avoid a motion of non-confi-dence and precipitated a constitution-al crisis?

● Who tried to govern Canada through the Prime Minister’s Office telling MPs and Senators what to say and how to vote?

● Who was unaware of what his PMO staff were doing, especially as it relates to the Mike Duffy scandal?

● Who favours the rich in Canada on issues such as taxes, income split-ting, pensions, child care, and family allowances?

● Who has failed to implement the Kelowna Accord, fostered the Idle No More Movement, refused an inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women, and received censure from the UN and other groups for his treatment of our Aboriginals?

● Who has challenged the rulings of our independent judiciary (the Su-preme Court) and attacked our Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin?

● Who passes laws retroactively to cover RCMP mistakes?

● Who has cut funding to the arts, culture and the CBC?

● Who has caused the delay or can-cellation of new pipelines by refusing to address the issue of climate change adequately?

● Who refuses to meet with the pro-vincial premiers on issues vital to Ca-nadians?

● Who has damaged our Canadian military by not replacing our CF-18s and not telling Canadians the real cost of the F-35s, allowing the navy to erode to levels below that of Bangladesh, re-placing our Sea King helicopters too slowly, and mistreating our veterans?

● Who has used huge omnibus bills to sneak all nature of unrelated laws through Parliament?

● Who has cut funding to women’s groups?

● Who has reduced foreign aid, es-pecially to Africa?

● Who has passed minimum sen-tencing laws, requiring the building of more prisons at a time when the crime rate has gone down and rehabilitation

programs have been reduced?● Who was endangered the privacy

of Canadians with Bill C-51?● Who has limited access to govern-

ment information and also eliminated the long form census?

● Who has muzzled our scientists by reducing their funding, eliminating their projects or firing them?

● Who delayed the repatriation of

Omar Khadr, a child soldier, as long as possible?

● Who has damaged Canada’s for-eign image by favouring Israel over the Palestinians, lost a non-permanent seat on the Security Council of the UN, and promised empty climate change policies?

● Who has not promoted the diver-sification of Canada’s economy and re-

search and development aggressively enough, leaving Canada at the mercy of world oil prices?

● Who has refused to stimulate the economy with deficit spending on in-frastructure to create jobs at times of high unemployment?

Answer: S.H.Ray Kowalski

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OTTAWA — Hundreds of thousands of univer-sity and college students walking onto campuses this week with help from federal loans could find them-selves targeted harder than ever to repay billions of dollars in loans and grants.

Employment and Social Development Canada, which oversees the Canada Student Loans program, has set more aggressive collection targets after feel-ing pressure from its political masters to stem the rising amount of student debt the government must write off each year, an amount that topped $300 mil-lion just two years ago.

The push to increase collection results — and the detailed work plan to do so — are outlined in inter-nal government documents from last fall.

The government annually has to write off some of the $16 billion owing in student loans for a number of reasons: a debtor may file for bankruptcy, the debt itself passes a six-year legal limit on collection, or the debtor can’t be found.

The amount of writeoffs were high enough that the Conservative government wanted ESDC to “im-prove recoveries and reduce the writeoff” of loans, the then-deputy minis-ter at ESDC wrote to his counterpart at the Canada Revenue Agency in an Oc-tober 2014 letter.

The Canada Revenue Agency is responsible for collecting loans in default and can do so by withhold-ing income tax refunds to cover the outstanding amount, or referring cases to the attorney general for legal action, which could lead to garnisheeing wag-es or seizing assets.

The letter from then-deputy minister Ian Shugart asked the CRA for a more detailed plan to improve collection and “reassure my minister that all reasonable efforts are being made to increase re-coveries and reduce (loan) writeoff amounts.”

A Nov. 17, 2014, briefing note to CRA commissioner Andrew Treusch said that

in 2012-2013, 162,000 borrowers had their debts writ-ten off for a combined value of $308 million. About 90 per cent of those debts had passed the six-year legal statute for collection, mainly because the borrowers couldn’t be located, the briefing note said.

The reason? Many of those files had out-of-date contact information and the CRA wasn’t allowed to ask other departments for help because of privacy laws.

Treusch’s response to Shugart’s letter noted an-other part of the problem was that ESDC’s repay-ment assistance plan was working too well.

The assistance plan, along with other changes, meant that default rates had dropped — to 13 per cent in 2012-13 from 28 per cent in 2003-04 — and col-lection rates had gone up — the CRA collected more than $198 million in 2013-2014, up 4.5 per cent from the previous fiscal year.

A copy of the letter and the associated briefing note were obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

The decline in the number of defaults has meant the remaining debts are for borrowers who are un-willing to pay, can’t be located, or aren’t interested in repayment assistance programs, said CRA spokes-man Philippe Brideau. Collecting these debts, he

said, has been more time consuming and costly than anticipated.

The two departments are now sharing information more freely, and have had several executive meet-ings to work on collecting outstanding debts and “preventing abuse” in the system, said Marie-France Faucher, a spokeswoman for ESDC. Faucher said ESDC has also set “more aggressive targets” for col-lection as part of the strategy.

To meet those targets, the CRA can now request information directly from borrowers, rather than having to ask ESDC officials to do so, and officials from the two departments have met regularly to fig-ure out how things can be improved, Faucher said.

The head of one of the country’s largest post-secondary student associations said the documents suggest the federal government appears more inter-ested in image control than dealing with the issue of student debt.

“We’re seeing a government that is more con-cerned about the public image that comes with these numbers rather than the reality that perhaps these numbers are indicative of a pretty big crisis that needs immediate address,” said Bilan Arte, national chairperson for the Canadian Federation of Stu-dents.

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VANCOUVER — Emergency crews were working to clean up the aftermath of a vicious windstorm that tore through southwestern British Columbia on Sat-urday, bringing trees and branches crashing down onto power lines and cars and leaving an estimated 500,000 people without power.

BC Hydro said it could take until Monday morning to restore power to some areas.

Eighty-kilometre-an-hour winds buffeted the Low-er Mainland, at one point toppling a tree onto a wom-an in her 40s who was walking with her daughter in Surrey. The RCMP described the woman’s injuries as life-threatening.

The bulk of the outages occurred in the Greater Vancouver Area, and BC Hydro said that as of 10 a.m. Sunday about 180,000 customers were still wait-ing for the power to be restored.

The area’s 911 line was overwhelmed with inqui-ries about power outages, prompting officials to ask residents to call only in the event of an urgent emer-gency.

Metro Vancouver Regional District’s emergency program co-ordinator Rod Tulett said the district’s emergency procedures performed extremely well so far.

He described Saturday’s gales as the backup system’s biggest test since the district was caught off-guard by a windstorm in 2006 that battered the Lower Mainland and uprooted numerous trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

“After the big windstorm a lot of our facilities received significant upgrades in their backup-power capability,” said Tulett.

“We learned from that.”The City of Vancouver reported receiving more

than a thousand weather-related calls regarding de-bris, damage and flooding.

“The impacts of BCStorm2015 include downed trees and power lines, flooding, property damage and widespread loss of power to city facilities and traffic lights at major intersections,” said a city news release.

The Greater Vancouver Zoo also suffered ex-tensive damage in the storm, reported the facility’s general manager Jody Henderson. Powerful winds caused a number of major fences to come down, most notably the barricade surrounding the grizzly bear enclosure.

“We followed our normal emergency protocol. ... Everyone was contained into a building,” said Hen-derson. “At no time did our grizzly bear get out.”

BC Hydro estimated it could be as late as 12:30 a.m. on Monday before power would be restored to a number of municipalities across the region.

Residents took to social media with a mix of both praise and condemnation for the utility and its re-sponse to the outages, with much of the vitriol di-rected toward BC Hydro’s website only working sporadically.

Strong winds also swept through Rock Creek in the southern interior, where a 44-square-kilometre wildfire destroyed 30 homes earlier this month.

The storm triggered wind warnings from Environ-ment Canada, forced the temporary closure of Stan-ley Park, and slowed ferry service between Victoria and the mainland.

The cost of the extensive property damage and the bill for cleaning up the huge mess have yet to be tallied.

BC Hydro said in a release that crews are ad-dressing public safety issues first and “aim to get power back for highest density areas in order to get as many customers back as possible.”

Clean-up begins in wake of severe B.C. windstorm

THOUSANDS STILL WITHOUT POWER

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A sidewalk that was lifted by the roots of a tree uprooted during Saturday’s windstorm is seen as residents watch city workers remove another tree that fell on a house, in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday. BC Hydro says it could take until Monday morning to restore power to some areas of southwestern British Columbia after a windstorm tore through the region during the weekend, leaving an estimated 500,000 customers without power.

Environmental damage expected to be minor after barge tips vehicles in Victoria

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s environment ministry says it expects the ecological damage to be minor after a barge tipped and dumped scrap cars into Victoria’s inner harbour.

Emergency program director Graham Knox says regulations require fuel to be removed from vehicles before loading but it’s impossible to clean them com-pletely.

He says a sheen of hydrocarbons can be seen in the water but a large boom has been wrapped around the accident site to contain the fuel.

Knox says the U.S. company that recycles the cars, Schnitzer Steel, is responsible for clean-up and has hired the Western Canada Marine Response Corpo-ration.

He says an assessment could take days but all the debris will need to be removed from the water be-cause it can pose an entangling risk to wildlife and displace habitat.

It’s not yet known what caused the barge to tilt and spill at least 20 scrap vehicles into the water on Friday afternoon.

Search continues in Nova Scotia for evidence in murder of physics student

TRURO, N.S. — Police investigating the slaying of a Dalhousie University physics student in Halifax say they are focusing their search efforts on a prop-erty in Truro, N.S.

Police say the property (off Marshland Drive) is part of the same search warrant officers have been acting on since Tuesday.

They say officers will be conducting searches in the Truro area from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. this weekend.

On Thursday evening, searchers found an un-specified number of items of “potential interest” in Lower Truro.

Police wouldn’t reveal any information about the objects, but said they were being analyzed.

They said based on preliminary analysis, inves-tigators believe they are connected to the death of 22-year-old Taylor Samson, whose remains have not been found.

William Michael Sandeson, a varsity track athlete who was about to start classes at Dalhousie Univer-sity’s medical school, was charged with first-degree murder four days after Samson was reported missing earlier this month.

A profile on Dalhousie University’s website lists Sandeson’s hometown as Truro.

15-year-old in Regina faces gun charges after police believe

boy, 12, was shotREGINA — A 15-year-old boy in Regina faces nu-

merous gun-related charges after police say another, younger boy was likely shot.

Police say they were called about a firearms of-fence on Saturday afternoon, and when they arrived they say they found a 12-year-old boy with what ap-peared to be a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

He was rushed to hospital but police say his inju-ries aren’t considered life-threatening.

The older boy has been charged with careless use or storage of a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a prohibited weapon and breach of an undertaking.

He can’t be named due to his age and will appear in court Monday morning.

Police are not saying what type of gun was in-volved.

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Like father, like son.Jack McClelland may never perform

in the NHL like his father, Kevin, but he prefers to play the same style as the former Edmonton Oilers tough guy and

four-time Stanley Cup champion.

“I like to play a physical game, bring some toughness,”

the younger McClelland said Sunday, following the first main camp scrim-mage of the Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium. “I like to fight a bit and play a gritty, fourth-line style.”

McClelland was invited to the Reb-els camp for a reason — GM/head coach Brent Sutter is hopeful that the six-foot-three, 203-pound winger can supply some bottom-six sandpaper to his up-front units during the 2015-16 Western Hockey League season.

The 19-year-old has at least an in-kling of what the major junior game is about, having suited up with the Van-couver Giants for six games early last season.

“I feel that I’m a little ahead this season, the (WHL) experience from last year kind of helped with knowing the speed coming into this camp,” he said. “Going into Vancou-ver, I didn’t know too much about how quick the game speed was. Coming into this camp, I was more aware of it.”

McClelland, who returned to his hometown of Wichita, Kan., after being

released by the Giants in November, rejoined the junior A Thunder of the Western States Hockey League and put up 43 points (13g,30a) while racking up 67 penalty minutes in 31 games.

The rugged forward has lived in Wichita since 2010, when his dad was hired as coach of the ECHL Thun-der. The elder McClelland has never coached his son, nor has he passed on much of his hockey knowledge, expect for tips on how to survive as a role player.

“He’s not really a dad who likes to coach (his son), I don’t learn too much from him,” said McClelland. “The only

aspect he teaches me is how to fight, how to go in . . . other than that, not too much. But I like to feel that I’m the same type of player he was.”

With the Rebels slated to host the Memorial Cup tournament next May, McClelland knows that he’s been of-fered the absolute best opportunity of his junior career. And he knows ex-actly what is expected of him.

His age shouldn’t work against him which would be the case in most years, as the Rebels will ice an older team this season. He knows he can’t pretend to be the type of player he isn’t through the remainder of training camp and

the exhibition season, if in fact he gets that far.

“I’m going to have to know my role if I’m going to make the team,” said Mc-Clelland. “They want a fourth-line guy, a guy who’s not going to play too many minutes and can bring toughness. I feel that’s what I can bring.

“I know my role so I’m not going to be expecting too much more than that. I know what I’m getting here.”

Sutter likes McClelland’s blood-lines, his skating ability and his will-ingness to fill a specific post.


Goaltender Trevor Martin makes a save on Tanner Sidaway during Team Black’s on ice session during Red Deer Rebels training camp Saturday afternoon.

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Blue Jays finish off sweep of TigersBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Blue Jays 9 Tigers 2TORONTO — When Mark Buehrle

won a World Series with the Chicago White Sox in 2005, he constantly felt like no matter the deficit they’d win the game. The 2015 Toronto Blue Jays are similar, only with a super-sized of-fence.

“Here, shoot, if we don’t score eight runs, we had a bad day,” Buehrle said after a 9-2 win against the Detroit Ti-gers on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre. “We’re confident. We’re com-ing to the field every day thinking we’re going to win.”

The Blue Jays have reason to feel that way. After sweeping the Tigers, they’re 21-5 in August and lead the American League East by 1 ½ games over the New York Yankees.

On Sunday, Toronto provided every-thing that has become commonplace since a flurry of pre-trade-deadline moves: an offensive onslaught, strong pitching and reliable defence in front of a sellout crowd. Russell Martin and Kevin Pillar each hit a two-run home

run, Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encar-nacion each had a solo shot, and the Blue Jays added to their major-league best run production.

“If this isn’t the feel of a champi-onship team, I don’t know what is,” Martin said. “I feel like we’re great of-fensively, we’re great on defence, we’re pitching great, our bullpen has depth. I like what we have go-ing right now.”

It’s hard not to like what the Blue Jays have going. They’ve been dominant in the month since acquiring shortstop Troy Tulow-itzki, ace David Price, outfielder Ben Revere and relievers La Troy Hawkins and Mark Lowe. Confidence is at an all-time high, something manager John Gibbons credits those trades for.

“With the trades: Tulowitzki, Price, Hawkins, Lowe, Revere, (infielder Cliff) Pennington, we just took off after they happened,” Gibbons said. “I don’t know how it could but the addition of those guys that has pushed us to this

point. It gave everybody a shot in the arm.”

While Tulowitzki has struggled at the plate, his defence remains a major upgrade over Jose Reyes. Tulowitzki doubled Sunday after Gibbons moved

him down from the leadoff spot to fifth in the order. Revere went 0 for 4 with a walk in the No. 1 hole, but that didn’t stunt the Blue Jays’ pro-duction at all.

In a lineup that has become a modern-day murderer’s row, Encarnacion continued his torrid hitting by going 2 for 3 with his 30th home run of the season. He extended his hitting streak to 25 games and is three short of Shawn Green’s franchise record set in 1999.

Encarnacion is hitting .409 with 11 home runs and 35 RBIs in that time. His first-inning home run gave him 35 RBIs in August, setting a Blue Jays record for any month, and he has an extra-base hit in eight straight games.

Pitching with a lead almost all after-

noon, Buehrle (14-6) cruised through six-plus innings, allowing one earned run on five hits. The lefty didn’t feel well but gutted through another solid start.

“It’s getting that time of year, and I battle through every start I go out there,” Buehrle said.

“I’m still going out there trying to give us a chance to win. We’re still scoring runs. When these guys are out there scoring that many runs, it makes it a lot easier.”

The Blue Jays have scored 718 runs, the most in the majors. Almost a month ago Buehrle said the Blue Jays felt like, “Whose butt are we gonna kick today?” That hasn’t changed.

“It still feels the same way,” he said. “These guys are swinging the bat right now and scoring runs. It just seems like everything we’re doing, we’re do-ing right.”

After his team was out-scored 29-6, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, like many others, was impressed by the Blue Jays’ power.

“We ran into the best offensive team in the league,” Ausmus said. “They can put up runs in a hurry.”

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‘IF THIS ISN’T THE FEEL OF A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS.’

— RUSSELL MARTINBLUE JAYS CATCHER

Drouin wins gold to cap Canada’s best ever showing at worldsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BEIJING — In the days leading up to the world track and field champion-ships, Derek Drouin played the words over and over in his head, like a song on repeat: You can win this.

And when the competition got tense Sunday night, and seemingly the entire Bird’s Nest stadium was pulling for Chinese hero Zhang Guowei, Drouin said them again.

The 25-year-old from Corunna, Ont., was true to his word, winning gold in high jump at the world champion-ships with a quiet confidence that ran through virtually every member of this young and talented Canadian team.

“I definitely was telling myself that if there was ever an opportunity this was it. I really felt like I was the one to beat, I felt like this was my champion-ship to lose based on how people had been jumping coming in versus the last couple of meets that I had,” Drouin said.

“And when it finally happened, it was just a relief.”

The medal was No. 8 for the Cana-dian team to cap a thrilling best-ever showing.

“We came here to kick ass,” said Athletics Canada head coach Peter Er-iksson. “We kicked ass.”

Canada’s previous best perfor-mance was five medals two years ago in Moscow, Russia. The Canadians had

never won two gold — Canada’s other one this week came from pole vaulter Shawn Barber. And the last time Can-ada won more medals in either a world championships or Olympics was at the 1932 Games, where the Canadians cap-tured nine.

Drouin arrived in Beijing with the

fifth-best jump in the world this year, and on the heels of a victory at the Pan American Games.

The edge-of-your-seat event was decided in a rare jumpoff. Drouin, Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko and China’s Zhang Guowei all jumped clean up to 2.36 metres, at which all

three of them missed.The bar was lowered back to 2.34.

Drouin was the only one to clear it, guaranteeing gold. Bondarenko and Zhang shared silver; there was no bronze medal awarded.

“In the jump-off, it was a terrible situation to be in, terribly stressful,” Drouin said. “And obviously no-one’s going for you. I maybe would have started a clap if I thought that people were going to jump on board. It’s the advantage of home soil.

“I’ve always felt that the mental game has always been a strong aspect for me, and luckily in a jump-off that’s basically all it comes down to, and I was able to use that to my advantage tonight.”

Drouin, the bronze medallist at both the 2012 London Olympics and 2013 world championships, is known for his calm demeanour. All around him Sun-day night was mayhem and a bit of madness.

Zhang played up to the raucous crowd, posing like a crane in “Kara-te Kid” after every successful jump. Colourful Italian Gianmarco Tamberi competed with a half-shorn face — he had a moustache and beard on just one half of his face.

When the 4x400-metre relays start-ed, the jumpers had to hastily take their jumps between the runners on track.

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Canada’s Derek Drouin clears the bar in the men’s high jump final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday.

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FORT MCMURRAY — The Central Alberta Buccaneers knew they’d be in tough while attempting to upset the Fort McMurray Monarchs and punch their ticket to the Alberta Football League final.

They were correct.The Bucs were hammered 43-7 by

the Monarchs in a semifinal contest Saturday, their inability to stop run-ning back Melvin Abankwah proving big-time costly.

Abankwah ran through and around the Buccaneers defenders while scor-ing three touchdowns.

“You have to just use your eyes

when you’re going through holes and that’s what I did today,” the Monarchs back told Fort McMurray radio station mix 103.7fm. “I just read the holes and hit it, right to the end zone.”

The Monarchs will take on the host Calgary Gators in the AFL champion-ship contest this Saturday. The Gators downed the St. Albert Stars in the oth-er semifinal.

“Our running game was very effec-tive today,” said Monarchs head coach Dave Spence. “And (Quarterback) Car-son Williams threw the ball very well and hit the receivers when he needed to hit them.

“Obviously the Gators will be a for-midable opponent next weekend and we’ll have to overcome some things and meet some challenges.”

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Natural talent helps Vanderhoek to national rankingIn terms of experience Ian

Vanderhoek is still in the in-fante stages of his develop-ment in throwing the javelin.

But thanks to a great arm and God-given natural talent the 19-year-old native of Bent-ley is one of the top junior athletes in the country.

Vanderhoek didn’t know much about javelin until Grade 11 at Central Alberta Christian High School in La-combe.

“We were at (track and field) practice for the discus and they brought out a javelin as well and I gave it a try,” he explained. “I also competed

in the high jump, long jump and shot put at the time.”

But he was a natural at the javelin. He qualified out of the Central Alberta zone to attend the provin-cial high school championships and finished third in the shot put and second in the intermediate boys javelin, bettering the old provincial record.

“The guy who beat me also broke the record, but it was good,” added Vanderhoek, whose dad (James) encouraged him to contact Athletics Alberta and continue on with the sport.

“I didn’t have a coach, although I did spend one day training with Red Deer Titans coach Darren Posyluzny, and he helped a lot,” continued Vander-hoek. “But I really didn’t have any technique. I did have a strong arm and it came natural to me.

Vanderhoek qualified for the Western Games dur-ing the summer of 2013 and from there qualified for the Legion nationals in Langley, B.C., where he fin-ished second with an Alberta youth (15-17 year-old) record toss of 61.48-metres with the 700-gram javelin.

