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‘REALLY
‘It’s just heartbreaking’
DISTURBING’ P.E.I. community comes together to help infant fighting cancer

Sarah Stewart-Clarke is
hoping a visual represen-
tation indicating the sex-
ual violence incidents on
P.E.I. will push lawmakers
to do more to fund
trauma care and supports
for victims of sexual A4
assault and rape.
GREEN LIVING
STILL IN LOVE

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Ella Fraser was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and is currently undergoing treatment, so the community of Pooles Corner is hosting a fundraiser.

Canadians have not lost
heir love of the rose, they
have simply shifted focus.
No longer is a rose bush
part of a ‘collection’. In-
stead, roses are a part of a
greater whole, integrated
into landscapes that
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serve many purposes.
BY KATIE SMITH
THE GUARDIAN
Ella Fraser is fighting for her
young life.
In December, results from
the 19-month-old’s blood work
came back with a diagnosis no
parents ever want to hear —
cancer.
Ella is the daughter of
Rebecca Martin-Fraser and
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Kent Fraser, originally from
Pooles Corner.
The family now lives outside
Halifax, but their hometown
community hasn’t forgot-
ten about them and has come
together in a show of love and
support by holding an upcom-
ing fundraiser.
Erin Lundrigan, who has been
Rebecca’s best friend for more
than 20 years, said the next few
months will be a tough road for
the family.
The diagnosis, acute myeloid
leukemia, is a cancer that’s not
uncommon for children with
Down syndrome, like Ella, Lun-
drigan said, adding the little
girl is undergoing treatment at
the IWK Children’s Hospital in
Halifax.
“It’s a pretty intense, min-
imum six months of cancer
treatments with chemother-
apy, bone marrow transplants,
you know, as much as they can
do to a child that small, basic-
ally.”
With so much time that will
be required in hospital, Ella’s
parents have taken indefinite
leaves from their jobs. Lundri-
gan hopes an upcoming fund-
raiser she’s planned will help.
See FUNDRAISER, A2
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THINGS TO
know
POWER USE RISES
IN B.C. DURING
No special treatment
EARTH HOUR
VANCOUVER (CP) — Despite
their best intentions, British
Columbians increased their
power use during Earth Hour
for the first time in a decade.
B.C. Hydro says electricity use
across the province rose by
0.2 per cent from 8:30 to 9:30
p.m. Saturday night, com-
pared with the same hour
the week before. Earth Hour
is an annual World Wildlife
Fund event that encourages
people to turn off their lights
for one hour.
$1.75 plus HST
Maritime Electric argues everyone needs
to be treated equal when it comes to power rates
BY DAVE STEWART
THE GUARDIAN
Maritime Electric and the
City of Summerside took a
disagreement on paying for
electricity to the Island Regula-
tory and Appeals Commission
(IRAC) last week.
While Summerside supplies
many of its customers with
electricity, it is also a customer
of the Island utility.
The city has been seeking
a discount or special rate
on the transmission system,
but Maritime Electric argued
its costs would be the
same.
“If we don’t charge them the
essentially we have to collect
those costs from all the other
customers on P.E.I.,’’ said Kim
Griffin, spokeswoman with
Maritime Electric.
Griffin said there were two
issues argued before IRAC,
one being whether or not
radial lines should be in-
cluded in its Open Access
Transmission Tariff (OATT)
calculation.
Maritime Electric modelled
its OATT on NB Power.
“All of those costs are born
GUARDIAN FILE PHOTO by our customers on Prince
Kim Griffin Edward Island. You can’t just
take a piece of it and just pay
same rate we charge others
using the transmission system,
for that.’’
See OPERATING, A2
New deal
makes for
happy ending
BY JIM DAY
THE GUARDIAN
Many people are resting
easier now that the threat
of relocation has ended for
a number of residents in a
Charlottetown nursing
home.
A new provincial funding
formula for all nine private
nursing homes in P.E.I. is wel-
come news for Atlantic Baptist
Homes.
The deal ends the need
for the long-running facility
to close 41 of its 116
long-term care beds due
to insufficient government
funding.
Now, no beds will close.
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or call: 902-437-7300. Slight
delays possible at noon Monday Secondly, Maritime Electric
to Thursday due to oversized argued that rates should be the
loads crossing bridge at this same for everyone no matter
time. where someone is on the sys-
tem.
Griffin said the city agrees
with almost everything in OATT
other than those two funda-
mental points.
Online: “We believe that it’s fair, open
511.gov.pe.ca and transparent and there is no
Telephone special treatment and that you
In P.E.I.: 511 just use a part of (the system)
Outside P.E.I. and pay part of it.’’
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Queens County
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Georgetown a ‘real hot spot’
Expedia has given a small
Kings County town a big boost
transit as one of the top spring tourism
www.triustransit.ca destinations in Canada.
Georgetown was among the
10 locations the online travel
please recycle giant singled out from across
the country as prime places to
of the day was working on a
plan to develop and encourage
wind development in the prov-
ince, and OATT was established
as a sort of rules-of-the-road
guide.
Griffin said it means anyone
coming to P.E.I. wanting to use
the transmission system, no
matter the location in the prov-
ince, would understand the
rules and how much it would
cost to do business.
“We operate under the post-
age stamp philosophy. What
essentially it means is our cus-
tomers have paid for the sys-
visit in its recent article “Best
Places to Experience Spring in
Canada.”
The article mentions George-
town as a spot to enjoy the Is-
land’s lobster bounty during
fishing season in the spring.
“Georgetown is a picture-
tem on Prince Edward Island
and there is one transmission
system, one electrical system
under Maritime Electric.
“If I mail a letter, whether it’s
in Morell or Tignish or Char-
lottetown or Brackley, it’s the
same cost . . . we all cover those
costs, pay for those costs, but
it’s the same amount to mail a
letter. We look at our system
and say that principle should
be the same for our electricity
system.’’
Griffin said OATT was put
in place so that everyone was
treated the same when it came
perfect village on the east coast
of P.E.I., and your first stop
should be the working wharf
to see the lobstermen bringing
in the day’s catch,” writes the
article’s author, Carolyn Albee.
“Head out on the water yourself
with Tranquility Cove Adven-
to access to the transmission
system.
“If we treat one customer dif-
ferently; if we give a customer
an exception to that then fun-
damentally we still have the
same costs, so those costs will
have to be distributed to all our
other customers on P.E.I. To
be fair and open and trans-
parent it’s one cost no matter
where you are in the system and
it’s the same costs for every-
one.’’
dave.stewart@theguardian.pe.ca
Twitter.com/DveStewart
tures — their deep-sea fishing
package includes hauling a
lobster pot, just like the real
thing.
“End the day at Eden’s Gate
restaurant to dine on the day’s
catch. You’ll feel like a local in
no time.”
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the Island GROWING GREEN

A brewery and pub in
St. John’s grows micro-
greens on site and plans
for future growth.
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Q AGRICULTURE
IN
brief
Affordable housing
policy taking shape
‘Flocking’ to keep chickens
The city of Charlottetown
inched forward on creating More and more Islanders are interested in keeping their own poultry
a draft policy for affordable
housing with a housing
forum in February.
At the meeting, Mayor Clif-
ford Lee noted that such
a policy could include tax
incentives for developers.
In addition, density require-
ments could be changed in
certain zones of the zoning
and development bylaw
to allow for higher build-
ings, transit passes could
be made available and ad-
ditional stops made available
throughout the entire city
and not just the downtown
core and there could be
some integration of low
income units with seniors
and some market value units
to create mixed neighbour-
hoods.
Lee also indicated that such a
policy needs to clearly define
what affordable housing
means.
After a brief discussion, chief
administrative officer Peter
Kelly was directed to con-
tinue with the creation of a
draft policy and to explore
the viability of the city corpo-
ration’s involvement in build-
ing and managing affordable
housing units.
Hoping to get
connected
Deputy Police Chief Brad
MacConnell has requested
the city’s advanced planning, MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN
priorities and special proj- Cynthia Allaire, left, and Scott Mitchell hold up a couple of chickens during a backyard poultry seminar at the Charlottetown Farm Centre on Saturday.
ects committee explore the Allaire is holding a Light Brahma while Mitchell, who owns Willow Creek Poultry with Rodney Clow, is holding a Silver Laced Wyandotte. The seminar
option of connecting three aimed to offer an informative discussion on how to care for chickens, geese, ducks and quail.
municipal building centres to
the city’s fibre infrastructure. BY MITCH MACDONALD treat an animal that’s feeding Cynthia Allaire was one of There are now more
THE GUARDIAN us.” several at the event who re- Islanders breeding heritage
The network connectivity Cowans was the organizer of cently began looking after chickens to sell.
would benefit the city in the Rebecca Cowans knows why a backyard poultry seminar at chickens. Apart from Cowans’ backyard
event the city needs to oc- chickens are sometimes called the P.E.I. Farm Centre in Char- “It’s something I always operation, Willow Creek Poultry
cupy one or more of these the “gateway animal.” lottetown on Saturday, which wanted to get into, my sister has also begun breeding a num-
buildings in an emergency About four years ago, Cow- showed about 70 Islanders has some (chickens) in Monc- ber of heritage chicken breeds
situation. ans bought a single rooster how to care for small numbers ton,” said Allaire, noting she as well as waterfowl.
It would also open avenues when trying to find a pet that of chickens, quail, geese and found the seminar helpful. “I Scott Mitchell, who owns
for potentially expanding the wouldn’t irritate her son’s fur ducks. thought it was fantastic, it was Willow Creek Poultry with Rod-
e-Watch program into the allergies. While chickens can be rela- really educational, especially for ney Clow, said the two started
outlying areas.
Today, Cowans now breeds tively easy to care for, de- people who are up-and-coming purchasing breeds together a
and sells a number of blue egg- pending on the breed, Cowan and don’t know a lot… it’s great couple years ago after noticing
It has been noted that the laying Ameraucanas for back- noted there are some things for building relationships as the lack of options for buyers on
West Royalty and Hills- yard hen enthusiasts at her people should know before get- well with local people.” P.E.I.
borough Park community “Down By The Bay Backyard ting a flock. The seminar was sup- Their operation, a mix of
centres currently have fibre- Poultry” operation in Oyster Because chickens are in- ported by Barnyard Organics passion and business, has also
op but Malcolm J. Darrach Bed Bridge. expensive, it is not practical to and Rent a Chicken, Clarence grown.
Community Centre lack the “They call chickens the gate- take a sick one to a vet. Farm Services, Willow Creek “If you ever get into showing
program. way ‘animal’ because you’ll start That means the owner has Poultry, Down By the Bay and keeping purebreds, it gets
Bell Aliant has been con- with chickens and love them. to learn some basics in caring Backyard Poultry and the P.E.I. addictive,” said Mitchell, add-
tacted about a quote, site Then you might get ducks and for chickens, while also pre- Purebred Poultry Fanciers As- ing that he felt Saturday was a
geese, then you might get a determining how much space sociation. great event.
assessment particulars and
goat and then you’re buying and time they can commit to While the interest of keep- “It was really good to see
more, but no information has
a farm,” said Cowans, adding the birds. ing chickens is growing among that many people interested in
been received yet.
that backyard flocks seem to “It’s a big commitment,” said Islanders, it appears the num- it. There seems to be a lot of
Tendering out skunk, be getting more popular among Cowans. “That was the purpose ber of options are also increas- people looking into getting back
raccoon removals Islanders. of (this event) was to open up ing. into having their own chickens
The city is tendering out “There is a genuine interest… people’s eyes to the whole thing Previously, those looking for and their own eggs. It’s nice to
skunk and raccoon removal it’s a great way to teach our kids from the start to the finish egg-laying hens on P.E.I. were see.”
services for 2018 with an op- where our food comes from. and what things you’re going largely limited to commercial
tion to extend it another two It exposes them to agricul- to come across (when raising breeds or would have to travel Mitchell.macdonald@theguardian.pe.ca
years.
ture and they get to see how to chickens).” off-Island for heritage breeds. Twitter.com/Mitch_PEI
Charlottetown has offered Q COURT
skunk and raccoon removal
services to residents dating
back to 2010.
The project is seen as a
Good intentions
way to manage urban
wildlife populations in the
city. go awry, end in fine Notice to Advertisers
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year. Drew Ryan MacDougall, 22, night. Tuesday, April 3rd Thursday, March 29 @ noon
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Q SEXUAL ASSAULT
‘I was naive to the reality’
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Last year, Sarah Stewart-Clark made public a Google Map allowing victims of sexual assault and rape to put a pin point on the map, indicating where
the incident occurred.
BY MILLICENT MCKAY
JOURNAL PIONEER
WINTER
SUMMERSIDE
An Island woman is calling for more
immediate support for victims of sexual
violence on P.E.I.
Last year, Sarah Stewart-Clark made
CARRIER
a public Google Map allowing victims
of sexual assault and rape to put a pin
point on the map, indicating where the
incident occurred.
She was shocked.
“I don’t think we realize the extent of
TIPS
sexual violence on P.E.I. It’s really dis-
turbing.”
The map featured dozens of pin points
with small descriptions for each inci-
dent.
“I thought if Islanders could visually
see the numbers and the places where
these acts of sexual violence are hap-
pening it will hopefully wake people up
The safety of newspaper to the reality that women, men and chil-
dren in our province are facing.”
carriers during the winter Shortly after it was created, data on
the map was deleted. Undaunted, Stew-
months is important to us. art-Clark made a second edition, which
she recently released.
We appreciate the steps our
However, the second map featured
new pin points she hadn’t seen on the
original.
subscribers take to ensure “It really shows the quantity and the
severity of these occurrences.”
the safe delivery of our Points indicated where the assault
occurred, like parks, school campuses,
newspaper every day. beaches, washrooms and even work
places.
“One describes someone being raped
and held against their will for 12 hours.
Others describe instances from a per-
son’s childhood.”
Stewart-Clark, who is best known for
her work with Island Mothers helping
Mothers, began researching sexual as-
sault and the mental health ramifica-
H Please ensure that
tions while moderating the Facebook
group. She discovered a 2001 report re-
leased by the government that indicated
your walkways and stairs about 1,000 sexual assaults occur on
P.E.I. each year.
are clear of ice and snow, “I thought we were unaware of what
was going on. But that wasn’t the case. I
are well-lit and free was completely naïve to the reality.”
Then, in 2016, the experience became
of obstacles.
personal when her friend was sexually
assaulted in West Prince.
“It’s unacceptable. I think victims in
our community deserve much better
H
than that. But it’s unacceptable because
For rural deliveries, there isn’t funding for trauma counsel-
lors at a rate that would possibly be able
please ensure the area to handle the number of victims.”
Now Stewart-Clark is hoping the map
around your paper tube will influence government to do more to
help people dealing with sexual violence
or mailbox is free of ice,
and provide the necessary immediate
support.
snow and obstacles.
“Don’t get me wrong, the front-line
workers who deal with this every day are
doing their best. But it’s not enough.”
Currently there are four counsellors at
the P.E.I. Rape and Sexual Assault Centre
(PEIRSAC).
The counsellors, based out of Char-
Q CANNABIS
Thank you for helping
to keep Newspaper Carriers
Work starting on stores
safe this winter. BY COLIN MACLEAN
JOURNAL PIONEER
SUMMERSIDE
The P.E.I. Liquor Control Commission
is looking for a company to renovate the
buildings that will house its cannabis
retail outlets in Summerside and Mon-
tague.
The provincial Crown corporation an-
7585274
nounced its selections for properties in
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Woman makes
public a Google
map showing the
number of sexual
assaults and rapes
on P.E.I.
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Sarah Stewart-Clarke is hoping a
visual representation indicating the
sexual violence incidents on P.E.I.
will push lawmakers to do more to
fund trauma care and supports for
victims of sexual assault and rape.
Numbers:
Sexual assault files in Island police depart-
ments:
– Charlottetown Police Services 2014-
2016: 107 reported, 54 unfounded after
review
– Kensington Police Services 2014-
2016: 11 reported, 3 unfounded after
review
– Summerside Police Services 2010-
2016: 149 reported,14 unfounded after
review, 14 rescored as unsolved-unsub-
stantiated
– RCMP 2010-2016: 428 reported, 199
unfounded after review, 29 rescored to
unsolved-unsubstantiated, 1 assist file, 1
required two scores, unsolved-unsubstan-
tiated and unfounded.
lottetown, set up frequent pop-up
stations at the East Prince Women’s In-
formation Centre (EPWIC) in Summer-
side.
Andy Lou Somers, the executive dir-
ector of EPWIC, says there has been an
increase in the past year of women com-
ing in looking for support after a rape or
assault.
“The #MeToo movement I think has
encouraged people to come forward.
We’re here to offer them resources, and
as more women come forward I think it’s
given more people confidence that they
are being heard.”
She says when women come in asking
for sexual assault support, they are im-
mediately referred to PEIRSAC.
“I do believe more should be done to
support victims and it should be talked
about openly. I’ve found that when a
woman goes through the process of see-
ing a counsellor they may build back
some of their confidence, it might help
them to build back their life and even
report it.”
In December of 2017, the premier
tabled a justice and public safety report
that reviewed the data of unfounded sex-
ual assault cases.
The review aimed to better under-
stand unfounded cases, ensure consist-
ent and accurate reporting, make sure
the necessary resources are in place for
victims, determine where policy needs
to change and make sure supports are
aligned.
The report concluded with govern-
ment committing to treating victims
with care, respect and compassion,
listing way to enhance supports like,
evidence-based jurisdictional practices
in investigation and response, consist-
ent investigations held to the highest
possible standard, accountability and
public trust in police sexual assault re-
sponse.
In a government statement provided
by communications officer Katie Mac-
Donald for the department of Justice
and Public Safety the province said the
collaborative work between government
and other agencies is ongoing.
Millicent.mckay@journalpioneer.com
both communities earlier this month.
A tender was issued March 7 for
needed renovation work on the proper-
ties. It closes March 28. Work at both
sites is to be started no later than April 5
and completed no later than July 24.
The province is also still trying to find
homes for planned cannabis stores in
Charlottetown and West Prince. No suit-
able properties were identified during
the first request for proposals.
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Q RED CROSS
Learning about safety ‘is fun’
Red Cross Water Safety Day Camp supervisor Emma MacMillan, left, and assistant supervisor Madeline Gallant were telling Islanders about the Canadian Red Cross programs in P.E.I. during an
open house and family fun day on Saturday. This summer will be the 73rd year for the Red Cross’ Water Safety Day Camps in P.E.I.
Canadian Red Cross in P.E.I. celebrates third open house and family fun day
BY MITCH MACDONALD
way.
THE GUARDIAN
It’s never too early to start
teaching kids about safety, es-
pecially if it’s taught in a fun
That was the goal at the open
house and family fun day at the
Canadian Red Cross in P.E.I.’s
facility on Paramount Drive on
Saturday.
From crafts that showed
what goes into an emergency
preparedness kit to applying
some first-aid to teddy bears,
there were plenty of family ac-
tivities at the event which was
also meant to celebrate Red
Cross Month.
“The kids love it, there is a lot
for them to do. But there is also
some really important messa-
ging around staying safe and
emergency services,” said prov-
incial director Laura Johnson-
Montigny.
This was the third and biggest
year for the open house, which
began shortly after provincial
Red Cross moved into its new
facility.
The event has also grown to
involve other emergency man-
agement organizations, such as
the Charlottetown police and
fire department as well as the
Canadian Disaster Animal Re-
sponse Team.
“It just keeps getting bigger
and bigger,’ said Johnson-Mon-
tigny. “People look forward to it
now.”
The event is also volunteer-
driven, with about 55 volunteers
in the provincial Red Cross right
now.
Jean Willison was one of
those volunteers helping out on
Saturday.
“The kids love it, there is
a lot for them to do. But
there is also some really
important messaging
around staying safe and
emergency services.”
Laura Johnson-Montigny
Willison and her grand-
daughter Mallory Grant were
stitching up and putting Band-
Aids on teddy bears, one of the
most popular activities in the
open house.
Willison, who had a career in
nursing, joined the Red Cross
last June and hasn’t looked
back.
“It’s very comfortable here.
The people are so nice. You just
fit right in, and it’s not even
been a year,” said Willison, who
volunteers two days a week and
was highly impressed by Satur-
day’s event.
Adele Saunders cracks a smile after seeing the final result of a face-painting by P.E.I. Red Cross volunteer Karalee
McAskill. Face painting was one of several fun options for kids during an open house at the P.E.I. Red Cross on
Saturday.
Kaiden Davis, right, and his younger brother, Mackie, learn what items belong in an emergency preparedness kit
during the P.E.I. Red Cross open house on Saturday.
The event also saw some
face-painting, a clown, balloon
twisting, door prizes and treats.
Apart from providing a fun
MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN
MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN
day for families and teaching
kids about safety, the event also
THE ISLAND A5
MITCH MACDONALD/THE GUARDIAN
5
1 The
FACTS ABOUT
THE RED CROSS
International Red Cross
and Red Crescent Move-
ment are the world’s largest
humanitarian network. It
includes the International Fed-
eration of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies, the Inter-
national Committee of the Red
Cross, and the societies in 189
member countries.
2 On October 29, 1863, dele-
gates meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland, adopted 10
resolutions aimed at helping
wounded soldiers, thereby
launching what would be-
come the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Move-
ment.
3 The International Federa-
tion of Red Cross (IFRC) and
Red Crescent Societies were
founded in 1919 in Paris in the
aftermath of the First World
War. The war had shown a
need for close co-operation
between Red Cross Societies.
4 Disaster response makes up
the largest portion of the
IFRC’s work, but it also is
committed to disaster pre-
paredness and health and
community care.
5 The organization has won
three Nobel Peace Prizes, in
1917, 1944 and 1963.
SOURCE - wikipedia
helps raise awareness for the
provincial Red Cross programs
such as the PDF loan program,
health equipment loan program
and its popular water safety day
camps.
Day camp supervisor Emma
MacMillan and assistant super-
visor Madeline Gallant said this
summer will be the 73rd year of
the camps being held in P.E.I.
They said the event was a
good day to let people know
about the camps.
“Some people don’t know
about the day camps or you get
some parents who say ‘I did this
as a kid but I didn’t know they
were still running.’ It’s awe-
some,” said Gallant.
MacMillan, who is in her
eighth year with the water
safety camps, gave the entire
open house event a thumbs-up.
“There is so much stuff hap-
pening and so many kids com-
ing in. I love today because
people get to learn more about
what the Red Cross has to offer.”
Mitchell.macdonald@theguardian.pe.ca
Twitter.com/Mitch_PEI
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green living
Q URBAN CULTIVATION
Marcelo Mena manages the YellowBelly Takeaway on Water Street in St. John’s, N.L., but with a bachelor degree in biology focused on botany, he is also in charge of the commercial urban
cultivator at the YellowBelly Brewery and Public House, where he grows a variety of microgreens that are used primarily as garnish.
Growing their own greens
Brewery/pub grows microgreens on site and plans for future growth
BY KENN OLIVER
THE TELEGRAM
The farm-to-table social
movement has been grow-
ing quickly throughout North
America in recent years as
changing attitudes around
food safety and freshness have
resulted in more and more res-
taurants sourcing ingredients
directly from a local producer.
The YellowBelly Brewery and
Public House has gone a step
further and has started grow-
ing microgreens on site, putting
them in easy reach for chefs and
cooks in the kitchen.
“When you’re eating, it should
be a feast for the senses - sight,
smell and taste, sometimes
even textures. That’s what we’re
trying to accomplish here,” says
Marcelo Mena, manager of the
Q GARDENING
A rose by any
other name
No longer is a rose bush
part of a ‘collection’
The idea of collecting rose
bushes is dead. For genera-
tions, a sunny yard included
a ‘rose garden’ somewhere. In
the early days of Weall and Cul-
len Nurseries, our family busi-
ness, retail customers would
buy wagon loads of rose bushes
each spring.
Canadians have not lost their
love of the rose, they have sim-
ply shifted focus. No longer is a
rose bush part of a ‘collection’.
Instead, roses are a part of a
greater whole, integrated into
landscapes that serve many
purposes.
There are many myths that
surround the idea of planting
roses. Many people think of in-
sect and disease problems when
they think of roses. We are here
to dispel some myths and open
your eyes to the potential that
roses may hold for you.
First, new roses are resistant
to disease. It is a requirement
for new rose introductions to
be black spot and powdery mil-
dew-free as changing demands
of consumers calls for it.
If “low maintenance” is a key
selling feature when shopping
for plants in your garden, we
new YellowBelly Takeaway on
Water Street in St. John’s, N.L.,
and the man in charge of grow-
ing a variety of the edible, im-
mature greens in a commercial
urban cultivator tucked away
on the second floor of the res-
taurant.
“Right now, it’s mostly gar-
nish, but the next step will be
producing more and seeing if
we can get a mixture.”
Mena says the model allows
kitchen staff to pick greens at
peak flavour and nutritional
value and serve them within
minutes of harvest.
Among the current crops are
radicchio, parsley, purple kale,
sunflowers, chervil, wasabi,
speckled peas and basil. Lots of
basil.
“I cannot keep up with the
production of basil,” says Mena.
Mark & Ben
Cullen
Going
Green
have the following roses for you
to consider:
Oso Easy
These patented roses from
the Proven Winners group
are as disease resistant and
ever-blooming as a rose can
get. There are many flowering
shrubs in the Proven Winners
line up, including hydrangeas,
weigelas and more. All of them
are thoroughly garden-tested
before they go to market. They
are well named.
Mark has grown several var-
ieties of Oso Easy roses in his
10-acre garden and he is very
happy with the results. With
over 50 roses, these are stand-
outs. Varieties range in height
from 50 cm (Paprika) to 120 cm
(Urban Legend).
Knock Out
Very winter hardy, Knock
Out’s do not require winterizing
(mounding of soil around the
“I have six flats of basil, that’s
how much we go through.”
Kitchen staff love it, he says,
because it gives them a guaran-
teed fresh and edible option to
dress their plates, and manage-
ment love it because it’s helping
knock down an overhead cost
during the lean winter months.
“They’ve saved so much
money, especially on the basil
because they go through so
much. For about a month and a
half to two months, they did not
buy any basil.”
In many ways, Mena was the
organic choice to take over the
microgreen program at Yellow-
Belly.
With a bachelor degree in
biology from Memorial Univer-
sity, including focused course
work in botany and plant physi-
ology, and nearly three years
Canadians have not lost their love of the rose, they have simply shifted focus. No longer is a rose bush part of a
‘collection’. Instead, roses are a part of a greater whole, integrated into landscapes that serve many purposes.
base of the plant each autumn).
This family is perhaps best
suited for mass planting. Think-
ing of a hedge or an area in your
garden where you want loads
of colour? Knock Outs could do
the job for you. Five varieties
range in size from a metre high
to a metre and a half.
David Austin
We have saved Mark’s favour-
ite family of new roses to last
(almost). He has four varieties
of David Austin’s growing in
his garden. Every one of them
is exceptionally fragrant, fully
double, disease resistant and
an impressive addition to his
extensive perennial collection.
Our favourites are Abra-
ham Darby (apricot yellow,
working as a research gardener
at MUN’s Botanical Garden,
Mena was uniquely qualified
to make the most of the $9,000
cultivator.
“I love tinkering with plants.
I find them simple, I know the
metabolic pathways, I under-
stand them,” he says.
“They don’t talk, but they say
loads. They’re the strong silent
type.
“This stuff to me is not even
work. I come in and this is fun
time.”
It’s fun, but it’s also serious
business and Mena treats it as
such. In addition to keeping
detailed growing logs, main-
taining material safety data
sheets, managing grow cycles
and employing a strict clean-
ing schedule, he is also experi-
menting with grow formulas
1 ½ metres) and Heritage (soft,
clear pink 1.25 metres). Amaz-
ing when cut and brought in-
doors to enjoy.
Canadian Shield
This new introduction from
Vineland Research and Innova-
tion is a great new rose bush. A
shrub rose, it matures to 125 cm
high, has a soft, sweet fragrance
and is extremely winter hardy.
When shopping for roses,
be sure to look for ‘Canadian
Gown’ on the label. This is your
assurance that the plants are
acclimatised to our cold win-
ters. Be sure to plant in qual-
ity triple mix and add one-part
worm castings to every 10 parts
soil for the best performance.
Water well at the time of
X THEGUARDIAN.PE.CA
KENN OLIVER/THE TELEGRAM
and different light spectrums.
“This thing is beautiful, it’s
automated, it does a lot of the
work for you,” he says of the cul-
tivator, “but you still need that
human touch.”
The early results of the pro-
gram have shown so much
promise that Flynn and Mena
are considering plans to expand
the operation and grow every-
thing from tomatoes to lettuce
to eggplant and cold crops like
cabbage, broccoli and Brussels
sprouts.
“When the idea comes to frui-
tion it’ll be amazing and I’d love
to be at the forefront because
I know I would do an amazing
job for him because it’s a pas-
sion for me,” Mena said.
kenn.oliver@thetelegram.com
Twitter: kennoliver79
SUBMITTED PHOTO
planting and throughout the
season, try to keep moisture
off the foliage when you hand
water, to avoid encouraging
black spot and powdery mildew.
Even on ‘resistant’ varieties it is
best to be ‘water wise’.
Note that all roses require a
minimum of six hours of sun-
shine per day to perform at
their best.
Mark Cullen is an expert gardener, author,
broadcaster, tree advocate and holds the
Order of Canada. His son Ben is a fourth-
generation urban gardener and graduate
of University of Guelph and Dalhousie
University in Halifax. Follow them at
markcullen.com, @markcullengardening,
on Facebook and bi-weekly on Global TV’s
National Morning Show.
THEGUARDIAN.PE.CA X MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 A7

