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An Innisfail dog owner is heartbro-ken after someone used chocolate to kill her beloved pooch.

Kim Barlow said someone threw enough pure baker’s chocolate into her backyard to slaughter all three of her dogs some time between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Aug. 27.

“They cut up a re-usable shopping bag and made a bowl out of it,” said Barlow. “They broke up all the baker’s chocolate into chunks and dropped it over our fence. It was clearly inten-tional. … There was definitely enough

chocolate to kill all of them.”Barlow said her husband let the

dogs out in the morning and picked up the makeshift bowl and set it in the house. Barlow said she did not give it too much thought. She went about her day and came back home about half an hour later to find her Akeela, her Australian shepherd, dead at the foot of the stairs.

Police issued a press release last week asking for information that may identify the person responsible for the death. They confirmed the dog died due to complications related to the chocolate.

Chocolate contains theobromine, a stimulant that is poisonous to dogs.

“The vet said the chocolate speeds up the heart and she had a massive heart attack and died,” said Barlow. “There had to be some pain involved. I think she was just playing like she normally does.”

Her other two dogs ate some choco-late but made it to the vet in time.

Barlow said it took Akeela about six hours to die after eating the chocolate . She said Akeela was not acting strange and did not show any signs of distress.

“I am not doing well,” said Barlow. “She was not yet four years old. I’ve had her since she was born. … She was like my therapy dog.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BLAIRMORE — A candlelight vig-il meant to lend hope and support in the search for a missing two-year-old girl dissolved in grief Tuesday night as RCMP informed the crowd that investi-gators had discovered human remains.

As an official with victims services announced the Amber Alert for little Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette had been cancelled, one young woman crashed into a friend’s arms and sobbed. Oth-ers sniffed quietly and wiped away tears. Some just stood in stunned si-lence.

A group cocooned Hailey’s grand-mother in an embrace.

“This is the news that nobody want-ed to hear,” said Crowsnest Pass May-or Blair Painter. “This is going to dev-astate our community and it’s going to take us a long time to heal from this.”

RCMP confirmed in a news release that information they had received led them to what they believed to be Hai-ley’s body in a rural area near Blair-more on Tuesday afternoon.

“The RCMP extends its deepest con-dolences to Hailey’s family,” said RC-MP Supt. Tony Hamori. “This is a sad day for the citizens of Blairmore and all Canadians who have held this little girl in their thoughts and prayers since Monday.”

He said nothing much else could be said about the investigation at this point, “other than to thank the public and the media for helping us find Hai-ley.”

Hailey had been abducted ear-ly Monday morning from the town of Blairmore, 220 km southwest of Cal-gary, by someone driving a speeding white van.

Her father, Terry Blanchette, 27, was found dead in their home and po-lice believe his death was a homicide.

Mounties have a 22-year-old suspect in custody.

The tragic photo of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi whose body washed up on a Turkish beach evoked powerful emotions earlier this month.

Dr. Saman-tha Nutt, one of the founders of the Canadi-an humanitari-an agency War Child, said it’s a photo that War Chi ld would never use even though its work-ers are con-fronted with similar images — without exag-geration — dai-ly.

“But I also think there are times in human histo-ry we need to be confronted by ugly truths of it all. And I think that that particular photo captured misery and put a face to a reality that the numbers in and of themselves, as overwhelming as they were, never provoked action,” said Nutt, who will speak at the Herr Lecture Series at Burman University on Thursday night in Lacombe.

“I think that people do need to con-front sometimes the hard truth of it all.”

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RCMP investigations continue at the scene of the disappearance of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette in Blairmore Tuesday.

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Although not officially here yet, autumn in Central Alberta is certainly on its way. Cooler temperatures, shorter days and the colours of the forest are heralding the changing of the season. Here some people out for a walk in the park enjoy the colours as they cross the pedestrian bridge in Coronation Park at the bottom of the Ross Street in Red Deer on Tuesday.

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Dog killer on the looseBY CRYSTAL RHYNO

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DOG DIES OF HEART ATTACK CAUSED BY CHOCOLATE

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WAR CHILD: Empowers local people

Founded in 1999, War Child focuses on empower-ing local people and organizations to lead their own recovery from the devastation of war.

“When I saw that photo of Alan, my heart broke,” said Nutt, a medical doctor who has spent two de-cades working with children and their families in major world crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Darfur and Sudan.

Nutt was in Syria about one year ago where War Child works with people who have fled refugee camps because of threats due to ethnic and regional divisions within the camps.

“Security is a huge issue in camps. There are a lot of women and children especially that don’t feel safe. You can have water and sanitation and shelter, but if you don’t feel secure and you feel threatened every day, then you won’t stay there.”

She said refugees in the community are not al-lowed to work, face terrible poverty and live in bru-tal conditions.

“As this crisis enters into its sixth year, not sur-prisingly, people who have been living out in the community with no resources, no means of employ-ment, are becoming increasingly desperate and ma-ny of them are the ones who are pushing forward and trying to get to Europe.”

As the mother of a 10-year-old son, Nutt said she understands why families make those very, very dif-

ficult choices to try to escape.“We all would do anything, especially for our

children, to keep our children safe, to help build a better life for them. Many of these are families, the parents know it’s going to be harder for them. They know they don’t speak the language. They know it’s going to be hard for them to find a job. They know their skills are not transferable. They’ll be complete-ly culturally dislocated.”

Many refugees don’t have the money, often from family elsewhere in the world, to pay a smuggler in an attempt to leave, she said.

Nutt said the swell of refugees arriving in Greece is directly tied to the “compassion fatigue” seen ear-lier in the Syrian crisis.

“When the war first hit, there was a tremendous outpouring of support, major commitments of fund-ing from international governments. Then as the crisis drags on, those funds become fewer and fewer and harder to access and support services levels drop.”

But Alan’s photo generated a lot of international attention and discussion and in Canada pushed the four federal parties to come out with their foreign policy platforms during the election, Nutt said.

“It’s amazing, even for an old cynic like me. I didn’t think that was possible. It’s encouraging. We’ll see what happens. It’s putting a human face onto this crisis and hopefully that compassion won’t be fleeting. Unfortunately far too often it is and it’s that fleeting nature of that compassion that has actually contributed to what we’re seeing now.”

The Syrian crisis is just one that needs attention. According to reports from refugee camps in Uganda, there will be an estimated 800,000 South Sudanese refugees by the end of the year, she said.

“Right now we’re responding to the crisis in South Sudan. It’s a country where we’ve been operating for many, many years. The violence has intensified with

horrific acts of abuse against children. Reports of young kids being being brutalized. Little boys being castrated and little girls being raped.”

“We’ve been intensely focused on how many Syr-ian refugees we’re going to accept, but we also need to look at our refugee policy across the board and make sure it’s fair and transparent and equitable be-cause there are a lot high need groups,” Nutt said.

Nutt’s talk, Conflicted? The World of War, will ex-plore how humanitarian aid programs can go wrong and what they can and should do. She will also dis-cuss her experiences in war torn countries.

Her lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the audito-rium in Burman University’s Administration Build-ing, located at 6730 University Dr., in Lacombe.

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DOG: Owner hopes people responsible are caught

Barlow said she wants the people responsible for Akeela’s death to be caught.

“People say chocolate can’t kill a dog,” she said. “That’s bull——. It definitely can. It’s a heart stimu-lant. It affects the heart, nervous system and the kid-neys. With her ,it was her heart … she had so much in her stomach that when they did the autopsy, that’s all they could smell.”

Investigators are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to contact Innisfail RCMP at 403-227-3342. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 or at www.tipsubmit.com.

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Protesters throw red paint at the seal of the U.S. Embassy after managing to slip past riot police for a rally to mark the 24th year anniversary of the termination of the U.S. military bases in the country Wednesday in Manila, Philippines. Riot policemen dispersed dozens of left-wing students, who stormed past a police cordon after dawn on Wednesday and splattered red paint on the seal of the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest the American military presence in the country.

City councillor wades into national pharmacare debate

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

A city councillor is weighing in on the national pharmacare debate.

Coun. Lawrence Lee read a notion of motion on Monday that calls on the Alberta Urban Municipal-ities Association and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to advocate to the provincial and fed-eral governments for a program that would provide access to prescription drugs to all Canadians.

According to Lee’s motion, more than three mil-lion Canadians, including many in Red Deer, do not take medicines prescribed to by their doctors be-cause they cannot afford them. Council will discuss the motion at its next meeting on Sept. 28.

Lee said this is another issue that is being down-loaded to municipalities from the two higher levels of governments. He wants to raise awareness of the downloading and to find more economic efficiencies for the city.

“I want to make sure we are doing the best we can for our employees and benefit plans,” said Lee.

Over the next few days, Lee will meet with organi-zations at the national and provincial levels to hear their perspectives on the matter.

“It’s a sensitive issue, too, and I never shy away from a good item,” he said. “If it creates some con-versations and debate in the community, I am all about it.”

The motion reads that adding a national phar-macare program to the national health-care system would lower costs to businesses by more than $8 million per year, and municipal government expens-es for employee benefits would be significantly re-duced by such a program.

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A former Innisfail man convicted of sending a gift disguising a bomb that killed his client will have to wait until the New Year for his appeal to proceed.

Brian Andrew Malley, 58, was found guilty of

first-degree murder in the November 2011 bombing death of Victoria Shachtay, 23. He was her financial advisor. A jury convicted Malley in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Feb. 25.

Malley’s defence counsel Bob Aloneissi filed his appeal on March 6.

The matter was on the Sept. 15 Calgary Court of

Appeal sitting list, but had to be adjourned to Jan. 6, 2016, and was not set for a hearing. The sitting list session determines when a full appeal hearing can occur.

Brian Malley appeal adjourned until January 2016

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HOMICIDE: A devoted single father

Supt. Tony Hamori said the name of the man, a resident of Blairmore who was arrested there on Tuesday, wouldn’t be released until charges had been laid.

Blanchette was described by friends and family as a devoted single father who shared custody of Hailey with his former girlfriend, Cheyenne Dunbar, who lives in Edmonton.

He worked as a cook in a restaurant and had many criminal convictions between 2010 and 2012 for is-sues such as failing to appear in court, failing to stop his vehicle, evading police, minor theft and assault.

But after Hailey was born, there were no more court appearances. Blanchette’s Facebook posts switched from talk of court dates to pictures of him with his baby daughter.

Neighbour Angela Mathieson said Blanchette loved being a father.

“He was taking good care of her. There was al-ways laughing and giggling going on over there.”

Hamori said Dunbar was co-operating with inves-tigators.

“Police have been speaking with her and obvi-ously, at this point in time, followup investigation is

going to be done on all information we receive.”Tuesday night’s vigil had started out with a group

wearing yellow arm bands talking about searching the nearby woods together for Hailey.

Candles and stuffed animals covered a picnic ta-ble by a playground just around the corner from the home where Hailey had lived.

A group sang a reworked version of the old spiri-tual “Kumbaya” — “A girl is missing, my Lord, Kum-

baya … bring her back to us, Kumbaya.”A pink sign with “please bring our baby Hailey

home safe” hung on the park’s gate, a single teddy bear affixed to it.

The news swept across social media, prompting an outpouring of sadness from across the country.

“My heart is broke, can’t stop crying,” Cathy Hol-lahan posted to a Facebook page called “Let’s Bring Hailey Home Safe.” “RIP, my darling.”

Victoria mom whose son was abducted in 1991 reminds parents

to be preparedVICTORIA — The Amber Alert issued for a two-

year-old girl abducted in Alberta has a Victoria mother remembering her own son’s disappearance and re-minding parents to be prepared.

Crystal Dunahee’s son Michael was four when he vanished from a playground in 1991, as his mother took part in a sports event just steps away.

Dunahee says she knows people don’t believe such tragedies could happen to them but that she’s still searching for answers 25 years later.

She now works for Child Find, a charity dedicated to the safety of children, and says being prepared means no one has to wait for vital details in the event of a cri-

sis.She urges parents to create an ID book for their

kids, containing a current photo, fingerprints and other important information.

RCMP in Alberta say they have arrested a suspect in the killing of a father and the abduction of his two-year-old daughter, Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, but they are still searching for the girl.

BLAIRMORE — A look at events in the investigation in-to the whereabouts of two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanch-ette:

Monday, Sept. 14, 3:30 a.m. — The time police say they believe Hailey was abducted from her home in Blair-more. A white van with an large antenna and a flag flying from it is seen speeding west from the area.

11:12 a.m. — Crowsnest Pass RCMP receive a call re-porting a sudden death at a Blairmore home. They find the body of Hailey’s father, 27-year-old Terry Blanchette, but no sign of his daughter. Police canvass the neighbourhood looking for her. Information from neighbours suggest the

child was taken at 3:30 a.m.2:14 p.m. — An Amber Alert is issued for Alberta. The

RCMP say they are then contacted by the child’s mother, Cheyenne Dunbar, who does not have the child.

3:15 p.m. — The Amber Alert is extended to British Co-lumbia, Montana, and Saskatchewan.

5:30 p.m. — Police hold a news conference and con-firm that Blanchette has been killed and that his death is believe to be a homicide.

Tuesday, Sept. 15 — A 22-year-old suspect in both the murder and the abduction is arrested. Police won’t release his name because no charges have been laid.

1 p.m. — Police announce the arrest at a news con-ference, but say they still have not found Hailey. They say they have found a van that could be connected to the case. The Amber Alert remains in effect.

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Residents gather for a candlelight vigil for Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette in Blairmore on Tuesday.

MALLEY: Still in custodyShachtay invested $575,000 with Malley in 2007.

Shachtay was paralyzed in a 2004 car crash and con-fined to a wheelchair and the money came from a settlement related to the crash. Another $200,000 was borrowed to develop a nest egg that was intended to

provide for Shachtay and her daughter for years.By the spring of 2011, the money had run out.

Between April and November 2011, Malley made $44,000 in payments to Shachtay from his own debit and credit card accounts, even going into overdraft.

On Nov. 25, 2011, Shachtay found a gift left on the doorstep of her apartment bearing the tag “Vicky.” When she opened it, a pipebomb detonated, killing her.

Malley was arrested on May 27, 2012, after a six-month extensive investigation by Innisfail RCMP, RCMP post blast national response team, explosive

disposal and technology section, tech crimes, special tactical operations, criminal analysis section, spe-cial surveillance units and forensic labs.

He was convicted and sentenced to life in jail with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

In June, Aloneissi filed to have Malley released on bail pending his appeal. That application was dis-missed, and Malley will remain in custody while his appeal works its way through the courts.

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Small plane crashes in ManitobaTHOMPSON, Man. — A plane crash in the

northern Manitoba community of Thompson on Tuesday evening has sent eight people to hospital.

The Transportation Safety Board says a Piper PA-31 Navajo airport operated by Keystone Air crashed just after leaving the airport.

TSB spokesman Chris Krepski says the twin-engine plane went down at about 7 p.m. about two kilometres from the airport.

He says the two pilots and six passengers suffered various injuries but had no immediate information on the severity.

Krepski added that it was too early to speculate on what caused the crash, saying weather conditions and other factors would be part of the investigation.

He said a TSB team would leave for the scene Wednesday morning.

This is the second crash involving a Keystone Air plane in recent years.

Four people, including the pilot, were killed and a fifth was seriously injured when a Keystone Air plane hit the icy surface of a lake at a remote reserve about 400 kilometres north of Dryden, Ont., in January 2012.

The TSB later found that poor weather, ice on the wings and the pilot’s inexperience landing in icy

conditions contributed to the crash.Keystone Air, which operates eight aircraft out of

its headquarters in St. Andrews, Man,. says it offers cargo, passenger, and executive transportation throughout North America.

Decision reserved in influence peddling trial of former Harper aide

OTTAWA — A judge has reserved her decision in the case of Bruce Carson, a former top aide to the prime minister who is charged with influence peddling.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Bonnie Warkentin told the court she will announce Oct. 2 when she plans to release her ruling.

Crown prosecutor Jason Nicol said he expected the decision to be brought down anywhere from a few days after that procedural hearing to the beginning of November, leaving open the potential for Carson to be either acquitted or convicted before election day Oct. 19.

As his two-day hearing wrapped up Tuesday, Carson’s lawyer said his client worked in 2010 and 2011 to help an Ottawa company sell water treatment systems for First Nations communities.

“There’s no question about that,” Patrick McCann said.

But nothing in the Criminal Code prevented Carson from doing that, said McCann. He stressed that his client was lobbying First Nations communities, not the federal government, to purchase water purification equipment from a firm known as H2O Pros and H2O Global, where his

girlfriend at the time, a former escort, was employed.McCann also conceded that Carson clearly held

sway with the Harper government. Carson was a senior adviser to the prime minister from the time the Conservatives first took office in 2006, until he left the post in 2008.

“There’s no question that my client was motivated to help H2O and, by extension, his girlfriend,” McCann told the judge.

No more applauding during question period at Quebec national assembly

QUEBEC — There was a kind of hush at the Que-bec legislature when it resumed sitting Tuesday af-ter its summer break.

Members of the national assembly voted unan-imously in favour of a motion to stop applauding during the daily question period.

The motion, which was presented by the Parti Quebecois, was approved by a vote of 116-0 and went into effect immediately.

The legislature was eerily silent after PQ Leader Pierre Karl Peladeau’s first question to Premier Philippe Couillard about education cuts.

Government house leader Jean-Marc Fournier spoke earlier in favour of the no-applause motion, saying it applies to everyone.

“We will all have to make an effort, myself being the first — and I admit that,” he told fellow members of the legislature.

Speaker Jacques Chagnon said eliminating ap-plause from all sides will allow more questions to be raised.

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Duceppe out-hawks HarperCan a dove be reincarnated into

a hawk? The metamorphosis of Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe sug-gests as much.

In his previous life as the leader of the third party in the House of Com-mons, Duceppe vehement-ly opposed the notion that Canada should join the U.S.-led 2003 Iraq War.

He initially supported Canada’s military oper-ation in Afghanistan but then spent five years op-posing every extension on the grounds that the mis-sion should be focused on reconstruction rather than combat. No one was surprised when the Bloc’s two remaining MPs twice joined the Liberals, the New Democrats and the Green party over the past year and voted against Canada’s military involvement in the war against Islamic extremists in the Middle East.

But that was before Duceppe re-turned to lead the BQ. Lost in the shuf-fle of the Conservative travails over the refugee issue last week, the Bloc’s position underwent a major shift. The party now fully supports the Conserva-

tive position.It is not a half-hearted embrace.On this issue, Duceppe is currently

out-hawking Harper — venturing on rhetorical ground that the Conservative leader dares not tread. On Sunday, the Bloc leader compared the ISIS offensive to the rise of Nazi Germany. “Waving a white flag is not an option. Those who initially did in the face of Adolf Hitler did not last long,” he told Ra-dio-Canada.

Unlike Harper, he also believes Canada should not exclude joining allies such as France or Great Britain should they decide to take on the Islamic State in a ground war.

Duceppe’s support for the mission predates his return to pol-itics. He came out for Canada’s partic-ipation in airstrikes on ISIS positions in the Middle East in his last year. He also argued that anyone caught expressing sympathy for the Islamic State cause should be placed under arrest: “In a war situation, anyone en-gaging in propaganda in favour of the enemy can be brought to justice and eventually condemned.”

Last fall’s attacks at Parliament Hill and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris have resulted in a hardening of Quebec’s traditionally pacifist public opinion, and Duceppe’s writings reflect that evolution.

But his fighting words also reflect a significant change in the audience he is courting in this campaign.

Over Duceppe’s four-year absence from the scene, the Bloc has lost many of the constituencies that used to make up its left flank.

For the first time in decades, Cana-da’s largest trade union — the Fédéra-tion des Travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) — has declined to back the party. In-stead, the FTQ is supporting the local candidates it feels are best placed to beat the Conservatives. Many of the progressive voters who supported the Bloc in the past similarly feel that in this election seeking regime change is job one.

The federal party’s support for the Parti Québécois’s secularism charter has also scorched quite a bit of earth for the sovereigntist party, in particu-lar but not exclusively among Quebec’s cultural communities.

The voters Duceppe is most likely to woo are diehard pro-charter sover-eigntists who take their cue from PQ

Leader Pierre-Karl Péladeau.But there is also a personal under-

tone to Duceppe’s shawkish rhetoric. Since the campaign began, his heart has clearly been more in his attacks on Mulcair and the party that forced him into political retirement four years ago than in his denunciations of the Con-servatives.

As an aside, the Bloc’s realignment on the anti-ISIS mission is hardly the only 180-degree turn of this long cam-paign.

On Sunday, former prime minister Jean Chrétien slammed the NDP for its contention that Quebec’s secession could be set in motion by a simple ma-jority referendum vote. He claimed that the New Democrats would be poor keepers of Canada’s unity. And yet it was not long ago that Chrétien was the top advocate of the Liberals joining forces with the NDP.