He was ranked No. 1 in Alberta and second in Canada.

The following year proved to be a disaster as he tore the meniscus in his knee, had surgery, and as a result missed the high school and summer season.

“I attended one meet in Sherwood Park with a leg brace, but overall I was out for four months,” he said.

But the injury was a small set-back for the six-foot, 180-pound Vanderhoek. He attended Ambrose College in Calgary in the fall of 2014 and decided to try out for their men’s basketball team, which played in the Alberta Colleges Athletic League.

“I was a walk-on and made it as a point guard,” he explained. “I played volleyball and basketball in high school and thought about trying for the volley-ball team as well, but didn’t have the time.”

He was also still involved in track and field and the javelin. He joined the Calgary Track and Field Club and started working with coach Paul Sze.

“He was a very good coach. He fixed my form, rebuilding it. Before all I used was my arm and sur-prisingly I did well. I use my body more now and it makes the flow nicer.”

Vanderhoek finished third in the CALTAF Clas-sic, which left him one spot short of qualifying for the Western Canada Games in Fort McMurray.

“It was iffy if I’d get a chance to go but one of the guys ahead of changed what he was doing and so they took three javelin throwers ... I was fortunate.”

He also made the most of it, finishing ahead of the other Alberta athletes and behind a B.C. and Mani-toba competitor to place third with a personal best toss of 56.77m with the 800g javelin.

“I wanted to peak at that time and it was the per-fect time to do it,” he said. “I was relaxed and just wanting to do my best and it worked out.”

As a result he is ranked No. 1 in Alberta in the ju-nior division and fifth in Canada.

Vanderhoek will attend RDC this year, taking commerce. He will continue to weight train and work on the javelin as much as possible. What he isn’t go-ing to do is try out for the Kings basketball team.

“It crossed my mind, but that’s the next level ... it would be tough,” he said.

Vanderhoek will also be getting married in No-vember and won’t get the chance to travel to Calgary to train with Sze.

“However. I will be sending him video of my ses-sions and he can critique them and get back to me,” he explained.

Vanderhoek will attend RDC for two years then transfer to the University of Alberta.

As for the javelin he would like to continue to train and attend the national championships.

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

BY GREG MEACHEMADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

He’s a long way from his Texas dwelling, but Jace Foskey is feeling right at home in the Red Deer Reb-els rookie camp.

“Camp has been fantastic. The rink is amazing. It’s been a beautiful experience so far,” the 15-year-old defenceman said Sunday, following the second of

two scrimmages on the opening day of the Rebels training camp rookie sessions.

“I’ve been trying not to be too nervous. I’ve been trying to do as well as I can.”

Foskey suited up with the Dal-las, Tex., under-16 team last season, scoring once, adding three help-ers and accumulating 54 penalty minutes in 24 regular-season and playoff games.

He was selected by the Rebels in the seventh round of this year’s WHL bantam draft on May 7, a bona

fide steal in the eyes of GM/head coach Brent Sutter and assistant GM/director of player personnel Shaun Sutter, considering most top-end American prospects tend to focus on securing U.S. college scholarships.

“We think Jace is the best defenceman in the western United States,” Shaun Sutter said on the day of the draft.

“He’s a player we can see wearing our jersey one day.”

Brent Sutter, also on draft day, was confident that Foskey would indeed suit up with the Rebels as early as next year.

“He’s pretty excited. I also talked to his parents and they’re very excited,” said Sutter. “We had him ranked as one of the top two defencemen in the U.S.,

so we’re pretty excited about getting him. Our scout in Dallas coached him and he knows the family re-ally well.”

Sutter was referring to Lucas Reid, an assistant coach with the Dallas U16 squad and a Rebels scout.

“I paid a lot of attention to the (WHL) draft,” said Foskey. “Our assistant coach works for the Rebels and it was just great to have him there to teach me and help me develop.

“I feel that I’m a two-way player with the abil-ity to get up the ice and still get back to stop scoring chances.”

Foskey likened the pace of Sunday’s rookie camp scrimmages to that of the U16 tier 1 elite level he played at last season.

“Tier one in Texas is almost exactly like this,” he said.

While Foskey hasn’t committed to playing for the Rebels at some point, he won’t be suiting up for any WHL preseason games this fall in order to preserve his NCAA eligibility. So far, he’s been courted by two American schools — Miami of Ohio and Wisconsin.

Still, he’d be pumped to be held over for Wednes-day’s Black and White game.

“To be promoted up with the main camp play-ers would be great. That way, I could get the whole (camp) experience,” said the six-foot-one, 175-pound rearguard.

“And I’m definitely interested in playing in the WHL down the road. This is a fantastic organiza-tion.”

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Photo contributed

Ian Vanderhoek throws while competing at the Western Canada Games in Fort McMurray. The Bentley native has used a natural talent for throwing to rise up the ranking and is now one of the top javelin athletes in Canada.

REBELS: Hockey mindset

“His dad played pro hockey, so he comes from a hockey mindset,” said the Rebels boss.

“Just in the short time he’s been here, I can see that he skates well and that he’s a big kid.

“We’re always looking for guys who can skate and if they have size as well, that’s great. Now we just have to see how he handles the pace when we get him into games. There has to be an element of physicality with him to play on our team because a player like that is not going to play in your top six for-wards, but he can certainly be a good role player for us.”

Training camp resumes this morn-ing and concludes with Wednesday’s 7 p.m. Black and White intrasquad game. The Rebels open preseason play Fri-day at St. Albert against the Edmonton Oil Kings.

● Wyatt Johnson, who will attend the Anaheim Ducks rookie camp in September — one of eight Rebels going to NHL camps — scored twice Sunday as Team Black downed Team White 3-1. Michael Spacek also tallied for the winners. Ivan Nikoloshin notched the lone goal for Team White.

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WORLDS: PatientThrough it all, Drouin remained his

calm, stoic self.“Tell you what, he was the best

jumper out there tonight, no question about it, it would have been a trav-esty if he had lost,” said his coach Jeff Huntoon.

The victory comes after a frustrating

season for the Canadian, who jumped a national-record 2.40 metres in April 2014. It appeared the sky was the limit. But try as he might, Drouin couldn’t match that lofty height, and couldn’t figure out why.

“I’m not so sure he wasn’t ready to jump that again, but it was just the emotion of it, and the continuous ques-tions of it. And then you get in your own head a little bit.

“For him, it was (frustrating). And that’s a shame, isn’t it? The sixth best jump in the history of the world (2.40), and he got a little frustrated. And you could see the emotions as the season went on, yeah, it got a little tough.”

So the plan going into this season was to avoid peaking too early. Having to wait and wonder though tested Dr-ouin’s patience.

“I went about a month and a half without even clearing 2.30. . . trying to peak at the end of the season, and I got to the point where I just wanted the season to be done and forget about world championships,” Drouin said.

“But luckily I was patient and things finally worked out and things clicked and when they clicked they really clicked. I felt like I was in a good place the last month or so coming into here.”

Canada now heads into the Olym-pic year with numerous medal threats. The team had three silvers here, from Damian Warner in the decathlon, Bri-anne Theisen-Eaton in the heptathlon, and Melissa Bishop in the 800 metres. Canada had three bronze from Andre De Grasse in the 100 metres, the men’s 4x100 relay, and Ben Thorne in the men’s 20-kilometre race walk.

Also, Eriksson said that normally about 31 per cent of the team advanc-es out of the preliminary round. This week saw 61 per cent move on.

What was obvious throughout the meet was a sense of quiet confidence, from star sprinter De Grasse to War-ner to Bishop, to Canada’s race walk squad, that pervaded this team. Every medallist talked about a belief in: why not me?

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Redblacks 35 Roughriders 13OTTAWA — Jeremiah Johnson took

full advantage when opportunity came calling.

Johnson scored three rushing touch-downs as the Redblacks downed the Saskatchewan Roughriders 35-13 on Sunday, three days after Ottawa re-leased international running back Chevon Walker, who he replaced in the starting lineup.

“I did what I was supposed to do. This is nothing different for me,” said Johnson, who has now doubled his number of rushing touchdowns this season to six. “The organization gave me an opportunity and I’m ecstatic with my performance.

“Those guys up front did a tremen-dous job. They went out there and hit everybody in the mouth and I just made the necessary plays to make things happen.”

The Roughriders, who had their sec-ond lowest point total in a game this season, fell to 0-9. They scored just five points in a 35-5 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos on July 31.

After a tight first half that had Ot-tawa (5-4) in front 14-10, the game took a huge turn in favour of the Redblacks over a span of three minutes and 44 seconds from the end of the third quar-ter and into the fourth.

Ottawa scored 21 points in that span to take a 35-10 lead and control of the game.

It started with 3:09 to play in the third quarter when Johnson scored a one-yard touchdown run that once converted by Chris Milo, gave the Red-blacks a 21-10 lead.

On the ensuing series, Ottawa re-covered a Saskatchewan fumble and Johnson scampered in from 36 yards out on the next play for another score and a 28-10 lead.

Another Riders’ fumble late in the third quarter was converted into points on a one-yard run from Ottawa quarterback Henry Burris 35 seconds into the fourth quarter.

Milo then converted his fifth touch-down of the day and the Redblacks were cruising with a 35-10 lead.

Paul McCallum kicked a 28-yard field goal with less than seven minutes to play, cutting the Saskatchewan defi-cit to 35-13.

The Redblacks defence recorded 10 sacks. They also forced two fumbles and intercepted one pass.

“It was a team effort on our de-

fence and coach (Mark) Nelson called the game really well and the defence played very well,” said Justin Capi-cciotti, who led the charge with three sacks and six tackles.

“That’s the best time, when you’re up and you know you get to pass rush because you know they have to throw the ball. You get to go after the quar-

terback.”The Redblacks scored on their

opening two drives to take a 14-0 lead while allowing the Riders to just five offensive plays over their first two se-ries.

Ottawa covered 89 yards in five plays on the opening drive of the game that ended with a 37-yard touchdown pass from Burris to Maurice Price. The conversion by Milo gave the Redblacks a 7-0 lead.

After forcing the Roughriders into a two-and-out situation, Ottawa moved the ball 78 yards in just under three minutes and took a 14-0 lead on a sev-en-yard touchdown run from Johnson.

The rest of the half featured only punts for the Redblacks as the Roughriders possessed the only offen-sive punch before the break.

They got punt singles of 48 and 70 yards from Ray Early and a nine-yard touchdown pass from Brett Smith to Naaman Roosevelt. Smith then carries the ball in himself on the two-point conversion to complete the eight-point scoring drive.

“We talked about winning the penal-ty battle and we talked about winning the turnover battle. That was the tale of two teams right there,” Roughriders coach Corey Chamblin explained.

“We came out in the second half and just played losing football in all three phases. (Ottawa) played good football, don’t get me wrong, but we just didn’t have it and we weren’t together. We looked more like individuals than a team in the second half.”

The Redblacks head into their sec-ond and final bye week of the season while the Roughriders host the Winni-peg Blue Bombers Sept. 6.

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Mitchell leads Stamps to rout of BombersBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Stampeders 36 Blue Bombers 8WINNIPEG — Jamar Wall provid-

ed the spark the Calgary Stampeders were looking for in a 36-8 rout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday.

Ahead 8-3 at halftime, Wall inter-cepted Blue Bombers quarterback Robert Marve and ran 29 yards for a touchdown at 1:10 of the third quarter.

“That was the play,” said Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, who was 19-of-26 for 314 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.

“You come out in the second half, you’re looking for good field position. The defence did a great job picking us up right there at the beginning of the second half with a pick six. It let us go out there and play freely.”

Stampeders backup quarterback Bryant Moniz scored on a two-yard run four minutes later and a two-point con-vert stretched the lead to 23-3.

Calgary’s fourth straight victory improved its record to 7-2, while the Bombers lost their third straight game and fell to 3-6.

“I had a key on the quarterback,” said Wall. “I trusted it and took advan-tage of it. It was a game-changer right out of the half. A momentum-shifter.

“We just kept the foot on the pedal. We believe that we can cover anyone. We believe our D-line can beat any-one. With that confidence alone, and the things we run with (Rich Stubler’s) defence, sky’s the limit.”

Marve completed 12-of-20 pass at-tempts for 94 yards with two intercep-tions and no touchdowns in his second pro start. He was replaced by Brian Brohm with eight minutes left in the game.

“It was a frustrating day at work,” said Marve, who was sacked five times.

He cited a lack of “explosion plays” and no rhythm as the reason for the offence’s poor showing. Winnipeg’s of-

fence managed just 136 net yards.Marve said he’d like to start against

the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Week 11 Labour Day game, but will accept what head coach Mike O’Shea decides.

“We’ll have to see,” said O’Shea, when asked if Marve will start Sept. 6.

An interception by Calgary’s Keon Raymond led to a seven-yard TD run by Tory Harrison. It was the Stampeders’ second touchdown off a Winnipeg turn-over in front of an announced crowd of 27,148 at Investors Group Field.

Calgary receiver Jeff Fuller used one hand to pull in a 23-yard touch-down reception and grabbed a two-point convert pass. Teammate Eric Rogers also caught a two-point convert and finished with seven catches for 152 yards. His streak of a touchdown in consecutive games ended at six.

“As long as we win, as long as every-body’s making plays, it doesn’t matter about individual streaks,” said Rogers. “I’ll start a new one next week.”

Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes made field goals from 11 and 27 yards and was good on two convert attempts.

Lirim Hajrullahu booted field goals from 32 and 36 yards for the Blue Bombers and Calgary conceded a safe-ty for Winnipeg points.

Bombers linebacker Derek Jones blocked a Rob Maver punt and the ball was recovered by Bombers defensive back Lin-J Shell. The turnover led to Hajrullahu’s 32-yarder as time expired in the first quarter.

Winnipeg was missing injured vet-eran centre Dominic Picard. He was replaced by Matthias Goossen.

Some Bomber fans had boos for their team and some started leaving the game early.

“That’s painful,” said O’Shea. “As a group, they understand how important these fans are to us. They keep coming out and it’s tough to expect them to keep coming out when we put a second half together like that.”

TITAN TACKLED

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Nic Galenzoski of the Red Deer Titans is tackled to the ground by his Airdrie Highlanders opponent during Calgary Rugby Union men’s second division action Saturday at Titans Park. The Titans won the game by forfeit against the Highlanders, due to injuries causing a shortage of players on the team. Earlier in the day, the Titans third division men buried their Airdrie guests 64-31 after leading 19-14 at halftime. Both Red Deer teams have qualified for the playoffs.

Redblacks hand Roughriders ninth straight loss


Ottawa Redblacks’ Ernest Jackson, right, fights for posession with Saskatchewan Roughriders’ Jeff Knox during CFL action in Ottawa on Sunday.

The Red Deer College Queens ran over Edmonton Kings University Col-lege Eagles 8-1 Sunday to earn a split of two weekend ACAC women’s soccer preseason outings at Camrose.

Nicole Friedl scored four minutes into Sunday’s contest and the Queens never looked back, getting two more markers from each of Kassidy Lefteruk and Keisha Perry and additional tal-lies courtesy of Kaitlin D’Arcy, Krysten Strand (penalty) and Angela Vander-berg, who buried the rebound of a long range, heavy shot by Olivia Orman.

An own goal accounted for the Ea-gles scoring.

The Queens fell 2-0 to the host Au-gustana Vikings Saturday.

“We had a squad of 15 for this match and never really looked like a coherent group on the field,” said RDC coach Dave Colley. “There were moments when the girls played well and threat-ened the Augustana goal, but two pre-ventable goals scored after player er-rors saw the tie lost.

“Everyone tried to make a differ-ence, but these efforts were too indi-vidual in nature. This showed that we have good players, it was just a mat-ter of channeling that enthusiasm and drive into a more united team effort. The post game talk addressed the main issues and eyes turned towards Sun-day.”

RDC SOCCER

Mark Shapiro worked his way up from the bottom in Cleveland’s front office, becoming one of baseball’s most respected executives.

He’ll start at the top in Toronto.Shapiro, who has spent the past five

years overseeing the Indians organiza-tion, is leaving Cleveland to become president and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays, a person familiar with the deci-sion told The Associated Press on Sun-day night.

Shapiro, who has been with Cleve-land since 1992, will replace Paul Beeston, Toronto’s CEO and president who is retiring. The teams will make

the announcement Monday, said the person who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because the sides were still working through some final details.

CBSSports.com first reported the deal.

It’s not clear if Shapiro will begin his new job immediately or wait until the end of this season.

Coincidentally, the Indians, who have won five straight games to move back into the AL wild-card picture, will open a series on Monday in To-ronto.

Shapiro’s departure is a blow to the Indians, who haven’t won the World Series since 1948 yet have managed to stay relatively competitive despite a low payroll.

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East Division W L Pct GBToronto 74 56 .569 —New York 72 57 .558 1 1/2Tampa Bay 64 66 .492 10Baltimore 63 67 .485 11Boston 60 70 .462 14

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 80 50 .615 —Minnesota 67 63 .515 13Cleveland 63 66 .488 16 1/2Chicago 61 68 .473 18 1/2Detroit 60 70 .462 20

West Division W L Pct GBHouston 72 59 .550 —Texas 68 61 .527 3Los Angeles 65 65 .500 6 1/2Seattle 61 70 .466 11Oakland 57 74 .435 15

Saturday’s GamesToronto 15, Detroit 1Boston 3, N.Y. Mets 1Kansas City 6, Tampa Bay 3Houston 4, Minnesota 1Cleveland 8, L.A. Angels 3N.Y. Yankees 3, Atlanta 1Seattle 7, Chicago White Sox 6Texas 4, Baltimore 3Oakland 3, Arizona 2

Sunday’s GamesToronto 9, Detroit 2N.Y. Mets 5, Boston 4Tampa Bay 3, Kansas City 2Cleveland 9, L.A. Angels 2N.Y. Yankees 20, Atlanta 6Minnesota 7, Houston 5Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle 5, 11 inningsTexas 6, Baltimore 0Oakland 7, Arizona 4, 11 innings

Monday’s GamesTampa Bay (Archer 11-10) at Baltimore (W.Chen 8-6), 5:05 p.m.Cleveland (Salazar 11-7) at Toronto (Price 13-4), 5:07 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Nova 5-6) at Boston (E.Rodriguez 7-5), 5:10 p.m.Seattle (Nuno 0-1) at Houston (Keuchel 15-6), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Santiago 7-8) at Oakland (Doubront 1-1), 8:05 p.m.Texas (Lewis 14-6) at San Diego (T.Ross 9-9), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesTampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.Cleveland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 5:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.Detroit at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.Seattle at Houston, 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.Texas at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.MiCabrera Det 93 338 55 121 .358Brantley Cle 116 449 60 146 .325Kipnis Cle 113 451 74 144 .319Fielder Tex 125 487 58 154 .316Bogaerts Bos 125 486 59 153 .315NCruz Sea 128 497 77 156 .314Altuve Hou 123 504 65 158 .313LCain KC 115 449 80 140 .312Hosmer KC 127 482 80 150 .311Kinsler Det 128 515 83 157 .305Home RunsNCruz, Seattle, 39; Donaldson, Toronto, 36; CDa-vis, Baltimore, 35; JMartinez, Detroit, 34; Pujols, Los Angeles, 34; Trout, Los Angeles, 33; Bautista, Toronto, 31; Teixeira, New York, 31.Runs Batted InDonaldson, Toronto, 106; CDavis, Baltimore, 92; Encarnacion, Toronto, 91; KMorales, Kansas City, 90; Bautista, Toronto, 88; JMartinez, Detroit, 87; NCruz, Seattle, 82; BMcCann, New York, 82.PitchingKeuchel, Houston, 15-6; FHernandez, Seattle, 15-8; Eovaldi, New York, 14-2; Buehrle, Toronto, 14-6; Lewis, Texas, 14-6; McHugh, Houston, 14-7; Hutchison, Toronto, 13-2.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 72 58 .554 —Washington 66 63 .512 5 1/2Atlanta 54 76 .415 18Miami 52 79 .397 20 1/2Philadelphia 52 79 .397 20 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 84 46 .646 —Pittsburgh 79 50 .612 4 1/2Chicago 74 55 .574 9 1/2Milwaukee 55 75 .423 29Cincinnati 53 76 .411 30 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 72 57 .558 —San Francisco 69 61 .531 3 1/2Arizona 63 67 .485 9 1/2San Diego 63 67 .485 9 1/2Colorado 52 76 .406 19 1/2

Saturday’s GamesBoston 3, N.Y. Mets 1St. Louis 6, San Francisco 0Pittsburgh 4, Colorado 3Washington 5, Miami 1Philadelphia 4, San Diego 3Cincinnati 12, Milwaukee 9N.Y. Yankees 3, Atlanta 1Oakland 3, Arizona 2L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 2

Sunday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 5, Boston 4Colorado 5, Pittsburgh 0Washington 7, Miami 4N.Y. Yankees 20, Atlanta 6San Diego 9, Philadelphia 4Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 1St. Louis 7, San Francisco 5Oakland 7, Arizona 4, 11 inningsChicago Cubs 2, L.A. Dodgers 0

Monday’s GamesMiami (Narveson 1-1) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 4-6), 5:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 11-11), 5:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Lorenzen 3-8) at Chicago Cubs (Hen-dricks 6-6), 6:05 p.m.Washington (G.Gonzalez 9-7) at St. Louis (Lackey 11-8), 6:15 p.m.Arizona (Ray 3-10) at Colorado (Bettis 6-4), 6:40 p.m.San Francisco (Peavy 4-6) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 8-8), 8:10 p.m.Texas (Lewis 14-6) at San Diego (T.Ross 9-9), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesArizona at Colorado, 1:10 p.m., 1st gameMiami at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.Washington at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.Arizona at Colorado, 6:40 p.m., 2nd gameSan Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.Texas at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.DGordon Mia 114 485 64 161 .332Harper Was 122 420 90 139 .331Goldschmidt Ari 129 464 83 151 .325Pollock Ari 125 489 90 156 .319Posey SF 121 448 63 142 .317Votto Cin 127 443 76 138 .312Panik SF 97 375 56 116 .309LeMahieu Col 123 460 70 142 .309YEscobar Was 112 428 59 132 .308McCutchen Pit 126 456 75 139 .305Home RunsCaGonzalez, Colorado, 31; Harper, Washington, 31; Arenado, Colorado, 30; Frazier, Cincinnati, 30; Stanton, Miami, 27; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 26; Rizzo, Chicago, 26.Runs Batted InGoldschmidt, Arizona, 96; Arenado, Colorado, 93; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 85; Kemp, San Diego, 80; Posey, San Francisco, 80; Bryant, Chicago, 79; Rizzo, Chicago, 78.PitchingArrieta, Chicago, 17-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 16-6; Wacha, St. Louis, 15-4; GCole, Pittsburgh, 15-7; Greinke, Los Angeles, 14-3; CMartinez, St. Louis, 13-6; deGrom, New York, 12-7.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores

AMERICAN LEAGUEDetroit 000 001 100 — 2 7 0Toronto 220 200 03x — 9 11 1Simon, VerHagen (6), B.Rondon (8), B.Hardy (8) and J.McCann; Buehrle, Lowe (7), Aa.Sanchez (8), Schultz (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Buehrle 14-6. L—Simon 11-9. HRs—Toronto, Donaldson (36), Encarnacion (30), Pillar (9), Ru.Martin (17).