atlantic
Q MARINE LIFE
IN
brief
Police checking
sexual assaults
Dead whale raises questions
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — New- Pilot whale washes ashore in Nova Scotia
foundland police are in-
vestigating multiple sexual
assault complaints against a
former RCMP doctor, making
it the third police force in the
country to probe similar al-
legations.
Const. Geoff Higdon of the
Royal Newfoundland Con-
stabulary says the force has
received complaints against
a physician who conducted
physical examinations on
new RCMP recruits in New-
foundland and Labrador
between 1981 and 2003.
He says police believe it’s the
same doctor currently being
investigated by the Halifax
Regional Police, which has
received more than 100 com-
plaints.
Higdon says the complaints
seem to resemble the allega-
tions brought forward to
Halifax police, including in-
appropriate sexual touching.
In addition to the investiga-
tions in Newfoundland and
CANADIAN PRESS/HO-MARINE ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM
Nova Scotia, Toronto police
The Marine Animal Response Team says it’s believed a pilot whale that washed ashore in Nova Scotia could be a species that’s rarely seen in northern wat-
are continuing to examine
ers. The team says the 2.7-metre juvenile whale washed ashore outside of Dartmouth on the Eastern Shore earlier this month. Marine Animal Response
more than 30 sexual assault
Team members examine the remains of a suspected short-finned pilot whale in an undated handout photo.
allegations against another
RCMP doctor who used to THE CANADIAN PRESS it could be a short-finned pilot distinguish when they’re was also an unconfirmed re-
work in the Mounties’ On- whale. swimming in the water, so it’s port of at least one other short-
tario division. HALIFAX Long-finned pilot whales are possible they might be visit- finned whale spotted swimming
The three investigations into A pilot whale that washed common off the coast of Nova ing more than we know. But in the Halifax Harbour, said
the doctors have together ashore in Nova Scotia could be Scotia, but short-finned pilot we haven’t had dead animals Reid.
received more than 130 a species that’s rarely seen in whales tend to favour warmer washing ashore that were of the He said if they are short-
complaints, and Higdon says northern waters, the Marine waters. short-finned variety,” said Reid. finned pilot whales, it’s not
Newfoundland police expect Animal Response Team said “They are more of a southern He said genetic testing is known why they were here.
more people will come for- Saturday. species,” said Reid. “They defin- needed to determine if the “Typically, whales go where
ward. Andrew Reid, the team’s itely don’t tend to range as far animal is a short-finned pilot the food is. But why all of a
response co-ordinator, said north as Nova Scotia, that we’re whale, but a full necropsy will sudden we get a couple short-
RCMP investigate the 2.7-metre juvenile whale aware of.” not be conducted. finned pilot whales is anyone’s
alleged luring washed ashore outside of The species look similar, but Reid said the carcass ap- guess,” he said.
TRURO, N.S. — RCMP are Dartmouth, N.S., on the prov- short-fins have some distin- peared fresh and the whale ap- The skull of the pilot whale
investigating after a man al- ince’s eastern shore earlier this guishing features, including a peared thin, an indication there that washed ashore will be
legedly tried to lure two girls month. shorter pectoral fin and a dif- was a long-term issue at play added to the collection at the
into his van near Truro, N.S. Reid said after examining the ferent head shape. such as disease or injury. Nova Scotia Museum of Natural
whale, it was determined that “They’re fairly difficult to Within the last week, there History.
Police say the youths were
approached around 2:30
p.m. Thursday in the commu- Q FISHERY
nity of Valley.

Cod stocks declining

They say the man stopped
beside the girls, waved them
over and asked them to get
into the gold or light brown-
coloured van, which had
stacks of garbage bags in the
back seats.
Police say the girls refused
and ran to their home
nearby.
The man is described as
white, in his 50s or 60s, with
dyed black hair, freckles and
a goatee.
A licence plate number was
not obtained.
Tourism rises
in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia says
a record number of tourists
came to the province last
year.
The Tourism Department
says 2.4 million people vis-
ited Nova Scotia, an increase
of nine per cent over the
previous year.
It says the figures make 2017
its best year in history.
The department estimates
visitors spent $2.7 billion
in the province. Visitation
by road was up seven per
cent, while visitation by air
increased 13 per cent.
Police lay charges
in attempted murder
YARMOUTH — Two men
have been charged with at-
tempted murder, firearms
offences, uttering threats
and assault after an incident
at a home on Highway 308 in
Yarmouth County.
RCMP responded to a
complaint at the home last
Sunday around 7:55 p.m.,
where a man said he had
been threatened by four
other men, one of whom
fired shots from a rifle. The
four men then fled the scene
and set two vehicles on fire,
RCMP said in a news release
on Saturday. The victim was
taken to hospital with minor
injuries.
CP/CHRONICLE HERALD
Fishery officials
finding the
species has low
survival rate
THE CANADIAN PRESS
ST. JOHN’S, N.L.
Northern cod stocks off New-
foundland suffered a steep de-
cline over the last year, with
Fisheries official finding the
species has a lower survival rate
and will likely continue to de-
cease in the coming year.
The bleak findings were part
of a report released Friday that
said the stock dropped 30 per
cent over the last year in the
fishing area known as 2J3KL
that stretches from southern
Labrador to below the Avalon
peninsula.
Fisheries biologist Karen
Dwyer said there was a large
increase in the species’ natural 123RF/SUBMITTED PHOTO
mortality, or deaths due to fac- Cod swim in their natural habitat, but northern cod stocks off Newfoundland have suffered a decline over the
tors other than fishing. That past year.
includes warming water tem-
peratures and decreases in their we’ve seen,” Dwyer said.
food sources, such as shrimp Still, she said the harvest rate SALE BY TENDER
and capelin. continued to climb in the last LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN
“We have fish that are in poor several years, suggesting there 24-UNIT COTTAGES & SUITES
condition and all those things needs to be a renewed call for
PARLEE BEACH, NB
taken together indicate that low catch rates.
something in the ecosystem Catches in 2015 were 4,400 Powell Associates Ltd., as receiver and manager invites interested parties
is happening to cause these tonnes, 10,000 tonnes in 2016 to submit offers in a closed tender for the purchase of its right, title and interest
mortality levels,” she said in an and 13,000 tonnes last year in in a long-term leasehold interest in rental cottages & suites located at 642
interview. the stewardship and sentinel Main Street, Shediac, NB; all as are more particularly described in the Terms
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is in flux at the moment.” requires that removals from of Sale-by-Tender. The highest or any offer shall not necessarily be accepted.
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have shifted from 70 per cent in lowest possible level until the Interested parties are invited to contact Powell Associates Ltd. (506-
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what Fisheries calls a “critical in St. John’s. inspection.
zone.” The department said The latest estimates are a Dated at Saint John, New Brunswick, this 20th day of March, 2018.
the stock had been showing blow to fishermen who have
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A8 MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
canada
Q Heavy police presence
Hamilton Police officers keep members of “Hamilton Against Fascism” from accessing streets north of Main Street in Hamilton, Ont. on Sunday.
Members of Hamiltonians Against Fascism and the Revolutionary Communist Party organized to protest a planned “Patriot Walk on Locke.” The
protesters marched down Main Street and rallied in Victoria Park. The “Patriot Walk” was a response to an incident earlier this month when a
number of Hamilton businesses were vandalized by a group marching all in black with their faces covered and carrying a banner that read, “We
Are The Ungovernable.”
Q SOCIAL MEDIA
Experts call for transparency, oversight
around how political parties mine data
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA
For years, Megan Boler’s re-
search focused on the power of
social media as a democratizing
force, giving voice to the voice-
less and empowering everyday
people to come together and
participate more meaningfully
in how they are governed.
But the University of Toronto
social justice professor said that
even in the heady days of the
Arab Spring and Obama’s social
media-aided ascendency to the
White House, there were slivers
of concern about how the tech-
nology might be abused.
“I would have conversations
with colleagues who would say
things like, ‘These are the hal-
cyon days of the internet and
Q CAMPUS LIFE
Ontario surveys
university and
college students
on sexual violence
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO
Students at post-secondary
institutions across Ontario
are taking part in a survey on
sexual violence as part of the
province’s efforts to combat
sexual assault and harassment
on campus.
The online survey is made
up of over 50 questions that
gauge respondents’ percep-
tions of consent and rape
myths, their experiences with
sexual violence, and how well
they think their school re-
sponds to reports of sexual
violence.
Ontario’s minister of ad-
vanced education and skills
development said the prov-
ince commissioned the survey
to improve how the issue is
dealt with.
“Research shows that sexual
violence is consistently under-
reported and really lacks con-
sistent data,’’ Mitzie Hunter
said in an interview.
“This survey is one compon-
ent of a multifaceted strategy
that we’ve developed here at
the province to better under-
stand and respond to sexual
violence and harassment on
campus, and frankly to change
the culture and the climate
around this issue.’’
Legislation that came into
effect Jan. 1, 2017, made it
mandatory for all universities
and colleges in the province to
have policies that lay out rules
and guidelines for reporting,
investigating and disciplining
sexual violence.
we’re going to look back and
wish we had those days back.’ ‘’
That future appears to have
arrived, as reports swirl about
foreign interference in U.S. elec-
tions, the micro-targeting of so-
cial media users to sow division
and mistrust and, most recently,
a data-mining firm facing allega-
tions it scraped private infor-
mation from tens of millions of
Facebook users’ profiles for pol-
itical gain.
“It’s a very sobering moment,’’
said Boler.
At the heart of the most re-
cent fallout around Cambridge
Analytica, the voter-profiling
firm at the heart of the Facebook
controversy, is a story about the
increasing sophistication and
secrecy of the techniques pol-
itical actors and parties have
Q CONTROVERSY
Colten Boushie’s family upset
farmer contacted publishers
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG
When Gerald Stanley testified
in a Saskatchewan court last
month he told a jury his version
of what happened on the sum-
mer day in 2016 when Colten
Boushie, a young Indigenous
man, was fatally shot.
People heard Stanley’s story in
court or followed it across Can-
ada in news reports.
Boushie’s cousin, Jade
Tootoosis, says the 22-year-old
from Red Pheasant First Nation
will never get that same oppor-
tunity.
Tootoosis says she was dis-
gusted to learn that the law firm
representing Stanley has been
reaching out to different pub-
lishing companies.
“It feels like he is further ex-
ploiting the death by trying to
make a profit of it,’’ Tootoosis
said in an interview.
Boushie died after being shot
in the back of the head as he
sat in an SUV on the farm near
Biggar. Stanley was acquitted
of second-degree murder after
testifying that the gun went off
accidentally.
The case was filled with racial
tension and the verdict sparked
rallies across the country.
Boushie’s family members
have found support in each
other and people across the
country as they try to move for-
ward and advocate for changes
to the justice system, Tootoosis
said.
When they heard that pub-
lishing companies had been
contacted on Stanley’s behalf
developed to harvest voters’ in-
formation in the quest for power
and influence.
While some experts describe
Cambridge Analytica as “a bad
apple’’ in how it gathered its
data, they say the predictive ana-
lytics the company employs are
industry standard in politics.
Some experts single out polit-
ical parties, saying more trans-
parency and oversight is needed
to get a better understanding of
their data practices, which re-
main closely guarded secrets.
Fenwick McKelvey, a Con-
cordia University communica-
tions professor, said it’s unclear
when parties first began paying
attention to social media data.
It was the marketing industry
that first paved the path when it
pounced on the abundance of in-
Senator Kim Pate stands with advocates and family members of Colten
Boushie, rear left to right, Eleanore Sunchild, Sheldon Wuttunee, Debbie
Baptiste, mother of Colten Boushie, Alvin Baptiste, uncle of Colten Boushie,
Senator Kim Pate, lawyer Chris Murphy, and Jade Tootoosis, cousin of Col-
ten Boushie, as she speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in
Ottawa on February 14.
they were appalled because “the
entire court process gave Gerald
Stanley the full platform,’’ she
said.
“He is alive here to be able to
tell his story and he did. That
was what the court process was
about,’’ she said.
“I just can barely comprehend
this individual and his motives
and what he is trying to accom-
plish or achieve. It’s just upset-
ting.’’
Chief Bobby Cameron of the
Federation of Sovereign Indigen-
ous Nations, which represents
74 First Nations in Saskatch-
ewan, said it was “absolutely
chaotic for (Stanley) to think,
‘I’m going sell a book, I’m going
to publish a book’.’’
“Give your head a shake
CP PHOTO
formation being freely disclosed
by social media users as a way to
target advertisements and drive
sales.
“Cambridge Analytica has
turned public attention to what
had been a long-standing blind
spot in Canadian politics,’’ he
said.
“The ways that routine practi-
ces of data collection, advertising
and voter profiling can be used
by bad actors is a reminder that
all parties need to stand up and
be more accountable about their
data practices.’’
McKelvey pointed out that
now-Prime Minister Justin Tru-
deau enlisted the help of the
U.S.-based campaign software
company NGP VAN for his
leadership bid and the subse-
quent federal election race.
CP PHOTO
Gerald,’’ Cameron said.
Any publisher considering the
option should recognize there
would be significant backlash,
he added.
Toronto-based publisher Be-
tween The Lines (BTL) released
a statement on Thursday indi-
cating it had rejected a request
for a meeting with Stanley’s legal
team and encouraged other
publishers to do the same.
“To publish, promote, and
market Mr. Stanley’s side of the
story would only contribute to
the injustices experienced by the
Boushie family and all Indigen-
ous people,’’ the statement said.
An updated statement added
the law firm representing Stan-
ley had requested to speak with
the publisher’s legal counsel.
X THEGUARDIAN.PE.CA
IN
brief
Victoria mayor deletes
Facebook, says
it’s not a place
of healthy discourse
The mayor of British Co-
lumbia’s capital says she’s
deleting Facebook because
it’s no longer a space for
healthy dialogue.
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps,
who has actively engaged
with constituents online
since she was elected in
2014, said she deleted her
Facebook account on Friday.
“There’s example after ex-
ample after example where
I’ll post something like, ‘new
fire hall,’ or ‘this amazing
community event is hap-
pening.’ And five comments
in, it starts to become about
something completely other
than what the actual post is
about and people yelling at
each other on my page.’’
Alberta’s stance on
caribou a ‘national
test case’ of Species
at Risk Act
EDMONTON — A caribou
researcher says Alberta’s de-
cision to suspend portions
of its draft plan to help the
threatened animals recover
is the first major test of the
federal Species at Risk Act.
The province has sent Ot-
tawa a letter that raises
concerns about the socio-
economic impacts of the
recovery plan.
“It’s a bit surprising and
dramatic but it’s actually
not, really,’’ said University
of Montana biologist Mark
Hebblewhite, who is part of
a science advisory group on
boreal caribou for Environ-
ment Canada. “Not just my-
self, but lots of other people
have seen a showdown like
this coming.
“Caribou to me are the big-
gest national test case of
the Species at Risk Act in
Canada. To date, we have
had very inexpensive spe-
cies-at-risk problems. This is
not an inexpensive species-
at-risk problem.’’
Alberta’s draft plan is de-
signed to help threatened
woodland caribou recover in
15 different ranges.
Sarah Harmer,
Grimes join
anti-pipeline protests
BURNABY, B.C. — Dozens of
Indigenous youth and other
demonstrators, including
musicians Sarah Harmer and
Grimes, gathered at Kinder
Morgan’s Burnaby Terminal
on Saturday, in the latest in
a string of protests this past
week against the expan-
sion of the Trans Mountain
pipeline.
Harmer and Grimes joined
the march toward the Burn-
aby Terminal in support of
the protesters.
The musicians, who were
in Vancouver for the Juno
Awards Sunday night, could
not immediately be reached
for comment. But in a video
posted to Greenpeace
Canada’s Facebook page,
Harmer said the project
“needs to be turned back
and stopped.’’
Protect the Inlet spokes-
woman Virginia Cleaveland
said 57 protesters had been
arrested by early Saturday
evening, bringing the
week’s total to 172 arrests.
Cedar George-Parker, who
was among the young In-
digenous leaders who led a
march to the site on Satur-
day, said the project poses
too great a risk to Tsleil-
Waututh First Nation lands.
“We’re taking a stand
against the Kinder Morgan
pipeline, we’re standing
up against bullies. Justin
Trudeau can’t do his job
by securing the safety of
our future, so we’ll do it for
him,’’ George-Parker said in
an interview at the site.
The Canadian Press
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world
IN
brief
Scores arrested
in Belarus opposition
protest in Minsk
MINSK, Belarus — Scores
of protesters were arrested
in the capital of Belarus as
supporters of the country’s
repressed opposition tried to
hold a march.
The attempted demonstra-
tion in Minsk was meant
to commemorate Belarus’
1918 proclamation of inde-
pendence from Russia. The
Belarusian People’s Republic
lasted until 1919.
The anniversary is tradition-
ally a day for opponents of
President Alexander Lukash-
enko’s authoritarian govern-
ment to try to rally.
Journalists at the scene
counted at least 70 people
taken away by police. The
human rights group Vyasna
said five of its observers were
among those arrested.
One of Belarus’ most promi-
nent opposition figures,
Nikolai Statkevich, was ar-
rested outside his home as he
headed to the gathering, his
wife Marina Adamovich told
The Associated Press. He was
sentenced to 10 days in jail,
she said.
Lukashenko, in office since
1994, sharply restricts opposi-
tion activities and indepen-
dent news media.
Although the march was
banned, authorities allowed
thousands to gather in a park
to mark the independence
proclamation’s 100th anni-
versary.
German foreign
minister condemns
anti-Semitism
BERLIN — Germany’s foreign
minister has sharply con-
demned rising anti-Semitism
at schools following a new
case at an elementary school
in Berlin.
Heiko Maas told daily Bild
on Sunday that, “if a child is
threatened in anti-Semitic
ways, that’s shameful and
unbearable. We have to coun-
ter any kind of anti-Semitism
decisively.’’
Daily paper Berliner Zeitung
reported earlier this week that
a Jewish girl was abused at a
Berlin elementary school by
Muslim immigrant children
“because she doesn’t believe
in Allah,’’ and that in the past
she had also received death
threats.
Anti-Semitic incidents at
schools across Germany have
risen in recent years and led
to some Jewish students
leaving public schools for
private schools. Maas, who is
currently on a visit to Israel, is
known as a strong advocate
of minority rights.
37 dead, 69 missing
in Russian shopping
centre fire
MOSCOW — A devastating
fire at a shopping centre in a
Siberian city killed 37 people
and left 69 others missing
Sunday, many of them chil-
dren, a Russian state news
agency reported.
The Tass agency quoted fire-
fighters as saying that 40 of
the missing at the four-story
Winter Cherry mall in Kem-
erovo were children. An addi-
tional 43 people were injured
in the blaze, the report said.
There has been no immediate
information on the cause of
the fire at the mall, which is
about 3,000 kilometres (1,900
miles) east of Moscow. But
Tass reported that the fire
started on the top floor and
consumed an area of about
1,500 square meters (16,150
square feet).
The reports didn’t say if the
victims died from burns or
smoke inhalation.
The shopping mall, which
opened in 2013, has a cinema,
petting zoo, children’s centre
and bowling, Tass reported.
The Associated Press
Q POLITICS
Catalan Mossos d’Esquadra regional police officers clash with pro-independence supporters trying to reach the
Spanish government office in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday.
Catalan ex-leader’s capture
sparks mass protests
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Five months after going on
the run from Spanish author-
ities, Catalonia’s former presi-
dent was detained in Germany
on an international warrant
Sunday by highway police after
the ardent separatist crossed
the border with Denmark.
Carles Puigdemont’s capture,
aided by Spanish intelligence
services, sparked protests of
tens of thousands in Cata-
lonia’s main city of Barcelona
and other towns in the wealthy
northeastern corner of Spain.
Some of the demonstrators
clashed with riot police, leaving
more than 50 civilians and po-
lice officers injured and leading
to four arrests. Puigdemont will
appear before a German judge
on Monday.
Spain was plunged into its
worst political crisis in four
decades when Puigdemont’s
government flouted a court ban
and held an ad-hoc referendum
on independence for the north-
eastern region in October.
The Catalan parliament’s
subsequent declaration of
independence received no
international recognition and
provoked a takeover of the
regional government by Span-
ish authorities that they say
won’t be lifted until a new gov-
ernment that respects Spain’s
Constitution is in place.
Spain’s state prosecutor of-
fice said it was in contact with
Q MARCH FOR OUR LIVES
Rallies across U.S. demand tougher gun laws
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON
They came from a place of
heartbreak to claim their spot
in history: hundreds of thou-
sands of teenagers and sup-
porters, rallying across the
United States for tougher laws
to fight gun violence.
The “March for Our Lives’’
events on Saturday drew mas-
sive crowds in cities across the
country, the kind of numbers
seen during the Vietnam War
era.
In Washington, D.C., New
York City, Denver, Los Angeles
and other cities, demonstra-
tors heard from student sur-
vivors of last month’s school
shooting in Parkland, Florida.
“If you listen real close, you
can hear the people in power
shaking,’’ Parkland survivor
David Hogg said to roars from
protesters packing Pennsylva-
nia Avenue from a stage near
the Capitol to a spot near the
White House many blocks
away. “We’re going to take this
to every election, to every state
and every city. We’re going to
make sure the best people get
in our elections to run, not as
politicians but as Americans.
its German counterparts to
carry out its request to extra-
dite Puigdemont to Spain,
where he faces charges includ-
ing rebellion that could put him
in prison for up to 30 years.
In Barcelona, riot police
shoved and struck protesters
with batons to keep an angry
crowd from advancing on the
office of the Spanish govern-
ment’s representative. Police
vans showed stains of yellow
paint reportedly thrown by pro-
testors. Reinforcements were
called in after several hours to
clear the neighbouring streets,
with protestors tossing street
barriers and burning two gar-
bage bins as they retreated.
Outside the city centre,
groups of demonstrators cut
off traffic on four different
stretches of highways. Police
also used batons to keep back
a crowd of a few thousand who
had gathered in front of the
Spanish government’s repre-
sentative in the city of Lleida.
German highway police
stopped Puigdemont on Sun-
day morning near the A7 high-
way that leads into Germany
from Denmark, police in the
northern state of Schleswig-
Holstein said.
German news agency dpa
said that Puigdemont was
taken to a prison in the north-
ern town of Neumuenster.
Dpa photos showed a van
with tinted windows believed
to be carrying Puigdemont as
it arrived at the prison. Video
David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Fla., raises his fist after speaking during the “March
for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control in Washington, Saturday.
“Because this,’’ he said,
pointing behind him to the
Capitol dome, “this is not cut-
ting it.’’
The message at the differ-
ent rallies was consistent, with
demonstrators vowing to vote
out lawmakers who refuse to
take a stand now on gun con-
trol. Many rallies had tables
where volunteers helped those
18 or older register to vote
while speakers detailed the
policies they wanted and the
AP PHOTO
footage also showed the same
van leaving a police station in
Schuby near the A7 highway.
State prosecutors in Schles-
wig said that Puigdemont will
appear in court Monday in
the northern German town to
confirm his identity. It said in
a statement that “the question
of whether Mr. Puigdemont
has to be taken into extradition
custody will then have to be de-
termined by the higher regional
court in Schleswig.’’
German state prosecutor
Ralph Doepper told RTL Tele-
vision that Puigdemont has
been “provisionally detained.
He has not been arrested.’’
“We are now examining the
further procedure, i.e. tomor-
row we will decide whether
we will file a provisional appli-
cation for detention with the
competent district court, which
could lead to extradition deten-
tion later on,’’ Doepper said.
A Spanish police official told
The Associated Press under
customary condition of ano-
nymity that Spain’s National
Center for Intelligence and
police agents from its inter-
national co-operation division
helped German police to locate
Puigdemont.
A Spanish Supreme Court
judge reactivated an inter-
national arrest warrant for
Puigdemont on Friday when he
was visiting Finland. Spain has
also issued five warrants for
other separatist who fled the
country.
AP PHOTO
impact gun violence has had
on their lives.
The fire alarm at Trenton
High School is scary, said
17-year-old Gabrielle James at
a march in suburban Detroit.
“We don’t know if it’s an ac-
tual drill or if someone’s ac-
tually inside the school, going
to take your life,’’ James said at
a march in Detroit.
She said government has
“extremely failed’’ to protect
students from gun violence
A9
Q FOREIGN RELATIONS
China appeals
for co-operation
as it warns of
‘trade war’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING
A top Chinese official warned
Sunday that a “trade war’’
would harm all sides but gave
no indication of Beijing’s pos-
sible next move in a spiraling
dispute with President Donald
Trump over steel and technol-
ogy.
Speaking to global busi-
ness leaders at a development
forum, Vice Premier Han Zheng
appealed for co-operation to
make economic globalization
“beneficial for all.’’
“A trade war serves the inter-
ests of none,’’ Han said at the
China Development Forum. “It
will only lead to serious conse-
quences and negative impact.’’
Han didn’t mention Trump
by name or refer directly to
the dispute with Washington,
but the country’s newly ap-
pointed economy czar warned
Saturday that Beijing will de-
fend its interests. The govern-
ment issued a $3 billion list on
Friday of U.S. goods including
pork and stainless steel pipes
it said might be hit by higher
tariffs.
The Commerce Ministry
said those charges were linked
to Trump’s approval earlier
of higher tariffs on steel and
aluminum imports. But a big-
ger battle is brewing over
Trump’s approval Thursday
of a possible tariff hike on $30
billion of Chinese goods in re-
sponse to what Washington
says is Beijing’s improper ac-
quisition of foreign technology.
Global financial markets
have sunk on fears Chinese re-
taliation might prompt other
governments to raise import
barriers, depressing global
trade.
Han appealed to other gov-
ernments to “co-operate with
each other like passengers
in the same boat’’ and “make
economic globalization more
open, inclusive, balanced and
beneficial for all.’’
However, he also empha-
sized that China’s income per
person still is low, suggesting
Beijing is unlikely to offer sig-
nificant concessions to Wash-
ington.
Han repeated promises
that China’s planned market-
opening would create new
opportunities for foreign com-
panies. Business groups have
welcomed reform pledges but
complain Beijing is moving
too slowly, making it unclear
whether additional promises
will mollify Washington, the
European Union and other
trading partners.
and she wants restrictions on
automatic weapons.
“I work extremely hard at my
studies. Sometimes I just sit in
my car before going to school,
wondering if I’m going to be
home to see my mother after
school,’’ James said.
Some of the young voices
were very young. Yolanda
Renee King, the Rev. Martin Lu-
ther King Jr.’s 9-year-old grand-
daughter, drew from the civil
rights leader’s most famous
words in declaring from the
Washington, D.C., stage: “I
have a dream that enough is
enough. That this should be a
gun-free world. Period.’’
By all appearances — there
were no official numbers —
Washington’s March for Our
Lives rally rivaled the women’s
march last year that drew
far more than the predicted
300,000.
The National Rifle Associa-
tion went silent on Twitter as
the protests unfolded, in con-
trast to its reaction to the
nationwide school walkouts
against gun violence March
14, when it tweeted a photo of
an assault rifle and the mes-
sage “I’ll control my own guns,
thank you.’’
A10 MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 X THEGUARDIAN.PE.CA