That was some time after the party, under Jack Layton, had taken a stand against the Liberal Clarity act.

Prior to Sunday’s call to arms against the NDP’s unity stance, Chré-tien had dismissed suggestions that their difference on the central unity is-sue could be an impediment to a merg-er of the two parties.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star.

CHANTELHÉBERT

OPINION

BY ROBERT MCGARVEYSPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

It’s taken some time to get there, but even the To-ries admit (reluctantly) that the Canadian economy is in recession. The big question for the electorate is: can government do anything to improve the situ-ation?

All of our party leaders have plans to stimulate the economy; regrettably, they’re offering up the same tired old corporate tax breaks, or govern-ment-led infrastructure spending programs. Truth is, the problem is much deeper than that.

For decades now, economists have encouraged governments to let market forces manage the econ-omy. Economic theory tells us free markets direct resources optimally.

But with our economy mired in a deep funk, clear-ly more needs to be done. Government-led economic stimulus after 2008 and, more recently, austerity have not delivered the promised recovery.

Free market economics relieve governments of their responsibly to direct the economy. Even utter-ing the words ‘national strategy’ in Canada is polit-ical suicide. Maybe it’s time for some new thinking, possibly a major about-face, on the role of govern-ment in the modern economy.

A good place for governments to start would be engaging in a debate about the future of our country, setting some national strategic goals, targets that in-spire, targets that advance the well-being of Canadi-

ans and meet the ambitions of our youth. I recognize it’s hard to do, given the diversity of modern society, but isn’t that what political leaders are supposed to do?

There are more specific things governments could do. Economist Kevin Page says a major impediment to growth in Canada is investment, or more correctly, the lack of it. Investment in Canada flat-lined years ago at very low levels, leaving many sectors of our economy undercapitalized.

A role for government could be to stimulate re-form of our capital markets.

It is often said that ‘we’, in the developed West, have highly sophisticated capital markets. In fact, one of the most popular myths in modern capitalism is that stock markets exist to connect the world’s capital with companies needing that capital to grow their businesses, build new factories, launch new products or hire new staff.

This is almost entirely false.In Canada, there are trillions of dollars in man-

aged investments, retirement savings plans, pen-sion and mutual funds. Regrettably, the majority of this capital is in the stock market. Most stock mar-ket transactions simply swap one existing (passive) stockholder with another, the money circulating in a great vortex between and amongst these sharehold-ers. Almost none of this invested capital ends up in the treasuries of companies needing capital for growth.

In other words, there’s no shortage of capital in Canada, but it is misdirected toward property and

speculative stock market investments and away from productive growth investment.

To change this, governments could start with the banks.

Canada’s banks are ‘chartered’. What that means in practice is they’re afforded some protection from (internal and external) competition. The quid pro quo is, they have a responsibility to capitalize the economy. But corporate lending by banks has almost disappeared and has never really existed for early stage technology-based companies. And bank-man-aged funds that invest directly in local businesses creating jobs simply do not exist.

Government could set some national goals and then work with the banks and other financial institu-tions to oxygenate the Canadian economy.

If the proper incentives, regulations and proto-cols were put in place, then maybe when a young entrepreneur approaches their bank looking for fi-nance, he or she, won’t be shown the door. Perhaps, your financial adviser will have a locally directed ‘Alberta First’ fund, or a special fund for female entrepreneurs, rural development or First Nations’ businesses.

Government could encourage Canadians to take greater personal control over the nearly $1 trillion TSFA or RRSP accounts. Instead of investing in low return GICs, investors could self-direct some part of their savings in ways that make a difference, advanc-ing the economic well-being of their fellow Canadi-ans.

Robert McGarvey is a Troy Media columnist.

New economic vision needed for Canada

Embattled senator pleads guilty to assault, cocaine charges

GATINEAU, Que. — Sen. Patrick Brazeau pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges of assault and possession of cocaine after a more serious charge of sexual assault was dropped because the Crown said it did not have sufficient evidence.

The former member of Stephen Harper’s Conservative caucus drew a step closer to being able to resume his Senate seat career as both his lawyer and the Crown prosecutor recommended an unconditional discharge.

Brazeau entered the pleas Tuesday at a courthouse in this west Quebec city across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill.

Gerard Larocque, Brazeau’s lawyer, told Quebec Court Judge Valmont Beaulieu that if his client receives an unconditional discharge, “his chances are excellent” of being able to return to the upper chamber as a senator.

According to the rules, serious criminal convictions accompanied by substantial jail time are usually a one-way ticket out of the Senate. But the reduced charges, combined with an unconditional discharge, could be a boon to Brazeau — for now.

Beaulieu said he will rule on Brazeau’s sentence Oct. 28.

Conservative staffer violated Conflict of Interest Act: ethics watchdog

OTTAWA — The government’s ethics watchdog has found a Conservative aide in violation of the Conflict of Interest Act for working with a company that had previously lobbied him.

Daniel Kosick, who used to work for former Hu-man Resources Minister Diane Finley, went on to take a job with a lobbying and public affairs firm in August 2013.

The same firm and same representative was also doing work for the National Association of Com-munity Colleges (NACC), and had directly lobbied Kosick while he worked for Finley five times.

The Conflict of Interest Act requires that public office holders such as Kosick wait one year before they accept a job from any firm that they had deal-ings with while in government.

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson said that Kosick should have known that Flagship Solutions Inc. was also doing work for the NACC when he accepted the job.

Kosick, who went back to government to work for Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre, argued that he was not aware of the relationship between Flag-ship and the NACC.

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Harper campaign capitalizes on surprise surplus


Stephen Harper was hanging 10 on the crest of a surprise budget surplus Tuesday, showing off his fiscal bona fides as the federal election campaign prepared to convene in Calgary to debate the state of the Canadian economy.

But it wasn’t all smooth surfing for the Conserva-tives: yet another would-be Tory MP took a tumble over inappropriate comments on social media.

Newfoundland and Labrador candidate Blair Dale was dropped over Facebook comments that were “incompatible with our party,” said a spokes-man.

Dale is the sixth Conservative to be shown the door since the campaign began Aug. 2.

Earlier in the day, Harper had a little spring in his step in Vancouver as he boasted about Finance Department numbers that show a $1.9-billion surplus in 2014-15 where once there was a predicted $2-bil-lion shortfall.

Back on one of his favourite talking points, the prime minister mocked the fiscal-management chops of both Rachel Notley, Alberta’s new NDP premier, and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

“We know why there’s a recession (in Alberta) — it’s not because the government ran a $2-billion sur-plus,” he said.

“There’s a recession because oil prices have fall-en by half, and the recession has been made worse because the NDP government came in and followed up by raising taxes on everybody.”

Trudeau — who has linked the economic slow-down to the government’s relentless pursuit of a pre-election balanced budget — seems to think that $2-billion surplus provoked a worldwide fall in oil prices, Harper continued.

“I mean, seriously,” the Conservative leader said to laughter from the partisan crowd.

“They think that somehow under these conditions, plunging the country back into deficit for years to come would be a good thing. Canadians get that, giv-en the turmoil in the world, the fact that we have a budget balanced — and we’re going to keep that bal-anced — is a good thing for this country.”

Trudeau has criticized the surplus as the product of failing to spend adequately on those vulnerable Canadians — an accusation the Conservatives deny.

The surplus was achieved in part by departments under-spending their budgets by $8.7 billion — a tactic known as lapsed funding and one deplored by critics as spending cuts by stealth. The Conserva-tives had budgeted for $7.2 billion in lapsed funding but wound up with $1.5 billion more than anticipat-ed.

A Liberal government would stick with its plan to run deficits for the first three years in office, making investments in infrastructure and seniors despite the surplus, Trudeau has said.

Monday’s surplus news couldn’t have come at a better time for Harper, who will join his NDP and Liberal counterparts Thursday in Calgary for a de-bate on economic issues, sponsored by the Globe and Mail and Google Canada.

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Court dismisses federal appeal over niqab at citizenship ceremonies


OTTAWA — The courts handed the Harper gov-ernment another policy rebuke Tuesday when the Federal Court of Appeal quashed its attempts to ban face coverings at citizenship ceremonies.

But the Conservative campaign vowed to fight back, saying uncovered faces at such ceremonies were “consistent with Canadian values of openness, social cohesion, and equality.”

The latest chapter in the Conservatives battle with the courts unfolded Tuesday when the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s appeal of an earlier Federal Court ruling that said banning face coverings at such ceremonies was unlawful.

On Tuesday, the three justices ruled from the bench, saying they wanted to proceed quickly so that

Zunera Ishaq, the woman who challenged the ban, can obtain citizenship in time to vote on Oct. 19.

Appeal Justice Mary Gleason, speaking on behalf of her two concurring judges, said her court saw no reason to interfere with the earlier lower court rul-ing.

Ishaq, a 29-year-old woman with devout Muslim beliefs who came to Ontario from Pakistan in 2008, refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony be-cause she would have to show her face. The swift rul-ing left her almost speechless, but she said she looks forward to voting.

One of her lawyers, Marlys Edwardh, said the Im-migration Department would be contacted this week so she could attend a citizenship ceremony — accom-panied by her lawyers “just in case.”

A spokesman for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper expressed regret over the court’s ruling.

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OTTAWA — The boom in Canada’s housing market continued in August with sales of existing homes edging up 0.3 per cent month over month and holding at levels not far off the five-year high reached in May, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.

In its latest survey released Tues-day, CREA says sales of existing homes were little changed from July in all local markets, with an even split be-tween those posting increases and those showing declines.

On a full-year basis, actual sales were up four per cent compared with August 2014 and were 6.6 per cent above the 10-year average for the month of the month.

“August marked the fourth month in a row for strong and stable national sales activity,” CREA president Pau-line Aunger said in the report.

Prices continued to rise in Ontar-

io and B.C. “where listings are either in short supply or heading in that di-rection,” said CREA chief economist Gregory Klump, who noted that the month also provided “early evidence that modest price growth is re-emerg-ing in some markets in Quebec and New Brunswick.”

Klump added that enduring low in-terest rates continued to boost home sales and were “likely to keep doing so for some time.”

CREA said actual sales were up from levels in the same period last year in more than 60 per cent of all lo-cal markets, led by B.C.’s Lower Main-land region and the Greater Toronto Area, while those in Calgary continued to post the largest year-over-year de-clines.

Nationally, the number of newly listed homes edged up by 0.5 per cent in August from July, led by gains in Edmonton and the GTA, while the na-tional sales-to-new listings ratio was 56.7 per cent in August, down from 56.9

per cent in July.CREA says a sales-to-new listings

ratio between 40 and 60 per cent is generally consistent with a balanced housing market.

Meanwhile, the association said two-storey single family homes contin-ued to post the biggest year-over-year price gains, up 8.85 per cent followed by one-storey single family homes, up 6.09 per cent townhouse/row units, up 4.29 per cent, and apartment units, up 3.08 per cent.

Great Vancouver continues to show the highest year-over-year price growth, up 11.96 followed by Greater Toronto, up 9.99 per cent.

Prices in Calgary were flat on a year-over-year basis in August, mark-ing the first month since September 2011 of no year-over-year price growth. Those in Saskatoon also ran roughly even with last August’s levels.

Elsewhere, home prices were up about 1.5 per cent in Greater Montreal, about one per cent in Greater Moncton

and by about half of one per cent in Ot-tawa. Prices fell by about 3.5 per cent in Regina, extending year-over-year price declines that began in 2013.

The national average price for homes sold in August was $433,367, up 8.7 per cent on a year-over-year basis.

Meanwhile, CREA is revising up-ward its national housing forecast for the year despite the dampening effect in some provinces of low prices for oil and other commodities.

CREA says that is because low interest rates and supportive demo-graphics have resulted in stronger than expected home sales activity in British Columbia and Ontario, which account for about 60 per cent of Cana-dian housing activity.

National sales now are projected to rise by 3.3 per cent to 495,800 units in 2015, marking the second-strongest year on record for home sales in Can-ada.

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TORONTO — While some shoppers may struggle to locate garments in a specific style or colour, Ashlie Cal-lender faces an even greater obstacle: finding clothes that will fit her curvy frame.

“Regular stores, they go up to extra large sometimes, and that’s really like a (size) 10 maybe. So if it’s a stretchy material, I can get away with it,” said the college student, 24.

“I actually would like shopping, but all of my options are either for peo-ple who are really, really old, wearing dress pants all the time — and that’s pretty much it. So I wish there was more.”

Callender joined dozens of shop-pers who jammed Torrid’s new loca-tion in Toronto Eaton Centre for the grand opening of its first store outside of the U.S.

Three more Torrid stores are set to open in the Toronto area this fall, joining homegrown plus-size retailers Addition Elle and Penningtons, both under the banner of Montreal-based Reitmans Canada Ltd. (TSX:RET.A).

The plus-size brand is already fa-miliar to Canadians, who account for more than half of Torrid’s interna-tional business online, said CEO Lisa Harper.

The retailer has more than 280 stores across the U.S. and ships to more than 150 countries. Torrid is a full-service apparel and accessories shop offering separates, denim, hand-bags and footwear.

Harper said the company expects to open about 10 stores in Canada in 2016, and has been eyeing British Columbia, Calgary and Edmonton as potential ex-pansion sites.

While they don’t yet have a Canadi-an-specific e-commerce site, Harper said they’ll have an option for shop-pers to ship items to stores at no addi-tional cost.

Canadian prices will also initial-ly be slightly higher to offset the ex-change rate, she added.

“We are very cautious about that, and it is not an across-the-board de-cision. It’s really on an item-by-item basis….

“Obviously, we would hope that it would be for the short term,” she added. Torrid is seeking to help fill a sizable void in Canadian retail for full-figured consumers.

A 2013 report from the NPD Group found that plus sizes represent 32 per cent of the “special size” clothing cat-egory, which also includes tall, petite and junior.

Two-thirds of plus-size women re-ported shopping for larger clothes was more stressful than shopping for tradi-tional sizes, with limited merchandise cited among the main causes.

“Coming from the wholesale side of the fashion business, you do have to pay a premium for clothes that are either plus-sized or petite,” said Sandy Silva, director of fashion and beauty at the NPD Group. “Oftentimes you have to make a minimum order to have the garment produced, and I think that is a huge barrier to entry for this market in Canada.”

Most national retailers which offer extending sizing have a “fairly basic assortment,” she noted.

“They don’t really have the wealth or array of fun, fashionable, sexy styles that plus-size women want as well as a regular-size woman.”

Prior to launching her plus-size life-style blog KillerKurves.com in 2012, Karyn Johnson fielded countless in-quiries about where she found clothes and boots to fit her legs.


MONTREAL — Economic challeng-es in China appear to be putting pres-sure on Canadian companies to search for other countries to source some of their goods.

“For the first time in almost a de-cade, we have heard customers say they are going back to older sources (of goods),” says Robert Cutler, CEO of Delmar International, a shipping company.

Canadian customers are closely watching China’s economic slowdown, currency devaluation and stock market volatility.

The fall of the renminbi to its lowest level since mid-2011 reduced the cost creep of Chinese-made goods. But it’s also cut the value of foreign invest-ments in the world’s second-largest economy.

Cutler said the Chinese government has a history of moving swiftly to ad-just to challenges, making it difficult to forecast how conditions will settle.

While China will likely remain a dominant manufacturing centre for consumer goods, he added that compa-nies are increasingly looking at alter-natives in Asia, the Indian subconti-nent and Latin America.

“The whole trick (for importers) is to keep their supply chain well-oiled and stuff in the pipeline. They don’t want that pipeline to stop flowing,” he said.

The Montreal-based company, which bills itself as Canada’s largest privately owned freight forwarding and customs brokerage firms, cele-brates its 50th birthday this month.

Delmar has leveraged its exper-tise getting goods out from behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War to expanding operations in other regions, including Asia. It began operations in China in the late 1970s and now has its own offices across the country, em-ploying hundreds.

About 20 per cent of Canada’s im-ports came from the Asia-Pacific re-gion last year, with about half — or $58.6 billion — shipped from China, according to Industry Canada.

Chinese imports to Canada have been growing, but imports from other low-cost countries — including Viet-nam, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia — have seen their exports grow even faster, including in the first six months of 2015.

Stockwell Day, former federal trade minister for the Asia Pacific region, said it’s understandable that unpre-

dictability about China’s growth will create nervousness. But he said those bumps in the road aren’t enough to off-set the benefits of doing business with China.

“Any business person will be look-ing around but the fact is China is such a giant market, and it will continue to be so,” said Day, a distinguished fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

As costs in China rises, importers naturally look to other regions, but more factors need to be considered other than simply chasing cheaper la-bour, he said from Vancouver.

Dollarama, which sources more than half of its goods from more than 25 countries outside North America — mainly China — said it hasn’t been ad-versely impacted by Chinese economic developments.

But it’s nonetheless considering hiking its top price from $3 to $4 be-cause a sharp decrease in the value of the Canadian dollar far outweighs the small price discounts flowing from the Chinese currency devaluation.

“They’re still the best source of sup-ply (for cheap products),” CEO Larry Rossy said during a recent conference call.


A Chinese investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Tuesday. World stock markets were lower Tuesday after China’s benchmark suffered a late session sell-off.

China woes pushing Canadian importers to look for sourcing alternatives

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Credit bureau Equifax says household debt piling up more

slowly in 2QTORONTO — Canadians are still

adding to household debt, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year, according to a new study from Equifax.

The credit rating agency says debt for those with a credit file, which includes most adults, rose two per cent in the second quarter of 2015 after rising 2.7 per cent in the first quarter.

Total consumer debt now amounts to $1.568 trillion, with the average debt load, excluding mortgage debt, totalling $21,164.

Albertans top the list, with an average of $27,313 in consumer debt for every person with a credit file.

Yet Equifax says the average debt load in the oil-rich province dropped

by 0.1 per cent from the second quarter of 2014.

Among other things, Equifax says Canadians are adding to debt to buy new cars, with auto loans increasing by 3.9 per cent from the same period last year.

Penn West to sell properties near Mitsue for $192.5MCALGARY — Penn West Petroleum

Ltd. (TSX:PWT) has agreed to sell its properties in the Greater Mitsue area of Alberta for $192.5 million cash.

Money from the sale will be used to reduce the Calgary-based company’s debt.

It’s the first major sale of non-core assets for Penn West since it announced two weeks ago that it was cutting its workforce by 400 full-time employees and contractors, suspending its dividend and cutting compensation for its directors.

It also announced on Sept. 1 that it would sell a number of non-core assets, including the Mitsue properties, to reduce overhead costs.

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Derek, can I use the money in my RRSP to buy a home?

In most cases the funds that you save in a Regis-tered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) are typically meant to provide you an income when you’re no longer working. However, if you’re looking to buy a home you may be able to withdraw these funds with-out paying any sort of tax. This withdrawal falls un-der the Home Buyers With-drawal Program and is a great option.

The Home Buyers’ Plan was introduced in 1992 to assist first time home buy-ers. In short, it allows you to withdraw up to $25,000 from your RRSP.

There are few instances where the government will allow you to take funds from your RRSP on a tax-free basis, so this option should be ex-plored if you’re planning on becoming a home owner.

While the withdrawal is made tax-free, it’s important to note that the funds must be repaid back to your RR-SP over the next 15 years. So in this ex-

ample, if you were to withdraw $25,000, you must deposit around $1,667 per

year to your RRSP. If you chose not to repay the with-drawal, you must add that year’s intended deposit back to your income and pay the according tax. So in this case, if you didn’t make a deposit back to your RRSP, you would end up paying tax on the $1,667. If you never deposited money back to your RRSP, the full $25,000 would be taxable.

There are rules that must be followed to ensure you qualify for the Home Buyers’ Plan.

Specifically, you can-not have owned a home, or have lived in a home owned by your spouse, in any of

the five calendar years beginning be-fore the time of withdrawal. So if you and your spouse own a house right now, you wouldn’t qualify for this pro-gram.

Some other factors to be aware of is the home you’re buying must be con-sidered your principal residence, or said another way, it can’t be a rent-al property or a commercial venture.

Further to this, the home must be lo-cated in Canada, so forget buying that beach condo down in Mexico. Also, you need to be in a written contract to buy or build a home.

Lastly, the funds have to be in your RRSP at least 90 days before you’re planning to get at the money. So if you’re starting to think about buying a house and the Home Buyers’ Plan seems like an attractive option, make sure you get your RRSP contribution made in time

. Better yet, talk to a qualified finan-cial advisor who may provide profes-sional advice on this.

So while the program exists and it is possible to get money from your RRSP to buy a home, the next logical ques-tion is whether you should or not?

By withdrawing funds from your RRSP you are foregoing the invest-ment income and the related tax-de-ferred compounding of that income during the time that this money would have been in your RRSP.

