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The morning sun beams through a light haze of smoke from forest fires on Saturday morning as a few early risers gather at bus stops around the city to catch a ride on one of Red Deer’s fleet of transit buses.

Theirs are the anonymous faces of people barely seen by drivers of trucks and cars, whose chief interest in tran-sit buses is to avoid being caught be-hind one when it makes its stop.

Forty years ago, when I first moved to Red Deer, there were only four bus-es during the week, and none on Sun-days or holidays. As the saying goes, Red Deer Transit has come a long way, baby.

So this reporter, who has not relied on public transportation in more than 30 years, decided to take Red Deer Transit for a test drive.

Saturday, 8:04 a.m. — Buses from downtown are due to arrive at the Park-land Mall in 11 minutes. There is only one other rider at the stop, a young man who plans to take Route 11 as far west as possible, and then hitchhike to Rocky Mountain House for work. Route 11 pulls up, he misses his cue and will have to wait another 30 minutes for the next bus. Next in line is the BOLT regional service, which runs to Blackfalds and Lacombe. There are five passengers on the bus: Two middle-age women in the front seats, a teenage girl sitting sideways on the first seat of the upper deck and a teenage cou-ple in the next seats.

Barb Y, who is a bit shy about see-ing her full name in print, is on her way to work in Lacombe. She doesn’t normally talk to people on the bus, because she is a little worried about getting involved with strangers. But she knows all the drivers and all the regular riders; she knows who can be trusted and who to avoid.

She says sometimes there may be someone who kicks up a fuss on the bus, but she has confidence in the driv-ers and their ability to manage unruly riders.

For Barb, the regional bus is a life-line. It allowed her to move to Red Deer without having to give up her job in Lacombe, where she has worked for the past three years.

Barb says the $90 she forks out for a BOLT pass provides her with reliable, safe and economical transportation.

She gives the service a 10 out of 10, saying the only way it could be better is if the hours were extended.

“It’s about a half an hour commute in the morning. There’s the express bus and then on Saturdays there’s a lo-cal bus. This one, you get on it, you go through Blackfalds on both sides.”

The express makes just one stop in Blackfalds and two in Red Deer.

Although the time seems to fly by, the local loop is a two-hour trip.

9:42 Bus driver Theo Klooster arrives back at the hospital, heading south af-ter piloting his unit through the streets of Lacombe, dropping off the handful of passengers who had come from Red Deer. The bus is empty now, so Klooster takes some time to talk about his job. He is new to the BOLT route, which he finds quite long and not very busy.

Back in Blackfalds, retiree Susan Massincaud is on her way into Red Deer to do some shopping. She gives

the service an 8.5 out of 10, saying she wishes the service hours could be ex-tended into the evenings. The last bus leaves Red Deer at 4:50 p.m. on week-days and there’s nothing on Sunday, says Massincaud.

“So, it’s very, very tight to get around and do things in Red Deer. You really don’t have a lot of time.”

However, the savings are enormous. Massincaud said a fellow rider had commented to her about the difference in costs between owning a car and rid-ing the bus. She had worked it out to $5,000 a year. Those savings can be eat-en up pretty quickly if a person has to get a taxi home, says Massincaud.

“The drivers are very nice, and when they don’t know their way, they generally ask us where they’re sup-posed to go and we’re happy to tell them where to go, because quite often, the first time they do the route, they get lost.”

It’s easy enough to understand the confusion in the new subdivisions in Blackfalds, which has expanded im-mensely from the tiny village that it used to be.

Besides the money they save, bus riders see other benefits that people in cars miss, says Massincaud, who is trained in photography. She loves to watch out her window and take in the scenery. People in cars and pickup trucks drive by, unaware of the watch-ing eyes in the bus, like the boy play-ing video-games in the back seat of his SUV or the pickup truck with the big dog in the back that passes the bus as it enters the north side of the Red Deer — an infraction of city bylaws and a moral offence to people who love dogs.

Transit system improving with the times

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF

A critical mass that will allow Red Deer Transit to run more buses more often is coming, but has not arrived yet, says its manager.

Like those who work with him, George Penny waxes proud about the city’s transit system, which has grown in immense leaps from the four basic routes that ran six days a week in the late 1970s.

Now serving a city of roughly 100,000 people with arms reaching into Springbrook, Gasoline Alley, Blackfalds and Lacombe, Red Deer Transit runs 64 buses on more than a dozen routes, including special ser-vices to Olymel and a regional system funded by neighbouring municipali-ties.

The system continues to expand and upgrade, and it’s set to upgrade again, says Penny.

Recent changes have included the introduction of electronic fare boxes and, on some buses, on-board librar-ies. There are only four of those right now, but more are coming, says Pen-ny.

Also coming in the next couple of years is a real-time bus tracking sys-tem, now in the early stages of devel-opment.

Steven Parkin, transit operations superintendent, said on Friday that the system is still in its infancy and he doesn’t know yet what it will look

like. He does know that it will be In-ternet-based and that it will offer two distinct advantages: One to riders and one to the system itself.

Once the system is operational, riders will be able to open a web site from their smart phones or comput-ers and see exactly where their bus is and when it will arrive at their stop. The system will include information about bus delays, such as traffic colli-sions or breakdowns, meaning riders can stay indoors, warm and dry, on those days when the weather turns nasty.

For the transit system, real-time tracking offers a more complete pic-ture of the number of people using the buses, where they get on and where they get off.

That will allow the city to fine tune its service, beefing it up where nec-essary and making other adjustments as well, says Parkin.

Fares in Red Deer compare fa-vourably with those in Alberta’s two largest cities.

In Edmonton, monthly passes run at $91.50 for adults, $83.50 for seniors and $69 for students.

Calgary passes run at $99 for adults and $65 for students.

Red Deer fares are $70 for adults (increasing by $3 in June) and $59 for youths and students.

The BOLT regional fare to La-combe is currently set at $90 for adults and $25 for seniors and stu-dents.

Details on fares, including sin-gle-ride tickets, day passes and oth-er packages, are available online at www.reddeer.ca/city-services/transit or by calling 403-342-8225.

Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Like clockwork, the Gasoline Alley and Springbrook buses meet Route 1 at Bennett Street every 30 minutes. All city buses are capable of kneeling to the curb and have an extendible ramp for wheelchairs and baby strollers. Buses also have racks on the front where cyclists can stow their bikes.

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Although he comes in a pretty small package, Mathieu Corbiere, 4, of Red Deer was wielding a big hammer Saturday as he put a beating to a car in the parking lot of the Cross Roads Church. The opportunity came during the Touch-A-Truck event hosted by the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre. Touch-A-Truck brought in large and small trucks from many aspects of industry including agriculture, automotive, construction, towing, transportation, fire fighting the military and some food trucks and their operators together for a fundraiser and a day of awareness. Funds raised will go towards funding crime prevention programs in Central Alberta.

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EDMONTON — On Monday evening, thousands of Fort McMurray evacuees will receive a phone call.

The voice they’ll hear will invite them to partici-pate in a massive telephone town hall, where for an hour-and-a-half they’ll get to hear the latest informa-tion and ask questions about the wildfire that forced them from their homes, as well as the condition of their neighbourhoods, financial assistance and predictions for when they’ll be allowed to return to their city.

The Alberta government says over 15,000 took part in the first town hall session that was held last Mon-day night and the numbers have continued to remain high as more were held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

“We set up these telephone town halls in order to provide you with as much information as we can in an unfiltered way,” Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee said at the beginning of the first session a week ago.

There are other ways the province is helping evacuees to get a sense of what they’ll be coming home to.

The Alberta government has released an app with maps that are intended to provide a high-level satellite overview of the status of the city following the devastating fires, and daily updates are posted on the web.

In announcing the app, Larivee said that hav-ing been through a devastating fire and evacua-tion herself five years ago in Slave Lake, she knows how stressful it can be to wait for updates on which homes have been lost.

The town hall sessions have the feel of a news conference, but instead of reporters asking the ques-tions, it’s the residents of Fort McMurray.

To get the invitation call for the town halls, evacu-ees must have registered their phone numbers with the Red Cross, but they can also participate by phon-ing in themselves or listening in online.

One caller on Thursday night said her home was very close to the fire line and worried that if it had water damage, it might cause more problems if offi-cials turn the electricity back on.

Another caller said he’d heard reports on social media that there had been looting in Fort McMurray.

“I’m just curious about what steps you’re taking to secure everyone’s homes?” the caller, identified as Grant, asked.

There was even a poll during the town hall asking whether people had been to one of the province’s debit card distribution centres yet, and participants were able to respond on their phone keypads.

John Archer, a government spokesman, said the town halls were put together because even though there were numerous daily news conference and government updates, it didn’t seem to be enough.

“There would continue to be comments from the evacuees: ‘We just want more information. We want more information. We wish we had more informa-tion,”’ Archer said.

Archer said there may be more telephone town halls as the week continues.

The question that’s on every evacuees’ mind was submitted online by woman identified as Grace during Thursday’s town hall.

She wondered if evacuees will get to go home this month.

“No promises on that one,” Larivee answered. “We will let you know as soon as possible.”

Thousands of evacuees take part in telephone town halls


CALGARY — A man accused of stabbing five young people at an end-of-school house party is to go to trial Monday in what police have said is Calgary’s worst mass killing.

Matthew de Grood, 24, faces five counts of first-de-gree murder. He’s been in custody since shortly after the attack on April 15, 2014.

Police were called to a four-bedroom home on a tree-lined street in the city’s northwest after things went horribly wrong at the party, which was being held to mark the end of the university school year.

Three men were found dead at the scene. A fourth man found stabbed on the front lawn and a woman who was stabbed inside the home died in hospital.

Lawrence Hong, 27 Josh Hunter, 23 Kaitlin Per-ras, 23 Zackariah Rathwell, 21 and Jordan Segura, 22, were all killed.

Police have not said what they believe may have motivated the attack. They have revealed de Grood was invited to the party and mingled with guests be-fore violence broke out.

The trial is scheduled for two weeks. It is being heard by an out-of-town judge at the request of both the prosecution and defence, because de Grood’s fa-ther is a high-ranking city police officer and could be called to testify.

A psychiatric review determined de Grood was fit to stand trial, because he understands the charges against him and is able to communicate with his law-yer.

He has been undergoing treatment at the South-ern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre since his arrest.

Allan Fay, who represents de Grood, hasn’t ruled out a defence of not criminally responsible by rea-son of a mental disorder.

Trial to begin for Calgary man charged in 2014 stabbing of five young people

Timeline of events since five people stabbed in Calgary

CALGARY — A Calgary man accused of stabbing five young people to death at a house party is facing a trial on five counts of first-degree murder. Here’s a timeline of events in the case of Matthew de Grood.

April 15, 2014: Police respond to a home in northwest Cal-gary at 1:20 a.m. They find three young men dead. A woman found with stab wounds inside the home and a fourth man on the front lawn are rushed to hospital but die. Police Chief Rick Han-son later that day confirms a suspect has been arrested a few blocks away from the scene and has been taken to hospital with minor injuries. Matthew de Grood, an invited guest at the party, is charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

April 21, 2014: Funerals are held for three of the victims. Jor-dan Segura, 22, was a religious studies student at the University of Calgary. Kaitlin Perras, 23, is remembered as a dancer, sister and artist. Twenty-three-year old Josh Hunter, along with victim Zackariah Rathwell, was a member of the band Zackariah and the Prophets.

April 22, 2014: De Grood makes his first court appearance

via closed-circuit television. He’s ordered to undergo a 30-day assessment to determine whether he is mentally fit to stand trial.—-

April 30, 2014: The University of Calgary holds a public me-morial for all five victims

May 22, 2014: Following a 30-day psychiatric assessment, de Grood is found fit to stand trial.

July 22, 2014: De Grood makes his first court appearance in person and is ordered to undergo another psychiatric evaluation.

August 28, 2014: The defence requests another extension of de Grood’s mental-health review. He’s in custody at the Edmon-ton Remand Centre.

March 2, 2015: Preliminary hearing begins to determine if de Grood should stand trial. The courtroom is packed with friends and family members of the victims.

March 6, 2015: De Grood is ordered to stand trial.March 25, 2015: A judge upholds a publication ban on

search warrant evidence in the stabbing deaths. Several media outlets had requested access to the warrants and to witness interviews done immediately after the attack. The move was opposed by family members, the Calgary Police Service and the Crown. The judge rules some of the material could jeopardize the fairness of the trial.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF

A highway bypass around Bentley will finally be paved this summer.

Alberta Transportation complet-ed the realignment of Hwy 12 around Bentley in 2012 but it remained closed and unpaved.

In the meantime, Hwy 12 underwent improvements in 2014.

Starting this month, the province plans to begin the final phase of the realignment by hauling in gravel for

the road base, which will take about a month.

Paving will then begin and will in-clude existing access roads at Range Road 282, Range Road 284, 52nd Street and on a new road on the east side of the town.

The whole project is expected to take about 12 weeks.

Motorists are warned to expect some highway disruptions and to watch for construction signs and flag persons.

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The final phase of the new Highway 12 alignment at Bentley is anticipated to take 10-12 weeks beginning later this moth. The new alignment will take Highway 12 south of the town of Bentley.

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, May 16, 2016

A4COMMENT

Canadian governments regularly fund corporate ventures, but it is invariably money poorly spent.

Bombardier Inc. received its first federal subsidy of $36.9 million back in 1966 from Prime Minister Lester Pear-son’s governing Liberals. The Montre-al-headquartered company has since received Industry Canada funding of more $1.1 billion, plus another $1.1 billion that the federal agency poured into airplane manufacturer de Havil-land, which later became Bombar-dier’s airplane division. The company has also received nearly $300 million from provincial governments, bringing the total to $2.5 billion.

Now Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government faces intense pressure to match Quebec’s $1.3-bil-lion bailout of Bombardier’s financial-ly-strapped airplane division, more than doubling the taxpayer largesse received by the company in the past 50 years.

This latest aerospace subsidy saga is only a part of taxpayer support for the sector. Quebec-based Aero-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has re-ceived a whopping $3.3 billion and On-tario-based flight simulator CAE has

received $646 million.Overall, Industry Canada doled out

$22.4 billion of taxpayers’ money to private businesses from 1961 to 2013. And that’s just part of Ottawa’s corpo-rate welfare generosity. The $350-mil-lion Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the $250-million Western Diversification Program dispense direct handouts that tend to favour governing party constituencies. And then there are the tax-based subsidies including: labour-sponsored venture capital corporations ($120 million), flow-through shares ($100 million), Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit ($200 million), the Film or Video Production Services Tax Credit ($100 million) and the Atlantic Invest-ment Tax Credit ($250 million).

Among the provinces, Quebec is the champion corporate subsidizer, hand-ing out billions per year. Besides the recent $1.3-billion bailout of Bombar-dier, there’s the $350-million handout to McInnis Cement for a plant under construction in the Gaspe region that, interestingly, is owned by the Bombar-dier-Beaudoin families.

Ontario is also a generous subsi-dizer. It gave U.S.-based technology giant Cisco $220 million to hire 1,700 people. There have been myriad other recent subsidies to business, including $120 million to software company Open Text, $87 million to Honda and a pleth-ora of smaller handouts. The province has established a Jobs and Prosperity Fund that will dole out $2.7 billion in subsidies over a 10-year period.

Taken together, Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments hand out tens of billions annually to private businesses. Announcement of these handouts are great photo oppor-tunities for politicians who extol the jobs to be created.

But do these pronouncements paint a true picture? For example, when Premier Kathleen Wynn arrived at Cisco’s Bay Street offices to announce that $220-million grant, she stated, “This is the largest job-creating invest-ment that we’ve seen in the technolo-gy sector.” But University of Western Ontario economist Mike Moffatt points out that Cisco will be hiring people who would have been employed by other high tech firms. “They automati-cally assume the people that get hired wouldn’t have had jobs otherwise.”

Another perverse effect of selective subsidization is the tilting of the play-ing field against unsubsidized compet-itors.

And there are myriad examples of businesses that failed after being granted a subsidy, illustrating the truth of the adage, “Governments are terrible at picking winners but losers are great at picking governments.”