editorial Regional Managing Editor: Wayne Thibodeau wayne.thibodeau@theguardian.pe.ca

Cheers
Jeers &
JEERS: To negligent staff at the Eastlink Centre
in Charlottetown who neglected to update the
voice recording on the box office phone
system. Calls to the box office on Satur-
day and Sunday still heard the news the
Islanders were playing Bathurst on Fri-
day night and Moncton on Saturday afternoon;
the Storm was playing basketball against Cape
Breton on Sunday and the Easter Beef show is
coming up Thursday and Friday. Very interesting
— for anyone phoning two weeks ago — because
all those events happened seven to 10 days ago
or more. It wasn’t what Storm fans wanted to
hear about tickets for Sunday’s big game against
Saint John; or Islanders fans looking to buy
playoff tickets for games three and four against
Quebec Remparts later this week. The voice mes-
sage hadn’t been updated for almost two weeks.
It’s not very good customer service.

JEERS: To internet scum and phone trolls who

scam unsuspecting Islanders of their
letters
hard-earned cash. The most common Waste Waste how the Waste Watch program upcoming election. OR look at the
one in recent weeks is someone claiming (and therefore the province) is alternatives to these two parties.
to be from the Canada Revenue Agency hiding figures ultimately doing in these efforts? Think Green, think NDP. Just don’t
demanding immediate payment of taxes We see periodic publicity from If some categories of materials do anything to encourage Doug
or the person will be arrested immediately. Then Waste Watch about how many can’t be sold or otherwise used Ford, he needs very little of that
a Stratford resident lost over $85,000 to an indi- tons or waste have been “diverted productively at present then that to come out bragging and on the
vidual on an online dating website. Another per- from landfills.” What does that is sad, but we can handle the truth. attack.
son purported to be an RCMP officer, asking for really mean, though? We don’t Harry Smith, Kathy Birt,
money, and then a grandparent who sent money really know because Waste Watch Bonshaw Mount Stewart
is very cagey about publicizing
to someone who claimed to be a grandchild in
trouble. These scam artists prey on the trusting
what proportion of the total col-
lected recyclables that represents.
Advice to Ontario: Wholesale price
nature and goodwill of Islanders. Anyone who
receives a call, voice mail or email from some-
Moreover, how much, even of the
diverted amount, ultimately ends
Tread carefully remains elusive
one demanding money should hang up, ignore up “diverted” to the Waste Watch I shudder to think that Doug Yet another unscheduled fuel
the person and call police. The majority of these incinerators? Ford may become premier of On- price hike from IRAC. Seems like
scams originate from outside the country, mak- How much of the total, along tario. I have family and friends in they’re becoming as regular as the
ing investigations and the chances of recovering with the hazardous waste which that province and to be dictated scheduled ones. The excuse for
money almost impossible. residents dutifully bring to the to by such a controlling, arrogant these used to be a rise in the world
Centers, ends up in meter-high man, who has already worked oil price, but that hasn’t worked
JEERS: To those Islanders who remain insensi- piles of incinerator ash piled hard at shaming journalist Robin for a couple years now.
behind the Waste Watch buildings, Bresnahan when she was inter- The latest excuse is wholesale
tive or worse to newcomers and immigrants. broadcasting toxins into the air viewing him. How dare him say, pricing. Your article says, “The
A recent Corporate Research Associates poll during the burning and leaching “I’ll ask the question and since you commission (IRAC) says “signifi-
indicates that one in 10 P.E.I. residents toxins into the groundwater from don’t know how to answer it, let cant increases’ in wholesale prices
(12 per cent) have experienced racial the ash piles until Waste Watch me do it!” for gasoline prompted the un-
discrimination, with seven percent of personnel bestir themselves to I wonder will he go on the attack scheduled price increase.”
residents having been racially haul them away to – uh – landfills. with male journalists as well? So, IRAC, tell us what that
discriminated against within the last Of course, no one wants to While not wanting to speak ill of wholesale price is. If this is going
five years. The likelihood of experiencing racial discourage vital recycling efforts the dead, this man is every bit as to be your official excuse to jack
discrimination in P.E.I. is similar to that of New by the province’s residents or do arrogant and full of himself as his up prices, then put the whole-
Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador, anything to derail the years of late brother Rob was. My question sale price on your website. I have
training we have had concerning is, “How do people get that way?” emailed them before asking this
but is slightly lower than that of Nova Scotia.
sorting, bagging, etc. It’s also What sort of upbringing did they question and have never received
The likelihood of having most recently experi- clear that policies can’t change have? an answer.
enced racial discrimination within the last five with every fluctuation of markets. I say to all Ontarians, tread Smells a little fishy to me.
years is highest among P.E.I. residents under At the same time, don’t we carefully and give Kathleen Lloyd Kerry,
35 years of age. The incidents of racial discrimin- deserve to be told the truth about Wynne your full attention in the Charlottetown
ation are likely worse than it first seems.
Pollsters explain it must be remembered that the
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Q OPINION

Budget makes no positive difference: Burrill

Gary Burrill can make a good
case for spending money Nova
Scotia doesn’t have.
The NDP leader has no prob-
lem differentiating his party
from the government by re-
jecting the province’s fiscal
policies as he advocates spend-
ing in education and health. The
Tories are limited by the fiscal
conservativism they share with
the Liberals.
“Jurisdictions across our
country and around the world
are recognizing governments
can make investments at
locked-in historic low interest
levels,” he said, suggesting it is
a time “not for fiscal retraction
but for expansion and stimulus
and investment in creating a
broader future.”
A good speech is rare enough
in Nova Scotia’s legislature that
it is worthy of note. Whether
you agree with Burrill is irrel-
evant. He’s easy listening.
The government is “so sin-
gularly obsessed with creating
and hoarding, and gathering,
and proclaiming the surpluses
of its budgets that it misses out
on the signature investments
Jim
Vibert
in our people that would fun-
damentally uplift the life of our
province,” he said.
The United Church minister
is untethered by a prepared
text, so his rhetoric flows natur-
ally but the overall address re-
tains structure and each of his
arguments is fully formed.
“The budget will pass and
there will be an outpouring of
the Liberals’ self-defining self-
congratulation. On that day,
the same 40,000 people will
continue to go to food banks,
and the same $40,000 will con-
tinue to be the average amount
owed by Nova Scotia’s graduat-
ing (university) students, and
the Department of Health and
Wellness will continue to have
more than 40,000 people regis-
tered as needing a family doc-
tor.”
He anticipates and rejects
the government’s rebuttal argu-
ments. The government’s stock
answer about high university
tuition is that higher loans are
available, or loan forgiveness is
possible, or that job programs
have been created for gradu-
ates.
“This is all fog ... a shroud of
obfuscation,” Burrill said, be-
cause the real question is “are
those who do not come from
money more likely to be able
to open up wider opportunities
for themselves through post-
secondary education?”
The answer, unsurprisingly,
was an unequivocal “no.” New
Brunswick offers tuition-free
postsecondary education to
families with an income under
$60,000 a year, and Ontario
does the same when family in-
come is less than $50,000. In
Nova Scotia, the average uni-
versity tuition is $7,726 and it is
growing faster than anywhere
in the country. The govern-
ment’s response to problems in
long-term care is to emphasize
the expansion of home care.
“This is to compare an apri-
cot with a spruce tree, because
every one of those people living
in alternate care in our hospi-
tals is there because a profes-
sional care assessment has
been offered and concluded . .
. it is no longer tenable, it is no
longer safe (for that person) to
be living in their home.”
Burrill said the government’s
focus is “on that which can be
accomplished within the elec-
toral cycle, disguised, paraded,
masqueraded as though it were
a concern for the generations
of the future.” The government
is defined, he said, by “small-
ness of vision, of character, of
spirit, in combination with the
absence of a sense for humility
and a capacity to listen.”
Only an “overabundance of
self-satisfaction and all the in-
sensitivity and arrogance that
tends to go hand-in-hand with
that” could explain passing a
bill that “obliterated the only
level of government in Nova
Scotia where women are ad-
equately represented — school
boards — and to have done
it on International Women’s
Day.”
Burrill also noted that the
five-year-old Liberal govern-
ment continues to make “gra-
tuitous, nefarious comparisons
between whatever little they
have done and their assessment
of what was done by the (NDP)
government elected nine years
ago.
“Some of these comparisons
will be within the realm of fair
comment but a great many of
them will be below the standard
of integrity that the public have
a right to expect in democratic
discourse.”
The NDP leader has staked
out wide-open turf on the pol-
itical left in Nova Scotia and he
can give the government a good
old-fashioned political butt-
kicking in the process. Most of
what is said in the legislature is
the political equivalent of a tree
falling in a vacant forest. That’s
unfortunate, because it is the
one place to discover discern-
able differences in style and
substance between the political
parties.
Jim Vibert grew up in Truro and is a
Nova Scotian journalist, writer and
former political and communications
consultant to governments of all stripes.