This results in the reduction of your RRSP balance and subsequently the income available to you during your retirement.

For example, assume a 30-year old investor takes $20,000 out of his RRSP under the plan and begins to repay it

right away ($1,333/year for 15 years). If he had left the amount inside of his RRSP, he would have approximately $400,000 by age 71 (using an 8% rate of return). However, with repaying it slowly over 15 years, he would be left with $230,000, a difference of $170,000.

While that represents a significant difference in the RRSP, it does not mean the withdrawal was a poor strat-egy.

There should also be a comparison of the interest paid on having a larger mortgage. In reality, the decision must be well thought out and all variables should be considered.

Buying a home for the first time is an exciting time. Before you commit to withdrawing funds from your RRSP be sure to consider whether it’s the best strategy or if there is another way to access your down payment. In the meantime, happy house hunting!

Wealth Watch is written by Derek Fuchs, a wealth advisor with ScotiaMc-Leod in Red Deer. It is provided for infor-mational purposes only and any opinions contained in it are his own. Readers are urged to consult a wealth advisor for help with their personal investment circum-stances. Fuchs can be contacted at [email protected].

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WEALTH WATCH


TORONTO — The Toronto Star is headed directly into uncharted terri-tory with a new tablet application it hopes will keep younger readers from turning to other sources.

Star Touch, which launched Tues-day, marks the first time an En-glish-language news organization has plunked down millions of dollars — and hired about 70 newsroom staff — solely for the purpose of building a tablet app.

It’s a risky endeavour that could be a runaway success or a colossal fail-ure, but it comes at a time when Cana-da’s media businesses are struggling to keep pace with both dramatic shifts in technology and evolving reader habits.

The colourful Star Touch is in-spired by the La Presse tablet app, which has been a rousing success for the Montreal-based, French-language newspaper. La Presse supplied the platform and some technical staff to help the Star develop its new app.

Like a newspaper, Star Touch will be updated around 5:30 a.m. each day and exists as a stand-alone publication which both taps into current technolo-gy trends while running against some of them.

For instance, part of the objective is to get readers to focus their attention only on Star Touch. The Star wants people to spend a chunk of their day perusing the broad lineup of stories, which incorporate vivid photogra-phy, videos and sometimes interactive charts and graphs.

Some ads are also interactive in an attempt to allow advertisers to reach and engage younger readers.

The design of Star Touch shies away from certain elements that have be-come commonplace in the media.

Unlike Google News, it doesn’t cu-rate stories to appeal to each reader’s personal taste, and while Star Touch content can be shared on other social media platforms, readers will find the experience less appealing than it is inside the tablet app.

Toronto Star publisher John Cruick-shank said it’s part of a plan that makes the newspaper, the Star website and the new tablet app all priorities at the media company.

“We really do see the Star now as very much multi-platform,” he said in an interview on Tuesday.

“We focused all of our resources and attention in getting the tablet app up and running. It’s a very complex piece of technology and the changes

in the newsroom were staggering in complexity.”

Breaking news stories will appear as headlines within Star Touch, which will link to the Star’s main website to provide the latest information, Cruick-shank said.

Star Touch is only available on Ap-ple iPads for now, though the company plans to launch a version that’s com-patible with Android tablets this fall. The plan is to eventually make Star Touch available for smartphones as well, Cruickshank said.

Journalists at the Star have been asked to think differently about how they tell stories, to write shorter piec-es and to experiment with multimedia.

The Star’s leadership has learned a couple of lessons in recent years as it looked to the future of the news indus-try, Cruickshank added.

“Print readers are going to stay with print (newspapers), they’re not going to leave it behind,” he said. “The second thing is, nobody under 50 is going to pay us for news.”

While the tablet push is an ambi-tious project, it comes years later than it should have, said Kaan Yigit, a tech-nology analyst at Solutions Research Group.

“If this initiative was launched in 2012, it would’ve been bang-on,” he said. “Smartphones were still less ca-pable, not as media-rich, and screens were smaller.”

But as the popularity of larger phones has picked up over the past three years, the use of tablets has seemingly peaked.

Research from IDC Canada shows that tablet sales in the Canadian mar-ket are expected to decline in the low double digits by the end of 2015 as con-sumers look elsewhere to spend their money on technology.

Canadians who already own tablets aren’t looking to upgrade their current devices either, said IDC analyst Vla-dyslav Mukherjee.


The Toronto Star’s much buzzed-about free tablet application is shown in this screen image, Tuesday. Star Touch is inspired by the La Presse tablet app, which has been a rousing success for the Montreal-based, French-language newspaper.

Toronto Star launches new tablet app

HOPING FOR LA PRESSE-ESQUE SUCCESS

“WE FOCUSED ALL OF OUR RESOURCES AND ATTENTION

IN GETTING THE TABLET APP UP AND RUNNING. IT’S A VERY COMPLEX PIECE OF

TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHANGES IN THE NEWSROOM WERE

STAGGERING IN COMPLEXITY”

JOHN CRUICKSHANKTORONTO STAR PUBLISHER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday it opposes a House Re-publican bill to lift the four-decade-old U.S. ban on crude oil exports.

A decision on whether to end the ban should be made by the Commerce Department, not Congress, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.

Earnest also took a shot at House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans pushing to end the oil export ban, which was imposed in the 1970s as the United States re-sponded to an Arab oil embargo that sparked inflation and prompted long lines at gas stations.

Earnest accused McCarthy and oth-er Republicans of trying to “cozy up to oil interests” by pursuing policies that benefit the oil and gas industry. He urged Republicans to support efforts to eliminate subsidies for oil and gas companies and back investments in wind and solar power and other re-newable energy.

Earnest was responding a speech McCarthy, R-California, was sched-uled to make in Houston Tuesday to promote the importance of U.S. en-ergy production, including lifting the ban on crude oil exports. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to approve a bill lifting the export ban later this week.

“If there was ever a time to lift the oil export ban, it’s now,” McCarthy said in prepared remarks provided by his office. “Lifting the oil export ban will not only help our economy, it will also bolster our geopolitical standing.”

The oil industry has launched a lob-bying campaign to lift the export ban,

saying it would produce hundreds of thousands of jobs by offering addition-al markets for oil companies to sell their product.

Republicans and some Democrats in the House and Senate have joined the push, saying an ongoing boom in oil and gas drilling has made the 1970s-era restrictions obsolete. House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said a “scarcity mindset” leftover from that era has been replaced by soaring domestic production of oil and natural gas, even as renewable energy such as wind and solar power also make gains.

A report this month by the U.S. En-ergy Information Administration — an arm of the Energy Department — said lifting the ban would not hurt consum-ers at the gasoline pump.

Opponents say lifting the ban would make it harder for U.S. refineries to compete internationally and could lead to job losses.

Sen. Edward Markey, a Democrat, said it makes no sense to export U.S. oil when the nation still imports mil-lions of barrels of oil a day and con-sumers are saving at the pump be-cause of lower oil prices worldwide.

“Low gas prices are a massive eco-nomic stimulus for American consum-ers and our economy,” Markey said. “Oil companies want to lift the export ban in order to tip consumers upside down and shake money out of their pockets.”

The U.S should keep its oil home “to benefit our economy, not hand a multi-billion windfall to Big Oil by al-lowing it to be sent overseas to the highest bidder,” Markey said.

CRUDE OIL

White House opposes Republican bill to lift ban on exports


WASHINGTON — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management lacks sufficient resources to inspect high-risk oil and gas wells on federal land as a drilling boom continues in Wyoming, Colorado and other states, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Tuesday.

The Obama administration has pro-posed a fee on oil and gas drillers that would allow the land management agency to hire more than 60 inspec-tors, but the proposal has not gained traction in Congress. The land bureau faces a “major backlog of inspections” as it tries to keep pace with a drilling boom that has sharply increased U.S. oil and gas production in recent years, Jewell said.

“We do not have the resources nec-essary to do the job,” Jewell said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

The Associated Press reported last year that 40 per cent of new wells on federal and Indian land with a higher pollution risk were not inspected from 2009 to 2012. Asked if the situation had improved since then, Jewell said no, adding: “We are under-resourced.”

While the proposed fee has stalled in Congress, Jewell said it remains the agency’s best option to whittle its in-spections backlog.

“It makes no sense not to match supply and demand,” she said, adding that if the drilling boom slows or fiz-zles, the need to charge a fee would go away.

Jewell also lamented a practice in which energy companies “flare” or burn off vast supplies of natural gas as they drill for oil. A report by the Government Accountability Office said 40 per cent of the gas being burned or vented could be captured economical-

ly and sold.The bureau has not completed new

guidelines on flaring, but Jewell said a proposed rule could be released for public comment later this year. But even without new federal rules, Jew-ell urged energy companies to rethink their practice of flaring natural gas in the pursuit of higher-priced oil.

“It’s crazy to vent natural gas in-to the atmosphere when natural gas is a fuel that can produce electrici-ty at a much lower carbon footprint than other (energy) sources like coal,” Jewell said. On a related topic, Jewell said she is confident that new rules for oil and gas drilling on federal lands nationwide will be upheld, despite a court challenge by four states and two industry groups. The Bureau of Land Management has delayed implement-ing the rules until a federal judge in Wyoming rules on the case.

Jewell said the rules “are based on common sense and science,” although she acknowledged some changes may be required. The rules, announced in March, would require oil and gas de-velopers to report the chemicals they pump underground during hydraulic fracturing. The drilling procedure, al-so known as fracking, involves pump-ing huge volumes of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals underground to crack open deposits and boost flows of oil and gas.

The federal rules also would re-quire pressure testing of newly in-stalled wells. The petroleum indus-try argues the rules would be costly to oil and gas developers. Officials in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and North Dakota claim the rules would dam-age their economies by causing energy companies to move off federal lands to regions where oil and gas reserves can be exploited from private land, where the government has less oversight.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 136.72ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.83BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.46BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.92Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.67Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.87Cdn. National Railway . . 74.43Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 194.17Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.49Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.54Cervus Equipment Corp 13.44Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 43.61Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.45Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.65Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.22General Motors Co. . . . . 30.99Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.69Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.80SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 38.29Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.19Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.78Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 5.73Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 42.76

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 120.51Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.36Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.00

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 68.02Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.91Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.07Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.32WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.89

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 8.29Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.22First Quantum Minerals . . 7.08Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 16.64Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.64Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 1.93Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.41Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 33.09Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.97Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 8.51

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 17.06Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 19.41Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 53.42Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.51Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 18.37Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 26.33Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.11Canyon Services Group. . 5.04Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 17.50CWC Well Services . . . 0.1850

Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.51Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.740Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 72.86Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 37.01High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.54Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 20.91Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.58Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.25Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.700Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.59Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 33.42Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.55Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.82Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 40.34Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2250FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 69.73Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 58.27CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.17Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 23.26Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.63IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.59Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.72Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.55National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.00Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.70Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 73.20Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.79TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.08

COMPANIESOF LOCAL INTEREST

MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — The Toronto

stock market posted a triple-dig-it gain Tuesday as a small re-covery in oil and metals prices helped buoy North American markets.

The S&P/TSX index closed up 109.37 points to 13,462.71 af-ter sliding more than 216 points in the previous two sessions.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average soared 228.89 points to 16,599.85, while the S&P 500 advanced 25.06 points to 1,978.09 and the Nas-daq climbed 54.76 points to 4,860.52.

American markets seemed rejuvenated after dipping Mon-day amid interest rate worries ahead of the two-day policy rate meeting of the U.S. Federal Re-serve, which starts Wednesday.

The Fed wil l announce Thursday whether it plans to raise its benchmark rate or con-tinue to hold it near zero, where it has been since the Great Re-cession.

“We’re just in this back and forth trading while people wait and see what the Fed does on Thursday,” said Colin Cieszyns-ki, chief market strategist at CMC Markets.

Some observers predict the U.S. central bank will move to increase rates, but others ex-pect the Fed to opt for caution in the face of halting progress in the U.S. economic recovery, the slowdown in China and tur-bulence on global financial mar-kets.

Cieszynski said that higher rates won’t actually have much of a long-term impact on the value of the American dollar because markets have already priced it into the value.

“We’re in a situation where everybody knows a rate hike is coming and, in some ways, the Fed might be better served by just getting it over with,” he said.

If they delay the rate hike,

Cieszynski said, the uncertain-ty that has contributed to recent volatility on the world markets will keep hanging around.

The loonie ended the day up 0.06 of a U.S. cent at 75.49 cents US.

The Canadian dollar is stabi-lizing after being hit by the col-lapse in oil prices and the ac-celerating American recovery, Cieszynski said.

“I think that just about all the bad news has been priced in,” he said.

“You never know if another shoe is going to fall, but I think a lot of shoes have already fallen on it.”

On commodity markets, the October contract for bench-mark crude oil rose 59 cents to US$44.59 a barrel, while Octo-ber natural gas fell three cents to US$2.728 per thousand cubic feet.

December gold fell $5.10 to US$1,102.60 an ounce, while December copper pric-es strengthened 2.1 cents to US$2.427 a pound.

In economic news, the Com-merce Department reported the U.S. retail sales rose just 0.2 per cent in August after advancing 0.7 per cent in July, slightly less than economists had forecast.

Meanwhile, the Fed also re-ported that manufacturing pro-duction fell 0.5 per cent in Au-gust, its biggest decline since January 2014, with lower auto-mobile production accounting for most of the decline.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Tues-

day at world financial market trading.

Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

—13,462.71, up 109.37 pointsDow -- 16,599.85, up 228.89

pointsS&P 500 — 1,978.09, up

25.06 points

Nasdaq— 4,860.52, up 54.76 points

Currencies:Cdn — 75.49 cents US, up

0.06 of a centPound — C$2.0318, down

1.37 centsEuro — C$1.4928, down

0.84 of a centEuro — US$1.1269, down

0.55 of a cent

Oil futures:US$44.59 per barrel, up 59

cents(October contract)Gold futures:US$1,102.60 per oz., down

$5.10(December contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$19.804 oz., down 7.5 cents$636.70 kg., down $2.41

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG -- ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: Nov ‘15 $0.70 low-

er $471.10 J a n . ‘ 1 6 $0.40 higher $475.80 M a r c h ‘16 $1.10 higher $478.70 May ‘16 $1.30 higher $479.30 July ‘16 $1.60 higher $479.00 Nov. ‘16 $0.20 higher $458.50 Jan. ‘17 $0.20 higher $459.70 March ‘17 $0.20 higher $461.40 May ‘17 $0.20 higher $461.40 July ‘17 $0.20 higher $461.40 Nov. ‘17 $0.20 higher $461.40.

Barley (Western): Oct. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 Dec. ‘15 unchanged $184.00 March ‘16 unchanged $186.00 May ‘16 unchanged $187.00 July ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $187.00 March ‘17 unchanged $187.00 May ‘17 unchanged $187.00 July ‘17 unchanged $187.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $187.00.

Tuesday’s estimated vol-ume of trade: 371,280 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 371,280.


FRANKFURT — European auto-makers are shrugging off the threat to sales from China’s struggling econo-my and focusing instead on growing demand in their home market, where competition is getting increasingly fierce, particularly for mass market cars.

After a summer of handwringing over turmoil in China, where many carmakers have enjoyed strong de-mand in recent years, the mood was upbeat at the Frankfurt auto show as reports showed sales were rising strong in Europe.

New car registrations grew 8.6 per cent over the first eight months in the European Union to surpass 9 million units. Manufacturers are forecasting full-year growth of around 7 per cent in the region — which will make it easier to absorb any hits from China’s slowdown.

As the auto show turned on the glitz, a lot of attention was on new small cars, a market in Europe that has long been difficult to expand in.

Opel, General Motor’s European brand, and France’s Renault showed off new versions of their mainstay small cars, the Astra and Megane, which they spruced up with safety and entertainment technology that used to be the domain of premium models.

Both have lane departure warning and automatic emergency braking to prevent collisions. Such technologies are meant to free drivers from routine tasks and may one day lead to driver-less cars.

The Astra has lost 200 kilograms (440 pounds) compared with the pre-vious version, which should improve handling. It supports Android and Ap-ple smartphone interfaces, enabling drivers to use apps like navigation, music and messaging through a dash-board display. It has optional massage seats and a scent dispenser. Opel also now has GM’s OnStar remote roadside assistance service, which enables driv-ers to speak to a help centre by push-ing a button.

The Megane, meanwhile, includes a Bose sound system and also has advanced driving aids like an active emergency braking system and park-ing assistance.

As she unveiled the new Astra — its 11th version — GM CEO Mary Barra said it “will play a significant role the long-term success of Opel.”

Barra stressed GM’s commitment to Opel, which went through a rough patch after GM flirted with selling it following a bankruptcy restructuring in 2009. Opel has gained market share over the past three years as it works toward returning to profitability.

“Opel is vital to GM,” she said.The Astra goes on sale Oct. 10, start-

ing at 17,200 euros, the same as its pre-decessor. The Astra isn’t coming to the United States but its architecture could eventually be used on other GM vehicles.

While the Megane and the Astra were the most significant launches in the mass-market category, new luxu-ry vehicles were on display in abun-dance. Mercedes-Benz showed off a sporty coupe version of its mid-size C-Class sedan, and a convertible ver-sion of its high-end S-Class sedan. Volkswagen’s luxury brand Bent-ley has the Bentayga, an SUV with a massive 12-cylinder engine and a top speed of 187 mph (301 kph). Fiat Chrys-ler Automobiles displayed its new Al-fa Romeo Giulia.

The four-door Giulia sedan is meant to relaunch the Alfa Romeo sports car brand and bring it back to the U.S. market. Brand chief Harald Wester told reporters that after the car was unveiled in June, more than 5,000 re-quests to buy it came in.

Alfa is aiming for sales of 400,000 a year by 2018, an ambitious goal after it sold under 68,000 cars last year. The brand is launching two new models a year after 2016, to reach eight models by 2018.

Ferrari unveiled a convertible version of its twin turbo 488 GTB launched in Geneva. Ferrari executive Enrico Galliera said the brand wasn’t worried about China numbers, say-ing that Hong Kong and Taiwan would help make up for any slip in sales in China proper.

BMW Chief Financial Officer Frie-drich Eichener was equally sanguine about China, but acknowledged that the push for new technologies is lead-ing competitors to team up to gain ad-vances they don’t possess.

Eichener told reporters that BMW and Toyota are looking for ways to deepen their co-operation, which they launched in 2011 with a deal to devel-op hydrogen fuel cells and other tech-nology.


Visitors surround cars in the Mercedes hall on the first press day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday.

European carmakers shrug off China concerns

to focus on growthFRANKFURT AUTO SHOW


VANCOUVER — Tahn Donovan tears up as she recalls watching a murder of crows circle above a singing First Nations’ man, the birds crowing as he broke into traditional song in the middle of Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

“It just really resonated with me,” said the Australian aboriginal woman, smiling at the memory of a recent indigenous-led tour she took of the expansive green space. “And then the crows started to sing.

“That connection with culture and land. … To hear somebody sing for their country is really special.”

Donovan, who represents an indigenous tourism council in Western Australia, was in Vancouver this past weekend as one of more than 100 delegates at the second annual Pacific Asia Indigenous Tourism and Trade Conference.

The three-day event, which ended Monday, brought together indigenous groups from around the world to form partnerships, share stories and discuss best practices on promoting the burgeoning field. A key element explored the value of that unique relationship between First Nations and the environment.

Delivering the conference’s keynote address was renowned National Geographic explorer-in-residence Wade Davis who told delegates that indigenous tourism could potentially revolutionize the industry by encouraging a better appreciation of cultural diversity.

“I think there’s a moral and huge opportunity to become ambassadors for an entire new way of being, a new geography of hope,” said Davis.

But it needs to go beyond leveraging quotas of First nations into the field, he added.

“Real tourism is when aboriginal societies on their own terms can share

their visions of life in a profound way that gives the visitor a true sense of authenticity, such that a visitor goes away as an avatar of the wonder of culture.”

Aboriginal Tourism Association of B.C. head Keith Henry said First Nations’ tourism is unique because it provides a snapshot into a culture and its people.

“We see visitors who are really looking for new experiences, unique experiences — they want to know the true history and story of the land,” he said.

“That’s what aboriginal tourism does for all of tourism, not just for aboriginal communities but for all of Canada.”

Indigenous tourism in B.C. employs 3,400 people, reached $50 million in revenue this year and Henry expects it to hit $68 million by 2017.

Cuts to B.C. Ferries last year prompted criticism from First Nations’ entrepreneurs concerned about the impact reduced service would have on offering authentic travel experiences to remote coastal areas.

“It’s very important not only for jobs but it’s also about cultural sustainability or revitalization,” Henry added.

“We’ve seen a lot of communities where tourism has been really the incubator to really helping a new sense of pride in the community.”

That was the case with Dennis Thomas, a member of the Tseil-Waututh Nation and general manager of an ecotourism canoe and kayak business in North Vancouver.

“Fifteen years ago I didn’t really know anything about my culture,” he said.