Kan. City 002 000 000 — 2 7 1Tampa Bay 101 001 00x — 3 9 1D.Duffy, Hochevar (6), C.Young (8) and Butera; Karns, Cedeno (6), Colome (7), Boxberger (9) and Rivera. W—Cedeno 3-1. L—Hochevar 1-1. Sv—

Boxberger (32). HRs—Tampa Bay, Guyer (6), Ki-ermaier (7).

Los Ang. 000 001 010 — 2 9 1Cleveland 200 042 01x — 9 10 0Weaver, J.Alvarez (7), C.Ramos (8) and C.Perez; Tomlin, McAllister (8), A.Adams (9) and R.Perez. W—Tomlin 3-1. L—Weaver 6-10. HRs—Los Ange-les, Green (1). Cleveland, Almonte (3).

Seattle 220 000 010 00 — 5 12 3Chicago 100 200 101 01 — 6 14 1(11 innings)Olmos, Guaipe (6), Rasmussen (8), Ca.Smith (8), D.Rollins (10) and J.Hicks; Quintana, M.Albers (5), Duke (7), N.Jones (8), Dav.Robertson (10) and Soto, Flowers. W—Dav.Robertson 6-3. L—D.Rol-lins 0-1. HRs—Seattle, Seager (21), A.Jackson (8). Chicago, Me.Cabrera (9).

Houston 000 000 005 — 5 12 0Minnesota 100 002 40x — 7 8 0McCullers, Qualls (7), O.Perez (7), Velasquez (8) and Conger; E.Santana, Fien (8), O’Rourke (9), May (9) and Herrmann. W—E.Santana 3-4. L—McCullers 5-5. HRs—Houston, Carter (18), Altuve (11). Minnesota, Nunez (4), Sano (13).

Baltimore 000 000 000 — 0 3 1Texas 201 001 02x — 6 11 0Mi.Gonzalez, Jas.Garcia (6), McFarland (6), Britton (8) and Wieters; D.Holland and Gimenez. W—D.Holland 2-1. L—Mi.Gonzalez 9-11.

INTERLEAGUEBoston 000 002 200 — 4 9 1New York 010 003 10x — 5 11 0Miley, Ross Jr. (7), Hembree (7) and Swihart; Syn-dergaard, Robles (7), Clippard (7), Familia (9) and Recker. W—Clippard 2-0. L—Ross Jr. 0-2. Sv—Familia (35). HRs—Boston, Ortiz (28).

New York 034 010 930 — 20 21 1Atlanta 002 003 100 — 6 12 0Eovaldi, Warren (6), Shreve (6), Pinder (7), Mitchell (9) and B.McCann, J.Murphy; Teheran, Marimon (5), Detwiler (7), Moylan (7), Brigham (7), E.Jackson (9) and Pierzynski, Bethancourt. W—Eovaldi 14-2. L—Teheran 9-7. HRs—New York, Ellsbury (7), Headley (10), Drew (16). Atlanta, Ad.Garcia (7).

Oakland 002 100 100 03 — 7 18 1Arizona 021 000 001 00 — 4 12 1(11 innings)Chavez, Mujica (6), Fe.Rodriguez (7), Doolittle (8), Pomeranz (9), Venditte (10) and Phegley; Webster, Collmenter (6), Mat.Reynolds (7), D.Hernandez (8), Bracho (9), Ziegler (10), Schugel (11) and Salta-lamacchia, W.Castillo. W—Venditte 1-2. L—Ziegler 0-2. HRs—Oakland, Vogt (18). Arizona, D.Peralta (14).

NATIONAL LEAGUEColorado 000 302 000 — 5 7 1Pittsburgh 000 000 000 — 0 4 2J.De La Rosa, Oberg (7), Friedrich (8), Ja.Diaz (8), Axford (9) and Garneau; Morton, Bastardo (7), Blanton (9) and Cervelli. W—J.De La Rosa 8-6. L—Morton 8-6.

San Diego 201 001 131 — 9 16 0Phila. 010 000 021 — 4 10 0Shields, Despaigne (8) and De.Norris, Hedges; Asher, Neris (6), Loewen (8), De Fratus (8) and Rupp. W—Shields 10-6. L—Asher 0-1. HRs—San Diego, Kemp (16), Upton (24), Solarte (11). Phila-delphia, Rupp (8).

Miami 300 100 000 — 4 10 0Wash. 002 032 00x — 7 13 0B.Hand, Cordier (5), Ellington (7), Barraclough (8) and Mathis; Strasburg, Fister (5), Rivero (7), Storen (8), Papelbon (9) and W.Ramos. W—Fister 5-7. L—B.Hand 4-4. Sv—Papelbon (22). HRs—Miami, Bour (14), Dietrich (10). Washington, Werth (5), C.Robinson (7).

Cincinnati 010 000 000 — 1 8 0Milwaukee 101 000 02x — 4 9 0Jo.Lamb, LeCure (7), Ju.Diaz (8) and B.Pena; W.Peralta, W.Smith (8), Jeffress (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Maldonado. W—W.Peralta 5-8. L—Jo.Lamb 0-3. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (31). HRs—Milwaukee, Braun (24).

St. Louis 301 101 010 — 7 13 0San Fran. 200 002 010 — 5 12 0Jai.Garcia, Cishek (7), Broxton (8), Siegrist (9) and Molina; Heston, Kontos (4), Lopez (6), Strickland (7), Broadway (8), Osich (8), Casilla (9) and Posey. W—Jai.Garcia 7-4. L—Heston 11-8. Sv—Siegrist (6). HRs—St. Louis, M.Carpenter (20), Moss (2), Mar.Reynolds (12).

Chicago 200 000 000 — 2 13 1Los Ang. 000 000 000 — 0 0 0Arrieta and M.Montero; A.Wood, Nicasio (7), Howell (8), Baez (9) and Grandal. W—Arrieta 17-6. L—A.Wood 9-9. HRs—Chicago, Bryant (21).

Today● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium — Main camp 8-8:45 a.m.; rookies 9-10:30 a.m.; main camp 10:45-11:30 a.m.; pro skate noon-1:30 p.m.; rookies 3-4:30 p.m.; main camp 5-6:30 p.m.● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Junior Tour championship at Wolf Creek.● College men’s hockey: RDC Kings training camp, 3 p.m. start, Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Tuesday● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium — Main camp 8-8:45 a.m. and 9-9:45 a.m.; rookies 10-11:30 a.m.; pro skate noon-1:30 p.m.; main camp 4:30-6 p.m.

Wednesday● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium — Team Black pre-game skate 8:30-9:15 a.m.; Team White pre-game skate 9:30-10:15 a.m.; Black vs. White game, 7 p.m.

Friday ● High school football: Lacombe Rams at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 4:30 p.m., Great Chief Park; Hunting Hills Lightning at Notre Dame Cougars, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs tryouts, 5-6:30 p.m., Arena.

Sunday● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs tryouts, 2:45-6:15 p.m., Arena.

The BarclaysSundayAt Plainfield Country ClubEdison, N.J.Purse: $8.25 millionYardage: 7,012; Par: 70FinalJason Day, $1,485,000 68-68-63-62 — 261Henrik Stenson, $891,000 68-66-67-66 — 267Bubba Watson, $561,000 65-68-67-69 — 269Zac Blair, $363,000 69-68-67-66 — 270Zach Johnson, $363,000 69-65-67-69 — 270Sangmoon Bae, $276,375 69-67-63-72 — 271Ryan Palmer, $276,375 69-67-65-70 — 271Dan Summerhays, $276,375 67-70-68-66 — 271Jason Bohn, $231,000 71-64-72-65 — 272Dustin Johnson, $231,000 70-70-67-65 — 272Jim Furyk, $198,000 68-69-69-67 — 273Bryce Molder, $198,000 66-71-67-69 — 273Steven Bowditch, $159,500 71-67-72-64 — 274Jim Herman, $159,500 69-69-69-67 — 274Hideki Matsuyama, $159,500 69-69-67-69 — 274Tony Finau, $127,875 65-69-71-70 — 275Spencer Levin, $127,875 65-71-67-72 — 275Justin Rose, $127,875 77-65-63-70 — 275Justin Thomas, $127,875 71-69-68-67 — 275Kevin Kisner, $96,113 67-71-65-73 — 276Russell Knox, $96,113 66-71-67-72 — 276Kevin Na, $96,113 69-69-67-71 — 276Pat Perez, $96,113 68-69-70-69 — 276Kevin Chappell, $66,825 72-68-70-67 — 277Luke Donald, $66,825 73-68-65-71 — 277Carlos Ortiz, $66,825 73-68-62-74 — 277Rory Sabbatini, $66,825 71-70-67-69 — 277Brendon Todd, $66,825 70-70-66-71 — 277Mark Wilson, $66,825 72-68-69-68 — 277Jason Gore, $46,933 71-69-70-68 — 278Brian Harman, $46,933 71-68-71-68 — 278Webb Simpson, $46,933 71-68-73-66 — 278Jason Dufner, $46,933 66-68-69-75 — 278Harris English, $46,933 74-68-66-70 — 278Danny Lee, $46,933 66-71-71-70 — 278George McNeill, $46,933 71-70-68-69 — 278Cameron Tringale, $46,933 66-71-69-72 — 278Camilo Villegas, $46,933 65-70-70-73 — 278Paul Casey, $33,000 66-76-69-68 — 279Stewart Cink, $33,000 67-73-67-72 — 279Morgan Hoffmann, $33,000 70-68-70-71 — 279Matt Kuchar, $33,000 71-70-66-72 — 279Shawn Stefani, $33,000 71-67-70-71 — 279Robert Streb, $33,000 68-68-70-73 — 279David Hearn, $24,156 70-69-73-68 — 280J.J. Henry, $24,156 70-72-69-69 — 280Sean O’Hair, $24,156 68-68-70-74 — 280John Senden, $24,156 69-70-74-67 — 280Johnson Wagner, $24,156 67-71-73-69 — 280Phil Mickelson, $20,295 68-71-69-73 — 281Scott Pinckney, $20,295 70-71-69-71 — 281Hudson Swafford, $20,295 68-68-71-74 — 281Bill Haas, $19,008 71-70-67-74 — 282Matt Jones, $19,008 67-72-72-71 — 282Troy Merritt, $19,008 71-71-69-71 — 282Kevin Streelman, $19,008 70-71-70-71 — 282Nick Taylor, $19,008 67-73-69-73 — 282James Hahn, $18,233 69-72-68-74 — 283J.B. Holmes, $18,233 70-71-73-69 — 283Charles Howell III, $18,233 70-69-71-73 — 283Lee Westwood, $18,233 68-73-73-69 — 283Ken Duke, $17,573 71-70-68-75 — 284Charley Hoffman, $17,573 69-71-72-72 — 284Scott Piercy, $17,573 73-69-68-74 — 284Patrick Reed, $17,573 68-69-75-72 — 284Ryo Ishikawa, $17,078 68-74-68-75 — 285Vijay Singh, $17,078 70-70-72-73 — 285Ben Martin, $16,830 69-70-72-75 — 286Jeff Overton, $16,583 69-72-71-75 — 287Jimmy Walker, $16,583 72-69-71-75 — 287Fabian Gomez, $16,335 71-71-69-78 — 289Russell Henley, $16,170 73-69-76-72 — 290

Yokohama Tire LPGA ClassicSundayAt RTJ Golf Trail (Capitol Hill-The Senator)Prattville, Ala.Purse: $1.3 millionYardage: 6,599; Par: 72Finala-amateurKris Tamulis, $195,000 71-68-67-65 — 271Yani Tseng, $103,575 70-64-71-67 — 272Austin Ernst, $103,575 70-65-68-69 — 272Sydnee Michaels, $60,800 67-70-70-67 — 274Lexi Thompson, $60,800 69-67-69-69 — 274Stacy Lewis, $40,753 70-68-72-66 — 276Jaye Marie Green, $40,753 71-67-71-67 — 276Wei-Ling Hsu, $32,537 69-70-74-64 — 277Nannette Hill, $26,840 71-70-69-68 — 278Julieta Granada, $26,840 68-68-71-71 — 278

Sei Young Kim, $26,840 69-70-67-72 — 278Alena Sharp, $23,005 71-72-69-67 — 279Shanshan Feng, $18,273 72-70-70-68 — 280Hyo Joo Kim, $18,273 68-72-72-68 — 280Hee Young Park, $18,273 73-69-69-69 — 280Brooke M. Henderson, $18,273 71-70-70-69 — 280Xi Yu Lin, $18,273 70-71-68-71 — 280Tiffany Joh, $18,273 67-70-71-72 — 280Brittany Lang, $18,273 65-73-69-73 — 280Ariya Jutanugarn, $14,592 68-73-73-67 — 281Angela Stanford, $14,592 72-71-69-69 — 281Jing Yan, $14,592 72-70-68-71 — 281Brittany Lincicome, $12,335 74-69-73-66 — 282Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $12,335 73-68-73-68 — 282Sarah Jane Smith, $12,335 73-73-66-70 — 282Cydney Clanton, $12,335 72-67-73-70 — 282Anna Nordqvist, $12,335 72-70-69-71 — 282Minjee Lee, $12,335 72-70-69-71 — 282Min Lee, $9,728 74-72-69-68 — 283Kim Kaufman, $9,728 71-75-69-68 — 283Candie Kung, $9,728 69-73-71-70 — 283Christina Kim, $9,728 72-69-71-71 — 283Ryann O’Toole, $9,728 67-71-73-72 — 283Sadena A Parks, $9,728 71-69-69-74 — 283Jee Young Lee, $7,603 74-70-73-67 — 284Victoria Elizabeth, $7,603 71-73-71-69 — 284Sakura Yokomine, $7,603 71-68-75-70 — 284Laetitia Beck, $7,603 73-73-67-71 — 284Haru Nomura, $7,603 72-69-71-72 — 284Mi Hyang Lee, $7,603 71-69-72-72 — 284Sophia Popov, $5,841 74-72-73-66 — 285Brooke Pancake, $5,841 72-72-72-69 — 285Moriya Jutanugarn, $5,841 73-71-71-70 — 285Giulia Sergas, $5,841 72-72-70-71 — 285Caroline Masson, $5,841 73-73-67-72 — 285Ally McDonald, $5,841 70-72-70-73 — 285Kelly Tan, $5,841 72-68-72-73 — 285Felicity Johnson, $4,798 74-68-75-69 — 286a-Emma Talley 74-71-71-70 — 286Yueer Cindy Feng, $4,798 72-73-71-70 — 286Chella Choi, $4,798 74-70-71-71 — 286Nontaya Srisawang, $4,075 72-74-72-69 — 287Ji Young Oh, $4,075 70-75-72-70 — 287Mina Harigae, $4,075 72-73-71-71 — 287Jeong Eun Lee, $4,075 72-73-70-72 — 287P.K. Kongkraphan, $4,075 74-70-70-73 — 287Min Seo Kwak, $4,075 71-72-71-73 — 287Jackie Stoelting, $4,075 69-72-72-74 — 287Thidapa Suwannapura, $3,484 72-74-73-69 — 288Ashleigh Simon, $3,484 71-70-76-71 — 288Simin Feng, $3,287 68-72-76-73 — 289Dori Carter, $3,155 70-76-75-69 — 290Dewi Claire Schreefel, $3,155 72-72-75-71 — 290Carlie Yadloczky, $3,155 69-74-70-77 — 290Jane Rah, $2,991 71-74-74-72 — 291Haeji Kang, $2,991 72-74-70-75 — 291Belen Mozo, $2,859 74-72-75-71 — 292Paula Reto, $2,859 76-69-71-76 — 292Emma de Groot, $2,695 73-73-75-72 — 293Kelly W Shon, $2,695 73-73-72-75 — 293a-Janie Jackson 69-75-74-75 — 293Karlin Beck, $2,695 72-70-75-76 — 293Katherine Kirk, $2,597 69-77-73-76 — 295Lisa Ferrero, $2,563 73-72-74-77 — 296Ashli Bunch, $2,530 74-72-76-77 — 299

Dick’s Sporting Goods OpenSundayAt En-Joie Golf ClubEndicott, N.Y.Purse: $1.9 millionYardage: 6,969; Par: 72FinalJeff Maggert, $285,000 68-68-66 — 202Paul Goydos, $167,200 66-70-68 — 204David Frost, $96,900 71-71-64 — 206Corey Pavin, $96,900 71-66-69 — 206Peter Senior, $96,900 68-73-65 — 206Jerry Smith, $96,900 71-68-67 — 206Ian Woosnam, $96,900 67-69-70 — 206Scott Dunlap, $52,250 71-68-68 — 207Bob Friend, $52,250 68-70-69 — 207John Huston, $52,250 67-68-72 — 207Larry Mize, $52,250 72-67-68 — 207Michael Allen, $36,480 69-73-66 — 208Stephen Ames, $36,480 72-64-72 — 208Joe Durant, $36,480 74-66-68 — 208Lee Janzen, $36,480 69-69-70 — 208Rod Spittle, $36,480 68-66-74 — 208Jose Coceres, $28,500 70-68-71 — 209Fred Funk, $28,500 72-70-67 — 209Kevin Sutherland, $28,500 69-71-69 — 209Brad Bryant, $21,692 71-68-71 — 210Bernhard Langer, $21,692 71-71-68 — 210Lance Ten Broeck, $21,692 73-69-68 — 210Duffy Waldorf, $21,692 72-68-70 — 210Scott McCarron, $21,692 71-64-75 — 210Willie Wood, $21,692 68-69-73 — 210

Major League SoccerEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GAD.C. United 13 10 5 44 35 34New York 12 7 6 42 43 28Columbus 11 8 8 41 45 44Toronto FC 11 10 4 37 44 42New England 10 9 7 37 35 36Orlando City 7 12 8 29 33 47Montreal 8 11 4 28 30 34New York City FC 7 13 7 28 38 46Chicago 7 13 6 27 31 38Philadelphia 7 14 6 27 33 44

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles 13 8 7 46 49 33Vancouver 14 10 3 45 38 28FC Dallas 12 8 5 41 35 30Sporting Kansas City 11 7 7 40 40 35Portland 11 9 7 40 29 32Seattle 12 13 2 38 32 30San Jose 11 10 5 38 32 29Houston 9 10 8 35 35 34Colorado 8 9 9 33 25 27Real Salt Lake 8 11 8 32 29 40NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s GamesToronto FC 2, Montreal 1Columbus 2, New York City FC 1New England 1, Philadelphia 0Orlando City 1, Chicago 1, tieColorado 2, Sporting Kansas City 1Houston 2, Vancouver 0FC Dallas 2, Real Salt Lake 0

Sunday’s GamesSeattle 2, Portland 1New York 3, D.C. United 0

Saturday, Sept. 5Orlando City at New England, 5:30 p.m.Chicago at Montreal, 6 p.m.Toronto FC at Seattle, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6FC Dallas at Columbus, 5 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA PtsManchester City 4 4 0 0 10 0 12Crystal Palace 4 3 0 1 8 5 9Leicester City 4 2 2 0 8 5 8Swansea 4 2 2 0 7 4 8Man. United 4 2 1 1 3 2 7Arsenal 4 2 1 1 3 3 7Liverpool 4 2 1 1 2 3 7West Ham 4 2 0 2 9 6 6Everton 4 1 2 1 5 4 5Southampton 4 1 2 1 5 5 5Bournemouth 4 1 1 2 5 6 4Aston Villa 4 1 1 2 4 5 4Chelsea 4 1 1 2 6 9 4Norwich 4 1 1 2 5 8 4West Brom 4 1 1 2 3 6 4Tottenham 4 0 3 1 3 4 3Watford 4 0 3 1 2 4 3Stoke 4 0 2 2 3 5 2Newcastle 4 0 2 2 2 5 2Sunderland 4 0 2 2 6 10 2

Saturday, Aug. 29Newcastle 0, Arsenal 1Aston Villa 2, Sunderland 2Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 1Chelsea 1, Crystal Palace 2Liverpool 0, West Ham 3Manchester City 2, Watford 0Stoke 0, West Brom 1Tottenham 0, Everton 0