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opinion
Q HIGHER TAXES
A broken, poor province
Amalgamation gets government off hook from doing things it is doing now
BY JIM CULBERT
GUEST OPINION
Just to clarify before I broach
the topic for the day, I have not
a lot of interest in politics nor
would I welcome the chance to
be in government.
Saying this, I have been
listening and watching
local news with regards to
amalgamation of certain areas
on Prince Edward Island.
From what I understand and
have heard, the government
has studied and sorted out the
province and has plans for 25
amalgamations from one end
of the province to the another.
Now the way I see it, the
whole structure would allow
the 25 amalgamated areas to be
basically their own government
with the ‘head’ government
of the day as overseers. The
problem with this idea is that
there is not the population base
in any one area of the province
to successfully meet the
mandate of the amalgamation.
Q TECHNOLOGY
Self-driving cars record first fatality
We may also expect to see a major decrease in the number of deaths and injuries in traffic accidents
There are always some
casualties when a new form of
transportation comes along.
In 1830, at the official opening
of the world’s first railway, the
Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, a well-known British
politician, William Huskisson,
was struck and killed by a
locomotive. He was known to
be clumsy and accident-prone,
but it still cast a pall over the
proceedings.
Gwynne
Dyer
Global
Affairs
About 80 years later an
ancestor of mine was the first
person in Newfoundland to be
run over and killed by one of
those new-fangled motor-cars.
And now this: last Monday
Elaine Herzberg of Tempe,
Arizona became the first person
to be struck and killed by an
autonomous vehicle.
There was a person sitting,
hands off, behind the wheel of
the ‘self-driving’ car that hit her,
because these vehicles are still
in the experimental stage.
Uber, the company that was
running these particular tests,
issued the usual ‘our thoughts
are with the victim’s family’
Q SOVIET UNION
Jewish autonomous region celebrates 90th anniversary
On March 28, 1928, nine
decades ago, the Soviet
Union approved the choice
of Birobidzhan, a sparsely
populated area of 36,490 square
kilometres in the Soviet far east,
as a “national Jewish entity.”
On the border with China, it
was seven time zones east of
Moscow and a six-day journey
away on the Trans-Siberian
railway
By May 1928 the first groups
of Jewish settlers from cities and
villages in Belarus, Russia and
Ukraine arrived in the region.
By 1932 some 25,000 Jews were
living there.
To encourage further
settlement, in 1934 Birobidzhan
was elevated to a Jewish
Autonomous Oblast (Region),
where Jews could pursue
cultural autonomy in a “socialist
framework.” As a Communist
entity, religious Judaism was
frowned upon.
The capital city was also called
Birobidzhan, and Yiddish was
the official language. A Yiddish
Editorial/Opinion Page Editor: Bill McGuire
Kent King and Patti King look over a document containing information
about the proposed Three Rivers amalgamation and how it would affect
residents of Burnt Point and Georgetown Royalty as they prepare for an
upcoming meeting in this early November 2017 Guardian file photo.
You say, “what do you mean?”
Well, the way I see it, is that
each of the 25 areas would be
100 per cent accountable for
the running of the specific
area. They would have to pay
for garbage pickup; plowing
statement and suspended
its on-the-road tests in
cities throughout the United
States.
But the halt is only
temporary: this technology is
unstoppable.
It’s also relatively safe, at least
compared to vehicles driven by
human beings.
Around a hundred Americans
a day die in traffic accidents,
but in developing countries it’s
far worse. About four hundred
Indians are killed in traffic
accidents each day, although
there are actually fewer
motor vehicles in India (263
million in the U.S., 210 million
in India).
The widespread use of self-
driving vehicles will almost
certainly bring down the death
rates sharply everywhere,
because even if computers can
be as stupid as human drivers,
they cannot be as impatient or
angry or drunk.
What the robo-cars, trucks
and buses are going to kill
in very large numbers is not
human beings but jobs.
Automation goes in stages.
Computers were not very clever
in the 1990s, but they were
already good enough to run
the robotic arms and similar
devices that took over the old
assembly lines.
The computers are much
smarter now, and up to the
Henry
Srebrnik
Guest
Opinion
newspaper, the Birobidzhaner
Shtern, was launched, and a
Yiddish theater founded.
The work of the police
department, courts and city
administration was carried out
at least partially in Yiddish.
By 1939, almost 18,000 Jews
lived in the region — some 16 per
cent of the overall population.
This “Red Zion” was established
partly as a Soviet alternative to
the Zionist project in British-
ruled Palestine.
Another reason was an
attempt to try to attract
overseas Jewish financial
support and investment. Some
settlers came from places like
Argentina, Canada, the United
States, and even Mandatory
Palestine itself.
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of the roads; road repair; and
fire stations — this just being a
few of the things the provincial
government looks after at the
moment.
There would be no transfer
payments from one district
Driverless cars may have stalled because of a traffic death, but the halt is
only temporary: this technology is unstoppable.
extremely demanding task of
driving a vehicle in traffic.
There are still bugs in the
programs, but in two or three
or five years they will have been
fixed and self-driving vehicles
will be available for sale to the
public.
Those at the head of the
queue to buy them will be
the operators of fleets of
vehicles.
There are approximately four
and a half million driving jobs in
the United States: taxi-drivers,
bus-drivers, delivery van
drivers, long-distance truckers.
That’s about four per cent
of all American jobs, and the
driving share of total jobs
is around the same in other
This Russian rival to Zionism
was short-lived, though. The
region was shaken by Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin’s purges in
the late 1930s. Much of the local
party leadership was executed
and expressions of Jewishness
were discouraged.
The region enjoyed another
influx of Jews following the
Second World War. These were
people who had escaped the
Holocaust in the European area
of the USSR and had no homes
to which to return.
The local Jewish population
peaked at some 50,000, but
Birobidzhan was again hit by
growing Soviet anti-Semitism in
the late 1940s. The new purges
were followed by decades of
neglect.
When the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991, most
remaining Jews left
Birobidzhan, the majority for
Israel.
Today the population of the
area, still officially called the
Jewish Autonomous Region, is
to another to help pay for a
particular section that does not
have the tax dollars coming in
to look after the service costs
going out.
So how do we then look after
the shortfalls? Taxes will rise
and probably within 10 years
we would be paying 20 to 50 per
cent more in taxes that some of
us think are too high for their
annual income now. Anyone
thinking of building a deck or
changing something on their
property will have to apply for
permits and that costs more
money.
In the end. we will be a
broken, poor province with
shabby roads, potholes that do
not get fixed, roadsides will not
have their grass cut to look nice
for the tourists as they travel
P.E.I., roads that will not be
plowed for days in the winter
all because that particular
section just does not have the
resources to maintain to the
high standards we have here on
the Island now.
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developed economies.
It’s a safe bet that at least half
of those jobs will disappear in
the next ten years, and they will
almost all be gone in fifteen or
twenty.
The long-term impact of
autonomous vehicles on private
car ownership will be just as
great.
A recent KPMG survey of
car-industry executives found
that 59 percent of CEOs believe
that more than half of today’s
car-owners will no longer
want to own a car by 2025. Just
summon a cheap self-driving
taxi whenever you want to go
somewhere.
It’s Uber on stilts. Self-driving
taxis will be everywhere, and
barely one per cent Jewish, but
the authorities cultivate the
memory of Jewish customs and
history and even hope to attract
new Jewish migrants.
If the local government gets
its way, more Jews would move
to the region. Birobidzhan’s
proximity to China could
provide advantages for
businesses wanting to penetrate
the Chinese market.
The region has an extensive
border with northern China
along the Amur River — about
600 kilometres. The first railway
bridge across the river, linking
the two countries, is being
built and trade with China is
what makes the local economy
function.
I have published two books
on the Canadian and American
activists who supported the
Jewish Autonomous Region
from the 1920s through the
early 1950s and so know quite a
bit about the region.
In a way, my research has
come full circle. I recently
A11
And what will the head
provincial government be
doing?
It will be laughing at
the wonderful idea of
amalgamation that gets it off
the hook from doing all the
things it is doing now.
So, what can we do to
stop this insanity? Vote to
stop amalgamation of un-
amalgamated areas of our fair
province and keep the head
government looking after our
services as it has been doing for
a long time.
If you do not stand up for
your rights now and vote the
idea down, do not cry the
blues in a few years when
everything looks a little shabby
and some are moving away
because they just cannot afford
to live here.
Jim Culbert has operated a B&B in Vernon
Bridge for 30 years, as well as being the
first appointed marriage commissioner on
P.E.I. He also runs a successful
re-upholstery shop.
respond to the summons in just
a minute or two. No parking
problems ever again, and far
less congestion on the roads
because a taxi fleet one-quarter
as big as the current total of
private cars would suffice to
meet even maximum rush-hour
demand.
Privately owned cars are
parked on average 95 per cent
of the time.
In fact, there is hardly ever
more than a quarter of privately
owned cars being driven at the
same time, even at peak hours.
So, in the longer term we will
see a drastic decline in the
number of passenger cars, and
a less dramatic fall in the world
demand for oil. (Almost three-
fifths of world oil output goes
into fuel for vehicles.)
We may also expect to see a
major decrease in the number
of deaths and injuries in traffic
accidents.
Self-driving vehicles will
no doubt occasionally make
mistakes that hurt human
beings, but computer programs
are bound to be less erratic
on the roads than human
beings.
It’s a pity about the jobs, but
on balance this is change for the
better.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent
journalist whose articles
are published in 45 countries.
sent my extensive microfiche
collection, comprising about
400 microfiche transparencies,
which I used when writing my
books, to Nikolai Borodulin in
New York, who works on Soviet-
Jewish issues.
He is Russian-born, and now
works in the United States, and
he has sent off the collection,
plus other materials, to the
state library in the Jewish
Autonomous Oblast.
They will copy these and
therefore have a full set of
the complete run of the
three Yiddish-language pro-
Birobidzhan magazines,
published from 1924 to 1951, in
the collection.
Stalin had destroyed most of
the library’s holdings after 1948,
when the second wave of anti-
Semitic repression enveloped
the region. It’s nice to think
they’ll be back “home.”
Henry Srebrnik is a professor
of political science at the
University of Prince Edward Island.
A12 WEATHER • MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
7 DAY FORECAST
REGIONAL OUTLOOK
Three snows
before winter goes
I
f you had opened up your
window last Thursday when
the snow was falling, you
might have heard a chorus
of “oh no, not more snow”!
Yes, astronomically it was
spring but we all know, we
don’t really get into spring-
like weather until we turn the
calendar page…sometimes two
pages.
Grandma was never surprised
when it snowed after the spring
equinox. She was always quick
to remind us that there would be
3 more snows after the first day
of spring. Lo and behold, after
I moved here I learned that ac-
cording to Maritime folklore, the
Annapolis Valley always receives
3 snowfalls after the March
Equinox and they are so
predictable they have been given
names.
The first snow is the smelt
snow: it’s believed that the smelt
would start to run after the first
spring snow.
The second snowfall following
the equinox is the robin snow; ac-
cording to folklore this snowfall
brings them back.
And finally, the green grass
snow. Grandma often referred
to it as poor man’s fertilizer. I
think this one is an attempt to
put a positive spin on a very late
snowfall and keep some people
from crying.
So is there any truth to this?
Well in March, frontal bound-
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CINDY SAYS: Did you
know that Venus is the
only planet named after a
female? The second rock
from the sun was named
for the Roman God-
dess of love and beauty.
Thanks to a mostly clear
night ahead, you should
be able to find Venus
shining like a diamond
low over the western ho-
rizon. Venus sets about
90 minutes after sunset.
“So is there any truth to
this? Well in March, frontal
boundaries start to push
through as the jet stream
attempts to shift from its
winter position to a more
summertime one. The big
puffy snowflakes are often
associated with a warm front.
Behind a warm front, there
is often a dry slot and some
sun! Warm spring sunshine
could trigger the smelt
migration, bring the birds
out of the woods and maybe
even make the grass green.”
its winter position to a more
summertime one. The big
puffy snowflakes are often
associated with a warm front.
Behind a warm front, there is
often a dry slot and some sun!
Warm spring sunshine could
trigger the smelt migration,
bring the birds out of the woods
and maybe even make the grass
green.
I decided to check last year’s
weather statistics; I found that we
had 4 snowfalls after the spring
equinox. Mother Nature was
kind enough to toss in a bonus
snowfall on April 2nd. I hope
she doesn’t feel the need to do the
same this year!
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sports
Q HOCKEY

Remparts sharper in Game 2

QMJHL series between Quebec and Charlottetown shifts to Eastlink Centre tied at 1-1
BY DAVE STEWART
AND JASON MALLOY
THE GUARDIAN
QUEBEC CITY, QUE.
Charlottetown Islanders
head coach Jim Hulton said the
Quebec Remparts were just a
little bit hungrier and sharper
in Game 2.
Jesse Sutter, Olivier Garneau
and Pascal Laberge scored
the goals while Remparts
goaltender Antoine Samuel
stopped all 25 shots he saw as
Quebec evened this Quebec
Major Junior Hockey League
best-of-seven series 1-1 with a
3-0 victory in front of 7,993 fans
Sunday at Centre Videotron.
The Islanders drew first blood
in the series with a 6-2 win on
Saturday.
“Well, you know, we came
up here with the goal to win at
least one of the games and we
did that,’’ said Islanders head
coach and general manager
Jim Hulton. “I thought, today,
they were just a tad bit sharper
and hungrier than we were. It
was still a pretty even game to-
night.’’
Former Islander Matthew
Grouchy picked up an assist on
Sutter’s game-winning goal at
8:16 of the first period. Quebec
outshot the Islanders 30-25.
Islanders goaltender Mat-
thew Welsh made 27 saves in a
losing effort.
Momentum was the big dif- PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GUARDIAN BY ERICK LABBE/LE SOLEIL
ference between Games 1 and Charlottetown Islanders forward Cameron Askew tries to get the puck back to forward Pascal Aquin as Quebec Remparts goaltender Antoine Samuel
2. On Saturday, the Islanders prepares for a shot during Game 2 action Sunday in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff series. The series is tied at 1-1 and resumes Wed-
gave up the lead and got it back nesday at 7 p.m. at the Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown.
quickly.
“Today, we gave up two in the turned it over a lot but it was “We stole home ice back, Game 1. Getson tied the game with six
first (period) and had a couple more of our own doing.’’ really, with the win last night, Sullivan Sparkes opened the to play in the second with a goal
of looks. If we score the next The coach said there are no tilted (the series) in our favour. scoring for the Islanders on the on the man advantage. He then
goal at 2-0 to put it 2-1 it’s a dif- injury concerns coming home We’ve got three games at home team’s first shot. gave the visitors the lead 5:24
ferent ballgame. We couldn’t. for Game 3 on Wednesday at and we want to make hay at Former Islanders forward into the third.
Their goalie was better today Eastlink Centre at 7 p.m., just home and see if we can push Gregor MacLeod tied it with Former Remparts forward
than he was yesterday.’’ the normal bumps and bruises. them out at home.’’ three minutes to play in the per- Derek Gentile provided an in-
Hulton said his troops Hulton said the team is iod and Sam Dunn gave them surance goal three minutes
weren’t sharp with the puck in pumped to be coming home SATURDAY the lead midway through the after Getson’s second. Sam
Game 2. where it now has home ice ad- Keith Getson tied it and won second period with a power- King and Getson with his hat
“I don’t think we managed vantage thanks to the Game 1 it Saturday as the Islanders de- play goal. It swung momentum trick goal into the empty net
the puck very good today. We victory. feated the Remparts 6-2 to take in the home team’s favour. rounded out the scoring.

Q BASKETBALL

Storm storming down the stretch

Island Storm close out regular season home schedule with victory over Saint John Riptide
BY CHARLES REID
THE GUARDIAN
Du’Vaughn Maxwell’s statis-
tics line from the Island’s Storm
24-point win over the Saint John
Riptide on Sunday looks like a
point guard’s.
The thing is Maxwell wan-
ders between small and power
forward most nights. Sunday,
Maxwell put up 19 points, a
game-high 10 rebounds, four as-
sists, two steals and a block in
a 109-85 victory in the National
Basketball League of Canada
tussle in Charlottetown.
The Storm dressed just nine
players with forward Chris
Johnson and guard Tyler Scott
injured and with the recent re-
lease of forward Jarion Henry,
but Maxwell said having a short
bench is nothing new as the
Storm’s battled injures all sea-
son.
“We’re fighting through ad-
versity. We’ve been down a lot
of players, but we’re not making
any excuses. We’re feisty right
now, hungry,” said Maxwell.
“We’re all playing our roles.
Franklin and I as captains when
we win we (credit the guys) 100
per cent and when we lose we
take blame.”
Storm went to 19-17 and
moved two games ahead of
Saint John (17-19) for the third
playoff spot in the Atlantic Div-
ision.
Kemy Osse had a team-high
20 points for the Storm, includ-
ing 4-for-9 from the three-point
line, while Carl Hall and Frank-
lin Session each chipped in 18
points. Session also grabbed
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GUARDIAN BY PHIL MATUSIEWICZ
Island Storm forward Du’Vaughan Maxwell goes up for the ball against a
member of the Saint John Riptide in National Basketball League of Canada
action at the Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown on Sunday.
nine rebounds and Osse dished
out five assists and nabbed
seven boards.
Malcolm Miller drained a
game-high 21 points for Saint
John as he went 5-for-6 on
three-pointers and 8-for-10
from the field overall. Marvin
Binney had 12 points and Hor-
ace Wormley and Mareik Isom
each added 11 points. Wormley
tallied a game-high 11 assists.
Early it looked like blame not
credit after the Riptide got out
to a nine-point lead midway
through the first quarter. The
Storm defence was solid, but led
by Miller’s eight points, includ-
ing two three-pointers, Saint
John started hot. By the quar-
ter’s end, a Storm mini-run cut
the lead to 24-19.
The Storm tied things 26-26
nine minutes into the second
quarter and upped that to 36-26
three minutes later. But Saint
Instant Replay
A look at Sunday’s National
Basketball League of Canada
game at the Eastlink Centre.
The Outcome
Island Storm 109 Saint John 85
Top Three Scorers
Saint John - Malcolm Miller, 21,
Marvin Binney, 12, Horace Worm-
ley, Mareik Isom, 11.
Island Storm - Kemy Osse, 20,
Du’Vaughn Maxwell, 19, Carl Hall,
Franklin Session, 18.
Top Three Rebounders
Saint John - Malcolm Miller, Bran-
don Boudry, 5, Jeremich Mordi,
Aaron Redpath, 4, Tyquane
Goard, 3.
Island Storm - Du’Vaughn Max-
well, 10, Franklin Session, 9,
Kemy Osse, 7.
John responded with 13-2 run
and took a 39-38 with 3:50 left
in the half.
The team’s exchanged bas-
kets over the next few minutes
and went to the break even at
48-48.
In the third, Saint John be-
came unglued a little with tech-
nical fouls that sapped its play.
The Storm pounced and drove
out to an 82-67 edge by the end
of the third and the Riptide
couldn’t recover in the fourth.
Feisty the game was, no joke.
In the third Maxwell earned
himself a technical and was
twice involved in pushes and
shoves with Riptide players.
Referees ejected the Tide’s Aly
Ahmed after an altercation with
Maxwell.
But for Maxwell, it’s the
energy ramping up as the post-
season looms.
Three-Point Shooter
Saint John - Malcolm Miller,
5-of-6.
Island Storm - Kemy Osse, 4-of-9.
Most Assists
Saint John - Horace Wormley, 11.
Island Storm - Franklin Session,
Kemy Osse, 5.
Free Throws
Saint John - Marvin Binney,
4-of-6.
Island Storm - Carl Hall, 6-of-9.
Next Up - The Storm (10-16) host
Saint John (13-10) on Islander
Day Monday, Feb. 19. Game time
is 2 p.m. at Eastlink Centre.
Attendance - 3,111 (second
highest in franchise history in
Charlottetown).
50-50 - $1,069.
“In this league at this time of
year everyone knows what’s at
stake. Nobody likes anybody.
It’s nothing personal, but were
not going to back down from
anybody,” said the Manhattan,
N.Y., native.
The last regular season home
game drew the Storm’s second-
highest total attendance (3,111)
in its franchise history in Char-
lottetown. The top mark was
3,250 versus Moncton on Feb.
28, 2016, while the third-high-
est was 3,002 in a playoff game
against Windsor April 12, 2014.
The Storm ended up 11-9 at
Eastlink Centre and closed out
the year with five straight home
wins.
The Storm finish the season
on the road with games in Saint
John (Tuesday), Halifax (Thurs-
day), Cape Breton (Friday) and
London (Sunday, April 1).
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QMJHL PLAYOFFS March 24 Kensington 5 Metros 3 sandraschmirler.org. Alex Ovechkin, Wash 44 37 81
Charlottetown 6 Quebec 2 March 21 Result Travelers National Championship Sidney Crosby, Pgh 25 56 81
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League best-of-seven first- Metros 6 Kensington 3 The 2018 national Travelers curling club champion- Mikko Rantanen, Col 27 53 80
round series. All times Atlantic. NBL STANDINGS March 18 Result ship goes Nov. 19-24 at the Miramichi Curling Club in Jakub Voracek, Pha 19 61 80
Series A Kensington 6 Metros 4 Miramichi, N.B. P.E.I. will be represented by the Jamie John Tavares, NYI 33 45 78
Blainville-Boisbriand (1) vs. Val-d’Or (16) National Basketball League of Canada standings. All March 16 Result Newson men’s team from the Silver Fox Curling and Brad Marchand, Bos 32 46 78
W L GF GA times Atlantic. Kensington 5 Metros 3 Yacht Community Complex and the Debbie Rhodenhizer Mathew Barzal, NYI 20 56 76
Blainville-Boisbriand 2 0 8 3 Atlantic Division foursome from the Cornwall Curling Club. Aleksander Barkov, Fla 26 48 74
Val-d’Or 0 2 3 8 W L Pct. JUNIOR C HOCKEY Business Of Curling Symposium Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash 23 50 73
Tuesday’s Game **Halifax 26 11 .702 There will be a business of curling symposium May 4-6 Eric Staal, Minn 39 33 72
Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d’Or, 8:30 p.m. *Moncton 21 16 .568 Razzy’s P.E.I. Junior C Hockey League best-of-seven at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. Registra- David Pastrnak, Bos 29 43 72
Wednesday’s Game *Island Storm 19 17 .527 final. tion including accommodations is $250 (early bird price Patrick Kane, Chi 26 46 72
Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d’Or, 8:30 p.m. *Saint John 17 19 .472 Sherwood (1) vs. Tignish (2) till Friday, April 6), $300 after Friday, April 6, and $175 Tyler Seguin, Dal 39 32 71
Friday’s Game (if necessary) Cape Breton 12 25 .324 W L GF GA without accommodations. Registration deadline Friday, Sean Couturier, Pha 30 40 70
Val-d’Or at Blainville-Boisbriand, 8:30 p.m. Central Division Sherwood 2 2 18 18 April 20. Registration at www.nbcurling.com. Vincent Trocheck, Fla 30 39 69
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) W L Pct. Tignish 2 2 18 18 Crapaud Meltdown Funspiel Jamie Benn, Dal 28 41 69
Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d’Or, 5 p.m. *London 24 13 .648 Sunday’s Result Crapaud Community Curling Club’s Meltdown Funspiel Artemi Panarin, Clb 25 44 69
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) *St. John’s 24 14 .632 Tignish at Sherwood goes April 13-15. Entry is $160 per team. Teams are Jonathan Marchessault, VGK 24 45 69
Val-d’Or at Blainville-Boisbriand, 8 p.m. *Windsor 20 17 .540 Tuesday’s Game guaranteed three games. For information and registra- Josh Bailey, NYI 18 51 69
March 23 Result *Niagara 15 22 .405 Sherwood at Tignish, 7 p.m. tion, contact Bobbi-jo at 902 213-4884 Patrik Laine, Wpg 43 25 68
Blainville-Boisbriand 5 Val-d’Or 1 Kitchener-Waterloo 7 31 .184 Game 7, if necessary, to be determined William Karlsson, VGK 39 27 66
March 22 Result *-clinched playoff berth; **-clinched division March 19 Result NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Leon Draisaitl, Edm 23 43 66
Blainville-Boisbriand 3 Val-d’Or 2 OT Sunday’s Results Tignish 7 Sherwood 2 David Perron, VGK 16 50 66
——— Island Storm 109 Saint John 85 March 12 Result The Associated Press Alexander Radulov, Dal 26 39 65
Series B Halifax 118 Cape Breton 111 Sherwood 6 Tignish 3 All times Eastern Jonathan Huberdeau, Fla 23 42 65
Acadie-Bathurst (2) vs. Chicoutimi (15) London 119 Windsor 106 March 11 Result EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L GF GA Tuesday’s Games Tignish 6 Sherwood 5 OT Atlantic Division WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING
Acadie-Bathurst 1 1 3 5 Moncton at Halifax, 7 p.m. March 15 Result GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicoutimi 1 1 5 3 Island Storm at Saint John, 7 p.m. Sherwood 5 Tignish 2 x-Tampa Bay 75 51 20 4 106 272 213 The Canadian Press
Tuesday’s Game London at Kitchener-Waterloo, 8 p.m. x-Boston 73 46 17 10 102 243 188 NORTH BAY, Ont. - Standings and results at the 2018
Acadie-Bathurst at Chicoutimi, 8:30 p.m. March 24 Results CURLING DRAW Toronto 75 45 23 7 97 255 213 world women’s curling championship at the North Bay
Wednesday’s Game Halifax 90 Saint John 82 Florida 73 38 28 7 83 223 224 Memorial Gardens (all times Eastern):
Acadie-Bathurst at Chicoutimi, 8:30 p.m. Kitchener-Waterloo 126 Niagara 107 CORNWALL Montreal 76 27 37 12 66 192 243 ROUND ROBIN
Friday’s Game Tonight’s draws for the Cornwall Curling Club. Detroit 75 27 37 11 65 192 233 Country (Skip) W L
Chicoutimi at Acadie-Bathurst, 7 p.m. JUNIOR A HOCKEY Leary’s Independent Grocer Monday Night Mixed Ottawa 74 26 37 11 63 203 262 y-Canada (Jones) 12 0
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) League Buffalo 75 23 40 12 58 174 248 y-Sweden (Hasselborg) 10 2
Acadie-Bathurst at Chicoutimi, 5 p.m. MHL (Maritime Junior A Hockey League) best-of-seven 6:30 p.m. Metropolitan Division x-South Korea (E.Kim) 8 4
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) divisional semi-finals. x-Russia (Moiseeva) 7 5
Chicoutimi at Acadie-Bathurst, 7 p.m. Eastlink North Division x-Czech Rep. (Kubeskova) 6 6
March 24 Result Series A x-U.S. (Sinclair) 6 6
Chicoutimi 4 Acadie-Bathurst 0
March 23 Result
Edmundston (1) vs. Miramichi (4)
W L GF GA DIAL 811 China (Y.Jiang)
Switzerland (Feltscher)
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Acadie-Bathurst 3 Chicoutimi 1 Edmundston 4 0 15 10 Scotland (Fleming) 5 7
——— Miramichi 0 4 10 15 Japan (Koana) 5 7
Series C (Edmundston wins series 4-0) Denmark (A.Jensen) 3 9
Rimouski (3) vs. Moncton (14)

Rimouski
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Series B
Summerside (2) vs. Campbellton (3)
811 Germany (Jentsch)
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x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched semifinal berth.