“Given that opportunity by my leaders to come and learn and know the history of my people and my songs, it just made me a better person.”

First Nations tourism ‘a new geography of hope’

PACIFIC ASIA INDIGENOUS TOURISM CONFERENCE

INDIGENOUS TOURISM EMPLOYS 3,400 PEOPLE IN B.C.

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Sakowich steady on Rebels bluelineBY GREG MEACHEM

ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

He’s upbeat and enthusiastic, and according to Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter, he’s not that far away from being a full-time con-tributor on the club’s blueline.

Ethan Sakowich, a third-round se-lection — 46th overall — in the 2014 Western Hockey League bantam draft, hasn’t looked out of place while ap-pearing in three preseason games this fall.

“He’s been just really steady,” Sut-ter said Tuesday. “He’s not a flashy player by any means, but he under-stands the game and he’s going to be a really good defenceman. He has a great stick and he’s smart.”

Sakowich, a 16-year-old product of Athabasca, has been all smiles through the preseason.

“It’s been a great experience, defi-nitely something different,” said the six-foot, 170-pound blueliner. “I’m en-joying all of it. It’s been nice to meet some new guys and I’m having fun playing hockey here.”

Sakowich was a combined plus-1 and was also assessed a minor penalty during the Rebels’ most recent exhi-bition outings, a 5-3 win over the host

Americans and a 5-3 loss to the Spokane Chiefs last Friday and Saturday in the Tri-City tourna-ment at Kenne-wick, Wash.

He was al-so a plus-1 and picked up an assist in Red Deer’s first pre-season game — a 5-2 loss to the

Edmonton Oil Kings Sept. 5.Sakowich quickly discovered that

the speed and bang-and-crash play of WHL preseason contests are more in-tense than anything he experienced during Rebels training camp and even the Black and White intrasquad game.

“It’s definitely a lot faster and crisp-er and everything is done at a high pace,” he said. “The games have also been more physical than I’m used to, but I feel that I’m adjusting to it well enough.”

Sakowich was the top defenceman with the major bantam Fort Saskatch-ewan Rangers the year he was drafted by the Rebels and last season played with the midget AAA Rangers, collect-ing five assists and running up 10 min-

utes in penalties in 27 games.He trained with a purpose during

the off-season and his conditioning has helped him remain with the Rebels, at least to this point. With Red Deer host-ing the Memorial Cup tournament next May and no fewer than seven blue-line berths already decided, Sakowich might be a longshot to remain with the club beyond late September.

“I worked really hard during the summer and I definitely feel like I’m a lot stronger than I was at the start of the year,” he said. “Physically, I feel like I’m pretty close to playing here. I can work on my speed a bit because it’s very quick at this level, but I feel like I’m close.”

In the event that he’s reassigned, Sakowich will rejoin the midget AAA squad in Fort Saskatchewan and take on a major role.

“I’ll definitely be playing a lot if I go back to midget, but I’m just taking it day by day right now,” he said. “I’ll just keep working hard in practice and try to make a name for myself.”

● Sutter reassigned two players — forwards Zac Gladu and Tanner Si-daway — on Tuesday, 24 hours after sending 15-year-old defenceman Jacob Herauf of Sherwood Park and forward D-Jay Jerome, 16, of Lethbridge to the midget AAA ranks.

Gladu, 17, will join the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior League and Sidaway, 16, will suit up with the Westshore Wolves of the Van-couver Island Junior B League.

● There remains a strong possibility that none of the eight Rebels attending NHL rookie camps will be back earlier than next week.

Sutter confirmed Tuesday that Ana-heim Ducks campers Wyatt Johnson and Lane Pederson, Winnipeg Jets prospects Nelson Nogier and Michael Spacek, Evan Polei (Detroit), Conner Bleackley (Colorado) and Haydn Fl-eury (Carolina) have all graduated to main camp.

The Rebels boss had yet to hear from the St. Louis Blues in regards to Adam Musil.

“It’s great experience for these players, but I hope to have at least a few of them back for opening weekend or we’ll be short-handed,” said Sut-ter, in reference to the Rebels’ regu-lar-season opener Sept. 26 versus the Oil Kings and a rematch the following day in Edmonton.

The Rebels close out their presea-son schedule with a Friday date with the Oil Kings at the Centrium and a Saturday engagement with the Medi-cine Hat Tigers at Stettler.

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Lowly Braves break tie in ninth inning to down Jays


Braves 3 Blue Jays 2ATLANTA — Mark Buehrle was hardly pleased

with Toronto dropping a series opener against one of the major leagues’ worst teams.

Even so, the 36-year-old lefty showed that he’s healthy enough to help the Blue Jays win the AL East for the first time since 1993.

“The biggest thing I take away from it is that I felt better than I have in the last few starts,” Buehrle said.

Despite losing 3-2 to the struggling Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night, Toronto still has a three-game division lead after the New York Yankees lost 6-3 at Tampa Bay.

The Blue Jays, despite the majors’ best record since the All-Star break, have lost two straight.

Andrelton Simmons’ tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning snapped the Braves’ 12-game home los-ing streak, the longest in franchise history.

Aaron Sanchez (7-6) took the loss, allowing four hits, one run and striking out one in 1 1-3 innings. The right-hander had runners on second and third with one out when Simmons drove the ball through the right side of the infield.

“I wasn’t going to walk him,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “With Sanchez on the mound, he’s a groundball machine, especially against right-handers. The guy hit the ball on the ground. It just found a hole. That’s just the way it goes.”

The Braves won at Turner Field for the first time since Aug. 24, against Colorado. Overall, they are 15-46 since July 8.

Buehrle struck out two and gave up six hits, one walk and two runs — one earned — in five innings. He threw just 66 pitches after getting a cortisone shot in his throwing shoulder Sept. 8.

“You can’t just assume we’re going to win three games because they’re not good and we are,” Buehr-le said. “But again, it comes down to I felt good, and that’s all that matters.”

Arodys Vizcaino (3-1) faced the minimum in the ninth to earn the win.

Blue Jays sluggers Josh Donaldson and Jose Bau-tista went a combined 0 for 8 with four strikeouts. First baseman Edwin Encarnacion, Toronto’s other big bat, missed his second straight game with an in-jured finger.

“The story was we didn’t score,” said Gibbons, whose team leads the majors with 203 homers. “Bot-tom line is we win when we score. We didn’t score enough tonight.”

Justin Smoak drew a leadoff walk in the second inning and Toronto took the game’s first lead on Cliff Pennington’s RBI single. Smoak’s 16th homer, a solo shot to start the sixth, made it 2-all.

Atlanta went up 2-1 in the bottom of the second when Simmons grounded out and Freddie Freeman reached on first baseman Smoak’s fielding error.

Braves starter Julio Teheran allowed five hits, two runs, four walks and struck out seven in 5 2-3 in-nings. He threw 113 pitches.

Brett Cecil pitched a perfect sixth for Toronto, his 25th consecutive scoreless inning, most by an AL re-liever this year.

TO THE ‘PENGibbons has moved RHP Drew Hutchison to the

bullpen as RHP Marcus Stroman moves into the five-man rotation. Gibbons told Hutchison, who is 13-4 but has a 5.33 ERA in 27 starts, on Sunday. Stroman returned from a season-long knee injury to win Sat-urday at Yankee Stadium. Hutchison has a 9.44 ERA on the road this year.

TRAINER’S ROOMBLUE JAYS: Gibbons said Encarnacion, who was

out of the lineup for the second straight game with an injured finger, should return before “too much longer.”

BRAVES: Manager Fredi Gonzalez said RHP Mike Foltynewicz, out since Sept. 2 with a virus and rib injury, could throw a bullpen session in the next day or two and return when a three-game series be-gins Sept. 21 at the New York Mets. Gonzalez will put Foltynewicz in the bullpen. … LHP Manny Banuelos was scheduled to visit Dr. James Andrews for an el-bow exam. Banuelos has already undergone Tommy John surgery.

UP NEXTBLUE JAYS: LHP David Price (15-5) will make

his ninth start since arriving in a trade with Detroit. Price is 6-1 with a 2.28 ERA for Toronto.

BRAVES: RHP Shelby Miller (5-14) will try to win for the first time in 22 starts, the longest career streak for a pitcher making an All-Star team in the same season. Miller, whose 2.86 ERA ranks sixth in the NL, has received by far the worst run support in the majors with less than 2.4 per start.

Queens not worried

about turnover

BY DANNY RODESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

The RDC Queens will have a slightly new look when they hit the court this season.

The two-time defending Canadian Colleges wom-en’s volleyball champions lost nine players off last year’s squad, including four starters.

But head coach Talbot Walton does have seven returnees, including his top two outside hitters in Miranda Dawe and Kelsey Tymkow.

“Recruiting went well,” he said. “We do need to replace the four starters, but in

the core of seven returnees we have athletes who have been patient and have grown nicely in the sys-tem.”

One is Ashley Fehr, a third-year setter from Inn-isfail who backed up Bronwyn Hawkes the last two seasons.

“She seems to understand the expectations on her,” said Walton. “She’s been through it the last two years and saw what it takes to succeed.”

As well, Walton added veteran setter Maegan Kuzyk, who was with the NAIT Ooks the last two sea-sons.

“We talked with Maegan the same year we recruit-ed Ashley and we went with Ashley as Maegan is a smaller athlete similar to Bronwyn and we didn’t want two smaller setters.

“We did mention to Maegan to call us once her commitment to NAIT was over. We watched her while at NAIT and she did an awesome job. She does have a similar style to Bronwyn as she’s quick to the ball and makes good decisions. She’s not overly physical at the net, but strong in the back row.”

Other returnees include outside hitter Lauren Marshall, who will also work as a libero, libero Oliv-ia Barnes and middle blockers Hanna Delemont and Fauve Welsh.

Of the newcomers, several, including Kuzyk, have post-secondary experience. Middle blocker Whitney Zylstra transferred from Briercrest Bible College, while Lindsey Thurber grad McKenna Barthel was at Iowa State University for the first half of last sea-son.

In addition, middle-outside hitter Neall Murphy played with Grande Prairie in the 2012-13 season while six-foot-two middle Taylor Wickson trained with the University of Calgary last season.

Barthel worked out with the Queens on several occasions during the second half of last season.

“She also played in our club system so knows the Queens system. She will step in and play at a high level,” said Walton, who also added outsider hitter Jessica Jones from Australia.

“It’s interesting recruiting when all you see is video, and from halfway around the world,” said Walton.

“Since we’ve seen her in person we’ve been pleas-antly surprised. We trained a bit in Banff before the season and she arrived on a Thursday night and was out on Saturday morning and you could see right away glimpses what she can do. She will be a big as-set for us.”

The other newcomers are middle blocker Cher-isse Johannason from Three Hills and outside hit-ters Danya Brackman of Ponoka and Kelsey Paton of Sherwood Park.


Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Kevin Pillar makes a sliding catch to retire Atlanta Braves’ Nick Markakis in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, in Atlanta. The Braves beat the Blue Jays 3-2.

RDC VOLLEYBALL

HEAD COACH FEELS TEAM WILL SUCCEED DESPITE LOSING NINE PLAYERS FROM CHAMPIONSHIP

WINNING TEAM

Please see QUEENS on Page B5

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

Grizzlys 6 Canucks 5CALGARY — James Gaume scored

his second goal of the game at 2:41 of overtime to push the Olds Grizzlys past the Calgary Canucks 6-5 in an Alberta Junior Hockey League game Tuesday.

The Grizzlys got additional goals from Tyr Thompson, Wyatt Noskey, Sean Richards and Landon Kletke in front of 222 fans at the Max Bell Cen-

tre.Kletke’s goal, a power-play marker

at 5:30 of the third period, gave the vis-itors a 5-3 lead. But Zach McNeill, with his second of the game, and Austin Ehret replied for the Canucks to force extra time. Chandler Irvin and Tyler Benko scored the other Calgary goals.

Winning netminder Kurtis Chap-man turned aside 34 shots, while Lo-gan Drackett and Jackson McIntosh combined to make 33 saves for the Ca-nucks.

The Grizzlys are in Camrose Friday to face the Kodiaks and host the Cal-gary Mustangs Sunday at 2 p.m.

QUEENS: Still something to prove

The fact the Queens won the nation-al title the last two years made things a bit easier to recruit, according to Wal-ton. It also could put more pressure on the players and coaching staff, but not so says the veteran coach.

“With nine new play-ers there’s a different feel around practice,” he said. “I think last year that group still had something to prove in trying to win for the second straight season.

“I think we have put to-gether a program that has a chance to have success every year if things work out. I think this year is no exception.”

What the Queens do have is more depth and it’s showing already in practice.

“I believe we are al-ready ahead of where we were the last couple of seasons,” said Walton. “I see them do some things in practice that you can only shake your head at. They’re not supposed to be able to do that this ear-ly.”

They also have signifi-cant size.

“We have a couple of girls around the six-two mark and several others over five-foot-10,” said Walton.

“It will change our style of play a bit. We will be more physical at the net than we have been.”

The Queens first action will be in the RDC Wild Rose tournament Oct. 2-4. They open their season Oct. 16-17 at home against Medicine Hat.

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

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Poirier looks to Jooris for inspirationBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

PENTICTON, B.C. — Emile Poirier wants to be this season’s Josh Jooris.

Flying under the radar with big-name prospects like Johnny Gaudreau and Sam Bennett getting most of the attention, Jooris impressed for the Cal-gary Flames at the 2014 edition of the Young Stars rookie tournament before doing the same at training camp to eventually earn a forward spot on the NHL roster.

“He was amazing. He works really hard,” Poirier said of Jooris. “He de-served it. When you see that it encour-ages you to work hard like him.”

The six-foot-two 200-pound Poirier took part in this year’s Young Stars tournament, which also included rook-ies from the Edmonton Oilers, Vancou-ver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets.

He had missed the previous event and the Flames’ training camp last year following off-season shoulder sur-gery.

Back healthy after a solid second half to the 2014-‘15 campaign, Poirier is eager to show what he can do when the Flames open their main camp later this week.

“I’m way more mature and I know what’s going on with one year of expe-rience,” said the 20-year-old from Mon-treal, who plays with a distinct edge to his game. “I know what to do, I know what my job is. I know the organization very well. I’m more ready this year.”

The 22nd overall pick at the 2013 draft, Poirier had 19 goals and 23 as-sists in 55 games for Calgary’s AHL af-filiate last season after returning from his injury.

The left-winger, who played three years in the QMJHL for the Gatineau Olympiques, was also recalled by the Flames on a couple of occasions. He picked up one assist in six games.

“Over the course of the year Emile became one of the guys who would show up at the rink first,” said Ry-an Huska, who coaches the Stockton Heat of the AHL and was behind the Flames’ bench in Penticton. “With his call-ups and a better understanding of what’s expected out of him, he started to make strides with his habits and how he’s expected to play with the Cal-gary Flames.

“He’s starting to understand that he has to play back into our own zone the same way he goes the other way. Now it’s just a matter of him applying it con-sistently.”

The Flames could have a few spots open at forward either this season or next, with veterans Jiri Hudler and David Jones set to become unrestrict-ed free agents in July. Or Poirier could earn an NHL job on his own like Jooris did just 12 months ago.

“I think I’m battling for a spot on the roster,” said Poirier. “I’ll do any-thing possible to get in.

“You see all the guys that were here (at the rookie tournament) last year. You want to do the same thing.”


Calgary Flames’ Emile Poirier skates during first period action at the NHL Young Stars tournament in Penticton B.C. on Sept 12, 2015.

Simon Gagne announces retirement from NHL


Adidas will take over production of NHL uniforms beginning in the 2017-‘18 season, and it’s unclear just how many changes will come as a result.

The NHL announced a seven-year deal with Adidas to be its on-ice uni-form supplier and also to serve as outfitter for next year’s World Cup of Hockey. Commissioner Gary Bettman repeatedly shot down speculation about the announcement opening the door for advertisements on jerseys and said he didn’t think they’d go through a major redesign.

“Reinventing isn’t something we’re about to embark upon,” Bettman said on a conference call. “If there are better fabrics that are more comfort-able and help performance, that’s one thing. But we happen to like our jer-seys a lot, and we think our fans do as well. …

“We’re not looking to revamp our jerseys.”

Adidas owns Reebok, which was part of the last major NHL jersey rede-sign a decade ago. Adidas is famous for its three-stripe design which some fans have feared will be incorporated into all designs.

NHL chief operating officer John Collins said no final decisions had been made on those kinds of issues.

“We have the flexibility of working closely with Adidas to figure out what represents the brand best and what represents the new design of the uni-forms,” Collins said.

Adidas produces college football uniforms for the University of Mi-ami and Arizona State. Adidas Group North America president Mark King said improvements there have includ-ed adding lighter “TechFit” technolo-gy to make jerseys lighter, something that could be the future in hockey.

“It’s a dramatic shift from where the uniform is today, but that would be probably the first thing we would

look at,” King said. “That would be the logical place to go, but it completely changes the look of the hockey player.”

Advertisements would certainly change the look, and it’s something that could be coming for the World Cup. Bettman said the league has not had any discussions about advertise-ments on NHL team jerseys.

However, there have been some dis-cussions between the NHL and NHL Players’ Association about ads on World Cup jerseys.

“What the World Cup does, as well as other international events when we get to the point of getting those ac-complished, is to give us among oth-er things, an opportunity for some ex-perimentation — an opportunity, if we want to, to try different things,” NHL-PA executive director Donald Fehr said.

Adidas recently announced a spon-sorship deal with No. 1 pick Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers. On Monday, the CFL announced Adidas would be taking over from Reebok as the league’s official outfitter starting next season.

King said hockey’s popularity in North America made this an attractive option for Adidas.

“It is the sport in Canada, (in) which we have a massive business,” he said. “You couldn’t imagine a sports brand in Canada without hockey as part of it. And it’s growing at every level here in the States. This was really an import-ant deal for us.”

NHL announces seven-year uniform

deal with Adidas


Simon Gagne announced his retire-ment Tuesday after playing 14 NHL seasons, winning the Stanley Cup with the Los Angeles Kings and capturing a gold medal with Canada at the 2002 Olympics.

Gagne, whose time in the league was plagued by injuries, still put up 291 goals and 310 assists in 822 career regular-season games for the Philadel-phia Flyers, Kings, Tampa Bay Light-ning and Boston Bruins.

The left-winger was a major contrib-utor to the Flyers’ run to the 2010 Cup final, scoring two game-winning goals as Philadelphia erased a 3-0 series deficit to beat the Bruins.

“Breaking my foot, coming back in Game 4 and scoring the overtime goal and after that slowly coming back in that series and able to go to Boston, go-ing down 3-0 in that Game 7 and com-

ing back and scoring that power-play goal … (was) definitely one of my best moments with the Flyers,” Gagne said on a conference call.

The Ste. Foy, Que., native was the 22nd pick in the 1998 draft and broke into the league as a 19-year-old.

He was fourth in Calder Trophy vot-ing as rookie of the year when he had 20 goals and 28 assists in 1999-2000.

Gagne was a 40-goal scorer twice and scored 37 goals in 109 playoff games. He was injured for much of the 2012 playoffs but was still able to lift the Cup with the Kings.

“It is the dream of all hockey play-ers that play in the National Hockey League,” Gagne said. “But not only that, when you take that Cup, it’s all the sacrifice you did when you were younger, what your parents did and all the bruises, the injuries you had to go through, all the ups and downs and all the hard times. This is the best feeling in the world.”

‘WE HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY OF WORKING CLOSELY WITH ADI-

DAS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT REP-RESENTS THE BRAND BEST AND WHAT REPRESENTS THE NEW

DESIGN OF THE UNIFORMS.’

NHL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER JOHN COLLINS


Simon Gagne who had 291 goals and 310 assists in 822 career regular-season games for the Philidelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins, announced this retirement from the NHL on Tuesday.

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SCOREBOARD B6WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 2015

FootballCanadian Football League Standings

CFLEast Division

GP W L T PF PA PtHamilton 11 8 3 0 392 221 16Ottawa 10 6 4 0 224 259 12Toronto 11 6 5 0 277 322 12Montreal 10 4 6 0 207 196 8

West Division GP W L T PF PA PtCalgary 11 8 3 0 287 224 16Edmonton 11 7 4 0 272 197 14B.C. 10 4 6 0 222 281 8Winnipeg 11 4 7 0 209 317 8Saskatchewan 11 1 10 0 262 335 2

WEEK 13Bye: TorontoFriday, Sept. 18B.C. at Calgary, 7 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 19Edmonton at Hamilton, 2 p.m.Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 20Winnipeg at Montreal, 11 a.m.