Sunday, Aug. 30Southampton 3, Norwich 0Swansea 2, Manchester United 1

Saturday, Sept. 12Everton vs. Chelsea, 1145 GMTArsenal vs. Stoke, 1400 GMTCrystal Palace vs. Manchester City, 1400 GMTNorwich vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMTWatford vs. Swansea, 1400 GMTWest Brom vs. Southampton, 1400 GMTManchester United vs. Liverpool, 1630 GMT

Sunday, Sept. 13Sunderland vs. Tottenham, 1230 GMTLeicester City vs. Aston Villa, 1500 GMT

Sunday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueMINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Aaron Hicks to Rochester (IL) for a rehab assignment.SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned LHP Mike Mont-gomery to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled RHP Mayckol Guaipe to Tacoma.TEXAS RANGERS — Sent C Carlos Corporan to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment.National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Traded RHP Addi-son Reed to the N.Y. Mets for RHPs Miller Diaz and Matt Koch. Assigned Diaz to Visalia (Cal) and Koch to Mobile (SL). Optioned RHP Jhoulys Chacin and

LHP Andrew Chafin to Reno (PCL). Called up RHPs Allen Webster and A.J. Schugel from Reno (PCL) and RHP Silvino Bracho from Mobile (SL).NEW YORK METS — Recalled INF Wilfredo Tovar from Las Vegas (PCL). Optioned RHP Logan Ver-rett to Las Vegas (PCL).SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent OF Angel Pa-gan to San Jose (Cal) for a rehab assignment.WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent 2B Dan Uggla to Hagerstown (SAL) for a rehab assignment.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueATLANTA FALCONS — Waived LB Boris Anyama, WR Marquez Clark, RB Michael Ford, WR John Harris, DT Warren Herring, NT Derrick Hopkins, OT Matt Huffer, CB Michael Lee, G Eric Lefeld, LB

Terrell Manning, DE Sam Meredith, and C Valerian Ume-Ezeoke. Placed T Lamar Holmes on the PUP list. Released TE Mickey Shuler.CAROLINA PANTHERS — Terminated the contract of OT Tony Hills. Waived DE Steve Miller, LB Kevin Reddick, TE Dallas Walker, FB Lee Ward, P Matt Wile and WRs Paul Browning and Avius Capers.CHICAGO BEARS — Terminated the contracts of CB Tim Jennings and RB Daniel Thomas. Placed S Ryan Mundy on injured reserve and WR Kevin White on the reserve/PUP list. Waived DB Malcolm Bronson, TEs Kevin Greene and Chris Pantale, T Cameron Jefferson, WR Jeremy Kelley, CB Al Louis-Jean, LS Rick Lovato, WR Levi Norwood and DE Olsen Pierre. Waived/injured WR John Chiles.KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived LS Andrew

East, TE Adam Schiltz, G Marcus Reed, OT Anthony Dima, CBs Kenneth Penny and Aaron Hester, OL Charles Tuaau, DE Vaughn Martin and WRs Kenny Cook, Jeret Smith and L’Damian Washington.MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released C J.D. Walton, TEs Gerell Robinson, DT Calvin Barnett, G Bryant Browning, WRs LaRon Byrd, Tyler McDonald and Kevin Cone, DE Ray Drew, DE Kendall Montgom-ery, CB Sammy Seamster and S Phillip Thomas.MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released RB Joe Banyard, TE Brandon Bostick, CBs Jalil carter and Justin Coleman, WRs DaVaris Daniels and Jordan Leslie, T Sephen Goodin, LB Josh Kaddu, DE Caesar Rayford, DT Chrishon Rose, CB DeMarcus Van Dyke.

NEW YORK JETS — Waived CB/KR Javier Arenas, OL James Brewer, C Dalton Freeman, LB Bryan Johnson, TE Matt LaCosse, CBs Curtis Brown and Keith Lewis and WRs DeVier Posey, T.J. Graham, Saalim Hakim, Austin Hill and Jonathon Rumph.PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released CB Marc Anthony; S Brandan Bishop; OL Mike Coccia, Kevin Graf and Jared Wheeler; DEs Alfy Hill and Jeremy Towns; WRs Mike Johnson, G.J. Kinne and Josh Reese; LB Dasman McCullum; and Justin Tukes.SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Released CB Manny Asprilla, DL Cameron Botticelli, WR Titus Davis, RB Jahwan Edwards, LB Curtis Grant, T Forrestal Hickman, TE David Paulson, QB Chase Rettig, DL Luther Robinson and TE Logan Stokes. Waived/injured LB Brock Hekking.

CFLEast Division

GP W L T PF PA PtHamilton 9 6 3 0 315 182 12Toronto 9 6 3 0 238 245 12Ottawa 9 5 4 0 193 241 10Montreal 9 4 5 0 191 171 8

West Division GP W L T PF PA PtCalgary 9 7 2 0 255 188 14Edmonton 9 6 3 0 238 165 12Winnipeg 8 3 6 0 166 273 6B.C. 8 3 5 0 179 234 6Saskatchewan 9 0 9 0 218 294 0

WEEK 10Bye: B.C.Friday’s resultEdmonton 38 Toronto 15Thursday’s resultMontreal 26 Hamilton 23Saturday’s gameCalgary 36 Winnipeg 6Sunday’s gameOttawa 35 Saskatchewan 13

WEEK 11Bye: OttawaThursday, Sept. 3B.C. at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 6Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.Monday, Sept. 7Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday’s summary

Stampeders 36, Blue Bombers 8First Quarter

Cal- TD Tory Harrison 7 pass from Bo Levi Mitchell (Mitchell to Eric Rodgers for two-point convert) 7:37Wpg- FG Lirim Harjullahu 32 0:00

Second QuarterNo scoringThird QuarterCal- TD Jamar Wall 29 interception return (Rene Paredes convert) 13:50Cal- TD Bryant Moniz 1 run (Mitchell to Jeff Fuller for two-point convert) 9:26Wpg- FG Hajrullahu 36 4:37

Fourth QuarterCal- Fuller 23 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 14:04Cal- FG Paredes 27 8:44Wpg- SafetyCal- FG Paredes 12 0:27Calgary 8 0 15 13 — 36Winnipeg 3 0 3 2 — 6Attendance — 27,148 at Winnipeg.

TEAM STATISTICS Cal WpgFirst downs 23 10Yards rushing 120 74Yards passing 331 101Total offence 395 136Team losses 56 39Net offence 395 136Passes made-tried 28-21 25-13Total return yards 226 156Interceptions-yards by 2-79 1-13Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0Sacks by 5 3Punts-average 6-41.8 10-47.6Penalties-yards 14-107 16-129Time of possession 29:51 30:09

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing — Calgary: Harrison 15-60, Parker 2-30, Brown 5-29, Moniz 1-1, Mitchell 1-0; Winnipeg: Marve 3-28, Thomas 3-18, Marshall 9-17, Veltung 1-9, Brohm 1-2.Receiving — Calgary: Rogers 7-152, Fuller 4-56, Durant 2-44, Wilson 4-25, Parker 1-20, McDaniel 1-12, Harrison 1-7, Cote 1-5; Winnipeg: Denmark 6-50, Moore 5-35, Thomas 1-9, Gordon 1-7.Passing — Calgary: Mitchell 19-26, 314 yards, 2 TDs, 1 ints, Tate 2-2-17-0-0; Winnipeg: Marve 12-20-94-0-2, Brohm 1-5-7-0-0.

Sunday’s summary

Redblacks 35 Roughriders 13First Quarter

Ott- TD Maurice Shaw 37 pass from Henry Burris (Chris Milo convert) 12:47Ott- TD Jeremiah Johnson 7 run (Milo convert) 8:07Ssk- Single Ray Early 48 1:39

Second QuarterSsk- Single Early 48 14:40Ssk- TD Naaman Roosevelt 9 pass from Brett Smith (Smith rush convert) 12:24

Third QuarterOtt- TD Johnson 1 run (Milo convert) 3:09Ott- TD Johnson 35 run (Milo convert) 0:57

Fourth QuarterOtt- TD Burris 1 run (Milo conver) 14:25Ssk- FG Paul McCallum 28 6:37Saskatchewan 1 9 0 3 — 13Ottawa 14 0 14 7 — 35Attendance — 24,468. at Ottawa.

TEAM STATISTICS Sask OttFirst downs 17 24Yards rushing 69 108Yards passing 233 269Total offence 302 377Team losses 75 26Net offence 227 351Passes made-tried 18-28 19-33Total return yards 12 7Interceptions-yards by 1-2 1-8Fumbles-lost 2-2 2-2Sacks by 0 10Punts-average 8-48.0 7-40.1Penalties-yards 18-135 14-125Time of possession 31:48 28:12INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing — Sask: Sunseri 2-33, Smith 4-25, Mes-sam 3-6, Miller 2-4, Demski 2-1; Ott: Johnson 12-92, Jackson 1-12, Burris 3-4.Receiving — Sask: Dressler 3-86, Roosevelt 4-46, Carroll 3-33, Smith 3-33, Bagg 3-16, Miller 1-14, Demski 1-5; Ott: Jackson 5-77, Price 2-51, Sinopoli 4-43, Johnson 3-25, Williams 2-22, Ellingson 1-19, Macdonell 1-19, Lavoie 1-13.Passing — Sask: Sunseri 12-18, 165 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints, Smith 6-10-68-1-1; Cal: Burris 19-33-269-1-1.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders TD C FG S PtJ.Medlock, Ham 0 33 19 4 94G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 21 8 90B.Bede, Mtl 0 11 22 6 83R. Paredesm Cgy 0 12 18 4 70R.Leone, BC 0 12 15 6 63L. Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 9 16 5 62P.McCallum, Sask 0 10 16 1 59R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 49x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 3 0 0 46D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37T.Gurley, Tor 6 0 0 0 36A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36x-Je.Johnson, Ott 6 2 0 0 32

B.Banks, Ham 5 0 0 0 30V.Hazelton, Tor 5 0 0 0 30Ke.Lawrence, Edm 5 0 0 0 30K.Stafford, Edm 5 0 0 0 30x-C.Marshall, Wpg 4 4 0 0 28x-A.Collie, BC 4 2 0 0 26x-K.Elliott, Tor 4 2 0 0 26

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 2 1 0 .667 78 54New England 2 1 0 .667 54 62N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 61 63Miami 1 2 0 .333 53 67

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 2 1 0 .667 60 37Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 45 73Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 52 65Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 61 79

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 2 1 0 .667 55 45Baltimore 1 2 0 .333 60 98Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 58 38Pittsburgh 1 3 0 .250 67 99

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 3 0 0 1.000 55 42Kansas City 3 0 0 1.000 82 42San Diego 2 1 0 .667 54 42Oakland 1 2 0 .333 53 53

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 3 0 0 1.000 115 53Washington 3 0 0 1.000 72 47N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 50 63Dallas 0 3 0 .000 27 68

South W L T Pct PF PACarolina 2 1 0 .667 72 71Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 62 67Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 48 68New Orleans 0 3 0 .000 64 83

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 4 0 0 1.000 88 45Chicago 2 1 0 .667 60 42Detroit 2 1 0 .667 62 41Green Bay 1 2 0 .333 67 74

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 1 2 0 .333 45 48Seattle 1 2 0 .333 49 51Arizona 1 2 0 .333 68 79St. Louis 0 3 0 .000 31 69

Saturday’s GamesBuffalo 43, Pittsburgh 19Minnesota 28, Dallas 14Cleveland 31, Tampa Bay 7Miami 13, Atlanta 9N.Y. Jets 28, N.Y. Giants 18Cincinnati 21, Chicago 10Washington 31, Baltimore 13Seattle 16, San Diego 15Philadelphia 39, Green Bay 26Indianapolis 24, St. Louis 14Denver 19, San Francisco 12

Sunday’s GamesHouston 27, New Orleans 13Arizona 30, Oakland 23

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Day does it again with runaway win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDISON, N.J. — The toughest chal-lenge Jason Day faced Sunday at The Barclays was convincing his peers that golf really isn’t this easy.

He’s just making it look that way.Fresh off his first major at the PGA

Championship, the 27-year-old Aus-tralian powered and putted his way to another blowout against a world-class field, capping off an explosive week-end at Plainfield with an 8-under 62 for a six-shot victory over Henrik Stenson.

It was his third victory in his last four starts dating to another close call at the British Open, where he left a 30-foot birdie putt short on the final hole at St. Andrews and missed out on a playoff by one shot. In his mind, that’s where it all changed.

“Ever since then, I just felt a lot more calm on the golf course,” he said. “I felt like it was my time. Mentally I felt like, ’You paid your dues, now it’s time to go out and win tournaments.’ I’m not going to say in the future it’s go-ing to be like this all the time, because it’s very difficult to win.”

Day shot 63-62 on the weekend and finished at 19-under 261. He won two weeks ago at Whistling Straits by three shots over Jordan Spieth with a record score to par at 20-under 268. And the week after St. Andrews, he won the Ca-nadian Open by one shot over Bubba Watson at 17-under 271.

“Jason is full of confidence, just heating it up, making birdies,” said Stenson, who pulled within two shots at one point and closed with a 66. “It would have taken something really special to challenge him today the way he’s playing at the moment.”

Watson, who birdied the 18th hole for a 69 to finish third, was standing on the 15th hole when he said he turned to caddie Ted Scott and told him, “I’m

playing good the last few months, and Jason Day is playing a thousand times better.”

Better than anyone?The victory, his fourth on the PGA

Tour this year, moved him to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup and assures that Day will be among the top five who have a clear shot at the $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship.

More compelling is another race to No. 1.

Day remains at No. 3 in the world, but now enters the picture with Spieth and Rory McIlroy for golf supremacy. All three will have a mathematical chance to get to No. 1 at the Deutsche Bank Championship next week at the TPC Boston.

As long as he has dreamed of being

No. 1, Day is trying to forget about it.“Right now I’m trying to focus on

getting some rest and going into next week, trying to play that golf course, which I absolutely love,” he said. “All positive stuff.”

Stenson gave it a good shot.He made birdies on the 13th and

14th holes to get within two shots, and Day hit a tee shot well to the right in the trees in the group behind on No. 13. There was just enough of an open-ing for Day to pound a gap wedge over the trees and onto the green, and then he effectively ended the tournament.

He holed a 30-foot birdie across the green on the par-3 14th, and rolled in a birdie from 35 feet on the 15th to stretch his lead to five shots.

The top 100 in the FedEx Cup ad-

vance to the next playoff event at the TPC Boston. PGA Tour rookie Zac Blair was among eight players who played their way into the top 100, and he did it in a big way. He closed with a 66 and tied for fourth, moving him from No. 106 to No. 35.

Camilo Villegas at No. 123 appeared to be playing his way out of another week when he made three straight bo-geys early on the back nine. Facing elimination if he failed to make par on the 18th, he got up-and-down by mak-ing a par putt from just inside 10 feet.

“As bad as I putted today, I think I made the hardest putt today,” Villegas said.

The Barclays did not end well for Stewart Cink and Canadian Nick Tay-lor.

Cink needed a par on the final hole to advance, pulled his tee shot left into high grass and missed a 15-foot par putt for a 72. He finished at No. 102 in the FedEx Cup. Taylor, of Abbotsford, B.C., took a double bogey on the 14th hole and then missed a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole that would have sent him to Boston.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., was the top Canadian after shooting 2-un-der 68 to finish in a tie for 45th place.

Day has no such worries. He is in free flight, even though his week be-gan with some doubt. He was moving a box from under his motor home when he felt a twinge in his back, and Day pulled out of the pro-am to rest his back and have tests to check on the structural being of his back.

He still felt some pain on Thursday, but the heat helped over the week-end. And nothing was hotter than his putter. He began the back nine with a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 10 to keep his margin, and it never looked as though anyone else was going to win.

“It’s been a special summer for me, and it’s not over,” Day said. “To be able to play the way I did over the weekend is fantastic. Today was just phenomenal golf.”

PGA TOUR


Jason Day, of Australia, celebrates on the 18th green after winning The Barclays golf tournament Sunday, in Edison, N.J. Day finished 19 under with a 261 total.

Maggert wins fourth of the year to take Schwab Cup

lead


ENDICOTT, N.Y. — Jeff Maggert won the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on Sunday for his fourth Champions Tour victory of the year, closing with a 6-under 66 to beat Paul Goydos by two strokes.

Maggert took the lead in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, 119 points ahead of Colin Montgomerie. Montgom-erie skipped the tournament because of commitments in Europe.

Maggert finished at 14-under 202 at En-Joie Golf Club. He won the Regions Tradition in May and the U.S. Senior Open in July, both major champion-ships, and took the Shaw Charity Clas-sic three weeks ago in Canada.

The Texan’s second straight 68 on Saturday put him in good position for another win, and he took advantage in a big way with six birdies in a bogey-free round.

Goydos shot a 68. Corey Pavin (69), David Frost (64), Peter Senior (65), Jer-ry Smith (67) and Ian Woosnam (70) tied for third at 10 under.

Bernhard Langer, the winner last year and third in the Schwab Cup, failed to earn any points. He tied for 20th at 6 under after a 68.

The victory was worth $285,000 and boosted the 51-year-old Maggert’s earn-ings for the year to $2,094,976.

Second-round leader Rod Spittle (74) of Canada, bidding for his second career victory, couldn’t keep the magic going that had placed him atop the lea-derboard after rounds of 68 and 66.

Fifty-year-old Scott McCarron (75), who had a 64 on the second round and was tied for second with John Huston to start the day, faltered in his fourth Champions Tour event. He made only two birdies and a triple-bogey 7 at the 15th hole put a damper on his day.

As usual, the ninth edition of this tournament came down to the closing holes.

Tamulis gets long awaited first LPGA win in Alabama


PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Kris Tamulis counted down from 29 to 1 during her final-day trek at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic.

One was definitely the most impor-tant number for the 34-year-old player.

Tamulis played 29 holes Sunday in the twice-delayed tournament before securing victory No. 1 in the 186th at-tempt of her LPGA Tour career. She finished a third-round 67 and closed with a 65 to beat Yani Tseng and Aus-tin Ernst by a stroke.

The former Florida State player had a 17-under 271 total on The Senator Course and didn’t show the strain of being in contention with so little mar-gin for error.

“It was amazing,” Tamulis said. “I was definitely not expecting this to-day.”

Tseng had rounds of 71 and 67, and Ernst shot 68-69 with the weather clearing up after delays totalling near-ly 7 hours the previous two days. Both parred the final hole with a chance to force a playoff.

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp finished in 12th place at 9 under while Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., tied for 13th at 8 under.

Tamulis birdied four of the first six holes in the final round before finally making her only bogey of the last three rounds. She hadn’t finished better than fourth on the tour.

Tamulis was all smiles at the end. She made a short birdie putt on the 17th hole, cheerfully telling two fans “28 of 29 completed today.” Then, a long birdie putt, hit seemingly perfect-ly on line, stopped inches shy of the fi-nal hole. Still smiling, she told her cad-die Thomas Frank the ball needed just “a little more oomph,” then chatted with the teenager carrying the score placard.

Frank’s Houston home was de-stroyed in a fire in April.

Tamulis had about 45 minutes to sweat the win out. Tseng and Ernst both had makeable birdie putts on 18, on opposite sides of the pin. Ernst’s attempt went to the left. Tseng came closer, falling to her knees when her putt lipped out.

“When they both missed I was just shocked,” said Tamulis, who chatted with volunteers and had a snack in air-

conditioned comfort instead of watch-ing or practicing for a possible playoff. A friend kept her updated.

Tamulis had been fourth last year in Prattville and earlier this year at the Meijer LPGA Classic. She didn’t make the cut at last week’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open after posting two 73 rounds. Her rounds in Alabama steadily improved from 71 to 68 to 67 and finally 65.

It was her first win since Florida State but she had a pair of runners-up finishes in 2004 on the Symetra Tour.

Tamulis said she was trying to ig-nore the leaderboard, focusing instead on that countdown from 29 holes with playing partners Sei Young Kim and Wei-Ling Hsu.

“The last time I actually saw where it was at was by accident on No. 9,” she said. “Then I felt really good and I was just out there trying to have a good time. My goal was to come in here have a decent week, play well and secure my spots in Asia.”

She also wanted to ensure she made

the field in her hometown of Naples, Florida, for the season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship. Her ex-pression matched the smiley face mag-net affixed to her visor, given to her a couple of years ago by an elderly scorekeeper in Phoenix.

Tseng is a 26-year-old Taiwanese player who ranked No. 1 for 109 weeks early in her career. She came close to snapping an 85-event winless streak dating to the 2012 Kia Classic, making a long birdie putt on No. 16.

This was Tseng’s second runner-up finish of the year.

“I don’t know where that emotion came from,” she said. “I just feel that I’m so ready to win.”

Tseng said she enjoyed feeling “that pressure, that nerves on the last few holes or on the last group.”

Ernst was seeking her second tour win. Sydnee Michaels finished with a 67, finishing in a fourth-place tie with 2011 winner Lexi Thompson. Thomp-son closed with a 69 and was in the 60s all four rounds.

Yani Tseng reacts after missing a birdie putt on the 18th green that would have tied her for the lead and force a playoff during the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic, Sunday, in Prattville, Ala.

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PRESS

CHAMPIONS TOUR

Hoyer leads Texans past Saints in preseason


TEXANS 27 SAINTS 13NEW ORLEANS — Brian Hoyer led

scoring drives on two of his first three series since being named Houston’s starting quarterback, and the Texans went on to a 27-13 preseason victory over the New Orleans Saints on Sun-day.

All three Texans quarterbacks led scoring drives. Ryan Mallett, who was upset this past week upon learning he’d be the backup, threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jaelen Strong. In the fourth quarter, Tom Savage hit

Chandler Worthy for a 6-yard score.Hoyer was 7 of 11 for 82 yards. Mal-

lett 9 of 17 for 77 yards, and Savage 5 of 7 for 58 yards.