Moncton 1 1 5 3 W L GF GA You are always just three numbers away PLAYOFFS
Saturday’s Result Summerside 4 1 17 8 Sunday
Rimouski 2 Moncton 1 OT
from peace of mind and reliable health Championship
Campbellton 1 4 8 17
Tuesday’s Game (Summerside wins series 4-1) care information. Canada 7 Sweden 6
Rimouski at Moncton, 7 p.m. March 23 Result Third Place
Wednesday’s Game Summerside 2 Campbellton 1 DIAL 8-1-1 to talk to a registered nurse Russia 6 United States 5
Rimouski at Moncton, 7 p.m. March 21 Result Saturday
Friday’s Game (if necessary)
about your medical issue. Do you need United States 10 South Korea 3
Summerside 4 Campbellton 1
Moncton at Rimouski, 8:30 p.m. March 19 Result to make a trip to the doctor or the Russia 7 Czech Republic 3
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) Summerside 3 Campbellton 0 emergency department, or can you take Semifinals
Rimouski at Moncton, 4 p.m. March 17 Result Canada 9 United States 7
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) care of it yourself ? With 8-1-1, you will get Sweden 7 Russia 6
Summerside 6 Campbellton 3
Moncton at Rimouski, 8:30 p.m. March 15 Result the advice and information you need .
Friday’s Result Campbellton 3 Summerside 2 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Moncton 4 Rimouski 1 *****
——— Eastlink South Division The Associated Press
Series D Series C All times Eastern
Halifax (4) vs. Baie-Comeau (13) Yarmouth (1) vs. Truro (4) EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L GF GA W L GF GA 7582419 Atlantic Division
Halifax 2 0 10 5 Yarmouth 3 3 9 14 W L Pct GB
Baie-Comeau 0 2 5 10 Truro 3 3 14 9 x-Toronto 54 19 .740 -
Tuesday’s Game Sunday’s Game Ice 1 – E. LeBlanc, M. Davies, S. Armsworthy and D. GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Boston 49 23 .681 4½
Halifax at Baie-Comeau, 8:30 p.m. Truro 6 Yarmouth 2 Musto vs. B. Gardiner, D. Sigsworth, L. MacEachern Washington 75 44 24 7 95 236 221 Philadelphia 42 30 .583 11 ½
Wednesday’s Game Tuesday, March 27 and TBD. Pittsburgh 76 43 27 6 92 251 233 New York 26 47 .356 28
Halifax at Baie-Comeau, 8:30 p.m. Truro at Yarmouth, 7 p.m. Ice 2 – L. Davies, J. MacKinnon, D. MacEachern and C. Columbus 76 42 29 5 89 215 208 Brooklyn 23 51 .311 31 ½
Friday’s Game (if necessary) March 23 Result MacDonald vs. A. Davies, J. Sinclair, H. Pierce and C. Philadelphia 76 38 25 13 89 230 228 Southeast Division
Halifax at Baie-Comeau, 8:30 p.m. Yarmouth 2 Truro 1 3OT MacDougall.  New Jersey 75 39 28 8 86 225 225 W L Pct GB
Monday, April 2 (if necessary) March 21 Result Ice 3 – G. Groves, F. Weiler, K. MacDonald and S. Carolina 75 33 31 11 77 208 239 Washington 40 32 .556 -
Baie-Comeau at Halifax, 7 p.m. Truro 4 Yarmouth 0 Campbell vs. D. Kneabone, R. Gallant, J. Hannam and N.Y. Rangers 75 33 34 8 74 219 241 Miami 39 34 .534 1½
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) March 19 Result D. Farrell.   N.Y. Islanders 75 31 34 10 72 242 273 Charlotte 33 41 .446 8
Baie-Comeau at Halifax, 7 p.m. Yarmouth 3 Truro 2 Ice 4 - R. Biage, A. Mason, M. MacDonald and T. Heustis WESTERN CONFERENCE Orlando 22 51 .301 18 ½
March 24 Result March 17 Result vs. B. Sutherland, D. Weeks, S. O’Keefe and B. Lindsay.  Central Division Atlanta 21 52 .288 19 ½
Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 3 Truro 1 Yarmouth 0 Bye – F. Martin, C. Hodgson, E. MacDonald and C. Shea.  GP W L OT Pts GF GA Central Division
March 23 Result March 15 Result Monday Night Commercial League x-Nashville 74 48 16 10 106 239 187 W L Pct GB
Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 2 Yarmouth 2 Truro 0 8:30 p.m. – Fun night. Winnipeg 74 45 19 10 100 245 192 x-Cleveland 44 29 .603 -
——— ——— ***** Minnesota 74 42 24 8 92 231 211 Indiana 42 31 .575 2
Series E Series D CORNWALL Colorado 75 41 26 8 90 239 218 Milwaukee 38 34 .528 5½
Drummondville (5) vs. Cape Breton (12) South Shore (2) vs. Amherst (3) Following is the Monday Night Commercial League St. Louis 75 42 28 5 89 209 196 Detroit 33 40 .452 11
W L GF GA W L GF GA draw at the Cornwall Curling Club: Dallas 75 38 29 8 84 214 204 Chicago 24 49 .329 20
Drummondville 1 1 9 7 South Shore 3 2 21 16 8:30 p.m. Chicago 76 31 36 9 71 214 234 WESTERN CONFERENCE
Cape Breton 1 1 7 9 Amherst 2 3 16 21 Ice 1 - The Grove vs. Hunter’s Ale House Pacific Division Southwest Division
Today’s Game Sunday’s Result Ice 2 - Fair Isle Ford vs. Dykstra Farms GP W L OT Pts GF GA W L Pct GB
Drummondville at Cape Breton, 7 p.m. South Shore at Amherst Ice 3 - KJL Meats vs. Airport Authority Vegas 75 47 21 7 101 250 204 y-Houston 59 14 .808 -
Wednesday’s Game Today’s Game (if necessary) Ice 4 - Glasgow Glen vs. Cannon Consulting San Jose 75 43 23 9 95 232 203 San Antonio 43 30 .589 16
Drummondville at Cape Breton, 7 p.m. Amherst at South Shore, 7 p.m. Anaheim 75 38 24 13 89 212 200 New Orleans 43 31 .581 16 ½
Thursday’s Game March 23 Result Los Angeles 76 41 28 7 89 221 190 Dallas 22 51 .301 37
55+ BOWLING
Drummondville at Cape Breton, 7 p.m. Amherst 4 South Shore 3 OT Calgary 76 35 31 10 80 205 231 Memphis 19 54 .260 40
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) March 21 Result Edmonton 75 34 36 5 73 217 238 Northwest Division
Tuesday afternoon 55-plus bowling league results.
Cape Breton at Drummondville, 4 p.m. South Shore 5 Amherst 3 Vancouver 75 26 40 9 61 193 246 W L Pct GB
High single – Louise Larsen 211, John Smith 232.
Monday, April 2 (if necessary) March 19 Result Arizona 75 25 39 11 61 186 241 Portland 44 28 .611 -
High triple – Louise Larsen 546, John Smith 646.
Cape Breton at Drummondville, 8 p.m. South Shore 5 Amherst 3 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top Oklahoma City 44 30 .595 1
Highlights
March 24 Result March 17 Result three teams in each division and two wild cards per confer- Minnesota 42 32 .568 3
Beatrice Campbell (Arts) 114 single, 285 triple; Eileen
Cape Breton 5 Drummondville 4 3OT Amherst 4 South Shore 3 ence advance to playoffs. Utah 41 32 .562 3½
Gallant 172-496; Eileen Walsh 177-489; Andy Perry
March 23 Result March 14 Result x - clinched playoff berth Denver 40 33 .548 4½
180-488; Harvey Lane 172-457; Glen Leeco 153-442;
Drummondville 5 Cape Breton 2 South Shore 5 Amherst 2 Sunday Pacific Division
Dominic Johnson 172-411l Ann MacKinley 157-402;
——— ***** Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 4, OT W L Pct GB
Stella Gray-Knox 160-381; Sharron Smith 129-369;
Series F Best-of-seven divisional finals. Nashville at Winnipeg y-Golden State 54 18 .750 -
Gloria Leeco 128-337.
Victoriaville (6) vs. Gatineau (11) Eastlink North Division Vancouver at Dallas L.A. Clippers 38 34 .528 16
Star bowlers of the afternoon – Phyllis MacSwain
W L GF GA Edmundston (1) vs. Summerside (2) Boston at Minnesota L.A. Lakers 32 40 .444 22
(Leafs) 152-414 triple plus 4 above average; Stafford
Victoriaville 2 0 10 4 W L GF GA Anaheim at Edmonton Sacramento 24 49 .329 30 ½
MacSwain (Habs) 212-509 triple plus 21 above average
Gatineau 0 2 4 10 Edmundston 0 0 0 0 Saturday Phoenix 19 55 .257 36
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Tuesday’s Game Summerside 0 0 0 0 Colorado 2, Vegas 1, SO x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division
Wednesday afternoon 55-plus bowling league results.
Victoriaville at Gatineau, 8:30 p.m. Saturday’s Game San Jose 5, Calgary 1 Sunday
High single – Pat MacIntyre 211, George Lee 270.
Wednesday’s Game Summerside at Edmundston, 7:30 p.m. Chicago 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Cleveland 121, Brooklyn 114
High triple – Kathy Taylor 541, George Lee 672.
Victoriaville at Gatineau, 8:30 p.m. Sunday’s Game N.Y. Rangers 5, Buffalo 1 San Antonio at Milwaukee
Highlights
Friday’s Game (if necessary) Summerside at Edmundston, 7:30 p.m. Toronto 4, Detroit 3 Miami at Indiana
Lucinda Martin (Leafs) 109 single, 287 triple; Freda
Gatineau at Victoriaville, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 Game Florida 4, Arizona 2 Boston at Sacramento
Gorman 189-521; Tony Broderick 163-472; Kier Ford
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) Edmundston at Summerside, 7 p.m. New Jersey 2, Tampa Bay 1 L.A. Clippers at Toronto
196-460; Ella Somers 166-456; Millie Hendricken 150-
Victoriaville at Gatineau, 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 Game Washington 6, Montreal 4 New York at Washington
456; Marilyn Sider 155-411; Ron Callaghan 156-414;
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) Edmundston at Summerside, 7 p.m. Carolina 5, Ottawa 2 Portland at Oklahoma City
Larry Sider 140-410; Mary Walsh 158-440; Winston
Gatineau at Victoriaville, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 7 (if necessary) St. Louis 2, Columbus 1 Atlanta at Houston
Tremere 135-391.
March 24 Result Summerside at Edmundston, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota 4, Nashville 1 Utah at Golden State
Star bowlers of the afternoon – Shirley Montigeny
Victoriaville 3 Gatineau 2 Monday, April 9 (if necessary) Edmonton 3, Los Angeles 2 Saturday
(Habs) 147-404 triple plus 10 above average; Wally
March 23 Result Edmundston at Summerside, 7 p.m. Monday Philadelphia 120, Minnesota 108
McInnis (Bruins) 211-581 triple plus 6 above average.
Victoriaville 7 Gatineau 2 Wednesday, April 11 (if necessary) Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Detroit 117, Chicago 95
——— Summerside at Edmundston, 7:30 p.m. Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m. Orlando 105, Phoenix 99
Series G SPORT NOTES Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m. Houston 114, New Orleans 91
Rouyn-Noranda (7) vs. Sherbrooke (10) Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers 100, Memphis 93
JUNIOR B HOCKEY Come Try Hockey Female Clinics
W L GF GA Detroit at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte 102, Dallas 98
Rouyn-Noranda 1 1 7 4 Hockey P.E.I. is offering free introductory come try Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
Island Junior Hockey League best-of-seven semifinals. hockey female skills clinics for athletes six to 14-years- Monday
Sherbrooke 1 1 4 7 San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Series A old. Sessions includes one hour on-ice. All female
Tuesday’s Game Colorado at Vegas, 10 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Western (1) vs. Eastern (4) instructors. Dates are: Sunday, April 15, 5:45 p.m.,
Rouyn-Noranda at Sherbrooke, 8 p.m. Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. New York at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
W L GF GA Sunday, April 22, 3:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 29, 3:30
Wednesday’s Game Tuesday Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Western 3 1 17 13 p.m., all at Simmons Arena in Charlottetown. Registra-
Rouyn-Noranda at Sherbrooke, 8 p.m. Carolina at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Boston at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Eastern 1 3 13 17 tion at www.hockeypei.com. More at info@hockeypei.
Friday’s Game N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
Sunday’s Result com or 902-368-4334.
Sherbrooke at Rouyn-Noranda, 8:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio at Washington, 7 p.m.
Western 7 Eastern 4 Future Elites
Sunday’s Game (if necessary) Boston at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Denver at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday’s Game Sport P.E.I. will hold a future elites camp Friday, May
Rouyn-Noranda at Sherbrooke, 4 p.m. San Jose at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m.
Eastern at Western, Evangeline, 7:30 p.m. 4, for athletes 13 to 17 years old. A maximum of 30-35
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) Minnesota at Nashville, 8 p.m. Cleveland at Miami, 8 p.m.
Friday’s Game (if necessary) athletes will be accepted. Cost is $30 per athlete. Guest
Sherbrooke at Rouyn-Noranda, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Portland at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Western at Eastern, 8 p.m. is U Sport and junior national wrestling champion
March 24 Result Columbus at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Dallas at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
Sunday, April 1 (if necessary) Hannah Taylor. Application deadline Friday, April 6.
Rouyn-Noranda 6 Sherbrooke 2 Anaheim at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Indiana at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Eastern at Western, Evangeline, 7 p.m. Selections complete Monday, April 9, with notice going
March 23 Wednesday Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
March 21 Result out 24 hours after selection. Confirmation from athletes
Sherbrooke 2 Rouyn-Noranda 1 Florida at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Western 6 Eastern 5 2OT by Thursday, April 12. Application at www.sportpei.
——— N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 8 p.m. Brooklyn at Orlando, 7 p.m.
March 18 Result pe.ca. More with Lynn Boudreau at 902-368-6253 or
Series H Philadelphia at Colorado, 10 p.m. Cleveland at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Western 2 Eastern 0 lboudreau@sportpei.pe.ca.
Quebec (8) vs. Charlottetown (9) Arizona at Vegas, 10 p.m. New York at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
March 16 Result CCC Shortspiel
W L GF GA ——— Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Eastern 4 Western 2 The Charlottetown Curling Complex will hold a doubles
Quebec 1 1 5 6 (Before yesterday’s games) Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m.
—— curling shortspiel Thursday, March 29, beginning at
Charlottetown 1 1 6 5 Scoring Boston at Utah, 9:30 p.m.
Series B 5:30 p.m. Cost per two-player team is $40. Games are
Sunday’s Result G A Pts L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Metros (2) vs. Kensington (3) six ends, teams are guaranteed three games. More at
Quebec 3 Charlottetown 0 Connor McDavid, Edm 38 58 96 Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
W L GF GA erikbrodersen@hotmail.com, 902-394-0326 or www.
Wednesday’s Game Nikita Kucherov, TB 37 58 95 ———
Kensington 3 1 19 16 peicurling.com.
Quebec at Charlottetown, 7 p.m. Nathan MacKinnon, Col 38 54 92 (Before yesterday’s games)
Metros 1 3 16 19 Sandra Schmirler Scholarships
Friday’s Game Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 41 50 91 Scoring
Wednesday’s Game The Sandra Schmirler Foundation is accepted applica-
Quebec at Charlottetown, 7 p.m. Claude Giroux, Pha 26 64 90 G FG FT PTS AVG
Kensington vs. Metros, Cody Banks, 8 p.m. tions for six, $5,000 scholarships awarded annually to
Saturday’s Game (if necessary) Anze Kopitar, LA 33 53 86 Harden, HOU 65 597 569 2011 30.9
Friday’s Game (if necessary) junior curlers. The scholarship is intended for young
Quebec at Charlottetown, 4 p.m. Steven Stamkos, TB 27 59 86 Davis, NOR 67 700 436 1888 28.2
Metros at Kensington, 7 p.m. athletes who curl competitively while pursuing a post-
Monday, April 2 (if necessary) Phil Kessel, Pgh 30 53 83 James, CLE 72 757 328 1972 27.4
Sunday, April 1 (if necessary) secondary education. Recipients must be 20-years-old
Charlottetown at Quebec, 8 p.m. Blake Wheeler, Wpg 19 64 83 Antetokounmpo, MIL 67 671 450 1828 27.3
Kensington vs. Metros, 7 p.m. or under as of June 30, 2018. Application deadline
Tuesday, April 3 (if necessary) Taylor Hall, NJ 33 49 82 Lillard, POR 65 547 431 1730 26.6
March 24 Result is Thursday, May 10. Application available at www.
Charlottetown at Quebec, 8 p.m. Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 23 59 82 Durant, GOL 60 562 313 1594 26.6
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Q CURLING

Lenentine joining new rink next season

New Dominion native to defend world championship title with Nova Scotia squad
BY JASON MALLOY
THE GUARDIAN
Lauren Lenentine has found
a pretty good team to curl with
next year.
The New Dominion native will
join the Kaitlyn Jones-skipped
squad from Nova Scotia. She
was their fifth in Scotland ear-
lier this month when they won
the world championship.
Lenentine, a Bluefield High
School student, said she ex-
pected to go to a Halifax-based
university next year, so she had
asked the Jones team earlier in
the season if they knew of any
Nova Scotia squads with open-
ings for the 2018-19 season.
“At worlds, we became really
good friends, so after worlds
they officially asked me (to join
them),” Lenentine explained.
“It’s really exciting. They’re the
world champions.”
The Jones rink this season
included third Kristin Clarke,
second Karlee Burgess and lead
Lindsey Burgess. Clarke aged
out of junior this season, creat-
ing the opening on the roster.
Lenentine said the team hadn’t
determined which position she
will fill for the Halifax Curling
Club rink.
Lenentine said she was able
to make a smooth transition
into the squad for the worlds
and looks forward to joining
them fulltime late in the sum-
mer.
“They’re all really good girls.
They’re pretty easy going,” she
said. “I fit in well with them.”
Lenentine said she will do her
off-season training similar to
the past few seasons and join
them when school begins. She
noted the Jones rink has a few
more tournaments than Lenen-
tine’s P.E.I. team did this season.
“I’m going to have a busier
schedule, but I’m looking for-
ward to it,” she said.
There are no byes as the reign-
ing national and world cham-
pions, so the Jones rink will have
to earn its spot at nationals.
“It’s exciting, but no pres-
sure,” she said, being the world
champs.
Canada defeated Sweden 7-4
to capture the gold medal in
Aberdeen, Scotland.
“I was just really proud. To
see you represented Canada at
a world championship is one
thing, but then to win it is an-
other,” she said. “We all worked
really hard to be there and
achieved what we wanted to.”
Lenentine skipped her Corn-
wall Curling Club team to na-
tionals this season. The team
included third Kristie Rogers,
second Breanne Burgoyne, lead
Rachel O’Connor and coach
Pat Quilty. Rogers will be mov-
ing to Newfoundland and
Labrador to attend Memorial SUBMITTED
University later this year and Lauren Lenentine won the world junior curling championship earlier this
will continue playing at the jun- month with a Nova Scotia squad she will join fulltime in the late summer
ior level there. when she moves to attend university.