WEEK 14Bye: HamiltonFriday, Sept. 25Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 26B.C. at Edmonton, 2 p.m.Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 27Montreal at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Canadian Football League Scoring Leaders(x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S PtJ.Medlock, Ham 0 39 26 4 121B.Bede, Mtl 0 12 25 6 93G.Shaw, Edm 0 19 21 8 90R.Paredes, Cgy 0 14 24 4 90L.Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 12 19 8 77P.McCallum, Sask 0 13 20 2 75R.Leone, BC 0 16 17 7 74x-Je.Johnson, Ott 8 2 0 0 50R.Pfeffer, Tor 0 11 12 2 49x-E.Rogers, Cgy 7 4 0 0 46C.Milo, Ott 0 15 9 1 43T.Gurley, Tor 7 0 0 0 42x-A.Collie, BC 6 2 0 0 38D.Alvarado, Ott 0 4 11 0 37A.Harris, BC 6 0 0 0 36K.Stafford, Edm 6 0 0 0 36x-C.Marshall, Wpg 5 4 0 0 34x-K.Elliott, Tor 5 2 0 0 32x-K.Lawrence, Edm 5 2 0 0 32B.Banks, Ham 5 0 0 0 30A.Bowman, Edm 5 0 0 0 30

V.Hazleton, Tor 5 0 0 0 30J.Mathews, Ham 5 0 0 0 30T.Toliver, Ham 5 0 0 0 30x-R.Bagg, Sask 4 4 0 0 28x-C.Getzlaf, Sask 4 2 0 0 26x-B.Grant, Ham 4 2 0 0 26E.Jackson, Ott 4 0 0 0 24T.Sinkfield, Ham 4 0 0 0 24L.Tasker, Ham 4 0 0 0 24B.Whitaker, Tor 4 0 0 0 24S.Waters, Tor 0 7 4 2 21x-B.Brohm, Wpg 3 2 0 0 20x-H.Burris, Ott 3 2 0 0 20x-J.Cornish, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20x-W.Dressler, Sask 3 2 0 0 20x-T.Harrison, Cgy 3 2 0 0 20x-B.Smith, Sask 3 2 0 0 20x-T.Sutton, Mtl 3 2 0 0 20x-M.McDaniel, Cgy 2 8 0 0 20E.Arceneaux, BC 3 0 0 0 18E.Davis, Ham 3 0 0 0 18J.Lynch, Edm 3 0 0 0 18R.Smith, Sask 3 0 0 0 18

National Football LeagueAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 31 10Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 27 14New England 1 0 0 1.000 28 21Miami 1 0 0 1.000 17 10

South W L T Pct PF PATennessee 1 0 0 1.000 42 14Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 9 20Houston 0 1 0 .000 20 27Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 14 27

North W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 33 13Baltimore 0 1 0 .000 13 19Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 21 28Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 10 31

West W L T Pct PF PADenver 1 0 0 1.000 19 13Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 27 20San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 33 28Oakland 0 1 0 .000 13 33

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 1 0 0 1.000 27 26Washington 0 1 0 .000 10 17Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 24 26N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 26 27

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 1 0 0 1.000 26 24Carolina 1 0 0 1.000 20 9Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 14 42New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 19 31

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 1 0 0 1.000 31 23Detroit 0 1 0 .000 28 33Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 3 20Chicago 0 1 0 .000 23 31

West W L T Pct PF PASt. Louis 1 0 0 1.000 34 31Arizona 1 0 0 1.000 31 19San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 20 3Seattle 0 1 0 .000 31 34

Sunday’s GamesGreen Bay 31, Chicago 23Kansas City 27, Houston 20St. Louis 34, Seattle 31, OTN.Y. Jets 31, Cleveland 10Buffalo 27, Indianapolis 14Miami 17, Washington 10Carolina 20, Jacksonville 9Arizona 31, New Orleans 19San Diego 33, Detroit 28Cincinnati 33, Oakland 13Denver 19, Baltimore 13Tennessee 42, Tampa Bay 14Dallas 27, N.Y. Giants 26

Monday’s GamesAtlanta 26, Philadelphia 24San Francisco 20, Minnesota 3

Thursday, Sep. 17Denver at Kansas City, 6:25 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 20Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 11 a.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 11 a.m.Arizona at Chicago, 11 a.m.Houston at Carolina, 11 a.m.San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.New England at Buffalo, 11 a.m.San Diego at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.Tennessee at Cleveland, 11 a.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.St. Louis at Washington, 11 a.m.Baltimore at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 2:05 p.m.Dallas at Philadelphia, 2:25 p.m.Seattle at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 21N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 6:30 p.m.

Baseball Local SportsToday

● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Strathmore Wheat Kings at Three Hills Thrashers, 8 p.m.

Thursday● High school football: Drayton Valley at Ponoka, 4:30 p.m.; Rocky Mountain House at Camrose, 4:30 p.m.● Senior high volleyball: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber; girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow.● College preseason hockey: Camrose Augustana Vikings at RDC Kings, 6:45 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Friday● High school football: Wetaskiwin at Stettler, 4:30 p.m.● WHL preseason: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium.● College preseason hockey: Bentley Generals at RDC Kings, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Saturday● Peewee football: Red Deer Steelers at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park.● College soccer: Lakeland at RDC, women at 2 p.m., men at 4 p.m.● Bantam football: Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Sylvan Lake Lakers, 3 p.m.● WHL preseason: Medicine Hat Tigers at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Stettler Recreation Centre.● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Red Deer Arena.● Heritage junior B hockey: Banff Bears at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m.

Sunday● AJHL: Calgary Mustangs at Olds Grizzlys, 2 p.m.● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Vegreville Rangers at Stettler Lightning, 3 p.m.

Hockey2015 Western Hockey League

Preseason Schedule

Sunday’s resultsCalgary 2 Edmonton 0Victoria 4 Vancouver 1Lethbridge 6 Swift Current 2

Wednesday, Sept. 16Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 17Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 18Everett at Portland, 4:30 p.m.Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.Kelowna at Vancouver, 8 p.m.Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.Victoria at Seattle, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 19Tri-City at Spokane, 3 p.m.Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.Brandon at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.Victoria at Everett, 8:05 p.m.Vancouver at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.End of 2015 WHL Pre-season

2015 NHL PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE

Sunday, Sept. 20Boston vs. New Jersey (at Providence, R.I.), 5 p.m.Florida at Nashville (split-squad doubleheader), 2:30 and 6 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 21

New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.Philadelphia (ss) at N.Y. Islanders (ss), 5 p.m.Philadelphia (ss) vs. N.Y. Islanders (ss) (at Allen-town, Pa.), 5 p.m.Ottawa (ss) at Toronto (ss), 5:30 p.m.Toronto (ss) at Ottawa (ss), 5:30 p.m.Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Calgary (ss) at Edmonton (ss), 7 p.m.Edmonton (ss) at Calgary (ss), 7 p.m.Arizona vs. Los Angeles (at Bakersfield, Calif.), 10 p.m.San Jose vs. Vancouver (at Victoria), 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 22Washington at Boston, 5 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.St. Louis (ss) at Columbus (ss), 5 p.m.Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Nashville at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.Dallas at Florida, 5:30 p.m.Columbus (ss) at St. Louis (ss), 6 p.m.Minnesota at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Detroit at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Colorado, 7 p.m.San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.Arizona at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 23Ottawa at Buffalo, 5 p.m.New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.Chicago at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Nashville, 6 p.m.Winnipeg at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 5 p.m.Minnesota at Columbus, 5 p.m.Washington at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

TransactionsTuesday’s Sports TransactionsBASEBALLAmerican LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Scott Feldman on the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Matt Duffy from Fresno (PCL).MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated RHP Phil Hughes from the 15-day DL.National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES — Placed 1B Yonder Alonso on the 60-day DL. Assigned RHPs Jake Brigham and Michael Kohn outright to Gwinnett (IL).PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed SS Cesar Hernandez on the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of 2B Chase d’Arnaud from Lehigh Valley (IL).ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Reinstated OF Matt Holliday from the 15-day DL.FOOTBALLNational Football League

ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed OT Jake Long. Waived S Charles Godfrey.BUFFALO BILLS — Released RB Bryce Brown.CHICAGO BEARS — Waived QB David Fales.GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed LB Sam Bar-rington on injured reserve. Activated DE Datone Jones from exempt status.OAKLAND RAIDERS — Waived TE Gabe Holmes. Placed S Nate Allen on injured reserve-designat-ed for return. Signed S Taylor Mays and DL C.J. Wilson.Canadian Football LeagueHAMILTON TIGER-CATS — Traded negotiation list rights to QB Tahj Boyd to Winnipeg for a conditional 2017 draft pick.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueNHL — LW Simon Gagne announced his retire-ment.

Major League BaseballAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBToronto 82 62 .569 —New York 79 65 .549 3Baltimore 71 73 .493 11Tampa Bay 70 74 .486 12Boston 68 76 .472 14

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 85 59 .590 —Minnesota 75 69 .521 10Cleveland 71 72 .497 13 1/2Chicago 68 75 .476 16 1/2Detroit 66 78 .458 19

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 77 67 .535 —Houston 77 68 .531 1/2Los Angeles 73 71 .507 4Seattle 70 76 .479 8Oakland 62 83 .428 15 1/2

Monday’s GamesBaltimore 2, Boston 0Cleveland 8, Kansas City 3N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1Texas 5, Houston 3Minnesota 7, Detroit 1Chicago White Sox 8, Oakland 7, 14 inningsSeattle 10, L.A. Angels 1

Tuesday’s GamesBaltimore 6, Boston 5, 13 inningsKansas City 2, Cleveland 0Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 3Atlanta 3, Toronto 2Texas 6, Houston 5Detroit 5, Minnesota 4Oakland 17, Chicago White Sox 6L.A. Angels 4, Seattle 3

Wednesday’s Games

Boston (Owens 2-2) at Baltimore (M.Wright 2-4), 5:05 p.m.Kansas City (D.Duffy 7-7) at Cleveland (Salazar 12-8), 5:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Severino 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Archer 12-11), 5:10 p.m.Toronto (Price 15-5) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-14), 5:10 p.m.Houston (Keuchel 17-7) at Texas (M.Perez 2-5), 6:05 p.m.Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2) at Minnesota (E.Santana 5-4), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Co.Martin 0-1) at Chicago White Sox (E.Johnson 1-0), 6:10 p.m.L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-10) at Seattle (Iwakuma 7-4), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesOakland at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.Houston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Minnesota , 6:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 83 62 .572 —Washington 74 70 .514 8 1/2Miami 62 83 .428 21Atlanta 57 88 .393 26Philadelphia 56 90 .384 27 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 90 54 .625 —Pittsburgh 87 57 .604 3Chicago 83 61 .576 7Milwaukee 62 82 .431 28Cincinnati 60 83 .420 29 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 83 60 .580 —San Francisco 76 68 .528 7 1/2

Arizona 69 76 .476 15San Diego 68 78 .466 16 1/2Colorado 60 84 .417 23 1/2

Monday’s GamesWashington 8, Philadelphia 7, 11 inningsN.Y. Mets 4, Miami 3San Diego 10, Arizona 3L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 1San Francisco 5, Cincinnati 3

Tuesday’s GamesPittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 4, 1st gameChicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh 1, 2nd gameWashington 4, Philadelphia 0Miami 9, N.Y. Mets 3Atlanta 3, Toronto 2St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 1, 10 inningsArizona 6, San Diego 4Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, lateCincinnati at San Francisco, late

Wednesday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Arrieta 19-6) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 8-5), 7:05 p.m.Washington (G.Gonzalez 10-7) at Philadelphia (Ash-er 0-3), 7:05 p.m.Miami (Conley 3-1) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-11), 7:10 p.m.Toronto (Price 15-5) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-14), 7:10 p.m.St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 8-5) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 5-8), 8:10 p.m.San Diego (Cashner 5-15) at Arizona (Ray 4-11), 9:40 p.m.Colorado (J. DeLa Rosa 9-6) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 10-10), 10:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Lorenzen 4-8) at San Francisco (Peavy 6-6), 10:15 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesChicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.Miami at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

SoccerMLS

Eastern Conference GP W L T GF GA PtNew York 26 13 7 6 46 30 45D.C. 29 13 10 6 36 35 45Columbus 29 12 9 8 47 48 44New England 28 12 9 7 41 37 43Toronto 27 11 12 4 46 47 37Montreal 25 9 11 5 34 37 32Orlando 29 8 13 8 36 51 32Philadelphia 29 8 15 6 36 47 30New York City 28 7 14 7 39 48 28Chicago 28 7 15 6 36 45 27

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA PtVancouver 28 15 10 3 40 28 48Dallas 27 14 8 5 40 31 47Los Angeles 29 13 8 8 49 33 47Seattle 29 13 13 3 35 32 42Kansas City 27 11 8 8 41 38 41Portland 28 11 9 8 29 32 41San Jose 28 11 11 6 34 32 39Houston 28 9 11 8 36 37 35Salt Lake 28 9 11 8 32 41 35Colorado 28 8 10 10 26 30 34

Sunday’s resultsToronto 1 New England 3Orlando 3 Kansas City 1

Wednesday’s gamesToronto at New York City, 5:30 p.m.New York at New England, 5:30 p.m.Montreal at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Friday’s gamesDallas at Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Saturday, September 19Colorado at Toronto, noonSan Jose at New York City, 5 p.m.Columbus at D.C., 5 p.m.Seattle at Vancouver, 5 p.m.New England at Montreal, 6 p.m.Orlando at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 20New York at Portland, 3 p.m.Houston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA PtsManchester City 5 5 0 0 11 0 15Leicester City 5 3 2 0 11 7 11Man. United 5 3 1 1 6 3 10Arsenal 5 3 1 1 5 3 10West Ham 5 3 0 2 11 6 9Crystal Palace 5 3 0 2 8 6 9Everton 5 2 2 1 8 5 8Swansea 5 2 2 1 7 5 8Norwich 5 2 1 2 8 9 7Liverpool 5 2 1 2 3 6 7Southampton 5 1 3 1 5 5 6Tottenham 5 1 3 1 4 4 6Watford 5 1 3 1 3 4 6West Brom 5 1 2 2 3 6 5Aston Villa 5 1 1 3 6 8 4Bournemouth 5 1 1 3 6 9 4Chelsea 5 1 1 3 7 12 4Stoke 5 0 2 3 3 7 2Sunderland 5 0 2 3 6 11 2Newcastle 5 0 2 3 2 7 2

Sunday, Sept. 13Sunderland 0, Tottenham 1Leicester City 3, Aston Villa 2Monday, Sept. 14West Ham 2, Newcastle 0

Saturday, Sept. 19Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 11:45 GMTAston Villa vs. West Brom, 14:00 GMTBournemouth vs. Sunderland, 14:00 GMTNewcastle vs. Watford, 14:00 GMTStoke vs. Leicester City, 14:00 GMTSwansea vs. Everton, 14:00 GMTManchester City vs. West Ham, 16:30 GMTSunday, Sept. 20Tottenham vs. Crystal Palace, 12:30 GMTLiverpool vs. Norwich, 15:00 GMTSouthampton vs. Manchester United, 15:00 GMT

Champions LeagueGROUP STAGE

GROUP A GP W D L GF GA PtsReal Madrid 1 1 0 0 4 0 3Paris St Germain 1 1 0 0 2 0 3Malmo 1 0 0 1 0 2 0Shakhtar Donetsk 1 0 0 1 0 4 0

Tuesday, Sept. 15Paris Saint-Germain (France) 2, Malmo (Sweden) 0Real Madrid (Spain) 4, Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) 0

GROUP B GP W D L GF GA PtsPSV Eindhoven 1 1 0 0 2 1 3VfL Wolfsburg 1 1 0 0 1 0 3Manchester United 1 0 0 1 1 2 0CSKA Moscow 1 0 0 1 0 1 0

Tuesday, Sept. 15PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 2, Manchester United (England) 1VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 1, CSKA Moscow (Russia) 0

GROUP C GP W D L GF GA PtsAtletico Madrid 1 1 0 0 2 0 3Benfica 1 1 0 0 2 0 3Astana 1 0 0 1 0 2 0Galatasaray 1 0 0 1 0 2 0

Tuesday, Sept. 15Benfica (Portugal) 2, Astana (Kazakhstan) 0Galatasaray (Turkey) 0, Atletico Madrid (Spain) 2

GROUP D GP W D L GF GA PtsSevilla 1 1 0 0 3 0 3Juventus 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Manchester City 1 0 0 1 1 2 0Monchengladbach 1 0 0 1 0 3 0

Tuesday, Sept. 15Manchester City (England) 1, Juventus (Italy) 2Sevilla(Spain) 3, Monchengladbach (Germany) 0

GROUP E GP W D L GF GA PtsBATE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Barcelona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Bayer Leverkusen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Roma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Wednesday, Sept. 16Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) vs. BATE (Belarus), 1845 GMTRoma(Italy) vs. Barcelona (Spain), 1845 GMT

GROUP F GP W D L GF GA PtsArsenal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Bayern Munich 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Dinamo Zagreb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Olympiakos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Wednesday, Sept. 16Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) vs. Arsenal (England), 1845 GMTOlympiakos (Greece) vs. Bayern Munich (Germany), 1845 GMT

GROUP G GP W D L GF GA PtsChelsea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Dynamo Kyiv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0FC Porto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Maccabi Tel Aviv 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Wednesday, Sept. 16Chelsea (England) vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel), 1845 GMTDynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) vs. FC Porto (Portugal), 1845 GMT

GROUP H GP W D L GF GA PtsGent 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Lyon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Valencia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Z. St. Petersburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Wednesday, Sept. 16Gent (Belgium) vs. Lyon (France), 1845 GMTValencia (Spain) vs. Zenit St. Petersburg (Russia), 1845 GMT

‘Not this time’ Toronto won’t bid for 2024 Summer Olympics


Toronto will be a great ven-ue for the Olympics one day but not this time, Mayor John Tory said Tuesday as he an-nounced the city will not be bidding to host the 2024 Sum-mer Games.

Tory had until Tuesday to submit a letter of interest to the International Olympic Committee to register as a po-tential candidate to host the Games.

“Let me be clear, I’m not saying no to the Olympics, I’m saying not this time.”

Talk of Toronto potential-ly making a bid emerged as excitement built around this summer’s Pan Am Games, which were hosted by Toronto and surrounding communities.

But he said there wasn’t enough time to put together enough information for the politicians, the business com-munity and the city’s resi-dents.

The city was focused on the Pan Am and Parapan Games, which ended last month, and had little time to crunch num-bers, he said.

“I can’t look people in the eye at this point in our city’s development and tell them that an Olympic bid is the best use of our time or our energy or our investment,” Tory said.

“But now I can look into the eyes of my colleagues at other levels of government and say this — together we should be making the investments talk-ed about in the context of the Olympics.”

Tory said the city’s time and money will be better spent investing in transpor-tation and transit, addressing the affordable housing crisis and reducing poverty.

He said he “will continue to be very careful in how our money is invested and to what end.”

Tory didn’t need approval to submit a letter of interest to the IOC, but would have re-quired support from city coun-cil and provincial and feder-al governments to go forward with a bid.

“In the end it is not my job to be rash. It is my job to make the best decision for Toronto,” Tory said.

He said he came to the decision late Monday, just a day before the deadline. The federal election also played a role in his decision he said.

He spoke to the big three party leaders about a possible bid.

“They were supportive and recognized the federal govern-ment had a role to play if we were to have an Olympic bid, but they were not writing — and I would not ask them — to

write a big cheque,” Tory said.He said business leaders

were also cautious, because he wanted the majority of the bid to be funded privately.

“No one was rushing for-ward with their chequebooks to hand me big cheques,” he said.

He did announce that he would form an advisory group which would look at the mer-its of competing for future large-scale events like the Olympics, International Expos or soccer’s World Cup.

“When and if we decide to compete for any of these events, we will do it right,” he said.

The Canadian Olympic Committee says it respected Tory’s decision and appreciat-ed the thorough consideration he had given the matter.

“We remain optimistic To-ronto could and should host the Olympic Games in the fu-ture,” president Marcel Aubut said in a statement.

“The Canadian Olympic Committee is determined to have the Olympics back in the country at the earliest oppor-tunity.”

The IOC was supportive of Tory’s decision.

Toronto made two unsuc-cessful bids for the Games — in 1996 and in 2008 — and Tory had said he doesn’t want to lead a third failed attempt.

Bombers acquire negotiation list rights to quarterback Boyd for

conditional pickWINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers

acquired the negotiation list rights to quarter-back Tajh Boyd from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Tuesday in exchange for a conditional pick in the 2017 CFL Draft.

The six-foot 225-pound pivot spent four sea-sons at Clemson and led the Tigers to an Or-

ange Bowl victory in his senior year. He has been added to the Blue Bombers’ practice ros-ter.

Boyd was selected in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL draft by the New York Jets. He signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers last March but was released last month.

Boyd was the ACC player of the year in 2012 and was named MVP of the Chick-fil-A Bowl that season.

The 4-7 Blue Bombers have been hamstrung by quarterback injuries this season.