The Saints (0-3) outgained the Tex-ans (2-1), 393 yards to 292 yards, with New Orleans reserve running back Ed-win Baker scoring on a 45-yard run.

New Orleans’ first two trips inside Houston’s 20 produced only three points. The Saints also committed 11 penalties for 148 yards.

Drew Brees marched the Saints 75 yards for a field goal on his lone se-ries, completing his first four passes for 40 yards before his last two fell in-complete inside the 20.

CARDINALS 30, RAIDERS 23OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Marion

Grice scored on an 11-yard run with 31

seconds left and Arizona beat Oakland in a game where both first-team of-fences struggled.

The Raiders (1-2) got five field goals from Sebastian Janikowski in the first half but didn’t get into the end zone until Matt McGloin led an 83-yard drive late in the fourth quarter.

He capped it with a 4-yard TD pass to Kris Durham with 2:18 left and Oak-land tied it when McGloin connected with Brice Butler on the 2-point con-version.

Logan Thomas answered by lead-ing the winning drive with help from a 38-yard pass to Ifeanyi Momah.

Carson Palmer threw two intercep-tions and was sacked three times in a rough first half for the Cardinals (1-2).

Red Deer Catalina Swim Club stand-out Rebecca Smith, one of 10 girls aged 15-18 selected to represent Canada in the world junior championship in Sin-gapore, helped the national squad win three team medals.

Smith was a member of the gold-medal winning 4x100 metre mixed relay team and also won silver in the 4x200m free relay and bronze in the 4x100m free relay. She also advanced to the semifinals in the individual 50m freestyle and 50m backstroke events.

“This championship was one of the fastest recorded with 53 records broken throughout the week. Many faces seen in the pool in Singapore this week will be definite players in Rio and years to come” says RDCSC coach Mandi Smith.

Coach Smith attended the meet as a member of the Swimming Canada Staff.

CATALINA SWIM CLUB

NFL


MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United’s early-season problems at both ends of the pitch were exposed in a 2-1 loss at Swansea on Sunday that end-ed its unbeaten start in the Premier League.

On the day Manchester City spent more than 50 million pounds ($77 million) on another attacking player, its cross-town rival again showed a lack of cutting edge up front to turn dominance and good build-up play into goals.

United was comfortable and perhaps should have been more than 1-0 ahead, through Juan Mata’s 49th-minute strike, when Swansea launched its comeback with two goals in five minutes from Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis.

Gomis’ winner in the 66th minute capped a bril-liant, sweeping team move but should have been kept out by goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who failed to stop a low shot at his near post. Romero is only play-ing because United’s first-choice goalkeeper, David de Gea, isn’t being picked while he is linked with a move to Real Madrid.

With Europe’s summer transfer window closing in England on Tuesday, United has two days to resolve its goalkeeper situation and decide whether to sign a new striker to help out Wayne Rooney, who is yet to score in the Premier League since April.

“I have enjoyed our football,” United manager Louis van Gaal said, “but you need the result and we lost again.”

Swansea has no such problems up front. Gomis, who scored for the fourth straight game this season, and summer signing Ayew have netted all seven of

the team’s goals in the league and that combination is the reason why Swansea is fourth in the standings after four games.

United has lost three straight games to Swansea and fell five points behind Man City, which has won all four of its games.

In Sunday’s other match, Southampton claimed its first win of the season by beating Norwich 3-0 thanks to Graziano Pelle’s goal and a double from Dusan Tadic. Norwich played with 10 men from the 31st minute, when Steven Whittaker was sent off for two bookings with the score at 0-0.

United caused Swansea many problems early in the first half, with Mata shooting wide twice, Rooney misjudging an attempted lob after being played through and Memphis Depay having a free kick saved.

The opening goal arrived when left back Luke Shaw’s cross squirmed through to the back post where Mata beat Ashley Williams to the ball and sidefooted a rising shot high into the net. It is only United’s third goal in four games.

Swansea manager Garry Monk changed his team’s shape, went to a diamond in midfield, and Ayew in-spired the fightback.

First he met Gylfi Sigurdsson’s cross with a down-ward header inside the near post in the 61st, then supplied Gomis with a brilliant outside-of-the-foot pass. The striker got between United’s two centre backs and rolled his finish underneath Romero, who had barely been tested in the opening three games of the season.

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Dixon snatches title from Montoya


SONOMA, Calif. — A heartbreaking week.

A jaw-dropping final few laps.A tiebreaking finale.A familiar face hoisting the champi-

onship trophy.Scott Dixon captured his fourth In-

dyCar championship Sunday by win-ning the season finale to snatch the title from Juan Pablo Montoya.

Montoya led the standings from the season-opener until the final lap of the year. But in a race worth double points, Dixon dominated and overcame a 47-point deficit to tie Montoya in the standings.

The title went to the New Zealander based on number of wins: Sunday was Dixon’s third of the season, while Mon-toya had two.

“There was still a chance, and that’s what we were hoping for,” Dixon said. “I still can’t believe it. We were such a long shot.”

Dixon and team owner Chip Ganassi celebrated by leaping from the cham-pionship stage to crowd surf. It was one of the few uplifting moments at the end of a sombre week following the death of Justin Wilson.

Wilson was struck in the head by a piece of debris from another car last Sunday at Pocono Raceway and died a day later from his injuries. Dixon was one of the many supporters who remained in Pennsylvania to stay with Wilson’s family at the hospital.

“We all raced with heavy hearts this weekend,” Dixon said. “It’s been a very tough week. It’s such a small communi-ty. But Justin would have wanted us to go out and race, and today I gave it my all from when the green flag dropped. Much love to the Wilson family.”

The victory was the 100th for Chip Ganassi Racing, while a Team Penske driver failed to win a championship in the finale for the ninth time since 2002. It also marked Chevrolet’s fourth con-secutive manufacturer championship since the company returned to IndyCar in 2012.

“I’m shocked,” Ganassi said. “We knew we had a car to be at the front, and then a lot of other things had to happen. And they happened.”

Indeed, Dixon was third in the standings as he began the race and ev-eryone assumed it was Montoya’s title

to lose.And he did.Team Penske was in trouble from

the midway point of the race when Montoya hit teammate Will Power. It sent the Colombian to pit lane for re-pairs and he was mired in the middle of the pack for the bulk of the race.

Although he picked off a few posi-tions, his break came eight laps from the end when Sebastien Bourdais spun Graham Rahal. Needing to get to fifth to win the title, he moved up one spot to seventh when he passed Rahal.

He got up to sixth when Bourdais was penalized, then had five laps to close a 3.5-second deficit on Ryan Bris-coe to move to fifth.

Montoya made a hard charge, ul-timately slicing Briscoe’s lead to 1.6 seconds, but he ran out of time to grab that final spot.

He was pragmatic after the race.

“It doesn’t matter what happened,” Montoya said. “We had a few ways to win the championship and we just threw it away. We didn’t close it.”

His biggest disappoint, it seemed, was from the race being worth double points. It was one of two events this season worth double points — the In-dianapolis 500, won by Montoya, was the other.

“When you do this and you put dou-ble points on the last race, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done all year,” Montoya said.

Power, the season champion last year, was devastated for Team Penske. The organization had three shots at the title Sunday as Montoya, Power and Helio Castroneves were among the six drivers mathematically still in contention.

“I feel so gutted for the team to not win on a draw there,” said Power, who

complained that race control had too much of an effect on the race with long yellow flag periods.

Rahal, who was wrecked last week at Pocono Raceway to have his deficit pushed from nine points to Montoya to 34 headed into the finale, had an off day as he struggled with the handling of his car most of the race. The hit from Bourdais dropped him to an 18th-place finish and he fell from second to fourth in the final standings.

“Today was a bad day to have our worst day,” he said.

Wilson was honoured before the race with a tribute video, a moment of silence and the playing of “God Save the Queen,” England’s national an-them.

Oriol Servia flew in from London overnight Wednesday to drive Wilson’s car, a request made by Wilson’s family. He finished 12th.

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Scott Dixon, of New Zealand, celebrates atop his car after winning the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma auto race and IndyCar championship Sunday, in Sonoma, Calif.

Man United loses 2-1 at Swansea exposing problems in attack, goal

Tokyo wins Little League

title with stunning

comebackBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — With more than 42,000 fans cheering against them, the Tokyo players found themselves down eight runs in the first inning of the Little League championship game against Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.

That brought out manager Junji Hidaka’s inner Yogi Berra and sparked a record rally that saw the Kitasua Little League pound out 22 hits in an 18-11 comeback victory in a battle of undefeated teams.

“I told the players it doesn’t end until it ends,” Hi-daka said through a translator.

Tokyo responded with seven runs in the second, four in the third inning and five in the sixth.

Masafuji Nishijima had four hits and six RBIs, and Shingo Tomita hit two of Tokyo’s five home runs.

Tokyo’s third pitcher, Nobuyuki Kawashima, held Lewisberry in check most of the game, giving up just one run and two hits over five innings.

“Today my fastball wasn’t going fast enough,” said the 12-year-old, who lived for four years in Califor-nia, and speaks fluent English. “I knew my breaking ball had to be on the corner, down low, where the batters can’t reach too far or it just gets them off-balance.”

It was the 10th title for Japan, second behind Tai-wan’s record 17. It’s the third title for the Kitasuna Little League team, which also took home champion-ship pennants in 2001 and 2012.

Tokyo had given up a total of 10 runs in its other tournament games, but Lewisberry scored 10 times and sent 14 batters to the plate in the bottom of the first after falling behind 2-0.

Lewisberry knocked out starting pitcher Daiki Fukuyama before an out was recorded in the first. Dylan Rodenhaber made his first hit of the tourna-ment count, hitting the ball over the right-field fence for a grand slam. Jaden Henline added a three-run homer, a shot that went deep into the shrubbery in straightaway centre field.

The Red Land Little League, which draws play-ers from several central Pennsylvania towns around Lewisberry, scored three more times sending what amounted to a hometown crowd of more than 42,000 fans into a frenzy.

Fans of the Lewisberry team helped set a tourna-ment attendance record of 499,964, well over the pre-vious mark of 414,905 set in 2011 when a team from Keystone, Pennsylvania, was in the tournament.

Tokyo responded after their manager’s pep talk. Yugo Aoki hit a three-run homer in the top of the second, which was followed with solo shots from twin brothers Kengo and Shingo Tomita.

Daiki Fukuyama added a two-run double up the middle to bring the Japanese back within a run.

Shingo Tomita tied it at 10 in the third inning with a solo home run to left field. Three batters later, Masafuji Nishijima hit a three-run homer to make it 13-10.

“They just put the bat on the ball,” Lewisberry manager Tom Peifer said. “They hit pitches I’ve nev-er seen kids, especially 12-year-olds, hit.”

SOCCER

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Wildfire smoke and hazy conditions drained Central Alberta of colour for the last week, washing out brilliant blue daytime skies and otherwise scenic landscapes.

For a few hours on Saturday, however, a total of 14 artists looked to bring a little of that colour and summertime vibrance back as they gathered at the Parkland Garden Centre for the Red Deer Plein Air Paint Out and Wet Painting Sale.

The event encouraged artists — some who

travelled from as far away as Calgary — to move outside of the confines of their stu-dios and paint “en plein air,” a French term meaning in the open air. Painting outdoors is a growing trend amongst artists, challenging them to work with constantly changing light, weather and bugs to view nature as it is.

Surrounding themselves with the flow-ers, trees and shrubbery at the garden cen-tre, artists created a number of vibrant and colourful pieces using acrylic, oil and water-colour paints.

Red Deerians could watch the artists as they worked, as well as purchase and vote for their favourite artworks towards the end of the event.

Capturing the Capturing the colourful scenerycolourful scenery

ABOVE; Luella Gilchrist sets up her makeshift outdoor studio amongst the various plants and flowers for sale at the garden centre.RIGHT; Wendy Johnsen works on a scenic pathway scene next to a garden during the Plein Air Paint Out and Wet Painting Sale, Saturday at the Parkland Garden Centre.

ABOVE LEFT; Luella Gilchrist uses a pallet knife to create texture on her piece.ABOVE; Local artist Carol Lynn Gilchrist works on a number of watercolour pieces.BELOW RIGHT; A passerby takes pause to admire the artwork of Wendy Johnsen Saturday during the Plein Air Paint Out and Wet Painting Sale Saturday at the Parkland Garden Centre.BELOW LEFT; Julie DeBoer paints a set of wagon wheels atop a hill, surrounded by trees and shrubbery.LEFT; Larry Reese, a local artist and instructor at Red Deer College, works on garden landscape.

BUSINESS C2MONDAY, AUG. 31, 2015

Social media may be a great way to get and share information but it might be harmful to your financial well-being.

The age of social media began in 2004 with the launch of Facebook. People began sharing personal information with friends and acquaintances on everything from home life, work, stress and even personal finances.

Canadians are big users of social media, particularly the younger Millenial generation (those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s).

A recent study by Forum Research, for instance, found that Facebook is the top so-cial media network in Canada followed by Linkedin, Twitt-ter and Instagram.

Canadians visit Facebook about nine times each week. The network is popular among youth and 75 per cent of the people using it earn between $80,000 and $100,000.

Linkedin is used by Canadians about twice a week on average. It’s most popular with the middle-aged (45-54 years of age) and 46 per cent who use it are high income earners making between $100,000 and $250,000.

Twitter is used about five times a week with 31 per cent of users earning $80,000 or more and Canadians visit Instagram about six times each week. Eighteen

per cent of those using it earn less than $20,000 and 18 per cent earn between $80,000 and $100,000.

““There is no question that social communication has made Canadians comfortable sharing personal details with their social networks and personal fi-nances are no exception,” says Rob Serra, Regional Director with Investors Group.

“While there can be benefits to learning and seek-ing the advice of others, there can be downsides to the openness of these forums that can lead Canadi-ans into making bad decisions or down a path that could lead to debt.”

Some of the dangers of social media are that peo-ple can fall prey to the desire to “keep up with the Jones’” and become the recipients of poor invest-ment advice.

“Talking openly with friends about money can have its benefits,” says Serra.

“A friend who has specific personal finance goals may set a good example and encourage you to iden-tify your own goals and take the right steps towards achieving them. On the flip side of the coin conversa-tions can have its negatives like jealousy, trying to keep up and over spending.”

Friends, for example, can make suggestions that don’t necessarily fit with your personal situation. They might tell you about their new BMW or about some investment winners that they recently made. This could make you want what they have and pur-chase something you can’t afford or make an invest-ment without knowing about it or how much they paid for it.

A survey in the United States has found that mon-

ey can strain a friendship. One in five Americans admitted that they have experienced financial pres-sure to keep up with their friends.

“Friends can make suggestions that don’t quite fit with your personal financial situation,” Serra says. “Situations are unique to the individual and there-fore require a professional financial plan tailored to their individual needs and circumstances.”

Serra offers some suggestions about having con-versations and getting information on financial mat-ters through social media.

The first is to remember who is reading what you post.

In addition to close friends it could include col-leagues, family and acquaintances and posted infor-mation is difficult to retract.

Your friends are not experts. While they may pro-vide some insight, a financial adviser has the knowl-edge and expertise to help you develop a plan that includes competing priorities and can identify ways you can best manage your assets.

Your spending and savings should reflect your financial position. “Set up a personal financial plan and corresponding budget that is directly related to your income, obligations and goals,” Serra ad-vises. “If you feel you a paling in comparison to your friends’ ability to spend and save, talk with a finan-cial adviser about where changes can be made.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business commu-nications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sec-tors.

Financial downsides to social media

TALBOT BOGGS

MONEYWISE


CALGARY — Want to buy gold as a savings alter-native? Well, you guessed it, there’s an app for that.

Josh Crumb, co-founder of BitGold, says he cre-ated the software that automatically links buyers to bullion dealers and storage companies because he wanted to make it easier for people to own gold as a hedge against inflation and as a store of value.

“It’s just so much easier, like everything else, to do it from your mobile phone,” said Crumb.

The system charges a one per cent fee to exchange cash into gold and back but storage is free. It also al-lows users to transfer their gold value to a prepaid credit card, so they can actually buy a cup of coffee with their gold holdings, said Crumb.

“It gives the ability without having to go to coin shops and shave off some flakes of gold to buy some-thing.”

Crumb said he and co-founder Roy Sebag were inspired by the possibilities of Bitcoin, which allows global financial transactions without going through banking systems. Like Bitcoin, BitGold allows free transfers between users, including an international money-transfer option that is in the works. But the key difference, says Crumb, is that Bitcoin will never be a store of value while gold already is.

“We said, let’s do everything Bitcoin is promising to do, but let’s actually be able to do it by having a real currency.”

The Toronto-based company began offering its service to the public in May and had already racked up more than 168,000 global users by the end of July, with about $7 million in transactions.

Crumb said the system should be popular with the fringe gold bugs who foresee the imminent collapse

of the U.S. dollar and a rise in gold, but he wants to appeal to a wider base who will use it as a form of savings account.

“You don’t buy gold to get rich like you’re buying Apple Stock, you buy gold to protect your savings.”

Most BitGold customers are in their forties or older, said Crumb, but he is seeing younger buyers who have never bought gold before.

“We are expanding the market because we’re tak-ing so much friction out of it.”

But many financial advisers disagree that gold should be considered a prudent place to store wealth.

“The message of gold as a hedge against inflation is something that people sort of accepted as a given, but I think in the last 20 years it really hasn’t been true,” said Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of TriDelta Financial.

He said gold has had volatile swings in value in recent years, while inflation has actually stayed quite low. Rechtshaffen acknowledged that gold could be a good investment in countries where you can’t trust your currency or government, but for Ca-nadians it doesn’t make much sense.


EDMONTON — New air-quality tests in one of Canada’s largest petrochemical processing regions have revealed more evidence of short-lived but con-centrated plumes of toxic chemicals.

The tests by a Nobel-prize-winning lab at Univer-sity of California Irvine echo previous results sci-entists have recorded for known carcinogens in the area northeast of Edmonton.

“It is a snapshot, but it’s no fluke,” said Donald Blake, who heads the lab.

Researchers visited what’s called Alberta’s Indus-trial Heartland — home to more than 40 petrochemi-cal companies — in July 2012.

They collected 96 samples of air nearby and in up-wind rural areas.

The results vary widely, although the majority are well under Alberta’s limits. But for July 8-12 of that year researchers found three days that had brief, dramatic spikes in levels of benzene, a known car-cinogen for which there is no safe level.

One sample reached 11 parts per billion, one was 24 ppb and a third was 156 ppb.

“These are the kinds of numbers we don’t see in Los Angeles,” said Blake.

Alberta’s recommended level is nine ppb aver-aged over an hour.

The monitor of air quality in the region reports benzene exceeded that level only once during all of 2012.

Blake suggested the short-term spikes may have been lost when averaged over an hour.

“If this is something that is blowing at somebody’s house, and they’re getting five to 20 parts per billion of benzene at them all the time ... that starts to worry me.”

It’s the third time his lab has come to the Indus-trial Heartland.

Visits in 2008 and 2010 resulted in a peer-reviewed and published study in 2013 that found smog-causing chemicals at levels comparable to — and occasion-ally many times higher than — some of the world’s largest cities and industrial complexes.

At least 10 of the chemicals found in the plumes were either known or suspected carcinogens.

Researchers also found blood cancers in men in the three counties surrounding the heartland to be consistently higher over the years 1997-2006 than for neighbouring counties. No link was proven.

The 2012 results have not been published. They were released to The Canadian Press upon the news agency’s request.

Warren Kindzierski, a professor in the University of Alberta’s public Health department, called the results interesting, but said more data is needed to confirm whether transient puffs of tainted air are slipping by monitors.

There’s a good statistical chance the high results could be an error, he suggested.

“They’ve got some good data here. I think the evi-dence is not all there yet.”

Monitoring plumes is tricky, said Kindzierski, who’s been working with the Fort McKay First Na-tion near the oilsands to set up a program.

“They’ve been doing it for three or four years and it is not easy.”

A spokeswoman for Alberta Environment said air-quality guidelines followed by the Heartland’s monitor are set by a group including the government, environmentalists and industry.

The spokeswoman, who was provided with the data from the California lab, declined to comment on its findings.

“It would be difficult to provide a comment to this latest data that has not yet been made publicly avail-able or provided to us directly by (the university).”

Premier Rachel Notley didn’t hold back when she commented as the NDP environment critic on the same lab’s 2013 paper.

“A better response would be to take it very, very seriously and immediately commit to doing a review of the comprehensiveness and efficacy of the air-quality testing that’s going on,” she said at the time.

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HEARTLAND REVEAL AIR-QUALITY CONCERNS

FILE PHOTO BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray. New air-quality tests in one of Canada’s largest petrochemical processing regions have revealed more evidence of spikes in concentrated plumes of toxic chemicals.

BitGold looks to take gold savings mainstream

‘WE SAID, LET’S DO EVERYTHING BITCOIN IS PROMISING TO DO, BUT

LET’S ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DO IT BY HAVING A REAL CURRENCY.’

— JOSH CRUMBCO-FOUNDER OF BITGOLD

Please see BITGOLD on Page C3

Nexen Energy collecting required information to re-start pipelines

CALGARY — Nexen Energy says it is “prepar-ing to comply” with requirements from the Alberta Energy Regulator following the agency’s order that the company cease operations of 95 pipelines in the province.

A news release Saturday from the company says it’s working to collect the information and documen-tation the regulator needs, and is looking forward to continuing to work with the regulator to resolve the issue.

The regulator issued the order late Friday due to what it called non-compliance surrounding pipeline maintenance and monitoring in its Long Lake oil-sands project.