Q POWERLIFTING Q HOCKEY

Western Capitals open

second round Saturday
Games 3, 4 in Summerside on April 3, 4
BY JASON SIMMONDS
JOURNAL PIONEER  three teams in the regular sea-
SUMMERSIDE
The schedule has been final-
ized for the Eastlink North
Division final in the Maritime
Junior Hockey League.
The Summerside D. Alex
MacDonald Ford Western Cap-
itals and Edmundston Blizzard
will play a 2-2-1-1-1 format.
The series will open with the
first two games in Edmundson,
N.B., on Saturday and Sunday.
The teams return to Eastlink
ERIC MCCARTHY/JOURNAL PIONEER Arena for Games 3 and 4 on
Members of Westisle Composite High School’s P.E.I. School Athletic Association provincial-champion senior boys’ Tuesday, April 3, and Wednes-
powerlifting team pose for a team photo. Seated, from left: Jacob Gallant, Cameron Arsenault, Chandler Gard, day, April 4. If necessary, the
Brendon Harper, Dawson Richard, Nigel Perry and Marcus Ferguson. Coach George Kinch is standing. Missing teams will rotate Games 5, 6
from photo is Chandler Wood. and 7.
All games in Edmundston are
The series pits two of the top
son. The Blizzard won the regu-
lar-season title with a 36-10-4-0
record for 76 points. The Caps
were second in the Eastlink
North Division and third over-
all in the 12-team league on the
strength of a 33-16-1-0 record,
good enough for 67 points.
In head-to-head meetings,
the Blizzard won four of six
regular-season games with the
Caps.
However, the Caps did win
the final two meetings, both in
Summerside, 4-0 on Jan. 25 and
5-1 on Feb. 8. All three Caps
losses in Edmundston were by
one goal – 3-2, 6-5 and 4-3. The
Blizzard also posted a 7-4 win in
Summerside on Oct. 15.

Westisle captures both titles 7:30 p.m. starts, and the Caps’
home games all begin at 7 p.m.
With the Blizzard regularly
selling out the new Jean Daigle
Fatigue should not be an
issue for either team starting
the series. The Blizzard com-
pleted a sweep of the Miramichi

at powerlifting provincials Centre and the Caps attracting

more than 1,800 fans to their
last home playoff game, this
series is expected to draw big
West Prince school didn’t compete last year crowds in both centres.
Timberwolves in one division
semifinal on Thursday, and the
Caps clinched their five-game
series win over the Campbellton
Tigers on Friday night.

HAMPSHIRE
After taking a year off from
competition, the Westisle Com-
posite High School’s powerlift-
ing teams have picked up from
where they left off.
Westisle lifters captured the
men’s and women’s team titles
at the 2018 P.E.I. School Ath-
letic Association’s provincial
powerlifting championship at
Bluefield High School earlier
this week.
Of the 10 athletes on the
Westisle senior girls’ team, the
school had three first-place
finishes, two second places
and one third-place showing
while Joselyn Jelley finished
second overall in Wilks points
– 308.7585.
Kenzie Arsenault from Three
Oaks was the top women’s lifter,
earning 317.0161 points.
Senior boys
Standings In the senior boys’ com- Q HOCKEY
PEISAA powerlifting petition, seven of Westisle’s
team standings:
Senior Boys
Westisle 1501.742630
lifters earned medals – three
firsts, two seconds and two Woodstock Slammers
thirds.
Colonel Gray
Three Oaks
Bluefield
1167.729044
1051.206094
1010.333502
Marcus Ferguson and Chand-
ler Gard placed second and taking leave of absence
third overall in Wilks points
Montague 908.825680 (338.9276 to 337.4878 points). of team operations.”
Souris 612.269353 Noah Manning from Souris WOODSTOCK, N.B. The league was formally ad-
Ecole Sur Mer 426.191893 was the top overall lifter, amass- The Woodstock Slammers vised of the Slammers’ decision.
Charlottetown Rural 332.991541 ing 346.6742 points. have announced they will be “This is a sad day for the
Senior Girls It was in the team competi- taking a leave of absence from MHL,” said league president
Westisle 1345.8739041 tions where Westisle showed its the Maritime Junior Hockey Brian Whitehead. “The Slam-
Montague 923.2225913 dominance, winning the men’s League (MHL) for the 2018-19 mers have been an integral part
Ecole Sur Mer 865.2601616 competition by 334.02 points, season. of the league’s history, and we
Three Oaks 772.2088648 and the women’s competition The club has been a member sincerely hope to see the strong
Bluefield 743.1213095 by 422.65 points. of the league since 2003, the tradition of junior A hockey in
Colonel Gray 202.8506031
The points from each last 12 of those years under the the Woodstock area continued
team’s top five lifters were direction of the River Valley somehow. 
used in determining team Hockey Club Inc. “We will continue to do any-
Caitlin McKenna form Mon- standings. “Due to a combination of fac- thing that is viable to support
tague was third with 286.1959 The provincial meet attracted tors, it is no longer in the best all of our teams.”
points. 70 lifters from eight schools. interest of our organization Since joining the MHL, the
to continue operations,” said Slammers have captured three
Slammers president Wes Corey. league playoff championships,
“This absence will allow for the one Fred Page Cup Eastern
potential sale of the franchise, Canadian junior A champion-
and/or provide the opportunity ship and, in 2012, a silver medal
for a new individual or group in at the RBC Cup Canadian junior
Woodstock to assume control A championship.

Q CURLING

Canada captures gold

THE CANADIAN PRESS
NORTH BAY, ONT.
Canada’s Jennifer Jones de-
feated Sweden’s Anna Hassel-
borg 7-6 to win the gold medal
at the world women’s curling
championship on Sunday.
Jones scored a single in an
extra end for the victory. Has-
selborg tried to pick out a stone
on the four-foot ring with her
last throw but missed it com-
CHANDLER GARD PHOTO pletely.
The Westisle senior girls’ powerlifting team won the P.E.I. School Athletic Association provincial powerlifting team The win capped a perfect 14-0
title by a 422-point margin. Team members are, from left: George Kinch (coach), Gracyn Handrahan, Eryn Hustler, run for the Winnipeg team of
Mary Frances Williams, Gemma Shea, Joselyn Jelley, Sherrise Gaudet, Karlyn Shea, Emma Lee Lyon, Alicia Gallant Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer,
and Claudia MacLean. Dawn McEwen and alternate
Shannon Birchard.
Canada ran the table in the
12-game round-robin and
edged American Jamie Sinclair
in the semifinal.
With the game tied 4-4 in the
ninth end and two stones close
to the pin, Jones threw a run-
back to score two for the lead.
But Hasselborg responded with
a run double for a pair to force
an extra end.
Hasselborg won Olympic gold
last month at the Pyeongchang
Games. Jones, who is a whisker
ahead of No. 2 Hasselborg in the
world rankings, won the 2014
Olympic title in Sochi.
B4 SPORTS • MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
Q RINGETTE
Teams capture championships
Souris and two Charlottetown teams pick up hardware
Charlottetown Team Mac-
Cormac were crowned the U-
16/U-19 champions recently
after defeating Souris Team
Tassell 7-6 in the champion-
ship game at the P.E.I. Ringette
Championships.
Alexis Power scored a hat
trick for the winners while her
sister, Robyn Power, added
two more as did Jamie Mac-
Aulay.
Souris Team Tassell showed
its depth in the game with goals
coming from Brooklyn MacIn-
nis, Myah Veld, Julia Tassell,
Bianca Roche and Delaney
Roche, who scored twice.
Charlottetown Team Mac-
Cormac rose through the play-
offs after finishing only fifth in
regular season play.
Ringette P.E.I. used a new
format this season in this div-
ision, with a knock out round to
determine a final four.
These four teams then played
a full round robin with the final
two teams then playing for the
championship.
In under-12 Hollis division
play on Thursday, Souris Surge
defeated their hometown rivals
Souris Sabotage 7-3 to cap off a
dream season.
In addition to the provincial
championship, the team also
finished first in regular season
play, won gold at the Charlotte-
town Ringette Tournament in
January and won silver at the
Riverview/Dieppe tournament
in early March.
Scoring for the Surge were
Callie Veld with four goals,
Ayda Manning with two goals
and Ella MacAulay with one
goal.
The Sabotage has scoring
from Lucy MacPhee, who net-
ted two, and Lyla MacDonald,
who also picked up an assist.
On Wednesday night in
Charlottetown, the Charlotte-
town Fusion defeated Rustico
Rage 7-3 to win the under-14
Gallaway Division champion-
ship.
Amelia Murphy scored four
times for the winning team
with Taylor Wenn, Carmen
Seaman and Kezlee Yorston
each pitching in with a single.
Keera Vos scored a hat trick for
Rustico.
Three championship games
were postponed due to weather
and are expected to be played
after March Break.
The under-12 O’Brien Div-
Q On a roll
Q Pulling a double shift
Bo Jiang and Ruiwen Zhu, centre, went 3-0 in round-robin play and rolled to the women’s doubles title at the recent Badminton P.E.I. senior tour-
nament in Charlottetown. Mary Cote and Carrie Drake, right, were second, while Jacqueline Hughes and Emma Hughes, left, finished third. Zhu
defeated Emma Hughes 21-17 and 21-15 to win the women’s singles crown and Jiang teamed with Kevin Yan and took the mixed doubles title.
Emma Hughes and Mark Brown finished second and the consolation went to Justin Barkhouse and Drake. The tourney was the last senior event
before provincials in April.
ision will see Montague take on
the Charlottetown Ring Devils.
The Souris Nor’easters and
Souris Showdown will faceoff
for the under-14 Beaton Div-
ision championship and Char-
lottetown Coles play Montague
in the 18+ final.
For more information on
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Sam Yuan, centre, captured his
second men’s singles title of the
season with a 21-14 and 21-14
win over Jack Ronahan, left, in
the final at the recent Badminton
P.E.I. senior tournament in Char-
lottetown. Yuan had straight-set
wins over Alex McCloskey and Neil
Moore to advance to the semi-
finals where he downed David
Pan 21-7 and 21-15. Ronahan got
past Brandon Gaudet and Ming
Yi Chen then dispatched Yu Chen
21-14 and 21-10 in the semis. Sam
Pan, right, won the consolation
title. Justin Barkhouse and Mark
Brown won the men’s doubles
title with a 2-1 (21-14, 20-22, 21-
16) victory over Spencer Gallant
and Yuan. Neil Moore and Patrick
Walsh won the consolation title.
The tourney was the last senior
event before provincials in April.
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Charlottetown MacCormac were
crowned under-16/under-19 cham-
pions in ringette recently. Back row,
from left, are coach Terry MacCor-
mac, coach Bobby Power, Alyssa
MacFadyen, Lindsay Hood, Alexis
Power, Brittney MacCormac, Robyn
Power, Racehl MacAulay and coach
Elizabeth MacAulay. Middle row,
from left, are Lauren Misener, Ella
David, Shaelyn Crane, Natalie Mac-
Lean, Sidney Mathews and Jamie
MacAulay. Front, from left, is Janika
Godin. Missing from photo are Mag-
gie Campbell, Tony Murphy and
Haley Larkin.
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The Souris Surge captured the
under-12 Hollis Division P.E.I. Ring-
ette Championship recently. Back
row, from left, are manager Jennifer
Allen, coach Stephen Dingwell, So-
phie MacIsaac, Julia Taylor, Olivia
Allen, Ayda Manning, Emma Bailey,
Olivia MacAulay, Cassie Campbell,
Ella MacAulay, Carrie MacPhee and
coach Craig Veld. Front row, from
left, are Bailey Townshend, Dayna
Dingwell and Callie Veld.
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The Charlottetown Fusion took the
under-14 Gallaway Division P.E.I.
Ringette Championship recently.
Back row, from left, are coach Rob
Nelson, coach Mark Seaman, Ken-
zie Miller, Carmen Seaman, Taylor
Wenn, Amelia Murphy, Kate Mac-
Donald, Jensyn Levy and coach
Mark Burke. Middle row, from
left, are Bailey MacKenzie, Leah
MacLeod, Madison Burke, Kezlee
Yorston, Sophie Nelson and Kyah
Kennedy. Front row is Elijah Merritt.
Ringette P.E.I., visit: www.ring-
ettepei.ca or contact the execu-
tive director, Valerie Vuillemot.
Q HOCKEY
Vipers take
commanding
series lead  
KENSINGTON
The Kensington Moase
Plumbing and Heating Vipers
are a win away from advancing
to the Island Junior Hockey
League final.
The Vipers erupted for four
unanswered second-period
goals to open up a 5-1 lead
after 40 minutes en route to
a 5-3 win over the A&S Scrap
Metal Metros on Saturday
night.
The Vipers lead the best-of-
seven semifinal 3-1 with Game
5 slated for the Cody Banks
Arena in Charlottetown on
Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Saturday at the Credit Union
Centre in Kensington, C.J. Mc-
Cardle scored two goals while
Jacob Stewart (1-2), Spencer
Sherren (1-2) and Parker Ro-
nahan (0-3) all contributed
three points to lead the Vipers’
attack.
Affiliated player Blake Gal-
lant also scored while Garrett
Murray added a single assist.
For the Metros, Cale Pierce,
Jordan Birt and Connor Gray
found the back of the net.
Dylan MacDonald (2), Zach
Ladner, Nick Currie and affili-
ated player Connor McGregor
were credited with helpers.
The teams were tied 1-1 after
the opening 20 minutes.
Rett Rook made 28 saves on
31 shots to earn the win. Met-
ros starter Sam Walsh was
beaten five times on 34 shots in
36 minutes of action.
Alex Kelly stopped all seven
shots he faced during the final
24 minutes. 
B5 THE GUARDIAN
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
features
Q AWARDS BANQUET
Celebrating a century of success
Steve Howatt receives the Friend of 4-H Award nominated by the P.E.I. 4-H Trust. Presenting the award are P.E.I. 4-H Trustees David Tingley, left, and John MacDonald.
4-H celebrates 100 years of having positive impact on youth across P.E.I.
JOURNAL PIONEER
SUMMERSIDE
A program that provides op-
portunities for youth, between
ages nine to 21, to participate
in leadership and hands-on de-
velopment projects across the
Island, marked a milestone year
recently.
More than 170 guests attended
the 4-H celebration to acknow-
ledge a century of positive youth
development and programming
at the annual awards banquet.
The event was filled with food
and fun, with awards presented
in the afternoon.
Volunteer James Harris re-
ceived his 45-year leader certifi-
cate. Harris has retired as a 4-H
leader after a dedicated career
with the Elmsdale Beavers 4-H
Club.
Leader Roma Larsen of the
Albany Centennial 4-H Club
and Grace MacLaurin of the Lot
16 4-H Club, both celebrated 40
years of service.
They remain active in the
program, continuing to support
youth in their communities.
A total of 37 volunteer lead-
ers received certificates that
acknowledged their five to 45
years of commitment to the 4-H
P.E.I. program.
The council gave special rec-
ognition to Steve Howatt, in the
form of the Friend of 4-H Award.
This is awarded to a business, or-
Q ADVICE
Despite their divorce, ex-wife treats man like a best friend
DEAR ABBY: My ex-wife and
I were married for 29 years.
Then she had an affair with a
co-worker’s husband. Now that
we’re divorced, she thinks we
should be the best of friends!
If she has car, money or any
other type of problems, she
thinks I should help her. In the
divorce, I kept the home, the
furnishings, etc. She left with
only a few things that were her
mother’s and her clothing.
She drops by unannounced
and wants to visit or watch tele-
vision. I’m baffled. If she wanted
out of the marriage and to have
nothing to do with me, why is
she still in my life? Granted, we
have two daughters. One is 22,
and the other, who is 10, lives
with her.
She texts me about how her
day has been or if she’s having
problems at work or in life in
Patrick Lauwerijssen, centre, of the Albany Centennial 4-H Club was the winner of the Elmer Larsen Memorial
Member Recognition Award. Presenting the award are Roma and Peter Larsen.
ganization or individual who has
contributed financial, material
or staff support to the provincial
level of 4-H. Howatt contributed
to many of the program’s suc-
cesses, the most recent being
the creation of the BioFutures
project. This new, six-week pilot
project specifically for senior
4-H members, will be offered for
the first time in April.
During the banquet, the Heart
Club, which honours signifi-
Abigail
Van Buren
Dear
Abby
general. I have been kind to her,
not wanting to put too much
stress on my youngest child.
What should I do? – CON-
FUSED IN TEXAS
DEAR CONFUSED: Your ex
is no longer your life compan-
ion. She shouldn’t be acting as
if you are.
Have an honest conversa-
tion with her and create some
boundaries. She should not
assume she can drop by un-
announced and expect you to
solve her problems or comment
on her day. Tell her you need
cant cumulative donations to
the P.E.I. 4-H Trust, recognized
leader and volunteer Nancy Orr
for achieving the Trustees Club
member status.
Audrey Farquharson, of
Fort Augustus, achieved the
Platinum-level, Abe and Elaine
Buttimer, of New Glasgow, and
Kay Wall, of Summerside, each
reached the Gold-level. Grace
and James MacLaurin of Lot 16
were awarded Silver-level status.
your space and not to drop by
without calling first because
you may be busy or going out.
You can still be a loving and in-
volved father to your 10-year-old
without doing anything more
than co-parenting with your ex,
but only if you draw the line.
DEAR ABBY: I’m 13 and I
have a boyfriend, “Donald.” We
have a strong relationship for
someone our age. My friends
all say they can’t see us break-
ing up. I’m not sure about this
though.
The problem is, his mom re-
cently invited me to dinner. And
I had to turn the offer down.
You see, I’m not allowed to date,
and if my parents knew, I’d be
switched to an all-girls board-
ing school.
I always feel like I’m letting
Donald down because his mom
www.theguardian.pe.ca
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Corporate milestones for the
Heart Club included the gov-
ernment of P.E.I. department
of Agriculture and Fisheries
and ADL achieving the Trust-
ee’s club status. Allan Equip-
ment Manufacturing, Maritime
Precast Products and Veseys
Seeds all received Platinum-
level status. North Rustico
Home Hardware was awarded
the Silver-level status and
Callbecks Home Hardware,
has made this offer more than
once. He has never once com-
plained, but I have no clue what
to do. – CLUELESS TEEN
DEAR CLUELESS TEEN:
Here’s what you do. Be totally
truthful. Ask Donald to explain
to his mother that as much as
you would like to come to din-
ner, you cannot do that because
your parents feel you are too
young to date.
Then take a rain check until
your parents meet Donald and
agree that it’s all right for you to
see him and accept his mother’s
invitation.
DEAR ABBY: The world is
changing quickly thanks to the
digital technology available to
us. We all understand the im-
portance of an RSVP, attend-
ance at a celebration and a gift
to the host on a mailed-out in-
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4-H Awards handed out
Other award winners from the
P.E.I. 4-H annual awards dinner
include:
• Patrick Lauwerijssen, Albany
Centennial 4-H club: Elmer
Larsen memorial award.
• Sophie MacDonald, Grand
River East 4-H club: Callbecks
Home Building Centre top 4-H
member of the year award.
• Brandon Malone, Morell
and Area 4-H club: Top 4-H
livestock member of the year
award.
• Katelyn Visser, Milllview
Vernon River 4-H club: Charlie
Goodwin top horse and pony
member award.
• Ellen Kouwenberg, Millview
Vernon River 4-H club: P.E.I.
Women in Agriculture leader
recognition award.
• Women’s Institute Agricul-
ture Awareness Project Award:
First place, Albany Centennial
4-H club; second place, Pleas-
ant Valley 4-H club, and third
place Grand River East 4-H
club.
For more information,
visit www.pei4h.ca.
Metro Home Building Centre
and Nobra Holstein Inc. all
achieved Bronze-level Heart
Club status.
vitation.
What do you think about
Facebook invitations to wed-
ding receptions, graduation
parties, etc.? Most are sent out
to masses of friends on the
person’s friends list. Do you
consider those to be official in-
vitations, requiring an RSVP, at-
tendance and gift? – WAITING
FOR MY SNAIL MAIL
DEAR WAITING: Regardless
of how the invitation is deliv-
ered, the polite response is to ac-
cept or refuse and not keep the
sender hanging. If you choose to
attend, a gift would be in order if
the occasion requires one.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne
Phillips, and was founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440,
Los Angeles, CA 90069.
B6 THE GUARDIAN
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
community
COMMUNITY
calendar
MEETINGS
T.O.P.S. PE #5055 Cardigan
meets Tuesdays, 6 p.m. at the
Cardigan Fire Hall. New members
welcome. Call Dianne Gill, 902-
651-2536, Cel, 902-626-5752.
T.O.P.S. PE #5051 Charlottetown
meets Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m., at the
Sherwood Rec Hall. Call Margaret,
902-566-9991.
T.O.P.S. PE 3715, North River,
meets Tuesdays at the North River
Fire Hall (back door entrance).
Weigh-in is at 5:45 p.m.; the meet-
ing is at 6:30 p.m. Call Cynthia,
902-566-4680.
T.O.P.S. PE809, Hunter River,
meets Tuesdays in the music room,
Central Queens Elementary School,
Hunter River. Weigh-in begins at
6:30 p.m.; the meeting is at 7 p.m.
New members are welcome. Call
Cathy, 902-628-2069, or Carolyn,
902-964-2417.
The Lady’s Slipper Needle Arts
Guild meets the second and fourth
Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m., at
Winsloe United Church, 121 Win-
sloe Rd. (Route 223), South Win-
sloe. New members and visitors are
welcome. Call Heather, 902-621-
0248.
Dante for Dummies meets Tues-
days, 7 p.m., until March 27, in
St. Peter’s Cathedral Hall, corner
of Fitzroy and Rochford street,
Charlottetown. Dante wrote his
comedy seven hundred years ago,
but he is still a household name.
Come join Victoria Goddard on a
guided tour of the three regions of
the afterlife.
Premiere Toastmasters meet-
ings are Wednesdays, September
to June, 6–8 p.m., in Room 125
at the Royalty Centre, 40 Enman
Cres., Charlottetown. Guests and
new members welcome. Contact
jbrewer@eastlink.ca or 902-963-
2888
T.O.P.S. #1968, Souris, meets
Wednesdays in the classroom at
the Souris Hospital, 5:45-6:45 p.m.
Call Mae, 902-687-2877.
T.O.P.S. PE 4189 Kensington
meets on Wednesdays at the Holy
Family Parish Centre, 30 Pleasant
St. Weigh-in: 6-7 p.m.; meeting: 7
p.m. Call Pat, 902-432-3813.
CARDS/CRIBBAGE/
CROKINOLE
An ACBL sanctioned duplicate
game is Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m., at the
Haviland Club, Charlottetown, with
a guaranteed partner and fun play,
as well as a mini lesson at 6:30 p.m. all who are interested in the
Bridge is played at the Silver
Threads Club in Souris on Tues-
days at 7 p.m.
An ACBL sanctioned duplicate
game is Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m., at the held this week in Wellington
Haviland Club, Charlottetown, with and Charlottetown.
a guaranteed partner and fun play,
as well as a mini lesson at 6:30 p.m. an overview of the co-op move-
Kensington Lions Crib is every
Tuesday at the Kensington Legion,
30 Garden Ave., 7:30 p.m.
Weekly card parties (45s singles)
are at Tracadie Community Cen-
tre, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. There is a
toonie pot, and a light lunch will
be served.
Vernon River Tuesday night card
play at St. Joachim Parish Hall at
7:30 p.m.
Scrabble is played at the Seniors
Active Living Centre, Bell Aliant
Centre, UPEI, on Wednesdays, 1
p.m.
Auction tournament is Wednes-
days at the North Rustico Lions
Club, 1 p.m. Cost is $10, per team.
Lionettes will run the 50/50 draw.
Auction/45s is at the Jack
Blanchard Family Centre, Char-
lottetown, Wednesdays 1:30 p.m.
Admission is $2. There will also be
a 50/50 draw.
Cards are played at St. Francis
of Assisi Church in Cornwall on
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. There is
a 50/50 draw and a loonie prize.
Lunch is served.
Card parties (45s) are in St. Te-
resa’s in the church activity room,
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. The game
is being played as singles, so a
partner is not necessary. There is a
50/50 draw, and a light lunch.
St. Pius X Church Knights
of Columbus cribbage is
Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., in the
www.theguardian.pe.ca
Q AGRICULTURE
Lower Freetown
farmers recognized
Barnyard Organics wins soil and crop improvement award
The P.E.I. Soil and Crop
Improvement Association has
recognized Barnyard Organ-
ics of Lower Freetown with the
Soil Conservationist of the Year
Award in the cash crop cat-
egory.
• Barnyard Organics is a
family farm operated by Mark
and Sally Bernard, and their
four children, Lucy, Wilson,
Thayne and Solomon.
• Twelve years ago, Mark and
Sally took over Mark’s dad’s
conventional potato farm and
have since converted the land
to organic production.
• Their farming operation
consists of producing 300 acres
of organic cereals, 100 acres of
organic soybeans and 100 acres
of forages. They own most of SUBMITTED PHOTO
the certified organic land they Mark Bernard, centre, and Sally Bernard of Barnyard Organics receive the soil conservationist of the year award in
farm with renting only seven
the cash crop category from John Hooper, left, president of the P.E.I. Soil and Crop Improvement Association, John
acres.
Jamieson, deputy minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and Mark Grimmet of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
• The Bernard’s crop rotation
is five years – clover, wheat, bar- supply of dairy bed pack ma- green cover for the winter and tillage creep into the zone. They
ley and field peas mix, soybeans nure it composts with mussel provide soil and organic build- also implement an eight-meter
and oats under seeded to clover. shell waste and applied it to 100 ing benefits. All of their land buffer between their farm and
• The Bernards also raise acres annually. In their green base has green cover going into adjacent ones.
broiler chickens and laying manure system, Sally and Mark winter, except for the soybean • For the Bernards’, their pri-
hens. Both types of poultry believe highly in clover as a vital stubble. These fields are not fall ority is soil health. In fact, they
are raised mainly on a pasture part of their fertility and soil tilled, however, to maintain the have a blog named “For the
with shelters moved daily dur- tilth improvements. stubble residue. Love of the Soil”. Mark and Sally
ing the summer months with • Eighty to 85 per cent of the • Sally and Mark have exten- believe that while the profit
some free range for their lay- straw is left on fields to go back sive soil conservation structures is above ground, the wealth is
ing hens. Mark and Sally really into the soil. For the hay fields, and features on many fields. underneath.
like the pasture system for their only every second rotation will •New above-ground double • “As a very successful family
poultry as it eliminates the job one cut of silage be removed walled pressurized fuel tanks farm, Barnyard Organics Inc. is
of spreading manure on the from the field. The other years it were installed and they also dedicated to growing economic
fields - as the birds do that for is mulched and left to build the participate in the ALUS pro- opportunities in rural P.E.I., in a
them. The poultry manure, of soil even more. gram. sustainable fashion”, says John
course, feeds the soil and invig- • Sally and Mark also uses •All buffer zones on the farm Hooper, president of the P.E.I.
orates the grass. winter cereals in their rotation are wider than the mandatory Soil and Crop Improvement As-
• Barnyard Organics has a to break weed cycles, provide 15-meters to ensure there is no sociation.
Q LUNCH AND LEARN
Sessions planned in Wellington, Charlottetown
Executive director Marc Henrie to speak on new trends
in the co-operative movement in Wellington and Charlottetown
WELLINGTON de développement régional - to a partnership between the
All Island co-operators and Acadie (CDR-Acadie). CDR-Acadie and the Economic
The Wellington workshop Information Observatory for
co-op movement are invited to will take on the form of a lunch- Atlantic Canada. The Acadian
one of two free and bilingual and-learn Wednesday, March and Francophone Chamber
meal-time information sessions 28, at noon at the Wellington of Commerce of P.E.I. and the
titled “The New Trends of the Rural Action Centre at 48 Mill Wellington Rural Action Centre
Co-operative Movement” being Rd. are hosting the two Island pres-
The Charlottetown session entations.
will be a breakfast meeting Participation at these two
“The workshop will provide Thursday, March 29, at 8:30 a.m. events is free but those who SUBMITTED PHOTO
at the Carrefour de l’Isle-Saint- are interested much register Marc Henrie, executive director of the
ment, its new trends as well Jean at 5 Acadian Dr. A light no later than March 27 by con- Coopérative de développement régio-
nal – Acadie (CDR-Acadie will present
as its potential,” says session meal will be provided. tacting Velma Robichaud at
presenter Marc Henrie, execu- This presentation is presently 902-854-3439, Ext. 228, or at sessions in Wellington on March 28
tive director of the Coopérative touring Atlantic Canada thanks velma@rdeeipe.org. and Charlottetown on March 29.
COMMUNITY
calendar Q Defibrillator donation
basement of St. Pius X Church, St.
Peter’s Road, Charlottetown, with
prize, a loonie pot and a 50/50
draw. Bring a partner. Cost: $5 per
person.
HEALTH/CLASSES
Nobody’s Perfect Parenting
Program is being hosted by
Family Place, 75 Central Street,
Summerside Tuesdays 6-8 pm.,
March 20 to April 24. Sessions
show parents/guardians about
their child’s feelings, behaviours,
development and safety as well
as sharing what it is like to be a
parent. This program is based on
what parents want to discuss, not
from a book. To register, drop in to
Family Place, call 902-436-1348 or
familyplace@eastlink.ca.
Bosom Buddies Breastfeeding
Support Group is being offered
by Family Place, 75 Central St.,
Summerside, Wednesdays 10-
11:30 a.m. beginning Jan 17.
This weekly informative group is
offered in partnership with East ERIC MCCARTHY/JOURNAL PIONEER
Prince Health. Nursing babies and Daniel MacDonald, left, property and finance chairman for St. Mark’s Parish in Burton, accepts a donation
toddlers are welcome with mom. of an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the parish from Avis McDonald, his aunt and a long-time
To register, drop in to Family Place, member of the parish. She recently presented the device, with its potentially life-saving capabilities, to the
call 902-436-1348 or familyplace@ parish in memory of her father, Leo, who was also a lifetime member. The AED will be stored in the church
eastlink.ca. but will also be available should it be required at the hall, or anywhere in the general area, in an emergency.
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Q AWARDS
IN