Matt Nichols became the team’s fourth dif-ferent starting QB last week. He threw for 283 yards and a touchdown in a 22-7 win over Sas-katchewan.

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Red Deer County will oversee building safety codes in a move to im-prove service to residents.

Under a new Uniform Quality Man-agement Plan unanimously approved by council, the county will be accred-ited to do building, electrical, gas and plumbing inspections. A building in-spector and two permit issuers will oversee the program, with other staff in support.

The county is one of the few re-maining large municipalities in the province with a “hands-off” approach to safety code inspections, with the exception of the fire code.

While the county approves devel-opment permits, it is up to the appli-

cants to hire their own safety code companies to do inspections.

“The safety code officers do not re-port to the county, nor are they bound to assist it respecting providing up-dates, permit approvals and investi-gations,” says a report to council from the county’s director of planning and development Dave Dittrick.

“What this does is causes a discon-nect,” Dittrick told council in a pre-sentation on Tuesday.

“We want to improve the service level within the organization.”

Signs the current system isn’t work-ing as well as it should are that of the 375 development approvals from the county requiring building permits, only 60 per cent bothered to do the paperwork.

Dittrick said for residents the changes will mean they can arrange

all of the necessary inspections through the county and can get more detailed advice from staff. Quali-ty control will also be improved and residents will have easier access to building inspection reports.

Most of the inspection work will be contracted out with the county re-sponsible for administering inspec-tions and issuing permits.

Dittrick said builders and resi-dents would not face any fee increas-es next year as a result of the change.

Designed on a cost-recovery ba-sis, the changes will also not cost the county more.

A preliminary budget anticipates $731,000 in revenue against $576,000 in costs.

Mayor Jim Wood said he supports the boost in service, adding he was “appalled” at the number of homes

not being inspected.Coun. Jean Bota said she liked that

the county will know that safety code regulations are being enforced under its watch.

County manager Curtis Herzberg reassured council that the changes won’t mean added steps for residents working their way through the approv-al process.

If anything, it will make it easier to get the necessary permits while ensuring the county doesn’t face extra costs.

“We will maintain that philosophy that development pays for develop-ment.”

A request for proposals for the in-spection contract will go out this fall. The new system is expected to be in place for next year.

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Confusion over how many pros-ecutors will be involved in the case against a Red Deer couple facing hu-man trafficking charges has delayed the matter for another two weeks.

Varinder, 49, and Ravinder, 46, Sidhu of Red Deer face a long list of charges, including those laid under the Alberta Employment Standards Act and under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The husband and wife are corpo-rate directors of three Gasoline Alley businesses, including Econo Lodge Inn and Suites, the Holiday Liquor Store and Winks.

Defence counsel Will Willms ap-peared on their behalf in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday before Judge John Holmes.

Willms said he believed the charges would be prosecuted by one person from the Crown. However, Crown pros-ecutor Blair Brandon informed Willms that there may be multiple prosecutors because the charges are based on vari-ous legislation.

Under the Employment Standards Act, the Sidhus are charged with:

• Failure to comply with a notice to provide employment records.

• Obstructing an officer in the exer-cise of their duty by advising employ-ees not to co-operate and/or give false statements.

• Falsifying employment records.• Giving false/misleading informa-

tion to an investigating officer and fail-ure to keep employment records as required.

Under the Immigration and Ref-ugee Protection Act, the Sidhus are charged with:

• organizing the coming into Canada of one or more persons by means of abduction, fraud, deception or use of threat of force or coercion.

• Employing a foreign national in a capacity in which the foreign national is not authorized.

• Counsel, induce, aid or abet or attempt to counsel, aid or abet any person to directly or indirectly misrep-resent or withhold material facts relat-ing to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error.

Willms asked for an adjournment to Sept. 29 for discussions with the as-signed Crown prosecutor on how they would proceed. Holmes granted the adjournment.

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Kertesz appeal on hold for four months

A man convicted of a gunpoint home invasion will have to wait four months to learn if his appeal will pro-ceed.

David James Kertesz, 29, was con-victed in September 2014 of 10 counts. The charges including break and en-ter, robbery, using an imitation fire-arm to commit a robbery, kidnapping, forcible confinement and extortion.

Kertesz’s appeal was scheduled to be reviewed on Tuesday by a Calgary

Court of Appeal panel. A panel of jus-tices decide if the appeal will proceed. Kertesz’s appeal was deferred to the next sitting date, Jan. 6, 2016.

Kertesz was sentenced to 10 years in custody for his role in a gunpoint home invasion and robbery in May 2013 in Red Deer.

He entered a Parke Avenue apart-ment with two others with the intent of stealing drugs and money from the people inside.

Jordan Pritchard, 28, pleaded guilty in July 2014 for his role and was sen-tenced to two years in jail. Garnet Col-by Mcinnes, 24, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years.

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Volunteers from Stantec in Red Deer load groceries into the Red Deer Food Bank Society truck in downtown Red Deer on Tuesday. Staff from Stantec held their third annual Community Day Food Drive on Ross Street at City Hall Park Tuesday where they collected donations of food and cash for the food bank and served up a BBQ lunch for a minimum donation of $5.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

Tyler Joseph Shaw has been found guilty on four counts for stealing a quad and a shotgun.

The 29-year-old Rocky Mountain House man was convicted of unauthorized possession of a firearm, break and enter to steal a firearm, possession of a firearm contrary to an order and theft in Red Deer provincial court by Judge Darrell Riemer on Tues-day. He will be sentenced later this month.

Shaw broke into a residence off of Burnt Lake Trail on Sept. 11, 2014, and stole a quad and a shot-gun. He left a lawn tractor behind idling.

Riemer found that even though Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre did not call the homeowners as wit-nesses, by calling their son Brandon Hollman he was satisfied there was enough evidence to convict Shaw for break and enter.

Defence counsel Andrew Phypers contended be-cause the Crown did not call the homeowners, Shaw

may have had permission from them to enter the res-idence while their son was unaware permission had been granted.

Const. Shane Mordeen attended the residence after the call on Sept. 11 and described what Riemer called “signs of unpermitted entry” to the side ga-rage door. Shaw was arrested south of Hollman’s res-idence on a quad that belonged to Hollman.

Riemer also found that Ayre had proved the grounds for theft as the “only reasonable inference” is the accused stole the items he was found with.

Const. John Szerve was dispatched about the same time as Mordeen. Both were involved in in-vestigating a day-long crime spree they believed in-volved Shaw. While Mordeen inspected the Hollman residence, Szerve scoured the countryside west of Red Deer in pursuit of a man on a quad with a stolen shotgun. Szerve and other officers were searching for a man on a quad and telling residents to be on the lookout for this man.

When Szerve came upon a man on the quad, he didn’t know where he was and he didn’t have time

to figure it out to let his fellow officers know. He radioed them that he had found the man who Black-falds, Innisfail and Sylvan Lake RCMP officers had searched for all day and then exited his vehicle. With his sidearm drawn, he ordered the man off the quad and onto the ground.

Shaw complied and was arrested. The shotgun belonging to Hollman and a bolt-action rifle that had not been reported stolen were found on the quad.

The bolt-action rifle was not used as evidence during trial as it had not returned from testing by RCMP facilities in Ottawa.

Riemer found Shaw not guilty on charges of un-authorized possession of a firearm and two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon for the bolt-ac-tion rifle, because there was not enough evidence presented at trial.

Phypers asked for an adjournment on sentencing, which was granted by Riemer. Sentencing was ad-journed to Sept. 22 in Red Deer provincial court and Shaw was remanded into custody.

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Human trafficking case delayed

Former Mountie’s assualt appeal denied

A former Mountie’s bid to appeal his assault conviction has been denied.

Ronald Craig Lavallee, a former member of the RCMP serving at the Hobbema detachment (now known as Maskwacis), appealed his Sept. 25, 2014, conviction of a single count of as-sault causing bodily harm.

On Tuesday, the Edmonton Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. The court said it found no error with the trial judge’s decision.

“In the end, a defenceless man, with his hands handcuffed behind his back, was seriously injured while in the ap-pellant’s (Lavallee’s) care. In our view, it was reasonable, on the evidence be-fore her, for the trial judge to conclude that he was assaulted by the appel-

lant, and that the assault cause bodily harm.”

Lavallee was sentenced to 60 days in jail and two years probation after his conviction.

Malcolm Cabry was left blood-ied and missing a tooth after being punched two times and hit with a po-lice baton.

Lavallee arrested Cabry for public intoxication on Dec. 14, 2011, and took him into custody with the intention of taking him to the drunk tank.

While in cells at the Hobbema de-tachment, Cabry complained to an of-ficer on duty that he had been beaten up.

Cabry had dried blood around his mouth and on his lips, bloody gums and a tooth missing or bent in. Cabry indicated it was Lavallee who beat him after the two were left alone just outside the detachment.

Red Deer Hospice has provided a home away from home for its residents at 99 Arnot Ave. for 10 years.

On Tuesday, the society marked the milestone with an unveiling of a donor wall from its capital campaign and accumulative donors to date. More events are in the works to recognize donors throughout the year.

Val Hilario, Red Deer Hospice Soci-ety executive director, said in the last decade the society has supported 850 residents and their families.

“Multiply that number by five and that’s how many families we have touched,” she said. “If everybody comes into hospice with five people attached to them, that’s how many peo-ple have been touched in Central Al-berta.”

Most residents are from Red Deer but others have come from Olds, Pono-ka, Lacombe, Sylvan Lake, Stettler and out of province.

The hospice provides comfort care at the end of life in a safe and car-ing environment for those who have been given about three months left to live and are not seeking any active treatment. Staff will help with person-al care and other necessary comforts and support.

“We provide all of that so family can become family again,” said Hilario. “Often these residents are at home or in the hospital and family is doing 24/7 care. It is very time consuming. We provide the psycho-social support to the family and resident so end of life they can focus on that part of the jour-ney and not the physical care.”

Bryan Wilson, a long-time board member, has been involved with the society since 1999. He said there was a small group of people who thought Red Deer would benefit from having a hospice in the community. The not-for -profit society was formed in 2000.

The home with 10 beds opened on Sept.15, 2005 after two successful fund-raising campaigns that raised roughly $3 million. A total of $2.4 million was used to buy the land, the equipment and construct the building.

In the early years, people were un-sure of the service in the community. Wilson said it took a few years for the community to be confident in the hos-pice. The occupancy rate was hovering around the 30 per cent mark because

people didn’t get it said Wilson.They were just beginning to build

relationships with physicians, home care and nurses. And at the time the hospice was not funded appropriately by the then-David Thompson Health Region.

But over the years things clicked and the society has an excellent fund-ing relationship with Alberta Health Services and the physicians have come on board, said Wilson.

They are currently running on aver-age a 90 to 95 per cent occupancy rate indicating there is a need for the ser-vice in the community.

“But there are some unmet needs because we’re full and there are peo-ple who want to be here can’t be here,” said Wilson. “That’s becoming appar-ent to us.”

One day the society would like to add six additional rooms to the com-munity-built residence but it has to en-sure additional ongoing funding from AHS.

The society has 38 staff on site on site and roughly 150 volunteers who donate their time throughout the year.

“Before there was hospice you tried to keep mom and dad at home which is really tough to do,” said Wilson. “Or you end up in the hospital. There is a gap where people say they do not want to die in the hospital and they can’t die at home. That’s the gap we fill. And we do it well. The families who are with us on the journey with their loved ones are very thankful.”

Hilario said hospice provides ho-listic care at end of life but it is not just the resident’s care but the family, friends and community who are linked to the resident.

On Sept. 26, the society welcomes Ian Bos on his five-month long Cana-da wide journey from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. The society is in-viting the community to Walk a Block with Bos at 4:30 p.m. at the hospice. It will be a walk to the Hopsice Me-morial Garden (across the street from the house) around the lake from the hospice. Bos is walking to honour his late father Ted Bos, who received hos-pice palliative care before he died. He hopes to engage Canadians in the conversation about end of life care while raising $25,000 to support access to care in communities across Canada.

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Red Deer Hospice Society past president Bryan Wilson and Val Hilario Hospice executive director with the new donor wall in the hospice recognizing past and ongoing donors to the Red Deer Hospice Society. Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the Hospice in Red Deer.

Mountain View County signs deal for future water supplyMountain View County has signed

a $3.3-million deal to secure its future water supply.

Council recently approved entering into an agreement with the Mountain View Regional Water Services Com-mission to provide water.

The county will provide $1.5 million when the agreement is finalized and the rest will be paid out over 10 years.

County Reeve Bruce Beattie said council felt it was important to com-mit long-term to ensure there is water available for future development.

Beattie said the county already has a water licence through the province and now it has a source to fulfill that allocation when the water is needed.

When it comes time to hook up a

new development to a water supply the county will work with whatever com-mission member municipality is going to provide the connection.

There is enough potential water supply to provide for development well into the future, he said.

“We’re not accessing any volume today. If a development should take place along that water line we do have the ability to access.

“It’s something we thought was stra-tegically important from an economic development perspective.”

Currently, there is a regional north-south water line that runs through Olds to Carstairs. Other branches would be built as needed.


HALIFAX — Youssef Aasar says he dreams of his family being reunited one day around the small dining table in his Halifax apartment, coming to-gether after their flight from violence and corruption in Syria.

“All I really search for (is) a place in this world to meet my kids, to be safe, to live together, to eat together, to be in one house,” the 43-year-old said during an interview at his two-room home.

Youssef arrived in Nova Scotia this spring, bringing his 39-year-old wife Alya, 13-year-old daughter Danah and four-year-old son Yaqub from Kuwait, where the Syrian man has lived since the 1990s.

His son Gazy, 18, and daughter Sha-shad, 22, from a previous marriage, and his parents Issa and Souad Aasar remain in Lebanon, after he paid for them to move from war-torn Homs in 2012.

Youssef’s story differs from the stories of refugees trying to escape through Turkey and Greece. It started more than a decade ago with an en-counter with a Syrian embassy official in Kuwait City and worrying visits by the Syrian security police to his par-ents’ home.

He says he moved from his home-town of Homs in his 20s to work in a Kuwaiti agency that assisted migrants applying for work permits.

In the late 1990s, he says a Syrian embassy official falsely accused him of illegally taking a man’s documents.

When Youssef lost his own passport, the same official accused him of sell-ing it and Youssef accuses the man of asking for a bribe before providing fresh documents.

Later, Youssef says his father told him the police had started visiting his parents’ and their neighbour’s homes demanding information.

Being on the security forces’ radar over the false accusation regarding his passport made returning home danger-ous, he says.

“How would I know what would happen? I have to be afraid,” he said. “They put you in jail and how can I prove I am innocent?”

Youssef remained in Kuwait, find-ing his separation from his original children and parents increasingly painful.

“They say to me, ‘Do you miss us?’ and I told them there is no single day in my life I don’t think of them before I go to sleep at night,” he said.

While in Kuwait, he frequent-ly passed the Canadian embassy and started to dream of visiting Canada.

As the Syrian civil war spread in

2011, he came to Canada with Alya, who was pregnant at the time. Their son Yaqub was born and became a Ca-nadian citizen.

Youssef returned to Kuwait and dis-covered about a year later the little boy had severe autism and suffers sei-zures. He says he struggled to both work and care for Yaqub in the years that followed, and his finances were soon drained. Meanwhile, he said, Ku-wait has indicated it will not renew his work visa.

Danah, his 13-year-old daughter, hopes Canadians will welcome her.

“I feel I don’t belong anywhere … I hope for a better life and somewhere I belong,” she said.

Youssef was scheduled to make his formal refugee application to Citizen-ship and Immigration Canada on Tues-day, which will determine if he can proceed to the next stage of the pro-cess.

Julie Chamagne, director of the Hal-ifax refugee clinic, says her centre will

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Syrian refugee dreams of unifed family


Youssef Aasar, his wife Alya and his son Yaqub, stand in the dining area of their apartment in Halifax on Monday. Aasar says he dreams of his family being reunited, coming together after their flight from violence-torn northern Africa and Syria.

Crown accused of sitting on evidence that would clear

decorated Afghan vetOTTAWA — One of the most

decorated veterans of Canada’s war in Afghanistan will face trial later this year on a charge of breaching bail conditions, even though he alleges Crown prosecutors have proof of his innocence.

Former master corporal Collin Fitzgerald, of Morrisburg, Ont., was arrested by a police tactical team in summer 2014 and accused of being in the vicinity of his former home in nearby Iroquois when it burned down in a fire that appeared to have been deliberately set.

Fitzgerald was not charged in connection with the fire, only for breaking bail conditions on a previous charge, which required him to remain at his parents’ home in Morrisburg and have no contact with his ex-wife.

As part of its pre-trial investigation and disclosure, Fitzgerald said the Crown presented his lawyer with cellphone records that showed he was at his parents’ home and on the phone at the time police allege he was at the fire.

Separately, his lawyer also has a statement from the person who was on the phone with Fitzgerald, as well as video surveillance records of the family home, which show he didn’t leave the house on the night in question.

“It’s complete malicious prosecution,” Fitzgerald said in an interview.

“The Crown has a target on my back because of my interaction with them, my cries for help, which were not made in the most socially acceptable fashion.”

Fitzgerald, 36, who was awarded the Medal of Military Valour for aiding wounded comrades in a burning

vehicle under enemy fire in 2006, has had several run-ins with the law and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“Between my self-medication, abundant prescribed medications and my inability to cope with everything that was going on, the Crown basically wrote me off as a nut job,” he said.

Human rights ruling says woman was addicted to alcohol, unjustly fired

WINNIPEG — A health-care aide’s alcohol addiction qualifies as a dis-ability, and her employer was wrong to fire her for drinking off the job, a Manitoba human rights adjudicator has ruled.

Linda Horrocks is entitled to be re-instated, receive three years back pay and an additional $10,000 for injury to her dignity, independent adjudicator Sherri Walsh said in a report.

“The issue for determination in this matter is not whether the complainant was drinking on a given day but rather whether (the employer) made reason-able efforts to accommodate the com-plainant as soon as it was aware that she had a disability and special needs associated with that disability,” Walsh wrote.

Horrocks was suspended from work at a personal care home in Flin Flon run by the Northern Regional Health Authority in June 2011 after a co-work-er complained that she was drunk at work, according to evidence presented at the human rights board hearing.

She signed an agreement that al-lowed her to return to work on several conditions, including that she abstain from alcohol on and off the job and seek counselling.

Horrocks was fired a year later when her employer received two re-ports that she had been drinking out-side of work.

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EPILEPSYBY SHERYL UBELACKER

THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — An Alberta mother whose daughter has severe epilepsy has travelled to Ontario for a medical marijuana prescription after the girl’s doctor said he was no longer allowed to provide permission to purchase the product.

In 2013, Sarah Wilkinson had started extracting cannabis oil from dried marijuana — purchased from a licensed grower with a prescrip-tion from a neurologist at Alber-ta Children’s Hospital — to prevent life-threatening seizures in her eight-year-old daughter Mia.

But in July, the physician declined to renew the prescription because of a hospital policy based on the position of Alberta Health Services, the provin-cial health authority, which does not support the use of medical marijuana for pediatric patients with epilepsy.

Wilkinson said the cannabis oil is the only therapy that has worked to stop Mia’s seizures, caused by a rare type of epilepsy called Ohtahara syn-drome.

Despite taking 30 to 40 anti-convul-sive pills daily, Mia would suffer up to 100 seizures a day, said her moth-er. But since starting daily doses of oral cannabis oil 19 months ago, she has not had a single seizure.

On Monday, Mia was seen by a doctor at the Ca-nadian Cannabis Clinic in St. Catharines, Ont., and left with a prescription for dried marijuana, which her mother can fill from a federally licensed produc-er after returning to their Airdrie home.

“It’s a big relief. I don’t have to worry about when I run out of her meds,” said her mother, who had been worried about her dwindling supply of med-ical-grade marijuana purchased with the initial prescription.

Wilkinson said she turned to canna-bis because nothing else was helping her child, whose seizures could be so severe she would stop breathing and have to be resuscitated and rushed to hospital.

“I really took a big leap of faith with that,” she said of the cannabis oil, add-ing that within 24 hours of the first dose, Mia’s seizures had completely stopped.

Without the treatment, “we would have waited for the next big seizure

and she would have died. There’s not a really nice way to say that.

“Now, we can all breathe.”

For Mia, tetrahy-drocannabinol, or THC, appears to be the ingredient in marijuana that con-trols her seizures, while others with different forms of epilepsy benefit from another com-ponent of the plant called cannabidiol, or CBD.

Pharmacologist-toxicologist McIn-tyre Burnham, co-director of the Epi-lepsy Research Program of the Ontario Brain Institute in Toronto, said about 30 per cent of people with seizures don’t respond to any anti-convulsive medications.