On July 15, a pipeline at the project southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., leaked about five million litres of a mixture of bitumen, produced water and sand into muskeg.

Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Bob Cur-ran said Friday that the shut pipelines carry several products including crude oil, natural gas, salt water, fresh water and emulsion.

The company’s news release doesn’t say when it hopes to have the pipelines running again, but says it will provide additional information when it becomes available.

“Nexen considers regulatory compliance to be of the utmost importance in our operations,” the com-pany’s news release stated. “Our top priority is the safety of our employees, the public and the environ-ment.”

Nexen said in the news release that it started an internal audit of its pipeline integrity management system in early July and that it “voluntarily self-disclosed all non-compliances” to the regulator last Tuesday.

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Danielle Park, a partner and portfolio manager at

Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc., has outlined

her skepticism of gold on her blog.

“Gold makes no sense to me as an investment. It

pays nothing, it is not essential for anything in our

economy and, as an analyst I have no way of assess-

ing its fair value,” wrote Park.

She says investors should be especially wary of

taking gold-buying advice from those selling it.

“If you are taking your buy advice from those who

are paid to sell you the investment products, you are

putting yourself and your capital in harm’s way.”


VANCOUVER — If the liquefied natural gas industry proceeds as the British Columbia government hopes, there could be five times as many fracking-caused earthquakes, warns one expert.

But the company that would provide gas to a major LNG terminal — the same company found responsible for a 4.4 magnitude tremor last year — claims it won’t ramp up drilling.

Progress Energy said it doesn’t need to increase the number of wells it drills each year to supply Pacific NorthWest LNG’s planned liquefac-tion and export terminal near Prince Rupert.

“Our upstream drilling activity will remain relatively consistent with cur-rent levels over the life of the LNG project or may even decline and there-fore pose no incremental risk,” said spokeswoman Stacie Dley in an email.

The company paused its operations after a 4.6 magnitude quake in north-east B.C. on Aug. 17. The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission is investigating and has not established its cause.

The commission has, however, con-firmed that Progress Energy triggered a 4.4 magnitude tremor last August — among the largest caused by the indus-try in Canada.

The $36-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project is a cornerstone of the B.C. Liberals’ efforts to build a new natural gas export industry to Asia. It has been approved by the province but remains under federal review.

David Hughes, a geoscientist who worked for the Geological Survey of Canada for 32 years, recently analyzed B.C.’s LNG plans for the Canadian Cen-

tre for Policy Alternatives.In order to meet the province’s high-

est estimate of five terminals deliver-ing 82 million tonnes of LNG a year, drilling would have to increase five-fold by 2020 — up to 2,100 wells per year, he said.

“If five terminals get built, get ready for some unavoidable seismic activity. I don’t think there’s any way you can stop it,” he said. “It’s just the cost of doing business.”

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves injecting high-pressure fluid into wells to crack rock and release natural gas. The process can trigger seismic events but most are not felt above ground.

Progress Energy said it doesn’t need to drill greater numbers of wells each year because they can last decades. But Hughes said the structures decline quickly, with production falling up to 70 per cent after three years, and 288 new wells must be built each year to maintain current output.

The Oil and Gas Commission record-ed 193 fracking-caused quakes between August 2013 and October 2014 in the Montney Trend, a siltstone formation stretching from near Dawson Creek to the Rocky Mountain foothills.

Of about 7,500 fracking operations, only 11 triggered events felt at the sur-face. None caused injuries or damage.

Asked how B.C. would reduce the quake risk caused by LNG, Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Cole-man said it has brought in regulations, monitoring and prevention measures.

Operators must immediately stop drilling if seismic activity exceeds 4.0 magnitude. They can only resume once the commission has approved a mitiga-tion plan that could include reducing drilling volumes or pressure.

LNG industry will increase fracking

earthquakes: expert

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, operation is show here in the greater Fort St. John area in northeastern British Columbia.BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Gen-eral Mills has set an ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 28 per cent by 2025 — not just within its own operations but from farm to fork to landfill.

CEO Ken Powell, in outlining the plan to The Associated Press ahead of the company’s official announcement Monday, said General Mills is com-pelled to act because climate change ultimately will be bad for business.

General Mills will invest more than $100 million in energy efficiency and clean energy within its own facilities worldwide, and partner with suppliers to foster more sustainable agricultural practices, including sourcing products from an additional 250,000 acres of organic production globally by 2020.

“We think that human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that’s going to stress the agricultural supply chain, which is very important to us,” Powell said in an interview at company headquarters in suburban Minneapolis.

“Obviously we depend on that for our business, and we all depend on that for the food we eat.”

Other major food companies have greenhouse gas goals, but General Mills officials said they know of no other major player that has targeted its entire chain — from raw material suppliers to consumers.

The company estimates that 92 per cent of greenhouse gases associated with that chain come from entities it doesn’t control.

With annual sales of nearly $19 billion, General Mills is one of the world’s largest food companies, with brands like General Mills cereals, Yoplait yogurt, Pillsbury and Betty Crocker products, Progresso soups, Haagen-Dazs ice cream and Green Giant vegetables.

Because of its size, General Mills can exert a strong influence over its suppliers and hopes other companies will follow the example, Powell said. But he said the company also knows that climate change, sustainability and the safety of the food supply are increasingly on consumers’ minds, and that they want to see action.

“They’re setting a big audacious goal, which is going to be good for the

business long-term,” said Eric Olson, senior vice-president with Business for Social Responsibility, a non-profit that works with more than 250 companies on sustainability and social justice strategies and helped General Mills develop its plan.

Other major global food companies such as Unilever, Mars and Nestle have set greenhouse gas reduction targets for their own operations. But General Mills’ plan is unique because it extends all the way up the supply chain, Olson said.

General Mills doesn’t plan to threaten to cut suppliers off if they don’t make improvements. Many of them already are working on reducing their carbon footprints, and the plan is to partner with them to find ways to accelerate that progress, Powell said.

Within General Mills’ operations, targets can be achieved through better energy efficiency within its manufacturing plants, switching to more energy efficient vehicles and smarter logistics, Powell said. Packaging that uses less cardboard and plastic will also help.

Getting partners to make changes will be a bigger challenge, he acknowledged.

Expanded organic acreage and promoting agricultural innovations are part of the solution, said Jerry Lynch, the company’s chief sustainability officer.

Organic agriculture promotes soil that helps farms better endure droughts, heavy rains and pests, pulling more carbon from the air and putting it into the ground in the process.

Better dietary and manure manage-ment practices in the dairy industry are other opportunities, Powell said, given that cows emit huge amounts of methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Olson said the plan will give Gen-eral Mills “a better supply chain — a supply chain that’s better able to re-spond to the shocks we expect to come with climate change and other changes in the weather.”

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WASHINGTON — The fear that gripped finan-cial markets this month is a stark one: That China’s economy might be slipping into a decline that could persist for years.

But the world’s second-largest economy isn’t col-lapsing — certainly not yet, anyway. What’s really in freefall is confidence in its leaders, once seen as wielding near-mythic power to keep their economy growing at a propulsive pace.

Global stock markets have sunk — and gyrated — as investors have wrestled with their doubts. The Dow Jones industrial average has lost nearly 1,000 points since China’s surprise move to devalue its currency Aug. 11. That step, in part an effort to align the yuan with market forces, was also seen by inves-tors as a desperate bid to fuel exports in a faltering economy.

“The incredible faith in the Chinese policymakers has been shaken,” says Ruchir Sharma, head of Mor-gan Stanley’s emerging markets equity team.

For all its woes, China still outruns every other major economy. For 2015, while the nearly healthy U.S. economy will expand perhaps 2.5 per cent, even most pessimistic analysts predict that China’s will grow at least 5 per cent . Yet its growth has deceler-ated for four straight years.

And a series of bungled decisions have escalated doubts about Beijing’s economic stewardship. The skepticism is rising just as China is pursuing one of the most daunting transitions in modern economic history — from overheated growth, driven by exports and often-wasteful investment, toward slower and sturdier growth fueled by spending from an emerg-ing middle class.

The leadership’s miscues have multiplied, start-ing with its handling of the stock market. To try to cushion the pain from a slower economy, the govern-ment deployed state-run media to promote stocks for inexperienced individual investors. The hope was that Chinese companies could issue shares into a ris-ing market and use the proceeds to finance growth and shrink their heavy debt levels.

Untethered from economic reality, Chinese stocks took wing. The Shanghai Composite Index rocketed 150 per cent in the year through mid-June, propelled in part by individuals who poured money in, often on borrowed funds, confident that their government wouldn’t steer them wrong.

On June 12, the bubble burst: Shanghai stocks have since tumbled 37 per cent, though they remain 47 per cent above where they were a year ago.

Beijing, abandoning a pledge to let market forces play a bigger role in the economy, tried futilely to stop the freefall. It suspended trading in many com-panies, restricted the use of borrowed money for

some trades and banned big investors from selling their stakes for six months.

“The bubble pops, and they intervene and it doesn’t work,” says Derek Scissors, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

Beijing suddenly looked like something less than omnipotent.

Then, on Aug. 11, China devalued the yuan. The government said the move was a nod to reality: In-vestors were signalling that the currency was over-valued. And the United States and the International Monetary Fund had long urged China to let market forces play a bigger role in the yuan’s exchange rate.

Yet the decision surprised investors and aroused suspicions that it was a bid to drive up exports, which tumbled more than 8 per cent in July from a year earlier. (A lower-valued yuan gives Chinese goods a competitive edge overseas.) And Beijing has since sent confusing signals, sometimes intervening to keep the yuan from falling too fast.

The episode led investors to take a more skepti-cal look at the Chinese economy. China’s economic statistics have always been dubious. Premier Li Keq-iang once acknowledged that its growth figures were “man-made” and unreliable.

The official unemployment rate is laughable: It’s remained between 4 per cent and 4.25 per cent — and almost always precisely 4.1 per cent — every quarter for the past five years, according to Trading Economics.

Some analysts have sought alternative ways to gauge China’s economic performance — electric-ity consumption and freight shipments, for example. The London firm Consensus Economics asked sever-al economists to provide alternative forecasts based on unconventional measures.

They predicted that China’s economy would grow 5.3 per cent in the year ending in the fourth quarter of 2015, well below conventional forecasts near 7 per cent. Morgan Stanley’s Sharma suggests that the economy is growing 5 per cent “at best” this year.

Still, compared with other major economies, that’s a brisk pace. And there’s some evidence that China has managed to begin transitioning toward growth based on consumption and services. Retail sales, for example, rose 10.5 per cent in July from a year ear-lier despite the economy’s overall deceleration. And from January through March, U.S. services exports to China rose 8 per cent even as manufacturing exports fell 9 per cent.

China’s authorities, though, are pursuing a transi-tion on a magnitude never seen before. And their recent stumbles have prompted a more critical ap-praisal of the policymakers’ earlier decisions. After the global financial crisis in 2008, for instance, they enacted a stimulus program — spending on roads and other infrastructure and ordering state-owned banks to lend freely.

Doubts about China sap investor confidence


LONDON — Sweden’s Karolinska Institute says a leading stem cell scien-tist accused of unethical behaviour has been cleared of scientific misconduct though he sometimes acted without due care.

In a statement released on Friday, the university said complaints levelled against Dr. Paolo Macchiarini — who has created wind pipes using patients’ stem cells — did not qualify as scien-tific misconduct, overturning a previ-ous investigation in May which found him guilty.

After examining further documents submitted by Macchiarini, Karolins-ka’s vice-chancellor Anders Hamsten concluded there were flaws in Macchi-arini’s work “but nothing that can be considered scientific misconduct.”

The previous investigation had claimed, among other things, that Mac-chiarini “selectively described” cer-tain minor problems in patients while omitting serious complications.

“To have been falsely accused of serious misconduct is every research-er’s nightmare,” Macchiarini said in an email.

He said the accusations were ex-tremely damaging to him and the field of regenerative medicine; the Swedish Research Council froze his grants in June.

Macchiarini has been instructed to submit corrected information to the journals that published some of his work to clarify the mistakes identified by the university’s inquiry.

Macchiarini said he would speak with Karolinska about immediately ensuring the reinstatement of his re-search grants.

He and colleagues have developed a novel technique of seeding either donated or synthetic wind pipes with stem cells of patients to prevent rejec-tion and are now expanding their work to include other organs.

“I feel it is extremely important that public confidence is restored in this field now,” he said.

“It is only through the trust of pres-ent patients willing to take part in ex-perimental surgeries that patients of the future will have a chance to ben-efit.”

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More education for opiod prescribing urgedBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian physicians should be sub-ject to mandatory continuing medical education in the appropriate prescrib-ing of opioids — medications whose use has now become almost routine for treating chronic pain, the Canadian Medical Association’s annual meeting in Halifax was told Monday.

Dr. Douglas Grant, registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia, told an educational session on the drugs that excessive prescribing of opioids like oxycodone, fentanyl and hydromorphone for pa-tients with chronic, non-cancer pain has become “an enormous problem.”

“With respect to opioids, there’s been in my view a general loss of awareness, a growing casual attitude about the risk of these medicines,” Grant said.

As doctors have become increas-ingly comfortable with prescribing opioids over the last two decades or so, he believes they’ve become less aware and concerned about their potential dangers, including the increasingly common risk of overdose death.

At the same time, there’s been a shift in patients expecting to be not only treated for pain, but to be pain-free, he said.

“That’s created a positive feedback loop which I think has led to the pres-ent rates of high prescribing,” said Grant, noting that Canada has the sec-ond-highest per capita usage of pre-scription opioids in the world, after the United States.

“I really think we’re at a point now where we have to consider mandatory CME (continuing medical education) about prescribing.”

Doctors must have a number of con-tinuing education credits each year to be considered medically competent and to remain in good standing with their professional colleges.

“So the question we have to ask our-selves is: how do we get the toothpaste back in the tube?”

Grant doesn’t believe excessive opi-oid prescribing arises from “malig-nant” doctors who are knowingly con-tributing to the widespread legitimate and illicit use of the drugs, but from physicians who take too casual an ap-proach to prescribing the potent pain-killers.

“What I frequently see is undisci-plined, unstructured and arbitrary use of these medications,” he said, pulling no punches in his address to delegate-colleagues attending the session.

“Most of the time, this approach is employed by well-intentioned but weak-willed and underinformed phy-sicians who have lost control of the patient-doctor relationship.”

Regulators like his Nova Scotia col-lege can help physicians by pointing out how their prescribing practices stack up against those of other doctors in their province, based on a prescrip-tion monitoring program, he said.

Nova Scotia is one of the few juris-dictions in Canada with such a pro-gram, which allows doctors to check on a patient’s real-time medication history.

Dr. Mary Lynch, a professor of anes-thesia, psychiatry and pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said opioids are an essential tool in man-aging pain, especially for those with cancer or for acute pain from injury or diseases that cause tissue damage such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Using the drugs to get acute pain un-der control is also crucial for prevent-

ing patients from going on to develop chronic pain and to promote healing, she said.

But in the case of chronic pain, Lynch said patients can often benefit from a comprehensive treatment plan that also includes physiotherapy and other non-pharmacological interven-tions.

However, not all patients have ac-cess to such programs, leading doctors to rely on opioids to alleviate their suffering and improve their quality of life.

Lynch said up until about 2010, the use of opioids in Canada and the U.S. had been increasing, but she suggests their use has been falling as aware-ness of the drugs’ risks has increased among physicians and the public.

There are now reports of patients being unable to access the medications when they legitimately need them, she said. “Now we may need to be con-cerned that the pendulum has maybe swung too far the other away.”

Lynch, who’s also director of re-search at the Pain Management Unit at the QEII Health Sciences Centre, would like to see a national opioid strategy in Canada.

But she said it’s important when de-veloping policies to remember there’s a specific sub-population of people who use the drugs to get high or who have become addicted to the narcotics.

“There is massive ignorance about the complexities of addiction, there is inadequate access to care for addic-tion for many people. There is massive ignorance about the assessment and treatment of pain. We are not teaching it in our medical schools adequately,” she said.

“So the solution is to get better care for pain and better care for addiction — not to demonize a drug or a class of drugs and try to identify simplistic so-lutions like increasing the regulation of those drugs, which is what two con-secutive health ministers have wanted to do.”

Doctors group looking at intensive course to train doctors in assisted death


Doctors who are willing to assist in a patient’s death once the act be-comes legal early next year will need to be trained because they’ve never been taught the procedures for ending a life, the Canadian Medical Associa-tion says.

“There’s a lot of complexity in this for Canadian doctors and it’s the first time really any of us can remember that (we) have been forced to under-take an entirely new procedure or new intervention without any training or experience,” Dr. Jeff Blackmer, vice-president of medical professionalism, told a media briefing Tuesday during the CMA’s annual meeting in Halifax.

Blackmer said the 80,000-member doctors’ organization is considering an intensive two-day course for physi-cians “who have never had to learn this, who have not taken it in medical school or residency.”

Physicians who choose not to partic-ipate in assisted death may be offered an online course so they can counsel patients who want to pursue help in dying. Those who are willing to pro-vide the service would continue to take courses over the years, he said.

“We want to make sure people are trained and have the competencies to do this,” Blackmer said.

On Feb. 6 of this year, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the law banning doctors from assisting a pa-tient to die or from performing eutha-nasia. The court stayed its decision for a year to give the federal government time to draft and pass replacement legislation.

If no such law is passed, doctors can legally begin helping patients who meet certain criteria to end their lives.

Outgoing CMA president Dr. Chris Simpson said time is growing short for regulators to determine how the service would be provided and how doctors would decide whether a given patient is eligible for assisted death under the Supreme Court’s ruling.

“We don’t want to arrive at Feb. 6 with everybody saying, ’Well, assisted dying in Canada is legal. Does anybody know how to do it? Does anybody know who qualifies?”’ Simpson said.

“That is a situation I think we all agree cannot happen.”

Simpson said the CMA is lobbying for replacement legislation with na-tional standards, rather than a patch-work of provincial and territorial regu-lations that wouldn’t serve patients

across the country equally.“At the end of the day, regardless

of who wins the election, the law that banned assisted suicide is no longer in effect as of February and so govern-ments are going to have to deal with this,” he said.

“The question is whether or not we’re going to deal with it in a rational and professional way that serves the needs of Canadians or whether we’re just going to leave it to chance.”

The CMA recently invited its mem-bers to participate in an online survey about assisted death. Of 1,407 members who responded, 29 per cent said they would consider providing the service, 63 per cent said they would not, and eight per cent said they weren’t sure, the CMA reported.

Delegates discussing the issue dur-ing a session at the Halifax meeting on Tuesday expressed a number of concerns, including whether doctors against the practice on moral or reli-gious grounds would be required to refer a patient to a willing physician.

In the end, they favoured a recom-mendation to provide patients with in-formation about the option, including how to access the service, Blackmer said.

“My concern remains more in the rural and remote communities, where there may only be one or two GPs, and if they are both unwilling to partici-pate, I think that’s when we’re going to have to look at what some solutions are,” he said, noting that the Neth-erlands has a mobile clinic that goes from community to community to pro-vide assisted dying.

“The geography of Canada obvious-ly is somewhat limiting in that respect, but we plan to examine some of those models and see what may apply here in Canada.”

University clears doctor who made wind pipes with stem

cells of scientific misconduct


Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen are shown in this photo. Canadian physicians should be subject to mandatory continuing medical education in the appropriate prescribing of opioids - medications whose use has now become almost routine for treating chronic pain, the Canadian Medical Association’s annual meeting in Halifax was told.

SWEDEN‘WE DON’T WANT TO

ARRIVE AT FEB. 6 WITH EVERYBODY SAYING,

’WELL, ASSISTED DYING IN CANADA IS LEGAL.

DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO DO IT? DOES

ANYBODY KNOW WHO QUALIFIES?.’

— DR. CHRIS SIMPSONOUTGOING CANADIAN MEDICAL

ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT


NEW YORK — The Christian drama War Room made a surprise bid for the box-office lead, Zac Efron’s music dra-ma We Are Your Friends bombed spec-tacularly and the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton keeps chugging along.

Universal’s Straight Outta Compton topped the box office for the third-straight week with $13.2 million at North American theatres over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film, which has now made $134.1 million in total, has continued to dominate August moviegoing. It joins Jurassic World as the only movies to lead the box office three consecutive weeks this summer.

The late August weekend held scant competition for Straight Outta Comp-ton, but War Room nearly matched it. The Sony TriStar release took in $11 million by appealing to faith-based au-diences, an often powerful but under-served demographic at the multiplex. War Room is about an African-Amer-ican family who perseveres through prayer.

“We knew that we were going to get a lot of love, we just didn’t expect quite this much love,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. “This is a genre that we’re very much commit-ted to.”

The film, directed by Alex Kendrick, is the highest opening yet for Affirm Films, a production company that has had previous success with low-budget films that pull in Christian audiences through grassroots marketing.

So the success of War Room wasn’t overly surprising. Faith-based films have regularly performed well at the box office, and “War Room” capital-ized on an especially quiet movie weekend. But thoroughness of the flop of We Are Your Friends was unusual. The Warner Bros. release, an electron-ic dance music drama, wasn’t expected to do especially well.

But the Efron-led film opened with just $1.8 million on 2,333 screens (more than twice the number for War Room). That makes it one of the lowest weekend openings ever for a film that played so widely.

“August can be a land of opportuni-ty or it can be your worst nightmare,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior me-dia analyst for box-office firm Rentrak.

Whereas We Are Your Friends got lost in the shuffle of a traditionally quiet period for the movie business, Dergarabedian said, War Room used its late-summer, little-competition re-lease date to its advantage. War Room, Dergarabedian said, further proves the box-office strength of faith-based moviegoers: “They are looking for con-tent. If you build it, they will come.”