Australian professor Terry Buss, formerly with the World Bank and a foremost expert on business subsidies, authored a comprehensive analysis that found most job and economic ben-efit studies are “based on poor data, unsound social science methods and faulty economic reasoning.” He states that such reports “provide politicians

and practitioners with justification to award political favours without ap-pearing to be political.”

And then there’s the bees-to-honey effect of putting billions of dollars in the hands of politicians to dispense. Montreal-based business columnist David Descoteaux points out that “The more governments hand out subsidies … the more corporate success is de-pendent on government assistance, forcing companies to hire lobbyists to get their share of the pie.”

But what about the argument that if we don’t do it, the investment will flow to a jurisdiction that will? In such situations, subsidies may be the on-ly hope of attracting or retaining im-portant employers. The U.S. think-tank Good Jobs First estimates that state and local governments shell out US$70 billion a year in business subsidies, sometimes funding half or more of a new investment. Trying to compete with such aggressive tactics is a losing game.

Descoteaux says that the only way to halt this race to the bottom is to strengthen international trade agree-ments to eliminate subsidies. Canada should be a big booster of such agree-ments, because the ten-fold larger economy to the south can win a subsi-dy competition any time they choose.

And as long as that imbalance ex-ists, we tend to throw good money after bad.

Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.

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Stop throwing public money at companies

Q: What’s the difference between the coup that overthrew the elected government in Thailand

in 2014 and the coup that has now re-moved the elected government in Bra-zil?

A: The coup-makers in Thailand wore uniforms.

The Brazilian Senate has just voted 55 to 22 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. She will be suspended for the next 180 days while the same body tries her on the charge of understating the size of the budget deficit before the last election.

If two-thirds of the senators find her guilty, she will be permanently removed from office. Since they have just voted to impeach her by a bigger majority than that, we may take it for granted that she is a goner.

Two justifications have been of-fered for this unseating of an elected president, but both of them are pret-ty flimsy. The first is the legal justifi-cation, which is that Rousseff’s gov-ernment tweaked the accounts a bit to make Brazil’s financial situation look less bad before the last election

in 2014.She did, but which elected govern-

ment anywhere does not try to put the best face on its figures? Anyway, no-body believes that this is the real rea-son for her removal from power.

The broader political justification is that she has made a mess of the economy. The economy certainly is in a terrible mess — in each of the last two years it has shrunk by four per cent, one-tenth of the population is unemployed, and inflation is explod-ing — but every big commodity-ex-porting country has been in the same mess since the global financial crash of 2008. The demand for their exports simply collapsed.

Rousseff didn’t create this crisis, but inevitably she gets the blame for it. That, rather than some obscure legal issue, is why nearly two-thirds of Bra-zilians think she should be impeached. But while she might have done better at managing the crisis, in a democ-racy political questions like this are normally settled by elections, not by impeachment.

The 55 senators who voted to im-peach her all know that, but they couldn’t resist the temptation to take her down. Which brings us to the real motive behind all this, and the wor-risome comparison with Thailand, where the generals took over in 2014.

The Thais, like the Brazilians, evict-ed their military rulers from power in the 1980s by non-violent political

action. As is bound to happen in a de-mocracy, both countries then devel-oped powerful political movements that demanded a redistribution of wealth in favour of the impoverished half of the population. And in both countries the prosperous urban mid-dle classes mobilized against this threat.

The hopes of the Thai poor were fo-cussed on Thaksin Shinawatra (prime minister 2001-06) and later, after the military forced him into exile, his sis-ter Yingluck Shinawatra (prime min-ister 2011-14). In Brazil the left-wing leader was Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers’ Party (president 2002-10), and subsequently his close ally Dilma Rousseff (president 2010-16).

In Thailand the struggle between the rural and urban poor (the ‘yel-low shirts’) and the defenders of the economic status quo (the ‘red shirts’) descended into the streets early, and had got quite bloody by the time the generals seized power in 2014. They intervened in favour of the ‘red shirts,’ of course, but they seem determined to hold on to power themselves for the forseeable future.

Brazil’s politics have been less vi-olent and the military have not inter-vened (yet), but it is just as much a class struggle — made more intrac-table by the fact that in Brazil social class is colour-coded. The white half of the population is mostly prosperous, the “pardo”(mixed-race) and black

half mostly poor.The most important single measure

of the Workers’ Party government is the famous Bolsa Familial, a straight cash payment to those whose income is below the poverty line. To qualify, they must only ensure that their children attend school 85 per cent of the time and are fully vaccinated. It has lifted 45 million people, a quarter of the pop-ulation. out of poverty.

Nobody will admit that this crisis is about ending government subsidies for the poor, but the crowds demon-strating against Rousseff’s government have been almost entirely white. So is the cabinet sworn in by the new inter-im president, Michel Temer. But Te-mer is going to have a very hard time running the country.

Outraged Workers’ Party supporters are already being radicalized by the “coup” that has driven Dilma Rousseff from power and the struggle is moving into the streets. Mass demonstrations and barricades are now a common sight, and the protesters will find it hard to resist disrupting the Olympic Games that start in Rio de Janeiro in early August.

Which may provide the excuse for the Brazilian right to welcome the mil-itary back into power.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent Ca-nadian journalist whose articles are pub-lished in 45 countries.

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OTTAWA — The federal NDP has opted for an extended leadership race to replace Tom Mulcair, as it looks to name a new leader between September and October of 2017.

The decision c o m e s a f t e r around 100 New Democrats from across Cana-da gathered at an Ottawa ho-tel Sunday to carve out the terms for the race — a pro-cess launched after Mulcair was flatly reject-ed as the party’s long-term leader at a convention in Edmonton last month.

The NDP’s national director, Karl Belanger, said members of the party’s governing body agreed on Sunday that more time is needed to assess where the party is at and to allow for poten-tial candidates to organize and set up campaigns.

“Councillors felt that by providing that longer window it would provide better opportunities for outreach and fundraising and for the party in gener-al,” Belanger said.

In order to run, hopefuls will be required to provide a registration fee of $30,000 while the spending cap has been set at $1.5 million.

The nomination period will begin in July.

“Council has given potential candi-dates a time frame that will allow for a fair and competitive race, while giv-ing enough time for the new leader to prepare for the general election,” said

NDP president Marit Stiles.The party brass did not set a precise

date for a leadership vote within the fall 2017 time frame.

Some New Democrats who have opened the door to a possible lead-ership bid include B.C. MP Nathan Cullen, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton and Quebec MPs Ruth Ellen Brosseau and Alexandre Boulerice.

Cullen and Ashton both ran in the 2012 race that resulted in Mulcair’s victory.

There are many challenges for the NDP as it looks to replace Mulcair, including the current debt load of around $5 million — a legacy of the marathon federal election that punted the party back to third party status in the Commons.

For his part, Mulcair has said it is unlikely he will run again in the 2019 federal election.

He has yet to weigh in on the time-line announced by the federal council.

As the NDP eyes its future and a lengthy leadership race, fundraising is sure to be a concern.

A letter from the party’s president, vice-presidents and treasurer distributed ahead of Sunday’s meeting noted council should consider the financial impact of the race and its effect on national and provincial fundraising efforts.

Belanger said these concerns were addressed by council, adding administrative fees have been increased to 25 per cent — up from 15 per cent in the 2012 race — meaning 25 cents will go to the party for every dollar a campaign pulls in.

Recent f igures released by Elections Canada showed the party struggled in its first quarter and only collected $1.3 million.

McMaster pol i t ical sc ience professor Peter Graefe said the timing of the leadership race will have “significant impacts” on the party’s

money-making ability.“Mulcair is going out the door and

you’re mostly raising money on the … back of your leader so it is going to be a bit complicated from that point of view,” Graefe said.

The NDP can’t begin raising significant amounts of money until two years out from the next election, he added.

“I don’t think they are likely to go bankrupt if you like but … they’ll still be paying off these debts by the time a new leader is chosen so that’s going to make it difficult for them to be in a competitive position going into the next federal election.”

Graefe said the New Democrats were likely influenced by the timing of the Conservative leadership race, set to be held in May 2017.

“They want the Conservatives to choose their leader so that they can make their choice … in the context of

who the other two leaders are going to be,” he said.

I n a d d i t i o n t o w e a k e n e d fundraising efforts following October’s disappointing election result, the NDP is also using resources to foot a legal bill over its satellite office saga now playing out in Federal Court.

The party launched this fight after the Commons board of internal economy ordered 68 NDP MPs — many of whom went down to defeat last October — to repay $2.7 million in parliamentary funds that went towards office operations in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City.

The NDP has long denied that it used parliamentary funds for non-parliamentary purposes.

Mulcair remains personally on the hook for a bill of more than $400,000.

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NDP set to name Mulcair’s replacement in fall 2017“COUNCIL HAS GIVEN POTENTIAL CANDIDATES A TIME FRAME THAT WILL ALLOW FOR A FAIR

AND COMPETITIVE RACE, WHILE GIVING ENOUGH TIME FOR THE NEW LEADER TO PREPARE FOR THE

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Almost 700 Grade 5 elementary school girls got going at the annual Go Girl event at the Collicutt Centre last week coming together for a full day, packed with activities to keep them moving and getting them excited about fitness and lifelong activities.

“Our 13th Go Girl event and we have almost 700 Grade 5 girls here today participating in a lot of different activities.” Said Jackie Weddell, a teacher at Holy Family School and one of the organizers of the event.

“Initially there was some data showing that girls when they left from elementary school to move into middle school their activity levels sig-nificantly dropped off so it was just sort of a in motion grant initially that was put in place to en-courage girls to be more active going into middle school.”

“What we are hoping to do is introduce them to lots of different activities that they might not have tried before and just that exposure hoping that they find something that they really love to do and continue on with it for a lifetime.”

“We have got a lot of events going on today” said Weddell. “So we’ve got 24 different events some of those being kick boxing, lacrosse, soft-ball, yoga, swimming, synchronized swimming, field hockey, champion cheerleading, taekwondo a really wide variety of different activities.”

As the nearly 700 Grade 5 girls, along w i t h high school girls acting as mentors were getting busy at the Collicutt Centre, across town at the Dawe Centre an equal number of Grade 5 boys were taking part in their fourth annual Knights In Training program that has created an oppor-tunity for pre-teen boys to explore the deeper meanings behind respect, understanding, rela-tionships and responsibility.

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ABOVE: Fitness on the ball during a circuit class.BELOW: Addie Otto of Master Rims Taekwondo holds the pads as Julia Cunningham of Father Henri Voisin School hits with a round-house kick.

Kaitlyn Darou of Aspen Heights School makes contact wile hitting balls in the field house

Katie Sorensen, left, of Camile J. Lerouge and Shanelle Felipe, right, of St. Patricks school hold up Ava Kuzel of Mountview Elementary as Maddy Judson of G. W. Smith supports from behind as the girls try a cheer session.

Ella Tennant of Mountview School works her way up the climbing wall in the field house


VANCOUVER — When Ben Camp-bell heard Earls was switching to Cer-tified Humane beef from the U.S., he had a different reaction than many Alberta ranchers.

The 32-year-old raises grass-fed cattle without added hormones at his ranch in Black Diamond, about 60 kilo-metres southwest of Calgary. He sells directly to customers, often inviting them to visit the rolling hills where his animals graze.

To Campbell, Earls’ decision was a response to a trend he had seen first-hand: growing consumer demand for ethical meat. And though Earls back-tracked after a social media slaughter-ing, Campbell said the beef industry can learn from the controversy.

“People care about where their food comes from and they should,” he said. “The average Alberta farmer is proud of the way he produces his beef or she produces her beef, and we want to showcase it. I think a lot of people will be happy to have a certification to show the high standard.”

Alberta ranchers say Canada is a leader in animal welfare standards. But companies like Earls and McDon-ald’s are increasingly finding that cus-tomers, especially millennials, want proof that meat was raised humanely — forcing the industry to embrace cer-tification programs it once resisted.

“We’ve got to get more comfortable as an industry with those verifications and audits,” said Bob Lowe, chairman of Alberta Beef Produc-ers.

“We have been doing things very well and we’ve been adapting to the sci-ence as it comes along, but it’s just the indepen-dent nature of cattle pro-ducers. They just don’t want people snooping around.”

Certified Humane is a U.S.-based trademark with standards enforced through annual inspec-tions. Some Canadian ranches have the desig-nation, but when Earls couldn’t find enough sup-ply in Canada, it switched to buying exclusively in the United States.

The Canadian industry balked, insisting that lo-cal ranchers already met similar standards under national codes of prac-tice. However, the codes of practice are guide-lines that aren’t enforced through inspections.

Ranchers have had to turn to third-party pro-grams for verification, like Certified Humane or the made-in-Canada op-tion SPCA Certified. Ani-mal welfare advocates say it should be the job of gov-ernment to inspect farms for humane treatment.

“What the Earls situa-tion really brings to the forefront is that this in-dustry isn’t being regulat-ed, and consumers want

the regulation,” said Anna Pippus, a lawyer with Animal Justice, a legal group that fights for the rights of ani-mals.

Rob McNabb of the Canadian Cat-tlemen’s Association pointed out cattle are inspected during transportation for slaughter, and the final product is inspected at the meat packing plant. Provincial SPCA officers inspect farms when they receive cruelty complaints.

“There’s no need (for regular on-farm inspection by government),” said McNabb. “At the end of the day, no-body is questioning the value or the safety or the wholesomeness of Cana-dian beef.”

The association is set to unveil its own audit-enforced program called Verified Beef Production Plus in June. The Canadian Roundtable for Sustain-able Beef is crafting standards for an-imal welfare, sustainability and bios-ecurity that will become part of the program. Sylvain Charlebois, a pro-fessor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, said ethical meat is more important to millennials, who now outnumber boomers in the marketplace.

“It’s way beyond just the calories. It’s really about feeling good about what you’re buying and making a dif-ference in the world.”

Earls has since apologized for its “mistake” and promised to source some of its beef from Alberta suppli-ers that meet its criteria. The chain made the switch after surveying cus-tomers and staff and finding a majority favoured “humane” beef.

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EDMONTON — As the planning inches forward to eventually get thou-sands of Fort McMurray evacuees back into their homes, the job has already begun to reunite many those forced to flee the flames with something else they need to get their lives moving again.

Their cars and trucks.The blaze earlier this month effec-

tively cut Fort McMurray in two, forc-ing about 25,000 people north to the safety of oilsands work camps, while the other 70,000 were sent streaming south in a bumper-to-bumper snake line of cars and trucks that stretched beyond the horizon down Highway 63.

There wasn’t time to fuel up and some vehicles had to be abandoned, the victims of engine trouble or a lack of gas.

“There were lots of vehicles that were left on the side of the road, in me-dians between the different lanes of the highway,” said Graeme McElheran, director of communications for Alber-ta Transportation.

“We are working on a strategy right now to reunite people with those vehi-cles.”

For 101 vehicles recovered on High-way 63 south of Fort McMurray over the past week, owners can now claim them now from a lot in Wandering Riv-er, approximately 230 km north of Ed-monton.

“It’s Saturday so everybody’s com-ing up,” said Derek Marsh, general manager of Double L Towing and Highway 63 Towing.

“There’s everything from bikes to trucks.”

“The phone lines have been flood-ed.”

Marsh said he and about a half-doz-en other tow-truck drivers with his

company started retrieving vehicles on Sunday. Some were difficult to tow because after they ran out of gas, they were pushed into ditches to keep them from blocking the highway.

They’ve been releasing vehicles to their owners since Tuesday. The tanks are filled with gas, compliments of the province. The government is also cov-ering the towing and storage fees.

Marsh said about 30 vehicles were claimed by Saturday.

Fort McMurray remains off limits to the public and there’s no date for when residents can return.

McElheran didn’t have an exact number on how many abandoned vehi-cles were being towed, but estimated it to be in the hundreds.

Towing is still in progress to lots inside Fort McMurray for vehicles that were left on Highway 881 and High-way 61 just south of the city, as well as inside the city and north up to the community of Fort McKay, according to McElheran.

Unlike the vehicles that have been towed to Wandering River, McElheran said there’s no way, yet, for the owners to call about whether their vehicles are waiting for them. But he said the province is working on it, including what to do if owners can’t provide the information they need to claim their rides.