His program plans to seek Health Canada approval for a clinical trial in adults of a cannabidiol in capsule form being developed by Canadian medical marijuana producer Tilray, which he hopes will start in a year.

While THC does stop seizures in some people, it’s also the active in-gredient in marijuana that “makes you high,” said Burn-ham, whereas CBD does not.

Researchers agree trials are needed to determine if the various strains and ex-tracts of marijuana can ben-efit patients, and cannabidiol appears “quite promising” for epilepsy, he said.

But “people are thinking it’s a wonder drug. I think it’s too early to say that … It’s not going to be for everyone. It will help some people and not help others.”

Kunvar Mudhar does be-lieve CBD is a wonder drug.

A year ago, she started giving can-nabis oil high in CBD to her son Zen, who has intractable epilepsy related to cerebral palsy that is resistant to all anti-convulsive medications.

As a baby, he had been put on a spe-cial diet, which reduced the number and severity of his seizures — but he was still experiencing about 150 a day.

“The first night I gave him the first dose, we started off very low,” said Mudhar of Mississauga, Ont., who makes cannabis oil from dried mari-juana purchased by prescription.

Within a day, the number of Zen’s seizures dropped to about 30, and with

a slight increase in the dose, they disappeared for months.

Mudhar had been treating Zen, now 7, with an oil high in CBD and low in THC, but she al-so had on hand an oil extract she’d prepared with a two-to-one ratio of CBD to THC.

One night in February, her son suffered a grand mal seizure, despite the daily cannabis therapy.

“His body was jerking. He started to turn grey-blue,” she said.

“The last thing I did was grab that (higher THC-dose) oil and rub it on his gums — and the seizure stopped.”

Mudhar said she would have been happy if the cannabis oil had just re-duced his seizures by a significant amount.

“But this is amazing. To me, this is more than a miracle that Zen has sei-zure-free days.

Alberta Health denies mommarijuana prescription


Sarah Wilkinson and her 9-year old daughter Mia at Canadian Cannabis Clinics in St. Catharines on Monday. Wilkinson brought Mia to this Ontario clinic because she could not get her prescription for medical marijuana renewed at their home in Alberta. Mia has been taking medical marijuana for two years. She went from having 100 seizures a day to being seizure-free for about a year and a half.

I REALLY TOOK A BIG LEAP OF FAITH . . . (WITHOUT THE TREATMENT) WE

WOULD HAVE WAITED FOR THE NEXT BIG SEIZURE AND SHE

WOULD HAVE DIED. THERE’S NOT A REALLY NICE WAY TO SAY THAT.

SARAH WILKINSON

PEOPLE ARE THINKING IT’S A WONDER DRUG. I THINK IT’S TOO EARLY

TO SAY THAT ... IT’S NOT GOING TO BE FOR EV-

ERYONE. IT WILL HELP SOME PEOPLE AND NOT

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BY LAURAN NEERGAARDTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A U.S. government task force says a daily low-dose aspirin could help certain people in their 50s and 60s prevent a first heart attack or stroke — and they might get some protec-tion against colon cancer at the same time.

The U.S. Preventive Ser-vices Task Force issued draft guidelines Monday recom-mending aspirin only if peo-ple meet a strict list of crite-ria — including a high risk of

heart disease and a low risk of bleeding side effects.

The guidelines said the rec-ommendation is strongest for 50-somethings, but that doc-tors should decide aspirin therapy on a case-by-case ba-sis for people in their 60s, who can expect a smaller benefit.

P o t e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e s should have at least a 10 per cent risk of a heart attack or stroke over the next decade, have a life expectancy of at least 10 years and be willing to take daily aspirin that long, and not have other health con-ditions that cause bleeding, the guidelines said. That’s be-

cause prolonged aspirin use can trigger serious bleeding, in the gastrointestinal tract or brain.

Aspirin therapy has long been recommended for heart attack survivors, but who should try it for what’s called primary prevention — pro-tection of a first heart attack or stroke — is less clear. And while studies suggest years of daily aspirin use may lower the risk of colon cancer, no major health organizations recommend taking it solely for that reason.

Neither do the task force guidelines — the aspirin de-

cision is supposed to be made on the basis of patients’ heart health — but it concluded the cancer information would be useful as doctors and patients discuss the choice.

“If you’re a person trying to decide whether to take as-pirin, you’d want to be aware of all the potential benefits and the potential harms,” said Dr. Douglas Owens, a Stanford University professor and task force member.

The task force said there’s not enough evidence to assess aspirin therapy for those un-der 50 or over 69. The updat-ed guidelines back aspirin

for a narrower age range than the last time the task force weighed the question, but for the first time adds information about the possible cancer ben-efit if people use aspirin long enough.

The guidelines are in line with American Heart Associ-ation recommendations, said Dr. Elliott Antman, a Harvard University professor and for-mer AHA president.

In contrast, the Food and Drug Administration last year ruled that there wasn’t enough evidence to support marketing aspirin for prevention of first heart attacks.

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TORONTO — Fallen hero Steve Fonyo says he’s putting his life back together after decades of drug abuse, crime and near homeless-ness culminated in a vicious beating earlier this year.

The once-celebrated runner is back in the spotlight with a docu-mentary about his troubled life at the Toronto International Film Fes-tival.

Hurt recounts the remarkable cross-Canada run he completed at age 19 in 1985, when the one-legged cancer survivor took up a mission first attempted by the more famous Terry Fox.

Fonyo says he’s still angry his Or-der of Canada was revoked in the years that followed, when a descent into addiction and financial ruin eradicated the public goodwill he’d earned as a teenage icon.

But he says revealing his woes to director Alan Zweig has helped him see things he needs to work on and that his life is much more stable today.

The documentary is in the run-ning for an inaugural prize for artis-tically ambitious work. The winner will be announced on Sunday, the festival’s final day.

“I need to better myself. And I’m doing that,” Fonyo said Tuesday, the day after the film debuted in front of festival audiences.

“I was watching the film and you can’t not notice there’s things to

work on, right? (So) I am.”For the documentary, the To-

ronto-based Zweig visited Fonyo at his home in Surrey, B.C., four times over the course of a year. Zweig found him living in squalor, doing drugs and stealing car parts to make ends meet.

On the final day of shooting in February, Fonyo was beaten and stabbed in a devastating home inva-sion that landed him in hospital for several months.

His speech slurred and his gait even more laboured, Fonyo says he’s working on getting healthier and stronger. He says he is drug-free and “a little bit more relaxed, more laid back.”

And despite all the hardships, he says he still has the same resilient spirit that allowed him to complete his gruelling cross-Canada run.

“I don’t think they should have taken away my Order of Canada. I think they should have been more supportive, but it’s a two-way street. I wasn’t really doing anything for myself either,” he says.

“It took a while to figure that out.”

He was a hero to people once be-fore, and Fonyo says he’d like to be a hero again.

“I hope people learn from it,” he says of the documentary.

Hurt screens Wednesday and Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Fallen heroFallen heroSTEVE FONYO SAYS HE’S FOCUSED ON REBUILDING

TROUBLED LIFE


Steve Fonyo is pictured in a Toronto hotel as he promotes the film Hurt during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday.

Actor with Down syndrome anchors

indie filmBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Dylan Harman had been waiting a long time for a role like the one he snagged in The Rainbow Kid, a unique coming-of-age tale debuting at the Toronto International Film Fes-tival.

Like the fictional teen Eugene, Har-man has Down syndrome and says he knows what it’s like to be badly treat-ed.

“I relate to Eugene because he kind of gets picked on,” Harman said at a pre-TIFF press conference with his director, Kire Paputts.

“He gets used by people and as the story develops, he becomes a man.”

The 25-year-old actor carries much of the low-budget film as it traces a difficult upbringing for the young Eu-gene. An ailing mother, a tenuous liv-ing arrangement and harassment at school lead him to take charge of his own life.

Inspired by his favourite children’s book, Eugene sets off in search of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

“I hope it entertains people at first but other than that I hope people can … come away with a different idea about actors with special needs,” says Paputts, who also wrote the script.

The Toronto filmmaker started working with Harman on the 2012 short film Rainbow Connection. From there, the groundwork was laid to push Har-man even further for his first lead role in a feature.

Paputts says he made a point of treating Harman like any other actor.

“When you’re working with some-one with special needs, there is a ten-dency to handle them with kid gloves a bit. I wanted to get away from that,” the 32-year-old says of his approach.

“This is a film about a guy who goes off looking for the end of the rainbow. It doesn’t focus on his disability, it’s

not about a guy with a disability, he just happens to have a disability.”

Harman says he hasn’t let Down syndrome dissuade him from chasing his dreams, which include writing and directing films. He started acting in a theatre group at age five, and finds confidence in performing.

His credits include a Toronto pro-duction of the Judith Thompson play Rare, the TV movie The Memory Keep-er’s Daughter, and a guest spot on the defunct Global drama Remedy.

“I started performing in a theatre group … and they are the reason why I started acting,” Harman says.

“They inspired me, they gave me the confidence to be an actor.”

Veteran performers Nicholas Campbell and Julian Richings round out the cast as two of the eccentrics Eugene meets on his journey. Another actress with Down syndrome, 26-year-old Krystal Hope Nausbaum, has a key role as a potential love interest.

Paputts says he used a lot of improv to get the performances he needed.

“That was fun to let Dylan and the other actors riff off one another. If things got off track a bit I could al-ways rely on the other actors to bring it back,” he says.

“I would push Dylan all the time, and we would fight every day on set. But we would always hug it out at the end of the day.”

Harman says he’d like to keep act-ing and thanks Paputts for giving him the role.

“There are few films for people with special needs and I’m happy that I got to be a part of this film because it makes me feel that I finally got a chance to be a lead,” says Harman.

“I feel really relieved that I got a chance.”

Tyler, James among finalists for Booker fiction prize

LONDON — Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Anne Tyler and Jamaica’s Marlon James are among six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($77,000) Booker Prize for fiction.

James is the first Jamaican finalist for the p r e s t i g i o u s prize, with A Brief History o f S e v e n Killings, which c e n t r e s o n the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.

T y l e r ’ s A Spool of Blue Thread is one of two books by Americans o n t h e l i s t , alongside Hawaiian writer Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. Two years ago, writers of all nationalities became eligible for the Booker, previously open only to British, Irish and

Commonwealth authors.The list, announced Tuesday,

includes two books by Britons — Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island and Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways— and The Fishermen, by Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma.

The winner will be announced Oct. 13.

Hayes, Hacker on poetry longlist for National Book

AwardsNEW YORK — Former National

Book Award winners Terrance Hayes and Marilyn Hacker will have another shot at the prize this year.

Both are on the longlist for poet-ry, released Tuesday by the National Book Foundation, which presents the awards. Nominees for young people’s literature were announced Monday, with nonfiction and fiction longlists to come later this week.

Hayes was nominated for How to Be Drawn and Hacker, who won 40 years ago for her debut collection, Presenta-tion Piece, was chosen for A Stranger’s Mirror. The 10 finalists also include Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Grat-itude, Amy Gerstler’s Scattered at Seaand Ada Limon’s Bright Dead Things.Judges will narrow the list to five on Oct. 14, with the winner to be an-nounced at the annual awards ceremo-ny on Nov. 18 in Manhattan.

MARLON JAMES

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NEW YORK — Orson Welles’ personal manu-scripts for Citizen Kane are going on the auction block, including the film’s final revised shooting script.

The three screenplays being offered by Profiles in History on Sept. 30 illus-trate the evolution in the creation of the classic mas-terpiece, a landmark in the history of film for its inno-vative cinematic, lighting and narrative techniques.

Welles, who directed and starred in the film about the rise and fall of a pub-lishing tycoon, was 25 when the movie debuted in 1941.

“To have something that comes directly from Orson Welles, items that he used himself in structuring the movie, is incredible,” said Harlan Lebo, whose book Citizen Kane: A Filmmak-er’s Journey is scheduled for release next year.

An original first rough draft of American — the working title for Citizen Kane — written in 1940 by Welles’ collaborator Herman Mankiewicz is estimat-ed to bring $20,000 to $30,000 as part of the Calaba-sas, California-based auctioneer’s three-day sale of Hollywood memorabilia.

It’s the earliest known existing draft of the movie in private hands, the auction house said. It was “cre-ated so early that writing of major scenes and char-acters is yet to come,” Lebo said in the introduction to the auction catalogue.

The next draft “is a fuller evolution of the script . now with the principal plot elements,” Lebo said.

The third and final revised shooting script in-cludes Welles’ handwritten annotations, directing notes and camera-angle diagrams and is signed by most of the cast principals. The 156-page manuscript is dated 7/16/40.

“This is the actual script Welles held in his hands while directing the movie with his camera blocking notes,” said Profiles’ owner Joseph Maddalena.

“What’s so significant about this is there’s been so much written about Citizen Kane that is inaccurate or we just don’t know because there are gaps in the story because no one had the source reference,” he said.

“For people who study film, it’s a big deal be-cause you actually now have the entire story.”

The other two scripts also are estimated to sell for $20,000 to $30,000.

Maddalena said the seller was a close friend of Welles who acquired the material directly from the filmmaker, who died in 1985.

The sale also includes a rare original 49-page CBS-issued transcript of the 1938 Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of War of the Worlds — an adap-tation of H.G. Wells’ sci-ence-fiction novel — and the cover letter from the network apologiz-ing for the mass hysteria created by the realistic dramatization of a Mar-tian invasion of Earth. It comes from another col-lector and is estimated at $20,000 to $30,000.

In addition, the sale is offering a typed manu-script with Welles’ hand-written directorial notes for a proposed television adaptation of Citizen Kane in the 1950s. Its presale estimate is $20,000 to $30,000.

The Welles collection also contains scrapbook pages, contracts, photo-graphs, storyboards, un-produced scripts and oth-er material from his ca-reer.


TORONTO — It seems Justin Bieber failed to make Beliebers out of the Saturday Night Live cast.

The teen pop star first fluttered his bangs on the late-night institution as a musical guest back in April 2010, when he was 16, then returned as guest host in February 2013.

Chameleonic cast mem-ber Bill Hader later said of the latter visit that he “real-ly didn’t enjoy having Justin Bieber around,” while star Kate McKinnon similarly re-vealed that Bieber “wasn’t pleased” with her famous im-pression of him.

Comedian John Mulaney was a writer on SNL during Bieber’s first visit back in 2010 — and the Baby crooner certainly left an impression.

“I was writing something and I had to go down and rehearse it late at night on a Friday,” Mulaney recalled recently.

“I was walking down the hall carrying all these papers, and then, suddenly, someone jumped in front of me and did, like, karate in my face. And I dropped all my papers and (made a sound) like: ‘Hn-ngh!’

“And then I looked and it was Justin Bieber. And he laughed in my face and all his friends laughed in my face.

“And then he got on an elevator ‘cause he had to go do something — which I always liked. His manag-er was like, ‘Come on, we gotta go!’ I like that he’s in a rush and he took time to do that.”

Still, the ever-polite Mulaney stresses that Bieber deserves some slack.

“I’m sure he’ll do something really good for hu-manity one day,” he said. “He’ll balance the scales.

“We all wouldn’t have been great at being 16 and adored around the globe.”

Ahead of a performance during Toronto’s JFL42 next week, Mulaney — the 33-year-old former sitcom star who has a new special coming to Netflix this fall — talked to The Canadian Press about Montreal, Martin Short and married life.

CP: You had a showcase at Just For Laughs in Mon-treal in 2008. Were you nervous?

Mulaney: I remember people warning me that the gala audiences were going to be old ladies — be-cause you do other shows at the festival at smaller (venues) that are fun and raucous. And everyone was saying it’s going to be a tight, elderly crowd.

And it wasn’t. It was a normal crowd.Not that it’s not fantastic to perform for a theatre

of old Canadian women. But people were making it sound bad.

CP: Did you know Martin Short before working on ‘Mulaney’?

Mulaney: We met only at the first pilot I shot.He was wonderful right off the bat. I was so defer-

ential and intimidated. I was like: “Thank you so much for letting me into

your house!”He said, “We need to jump five years in our rela-

tionship so you can just talk to me about what you want.”

CP: Which of his roles loom large for you?Mulaney: Everything. My brother, sister and I

were huge Three Amigos! fans. We were really big SCTV fans.

I also loved Innerspace. I loved Clifford so much.When I was a little older, Primetime Glick came

out and that is still one of the funniest things I’ve ev-er seen.

I remember watching and thinking that I hadn’t laughed this hard at any-thing since I was a kid.

CP: You got married last summer. Has that change been reflected in

your writing?Mulaney: Well, I care so much less every year of

my life what people think of me. Being married helps that.It’s very helpful with comedy because you can go

crazy trying to please everybody … and I have some-times.

Caring what people think of me was like a big, full-time occupation when I was 12 to 15.

“I tripped on the stairs, did anyone see? If they saw, will they tell anyone else?”

But when you’re really in love with someone and they’re in your life every day, you care a lot less about other people.

So, what I’m saying is: I won’t do a good show be-cause I’m in love, and I just hope the people of To-ronto understand that.

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MACLEODJohn A. “Jack”1931 - 2015Mr. John Allan “Jack” Macleod, beloved husband of “Lennie” of Red Deer passed away at the Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, September 14, 2015 at the age of 84 years. Jack was born at Hanna, Alberta and moved to Sundre with his family at a young age; where he received his Primary Schooling. He then moved to Calgary, Alberta, where he attended High School and married Jean Wishart in

1954. Jack worked in the Oil Patch as a Seismic Driller and then owned and operated the Westpoint Service Station in Calgary until 1964. In 1965, he and Jean moved their family to Red Deer and became the Esso Bulk Agent, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. Jack married Lennie Roberts in 1994. He served his community in several capacities including: the Past President of the Red Deer Elks, Red Deer Shriners, he was a lifelong Mason with ‘Scottish Rite’, a Past President and Life Director of the Westerner, and also Past President of the Western Fertilizer and Chemical Dealer’s Association. He was founding member of the Agri Trade and devoted his life giving his time to these and many other affi liations. Besides his loving wife, Lennie, Jack is survived by his children, Wayne (Sherry) of Red Deer, Sandra (Sean) Wheeler of Canmore, Alberta and Bruce (Launa), also of Red Deer; his stepsons, John (Christal) Roberts of Edmonton, Alberta, Douglas (Susan) Roberts of Hamilton, Ontario and Alan Roberts of Fort McMurray, Alberta; his grandchildren, Janice Reid, Shauna Twogood, Jeff and Craig Macleod, Lauren and Cameron Wheeler, and Evan, Logan, Ayden and Ryen Macleod; as well as his step grandchildren, Kaitlynn, Addie and Emily. Jack was predeceased by his fi rst wife, Jean in 1991, a daughter, Brenda in 1955, his parents, John and Ethel Macleod, and his sister, Barbara Moxham. A Celebration of Jack’s Life will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. with The Reverend Jeffrey Rock offi ciating. Family Interment will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. The family would like to thank Dr. Souster and Jack’s many caregivers at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and Extendicare Michener Hill for their kindness, compassion and care. If desired, Memorial Donations in Jack’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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ECKENSWILLERMichael CharlesMichael Charles “Mike” Eckenswiller passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Thursday, September 10, 2015. Mike was born on February 26, 1936 in Walkerton, ON to Michael and Rita Eckenswiller (nee Montag). He moved to Red Deer in 1952 and farmed east of Red Deer in the 1970’s. However, Mike is remembered best by his contributions to the building of Red Deer both in structure and by his many small start-up

businesses, some of which are still here and prosperous today. His ventures ranged from cafes to oil fi eld hauling, cement companies and cranes. In fact, his cranes aided in the construction of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Parkland Mall, and the Rocket in Kin Kanyon, which many children enjoyed for years. His interests included fi shing, river boating, and berry picking. He traveled extensively throughout the world and had volunteered for the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO). Mike was especially proud of being one of the founding members of the Red Deer Prostate Cancer Support Group. “He wasn’t the best but he was better than the rest!” He leaves to mourn his passing, his children and their families; Cindy Cornale and her children, Nathan, Michael and Shelby Cornale, Christine (Keith Veres) Eckenswiller and their children, Amanda Eckenswiller and Travis Veres, Rhonda (Ken) Vick and their children, Amber, Christopher and Tayler Vick, Michael (Marnie) Eckenswiller and their children, Kyle and Emily Eckenswiller, Tracey (Ryan) Graham and their children, Kaden, Ryder, Halle and Tate Graham, his special friend, Darlene Shuya, the mother of his children, Gladys (Eckenswiller), sisters; Rita Molnar, Dorothy Penney and Grace Bush, sister-in-law, Mary Eckenswiller, as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family members. He was predeceased by his parents and his brothers; Jerome Eckenswiller and Edgar Eckenswiller. A Prayer Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel on Friday, September 18, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. If friends desire, in lieu of fl owers, memorial donations in Mike’s honour may be made directly to the David Thompson Health Trust (To: Prostate Support Group), the Central Alberta Cancer Clinic or to a charity of your choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting:www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

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BLOMFIELD William George Charles Apr.28, 1948 - Sept. 10, 2015It is with great sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Bill Blomfi eld from a heart attack on September 10, 2015 in Carstairs, AB. Please refer to the Heartland Funeral Services @ www.heartlandfuneralservices.com for additional information and obituary.