Double winners
Gord Downie and Diana Krall win two awards each at non-televised Juno gala
BY DAVID FRIEND
THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER
Gord Downie and Diana Krall
both emerged double winners
at Saturday’s Juno Awards pre-
telecast ceremony in a night that
carried a number of political
and social undercurrents.
Some musicians took time
to recognize the huge protests
against gun violence in the
United States earlier in the day,
which captured headlines and
left some musicians voicing
their support.
“I just want to give a shout out
to all of our brothers and sisters
down South that are protesting
today - protesting gun laws,”
said Arcade Fire’s Win Butler as
he accepted the international
achievement award.
“Canada is a beautiful
example of how it doesn’t have
to be like that.”
Downie’s brother Mike spoke
about awareness of Indigenous
issues as he accepted a win for
“Introduce Yerself,” the final
album of the Tragically Hip
frontman. Gord Downie also
shared a songwriter win for the
album.
“There’s a ribbon of
Indigeneity running right down
the middle of our flag,” Mike
said while standing alongside
his brother Patrick.
“This country’s changing, and
it’s changing for the better.”
Krall came away with two
awards for her album “Turn Up
the Quiet.” She scored vocal jazz
album and the producer of the
year award.
Denise Donlon, a former
MuchMusic VJ in the 1980s,
received the Walt Grealis
Special Achievement Award
for a career that also includes
years as a record industry
executive.
In her speech she
addressed the lack of female
representation in the music
industry, which has been a
much-discussed subject in
recent years at the Junos.
She finished by calling on
men in the audience to rise
from their chairs as a symbolic
commitment of support for
more women in music.
“I really did feel like we’re
actually starting to move the
needle a little bit on this,”
Donlon said afterwards,
acknowledging the idea was
partly inspired by Frances
McDormand’s rousing Oscar
speech on “inclusion riders.”
Other winners included
Michael Buble, who hosts
the televised Junos show on
Sunday. He took home adult
contemporary album for
“Nobody But Me.”
The Shawn Mendes hit
Q DEBATE
CP PHOTO
Diana Krall celebrates her Junos for vocal jazz album of the year and producer of the year at the Juno Gala Dinner
and Awards show Saturday in Vancouver.
Downie’s brothers say more projects years with “I Wanted to Be a
Dinosaur.” The prize was last
are coming from the singer given in 1984 to Bob and Doug
VANCOUVER - Gord Downie’s most recent album “Introduce Yerself” was McKenzie - the pair of iconic
often considered his final project, but his brothers insist there’s much
more to come. beer swigging hosers played by
“That wasn’t the end,” Patrick Downie told reporters after accepting two
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
Juno Awards for the 2017 album alongside his brother Mike. “Obviously Bob and Doug
were too good, they were just
“(Gord) did a lot of music in his final time.”
The brothers stood alongside each other at the Junos gala dinner in going to have to give it to
them every year,” Decker said
the absence of the Tragically Hip frontman, who died last October of an
in pondering why the award
incurable form of brain cancer.
might’ve been shelved for years.
“Introduce Yerself” picked up the adult alternative album award while
Downie shared a songwriter award with Kevin Drew for the project as “Last time it was given away I
well. wasn’t even born.”
The album consists of songs described as “love letters” to people Fred Penner snagged
who touched Downie’s life, from an ex-girlfriend to members of the children’s album of the year
Indigenous community. for “Hear the Music,” his
“There’s a lot of material that he was doing all along, a lot of material he collaborative project that
created after he found out he was going to die,” Patrick added.
features appearances by
“Songwriting was his vehicle. He just went to work. He was not going to Canadian artists including
leave this world until he had spoken his language.”
Basia Bulat and Ron Sexsmith.
The brothers didn’t say when Downie’s other projects would be released.
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s
Mike added that his brother’s “work ethic was unbeatable.”
politically charged album
“Gord never stopped working. Two operations, chemo, he never of songs about unity and
stopped,” he said.
resistance, “Medicine Songs,”
“In the last two years he somehow had this idea of what he wanted to
accomplish and he just went right down the list.” won the Indigenous music
David Friend, The Canadian Press
album award.
Bruce Cockburn’s “Bone
on Bone,” which dabbled in
political commentary at times,
grabbed contemporary roots
album.
Kendrick Lamar scored the
international album of the
year award for “Damn,” after
the rapper lost to Bruno Mars
a couple months ago at the
Grammys. The point wasn’t lost
on Arcade Fire’s Butler who
CP PHOTO brought it up on stage and in
Pat and Mike Downie, brothers of the late Gord Downie, at the Juno the media room.
Gala Dinner and Awards show Saturday in Vancouver. “I just wanted to say that I’m
really happy Kendrick won too,”
“There’s Nothing Holdin’ from the event. Butler said.
Me Back” won single of Ivan Decker became the first “It was (expletive) that he lost
the year, though he was absent comedy album winner in 33 at the Grammys.”
brief
‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’
dethrones ‘Black
Panther’ at box office
NEW YORK — It took six
weeks but “Black Panther”
has finally been unseated as
the top film at the box office.
The monsters vs. robots
science-fiction sequel “Pacific
Rim: Uprising” has dethroned
“Black Panther” with an
estimated $28 million in
weekend ticket sales.
According to studio
estimates Sunday, “Black
Panther” slid to second place
with $16.7 million in its
sixth week. The superhero
sensation still marked the
weekend with another box-
office record. It’s now the
highest-grossing superhero
film ever in North America,
not accounting for inflation.
The Christian drama “I Can
Only Imagine” came in
third with $13.8 million in
its second weekend. The
animated sequel “Sherlock
Gnomes” opened with $10.6
million. Wes Anderson’s
“Isle of Dogs” scored one
of the year’s best specialty
releases with $1.6 million in
27 theatres.
Celebrities at Kids’
Choice Awards
praise youth marches
LOS ANGELES — The power
of the youth rallies against
gun violence has made
an impression on many
celebrities at the Kids’ Choice
Awards.
Stars including former couple
Mariah Carey and Nick
Cannon voiced their support
for teenagers who spent
Saturday marching for gun
control in cities across the
U.S. The Kids’ Choice Awards
were held in Los Angeles
later that night.
Before the ceremony, stars
praised kids and teens who
participated in the rallies in
the kind of numbers seen
during the Vietnam era.
Stars affected by
violence join students’
gun-reform rallies
LOS ANGELES — Paul
McCartney and Jennifer
Hudson were among the
stars playing supporting
roles at gun-reform rallies.
Both have a personal
connection to gun violence.
Hudson, who performed
“The Times They Are A
Changin”’ to cap Saturday’s
event in Washington, D.C.,
alluded to the shooting
deaths of her mother,
brother and 7-year-old
nephew in 2008.
McCartney said his decision
to join the New York City
march was prompted by
the 1980 Manhattan killing
of John Lennon, his former
Beatles bandmate.