“Often people leave that informa-tion in the vehicle itself. Sometimes they have it at home, sometimes they may not be able to get back to their homes, say, in Fort Mac in order to get the insurance, to prove that they have it,” McElheran said.

“If they can’t get an answer about the presence of their vehicle on one day they should try again the next day. That’s our approach. I mean, It really is day-by-day as we develop this aspect of the emergency response,” he added.

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10:28 Klooster stops at Village Mall, where I depart and head across the road for a snack before hopping into my trusty rusty pickup truck to head to the south side of Red Deer.

11:30 Bennett Street — Route 12 de-parts to Gasoline Alley. The driver says it can be standing-room only when shifts change at local businesses. Right now, the only other riders are two young women and four young men. The two women have a brief chat, then each takes her own seat for the ride. The men disperse them-selves at the back of the bus. They all stay on board as I slip out the door, heading to a well-known local restaurant for a flapper pie and ginger tea. I’m back at the stop in time for the next trip back to Bennett Street.

Sorensen Station is a ghost town

after the buses leave, it’s parking slots emptied of buses and not a soul in sight, until a slim man arrives and takes a seat at one of the empty bench-es.

Wilmar Buenafe moved to Red Deer from the Philippines about five years ago. Every day, he takes the Olymel route to work and back. The seats fill pretty quickly on work days, meaning Buenafe and other Olymel workers often have to stand up for their trip. It’s quiet today, though. He plans to do a little shopping, maybe pick up some groceries.

Buenafe refuses to find fault with the transit system. Like Barb and Massincaud, it’s his lifeline, getting him to work and back or wherever else he wants to ride. The advantages of riding a bus versus buying a car are quite simple, says Buenafe.

“I’m not a rich man.”

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Governor General David Johnson inspects an honour guard during the Governor General and Commander-in-Chief’s Military Tattoo at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa on Saturday,

MILITARY TATTOO


TORONTO — The case of a former Conservative staffer convicted in the 2011 federal election robocalls scandal is going before Ontario’s highest court this week.

Michael Sona is asking Ontario’s Court of Appeal to impose a sentence less than the nine months in jail he re-ceived in November 2014.

But Crown prosecutors are simulta-neously asking the court to send Sona to jail for 20 months, arguing his earli-er sentence wasn’t harsh enough given the seriousness of his crime.

“This was both a sophisticated, large-scale fraud, and a concerted at-tempt to subvert a democratic elec-tion,” the Crown argued in a factum filed with the court. “The Crown ap-peals and asks this court to powerfully denounce and deter such direct as-sault on our most fundamental demo-cratic institutions — the right to vote.”

Sona — now 26 and currently out on bail after spending 13 days behind bars — was the first person convicted of wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting un-der the Canada Elections Act.

The trial judge who sentenced him said he believed Sona did not act alone in a scheme in which some 6,700 automated phone calls were placed on the morning of the 2011 federal elec-tion, largely to numbers in Guelph, Ont., wrongly telling people their poll-ing station had been moved to a differ-ent location.

The calls were organized and paid for by Sona, who was the director of communications for the Tory candi-date in Guelph, and targeted people believed to be “non-supporters of the

Conservative party,” the Crown noted.Political staffers testified at So-

na’s trial that the then 22-year-old had boasted about the scheme after the election.

“This was no momentary prank. It was a calculated conspiracy amongst politically sophisticated individuals to alter the outcome of a federal election by fraud,” the Crown argued. “Many of the victims also said that they will never again feel comfortable express-ing their political views or allegiances

for fear of being targeted again in the same way.”

The Crown suggested the judge at Sona’s trial lost sight of two major components of the crime which call for a higher sentence — a large scale fraud on the public and the deliberate subversion of democracy and the rule of law.

“This crime was callous and pro-foundly harmful,” the Crown argued. “The sentence failed to bring that home either to Sona or to others pos-

sibly eager to unleash their own cre-atively crafted dirty political tricks.”

Sona’s lawyer, however, argued that his client’s nine-month sentence ex-ceeded what was necessary for denun-ciation and deterrence.

Howard Krongold suggested the tri-al judge made three errors in coming to his sentence — overemphasizing general deterrence, finding that there was no evidence of rehabilitation, and failing to consider the effect of any sentence of imprisonment on similarly situated individuals.

Describing Sona as a “good young man brought to his knees” by his con-viction, Sona’s lawyer suggested a sen-tence of between 30-90 days or a lon-ger conditional sentence — typically house arrest — would be appropriate.

“The conduct here was clearly very grave, but given his youth and the sig-nificant personal consequences Mr. Sona has endured, this was an ideal case for a conditional sentence or a short, sharp jail sentence,” Krongold wrote in a factum submitted to the ap-peal court.

Sona was driven by “partisan fer-vour and emotion, not greed” and “lost his moral bearings during a campaign that developed a ‘siege mentality,”’ Krongold argued.

The entire case has taken a signifi-cant toll on Sona, Krongold added, not-ing that his client has struggled with periods of stress and depression and even attempted suicide in 2012.

“Against the backdrop of what Mr. Sona has gone through, stepping into a jail cell for any duration is — both symbolically and practically — a pro-foundly harsh punishment for some-one who has come from where Mr. So-na has come from and has fallen as far as he has,” Krongold wrote.

Ex-staffer goes before appeal court

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A man casts his vote for the 2011 federal election in Toronto in this photo. The trial of the lone junior Conservative campaign worker charged in the robocall scandal is set to begin Monday. Michael Sona, 25, is charged with wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting.

Wildfire prompts evacuation order in northeastern

British ColumbiaFORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — An evac-

uation order has been issued for res-idents in the vicinity of a wildfire in northeastern British Columbia.

The 150-square-kilometre Beatton Airport Road fire is burning about 45 kilometres north of Fort St. John.

The fire flared up four weeks ago and is 45-per-cent contained, though a recent spate of hot and dry weather has led to more activity.

More than 100 firefighters are bat-tling the blaze, along with 13 helicop-ters and 16 pieces of heavy equipment.

An evacuation alert is in effect for the region immediately east of the ar-ea that was ordered to evacuate.

The B.C. government is warning

about smoky conditions in the Peace Region due in part to an increase in wildfire sizes, including the nearby Si-phon Creek fire.

Bernier launches Tory leadership campaign in

Quebec as race poised to heat up

SAINTE MARIE DE BEAUCE, Que. — Quebec MP Maxime Bernier has officially launched his campaign to become the Conservative party’s next leader.

Bernier told a packed stadium in his home riding of Beauce this morn-ing that he would run a small govern-ment if elected.

He also said he would lower taxes and make more efforts to pay down the debt.

While Bernier, 53, and Ontario MP Kellie Leitch are the only official can-didates for the party’s top job, they likely won’t be alone.

Ontario MP Michael Chong has scheduled a news conference for Mon-day where he is expected to enter the

race.Other Tories said to be contemplat-

ing a run for the leadership include Tony Clement and Lisa Raitt.

The Conservatives will vote for a new leader on May 27, 2017.

Running water, flushing toilet coming to Victoria tent city

homeless campVICTORIA — Plumbing is being in-

stalled at a tent city set up on the lawn of Victoria’s court house.

The province is installing running water and a flushing toilet at the homeless camp, where about 100 peo-ple have been living since last spring.

Victoria Mayor Lisa helps says the plumbing comes in response from neighbourhood concerns, such as the smell associated with the camp’s port-a-potties.

Neighbours living near the site have called it an urban ghetto, saying they have picked up discarded needles, human waste and other garbage left in the area by campers.

Helps says the province is looking for other places to house the campers

because no one wants the tent city to stay on the courthouse lawn perma-nently.

Last month the B.C. Supreme Court refused to grant the government an interim injunction to dismantle the camp, but the province is expected to go back to court later this year seeking a permanent injunction.

One woman dead after school bus crashes with car east of

MontrealMONT-SAINT-HILAIRE, Que. — A

woman is dead after a school bus car-rying 40 teenagers crashed with a car and overturned east of Montreal.

The 18-year-old victim was in the car when the accident happened at around 5 p.m. Friday

The second occupant of the vehicle remains in hospital in critical condi-tion.

About two dozen high school stu-dents were taken to hospital with mi-nor injuries.

Police say speed may have been a factor.

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OTTAWA — Technology is making buying things easier, but credit coun-sellors want you to remember that pay-ing for them is still as difficult as ever.

Jeff Schwartz, executive director of Consolidated Credit Counseling Ser-vices of Canada, says the ease with which consumers can buy things these days could spell trouble for those who have difficulty controlling their spend-ing.

“It is allowing many consumers to avoid the harsh reality of what is going on inside their bank account or even inside their wallet,” he said.

With the expansion of Apple Pay this week, Canadians added yet an-other way to quickly pay for their pur-chases without even opening their wal-lets.

The addition of the big Canadian banks to the service adds to the al-ready numerous ways shoppers have, including Interac Flash, MasterCard Tap & Go, Visa payWave, and Ameri-can Contactless Payments, to pay for things quickly.

Schwartz said the physical aspect of pulling out your wallet and taking the cash out to make a purchase is very different from using a phone.

“You really have to say that I am willing, ready and able and want to make this purchase,” he said.

“There is a real mental link be-tween you actually going in and mak-ing that purchase versus just whipping open your phone, throwing it on the scanner and you’re done.”

The plethora of new ways for peo-ple to more easily spend their hard-earned dollars comes amid concerns about household debt levels.

Statistics Canada has reported that for the fourth quarter of last year the ratio of household debt to disposable income climbed to a new peak of $1.65 in debt for every dollar earned after taxes and other fees paid to govern-

ment.Credit counsellor Pamela George

says the new ways to pay for purchases are convenient.

“The problems happen where peo-ple are just putting it on a credit card and they don’t have a clue where or how they’re paying it,” said George, who works at the Credit Counselling Society in Ottawa.

She recommends clients withdraw the cash they’ve allocated in their bud-get and when it is spent, they’re done.

“The problem starts when you don’t track your spending and then you just keep swiping the card,” she said.

But technology can also be used to help.

While a smartphone can help make it easier to spend money, it can also help track spending if you use a bud-geting app.

Schwartz’s says his agency offers a free app for Apple devices that allows users to keep a record of spending and download it to a spreadsheet.

“That is the upside to the technolo-gy. But the basis behind it is budgeting and understanding what money you have coming in, understanding what money you have going out and under-standing what money you have poten-tially available,” he said.

George recommends her clients simply stick to cash if they really want to control their spending.

“It is harder to break a $20 bill for a $3 cup of coffee than it is to just tap a card,” she said.

How easy is to too easy?EASY PAY OPTIONS COULD MEAN PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T CONTROL SPENDING

FILE Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A person tries a smartphone loaded with Google Wallet at the National Retail Federation in New York.

In a period of historic low interest rates and high market volatility in-vestors once again are turning to div-idends for their yields and relative safety.

“In a market steeped in uncertain-ty, investors are clamouring for divi-dends,” Jack Ablin, chief investment officer with BMO Private Bank in the U.S, wrote in a current market update.

Consider the following. The Dow Jones Dividend Select Index is up more than 6.5 per cent in 2016 against a backdrop of negative returns of many equity markets. Within the S&P 500 the top 100 highest yielding stocks have gained three per cent this year while those with no dividends are off more than four per cent.

Dividends are popular for two pri-mary reasons. They usually are paid by higher quality companies which have good cash flow, occupy a strong

position in their relative industries, and provide stable returns in times of volatility.

They also are attractive to long-term investors who are willing to ride out periods of volatility. Dividends reduce the pressure to sell during down turns. As stock prices decline yields go up, making them more attractive to inves-tors.

More than 200 companies on the TSX composite index pay dividends with an average weighted yield of 3.2 per cent.

“Over the last few years when inter-est rates have been low we have seen an uptick in investor interest in divi-dend-paying stocks,” says Lutz Zeitler, senior portfolio manager with BMO Global Asset Management in Canada. “Dividend growth stocks generally out-perform the market and other stocks and also provide some downside pro-tection.”

Dividends are declared by a compa-ny’s Board of Directors. They are paid out of the company’s earnings and can be increased, decreased or eliminated at any time. Dividends are most often quoted in terms of the dollar amount each share receives (dividends per share) and also can be quoted in terms

of a per cent of the current market price, which is referred to as dividend yield.

Dividends are usually paid out in cash or stock. Most secure, stable com-panies offer dividends to their stock-holders. Their share prices may not move much, but the dividends can compensate for this.

High-growth companies, on the other hand, rarely offer dividends because their profits are reinvested to help sustain higher than average growth.

Mutual funds pay out interest and dividend income received from the portfolio holdings as dividends to fund shareholders.

In addition, realized capital gains from the portfolio’s trading activities generally are paid out as a year-end dividend.

Investors often will look at the div-idend yield when deciding to buy a stock. That’s important because it tells you how much income you can expect to receive. But the growth of dividends is an equally important consideration, particularly if you are near or in re-tirement.

Everyday living expenses such as groceries and gasoline rise over time

and it’s important for retirees to have investments than can provide a rising income to help them keep pace with or exceed the rate of inflation.

“Dividends make all the sense in the world for retirees, particularly when rates are at the level where they are now,” says Zeitler. “A long-term diversified portfolio made up of divi-dend-growth stocks often will outper-form other portfolios and is great for meeting the income needs of retirees, but they also can be a core strategy for anyone between the ages of 25 and 65 as well.”

Another benefit is that eligible div-idends from Canadian resident cor-porations are taxed more favourably than most other types of income.

Investors can go to the financial pages of most major newspapers and to the investor relations sections of individual company web sites to get relevant dividend information such as payment dates and yields.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based busi-ness communications professional who has worked with national news organiza-tions, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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OTTAWA — The Trudeau govern-ment’s newfound enthusiasm about a big Montreal transit proposal has given Canadians a glimpse at one way Ottawa could fund billions in public infrastructure, like roads, bridges and rail, over the long haul.

In recent days, senior Liberals have been talking up an unusual funding model for the $5.5-billion light-rail plan for Montreal, calling for a part-nership that includes Ottawa and a public pension fund.

The idea was put forward by Que-bec’s massive public pension fund manager, which recently announced its proposal to build a large electric rail network connecting Montreal to its suburbs.

The fund, the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, is prepared to pump $3 billion into the project — and it wants the provincial and federal gov-ernments to kick in the rest.

A subsidiary of the Caisse would operate the rail network and gradually recoup the pension plan’s investment through user fees. Eventual profits would be funnelled into Quebecers’ public nest egg — the Quebec Pen-

sion Plan — which is managed by the Caisse.

The idea was made public after the Liberal government signalled in its March budget that it would like to en-gage deep-pocketed pension funds and other “innovative sources of funding” to help raise much-needed cash for long-term infrastructure projects — when it’s in the public interest.

So far, this first example of a poten-tial federal partnership with a major pension plan appears to have stoked excitement among senior Liberal cab-inet ministers.

“I salute the innovative efforts of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, which, through its metropol-itan electric network, is proposing a new business model to implement ma-jor infrastructure projects,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau told a business crowd late last week in Montreal.

“We have the chance in Canada to count on pension funds that have de-veloped an expertise in infrastructure that is recognized around the world.”

Morneau added that Ottawa is studying the Caisse’s plan with “lots of interest.”

His inaugural budget followed through on a Liberal election pledge to double infrastructure spending over

the next 10 years, raising the overall federal investment to $120 billion.

The party has argued boosting in-frastructure spending will increase productivity, generate more long-term growth and create jobs.

The plan, however, comes at a cost.Infrastructure spending is expected

to contribute to a string of five-straight budgetary deficits that could add more than $110 billion to Canada’s public debt.

Seeking out other sources of cash for infrastructure could increase the number of new investments while helping prevent the country from slid-ing even deeper into the red.

The first phase of the Liberal plan calls for $11.9 billion of spending over five years. It’s focused on projects such as repairing aging water and public transit infrastructure as well as pro-viding cash for smaller projects that can be completed by 2019.

There’s also money available for planning larger, more-ambitious proj-ects that would be part of the pro-gram’s second phase, the details of which have yet to be unveiled.

That’s where the Caisse’s light-rail plan comes in — it features a type of funding model the government could increasingly tap into.

Will big pension funds and Ottawa partner to build

tomorrow’s infrastructure?Audi veteran joins Tesla Motors to lead

productionPALO ALTO, Calif. — A veteran Au-

di executive is joining Tesla Motors to

lead production.