No Escape, the Thailand thriller starring Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, opened with $8.3 million for the Wein-stein Co. In its fifth weekend, Para-mount’s Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation earned $8.3 million to bring its North American total to $170.4 million.

With another low-key weekend looming over Labor Day, Hollywood’s summer is slowing to a crawl. Overall business on the weekend was down 21.4 per cent from last year, according

to Rentrak. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Ca-nadian theatres, according to Rentrak.

Where available, the latest inter-national numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final do-mestic figures will be released Mon-day:

1. Straight Outta Compton, $13.2 mil-lion.

2. War Room, $11 million.3. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Na-

tion, $8.3 million.4. No Escape, $8.3 million.5. Sinister 2, $4.7 million.6. Man From U.N.C.L.E., $4.4 million.7. Hitman: Agent 47, $3.9 million.8. The Gift, $3.1 million.9. Jurassic World, $3.1 million.10. Ant-Man, $3.1 million.

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NEW YORK — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like The Man Who Mis-took His Wife For a Hat probed distant ranges of human experience by com-passionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neuro-logical conditions, has died. He was 82.

Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Ed-gar, said.

Sacks had announced in February 2015 that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.

As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold.

In his bestselling 1985 book, he de-scribed a man who really did mistake his wife’s face for his hat while visiting Sacks’ office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he saw. Another story in the book featured au-tistic twins who had trouble with or-dinary math but who could perform other amazing calculations.

Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time in 2006, declaring, “Legions of neuroscientists now probing the mys-teries of the human brain cite this book as their greatest inspiration.”

Sacks’ 1973 book, Awakenings, about hospital patients who’d spent decades in a kind of frozen state until Sacks tried a new treatment, led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was portrayed by Robin Williams. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Still another book, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales pub-lished in 1995, described cases like a painter who lost colour vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white.

It also told of a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of blindness. The experience was a disaster; the man’s brain could not make sense of the visual world. It perceived the human face as a shift-ing mass of meaningless colours and textures.

After a full and rich life as a blind person, he became “a very disabled and miserable partially sighted man,” Sacks recalled later. “When he went blind again, he was rather glad of it.”

Despite the drama and unusual sto-ries, his books were not literary freak shows.

“Oliver Sacks humanizes illness ... he writes of body and mind, and from every one of his case studies there ra-diates a feeling of respect for the pa-tient and for the illness,” Roald Hoff-mann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said in 2001. “What others consider unmitigated tragedy or dysfunction, Sacks sees, and makes us see, as a hu-man being coping with dignity with a biological problem.”

When Sacks received the presti-gious Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002, the citation declared, “Sacks presses us to follow him into uncharted regions of human experi-ence — and compels us to realize, once there, that we are confronting only our-selves.”

In a 1998 interview with The Associ-ated Press, Sacks said he tries to make “visits to other people, to other inte-riors, seeing the world through their eyes.”

His 2007 book, Musicophilia, looked at the relationship between music and the brain, including its healing effect on people suffering from such diseases as Tourette’s syndrome, Parkinson’s, autism and Alzheimer’s.

“Even with advanced dementia, when powers of memory and language are lost, people will respond to music,” he told the AP in 2008.

Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in 1933 in London, son of husband-and-wife physicians. Both were skilled at re-counting medical stories, and Sack’s own writing impulse “seems to have come directly from them,” he said in his 2015 memoir, “On the Move.”

In childhood he was drawn to chem-istry (his 2001 memoir is called, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boy-hood) and biology. Around age 11, fas-cinated by how ferns slowly unfurl, he set up a camera to take pictures every hour or so of a fern and then as-sembled a flip book to compress the process into a few seconds.

“I became a doctor a little belatedly and a little reluctantly,” he told one in-terviewer. “In a sense, I was a natural-ist first and I only came to individuals relatively late.”

Awakenings author Oliver

Sacks dies at 82

The sound of reggae’s 2nd generation: Stephen and

Damian MarleyBY ROGER CATLIN

SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

More than 30 years after the death of their father, the sons of Bob Marley continue to tour and draw crowds to the sounds of reggae.

In a year that has marked the 70th anniversary of their father’s birth, Stephen “Ragga” Marley, 43, and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, 37, are joining forces on the Catch a Fire tour.

Stephen, the second-eldest son of Bob Marley and Rita Marley, began performing with his brother Ziggy and sisters in the Melody Makers. Damian, Marley’s youngest son, and the only child he had with former Miss World Cindy Break-speare, also had a musical group as a youth.

Both have won Grammys for albums. Stephen is still put-ting together Revelation Part II: The Root of Life, a sequel to his 2011 Grammy-winner, that he has previewed with two singles, Rock Stone, featuring Capleton and Sizzla, and Ghetto Boy, featuring Bounty Killer and Cobra. Damian is working on his 2016 release and is about to issue a single with reggae and soca hitmaker Bunji Garlin.

We caught up with the Marley brothers separately just before the tour began — one in Miami and the other on a bus en route to Miami.

Their responses to a similar set of questions were edited and rearranged.

Q: How have you marked the 70th anniversary of your father?

Stephen: We had a big show in Jamaica, a free concert for the people. It was very nice. Then we did the Hollywood Bowl with me and Ziggy and the Skatalites and Inner Circle that was in tribute to my dad as well. That was a sold-out concert. Very good vibe. Very great vibe.

Q: You both carry your father’s legacy — and also con-tinue to perform a lot of his music?

Damian: Every night, every time we get a gig, we always do one or two of his songs.

And a lot of my songs will sample a lot of his verses or his choruses.

So when I do my songs, I’m doing his songs a lot of the time.

Stephen: I am a seed from that fruit. So it is only right that you taste a little of his flavor in me.

He is a shepherd. I am a sheep in a pasture.Q: Both of you freely mix music from other genres to your

reggae.Stephen: We’re fans of all kinds of music. My dad was

similar. When he was here, he was listening to Fats Domino. You’d hear him listen to everybody, whatever was up. We got that from him, just being open to music and just enjoy-ing music.

Q: Hip-hop and reggae go together especially well, it seems.

Stephen: Hip-hop is an offspring of reggae. Reggae music comes from the ghetto; hip-hop comes from the ghetto. So there are kind of parallel lives as well.

Q: Your father didn’t live long enough to see the decrimi-nalization of marijuana that’s occurring in several states.

Stephen: It’s a positive move, man. My father was very much an advocate of the legalization

of marijuana and the use of the herbs, not just for smoking, but everything that hemp has to offer: medicinal, the fiber itself. So we’re proud to be able to reach this stage, educat-ing people about marijuana and just being front-runners for the legalization of this plant and educating people about the plant.

Not just smoking, but the plant.Damian: One of the things that we’re concerned about

is we’re just hoping that with the changing of the laws, the original farmers and growers and people who made a living off the herb will still be able to feed their families and cor-porations not come in and ruin it.

It’s a people’s thing, and we’d love it to remain that way.

Straight Outta Compton leads box office for three consecutive weekends

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Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, — shown here — 37, is joining forces on the Catch a Fire tour with Stephen “Ragga” Marley, 43

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LABOUR DAYCLASSIFIED

Hours & Deadlines

Phones & Offi ces CLOSED Sept.7

Red Deer Advocate For Tues. Sept.8

Deadline is Fri.. Sept. 4at 5 p.m.

Lost 54LOST in Central School

area F. black spayed tattooed cat, w/white paws

& chin, crooked tail 403-596-8285

LOST SAPPHIRE diamond earring on Aug. 22 in Red Deer. Reward

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LOST small medium haired white cat with orange patches on back in Mountview. 403-346-3856

Found 56KEYS found on the corner of Rogers & Ramsay Ave.

Has 4 keys with fob. Call 403-346-9156

must identify.

Personals 60ALCOHOLICS

ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

COCAINE ANONYMOUS403-396-8298

CLASSIFICATIONS700-920

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HairStylists 760SYLVAN LAKE BARBER req’s P/T Stylist/Barber, Drop resume off or contact Sherry at 403-887-4022

Oilfield 800

COLTER ENERGY LPIS NOW HIRING

WELL TESTING: Supervisors

Night OperatorsOperators

• Have current Safety certifi cates including H2S

• Be prepared to work in remote locations for extended periods of time

• Must be physically fi t• Competitive wages, benefi ts

and RRSP offeredPlease email resume with current driver’s abstract to:[email protected]

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Restaurant/Hotel 820JJAM Management (1987)

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’sRequires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:

5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. +medical, dental, life and vi-sion benefi ts. Start ASAP.

Job description www.timhortons.com

Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303

Oilfield 800

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Start your career!See Help Wanted



5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. +benefi ts. Start ASAP.

Job description www.timhortons.com

Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303

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5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift. Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. 40 hrs/week, + benefi ts ,

8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some secondary. Apply in

person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job

description visit www.timhortons.com

TOO MUCH STUFF?Let Classifiedshelp you sell it.

Start your career!See Help Wanted

Trades 850SMALL RURAL MEAT

SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat

cutter. 8 - 4:30, no week-ends. Knowledge of cutting

hanging carcasses needed. Rental house

avail. within walking dis-tance of meat shop at a

very reasonable rate with paid utils. $21 to start with skill & exp. 403-843-4383

[email protected]

Truckers/Drivers 860

CLASS 3 DRIVERSw/airbrake endorsement

needed immed. for waste & recycling automated & roll off trucks. Email resume

with a min. of 2 referencesto: [email protected]

Scan to See Current Openings

TRICAN is a global well service company with operations in Canada, USA, and Norway.If you are a motivated, service-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills, we invite you to apply for the following positions:

Fracturing Operators, Frac Sand B-Train Drivers

Responsibilities:• Ensure that Trican’s safety program, Target Zero, is followed and is promoted to employees,

customers partners and the public at all times.• Operate various large duty trucks over outdoor terrain and through all weather conditions.• Perform pre and post trip inspections and accurately ll out all required forms.• Perform rig-in and rig-out of all equipment, for travel• Operate all equipment in safe and responsible manner• Attend pre-job safety meeting on location• Perform maintenance on units and auxiliary equipment• Complete required paperwork• Establish and maintain effective communication with colleagues• Consult with supervisor and crew regarding any operational de ciencies

Experience & Skills:• Valid Class 1 Driver’s licence is required, safe driving skills – current driver’s abstract required• Pressure pumping experience is preferred• High school diploma is an asset• Heavy lifting required, must be physically t• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

What Makes Us Attractive:• Values-driven organization• Full coverage bene ts program, Health spending account, RRSP matching program• Global technical leader within our industry• Focus on safety, training and development• Career advancement opportunities

Working Conditions:• 15 days on/6 days off• On call 24-hours per day during days on• Willing to live near base of employment• Pre-employment medical testing required• Working in all weather conditions

Please forward your resume and a copy of a current driver’s abstract (in confi dence)Fax: (403) 314-3332, Online: https://trican.hgcareers.com

Please visit our website at www.trican.ca for additional information about our company

We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

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KUNErin Elizabeth Kun (Nov.6, 1978 - Aug. 3, 2015) was born on November 6, 1978 in Humboldt SK. She grew up on the family farm near Bruno, SK. After graduation from high school, Erin attended Canadian Pentecostal College in Saskatoon, SK and DeVry in Calgary, AB. She lived in British Columbia for a few years before making her home in Sylvan Lake, AB. Erin was blessed with four beautiful children: Andrew, Rachel, Caeden and Rebecca. Her children were her pride and joy and she was always excited and looked forward to having them all under one roof with her. She was so very proud of the individuals they were, all with their own unique personalities and talents. Erin’s love was evident for each of them in the way she talked about them, and embraced them with hugs and kisses - A love that will continue on in each of them and will be remembered and missed so much. Erin’s family was so very proud of her. Amidst the challenges she faced as a single mother, she persevered and excelled in a Business Offi ce Skills Program. In her search for work following this achievement she found great satisfaction in employment that was more than just an offi ce job. Erin was employed as a laborer with a local home builder, and truly enjoyed her job there doing physical labor, cleaning up and preparing the way for the next contractors at the job site. Erin will be lovingly and sorrowfully missed by her children: Andrew, Rachel, Caeden, and Rebecca Rush of Sylvan Lake, AB; father Marvin Kun of Bruno, SK; mother June Kun (nee Hunyadi) of Saskatoon, SK; siblings Deborah Nelson (Adam) and their children John, Logan and Marissa of Deep River ON; Alan Kun (Lisa (nee Bessette)) and their children Mason and Presley of Saskatoon, SK; Anthony Kun (Kimberly (nee Hering)) and their children Jordan and Ethan of Bruno, SK; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who all loved her so much. She is predeceased by her maternal grandparents Helen Hunyadi (1990), George Hunyadi (2007) and paternal grandparents Andrew Kun (1992), Helen Kun (2008). Funeral service was held on Friday August 7, 2015 at the Alliance Community Church in Sylvan Lake, AB. Erin was laid to rest near the Kun Family Farm on Saturday August 8, 2015 at the Apostolic Christian Cemetery near Bruno, SK. Memorial donations may be made to a trust account for Erin’s children. Deposits can be made at any CIBC branch to “Trust account for children of Erin Kun - 00939-010-6824994”

In Loving Memory of PERRY LEE PULLYBLANKNov. 28, 1965 - Aug. 31, 2014Missed and loved so much

every dayYour Lovie, (Debbie),

Dylan(Stephanie), Adam and Benjamin, Brothers

Don(Kate), Tim(Debra), Mark(Tiff), Mark(Jen) & families

In Memoriam

GETZ, ED1941-2013

Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure.

You are loved beyond words,And missed beyond measure.Still missing and loving youRose, Vance, Terry, Brenda

and families.

Card Of ThanksKUN

The family of Erin Kun wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who showed such kindness and love to our family during this

diffi cult time. All the help, prayers and support are

sincerely appreciated. Your kindness has impacted us tremendously and we are

overwhelmed by your thoughtfulness. From the

bottom of our hearts, thank you. - The family of Erin Kun (Marvin, June, Deborah,

Alan, Anthony, and families, and on behalf of her children

Andrew, Rachel, Caedenand Rebecca)

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Contractors 1100BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads

Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

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Entertainment1160DANCE DJ SERVICES

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HandymanServices 1200

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MassageTherapy 1280

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Misc.Services 12905* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

Moving &Storage 1300MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/Decorators1310JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Free Est. 403-872-8888

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Roofing 1370PRECISE ROOFING LTD.15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

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Seniors’Services 1372

HELPING HANDSHome Supports for Seniors.

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WindowCleaning 1420

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company

looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

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program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and

comm. abstract to 403-337-3758 or

[email protected]

F/T TOW TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Misc.Help 880F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer

and area is essential.Verbal and written

communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax

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Children'sItems 1580ED HARDY shirts, 3 long

sleeve, 1 short sleeve, Child’s size L and XL. $20

for all 4. 403-314-9603

Sales &Distributors 830

Clothing 1590LADIES Rieker, size 37 white sling leather upper shoes, antistress, Dora style, worn once. Reg. $129, asking $85. 403-227-2976

NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $5 each.

(approx. 30) good shape. 403-347-2526

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools 1640VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. 403-885-5020

Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE

Homestead FirewoodSpruce, Pine - Split. Avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

FREE POPLAR logs. You pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

GardenSupplies 1680CRAFTSMAN lawnmower Kohler 7.0 HP rear bagger,

like new $125 403-347-5873403-350-1077

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

HouseholdAppliances 1710

DANBY apartment size dishwasher, 19”Wx36”H on wheels, connects to standard kitchen faucet

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HouseholdFurnishings1720LAZY Boy recliner, very good cond, green fabric, $200 403-346-3086

LAZYBOY power recliner w/heat & massage con-trols. Like new. was $1600. $500. obo SOLD

LOVESEAT, exc. cond. $200. obo.

Call or text 403-348-3107

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

Misc. forSale 1760

100 VHS movies, $75. 403-885-5020

BBQ grill on wheels Electric Patio Caddy brand 30” high. Like New. $60.

403-340-8199

COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

403-885-5020

RUBBERMAID storage tubs, assorted larger sizes, clean, $5/ea, or all 6/$25; bakers rack, like new 31”Wx17”Dx75”H, 5 glass shelves $90 403-755-2760

TEAPOT with creamer & sugar, salt & pepper in Cottage house design.

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SportingGoods 18602 MAN tent in a bag, Sears $30; classic Coleman stove w/stand, 2 burner, windblock, well used, $50 ; Coleman single burner SOLD 403-227-2976

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TravelPackages 1900

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Houses/Duplexes 3020EASTVIEW 3 BDRM. house, recently reno’d, fi n. bsmt., 4 appls., no pets. 403-848-4618

Condos/Townhouses3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY6 locations in Red Deer, 3 bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls,

starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or

403-304-7576SOUTHWOOD PARK

3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses,generously sized, 1 1/2

baths, fenced yards,full bsmts. 403-347-7473,

Sorry no pets.www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/6 Plexes 3050

NORMANDEAU2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/SQuiet adults. 403-350-1717

SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appl., rent/$980, dd/$980, adults with ref.,

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Suites 30602 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. Sept.1 $900/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM.

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ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water

incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889

AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown

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GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROEMANOR1 & 2 bdrm.,

Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

Misc.Help 880

Suites 3060

NOW RENTING1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S.

2936 50th AVE. Red DeerNewer bldg. secure entry

w/onsite manager,3 appls., incl. heat & hot

water, washer/dryer hookup, infl oor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

SYLVAN: 4 fully furn. units avail. OCT 1. $1100. to $1400. 403-880-0210.

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building,N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

RoomsFor Rent 3090

Avail Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas fi re-

place - $300 dd $600/mth. Call 403-396-2468

COZY Furnished room, n/s, $575. 403-466-7979

S.E. House, working M. $475./mo. 403-341-4664

WarehouseSpace 3140

FOR LEASERIVERSIDE LIGHT

INDUSTRIAL2400 sq. ft.

large 55 x 85 compound403-350-1777

MobileLot 3190

PADS $450/mo.Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm.,2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820


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Realtors& Services 4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVECall GORD ING atRE/MAX real estate

central alberta [email protected]

HousesFor Sale 4020

“COMING SOON” BYSERGE’S HOMES

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation

Center. For More InfoCall Bob 403-505-8050

RISER HOMESACT NOW! Blackfalds

Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see.

This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades. This

weekend only $405.000. GST, legal fees and 4

appl. package included. LLOYD FIDDLER

403-391-9294

RISER HOMESGREAT STARTER HOME. BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open fl oor plan, a

must see! $355,000Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Condos/Townhouses4040SIERRAS OF MICHENER

SPACIOUS, MODERN,LIKE NEW, ONE

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FLOOR WITH: -air-conditioning -large walk-in

wardrobe closet inbedroom, -modern

bathroom -well appointedkitchen and dining area -

spacious utility room off ofhallway -roomy coat closethallway, -comfortable living-room area, -external deck

