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CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25

CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25. BENTLEY GENERALS CAPTURE THE ALLAN CUP. The Bentley Generals shut out the Clarenville Caribous in the 2013 Allan Cup finals on Saturday night in Red Deer, Alta., taking the championship with a 3-0 victory.

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CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25

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  1. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 BENTLEY GENERALS CAPTURE THE ALLAN CUP • The Bentley Generals shut out the Clarenville Caribous in the 2013 Allan Cup finals on Saturday night in Red Deer, Alta., taking the championship with a 3-0 victory. • The Allan Cup represents senior men's AAA hockey supremacy in Canadaand had been competed for since 1909 • Bentley played the role of the host team for this year’s addition • Chris Neiszner scored the first goal of the game 14 minutes into the second period, followed by another goal by Scott Doucet four minutes later. • Kennan Desmont rounded out the scoring in the third period, while goaltender Dan Bakala stopped all 35 shots on the Bentley net.

  2. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 • Since 2008, the Generals have appeared in the final five times winning twice • The Generals, who won the Allan Cup in 2009, lost to the Caribous 5-3 in the 2011 final. • Bentley made a coaching change during the off season letting go former Jack Adams winner Brian Sutter who had coached the 2009 team, for rookie head coach Brandin Cote a former Generals player with no head coaching experience The original Cup has been retired to the Hockey Hall of Fame, and a replica is presented to the champions.

  3. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 U.S. BORDER FEE PROPOSAL TO BE 'VIGOROUSLY' FOUGHT BY OTTAWA • The Department of Homeland Security wants Congress to authorize the study of a fee that could be collected from everyone who enters the U.S. at land crossings bordering Canada and Mexico. • Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade thinks a fee to simply enter the U.S. would be bad for business between the two countries. • Canadian officials will vigorously lobby against this proposal," department spokeswoman Emma Welford told CBC News in an email. • "We believe that any fee on travelers crossing the Canada-U.S. border would be bad for travellers and bad for the economy," . • Welford said Canadians spend more than $21 billion annually in the U.S.

  4. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 • Matt Marchand, president of Windsor Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, also dislikes the proposal. • Marchandsays 80 per cent of Ontario’s exports go to the U.S. and that 32 U.S. states name Canada as their top destination for exports. • The 2014 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal seeks increases in existing fees charged for services, including fees that air and sea travellers must pay when they enter the country. • the agency also wants to study the feasibility of collecting a land border crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the northern and southwest borders of the United States. • http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2381125948/

  5. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 ORGAN TRANSPLANT PROGRAM EXPECTED TO BOOST SUCCESS RATE • Organ transplant rates in Canada will improve thanks to a new national research program based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, says the lead scientist. • "There are 4,500 Canadians waiting for transplants right now … and they face a 30 to 40 per cent risk of not ever getting a transplant," said Dr. Lori West, a clinician scientist at the University of Alberta. "Canada lags behind." • The program will involve 105 investigators and 86 collaborators at 13 centres and universities across the country. • The most difficult obstacles for successful transplants is the lack of access to organs and the failure of that organ in the years following the operation, she said.

  6. CURRENT EVENTS APRIL 25 • Another area researchers will examine is whether incentives such as money, tax breaks or funeral expenses should be offered to donors, said University of Alberta researcher Timothy Caulfield. • Caulfield said offering incentives may actually decrease organ donations because it could turn some people away. • Researchers will also study how to make transplants more effective by minimizing the risk of infection and organ rejection. • http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/04/22/edmonton-national-organ-transplant-program.html The family of Sara Congo is hoping a new national organ transplant research centre will help her new heart, which she received in November, last longer.

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