Peter Hochholdinger will be re-

sponsible for increasing and improv-

ing production of Tesla’s Model S se-

dan and Model X SUV.

He will also develop the produc-

tion plan for the company’s lower-cost

Model 3 sedan, which goes on sale next

year.

Hochholdinger spent 22 years at Au-

di, the luxury arm of German automak-

er Volkswagen AG.

He joins Palo Alto, California-

based Tesla as it plans a major in-

crease in production.

CEO Elon Musk said last week that

Tesla wants to make 500,000 vehicles

per year by 2018, approximately two

years earlier than what was initially

planned.

Tesla made 50,000 vehicles last year.

Tesla’s former production chief left

earlier this month after the launch of

the Model X was plagued by delays

and parts shortages.

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WASHINGTON — Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience. The problem, say transportation research-ers, is that people will use them too much.

Experts foresee robot cars chauf-feuring children to school, dance class and baseball practice. The disabled and elderly will have new mobility. Commuters will be able to work, sleep, eat or watch movies on the way to the office. People may stay home more be-cause they can send their cars to do things like pick up groceries they’ve ordered online.

Researchers believe the number of miles driven will skyrocket. It’s less certain whether that will mean a cor-responding surge in traffic congestion, but it’s a clear possibility.

Gary Silberg, an auto industry ex-pert at accounting firm KPMG, com-pares it to the introduction of smart-phones.

“It will be indispensable to your life,” he said. “It will be all sorts of things we can’t even think of today.”

Cars that can drive themselves un-der limited conditions are expected to be available within five to 10 years. Versions able to navigate under most conditions may take 10 to 20 years.

Based on focus groups in Atlanta, Denver and Chicago, KPMG predicts autonomous “mobility-on-demand” services — think Uber and Lyft with-out a driver — will result in dou-ble-digit increases in travel by people in two age groups: those over 65, and those 16 to 24.

Vehicles travelled a record 3.1 trillion miles in the U.S. last year. In-creased trips in autono-mous cars by those two age groups would boost miles travelled by an ad-ditional 2 trillion miles annually by 2050, KPMG calculated. If self-driving cars without passengers start running errands, the increase could be double that.

And if people in their middle years, when driv-ing is at its peak, also in-crease their travel, that yearly total could reach 8 trillion miles.

“This could be mas-sive,” Silberg said.

Driverless cars are expected to make travel both safer and cheaper. With human error respon-sible for 90 per cent of traffic accidents, they’re expected to sharply re-duce accidents, driving down the cost of insur-ance and repairs.

But the biggest cost of car travel is drivers’ time, said Don MacKenzie, a University of Washington transportation research-er. That cost comes down dramatically when people can use their travel time productively on other tasks.

A study by MacKenzie and other researchers published in the journal Transportation Research: Part A estimates that the vehicles can cut the cost of travel by as much as 80 per cent. That in turn drives up miles travelled by 60 per cent.

“You are talking about a technology that prom-ises to make travel safer, cheaper, more conve-nient. And when you do that, you’d better expect people are going to do more of it,” MacKenzie said.

There’s a fork ahead in this driverless road, says a report by Lauren Isaac,

manager of sustainable transportation at WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, that en-visions either utopia or a nightmare.

In the best case, congestion is re-duced because driverless cars and trucks are safer and can travel fast-er with reduced space between them. Highway lanes can be narrower be-cause vehicles won’t need as much margin for error.

There will be fewer accidents to tie up traffic. But those advantages will be limited as long as driverless cars share roads with conventional cars, likely for decades.

But that scenario depends on a soci-etal shift from private vehicle owner-ship to commercial fleets of driverless cars that can be quickly summoned with a phone app. Driverless fleets would have to become super-efficient carpools, picking up and dropping off multiple passengers travelling in the same direction.

The congestion nightmare would re-sult if a large share of people can’t be persuaded to effectively share robot cars with strangers and to continue us-ing mass transit, Isaac said.

A study last year by the Internation-al Transport Forum, a transportation policy think-tank , simulated the im-pact on traffic in Lisbon, Portugal, if conventional cars were replaced with driverless cars that take either a single passenger at a time or several passen-gers together.

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SEATTLE — Authorities cleared the railroad tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in Washington state, after a two-day shutdown.

About 150 people spent the night in tents and sleeping bags on the tracks near two refineries in northwest Wash-ington, according to BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas.

They were asked to leave at about 5 a.m. and most gathered their belong-ings and left the area near Anacortes, Melonas said.

“It was peaceful,” he said. “Eighty per cent removed their belongings and cleared out.”

The 52 people arrested were cited for trespassing, according to the Skagit County Department of Emergency Management. One person was also cit-ed for resisting arrest.

Skagit County Sheriff Will Reich-ardt said that before anyone was ar-rested, officers advised protesters that they could move to another designated location and demonstrate.

A spokeswoman for the protesters said she expected everyone arrested would be processed and released from police custody.

Emily Johnston said protests would continue around Anacortes on Sunday, but she didn’t expect people to return to the railroad tracks.

Johnston, who had participated in a blockade of the Seattle harbour to pro-test Shell Oil’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, said the success of protests like the one in Anacortes can mostly be seen in the way they inspire people to speak out about climate change.

“People power matters,” Johnston said.

She also spoke about the contrast between arresting people for protest-ing about saving the planet and the lack of government action against the fossil fuel industry.

“We really need to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable,” Johnston said.

The rail line has been closed since Friday because of the protests, and trains will begin running again Sunday afternoon after a cleanup and safety sweep of the tracks, he said.

Protesters in kayaks, canoes, on bikes and on foot also took place in demonstrations near Anacortes, about

70 miles north of Seattle, to demand action on climate and an equitable transition away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal.

Hundreds marched to the refin-eries Saturday and a smaller group blocked the railroad, all demanding energy policy changes. The railroad knew about the protest in advance and rerouted rail traffic to avoid the area.

The railroad spur provides rail transportation for the nearby Shell and Tesoro oil refineries, as well as animal feed and other products.

The protests are part of a series of global actions calling on people to “break free” from dependence on fos-sil fuels. Similar demonstrations were held around the country during the weekend.

In upstate New York, climate activ-ists gathered Saturday at a crude-oil shipment hub on the Hudson River in an action targeting crude-by-rail trains and oil barges at the Port of Albany. A group of activists sat on tracks used by crude oil trains headed to the port. Albany is a key hub for crude-by-rail shipments from North Dakota’s Bak-ken Shale region.

In Washington state, organiz-ers targeted two refineries that are among the top sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the state. Tesoro has started shipping Bakken crude oil to its refinery, and Shell is proposing an expansion project that would similarly bring in Bakken crude oil by train.

Officials with Shell and Tesoro said in earlier statements that they respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully, and that safety is their highest priority.

Crowd estimates of Saturday’s march ranged from several hundred to about 1,000 people, Skagit County spokeswoman Bronlea Mishler said.

Bud Ullman, 67, who lives on Gue-mes Island, participated in the march, which he described as good-spirited, peaceful.

“The scientists are right. We have to get away from our dependence on fos-sil fuels, and it has to be done in a way that takes into serious consideration the impact on workers, families and communities,” he said.

Many of the nearly 40 groups in-volved in organizing the event also participated in large on-water kayak protests against Shell’s Arctic oil drill-ing rig when it parked last year at a Seattle port.

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Protestors march near oil refineries in Anacortes, Wash., on Saturday. The protests are part of a series of global actions calling on people to “break free” from dependence on fossil fuels.

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RAPTORS STOMP OUT HEATBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raptors 116 Heat 89TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors

had waited two decades for this mo-ment.

And as the clocked ticked down on a historic victory that launched the Rap-tors into the NBA Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 21 years, Kyle Lowry sat on the bench, his head bowed and draped in a towel.

The Raptors’ star on the day was lost in thought.

“Just the things that we’d been through this year, and how hard we’ve worked,” Lowry said of the moment. “Just an emotional time, just being able to sit there and relax, and kind of breathe.

“Playing against a team like Mi-ami, it pushed us to the limit, and so it was just a time to relax and just think about the things that we’ve done.”

The Raptors head into uncharted territory against the Cleveland Cava-liers after a thorough 116-89 disman-tling of Miami in Sunday’s thrilling do-or-die Game 7.

Lowry had 35 points while DeMar DeRozan chipped in with 28, playing with the heart and hustle Raptors fans had seen so many times in Toronto’s record-breaking 56-win regular sea-son. And they got plenty of help, as Bismack Biyombo had 16 rebounds to go with 17 points, DeMarre Carroll chipped in with 14 points, and Patrick Patterson had 11 points and 11 boards.

Dwane Casey called the series victo-ry a “very important” step for the fran-chise, but added: “We’re not done yet.”

“I know what it’s like to win a cham-pionship,” the Raptors coach said. “I’m not saying we can do that, but I think this group is hungry and never say never. I know one thing: our guys will compete.”

They competed from the opening tip-off, moments after Patterson’s pow-erful pre-game speech.

“I had one question for everybody: ‘Are we satisfied with what we’ve do-ne individually and what we’ve done collectively as a team? How far we’ve come. Do we want more, do we want to go even further, do we want to make history? Do we want to keep playing or

do we want to go home?”’Then, in a fierce back-and-forth

series that featured three overtime games, and a slew of injuries, the thrilling finale saw the Raptors lead most of the way. They battled hard on both ends of the floor with a ferocity they hadn’t shown in this series, and opened up a 17-point lead in a solid third quarter.

They went into the fourth ahead 86-78, and when Biyombo muscled his way in for a monstrous dunk — and Us-ain Bolt celebration — and then Car-roll drilled a three, the delirious Air Canada Centre crowd went nuts.

“We came out and told them we weren’t going to take no more,” Car-

roll said on Toronto’s dominant second half. “We kept running it down their throat, and doing it on the defensive end.”

Toronto could do little wrong down the stretch, and by the time Patterson followed up a basket with a pair of free throws with 7:30 to play, the Raptors led by 20, and anxious Toronto fans could finally take a collective deep breath.

“It’s great to hear the home crowd, and this organization deserves it, and this country deserves it,” said DeRozan, his young daughter Diar perched on his lap in the post-game press conference.

“And to see them get to the next

step somewhere they haven’t been… but we’re not done yet.”

Lowry hit a three with 3:23 to play that followed up a basket by DeRozan, and the Raptors went up by a whop-ping 25 points. And when the Raptors’ all-stars left the game a minute later, the crowd ushered them off the court with a standing ovation.

Hard to believe it was the same Lowry that stayed on the court until the early hours of the morning only 12 days earlier, unable to find his shot.

“That’s just what he do,” DeRozan said on Lowry’s explosion. “He’s been doing it all year, he won us countless games. And he doing it now. I don’t ex-pect nothing else.”

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Toronto Raptors’ Terrence Ross, centre, drives to the net between Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, left, and Josh Richardson during first half Eastern Conference semifinal NBA playoff game in Toronto on Sunday. The Raptors won 116-89 to advance to the Eastern Conference final for the first time in team history.

Blues double up Sharks to open conference final


Blues 2 Sharks 1ST. LOUIS — Once again, Brian El-

liott was the star of the show. His latest performance gave his St. Louis Blues teammates plenty of comfort knowing he had their back.

“When your goalie is your best player, it gives you a great chance of winning, and that was the case,” cap-tain David Backes said after the Blues opened their first Western Conference final in 15 years with a tense 2-1 victo-ry over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

“It was that way for the first two rounds,” Backes added, “and nothing’s changed in Game 1 of the third round.”

Backes opened the scoring and Jori Lehtera had the go-ahead goal in the second period on a spinning shot that Martin Jones could not handle.

“I just got the puck and closed my eyes and shot it, that’s about it,” Le-htera said. “Just keep it simple.”

Said Jones: “Not much to it, just found a hole. I’ll make that save next time.”

Tomas Hertl scored on a first-peri-od deflection for the Sharks, who out-shot St. Louis 32-23 but couldn’t quite solve Elliott.

Among those he frustrated was cap-tain Joe Pavelski, who had seven shots and had perhaps the best chance in the third period on a one-timer near the midway mark. Pavelski and Elliott were roommates at Wisconsin.

“I’m going to blame that one on the stick,” Pavelski said. “No, I have to find a way to put that in regardless of what goes on. I thought it was going in.”

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock thought his team was fortunate to survive the last 2:29 after the Sharks pulled Jones.

“I thought we did a great job. We kept it in the zone,” Hitchcock said sarcastically. “Are you kidding me? We couldn’t get it out.”

The Sharks were the best road team in the NHL in the regular season at 28-10-3, but have dropped four in a row on the road in these playoffs, including all three in the second round against Nashville. They had seven goals in three road losses to the Predators and were 0 for 5 on the power play, which had been a major plus. San Jose had been converting on 33 per cent of its power plays in the post-season.

“They were hot in the last series,” Blues defenceman Alex Pietrange-

lo said. “We stepped up to the chal-lenge.”’

The Blues made good on their first chance with home-ice advantage in the playoffs, although they’re just 4-4 at the Scottrade Center heading into Game 2 on Tuesday night.

Elliott was at his best — and got some luck — in the second period when the Blues were outshot 16-5, but got the lone goal when Lehtera scored unassisted. The goalie benefited from a quick whistle with 1:14 left when he unsuccessfully tried to smother the puck on a long dump-in by Melker Karlsson, and it slowly slid between his pads and off his stick into the net, just after play had been ruled dead.

“The puck was spinning a lot and it probably just spun out,” Elliott said. “I haven’t really seen it yet, so I don’t know.”

Backes opened the scoring with a deflection and is tied with sharpshoot-er Vladimir Tarasenko for the team lead with seven goals in the playoffs, mostly because he’s fearless in front of the net waiting to pounce on rebounds. The team captain had 21 goals in the regular season. Defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk started the play from the point and thought this goal was partic-ularly impressive because it had been deflected before it got to Backes.

“One thing I never have to worry about is him being in front of the net when I shoot it,” Shattenkirk said. “There’s where he’s so valuable.”

Lehtera’s second goal of the play-offs came off an errant clearing at-tempt by Brent Burns for a 2-1 lead. He powered through on his shot after Chris Tierney got a piece of the stick.

Just 34 seconds elapsed between the opening goal by Backes and Hertl’s answering goal redirected a shot by Pavelski with the puck bouncing past Elliott.

The Blues had just enough despite a third disallowed goal in the play-offs. Patrik Berglund’s deflection was waved off because of incidental con-tact with Jones, a call confirmed after video review.


Rangers 7 Blue Jays 6ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Bau-

tista slid hard into second base, stood up and found himself face-to-face with Texas’ Rougned Odor.

Next thing the Toronto slugger knew, he was rattled by a punch to the jaw that sent his batting helmet and sunglasses flying.

A feud simmering since Bautista’s bat flip in last year’s AL Division Se-ries boiled over into a wild brawl that ultimately triggered six of the eight ejections in the Blue Jays’ 7-6 loss on Sunday.

“I was pretty surprised,” Bautista said. “I mean, obviously, that’s the only reason that he got me and he got me pretty good, so I have to give him that. It takes a little bit bigger man to knock me down.”

Perhaps it’s a good thing the Rang-ers and Blue Jays have played for the final time this season. As for the play-offs, well, that would be interesting.

Texas is headed to Oakland, and the Blue Jays back home to Toronto, the site of last year’s emotional meeting in the playoffs. That’s when Bautista capped a wild seventh inning with a clutch three-run homer and the monu-mental bat flip that angered Texas.

This time, Bautista was upset by get-ting hit by an eighth-inning pitch from 30-year-old Texas rookie Matt Bush (1-0), who got his first major league win two days after his debut — and 12

years after he was the No. 1 overall pick in the draft.

Toronto manager John Gibbons, who was ejected in the third inning over an argument about balls and strikes, came back to the field for the brawl.

He suggested the Rangers were fi-nally retaliating for Bautista’s bat flip in the eighth inning of the last of seven games between the teams this season. Texas beat Toronto in a series for the first time since 2012, but the Blue Jays had a 4-3 edge for the season.