DREWSWilliam John1949 - 2015John was born in Wales on July 17, 1949. He passed away at home peacefully in his sleep on September 6, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 31 years Dorothy (Dot), son Morgan, brothers David (Georgina) and Eric (Rachel), and nieces; Catherine, Bethan (JP) and Samantha (Sebastian). John was predeceased by his parents and his brother Martin. He will be sadly missed by his extended family and his friends. A Celebration of John’s Life will be held at the Alliance Community Church in Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Friday, September 18th, 2015 at 2:00 P.M. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations in John’s name may be made to Operation Amigo, so that the work in Mexico that John loved to do can continue. Condolences may be forwarded to: www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca.

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STONEJack Jack Stone passed away peacefully on September 13, 2015 in Oliver, BC at the age of 67. He is survived by his best friend, Daphne Jacobs, daughter Melanie, sons Jared, Greg, Jordan and Kyle, and grandchildren Bretton and Brooklyn. By Jack’s request, there will be no service, but a celebration of life will be held at Lincoln Hall, Rd 792, County of Lacombe (Gull Lake) on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 3:00 pm. In lieu of fl owers, pay forward a good deed.

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LESKOSEKIt is with great sadness we announce the passing of Roxy Lee Leskosek on September 9th, 2015. After a long, courageous battle she passed away with family by her side in Red Deer, Alberta. She was 53 years of age. Roxy was born in Rimbey, Alberta on January 6th, 1962. She was the 8th child born to Otto and Betty Leskosek and she grew up in the Rimbey and Rocky area. Roxy was the kind of person that lit up a room when she entered it. She radiated happiness and with a laugh so contagious that it was impossible not to laugh along with her. Her beauty far surpassed the exterior as her heart was full of love for all people. She met people without judgement. She could make the best of every situation, often with her crazy antics and sometimes even in costume. She was a good listener and gave sound advice with good common sense. Roxy was a deeply spiritual person who had incredible strength and faith even in her darkest hour. She found joy in everything she did but loved cooking, entertaining for large crowds, horseback riding, being at the lake with Larry and making up stories for her grandchildren. When Roxy was with her grandchildren Katie and Wyatt she was her best self. They were the true light of her life and she was their Pumpkin. She is survived by her loving partner Larry Gould. Her children: Christie (Carson) Titford, Carson Dendy, James (Dana) Gould, Travis Gould and her grandchildren Katie and Wyatt Titford. She is also survived by her parents Otto and Betty Leskosek and her eleven siblings. Francis Owen, Leslie Leskosek, Rudy (Lois) Leskosek, Carol (Wes) North, Frank (Donna) Leskosek, Pauline Pettersen, Mary (Andy) Warnock, Otto Leskosek Jr., Peter (Charmaine) Leskosek, Kathleen (Rick) Leavitt, Joe (Melissa) Leskosek and multiple generations of many nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2015 at 1:00 PM at the First Christian Reformed Church in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. In lieu of fl owers the family is asking for donations to a cause Roxy felt strongly about. Gaitway to Equine Experiences Foundation, Central Alberta, PO Box 974, Red Deer, AB T4N 5H3 www.gaitwayequine.ca or [email protected]

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McISAACKevin Leo (Newf)It is with broken hearts and ultimate sadness we said goodbye to our son, brother,nephew, uncle, great-uncle and friend, Kevin Leo McIsaac, who passed away suddenly and peacefully in his sleep on August 26, 2015 in the place he loved the most, “Lake Ainslie”. Kevin loved spending time at the summer home in Lake Ainslie where he enjoyed the out-doors, fi shing, nature and the woods, as well as telling jokes. He spent 30 plus years working in the oil fi elds in Alberta. Visitation took place Monday, August 31, 2015 followed by a chapel service with Deacon Leo Penny offi ciating. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of McLellan Brothers Funeral Home, New Waterford. The family would like to thank Terry David, Lori Fox and their families. Also, thank you to Quinn & Jacob (Dow) for all they have done.

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WOZNICZKAMargaret Following a courageous battle with breast cancer, Margaret Wozniczka of Rocky Mountain House passed away on September 9, 2015 at the Rocky Mountain House Hospital at the age of 69 with her family by her side. Margaret was the daughter of George and Isola Wirda. She was born January 24, 1946 in the Rocky Mountain House Hospital. Margaret met the love of her life, John Wozniczka, in 1961 and they were married in 1965 and moved to Red Deer. In 1968, they had Richard, and then Joann in 1971. They moved back to Rocky in 1977 for John to strike out on his own with his water truck and to raise their kids in a small town. John passed away from leukemia in January 2004, and Margaret stayed on the farm until she sold it to Rick, and moved to town in 2008. Margaret was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, and went through chemo, surgery and radiation. She was determined to beat this nasty disease, but unfortunately, cancer was more determined. She put up the best fi ght of her life, but it came to an end on September 9, 2015; that day we lost a great mom, grandmother, friend - but her suffering was fi nally over. Margaret loved gardening, scrapbooking, making picture videos, crocheting, knitting, and cooking for family get- togethers She was also known for being able to get a stubborn stain out of anything!! Margaret is survived by son Richard (Debbie); daughter Joann (Kevin) Thompson; grandson Seth; granddaughter Shelby; brother-in-law Doug Wagner; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends. She was predeceased by her mother and father; husband John; brother Cameron Wirda; sisters-in-law Joan Holmes, Anna Wagner, Carrie Nash, Ellen Wozniczka; brothers-in-laws Harold Nash, Mike Wozniczka; and nephew Dwayne Wagner. She will be greatly missed. A Celebration of Margaret’s life will be held on Friday, September 18, 2015 at the Chapel of the Rocky Funeral Home, at 2:00 p.m. Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made in Margaret’s name to the Breast Cancer Society or to STARS. Condolences may be forwarded towww.rockyfuneralhome.ca.

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Clashes continue at holy site


JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime min-ister vowed tougher measures to curb Palestinian violence at an emergen-cy meeting Tuesday night after police clashed with Palestinian protesters in a third straight day of unrest at Jeru-salem’s most sensitive holy site during the Jewish new year holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu said Israel “will use all necessary measures to fight against those who throw stones, firebombs, pipe bombs and fireworks in order to attack civil-ians and police. On the eve of the hol-iday it was again proven that throwing stones can kill.” He said he will take steps so that attackers will face tough-er punishment.

On Monday an Israel died after Pal-estinians pelted his car with rocks. And several Israeli civilians and po-lice were injured in various attacks by Palestinians this week.

Netanyahu said Israel is committed to ensuring the status quo at the holy site but that “rioters won’t be allowed to stop Jewish visitors” to the hilltop.

Police entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound early in the morning to disperse a group of protesters who had holed up inside the mosque overnight, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri. The protesters threw rocks, fireworks, concrete blocks and a firebomb at the

officers, she said, adding that two Pal-estinians were arrested and five police officers were slightly injured in the violence.

A firebomb thrown at police from within the mosque ignited a rug and wooden planks piled up by the protest-ers, Samri said. Mosque officials later extinguished the fire and the police managed to restore calm and open the site for visitors, she added.

Azzam Khatib, the director of the Waqf — the Islamic religious authority that oversees the compound — said Israeli police entered deep inside the mosque in what he called “a very dan-gerous development.” Police denied the allegation and said officers only removed the barricade that protesters had set up at the entrance.

The director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Omar Kiswani, blamed Israeli police for the tensions and said the gate used for visitors to access the site should be shut. He did not comment on the pro-testers’ alleged use of firebombs from within the sacred place, the third holi-est site in Islam. Police have said that firecrackers and firebombs thrown from within the mosque have caused fires.

Nearby, more Palestinian protest-ers gathered and police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse them. Later, police said a Palestinian at-tacked two young Jews in Jerusalem’s Old City, then ran away. He was later arrested, police said.

Late Tuesday, three Palestinians were wounded in clashes between mil-itants from the Islamic Jihad group and Palestinian security forces in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, doctors and security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity under regulations.

Palestinian police raided the camp after militants from Islamic Jihad opened fire during their own press conference, in anger over the inci-dents at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusa-lem. Palestinian police exchanged fire with the militants. One policeman and two bystanders were wounded in the shooting, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity for

fear of reprisals.The compound in Jerusalem’s Old

City is a frequent flashpoint and its fate is a core issue at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, site of the two biblical Jewish temples. Mus-lims revere it as the Noble Sanctuary, where they believe the Prophet Mu-hammad ascended to heaven.

Non-Muslim visitors are only al-lowed to enter the site at specific

hours and are banned by police from praying there.

Muslims view these visits as a prov-ocation and accuse Jewish extremists of plotting to take over the site. The compound often becomes the centre of tensions on major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashana, which ends Tuesday night.

The site is so holy for Jews that they traditionally have refrained from pray-ing on the hilltop, congregating instead at the adjacent Western Wall.

Israel’s chief rabbis, as well as the rabbi of the Western Wall, have issued directives urging people not to ascend the Temple Mount, arguing that Jews could inadvertently enter the holi-

est area of the once-standing temple, where it was forbidden to tread.

But there is a movement advocating the rights for Jews to pray at the hill-top. Some try and get around the ban on prayers by secretly mumbling the words.

Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, blamed Israel for the unrest, claiming that Netanyahu “is trying to push us to the cycle of violence, ex-tremism, bloodshed and chaos.”


Palestinians chant slogans in solidarity with protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, during a demonstration in the West Bank town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, Tuesday. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters Tuesday in a third straight day of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.

ISRAELI POLICE, PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CLASH FOR THIRD DAY IN JERUSALEM

NKorea warns it has restarted all nuclear plantsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — With a big an-niversary drawing near, North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants — meaning it could possibly make more, and more sophisticated, nuclear weap-ons.

The statement, coming just a day after it said it is ready to conduct more rocket launches any time it sees fit, has heightened concerns the North may soon either conduct a launch — which Washington and its allies see as a pretext for testing missile technol-ogy — or hold another test of nucle-ar weapons that it could conceivably place on such a rocket.

Either would be sure to get world attention and be milked by North Ko-rea’s state media as major achieve-ments by Kim Jong Un and his ruling regime.

But North Korea’s recent state-ments also fit a pattern of using claimed improvements in its nuclear and missile programs — many of which don’t lead to launches or nuclear tests — to push for talks with the United States that could eventually provide the impoverished country with conces-sions and eased sanctions, or backfire and deepen its standoff with the U.S. and its allies.

North Korea has spent decades try-ing to develop operational nuclear weapons.

It is thought to have a small arsenal of atomic bombs and an impressive array of short- and medium-range mis-siles. But it has yet to demonstrate that it can produce nuclear bombs small enough to place on a missile, or mis-siles that can reliably deliver their bombs to faraway targets.

Still, it has conducted three nuclear tests and a series of steadily improving long-range rocket launches, and some analysts see the announcements as

foreshadowing another launch ahead of the anniversary celebration or a fourth nuclear test, which would push North Korea further along in its nucle-ar aims.

North Korea said Tuesday in its state media that, as it pledged to do in 2013, the plutonium and highly en-riched uranium facilities at its main Nyongbyon nuclear complex have fi-nally been “rearranged, changed or readjusted and they started normal operation.” It said its scientists had improved “the levels of nuclear weap-ons with various missions in quality and quantity.”

North Korea agreed to shut down the Nyongbyon reactor in 2007 in re-turn for emergency energy assistance and steps toward the normalization of relations with the U.S. and Japan in a deal resulting from six-party talks in-volving the U.S., China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas. In 2009, North Ko-rea pulled out of the denuclearization talks and expelled international in-

spectors after the U.N. Security Coun-cil condemned Pyongyang for a failed satellite launch that was considered a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The North later pledged to resume its nuclear enrichment program at Nyongbyon.

White House spokesman Josh Ear-nest said the United States and other nations around the world will not ac-cept North Korea as a nuclear state.

“That’s why we urge North Korea to refrain from actions and rhetoric that threaten regional peace and security and focus instead on fulfilling its in-ternational obligations and commit-ments,” Earnest said.

“We will work with our partners in the context of the six-party talks to try to return North Korea to a posture of fulfilling those commitments that they have made.”

Earnest said the United States is aware of actions North Korea has tak-en.

Search teams look for victims after floods kill 12 in Utah


HILDALE, Utah — Search-and-rescue teams trudged through muddy streambeds Tuesday in a small polyg-amous town on the Utah-Arizona bor-der, looking for people who were miss-ing after a devastating flash flood that killed at least 12 people.

With more rain in the forecast, men in helmets were perched at high points along the route, watching carefully for any more floodwaters that could sus-pend the search in Hildale, the seclud-ed community that is the home base of Warren Jeffs’ polygamist sect.

Only one person was still missing Tuesday afternoon out of 16 people — three women and 13 children — who were in two vehicles that got smashed Monday by a wall of water and carried several hundred yards downstream. Authorities had not identified the dead. Three people survived, all of them children.

On Tuesday, the streets were caked in red mud, and earth movers cleared the roads and piled up mounds of dirt. As a helicopter buzzed overhead, crowds of boys in jeans and girls and women in deep-colored prairie dress-es watched the rescue effort.

Residents called it the worst flood in memory for the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ari-

zona, which are 315 miles south of Salt Lake City at the foot of picturesque red rock cliffs. It was in this area at Max-well Canyon where heavy rains sent water down Short Creek and barrel-ling through the towns.

The torrent was so fast, “it was tak-ing concrete pillars and just throwing them down, just moving them like plas-tic,” said Lorin Holm, who called the storm the heaviest in the 58 years he’s lived in the community.

The women and children were in an SUV and a van on a gravel road north of the towns. They were returning from a park when they stopped at a flood-ed crossing and got out to watch the raging waters, Hildale Mayor Philip Barlow said.

What they did not know was that a flash flood was brewing in the canyon above, he said. It came rushing down and engulfed their vehicles.

“We’re greatly humbled by this, but we realize that this is an act of God, and this is something we can’t con-trol,” said Barlow, a Jeffs follower. “We have to take what we receive and do the best we can.”

About three hours earlier, the Na-tional Weather Service had issued a flood warning for the area, saying: “Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life.” It’s un-known if the victims were aware of the warning.

Putin says Russia providing military assistance to Syria


Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly defended Moscow’s military assistance to the Syrian government, saying it’s impossible to defeat the Is-lamic State group without co-operating with Damascus.

Putin’s statement comes amid the signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria, which the U.S. says signals Moscow’s intention to set up an air base there.

Speaking at a meeting of heads of states at a Moscow-dominated secu-rity alliance of ex-Soviet nations in

Tajikistan, Putin urged other nations to follow Russia’s example and offer military support to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.

“We are supporting the government of Syria in the fight against a terror-ist aggression, are offering and will continue to offer it necessary mili-tary-technical assistance,” Putin said. “Without an active participation of the Syrian authorities and the military, it would be impossible to expel the terrorists from that country and the region as a whole, and to protect the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Syrian people from destruction.”

He said that Assad was ready to conduct political transformations and engage a “healthy part of the opposi-tion,” but added that “pooling forces in the fight against terror takes the priority now.”

Wednesday, Sept. 16CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:

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T H O U G H T OF THE DAY: The stars favour making emotional connections and having fun.

H A P P Y BIRTHDAY: You have a coura-geous spirit and a generous heart.

The next 12 months is a terrif-ic time to travel, as Jupiter stimu-lates your gypsy gene.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With your ruler Mars in sunny Leo, Rams are in an optimistic new phase. No challenge is too great as you ap-proach life with extra energy, enthusiasm and adventurous ideas.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to accept responsibility for the part you’re play-ing in partnership problems.

Communication and consultation are the keys to getting close relationships back on

track again.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have to

explain something to a family member, work colleague or neighbour, do so with plenty of enthusiasm. Plus take the time to make sure they understand your instructions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Communi-cation is the buzz word today Crabs, as you strive to get your message out loud and clear. Aim to bring others over to your point of view with plenty of passionate persuasion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Aim to get the balance right between being busy in the out-side world, and spending quiet solo time with your inner thoughts and dreams. You need some rest and relaxation ASAP.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stop being a Virgo worry-wart! With Jupiter in your sign, learn to put a positive spin on a perceived failure. With energy and enthusiasm, you can turn a pig’s ear into a beautiful silk purse!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you sick of being single? Many Librans are in the mood to fall in love fast! Others will reboot a tired romantic relationship, or freshen up an old friendship with exciting new activities.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t think small Scorpio! With Jupiter — planet of abun-dance — jumping through your hopes and wishes zone, make your dreams for the future as big and beautiful as you possibly can.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Confi-dence and chutzpah are the keys to making

your work experience a much happier one. Manage your Sagittarian restlessness with outdoor activities and some fun physical ex-ercise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put on the best show you can at work. Unpredictable Uranus urges you to shake things up on the home front as you move, renovate, redec-orate or prepare to welcome some unlikely guests.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re in a passionate mood but consider the needs

of your partner, not just your own. Singles — your desire for love is strong but don’t rush into a relationship without thinking things through.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Physical ac-tivity is a fabulous way to work off extra ener-gy — and kilos — today Pisces. So quit being a couch potato and get moving via walking, sport or a session at the local gym.

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LIFESTYLE D6WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 2015

Dear Annie: I am writing to you be-cause of a friend’s prob-lem. “Lena” is a divorced woman who lives with her 24-year-old son.

Her ex’s gambling prob-lem destroyed the mar-riage. Her son was 10 years old at the time of his par-ents’ divorce, and he was already unruly, uncontrol-lable and slacking off at school. Immediately after the divorce, the father re-married and does not keep in contact.

Lena decided to send her son to a prestigious school in her home country.

She believed that her family, who lived there, could better take care of him and help him do well in school. She had to work overtime every single day to afford the tuition.

He graduated as valedictorian and went to college in Australia. Again, Lena worked very hard to pay the full tuition.

When he was a junior, her son re-turned to the U.S. and said he was taking a break from college.

After several months, he decided to “get a job” in-stead of returning to school.

But a year has passed, and he hasn’t earned a dime.

We recently learned from Lena that her son has been using drugs and phys-ically assaulting her, saying that she ruined his child-hood by sending him over-seas.

She asked him to consid-er a rehab facility, but he refuses. Lena now fears for her life. He has attacked her many times asking for

money to buy drugs.She is heartbroken about how her

only child has turned out. I keep telling her to call the police,

but she has begged me not to. She doesn’t want to destroy his future by sending him to prison. What should we

do? — A ReaderDear Reader: If Lena cannot get her

drug-addicted, abusive son out of her home and refuses to call the authori-ties, she should get out of there before he does permanent harm.

Please call your local state do-mestic violence agency or the Na-tional Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (thehotline.org) and ask how you can help. Also, please encourage Lena to contact Because I Love You (bily.org), or Families Anon-ymous (familiesanonymous.org), sup-port groups for parents in similar sit-uations.

Dear Annie: I am a pastor and re-cently conducted a funeral at our church for a beloved member. In ac-cordance with the family’s wishes, a friend of the deceased was allowed to speak for a few minutes during the service.

Unfortunately, the “friend” pro-ceeded to tell inappropriate stories.

After he’d spoken for quite some time, I asked him to allow others to talk, but he refused to yield. Finally, an angry family member asked him to

sit down, but the damage had already been done.

May I offer three cardinal rules for speaking at a funeral?

1. Keep your remarks brief — less than seven minutes. Write and prac-tice what you’re going to say.

2. This is not a comedy club. Though you may share a funny story about the deceased, do not say anything that would humiliate that person or their family.

3. Do not brag about yourself. The service is not about you. — Grieving Pastor

Dear Pastor: Many folks, when con-fronted with the death of a loved one, say amazingly inappropriate things.

Thank you for reminding them to think before speaking.

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 Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Six-month-old clouded leopard kittens Malee, left, and Suree, centre, join their mother Serai, right, on a perch in their enclosure at Zoo Miami.

Saskatchewan scientists work with Harvard on new

Parkinson’s researchSASKATOON — Researchers at

the University of Saskatchewan are teaming up with colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston to use stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinson’s disease attacks the cells in the brain that create dopamine, a chemical that carries action signals through your brain.

Dr. Ivar Mendez of the Saskatch-ewan Brain Repair Program at the Saskatoon university says when this happens, it causes the loss of function, but new research is hoping to restore those.

The process involves taking stem cells from a patient’s skin or blood, and converting them into a brain stem cell which is rich in dopamine neu-rons. Once they are injected into the brain, the dopamine is released and the broken links begin to be repaired.

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