No laughing matter
When exactly did clowns become scary?
BY MARK KENNEDY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK
His nose was round and bright
red, his face as white as a sheet.
His mouth was surrounded
by an exaggerated smear of
red makeup and his arched
eyebrows hung ridiculously high
on his forehead.
Such was the daily uniform
of Bozo the Clown, who
entertained kids for decades
when TV was in its infancy. It’s
also a uniform that for many
now seems grotesque and
sinister. The death of longtime
Bozo performer Frank Avruch
last week triggered both feelings
— warm memories from some
and a shiver of fear from others
who associate clowns more with
the film “It.”
Which begs the question:
When exactly did clowns go
from birthday-party goofy to
downright sinister? Well, hold
onto your really big shoes -
experts are divided.
David Carlyon, author,
playwright and a former
clown with Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus in the
1970s, argues that the fear of
clowns — known officially as
coulrophobia — is a relatively
new phenomenon, born from
the counter-culture 1960s and
emerging as a popular force in
“It’s a mistake to ask
when clowns turned bad
because historically they
were never really good.”
Benjamin Radford, author and editor
at Skeptical Inquirer magazine
the 1980s.
“There is no ancient fear of
clowns,” he said. “It wasn’t like
there was this panic rippling
through Madison Square
Garden as I walked up through
the seats. Not at all.”
Carlyon said clowns were
considered sweet and funny for
two centuries until an inevitable
backlash that included Stephen
King’s hit novel “It,” the film
“Poltergeist,” Heath Ledger’s
white-faced maniac Joker, the
misanthrope Krusty the Clown
from “The Simpsons,” the shock
band Insane Clown Posse and
Homey D. Clown from “In Living
Color.”
“Anything that gets that
much glorification and is
sentimentalized within an
inch of its life invites someone
to snark at it,” said Carlyon,
who recently discovered the
cover of a National Lampoon
from 1979 with a girl cowering
in fear of a malevolent clown.
“There’s nothing in any available
evidence that kids were afraid
of clowns in the ‘40s, the ‘50s,
the ‘60s, the ‘70s. Who said that
about Red Skelton?”
Not so fast, argues Benjamin
Radford, an author and editor
at Skeptical Inquirer magazine
who literally wrote the book
on the subject, 2016’s “Bad
Clowns.” Not to throw a pie in
anyone’s face, but he argues that
evil clowns have always been
among us.
“It’s a mistake to ask when
clowns turned bad because
historically they were never
really good. They’ve always
had this deeply ambiguous
character,” he said. “Sometimes
they’re good; sometimes they’re
bad. Sometimes they’re making
you laugh. Other times, they’re
laughing at your expense.”
Radford traces bad clowns
all the way to ancient Greece
and connects them to court
jesters and the Harlequin figure.
He notes that Punch, an evil
puppet who frequently smacks
his partner Judy with a stick,
made his first appearance in
London in the 1500s. Clowns
in America had their roots in
circuses and they were at first
meant to amuse adults, but
clowning history took a detour
in the 1950s and ‘60s when
the squeaky-clean Bozo and
Ronald McDonald became the
“quintessentially American
default clowns” for kids, Radford
said.
Never-seen photos
of Beatles’ early U.S.
concerts auctioned
LONDON — Hundreds
of previously unseen
photographs of The Beatles’
first U.S. concerts have
sold for 253,000 pounds
($358,000) at an auction in
England.
The photographer Mike
Mitchell, who was 18 at the
time, snapped the photos of
the band’s performances at
the Washington Coliseum
and the Baltimore Civic
Centre in 1964. He also took
photos of the Fab Four at a
pre-show press conference
and their arrival at Union
Station.
A total of some 400
negatives with copyright
were sold at Omega Auctions
on Saturday in northwestern
England. Apart from 46
images that were sold in
2011, the remainder has
never been seen. A 1984
black Mercedes once owned
by George Harrison also sold
for 43,200 pounds ($61,047)
at the same auction.
The Associated Press
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Q ADVICE
Polyamory must be a mutual choice
Readers’ Commentary - The
Case for Polyamory (“consen-
sual and responsible non-mon-
ogamy”):
“Many people with sex drives
at variance with their partner’s,
find that ethical non-monog-
amy or polyamory is the right
road for them.
“I’ve been practicing poly-
amory for over a decade.
“My current live-in partner
has health problems and a low
sex drive, but needs a lot of
emotional and physical sup-
port.
“His other girlfriend is a bless-
ing. I don’t have to be there for
him every time he’s unwell, and
can focus on my career as well
as being a partner.
“Meanwhile, I get my sexual
frustrations out with a casual
friends-with-benefits situation,
so that I need never burden my
beloved when he’s not feeling
up to sex.
“Our other-significant-others
also have partners of their own.
Our loosely-knit network of
friends and lovers provides a
very supportive family in which
we all can thrive.
“In the 21st century, non-
traditional family structures are
common and widely accepted:
Suffering for your partner’s sake
seems noble, but isn’t always
the answer.
Ellie - Periodically, I receive
such explanations of the bene-
fits of having more than one
acknowledged sexual partner
within a group of three or more
people.
They note that there are other
YOUR
horoscope
Note: Bigar’s Stars is based on the
degree of your sun at birth. The sign
name is simply a label astrologers put on
a set of degrees for convenience. For best
results, readers should refer to the dates
following each sign.
A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and
a Moon in Cancer if born before 7:45
a.m. (ET). Afterward, the Moon will be
in Leo.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, March
26, 2018:
This year you enter a period where you
feel more put together than you have in a
long time. Your finances could swing up
and down after May. You are likely to
have some wonderful opportunities
emerge. Double-check any agreement
you sign. If you are single, others are
drawn to you. This fall through your next
birthday will prove to be prime time for
meeting someone of interest. If you are
attached, you and your sweetie might opt
to change the financial structure you
have created together. Some couples will
be greeting a new addition to their fami-
ly. LEO knows how to fire you up.
Ellie
Tesher
Advice
solutions to living with a part-
ner who can’t or won’t be sex-
ual, beyond just accepting it,
self-pleasuring, and making do
with intimacy without actual
sex.
I see such private arrange-
ments as personal decisions
that are none of my business.
People, who write me about
sex problems as a couple, al-
ready know they can choose
this course.
Most are asking about their
relationship - what I think
about a partner threatening to
leave unless a substitute lover
is found.
Or, whether it’s fair and ac-
ceptable that a partner arbitrar-
ily gave up sex.
Having multiple partners
is not a new idea, though mak-
ing a mutual decision and
being responsible about it
is the only way it’ll remain a
satisfying solution to those in-
volved.
Q – I’ve experienced hardship
for a long time, since I lost my
corporate job and started work-
ing as a contractor.
Especially since a car acci-
dent in 2014 caused me some
cognitive impairment, which
limits my work.
I rent out half of my house (a
By Jacqueline Bigar
favorite dessert for a family member.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
★★★★ Your need to possess dwindles
quickly during the day. You will have
some time to think through your recent
behavior and decisions. Conversations
will be mellow but noteworthy. Invite a
friend out to dinner to work through a
recurring problem. Tonight: At a favorite
spot.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
★★★ You wake up with energy. Refuse
to take offense to someone else’s sharp or
sarcastic comment; otherwise, you are
likely to feel unusually burdened by it.
Move on. Listen to a suggestion, and
check your budget before taking action.
Tonight: Treat others to dinner.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
★★★★★ You could be surprised by
what is going on around a child or loved
one. Use a sudden unleashing of energy
to allow more intellectual and emotional
flexibility into your life. Good ideas
seem to naturally appear if you open up
and share more with others. Tonight:
Time for fun!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
★★★★ You could be in a situation that
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 • B9
duplex) but my home costs have
risen and the rental increases
have not kept up.
During a discussion with my
adult son (who currently lives
with me and pays rent) about
how to leverage the house (such
as renovations) he said his dad
(my ex-husband) could move in
and we three would share the
costs and renovate while I could
continue to live here.
My ex keeps telling him that
his parents insured an inherit-
ance, which provided the down
payment for this house.
I told him I don’t owe anyone
anything. Yes, his father gave
the big down payment but I
paid the mortgage for 15 years
working full-time as the bread-
winner while he worked part-
time and lost money in business DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE
ventures.
I feel it worked out even.
Disappointed and Angry
A - Yes, sometimes adult chil-
dren are very self-interested,
especially if they’re being fed
information from another par-
ental voice that also has vested
interest.
It seems that through your
divorce, the house is owned by
you. And your son’s living there
and paying rent makes him a
tenant, not a part owner.
Deal with the need at hand:
See your bank manager, ac-
countant, someone in real es-
tate.
They will each have
suggestions on how to
proceed to stabilize your fi-
nances, including whether to
renovate.
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Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
★★★★ You might be vested in a certain
outcome with a creative project. An
unexpected curveball forces you to
rethink a decision. Many people would
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be more cautious moving forward.
However, you are likely to continue at
the same speed. Tonight: Add vitality to a
relationship.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
★★★ Deal with a domestic issue before
it deals with you. Your ability to see the
long-term advantages and loopholes
needs to come into play in order to reach
a goal. Open up to better communication
and understanding. Tonight: Make a
allows greater give-and-take. A partner
might be unpredictable yet also a source
of energy. The faster you handle a prob-
lem, the better you’ll feel. Resolve any
issue that could rear its ugly head.
Tonight: Tell it like it is, but with diplo-
macy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
★★★★ You could be in a position where
you need to come to terms with a change
of attitude from a key person in your life.
You might wonder what would happen if
you were to turn a personal issue around.
Find out! You will be pleasantly sur-
prised. Tonight: Manage what is happen-
ing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
★★★★ Be more in tune with what oth-
ers seem to need. Make an effort to give
more of yourself, and witness the differ-
ence it makes. You might opt to be more
invitation.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
★★★★ Follow through on an important
matter involving your budget and com-
munication; otherwise, you could make a
costly mistake. Double-check your funds
and count your change. Make an effort to
return a call that you have been avoiding.
Tonight: Off to the gym to work out.
BORN TODAY
Actress Keira Knightley (1985),
singer/songwriter Diana Ross (1944),
singer/songwriter Kenny Chesney (1968)
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B10 OBITUARIES • MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
A Tribute to
Loved Ones
Obituaries
Posted daily on our website residence in Strathmore Alberta
Obituaries
ADAMS,
Cory Lane
It is with great sadness that
the family of Cory Lane Kennedy
Adams of St. George, Ontario
announce his sudden passing
on Monday,
March 19,
2018 at the
age of 53
years. Cory
is lovingly
remembered
by his spouse
S h e r r y ,
children Nickolas, Jessie and
Rebecca Adams, Amanda and
Stephanie White. His mother
Cynthia (Tippi) Adams, his
sister Carla Adams, his nephew
Mitchell Adams, mother-in-
law Ruth Lowther, sisters-in-
law Lori Stevens and Tammy
Lowther as well as many aunts,
uncles and friends. Predeceased
by his father Carl Adams, his
father-in-law Merril Lowther,
grandparents Marne and Helen
Kennedy, Lloyd and Dorothy
Adams, Beulah and Walden
Lowther, George and Nellie
Annette. Cremation has taken
place and a celebration of
life will be held by the family
at a later date to return his
ashes to the earth. On-line
condolences may be made at
www.islandowned.ca.
BELL,
Agnes
On Wednesday March 21,
2018 at the Dr. John M. Gillis
Memorial Lodge the peaceful
passing of Agnes Bell, age
92, beloved wife of the late
Harold Bell occurred. Born in
Hopefield,
she was the
daughter of
the late David
and Angusina
MacFarlane.
Agnes is
survived
by her
loving children, Betty (David)
Wheeler, Loman (Rose) Bell;
4 grandchildren; 6 great
grandchildren and 1 great great
grandchild; I sister Bertha;
numerous nieces, nephews and
cousins. She was predeceased
by her siblings John, Dan,
David, James, George, Lester,
Elizabeth, Mary, Mina, Effie and
Florence. Resting at Ferguson
Logan Montague Funeral Home
with visiting on Tuesday, March
27th from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Funeral Service to take place
on Wednesday, March 28th in
the Funeral Home Chapel at 1
p.m. with Rev David Wheeler
officiating, assisted by Rev.
David Filsinger. Interment
to follow in the Murray River
Cemetery. Donations to a
charity of choice would be
appreciated.
MUNN,
Curtis
At the Kings County
Memorial Hospital the passing
of Curtis Munn, age 85, occurred
on Friday March 23, 2018. Born
in Murray River on November
17th, 1932, he
was the son of
the late Earl
and Christina
(Bowles)
Munn. He
is survived
by a sister
Peggy Munn;
nieces and nephews, Brian,
Sue and Barry Green, Robert
and Colleen Munn, Peggy
and Tony Regimbal and Chris
Munn. Besides his parents he
was predeceased by brothers,
Melvin, Russell, Bobby and
Bill. Resting at Ferguson
Logan Funeral Home with
Funeral Service to take place
in the Funeral Home Chapel
on Monday March 26th, at 2:30
p.m. Interment to take place in
Murray River Cemetery.
www.fergusonlogan.com
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Obituaries
Lebanese writer with
CARTER,
Gordon Craig
The death occurred at his late
on Sunday, March 11, 2018 of
P.E.I. connections dies
Gordon Craig Carter. Husband
to Carla Carter (nee Lightfoot),
and loving
father to
Tayler Dawn
Bishop of
North Sydney
Nova Scotia.
Born on
August 31,
1979, he is
the son of Esther Gillam and
predeceased by his father
Gordon Carter. Survived
by brother Shawn “Chico”
Laybolt (Michelle), and sister
Kelly Carter (Todd). He will
be missed by his uncles Billy
Gillam (Carla), David Cater
(Edna), Randy Carter (Stella), SUBMITTED PHOTO
Gary Carter (Lorraine), and Emily Daoud Nasrallah
aunts Betty Paynter, Sheila
Mahar, Jeannie Gregory, Word has been received announcing the death. She became a prolific writer,
Shawna and Karen Carter, about the death of Emily Daoud Culture minister Ghattas publishing many novels,
and numerous nieces and Nasrallah, née Abou Rashed, on Khoury agreed, saying said that children’s stories and short
nephews. Predeceased by his March 13 in Beirut. She was 86. Lebanon has lost “an important story collections touching on
grandparents Kenneth and She is survived by her female face.” themes such as family, village
Hilda Carter; William and children, Ramzi, Khalil, Maha Nasrallah was born on July 6, life, war, emigration and
Marion Gillam, and special aunt and Mona, and siblings Labeeb, 1931, in Kaukaba, in southern women’s rights.
Margaret Mossman. Visiting George, Elias, Laura (Zakem) Lebanon to Daoud Abi Rached The latter was a subject she
hours to be held at Dingwell and Souhail Rashed of Prince and Loutfa Abou Nasr. has maintained support for
Funeral Home on Tuesday, Edward Island. She graduated from the throughout her life.
March 27, 2018 from 6-7:30 p.m. An award-winning author, American University of Beirut Last year, the German
with a memorial service to be reaction to her death sent in 1958 with a BA in education cultural organization the
celebrated at 8 p.m. at Dingwell shockwaves through the and literature, but soon Goethe Institute awarded her
Funeral Home. If so desired, country. achieved acclaim for her writing the Goethe Medal, an official
memorial donation can be “Lebanon and the Arab with the publication of her first decoration that honors non-
made at the funeral home to St. world lost an icon of literature novel, “Birds of September” in Germans.
Alban’s church cemetery. and Lebanese creativity, and 1962. Last month, President Michel
a women’s rights activist,” The book earned her instant Aoun of Lebanon honoured her
Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of praise and three Arabic literary as a commander of the National
ROBERTSON, Lebanon said in a statement prizes. Order of the Cedar.
Q POLITICS
Lloyd George
The death occurred peacefully
with family by his side at the
Souris Hospital on Saturday,
March 24, 2018 of Pat (Lloyd)
Robertson,
age 86 years
of Kingsboro,
P.E. Deeply
loved by his
wife Mary
(nee Toombs),
he will be
dearly missed
by his sons Kevin, Kerry (Ria),
and Lonnie (Del); grandchildren
Alex, Erin, Grace, Matthew, and
Brett. Survived by his brother
Reverend Brent (Priscilla)
Robertson. Predeceased by his
brothers Aylmer, Leith (Bertha),
and Roy Robertson. Resting at
Dingwell Funeral Home with
visiting hours on Monday,
March 26, 2018 from 4-7. A
funeral service will be held at
Kingsboro Baptist Church on
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 11
a.m. Interment to follow in the
Kingsboro cemetery. Donations
in memory of Pat can be made CP PHOTO
to the Souris Hospital, or Saskatchewan’s NDP Leader Ryan Meili speaks after being elected party leader, while his partner, Mahli
Souris Home Care. Online Brindamour, left, looks on at the Saskatchewan New Democrats leadership convention at the Delta Hotel in Regina
condolences can be made at on Saturday, March 3.
www.dingwellfh.ca.
Q NANCY MCFADDEN
California Sask. NDP leader balances
governor’s
political and family lives
chief of staff dies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ryan Meili has had to juggle leadership campaign,
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
Nancy McFadden, chief raising two young children with his wife, Mahli Brindamour
of staff for California Gov.
Jerry Brown and a driving THE CANADIAN PRESS predecessor the Co-operative Meili has known Calvert for
force behind his agenda, died Commonwealth Federation more than a decade and calls
Thursday in her home after a REGINA have a proud history in the him a friend.
long battle with ovarian cancer. Sleep has been hard to come province. Meili follows in the “I’ve had a chance to know
She was 59. by for Ryan Meili so far this year. footsteps of such political him and Roy Romanow quite
“Nancy was the best chief of The new Saskatchewan heavyweights as Tommy well, and often will call them up
staff a governor could ever ask NDP leader has had to juggle Douglas, Allan Blakeney and and just go and listen to their
for,” Brown said in a statement. a leadership race along with Roy Romanow, who were all stories and hear what their
“She understood government raising two young children with party leaders and premiers. experiences were and their
and politics, she could manage, his wife, Mahli Brindamour. Meili grew up in Courval, thoughts on what happened
she was a diplomat and she was His oldest son, Abraham, Sask., a tiny dot on the map during their time in leadership,”
fearless.” is six and often kept his dad southwest of Moose Jaw. Meili says. “They’ve been really
McFadden was hired as company on trips during the A family doctor by trade, important voices for me, both
Brown’s chief of staff in 2011, campaign. he has practised across the of them.”
when he returned to the Little Augustin is just six province and did his residency It took Meili three cracks
governor’s office, and quickly months old. in Saskatoon, where he’s spent to win the leadership. He had
became an indispensable asset “New baby in campaign the last several years. In 2012, previously run in 2009 and
as he pushed ambitious polities meant that sleep is a distant he released a book called “A 2013. He won the Saskatoon
on climate, criminal justice memory,” Meili says. Healthy Society,” which argues Meewasin seat in the legislature
reform and more. McFadden “At the same time, it’s been that a focus on health can revive in a byelection last spring.
could knock heads in political something fun because the Canadian democracy. His leadership campaign this
battle but was quick with campaign life can be pretty His wife is also a doctor, a time around included proposals
humour and cared deeply for stressful. Coming home to Abe pediatrician, who focuses on for a $15 minimum wage,
the people around her, friends and Gus sort of puts everything refugee health. universal pharmacare and
and colleagues said. in perspective and I enjoy that.” Meili became a member removing corporate and union
McFadden didn’t know Meili, 42, defeated Trent of the New Democrats in donations from politics.
Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Wotherspoon earlier this 2001 when Lorne Calvert was Greg Poelzer, a political
Brown, very well when she had month to win the leadership premier. It was the same year science professor at the
a conversation with them after of Saskatchewan’s official Meili was arrested at protests University of Saskatchewan,
Brown’s election that led to a Opposition. surrounding the Summit of the says Meili’s election is a shift to
job. The NDP and its Americas in Quebec. the left for the party.
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dollars and sense
Picking the pockets of seniors
Strangers and family target elderly
BY JAMES RISDON
SALTWIRE NETWORK
I
t started off innocently enough,
with a few friendly messages on
Facebook from another senior
who certainly seemed like the real
deal.
“I had a street address ( for him)
and the whole bit,” said Heather
Marchione.
The then-72-year-old divorcee
started exchanging text messages
with her newfound friend on the so-
cial media platform and got to learn
several things about him. Like her,
he was apparently of Italian heritage.
Allegedly a 60-year-old engineer liv-
ing in Arizona, he said he traveled
extensively to other countries for
business and had a grown daughter.
Quickly, their social media ex-
changes turned into almost daily
phone calls.
“It was fun having someone call-
ing you every night and asking, ‘How
was your day?’” said Marchione.
The budding friendship lasted for
about a month. During that time, he
provided Marchione with a tele-
phone number for his supposed
daughter and encouraged them to
speak over the phone. Marchione
did call her. A woman’s voice an-
swered and they had a conversation.
And then, it came. The ask.
This is the goal of every scam
artist seeking to defraud seniors of
their savings, a crime that’s almost
impossible to solve and is part of
what is believed to be widespread
and largely under-reported financial
abuse of seniors.
Although some of this financial
abuse is perpetrated by organized
crime syndicates, a lot of it is also
done by family and friends of sen-
iors. That makes it even more diffi-
cult for police forces to catch the
culprits.
“We’re only hitting the tip of the
iceberg and it’s going to get worse (as
Atlantic Canada’s population con-
tinues to age),” said Const. Tom
Wood, crime prevention officer for
the Amherst Police Department.
“It’s a very under-reported crime...
the senior population does not want
to come forward because they are
embarrassed and they have a strong
sense of loyalty (to their families).”
In Marchione’s case, the ask came
when the scam artist was ostensibly
in a foreign country to work on a
bridge development.
“His scam was the daughter,” she
said. “Apparently, she had a brain
tumor. He had her in a private
school… but she had to go tothe hos-
pital and was in the emergency and
needed US$5,000… He gave me de-
tailed instructions to wire the
money.”
Marchione now admits that by
then she believed all of this was real.
Sure, there had been a few red flags,
like his claim that he didn’t use credit
cards even when traveling and stay-
ing in hotels that usually require a
credit card to reserve rooms. But she
had been speaking with him almost
daily for about a month.
“He should have gotten an Acad-
emy Award,” she said. “He was
darned good.”
Marchione’s saving grace was that
she didn’t know exactly how to wire
money from her bank account. She
called the customer service line to
get more information and told the
person at the other end of the line
what she was being asked to do. The
bank saved her from making a big
mistake.
She didn’t send the money. When
she called her supposed friend, the
scam artist, he got very upset,
used foul language, and
that, well, was the end
of that. Marchione
hasn’t heard
from him since.
But even
though she
didn’t fall vic-
tim to this
New laws needed to help protect
seniors from scams: CARP
BY JAMES RISDON
SALTWIRE NETWORK
Laws to protect seniors from fi-
nancial abuse are decades behind
advances in similar legislation that's
created new protections for women
from domestic violence and children
from physical abuse, says Bill Van-
Gorder, a CARP national director.
“At the moment, people who per-
petrate fraud (against seniors) realize
that they can’t be caught and, if they
are, then nothing will be done to
them,” said VanGorder in an inter-
view. “They have to be held account-
able.”
CARP, a national seniors organiza-
tion, has been lobbying Ottawa for
years to pass legislation to force
those who work with the elderly to
report suspected cases of abuse. A
survey of CARP’s roughly 350,000
members shows almost a third of
them want professionals dealing
with the elderly to be better trained
in family dynamics and enjoy
whistleblower protection for report-
ing suspected cases of abuse.
Const. Tom Wood, crime preven-
tion officer for the Amherst Police
Department, says financial abuse of
seniors is very difficult to investigate
and prosecute in part because vic-
timized seniors often do not want to
Bad Credit? Yes, it’s a problem
No credit. Bad credit. No prob-
lem.
Clearly, I watch too much televi-
sion because I see this message pop
up on the screen way too often.
It’s usually advertisements for
auto financing or payday loans.
Even mortgages can be obtained
with bad credit these days.
So, this is great news, right? You
don’t need to pay your bills or do
anything about your miserable
credit because someone will lend
you the money anyway.
Well, not so fast, warns John Eis-
ner, president of Credit Counselling
Services of Atlantic Canada Inc.
I spoke with Eisner last week
about these ads and borrowing
money with bad credit.
He agrees there is a concern that
these ads are sending the wrong
message to people about not paying
your bills and getting anything you
want.
scam artist, Marchione admits she
hasn’t gone to the police or shared
her story until now because – like
many other people who are victims
of these scams – she feels “stupid” for
having been fooled.
She is only coming forward now
to share her story to ensure other
seniors will realize it’s not their fault
and they have to speak up to put an
end to this financial abuse.
Surveys conducted by CARP, a
national organization for seniors for-
merly known as the Canadian Asso-
lay charges.
The reasons for that reluctance?
Embarrassment at being conned –
and loyalty to family members who,
in many cases, are the very people
committing that financial abuse.
That used to be a problem for po-
lice forces in many domestic violence
cases. Decades ago, abused spouses
could simply decide to not lay
charges for that domestic violence.
Then, the law was changed.
Now, police officers can make ar-
rests and charges can be laid in do-
mestic violence cases even when the
victim refuses to co-operate, said
Wood.
There is a lack of similar legislation
allowing police to lay charges in
cases of senior financial abuse with-
out the co-operation of the victim, he
said.
“A grandparent will do anything
for their grandchild so they will often
not want to proceed with the inves-
tigation (when it is the grandchild
who has committed the financial
abuse),” said Wood.
The Amherst Police Department
regularly offers Senior's Police Acad-
emy sessions to people aged 55 and
up to discuss such topics as power of
attorney, wills and fraud. The RCMP
also holds similar information ses-
sions.
For What
It’s Worth
Terrence
McEachern
But moreover, when Eisner sees
these ads, one thing that pops in his
mind is that, at least for the most
part, people are being preyed upon.
He explains that borrowing money
in these circumstances is accompa-
nied by an extremely high interest
rate, which is the last thing men-
tioned in the sales pitch. The first
thing is how much of a payment you
can afford.
If high interest rates were the first
thing mentioned, you’d likely recon-
sider. The problem is you’re likely to
run into more financial problems
trying to pay back a loan with high
interest rates.
ciation of Retired Persons, of its
roughly 350,000 members show that
34 per cent of them have either been
either abused themselves or know of
another senior who has been
abused.
Annual CARP survey results re-
leased from 2011 through to 2015
show that between 39 per cent and
50 per cent of that abuse of seniors
is financial.
Canada’s police forces, though,
only ever find out about a tiny frac-
tion of it.
“Education is the key to find out
what’s out there and for family mem-
bers to be able to spot the abuse,” said
Wood.
Relatives who financially abuse
seniors often do so with no signs of
remorse when they get caught, he
said.
“They almost feel like grandma is
a free ATM machine – even though
grandma, who wants to keep that re-
lationship open and not complain,
may be struggling to buy food,” said
Wood. “A lot of the senior population
is not living like kings.”
A publication issued by Canada’s
federal, provincial and territorial
ministers responsible for seniors
urged victims years ago to come for-
ward.
Tips included: keeping financial
and personal information in a safe
place; being very cautious about
opening joint bank accounts as the
other person can also take out all the
money without asking; keeping a
record of money given away with a
note as to whether or not it was a
loan or a gift; getting independent
legal advice before signing docu-
ments involving property; asking a
trusted counselor to look over con-
tracts and other papers before these
are signed; and having an enduring
or continuing power of attorney.
Let’s say you do need a car and
you’ve got bad credit. You’re likely
only going to be able to afford a used
car. But you’re desperate. Eisner says
look at the difference between the
interest rate you’ll be paying com-
pared to what a bank would offer.
Then ask yourself this – can I bor-
row money from family until I get
back on my feet?
And, getting back on your feet
should be the goal. Sure, it’s embar-
rassing to be in that type of situa-
tion. You try to work things out
yourself, but it’s not getting you any-
where. You need help.
Eisner says the sooner the better.
There is always a chance that you
can restructure your debt and work
out a plan with your financial insti-
tution. But if the matter is handed
over to a collection agency or to the
Canada Revenue Agency, then mat-
ters become much more difficult to
deal with.
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“Only 10 per cent is reported.
That’s what we’ve been saying over
the years,” said Bill VanGorder, a na-
tional director of CARP and
spokesman for its Nova Scotia chap-
ter.
According to VanGorder, there
are three main kinds of scams cur-
rently targeting seniors. These in-
clude investment fraud, where a
senior is encouraged to put money
into a phony investment vehicle.
A second popular scam involves
a call to a senior citizen, reporting al-
leged irregularities at their bank and
soliciting their help in what is sup-
posed to be an attempt to catch the
culprits. Under this scam, the senior
is asked by the con artists posing as
police or bank security officials to go
to an automated teller machine and
withdraw a sum of money. The fake
security officials then ask for the
money under the guise that it will be
used to take down the fraudsters at
the bank under investigation.
And there’s the catfish scam.
That’s the kind of scam used by
the con artists who tried to victimize
Marchione. Under this scam, the
con artist, the catfish, creates a ficti-
tious online identity to start up a
fake relationship. These can be ro-
mantic relationships or just friend-
ships.
The ultimate goal of creating that
relationship is to exploit it to bilk the
victim, often of thousands of dollars.
Const. Wood says another popular
scam is to play on the grandparents’
love for their grandchildren. Under
this con, the scam artist calls the
senior, pretending to be one of the
grandchildren, maybe faking a cold
to explain the change in the sound
of his or her voice. The scammer will
concoct some sort of emergency
that requires the wiring of money,
perhaps bail money for a false arrest
or a medical emergency.
“You wouldn’t think it would work
but grandparents will do anything
for their grandchildren and they
wire them the money,” said the po-
lice officer.
But those who financially abuse
seniors are often a lot closer to
home. In many cases, it is family and
friends who dip into the senior’s
bank account or take their credit
cards.
“Caregivers or family members
gain access to the senior’s credit or
debit card, usually for legitimate rea-
sons, to buy groceries or something,
and then they start dipping into it for
their own purposes,” said Van-
Gorder. “It starts off very innocently
but once you start doing it, it gets
easier and easier.”
After deciding to not send the
scam artist the US$5,000 he was de-
manding, 74-year-old Marchione
turned around and made her
money work for her.
“I invested it in the stock market
after that … and doubled it," she said.
"I got some really good stocks. I’m
very proud of that.”
What’s my advice? Don’t watch
as much television as I do.
Here’s a better piece of advice –
listen to Eisner. He has something
else to add – get a copy of your
credit report with either of Canada’s
two agencies – Equifax or Tran-
sUnion. You can request a free copy
of the report.
When it arrives, you might be
scared to open it. You might even
leave the unopened envelope on the
kitchen table for a few days before
stirring up the courage to look in-
side. But you’ve got to. This will let
you know where you stand in terms
of your credit and debt, but more-
over, it will let you know whether
your identity has been stolen and
someone else has been racking up
debt under your identity. It’s bad
enough trying to pay off your own
mistakes. You shouldn’t be paying
off someone else’s under your name.
terrence.mceachern@theguardian.pe.ca