“It was ugly and unfortunate,” Gib-bons said. “To me, it was gutless. The other 29 teams, they come at you right away, but to wait until the end, it just sort of tells you something. Everybody is going to say, ‘Oh, it was a one-run game. The ball got away.’ That ain’t going to fly.”

Crew chief Dale Scott told a pool re-porter that Gibbons’ return “will be in the report and Major League Baseball will take care of it.”

“I didn’t want to sit here and drink too much wine,” Gibbons said.

“Ya got to go out there. I’m sure the league will say something about that but it’s kind of the manager’s respon-sibility.”

Bautista, who was kept out of most of the melee by a bear hug from Texas veteran Adrian Beltre, was ejected as a result of the brawl. Same for Odor — who shoved Bautista before punching him — along with Toronto’s Josh Don-aldson and Texas bench coach Steve Buechele.

Bad blood boils over in finale between Jays and Rangers


Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista (19) gets hit by Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor (12) after Bautista slid into second in the eighth inning at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, Sunday.

‘WHEN YOUR GOALIE IS YOUR BEST PLAYER, IT GIVES YOU A GREAT

CHANCE OF WINNING, AND THAT WAS THE CASE.’

— DAVID BACKESST. LOUIS BLUES CAPTAIN

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS


ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Ger-many beat the United States 3-2 on a last-minute goal by Korbinian Holzer at the world ice hockey championship on Sunday, putting American qualifi-cation for the quarterfinals in doubt.

However, Finland’s 5-0 rout of Slo-vakia later in the day relaxed the pres-sure on the U.S., which will now qual-ify if it does not lose in regulation to Slovakia on Tuesday, and France does not beat Canada on Monday.

The third defeat in six games leaves the U.S. fourth in Group B, one place behind Germany with one game re-

maining against fifth-placed Slovakia. The top four advance to the quarterfi-nals.

Anaheim Ducks defenceman Holzer hasn’t scored for the last two seasons in the NHL, but he made no mistake with a perfectly positioned shot from the blue line to beat U.S. goaltender Mike Condon.

It was a bitter ending for a U.S. team which had dominated puck pos-session, recording 33 shots against 14 for the Germans.

Germany took the lead on Patrick Hager’s power-play goal in the first be-fore Jake McCabe tied the game for the U.S., but Germany responded almost immediately with a goal for Christian

Ehrhoff.Auston Matthews’ power-play goal

early in the second made it 2-2, before Holzer won the game for Germany with half a minute remaining in the third.

Finland, which is top of Group B, outshot Slovakia 35-14 but could not score until the latter half of the second period.

Florida Panthers centre Aleksand-er Barkov finished with a goal and two assists, while goaltender Juuse Saros earned his second shutout of the tour-nament.

In Moscow, Denmark beat the previ-ously unbeaten Czech Republic 2-1 in a shootout. The Czechs remain top of Group A and are sure of a spot in the

quarterfinals, but a win in regulation would have guaranteed a first-place finish and top seeding for the quarter-finals.

The Czech loss means that Group A leaders Canada and Finland are now the only unbeaten teams in the world championship.

Sweden overtook Russia for second place in Group A with a 3-2 win over Switzerland, with Washington Capitals wing Andre Burakovsky winning the shootout for the Swedes.

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Day goes wire-to-wire to win PlayersBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Ja-son Day wanted to win The Players Championship so badly that he wasn’t going to let anything stop him.

Not the super slick greens that nearly derailed him Saturday. Not the three muffed chips that turned a po-tential birdie into a unsettling bogey as he made the turn Sunday. And cer-tainly not the best field in golf.

With another command perfor-mance, Day put his stamp on No. 1 in the world by never letting anyone clos-er than two shots in the final round, playing bogey-free on the back nine of the TPC Sawgrass for the fourth straight day and closing with a 1-under 71 for a wire-to-wire victory.

It was his seventh title in the last 10 months.

And the 28-year-old Australian wants to win a lot more.

“I want to be to be able to be looked back on and know that ‘he was one of the greats in the game.’ If I have the opportunity to do that, I’m going to try my best,” Day said after his four-shot victory. “And I have the opportunity to do that right now, try and work has hard as I can to really leave my foot-print in this game. I’m very motivated to win as much as I can right now.”

He stomped his way all over every-one at The Players Championship, even though he had a few nervous mo-ments.

Day made bogey on No. 6, had to make a 15-foot par putt on the next hole and really looked out of sorts from just 40 feet right of the green on the par-5 ninth. He muffed three straight chips and had to make a 6-foot putt just to escape with bogey, drop-ping his lead to two shots.

“If I walk away with a double bo-gey there, I let everyone (back) in the field,” he said. “I was right there next to the green in two and felt like an amateur chopping my way to the pin. That putt was probably the most cru-cial putt of this tournament for me.”

Two 15-foot birdies over the next three holes restored his margin and sent him on his way. The last hurdle

was finding land on the island-green 17th, and he cleared the water with about 10 feet to spare.

Day’s seven victories dating to the Canadian Open include the PGA Championship, The Players, a World Golf Championship and a pair of Fe-dEx Cup events, all some of the stron-gest fields in golf. He became the first wire-to-wire winner in 16 years at

Sawgrass, and he joined Tiger Woods, Johnny Miller and Tom Watson as the only players to go wire-to-wire twice in the same season dating to 1970.

Day finished at 15-under 273 and earned $1.89 million, the richest payoff in golf.

Kevin Chappell, who finished one shot behind Day at Bay Hill, was 5 un-der over his final 10 holes for a 69. He picked up a consolation check of $1,134,000 and moves just outside the top 30 in the world, giving him a spot in the next two majors.

“That’s getting a little old,” Chap-pell said of his two runner-up finish-es to Day. “I’m not sure what Jason’s scrambling stats were, but they were much better than mine on the week.”

Day now has won 10 times on the PGA Tour — only Rory McIlroy with 11 has won more among players in their 20s.

“It’s no coincidence he’s No. 1 in the world,” Justin Thomas said after closing with a Sunday-best 65 to tie for third. “He drives it extremely far, extremely straight. He hits it to the moon, so he can access pins that most people can’t. His short game is ridicu-lous. I think I’ve pretty much covered it all there when it comes to the golf.”

Day is the third No. 1 player to win The Players Championship, joining Greg Norman (1994) and Woods (2001 and 2013).

Thomas, who started 11 shots be-hind, stuck around Sawgrass to see if 10-under 278 would have a chance. He wound up tied for third with Matt Kuchar (68), Colt Knost (69) and Ken Duke (72).

Canada’s David Hearn, of Brant-ford, Ont., shot a 71 on Sunday to finish tied for 28th at 3 under for the tourna-ment. Adam Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., tied for 39th at 1 under.


Jason Day of Australia, tips his hat as he walks off the 18th green with his family after winning The Players Championship golf tournament Sunday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Day is holding his son Dash as his wife Ellie holds Lucy.

U.S. takes hit to playoff chances with loss to Germany

Rush beat Roughnecks in Game 1 of West final

CALGARY — Ben McIntosh scored four goals as the defending National Lacrosse League champion Saskatchewan Rush started off their post-season

with a 16-10 victory over the Calgary Roughnecks on Saturday in Game 1 of the Western Conference final.

The Rush, who moved to Saskatchewan in the off-season, lead the best-of-three series 1-0 with Game 2 taking place on May 21. Nik Bilic, Mark Mat-thews, Robert Church and Chris Corbeil all had two goals apiece for the Rush, who got a bye through the first round of the playoffs. Brett Mydske, Jeff Corn-wall, Jarrett Davis and Jeremy Thompson supplied the rest of the offence.


The Atlanta Thrashers liked a lot about Kari Leh-tonen when they picked him second overall in 2002.

They liked his winning credentials in the Finnish league, loved his six foot four frame and judged him to be a quality goaltender.

Now playing (and often struggling) for the Dallas Stars, Lehtonen is one of the few goaltenders in re-cent history to have been picked in the first round. Goaltending is thought to be the most difficult pro-jection to make at the draft, the one NHL teams still haven’t figured out.

Most of today’s top goalies were plucked deep in the draft or missed entirely.

“If you don’t have a goalie you can trust you can’t win,” said David Conte, the former New Jersey Dev-ils director of amateur scouting. “Getting a guy who can play doesn’t mean squat. Getting a guy who can contribute means everything.”

Conte was with the Devils when they selected Martin Brodeur 20th overall in 1990. Now the NHL’s all-time leader in wins and shutouts, Brodeur wasn’t the slam-dunk top goaltending candidate that year. That was Trevor Kidd, who went 11th overall to Cal-gary.

Kidd had a respectable career, but nothing like Brodeur, who guided the Devils to multiple Stanley Cups.

Brodeur didn’t have great numbers in his draft year, but New Jersey brass liked his poise, athleti-cism and love for the game.

Did they know they had a future hall of famer on their hands? Hardly. The Devils picked two other goaltenders, Mike Dunham and Corey Schwab, that same year.

The majority of the best goaltenders today were not high picks. The three recently-named Vezina trophy candidates were all picked outside the first round: Ben Bishop in the third, Jonathan Quick in the third and Braden Holtby in the fourth.

Quick and Bishop were the eight and ninth goal-ies selected in 2005 four of the seven picked ahead played one game collectively in the NHL. The first two off the board, Carey Price and Tuukka Rask, are the last two Vezina trophy winners.

It had been 14 years since a first-rounder won the award before Rask, the 21st overall pick, won it in 2014.

Dan Marr, now the NHL’s director of central scouting and former head of amateur scouting for the Thrashers, said projecting goaltenders is chal-lenging for two primary reasons.

First, goaltenders drafted at age 17 or 18 have yet to fill out physically. NHL teams covet size at the po-

sition, but they’re essentially guessing at how much net the goalie will take up down the road.

Second, Marr said the position is difficult to mas-ter both technically and mentally.

“It’s the experience that develops that mental toughness and allows you to handle the adversity that they face and gives you confidence,” Marr said.

To pick a goaltender in the first round means being sure of his potential as a future No. 1. Only 10 have gone in the first round since 2006, none at all in five of those seasons.

One went last year to the Washington Capitals, an organization that’s stockpiled quality prospects at the position over the years.

The Capitals picked Russian goalie Ilya Samsanov despite already having Holtby as well as intriguing 24-year-old Philip Grubauer. The organization also drafted potential Flyers No. 1 Michal Neuvirth and Avalanche No. 1 Semyon Varlamov in 2006.

Their acumen in scouting goaltenders has prov-en helpful, notably in the case of Varlamov, which netted the club a first- and second-round pick from Colorado.

Marr said Atlanta was prepared to take Holtby, who matched Brodeur’s record with 48 wins this regular season, with the 94th overall pick in 2008. He liked Holtby’s “cool, stony composure” among other things.

“As I’m saying that to him Washington makes their pick. Don hits me and he goes ‘Isn’t that your guy?”’ Marr recalled.

Most teams avoid using premium picks on goalten-ders, finding them instead via trade, free agency or late in the draft as Nashville and New York did.

Pekka Rinne was the 30th goalie picked in 2004, Henrik Lundqvist the 22nd in 2004.

“But if you want the guy and you believe in him, take him, because it’s the most important position you have,” Conte says. “If you’re going to hide be-hind the logistics of only so many turn out, you’re not going to get anywhere.”

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Bishop’s status uncertain for BoltsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — Ben Bishop’s mind raced as the Tampa Bay Lightning goalie writhed in pain on the ice after awkwardly twisting his left leg in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night.

The internal “what ifs” ran the gamut. What if the leg was broken? What if his season over?

“It’s funny how much you can think about in such a short amount of time,” Bishop said Sunday.

The one thought that didn’t even occur to Bishop was whether backup Andrei Vasilevskiy could step in and do the job.

“I think the guys in the room, I know myself, we have full confidence in him,” Bishop said. “He’s a great young goalie. He’s got a future.”

And, it seems, a present too. While Bishop’s initial fears were allayed when tests came back negative, it’s still uncertain when he’ll return or if he’ll be back at all during the playoffs. Having him in the lineup for Game 2 on Monday night seems like a long shot at best even if Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper did not rule it out as the Lightning try to take a 2-0 lead with them back to Florida.

“He’s getting better with each day, and it’s en-couraging to say,” Cooper said.

The fact it’s even up for discussion is remark-

able considering Bishop’s obvious distress after he twisted the leg while trying to scramble back into position 12:25 into the first period of Tampa Bay’s eventual 3-1 victory in Game 1. The pain was so acute Bishop figured he’d been slashed even though there wasn’t a Penguin within a stick length of him at the time. He left the game on a stretcher and when doc-tors removed his pads to get a closer look, Bishop was half expecting to see bone sticking out.

The damage turned out to be far less serious. The leg is structurally intact and Bishop managed to spend a little informal time on the ice before Sun-day’s practice, though he was long gone by the time the 21-year-old Vasilevskiy and the rest of the Light-ning went to work.

Pressed into his first extended playing time in more than a month, Vasilevskiy turned aside 25 of the 26 shots he faced, aided by a defence that did an excellent job of pushing Pittsburgh’s potent offence to the perimeter and keeping Sidney Crosby and company from generating consistent pressure in front of the net.

Filling in capably has kind of become a thing for Vasilevskiy, who stepped in for an injured Bishop in Game 2 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals and became the first goaltender to earn a win in relief during a Cup Final in more than 80 years. Vasilevskiy started Game 4 of the series and played solidly in a 2-1 loss.

While the Russian is quick to point out those im-promptu performances were nearly 12 months ago, Cooper point out Vasilevskiy has only matured in the interim.

“He was called on in the biggest moments last year,” Cooper said. “Talk about pushing somebody a little bit down the learning curve a little faster than we wanted to. But there’s cliches thrown around all the time, guys who are first in the rink and last to leave and all those types of things, but with that kid, it’s actually true.”

The Penguins hope they can do a better job of testing how far Vasilevskiy has come better in Game 2 than they did in the occasionally choppy opener. Pittsburgh generated 35 shots overall but most of them came from well outside the crease. The Light-ning controlled play long enough after Bishop went down for Vasilevskiy to get comfortable. Once he did, Tampa Bay’s lead was never in danger.

“You have to get better as the series goes along, you have to adjust a little bit,” said Crosby, who as-sisted on Pittsburgh’s only goal in Game 1 but hasn’t put the puck in himself since the first round against the New York Rangers.

“You can’t focus on another team or necessarily a goaltender … from game to game you have to trust and believe in what you do out there, regardless of who is in the net.”