off of living room -EasyAccess near main

entrance-Parking -StorageAmenities Special

Features PHONE 403.783.6756 FOR VIEWING

APPOINTMENT, Asking$239,000

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

ManufacturedHomes 4090

ALTERNATIVE HOUSING

#402 5029-34 St. Red Deer 869 sq. ft. 1976 on great rented lot $30,000

Immed. possession~~~~~~~~~~~

#62 Parkside Dr. Red Deer rented lot 1156 sq. ft. 1976

upgraded, peak roof $60,000 Immed. Poss.

~~~~~~~~~~~~#812 6834-59 Ave. Red

Deer 952 sq. ft. 1984 2-4pc. baths on rented lot

$65,000 Immed. poss.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#2 East Loop Joffre 1088 sq. ft. 2001 2x6 walls, 2-4pc. bath, rented lot. Quick poss. $70,000~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#414 England Way

Waskasoo Estates Red Deer County 1488 sq. ft.

1993 WOW has everything you need. $165,000~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

71 Newton Cres. Red Deer 1072 sq. ft. 1977 on own lot, bsmt., garage, 1 own-er, immed. poss. $215,000~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#6, 10046 Township Rd.

422 Raymond Shores 836 sq. ft. 2007 Park Model

Lakefront, relaxation spot, immed. poss. $295,000

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tim McRae Maxwell Real

Estate Solutions LTD. Red Deer, AB T4N 4C4

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Motorhomes 5100

1996 26’ PHOENIX 147,000 kms, sleeps 6, new tires, good working order $9100 403-704-3094

Tires, PartsAcces. 5180TIRES, Michelin, 235/65R

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Thousands mourn fallen firefighters


WENATCHEE, Wash. — Several thousand people gathered Sunday to honour three U.S. Forest Service fire-fighters killed battling wildfires in Washington state.

“They dedicated their lives to pro-tecting our national forests and the people in the communities surround-ing them,” Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said in a eulogy. “And for that we should be grateful.”

The memorial service for 20-year-old Tom Zbyszewski, 26-year-old An-drew Zajac, and 31-year-old Richard Wheeler took place in Wenatchee. That’s about 90 miles south of where they died Aug. 19 near Twisp in east-ern Washington when flames con-sumed their crashed vehicle.

More than 80 vehicles took part in a procession leading to the memorial service Sunday where more than 100 firefighters stood at attention. Dozens of civilians also took part, many hold-ing U.S. flags and others with signs that said “You are heroes!”

Tom Zbyszewski followed in his fa-ther’s footsteps as a firefighter. He was the youngest of the three who died, and a physics major at Whitman Col-lege with an acting bent. He was due to return to school in about a week.

“Tom was the light of my life,” his father, Richard Zbyszewski, said in his eulogy. “My path I’m afraid will always be a little bit darker because I miss him so much.”

Zajac was the son of a Methodist minister from Downers Grove, Illi-nois. He was in his second year as a professional wildland firefighter for the Forest Service and earned a mas-ter’s degree in biology last year from the University of South Dakota. Zajac and his wife, Jenn, were married last year after hiking the 2,650-mile Pacific Coast Trail together in 2013.

Jenn, in a statement read by Zajec’s

mother, Mary, said, “Andrew was my calm and my strength; my belay (climb-ing) partner, my fishing buddy, my hik-ing companion, my love. Just under a year ago we made a promise until death do us part. I just never imaged it would come so soon. I’ll miss him forever.”

Wheeler, “Wheels” as his friends called him during their eulogies, was a fourth-generation firefighter as well as an avid fisherman, hiker and hunter.

This was Wheeler and his wife Ce-leste’s second year living in Wenatchee

after he graduated in 2013 from Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He was a seasonal worker with hopes of becoming a permanent wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was out of the country, so his wife, Trudi In-slee, presented each of the families with state flags. The families also re-ceived Forest Service flags, small stat-ues, and a Pulaski, a firefighting tool still in use today but also heavy with symbolism. When a person becomes a wildland firefighter, they are said to

“pick up the Pulaski.”“Without men like Tom and Richard

and Andrew, we would not be able to protect and care for the lands they de-voted their lives to,” Tidwell said.

Daniel Lyon, who sustained burns on more than 60 per cent of his body in the fire that killed the three firefight-ers, on Sunday remained in serious condition at Harborview Medical Cen-ter in Seattle, where he’s had two suc-cessful burn surgeries. A spokeswom-an said the 25-year-old is scheduled to undergo another operation this week.

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A U.S. Forest Service truck passes as firefighters salute the arrival of a motorcade for a memorial service for three firefighters killed in a wildfire, Sunday, in Wenatchee, Wash. Richard Wheeler, Andrew Zajac and Thomas Zbyszewski died Aug. 19 in a fire near Twisp, Wash.

Police search for motive in ambush

of Texas officerBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sher-iff’s deputy had a lengthy criminal re-cord going back a decade, but never spent more than short stints in jail.

Shannon J. Miles, whose criminal record includes convictions for resist-ing arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm, was to be arraigned Monday in the shooting of Darren Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Miles’ arrest Saturday came less than 24 hours after authori-ties said he ambushed Goforth at a gas station.

Sheriff Ron Hickman said the attack was “clearly unprovoked,” and there is no evidence that Goforth knew Miles. Investigators have no information from Miles that would shed light on his mo-tive, Hickman said.

“Our assumption is that he (Goforth) was a target because he wore a uni-form,” the sheriff said.

Miles’ criminal record begins in 2005, when he was convicted of crimi-nal mischief, giving false information to police and resisting arrest, accord-ing to records. In 2006, he was con-victed of disorderly conduct with a firearm and sentenced to a maximum of 15 days in jail. He was convicted of evading arrest in 2007, and his most re-

cent conviction came in 2009 for again resisting arrest.

Records show that the 30-year-old Houston resident was sentenced to several short stints in jail, anywhere from 10 to 6 days.

Court and jail records did not list an attorney for Miles and attempts to reach his family members on Sunday were unsuccessful.

Goforth, 47, was pumping gas Friday night in a middle- to upper-middle-class suburban area northwest of Hous-ton, when the gunman approached him from behind and fired multiple shots, continuing to fire after the deputy had fallen to the ground.

The killing evoked strong emotions in the local law enforcement commu-nity, with Hickman linking it to height-ened tension over the treatment of African-Americans by police. Goforth was white and Miles is black.

The nationwide “Black Lives Mat-ter” movement that formed after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has sought sweep-ing reforms of policing. Related pro-tests erupted in Texas recently after a 28-year-old Chicago-area black woman, Sandra Bland, was found dead in a county jail northwest of Houston three days after her arrest on a traffic viola-tion. Texas authorities said she com-mitted suicide but her family is skepti-cal of that.

Defiant Malaysian prime minister rejects calls

from protesters to quitBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Em-battled Malaysian Prime Minister Na-jib Razak poured scorn on a huge two-day rally that brought together tens of thousands of yellow-shirted protesters demanding his resignation over a fi-nancial scandal.

Large crowds of protesters camped overnight on the streets of Kuala Lum-pur wearing yellow shirts of the Bersih movement — a coalition for clean and fair elections — even after authorities blocked the organizer’s website and banned yellow attire and the group’s logo.

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has been spearhead-ing calls for Najib’s resignation, made appeared at the rally with his wife for a second day, telling protesters that people power was needed to remove Najib and return the rule of law.

Najib has been fighting for politi-cal survival after leaked documents in July showed he received some $700 million in his private accounts from entities linked to indebted state fund 1MDB. He later said the money was a donation from the Middle East, fired his critical deputy and four other Cabi-net members as well as the attorney general investigating him.

Police estimated the crowd size at 35,000, but Bersih says it swelled to 300,000 on Sunday from 200,000 on Sat-urday.

Najibhas slammed the protests for tarnishing Malaysia’s image, and dis-missed their size.

“What is 20,000? We can gather hun-dreds of thousands,” he was quoted as saying by local media at a rural event in a northern state. “The rest of the

Malaysian population is with the gov-ernment.”

In his National Day message late Sunday, Najib said the government re-jected street protests, saying they can disrupt public order and not the right way to show unhappiness in a demo-cratic country.

They “reflected a shallow mind and poor national spirit,” he said.

Najib vowed not to bow to pressure. “Once the sails have been set, once the anchor has been raised, the cap-tain and his crew would never change course,” he said.

The rally was peaceful Saturday and lasted until midnight Sunday to usher in Malaysia’s 58th National Day.

“This is a watershed moment. Ma-laysians are united in their anger at the mismanagement of this country. We are saying loudly that there should be a change in the leadership,” said protester Azrul Khalib, who slept on the street with his friends.

He said he was aware that the rally will not bring change overnight, but he wants to be “part of efforts to build a new Malaysia.”

Some used colored chalk to scrawl their demands on the street, writing slogans such as, “We want change,” and “We want clean and fair (elec-tions).”

Scores of police barricaded roads leading to the Independence Square, a national landmark that authorities declared off-limits to protesters. Pre-vious two Bersih rallies, in 2011 and 2012, were dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons.

Analysts said the rally attracted a largely urban crowd with a smaller participation of ethnic Malays, which could be the reason why the Najib gov-ernment allowed it to go on.


BEIRUT — Islamic State militants in Syria severely damaged the Bel Temple, considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world, in a massive explosion Sunday, activists said.

The 2,000-year-old temple was part of the remains of the ancient caravan city of Palmyra in central Syria, seized by IS in May.

The news of the latest destruction at Palmyra came just days after IS re-leased propaganda images purportedly showing militants blowing up anoth-er Palmyra temple, the 2,000-year-old Baalshamin dedicated to the Phoeni-cian god of storms and fertilizing rains.

The U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, which has designated Palmyra as a world heritage site, called the destruc-tion of the Baalshamin temple a war crime.

Earlier this month, relatives and witnesses said that IS militants had beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, an 81-year-old antiquities scholar who devoted his life to understanding Palmyra.

The Islamic State group, which has imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law across its self-declared “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq, says such ancient relics promote idola-try.

It already has blown up several sites in neighbouring Iraq, and it is also be-lieved to be selling looted antiquities.

A Palmyra resident, who goes by the name of Nasser al-Thaer, said IS mili-tants set off a huge blast at 1:45 p.m. Sunday.

“It is total destruction,” he said of the scene of the explosion. “The bricks and columns are on the ground.”

“It was an explosion the deaf would hear,” he added.

The resident said only the outer wall surrounding the temple remains.

The Britain-based Syrian Observa-tory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists in Syria, said the temple was damaged. It did not pro-vide details.

The temple, consecrated to the Se-mitic god Bel, had been well-preserved and was a source of much pride for Syrians. It was consecrated in 32 A.D.

Activists say IS militants damage ancient Bel Temple in Syria


Malaysian protesters gather in the rain during a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sunday. Big crowds of protesters returned to the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to demand the resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal, after the first day of the massive rally passed peacefully.


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Can’t convince partner to move southDear Annie: I’m a clean-cut, middle-aged gay guy

living in a midsized city in Florida. My partner of six years lives in Boston.

We have a great long-distance relationship. He’s a wonderful man, and we love each oth-er. We’d like to marry and live together someday.

Here’s the problem: He doesn’t want to move to Florida, and I’m a bit hesitant about moving to Boston.

My partner has lived in Boston his entire life and has a ton of friends there. His job, though lousy, has good benefits. But if I move there, it would be a hard-ship unless we lived together, since I’m on disability. And then he’d be stuck paying most of the rent. I also hate big-city traffic and crowds. And while I don’t mind cold weather, I cannot deal with snow.

I have told my partner that my town has a booming economy and a lot of plac-es are hiring.

How can I convince him to move to Florida? Or should I move to Boston? — Florida Guy

Dear Florida: Pressuring someone to move to a location where they don’t want to be is never a good idea.

Although, since winters in Boston generally in-clude a tremendous amount of snow, your partner may decide on his own that he’d like to move to a warmer locale, in which case, your problem is

solved. Otherwise, please don’t insist on it. And of course, there is always the pos-

sibility that moving in together would have a negative effect. Some people do better in long-distance relationships.

Have the two of you discussed all the pros and cons?

Don’t be afraid to mention your con-cerns and talk about them in practical, honest terms.

Does he understand the financial hard-ship moving would be for you? Would he support you without resenting it? Does he have any interest in moving to Florida at a later date? Are you willing to wait?

We hope you can work out some type of compromise, but please understand that what you have now could be the best you get.

Dear Annie: We have become a society with a beggar’s mentality. While driving through our small town, I approached a red light. There stood people with buckets asking for money to help send their kids’ ecology class to Honduras.

This is not the first time I have noticed such beg-ging. I’ve seen kids ask for help to send the dance team to regionals, or to help the senior class have a great prom.

When my kids were younger and their baseball team required money, they either sold candy or held car washes to raise funds. They didn’t stand on street corners and beg someone else to enable them to have a good time. Why do parents think it is OK to ask me to pay for their kid’s activities? I don’t know their kids. — Fed Up

Dear Fed Up: We agree that there is entirely too much expectation that others will pay for unneces-sary perks that kids ought to be earning for them-selves.

And it isn’t only school projects. Adults do this, too, often online. But asking and receiving are two different things.

Many people don’t mind contributing, especially if they believe the cause is worthy. And if you don’t, keep your wallet closed and your windows rolled up. You are not obligated to participate in the fundrais-ing.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers col-umn. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Monday, August 31CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS

DATE: Van Morrison, 69; Debbie Gibson, 44; Richard Gere, 65

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour keeping your emotions under control today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are great fun to be around and love to get involved in the lives of family and friends. The next 12 months is the time to bring more harmony and balance into your busy world.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re restless and keen for change. But are others ready for your ambitious Aries ideas? Don’t rush Rams — consultation and attention to detail will get you a lot

further than being slapdash. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Attached Bulls — your part-

ner is looking to you for some sensible advice. Singles - you’re attracting a few admirers, but make them prove themselves before you ride off into the romantic sunset.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t waste time talking about all the things you have to do. When it comes to tasks that need to be completed at home or work, just roll up your sleeves, put your head down and get on with it!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s a fabulous day to patch up a misunderstanding between you and a child, teenager or friend. But don’t jump to hasty conclusions Crabs — take your time and get all the relevant facts first.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The hard work you put into your family life now will pay off further down the track. But don’t just talk about what you plan to do - show your commitment by the actions that you take.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You could become impatient with some people’s lack of initiative and enthusiasm, but it’s not the time to push buttons. Plus be extra careful when send-ing messages via social media.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your moods will fluctuate ac-cording to who you are with today Libra. A friend or work colleague is enthusiastic about a project but check the facts, figures and finances before you commit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You tend to hide your true feelings, for fear of showing your vulnerabilities and reveal-ing too much about yourself. But it’s time to discuss important matters with a relative or friend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Making decisions based purely on logic means you’re only seeing half the pic-ture. Learn to listen to the wisdom of your inner voice and your intuition will point you in the right direction.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re discovering cre-ative solutions to pesky problems, as you discuss ideas and display your talents for all to see. Others are impatient for results, but take the time to talk things through.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Does life feel like all work and no play? Hang in there; the professional skills you polish now will pay off well in the future. Give yourself a special treat and remember to take baby steps.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you wasting your pre-cious ideas? The Moon boosts creativity, and Saturn helps you turn abstract concepts into concrete reality. So grasp the opportunity to power ahead today Pisces.

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

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Global warming doing damage to AlaskaBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming is carv-ing measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it.

Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Depart-ment climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic. There, and in the sub-Arctic part of the state, he will see the damage caused by warming — damage that has been evident to scientists for years.

More than 3.5 trillion tons of water have melted off of Alaska’s glaciers since 1959, when Alaska first became a state, studies show — enough to fill more than 1 billion Olympic-sized pools.

The crucial, coast-hugging sea ice that protects villages from storms and makes hunting easier is dwindling in summer and is now absent each year a month longer than it was in the 1970s, other studies find. The Army Corps of Engineers identified 26 vil-lages where erosion linked to sea ice loss threatens the communities’ very existence.

Permafrost is thawing more often as the ground warms, so as the ground oozes, roads, pipelines and houses’ foundations tilt and shift — sometimes enough to cause homes to be abandoned. In far northern Barrow, the upper part of the ground is 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) warmer than it was in the late 1950s and getting closer to the melt point in the summer, data shows. And scientists fear the thawing permafrost will unleash large amounts of trapped greenhouse gases and speed up world-wide warming.

So far this year, more than 5.1 million acres (2.06 million hectares) in Alaska — an area the size of Con-necticut and Rhode Island combined — have burned

in wildfires. In the first 10 years of statehood, Alaska averaged barely a quarter million acres (100,000 hectares) of wildfires yearly. The last 10 years have averaged 1.2 million acres (490.000 hectares).

“The state is changing and changing rapidly,” said Fran Ulmer, chairwoman of the U.S. Arctic Re-search Commission and Alaska’s former lieutenant governor.

And scientists say those things are happening — at least partly and probably mostly — because of an-other thing they can measure: Alaska’s temperature.

Alaska’s yearly average temperature has jumped 3.3 degrees F since 1959 and the winter average has spiked 5 degrees F (3 degrees C) since statehood, ac-cording to federal records. Last year was the hottest on record and so far this year Alaska is a full degree warmer than last year.

Alaska “is sort of a bellwether,” said John Walsh, chief scientist of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “The changes are definitely happening and we’re out in front of the rest of the country.”

And what happens in Alaska isn’t staying in Alas-ka, because weather changes in the Arctic trigger changes in the jet stream and reverberate down south, including the dreaded polar vortex escape that has brought sub-freezing temperatures to great expanses of North America in recent winters, said Martin Jeffries, an Arctic scientist for the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Warming’s effects seem to be speeding up. From 1959 to 1993, Alaska’s glaciers lost 57 billion tons of ice a year, but that jumped to almost 83 billion tons a year since 1994, according to Anthony Arendt, who co-authored a study on the subject this July.

And while there may be many factors involved in glacier melt, all but about five of Alaska’s 25,000 gla-ciers are shrinking, said University of Alaska Fair-banks glacier expert Regine Hock. She’s adamant: “That’s related to climate change.”

On the ocean, sea ice in the Arctic in the summer has shrunk by about one-third over three decades, leading to a loss of habitat for walrus and a threat-ened species listing for polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals. But in Alaska, what really hits hard is the loss of sea ice that’s connected to the coast. That’s the ice that protects villages from the worst of storms and allows both people and animals to hunt more at sea.

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Smoke rises from the Bogus Creek Fire in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Alaska. Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and U.S. President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday, for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic.


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HOUSTON — Bunk beds dominate the narrow living room of Chevelle Washington’s modest three-bedroom brick townhouse apartment. A large box in the corner is piled high with kids’ shoes. The 51-year-old is raising six of her grandchildren. Her home is a refuge, a haven.

It was that way back in her native New Orleans, too — never so much as on Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Ka-trina struck.

“I had 21 people at my house,” she says of that horrible night. “Because I had an up- and downstairs.”

The water rushing through the city’s breached floodwalls climbed all 17 of those front stairs, stopping just below the porch. It had receded to the 11th step by the following day, when a uni-formed man appeared in a motorized flatboat.

As their anonymous saviour steered the craft into the lake that the Upper Ninth Ward had become, Washington burst into tears.

“It ain’t never going to be the same no more,” she cried.

Her youngest son, Steven, remem-bers how the man at the helm tried to comfort his mother. “You’re moving on to something better,” he said.

An estimated 1.5 million Gulf Coast residents fled Katrina, scattering like wind-tossed seeds to all 50 states. Many thousands of them, like Chevelle Washington, have taken root where they landed.

But for son Steven, the pull of home, of New Orleans, was too strong.

A few months after Katrina, he re-turned to his ruined city, hoping to recapture that sense of belonging he couldn’t find in Texas.

Standing on that 11th step recently, his mind wandered back to the day he and his family climbed into that boat. He was never really sure what the man meant by “something better.” A short-term shelter? A bigger house? A safer city?

Like so many families splintered by the storm, the Washingtons are still searching.

———The storm did not “drown” New Or-

leans. But there’s no denying it is a changed city.

The black population has dropped from nearly 67 per cent in 2000 to 59 per cent today; whites, once about one-quarter of residents, now account for nearly a third.

“The people who have not returned have been disproportionately African-American, renters, low-income, single mothers and persons with disabilities,” says Lori Peek, an associate professor of sociology at Colorado State Univer-sity and co-editor, with Weber, of the book, “Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora.”

Since the storm, rents in the Cres-cent City have skyrocketed — up 33 per cent for a one-bedroom apartment and 41 per cent for a two-bedroom.

Following Katrina, officials de-molished four of the city’s notorious projects, vowing to replace them with modern, mixed-income developments. Despite much progress, there are still about 3,200 fewer low-income, public housing apartments than before the storm.

Most of the people living in those units were black. Like Linda Nellum.

Revitalization had already pushed Nellum out of the murder-plagued Magnolia projects. Living in temporary Section 8 housing when Katrina hit, Nellum was evacuated to Houston.

From Texas, she applied for return and was put on a waiting list. She’s still waiting.

“Every now and then, you think about going home,” the 43-year-old says, a tear trickling down her cheek. She feels “trapped” in Houston.

Chevelle Washington chooses to see it differently.

———Growing up, sisters Chevelle and

Champernell Washington never saw any reason to fear the landscape around them. But there was something different about that mid-summer’s day 10 years ago, says Champernell.

“You could just about smell it in the air,” she says.

When the skies began to clear, Ch-evelle Washington thought all was well — until she opened the door to the garage below. A refrigerator and her grandson’s basinet swirled up toward her, “like trying to see who was going to get up the stairs first.”

Steven, then 16, waded down the front steps and stared as shrimp and crawfish skipped past.

When the rescue boat arrived the next day, Chevelle Washington was re-luctant to get in, not wanting to split up the family.

The boatman dropped them on a nearby street where, hours later, a military truck took them to the Super-dome.

The Washingtons managed to find space in the hometown Saints’ end zone. Surely, this dangerous, leaky-roofed open latrine was not the “some-thing better” they’d been promised.

After a few days, the refugee family escaped New Orleans.

Champernell had once lived in Houston. She’d loved the schools there, and there always seemed to be plenty of work.

And so, she, Chevelle and other fam-ily members resettled in Texas.

———In southwest Houston, the Wash-

ington clan has created a little slice of New Orleans.

Chevelle lives just a couple of miles from Champernell and her two girls. About a 10-minute drive east, brother Rene’s restaurant, Sleepy’s Po Boys, offers fellow Katrina refugees a taste of home.

Each has been back to New Orleans numerous times. Despite obvious prog-ress, “It’s still that sense of death in the air,” says Champernell, 45, night manager at a hotel.

Chevelle talked of a friend who moved her family back — only to have three of her boys killed in a drive-by shooting, victims of apparent mistaken identity.

“I’m not ready to bury none of my kids,” says the former hotel maid, who now makes do largely on disability benefits for one of the children.

Much as she loves her hometown, it’s not worth the risk. Besides, she says, “It would never be home again.”

———It’s not that life in Houston was hor-

rible, says Chevelle’s son Steven, who lives in a one-story apartment complex halfway between Treasure and Abun-dance streets in New Orleans.

His new high school made room on the football team for the running back from New Orleans. But off the field, it seemed he was forever trying to dodge tensions — like the taunt “N-O!” that the Houston kids would shout whenev-er New Orleans refugees passed in the hallways. Bottom line, he was home-sick.

“I just couldn’t really do Houston,” he says.

After an uncle moved back to New Orleans, Steven joined him. He ended up in a different school from the one he’d left, with different kids.

He found jobs after graduation, most recently in the city’s vibrant restaurant industry.

Yes, New Orleans is dangerous. But most of the time, Steven says, the vic-tim “probably did something he had no business doing.”

Ten years after climbing into that boat, he admits that he’s not satisfied with where he is in life.

“Just making it,” he says.Last year, Steven had a baby girl,

My’chel Marie. He sent her to live with his mother in Houston.

Between shifts, he’s found time to take computer and business courses at Southern University New Orleans. His uncle has been talking about expand-ing, and Steven thinks he could run a restaurant.

More and more, he’s thinking he’ll have to leave New Orleans.

“Too many of the wrong young peo-ple are coming back,” he says.

Although he says he has no regrets about coming back to New Orleans, his advice to other young people is: Unless you’re returning for a good job or to study, stay where you are.

‘Never going to be the same’SPLIT BY KATRINA, FAMILIES REBUILD

SEPARATELY AND TOGETHER


Chevelle Washington, right, sits in the hospital room of her sister, Chelette Price, in Houston on Aug. 13, 2015. One profound change wrought by Hurricane Katrina was the splitting of families as a mass evacuation from chaotic New Orleans sent thousands, including Washington’s family, to the safety of other cities.