INJURY NOT SERIOUS BUT GAME-TIME DECISION FOR GAME 2 AGAINST PENGUINS

Dallas Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen deflects a shot during Game 1 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs against the St. Louis Blues. The Atlanta Thrashers liked a lot about Kari Lehtonen when they picked him second overall in 2002. Now playing (and often struggling) for the Dallas Stars, Lehtonen is one of the few goaltenders in recent history to have been picked in the first round. Goaltending is thought to be the most difficult projection to make at the draft, the one NHL teams still haven’t figured out. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

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2016 NBA PlayoffsSecond Round

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCECleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4)(Cleveland wins series 4-0)

Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3)(Toronto wins series 4-3)Sunday’s resultToronto 116 Miami 89Friday’s resultMiami 103 Toronto 91

WESTERN CONFERENCEGolden State (1) vs. Portland (5)(Golden State wins series 4-1)

San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3)(Oklahoma City wins series 4-2)

Third RoundCONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCECleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2)Tuesday’s game

Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.Thursday, May 19Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.Saturday, May 21Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Monday, May 23Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Wednesday, May 25Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.Friday, May 27Cleveland at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.Sunday, May 29Toronto at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEGolden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3)Monday’s gameOklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.Wednesday, May 18Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.Sunday, May 22Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.Tuesday, May 24Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Thursday, May 26Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.Saturday, May 28Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.Monday, May 30Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L T GF GA PtMontreal 11 4 3 4 18 16 16Philadelphia 10 4 3 3 14 11 15Toronto 10 4 4 2 13 11 14New York City 10 3 3 4 15 15 13D.C. 11 3 4 4 13 13 13New England 12 2 3 7 15 20 13Orlando 10 2 3 5 17 16 11Columbus 10 2 4 4 12 15 10New York 11 3 7 1 13 20 10Chicago 9 1 4 4 8 12 7

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtColorado 12 7 2 3 15 9 24Dallas 13 7 4 2 19 19 23Vancouver 13 6 5 2 20 20 20Los Angeles 10 5 1 4 24 12 19San Jose 11 5 3 3 15 14 18Salt Lake 10 5 3 2 14 14 17Kansas City 13 5 6 2 13 14 17Seattle 10 4 5 1 10 12 13Portland 11 3 5 3 16 20 12Houston 11 3 6 2 18 19 11Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Sunday’s resultsHouston 1 Salt Lake 0Kansas City 2 Orlando 1New York City at Portland, late

Saturday’s resultsVancouver 4 Toronto 3Philadelphia 1 Montreal 1Colorado 1 Columbus 1New England 2 Chicago 0Dallas 2 Seattle 0Salt Lake at Houston (postponed)

Friday’s resultD.C. 2 New York 0

Wednesday’s gamesNew York City at Toronto, 5 p.m.Chicago at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Friday’s gamePhiladelphia at D.C., 5 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Ptsch-Leicester City 38 23 12 3 68 36 81cl-Arsenal 38 20 11 7 65 36 71cl-Tottenham 38 19 13 6 69 35 70cl-Man City 38 19 9 10 71 41 66Southampton 38 18 9 11 59 41 63Man United 37 18 9 10 46 34 63West Ham 38 16 14 8 65 51 62Liverpool 38 16 12 10 63 50 60Stoke 38 14 9 15 41 55 51Chelsea 38 12 14 12 59 53 50Everton 38 11 14 13 59 55 47Swansea 38 12 11 15 42 52 47Watford 38 12 9 17 40 50 45West Brom 38 10 13 15 34 48 43Crystal Palace 38 11 9 18 39 51 42

Bournemouth 37 11 9 17 44 64 42Sunderland 38 9 12 17 48 62 39r-Newcastle 38 9 10 19 44 65 37r-Norwich City 38 9 7 22 39 67 34r-Aston Villa 38 3 8 27 27 76 17ch-clinched championshipr-relegatedcl-clinched Champions Leagueel-clinched Europa League

Sunday, May 15Arsenal 4, Aston Villa 0Swansea City 1, Manchester City 1Everton 3, Norwich City 0Manchester United vs. Bournemouth, ppd.Newcastle 5, Tottenham 1Southampton 4, Crystal Palace 1Watford 2, Sunderland 2Stoke 2, West Ham 1West Brom 1, Liverpool 1Chelsea 1, Leicester City 1

Tuesday, May 17thManchester United vs. Bournemouth, 19:00 GMT

England Championship GP W D L GF GA Ptsp-Burnley 46 26 15 5 72 35 93p-Middlesbrough 46 26 11 9 63 31 89pp-B&Hove Albion 46 24 17 5 72 42 89pp-Hull City 46 24 11 11 69 35 83pp-Derby County 46 21 15 10 66 43 78pp-SheffWed 46 19 17 10 66 45 74Ipswich Town 46 18 15 13 53 51 69Cardiff City 46 17 17 12 56 51 68Brentford 46 19 8 19 72 67 65Birmingham 46 16 15 15 53 49 63Preston 46 15 17 14 45 45 62QPR 46 14 18 14 54 54 60Leeds 46 14 17 15 50 58 59Wolverhampton 46 14 16 16 53 58 58Blackburn 46 13 16 17 46 46 55Nott Forest 46 13 16 17 43 47 55Reading 46 13 13 20 52 59 52Bristol City 46 13 13 20 54 71 52Huddersfield 46 13 12 21 59 70 51Fulham 46 12 15 19 66 79 51Rotherham 46 13 10 23 53 71 49r-Chartlon 46 9 13 24 40 80 40r-Milton Keynes 46 9 12 25 39 69 39r-Bolton 46 5 15 26 41 81 30ch-clinched championshipr-relegatedp-clinched promotionpp-clinched promotion playoff

SemifinalFriday, May 13Sheffield Wed 2, Brighton 0Saturday May 14Derby County 0, Hull City 3

Monday, May 16Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Sheffield Wed, 19:45 GMT

Tuesday, May 17Hull City vs. Derby County, 19:45 GMT

PGA-The Players ChampionshipAt TPC SawgrassPonte Vedra Beach, Fla.Purse: $10.5 millionYardage: 7,215 Par: 72FinalJason Day, $1,890,000 63-66-73-71—273Kevin Chappell, $1,134,000 71-67-70-69—277Ken Duke, $504,000 74-67-65-72—278Colt Knost, $504,000 72-63-74-69—278Matt Kuchar, $504,000 71-67-72-68—278Justin Thomas, $504,000 70-68-75-65—278Hideki Matsuyama, $338,625 68-71-67-73—279Francesco Molinari, $338,625 66-69-72-72—279Daniel Berger, $283,500 66-72-73-69—280Alex Cejka, $283,500 67-67-72-74—280Graeme McDowell, $283,500 72-70-69-69—280Retief Goosen, $212,625 70-68-70-73—281Rory McIlroy, $212,625 72-64-75-70—281Bryce Molder, $212,625 70-68-72-71—281Adam Scott, $212,625 73-65-75-68—281Shane Lowry, $168,000 65-68-78-71—282Cameron Tringale, $168,000 65-69-75-73—282Boo Weekley, $168,000 66-69-78-69—282Jonas Blixt, $131,775 67-67-75-74—283Jerry Kelly, $131,775 67-68-77-71—283Russell Knox, $131,775 68-67-80-68—283Justin Rose, $131,775 65-74-78-66—283Paul Casey, $93,450 68-72-76-68—284Si Woo Kim, $93,450 68-70-72-74—284Ryan Palmer, $93,450 67-70-75-72—284Scott Piercy, $93,450 70-68-75-71—284Daniel Summerhays, $93,450 69-71-71-73—284David Hearn, $68,325 71-71-72-71—285J.J. Henry, $68,325 70-69-74-72—285Billy Horschel, $68,325 68-70-75-72—285Dustin Johnson, $68,325 70-70-77-68—285Louis Oosthuizen, $68,325 72-67-74-72—285

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WHL 2016 PlayoffsFourth Round

ED CHYNOWETH CUPLeague Championship

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Brandon (E1) vs. Seattle (US1)(Brandon wins series 4-1)Friday’s resultBrandon 8 Seattle 4PREVIOUS RESULTSGame One — Friday, May 6Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT)Game Two — Saturday, May 7Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT)Game Three — Tuesday, May 10Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT)Game Four — Wednesday, May 11Seattle 6 Brandon 1

WHL 2016 playoff scoring leaders G A PtsNolan Patrick, Bdn 13 17 30Jayce Hawryluk, Bdn 7 22 29John Quenneville, Bdn 16 11 27Tim McGauley, Bdn 8 18 26Mathew Barzal, Sea 5 21 26Reid Duke, Bdn 8 16 24Adam Brooks, Reg 7 16 23Ethan Bear, Sea 8 14 22Adam Helewka, RD 9 9 18Jake DeBrusk, RD 8 9 17Jack Walker, Vic 8 8 16Dryden Hunt, MJ 7 9 16Cole Sanford, Reg 7 9 16Brayden Point, MJ 6 10 16Sam Steel, Reg 6 10 16Justin Kirkland, Kel 11 4 15Jayden Halbgewachs, MJ 9 6 15Keegan Kolesar, Sea 7 8 15Tanner Jeannot, MJ 6 9 15Kale Clague, Bdn 6 9 15Brett Howden, MJ 4 11 15Tyler Coulter, Bdn 6 8 14Macoy Erkamps, Bdn 4 10 14Rourke Chartier, Kel 7 6 13Scott Eansor, Sea 7 6 13Luke Philp, RD 4 9 13Michael Spacek, RD 3 10 13Ivan Provorov, Bdn 3 10 13

Western Hockey League champions(x — won Memorial Cup)2015-16 — Brandon Wheat Kings2014-15 — Kelowna Rockets2013-14 — x-Edmonton Oil Kings2012-13 — Portland Winterhawks2011-12 — Edmonton Oil Kings2010-11 — Kootenay Ice2009-10 — Calgary Hitmen2008-09 — Kelowna Rockets2007-08 — x-Spokane Chiefs2006-07 — Medicine Hat Tigers2005-06 — x-Vancouver Giants2004-05 — Kelowna Rockets2003-04 — Medicine Hat Tigers2002-03 — Kelowna Rockets2001-02 — x-Kootenay Ice2000-01 — x-Red Deer Rebels1999-00 — Kootenay Ice1998-99 — Calgary Hitmen1997-98 — x-Portland Winterhawks1996-97 — Lethbridge Hurricanes1995-96 — Brandon Wheat Kings1994-95 — x-Kamloops Blazers1993-94 — x-Kamloops Blazers1992-93 — Swift Current Broncos1991-92 — x-Kamloops Blazers1990-91 — x-Spokane Chiefs1989-90 — Kamloops Blazers1988-89 — x-Swift Current Broncos1987-88 — x-Medicine Hat Tigers1986-87 — x-Medicine Hat Tigers1985-86 — Kamloops Blazers1984-85 — x-Prince Albert Raiders1983-84 — Kamloops Jr. Oilers1982-83 — Lethbridge Broncos1981-82 — Portland Winterhawks1980-01 — Victoria Cougars1979-80 — Regina Pats1978-79 — Brandon Wheat Kings1977-78 — x-New Westminster Bruins1976-77 — x-New Westminster Bruins1975-76 — New Westminster Bruins1974-75 — New Westminster Bruins1973-74 — x-Regina Pats1972-73 — Medicine Hat Tigers1971-72 — Edmonton Oil Kings1970-71 — Edmonton Oil Kings

1969-70 — Flin Flon Bombers1968-69 — Flin Flon Bombers1967-68 — Estevan Bruins1966-67 — Moose Jaw Canucks

2016 Memorial Cup StandingsROUND ROBIN GP W L GF GA PtBrandon (WHL) 0 0 0 0 0 0London (OHL) 0 0 0 0 0 0Red Deer (host) 0 0 0 0 0 0Rouyn-Nor. (QMJHL) 0 0 0 0 0 0

Friday, May 20London vs. Red Deer, 6 p.m.Saturday, May 21Brandon vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.Sunday, May 22Red Deer vs. Rouyn-Noranda, 5 p.m.Monday, May 23London vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.Tuesday, May 24Rouyn-Noranda vs. London, 6 p.m.Wednesday, May 25Red Deer vs. Brandon, 6 p.m.End of Round Robin

PLAYOFFSThursday, May 26Tiebreaker (if necessary)Third vs. Fourth Places, 6 p.m.Friday, May 27SemifinalSecond vs. Third Places, 6 p.m.Sunday, May 29FinalFirst Place vs. Semifinal Winner, TBA

PARTICIPATING TEAMSHost — Red Deer Rebels (WHL)OHL Champion — London KnightsQMJHL Champion — Rouyn-Noranda HuskiesWHL Champion — Brandon Wheat Kings

2016 Stanley Cup PlayoffsThird Round

CONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEPittsburgh (M2) vs. Tampa Bay (A2)(Tampa Bay leads series 1-0)Friday’s resultTampa Bay 3 Pittsburgh 1Monday’s gameTampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Wednesday’s gamePittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Friday’s gamePittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Sunday, May 22Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.Tuesday, May 24Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.Thursday, May 26Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCESt. Louis (C2) vs. San Jose (P3)(St, Louis leads series 1-0)Sunday’s resultSt. Louis 2 San Jose 1Tuesday’s gameSan Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Thursday’s gameSt. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.Saturday, May 21St. Louis at San Jose, 5:15 p.m.Monday, May 23San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Wednesday, May 25St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m.Friday, May 27San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s summaryBlues 2, Sharks 1

First Period1. St. Louis, Backes 7 (Shattenkirk, Schwartz) 15:04 (pp).2. San Jose, Hertl 3 (Pavelski, Burns) 15:38.Penalties — Lehtera StL (holding) 3:56 Couture SJ (tripping) 13:56 Ott StL (slashing) 17:18.

Second Period3. St. Louis, Lehtera 2 (unassisted) 9:15.Penalties — None.

Third PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Stastny StL (hooking) 8:44 Hertl SJ

(tripping) 11:06.Shots on goal

San Jose 8 16 8 — 32St. Louis 11 5 7 — 23Goal — San Jose: Jones (L, 8-5-0). St. Louis: Elliott (W, 9-6-0).Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 0-3 St. Louis: 1-2.

2016 IIHF Men’s World ChampionshipAt Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia

PRELIMINARY ROUNDGroup A

GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtCzech Rep. 6 4 1 1 0 22 8 15Sweden 6 3 2 0 1 22 14 13Russia 5 4 0 0 1 25 9 12Switzerland 6 1 1 3 1 16 21 8Denmark 6 1 2 1 2 13 21 8Latvia 6 1 0 3 2 12 19 6Norway 5 1 1 0 3 10 18 5Kazakhstan 6 0 1 0 5 14 24 2

Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA PtFinland 6 6 0 0 0 25 6 18Canada 5 5 0 0 0 30 4 15Germany 6 3 0 1 2 18 18 10U.S. 6 3 0 0 3 20 15 9Slovakia 6 2 0 0 4 12 21 6France 5 1 1 0 3 11 16 5Hungary 6 1 0 0 5 10 27 3Belarus 6 1 0 0 5 13 32 3Note: Three points awarded for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Sunday’s resultsAt MoscowDenmark 2 Czech Republic 1 (SO)Sweden 3 Switzerland 2 (SO)At St. Petersburg, RussiaFinland 5 Slovakia 0Germany 3 United States 2

Saturday’s resultsAt MoscowSweden 3 Norway 2Russia 5 Switzerland 1Latvia 2 Kazakhstan 1At St. Petersburg, RussiaCanada 5 Slovakia 0Finland 3 France 1Hungary 5 Belarus 2

Monday’s gamesAt MoscowRussia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.Denmark vs. Kazakhstan, 11:15 a.m.At St. Petersburg, RussiaCanada vs. France, 7:15 a.m.Germany vs. Hungary, 11:15 a.m.

Tuesday’s gamesAt MoscowCzech Republic vs. Switzerland, 3:15 a.m.Latvia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.Russia vs. Sweden, 11:15 a.m.At St. Petersburg, RussiaUnited States vs. Slovakia, 3:15 a.m.Belarus vs. France, 7:15 a.m.Canada vs. Finland, 11:15 a.m.Conclusion of Preliminary Round

World Hockey Championship Scoring Leaders G A PtsPatrik Laine, Fin 6 4 10Vadim Shipachyov, Rus 3 7 10Derick Brassard, Cda 3 6 9Artemi Panarin, Rus 3 6 9Aleksander Barkov, Fin 3 6 9Gustav Nyquist, Swe 7 1 8Yevgeni Dadonov, Rus 3 5 8Mikael Granlund, Fin 2 6 8Jussi Jokinen, Fin 1 7 8Taylor, Hall, Cda 6 1 7Mikko Koivu, Fin 4 3 7Matt Duchene, Cda 3 4 7Nigel Dawes, Kaz 3 4 7Roman Cervenka, Cze 2 5 7Philip Gogulla, Ger 2 5 7Fekluix Schutz, Ger 2 5 7Alexander Wennberg, Swe 1 6 7Nicklas Jensen, Den 4 2 6Michal Birner, Cze 3 3 6Nino Niederreiter, Sui 3 3 6Corey Perry, Cda 3 3 6

Major League BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBBaltimore 23 13 .639 —Boston 24 14 .632 —Toronto 19 20 .487 5 1/2Tampa Bay 16 19 .457 6 1/2New York 16 20 .444 7

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 24 14 .632 —Cleveland 17 17 .500 5Kansas City 18 19 .486 5 1/2Detroit 16 21 .432 7 1/2Minnesota 10 26 .278 13

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 22 16 .579 —Seattle 21 16 .568 1/2Los Angeles 16 21 .432 5 1/2Oakland 16 22 .421 6Houston 15 24 .385 7 1/2

Saturday’s GamesBoston 6, Houston 5, 11 inningsN.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 1Minnesota 6, Cleveland 3Tampa Bay 6, Oakland 0Baltimore 9, Detroit 3Atlanta 5, Kansas City 0Texas 6, Toronto 5, 10 inningsL.A. Angels 9, Seattle 7

Sunday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago White Sox 5Minnesota 5, Cleveland 1Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 6Detroit 6, Baltimore 5Boston 10, Houston 9Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 inningsTexas 7, Toronto 6L.A. Angels 3, Seattle 0

Monday’s GamesCincinnati (Lamb 0-0) at Cleveland (Anderson 0-3), 4:10 p.m.Boston (Porcello 6-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 3-2), 5:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Smyly 1-4) at Toronto (Happ 5-0), 5:07 p.m.Minnesota (Berrios 1-1) at Detroit (Zimmermann 5-2), 5:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 1-4) at Arizona (Ray 1-2), 7:40 p.m.Texas (Holland 3-2) at Oakland (Manaea 0-1), 8:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Mae-da 3-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesCincinnati at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.Seattle at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.Houston at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Boston at Kansas City, 6:15 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.VMartinez Det 37 128 17 45 .352Castellanos Det 35 128 15 44 .344Altuve Hou 39 153 37 52 .340Bogaerts, Bos 37 157 31 53 .338Hosmer KC 37 140 19 47 .336Machado Bal 36 150 30 50 .333Bradley Bos 37 136 20 45 .331Saunders, Tor 32 122 17 40 .328Ortiz, Bos 34 128 20 41 .320HRamirez Bos 36 144 25 46 .319Home RunsCano, Seattle, 12 Frazier, Chicago, 12 Machado, Baltimore, 11 Trumbo, Baltimore, 11 Ortiz, Boston, 10 Altuve, Houston, 9 CDavis, Baltimore, 9 Donald-son, Toronto, 9 Park, Minnesota, 9 Semien, Oak-land, 9 Springer, Houston, 9.Runs Batted InCano, Seattle, 34 Ortiz, Boston, 33 Frazier, Chi-cago, 32 Bradley, Boston 30 CRasmus, Houston, 29 Castellanos, Detroit, 28 Encarnacion, Toronto, 28 Trumbo, Baltimore, 28 Betts, Boston, 27 Shaw, Boston, 26.PitchingSale, Chicago, 8-0 Porcello, Boston, 6-1 ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 6-1 Happ, Toronto, 5-0 Hill, Oakland, 5-3 Latos, Chicago, 5-0 Price, Boston, 5-1 Quin-tana, Chicago, 5-2 Tillman, Baltimore, 5-1 Tomlin, Cleveland, 5-0 Zimmermann, Detroit, 5-2.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 23 15 .605 —Philadelphia 22 16 .579 1New York 21 16 .568 1 1/2Miami 20 17 .541 2 1/2Atlanta 9 27 .250 13

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 27 9 .750 —Pittsburgh 19 17 .528 8St. Louis 20 18 .526 8Milwaukee 16 22 .421 12Cincinnati 15 22 .405 12 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 22 18 .550 —Los Angeles 20 18 .526 1Colorado 19 18 .514 1 1/2San Diego 17 22 .436 4 1/2Arizona 17 23 .425 5

Saturday’s GamesWashington 6, Miami 4Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 2Miami 7, Washington 1Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 3San Diego 8, Milwaukee 7, 12 inningsAtlanta 5, Kansas City 0

Colorado 7, N.Y. Mets 4San Francisco 5, Arizona 3L.A. Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3

Sunday’s GamesCincinnati 9, Philadelphia 4Miami 5, Washington 1Milwaukee 3, San Diego 2Kansas City 4, Atlanta 2, 13 inningsPittsburgh 2, Chicago Cubs 1Colorado 4, N.Y. Mets 3San Francisco 2, Arizona 1St. Louis 5, L.A. Dodgers 2

Monday’s GamesCincinnati (Lamb 0-0) at Cleveland (Anderson 0-3), 4:10 p.m.Atlanta (Perez 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Niese 3-2), 5:05 p.m.Miami (Conley 2-2) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 1-5), 5:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Green 0-0) at Arizona (Ray 1-2), 7:40 p.m.L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 1-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Mae-da 3-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesCincinnati at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.Miami at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.Colorado at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.DMurphy Was 37 140 22 56 .400ADiaz StL 35 117 25 44 .376Prado Mia 33 131 12 49 .374Braun Mil 34 128 20 47 .367Herrera Phi 38 135 24 45 .333Molina StL 37 132 14 44 .333Fowler ChC 35 127 27 42 .331Segura Ari 37 163 19 54 .331SMarte Pit 36 144 21 47 .326Cozart Cin 29 109 20 35 .321Home RunsArenado, Colorado, 13 Cespedes, New York, 12 Carter, Milwaukee, 11 Harper, Washington, 11 Riz-zo, Chicago, 10 Stanton, Miami, 11 Story, Colorado, 11 NWalker, New York, 10 Kemp, San Diego, 9 Howard, Philadelphia, 8 McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 8.Runs Batted InRizzo, Chicago, 34 Arenado, Colorado, 32 Ces-pedes, New York, 32 Harper, Washington, 29 Pence, San Francisco, 29 Kemp, San Diego, 28 Story, Colorado, 28 Zobrist, Chicago, 28 Braun, Milwaukee, 27 Russell, Chicago, 27.PitchingArrieta, Chicago, 7-0 Strasburg, Washington, 6-0 Cueto, San Francisco 5-1 Fernandez, Miami, 5-2 Hammel, Chicago, 5-0 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 5-1 Matz, New York, 5-1 Samardzija, San Francisco.

TransactionsTransactionsSunday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueSEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned INF Luis Sardi-nas to Tacoma (PCL). Recalled OF Shawn O’Malley from Tacoma.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated RHP Danny

Farquhar for assignment. Recalled SS Taylor Motter from Durham (IL). Sent RHP Brad Boxberger to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment.TEXAS RANGERS — Sent OF Shin-Soo Choo to Round Rock (PCL) for a rehab assignment.TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed LHP Brett Cecil on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP

Dustin Antolin from Buffalo (IL). Sent LHP Aaron Loup to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehab assignment.National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with RHP Alex Sanabia on a minor league contract.CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Jon Moscot to Louisville (IL) for a rehab assignment.


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The Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery annual general meeting is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the museum. After the meeting, Guest Presenter Rueben Tschetter, CACHE Productions, will make a presentation about the work that his company is doing to document contemporary life in Central Alberta and will screen the trailer for ’To Canada With Love. The meeting is open and free to attend.

Come and join Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi for a relaxing exercise program that improves strength, balance and flexibility while reducing stress on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at 4419 50 Ave. in Red Deer. If you are dealing with health issues, we have Health Recovery Tai Chi on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.. Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi is a volunteer charitable organization.

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1Art in the AM is a new facilitated program for people with memory issues and their care partners on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. It is a Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery program developed in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories — Red Deer Office and sponsored by Rotary Club of Red Deer. Cost is $5 per pair. For more info call 403-309-8405.

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Where’s the beef?VEGANS FIND WAYS TO INDULGE IN LOOKALIKE

JUNK FOOD LIKE BURGERS


TORONTO — Just because you follow a vegan diet doesn’t mean you don’t want to indulge in a burger.

“People don’t just go vegan to be healthy. For a lot of people it’s an animal issue, but they still want burgers and bacon and everything else so they’re looking for those really satisfying substitutes for that,” says Candice Hutchings, who shows viewers how to repurpose traditional food offerings on her Edgy Veg YouTube channel.

Her most popular recipes include a vegan take on the McDonald’s Big Mac and Buffalo “chicken” wings — with the meat being a dough made of vital wheat gluten, nutritional yeast and spices.

Hutchings started making vegan recipe and life-style videos several years ago and then quit her ad-vertising job last October to devote herself full time to the project.

“When I went vegan six years ago my biggest issue and what was making me fall off the wagon constant-ly was there wasn’t food I wanted to eat. Everything was brown and oatmealy. The comfort food was re-ally missing and I couldn’t find it anywhere at the time,” says Hutchings, who first abstained from dairy products to clear up skin problems.

“There weren’t any restaurants that served it. There weren’t really any online recipes that I could find. I started kind of experimenting because there was such a void in that market.”

Vegans and vegetarians don’t eat meat. But while vegetarians will eat dairy products and eggs, vegans generally won’t and also avoid honey or any food de-rived from animals.

“Once you get into a lifestyle you tend to learn a bit more about animal agriculture and kind of what’s going on in the industry and all the horrible things that are happening and after seeing that I couldn’t look back. You can never unsee,” Hutchings says.

Restaurants specializing in plant-based foods have been springing up the last few years, but one that’s attracted a lot of social media attention in the last few weeks is Doomie’s Toronto, a partner-ship between the owners of the popular Hollywood restaurant and Ecorazzi, an online vegan magazine that hosted last year’s Toronto Vegan Food and Drink Festival.

“Doomie’s is trying to break a number of vegan stereotypes that exist out there today, one of which is all vegans are just super health conscious and only eat grain and rice bowls and kind of steer away from eating anything unhealthy. And I guess we’re just trying to showcase the fact that vegans are just like anyone else,” says Cara Galloway, communications and event manager for Doomie’s Toronto.

“They sometimes have cravings for things and they don’t necessarily only eat salads and fruits and veggies.”

The Queen Street West restaurant has seen peo-ple lining up to try vegan burgers and pulled pork sandwiches and fries prepared a dozen different ways, including toppings of vegan cheese, bacon and

chili, pesto, Sriracha, mushrooms, jalapenos or gar-lic.

Patrons must ask their server for the “secret” $16 Vegan Mac Daddy. The mock Big Mac comes with fries and features house-made toppings of vegan mayo for the special sauce and a soy-based “cheese.”

Hutchings waited for two hours last week to get a table at Doomie’s and said it was worth it. She found the food resembles what she makes on Edgy Veg.

“There’s Hogtown Vegan in Toronto, but they’re more on the comfort food side whereas I found this was like junk food. It gets that junk food craving out of your system.”

Much of the food at Doomie’s is based on soy- and wheat-based products.

Hutchings thinks one reason people fail when creating vegan lookalikes is they try to adapt other vegan recipes.

“I look up the original recipe so if I’m trying to make, let’s say a Philly cheesesteak sandwich or chicken wings, I look to see what spices they’re actu-ally using in the wings and what they’re using in the

batter and then I use vegan substitutes.”For meat, she may use mushrooms, which have a

meaty taste and texture. Or she prepares seitan — al-so called wheat meat — from vital wheat gluten. She uses soy or almond milk instead of cows milk.

A favourite indulgence is cauliflower “wings,” which she coats with a spiced breaded mixture, then double deep-fries and tosses in hot sauce.

“I think that is the closest thing to wings I’ve had yet. It’s the same kind of texture. The cauliflower doesn’t have a real cauliflower flavour. It has that meaty pulled pork flavour…. It was satisfying and anyone I’ve served it to, it blows their mind.”

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ABOVE; The Vegan Mac Daddy, as served at Doomie’s Toronto. It is a secret item that is not on the menu. Guests must ask their server for it. It’s $16 with fries. The mock Big Mac features house-made toppings of vegan mayo for the special sauce and a soy-based “cheese.” RIGHT; When Candice Hutchings adopted a vegan diet about six years ago, she found herself falling off the wagon because she couldn’t find restaurants that served the kind of comfort food she wanted to eat or recipes she could make at home.

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TORONTO — The Victoria Day long weekend marks the start of gardening season for many, and for those on a budget, it’s a chance to plant vege-table seeds or plants that can help with grocery bills for years to come.

Gardening/weather expert Frank Ferragine, a.k.a. Frankie Flowers of “Breakfast Television Toronto,” says his No. 1 recommendation for veggies that will produce a big bounty for a good price is the tomato.

“The best one to do for that is called the Early Girl and I would recommend the Early Girl bush variety, so then it won’t take up a lot of space,” he says.

“Then swiss chard. It’s super cheap, easy to grow from seed or you can buy it as a plant every time you cut it, it’s going to sprout back again, so you don’t have to do multiple plantings.”

Ferragine provides a wealth of gardening ad-vice in his new book, Food to Grow: A simple, no-fail guide to growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs.

His other budget-friendly veggie recommenda-tions include kale, which can be harvested well into December and sweetens in flavour as it gets colder.

“The side shoots are really easy to harvest and you can do long durations of harvest,” he says.

“Word of warning is, after it gets real cold and if we go through a warm spell, there’s nothing worse than the smell of rotting kale. So if it’s at the front entrance of your home … you just pull it.”

For something quick to harvest, try radishes or spinach.

“Those are an early crop, so you can even group those together,” says Ferragine, who also

appears on CityLine and CityNews and has written for various publications.

“Even if you don’t have a lot of space — and let’s say you have a perennial garden — you could sow some spinach and radishes in a perennial garden and then harvest them before the peren-nials grow into that space.”

He also recommends herbs, which provide multiple harvests. Parsley in particular is easy to grow and can be used for many dishes like taboules.

“The No. 1 failure is that people put them in too small of a pot,” says Ferragine.

For apartment/condo dwellers, he recom-mends grouping four or five herbs used most often into at least a 10-inch pot with ample drain-age.

“The No. 1 thing is the sun,” he says. “The more sun you have, the better it’s going to be.”

Spinach, lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, bush beans and scarlet runner beans are also great for balconies.

As for cauliflower, which soared in price a few months ago, it’s not difficult to grow but it does take up space and requires summer maintenance.

“In order for the cauliflower to remain white, you have to take the leaves, bunch them together and tie them with an elastic and that’s what keeps them white,” he says.

The one item he doesn’t recommend growing in a city is corn, which restricts light, attracts raccoons and is often locally grown and readily available at an affordable cost anyway.

Ferragine says the key is taking the time to fig-ure out: “What do I eat and what do I eat a lot of?” Then it’s drafting a plan with the hard-fixed costs.

“A lot of people want to save their own money by growing a vegetable garden and you can, but I say it’s kind of like an RRSP where it’s kind of a long-haul,” he says.

“So the first year when you go and you build that garden, there’s going to be some upfront costs…. The second and third year is where you really start saving money.”

Warm Ginger Orange sconesGinger Orange Scones are made using crystallized gin-

ger and freshly grated orange peel, giving them a warm, spicy flavour that pairs well with a bit of butter and some nice marmalade. Slather on our homemade Maple Butter to up the decadence level.

GINGER ORANGE SCONES2 1/2 cups (625 mL) flour1/2 cup (125 mL) packed golden brown sugar2 1/2 tsp (12 mL) baking powder1 1/2 tsp (7 mL) ground ginger1 tsp (5 mL) baking soda3/4 cup (175 mL) butter, chilled and cubed1/4 cup (50 mL) finely chopped crystallized ginger2 tsp (10 mL) grated orange peel1 cup (250 mL) buttermilkCombine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, ground ginger

and baking soda in a bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Stir in crystallized ginger and orange peel. Add buttermilk to flour mixture and stir just until com-bined. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead dough gently 10 times, adding additional flour if dough is sticky. Divide dough in half. Pat each half into a round 3/4 inch (2 cm) thick. Cut each round into 8 wedges. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 400ºF (200ºC) for 15 - 20 minutes or until browned. Makes 16.

Maple Butter1/2 cup (125 mL) butter, softened2 tbsp (25 mL) maple syrup2 tbsp (25 mL) finely chopped toasted pecansBeat together butter and syrup until fluffy. Stir in pecans.

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Spectators stand outside of Old Trafford stadium after today’s final soccer match of the season between Manchester United and AFC Bournemouth was abandoned due to a suspect package being found inside the stadium. Sunday.

Fake bomb forces evacuation of

English soccer game


MANCHESTER, England — A fake bomb left behind during a security exercise led police to evacuate Manchester United’s home stadium on Sunday, disrupting the final day of the English Premier League season and bringing embar-rassment to one of the world’s best-known sports teams.

Police initially described the device as “in-credibly lifelike” as United’s planned match with Bournemouth was cancelled, to boos from some fans, and a controlled explosion was car-ried out.

But hours later, bomb technicians reported it was a fake. And a later statement by police said the device had been inadvertently left in a toilet during an earlier training exercise involving sniffer dogs.

The series of events Sunday came amid tight-ened security at Premier League stadiums fol-lowing last year’s Paris attacks that targeted the Stade de France sports stadium as well as cafes, bars and a concert hall. It also followed the British government’s announcement Wednesday that it was raising the nation’s threat level due to intelligence indicating the “strong possibil-ity” of attacks in Britain by factions of the out-lawed Irish Republican Army.

The Premier League has rescheduled the match for Tuesday. United said it was investigat-ing the incident.

“It is outrageous this situation arose and a full inquiry is required to urgently find out how this happened, why it happened and who will be held accountable,” said Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester’s mayor as well as the district’s po-lice and crime commissioner.

Sunday’s match was the first Premier League game to be postponed because of a bomb threat. An exhibition soccer game between Germa-ny and the Netherlands was cancelled in No-vember after police said they received a bomb threat. No explosives were found.

Sunday’s scare was set off after Manchester United staff found a suspicious device in a toi-let in the northwest corner of one of the stands, police said. Fans sitting in other stands initially were allowed to stay inside the stadium, but about a half hour before the scheduled 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) kickoff, they were escorted out by se-curity personnel, and a sweep of the 75,635-seat venue was carried out.

Players from both teams were taken off the pitch during the warm-up and kept in the chang-ing rooms. Some fans booed as a stadium an-nouncer instructed them to exit the building.

Hours later, Greater Manchester Police an-nounced that the suspect item was not a “viable

device.”“We have since found out that the item was

a training device which had accidentally been left by a private company following a training exercise involving explosive search dogs,” John O’Hare, assistant chief constable from Greater Manchester Police.

Earlier in the day, police had maintained a strong presence outside Old Trafford as fire en-gines attended the scene. Sniffer dogs were also seen inside the stadium.

About 3,000 Bournemouth fans are estimated to have made the trip to Old Trafford for the game. Bournemouth is a town on the south coast of England, and it is a round trip of about 500 miles (800 kilometres) to the northern city of Manchester.

The match was one of 10 taking place on the final day of the Premier League season. The oth-er nine matches went ahead.

United was vying with Manchester City to finish in fourth place in the Premier League and qualify for the Champions League. City drew 1-1 at Swansea, effectively ending United’s top-four chances.

United has to beat Bournemouth by a 19-goal margin or more to climb above City.

In rescheduling the match, the Premier League had to take into account the FA Cup fi-nal between United and Crystal Palace at Wem-bley Stadium in London on Saturday.

Earlier, the Premier League apologized for the inconvenience that the postponement of the game caused to fans.

“We are sure, in the circumstances, they will appreciate the need to do so,” it said.

Sunday’s security scare rekindled memories of April 1997, when the dominant Provision-al faction of the IRA used a telephoned bomb warning to force the evacuation of the Grand National horse race in Liverpool being attended by 60,000 fans, many of them Irish. That disrupt-ed race eventually went ahead two days late in front of relatively few fans.

United also enjoys a huge following in Ire-land.

The Provisional IRA has observed a cease-fire since July 1997 and renounced violence in 2005, but several rival factions continue to plot attacks in the British territory of Northern Ire-land.

On Wednesday, Home Secretary Theresa May told lawmakers in the House of Commons that the domestic intelligence agency MI5 had de-cided to raise its threat level of an IRA attack in Britain to “substantial,” the third-highest level. That means MI5 — responsible for monitoring IRA splinter groups in Northern Ireland — con-siders an IRA attack in Britain a “strong possi-bility.”

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Mexico City lifts year’s 4thsmog alert after a day

Mexico City authorities have lifted a smog alert one day after ozone levels rose above 150 per cent of acceptable limits.

A statement from the metropolitan area’s environmental commission said favourable weather conditions Sunday morning and rains in the afternoon led to a reduction. The alert had banned 20 per cent of the area’s motor vehicles from diving Sunday. It was the fourth time this year that Mexico’s capital has restricted the number of cars because of air pollution.

24 pilot whales die after beaching in Baja California

Two dozen pilot whales died after beaching themselves on the Baja California Peninsula despite efforts to move them into deeper waters, Mexico’s navy say Sunday.

The statement said naval personnel worked along with soldiers, environmental ministry agents and local fishermen trying to save the whales on the western shore of the Gulf of Cal-ifornia. Only three of the 27 whales that came ashore were saved, the statement said. Some

whales returned to the beach after being led into deeper water. The statement speculated the mammals were disoriented, saying no signs of injuries were noted.

Woman taken to hospital with shark still attached to her arm

BOCA RATON, Fla. — News reports say a 23-year-old woman was bitten by a small nurse shark in Boca Raton.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported the woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday with the shark still attached to her arm.

A spokesperson for the Boca Raton Ocean Rescue told the newspaper the woman remained calm and there was a little blood. A splint board was used to support the woman’s arm and the shark as she lay on the stretcher.

The Boca Raton Regional Hospital operator said the woman had been treated and was in the process of being released Sunday afternoon.

World’s biggest cruise ship sets sail from France

Tens of thousands of French well-wishers waved goodbye to the largest cruise ship in the world as it set sail on its maiden voyage to the U.K. after 32 months in a French shipyard.

The $1 billion Harmony of the Seas cut a gar-gantuan silhouette Sunday as it left the western port town of Saint-Nazaire. At 362 metres long, the 16-deck ship is bigger than the Eiffel Tower and holds the record for being the widest cruise ship ever built — boasting a 6,360-passenger ca-pacity.

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May 162013 — Toronto Star reports they had been offered a cellphone video that appeared to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. 1976 — Montréal Canadiens win their 19th Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory over Philadel-phia Flyers, to sweep the series 4-0. 1961 — US President John F. Kennedy starts 3-day visit to Ottawa.

1879 — Tornado strikes near Saddle Lake, leaving one person dead. 1854 — Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the US takes effect; US agrees to admit most Canadian products duty free; US fish-ermen can catch within the three-mile limit, land to cure their fish, and navigate the St. Lawrence River freely.1619 — Jens Munk sets sail to find North West Passage; commissioned by the King of Denmark, he will make the first European discovery of the Missinipi River or Churchill River, a gateway into northern Manitoba.

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Chili Peppers cancel concert after singer hospitalized

IRVINE, Calif. — A spokesman for the Red Hot Chili Peppers says the band cancelled an appearance at a California radio station’s annual con-cert after lead singer Anthony Kiedis was hospitalized with intestinal flu.

Brian Bumbery said Sunday that the 53-year-old Kiedis is expected to make a full recovery.

Bassist Flea told the crowd Satur-day in Orange County that the Chili Peppers would be unable to perform.

The band was scheduled to head-line KROQ’s Weenie Roast concert. Also on the bill at Irvine Meadows Am-phitheatre were Weezer and Empire of the Sun.

Peppers drummer Chad Smith tweeted: “No one’s more disappoint-ed than us that we couldn’t perform tonight. Sending love and a speedy re-covery to my brother Anthony.”

Bumbery says the Chili Peppers will postpone a concert for iHeart Radio scheduled for Tuesday in Burbank, California.

Canadian comic book artist Darwyn Cooke dies at age 53

A Canadian called one of the “true innovators” in the world of comic books and animation has died. Dar-wyn Cooke was 53. A statement from Cooke’s family says he died Saturday morning in his Florida home after a battle with cancer. Cooke was born in Toronto and lived in Nova Scotia for many years. He published his first comic book work in 1985 but economic realities forced him to make a living working for Canadian magazines as an art director and graphic designer.

Drake pulls double duty as SNL host/musical guest

Drake is now an honoured mem-ber of the “Saturday Night Live” two timers club. The Toronto-bred rapper made his return to the show last night, again pulling double duty as both host and musical guest, as he did in his first SNL gig in Jan. 2014.

There were, of course, referenc-es to Canada, including a monologue joke about Americans fleeing north, frightened by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency.

He added a couple of music video spoofs, including one where he raps plaintively about being the punchline of social media gags.


LOS ANGELES — It’s Captain Amer-ica’s weekend at the box office once again by a large margin, but even with $72.6 million in earnings, the superhe-ro pic left some room for other new-comers like Money Monster, The Dark-ness and The Lobster to play, according to comScore estimates Sunday.

Captain America: Civil War dropped 59 per cent in its second weekend in theatres, in line with the second week-end showings of Avengers: Age of Ul-tron and Iron Man 3. While it’s on the higher end of second weekend falls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney and Marvel film is still per-forming phenomenally well. In just two weeks, it has earned $295.9 million in North America, passing the total domestic grosses of Captain America: Winter Soldier film by over $35 million.

Disney’s The Jungle Book remained in second place with $17.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $311.8 million after five weekends in the-atres.

Meanwhile, the R-rated George Clooney and Julia Roberts financial thriller Money Monster got off to a healthy third-place start with $15 mil-lion, beating expectations in its first weekend in theatres after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival. The film cost only $27 million to produce.

“We felt like in the wake of Captain America, we could open to $10 million. To open to $15 million in that time frame is really a great number for us and it bodes well for the playability of the movie,” Rory Bruer, Sony’s Presi-dent of Worldwide Distribution, said. “We’re very proud to be part of this genre. The adult thriller is not an easy code to crack.”

The Blumhouse release label BH Tilt also opened the micro budget hor-ror film The Darkness for the Friday the 13th weekend. The film, which stars Kevin Bacon, brought in $5.2 mil-lion from only 1,755 screens to take

fourth place.In limited release, distributor A24

also scored big with The Lobster, a dark comedy about relationships starring Colin Farrell from director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film scored the best specialty opening of the year with $188,195 from just four screens in New York and Los Angeles before its ex-pands nationwide over the next two weekends.

It’s a good strategy to launch movies that don’t have massive budgets on the weekend after the summer movie sea-son kick-off, ComScore Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“Traditionally this second weekend in May is not an enviable weekend to be releasing on, but it can be a land of opportunity for films that fill a particu-lar niche, or bring in an audience who might not be interested in these big blockbusters,” Dergarabedian said. “It’s not competing with all the noise.”

The summer movie slate only gets more crowded from here on out. Next weekend sees the opening of The Angry Birds Movie, The Nice Guys, and Neigh-bors 2: Sorority Rising, before the big Memorial Day release of Alice Through the Looking Glass and X-Men: Apoca-lypse.

“It was a big weekend, but not the most exciting weekend,” Dergarabedi-an said. “It’s mostly business as usual.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore. Fi-nal domestic figures will be released Monday.

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Jamala takes 2016 Eurovision contestBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STOCKHOLM — Ukrainian sing-er Jamala’s melancholic tune about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s 1944 de-portation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the 2016 Euro-vision Song Contest early Sunday, an unusual choice for the kitschy pop fest.

Susana Jamaladinova, a 32-year-old trained opera singer who uses the stage name Jamala, received the highest score of 534 points for her song “1944,” after votes from juries and TV viewers across Europe were tallied following performances Saturday night by the 26 finalists at Stockholm’s Globe Arena.

Australia’s Dami Im was second with 511 points, followed by Russia’s Sergey Lazarev in third with 491.

The show was broadcast live in Eu-rope, China, Kazakhstan, Australia, New Zealand and, for the first time, the United States. Last year’s contest reached nearly 200 million viewers globally.

Amid entries about love and desire, Jamala’s song stood out. With sombre lyrics it recalls how Crimean Tatars, including her great-grandmother, were deported in 1944 by Soviet authorities during World War II. Many died during the deportations or starved to death on the barren steppes of central Asia. Decades later some of the survivors were allowed to return to the Crimean Peninsula.

Jamala delivered an emotional performance, her voice soaring as the song built up force from a quiet start.

“I was sure that if you sing, if you talk about truth, it really can touch people,” she told reporters after the competition.

The focus on Crimea, whose annex-ation by Russia in 2014 was opposed by its Tatar minority, could be considered a swipe at Moscow, but Jamala insist-ed there was no political subtext, and contest officials agreed.

The rules of the glitzy competition prohibit political statements.

Im, who was born in South Korea and is a former Australian “X Factor” talent show winner, was in the lead following a count of the jury votes, but her song “Sound of Silence” was bumped down to second place when the popular vote was added.

Though Australia is far from Eu-rope, the Eurovision show is hugely popular Down Under where it has been broadcast for more than 30 years.

Australia was invited to compete for the second consecutive year.

The annual contest, which started in 1956, is known for its eclectic mix of rock ballads, techno-pop and occasion-al folkloric tunes. However, in recent years entries have moved away from ethnic influences toward more main-stream dance music.

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Lazarev’s club anthem “You Are the Only One” had the most striking visual effects. At one point the black-clad Russian scaled a LED display and rode a virtual iceberg through space.

Some Russian fans accused the judges of political bias, noting that Lazarev got the highest score in the popular vote.


Ukraine’s Jamala celebrates with the trophy after winning the Eurovision Song Contest final with the song ‘1944’ in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Outrageous Flair, you are colourful and hard to ignore. 2016 is the year to talk less, produce more, and finish what you start.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s a good time to pursue creative projects or spiritual endeavours.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll feel restless today Sagittarius. Don’t be too hasty though!

The stars encourage you to help a work colleague, close friend or family member who needs some support and gentle guidance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When it comes to a child, teenager or close friend it may feel as if it’s one step forwards and two steps back.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): All forms of communication improve today, as the stars temporarily lessen the confusing effects of Mercury being retrograde. So say exactly what you’ve got to say, while you’ve got the chance!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s great satisfaction to be gained from working within your local community.

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Dear Annie: I have a co-worker who often shows up late, constantly com-plains about how he doesn’t want to be “here” (in this city, at this job, etc.), spends most of his time reading Face-book posts aloud or trying to chat with the rest of the people in our depart-ment and generally wastes his time when he’s supposed to be working.

Our department works on a very strict deadline, and he often finds him-self in a time crunch at the end of the day and asks the rest of us to do his work for him. When we say no, he ei-ther calls our boss to complain that we “aren’t helping” or tries to scare us by saying that it’s “everyone’s fault if we miss deadline.”

Several co-workers have tried to ex-

plain this to our boss, but this guy al-ways has some excuse that our boss is more than willing to believe. I am pret-ty sure it’s because they were friends before our boss was promoted. But this co-worker is making our boss look bad, along with the rest of us. I think our boss is truly blind to the fact that this guy barely does his job, and produces subpar work.

It bothers me that this whiner is dragging the rest of the department down. What should I do? — Confused and Frustrated

Dear Confused: We think your boss overlooks this guy’s ineptitude be-cause it’s easier than dealing with the situation and possibly losing a friend. But it damages the company, not to mention morale.

If there is a human resources de-partment or your boss has an imme-diate supervisor, this is where you should direct your complaints. Make it a group effort with others from your department. Don’t criticize your co-worker’s personality. Simply say

that you are concerned deadlines will be missed. If told to send your com-plaints to your boss, explain that you have already done so and it hasn’t made a difference. In the meantime, encourage this co-worker to look for another job, perhaps in another city where he will be happier. Try to do it with sincere concern for his well-be-ing.

Dear Annie: This is in response to the letter from “Morose Mom,” whose adult children kept borrowing money and never paid it back.

As each of our children graduated college and went on to lead adult lives, we instituted a very strict rule: Your credit is only as good as your last loan.

They had to pay back one in order to borrow again. And guess what? It worked.

We’ve had every loan (we don’t charge interest) repaid and would not hesitate to let our children borrow again, especially if they found them-selves in an emergency situation.

When my husband went back to col-

lege for a post-doctorate, we found our-selves with not quite enough money to make it to graduation. His dad loaned us $5,000, and as soon as my husband started work, we began paying Dad back. After the entire amount had been repaid, Dad’s wife said of all the adult kids, we were the only ones who had ever done so. — Responsible Adult in Florida

Dear Florida: You did it right. Un-less parents want their loans to be gifts, a repayment schedule should be set up and followed. A parent who con-tinues to loan money to a child who never repays it is asking for a lot of aggravation.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annie on Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

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Italian woman, 116, seen as last living person born in

1800sVERBANIA, Italy — Surrounded

by relatives and friends, Italy’s Emma Morano greeted with a smile the news that she, at 116, is now the oldest per-son in the world.

Not only that, but Morano is be-lieved to be the last surviving person in the world born in the 1800s, with a birthdate of Nov. 29, 1899. That’s just 4 ½ months after Susannah Mushatt Jones, who died Thursday in New York, also at 116.

Journalists on Friday descended upon Morano’s home in Verbania, a northern Italian mountain town over-looking Lake Major, to document her achievement, but had to wait until she finished a nap to greet her.

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